WEBVTT - Rob Bank, Write Book… Make Big, Big Money? 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.120 Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Hey 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:08.240 Elizabeth Dutton, saren my girl. Do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:14.680 Oh do I you came at it already. I'm what's 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:20.480 ridiculous is that Applebee's is making a lip gloss. Wait 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.800 what Yeah, they're working with this company called Winky Looks, 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:30.600 and they've come up with four shades and tastes of 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.600 the thing that they call saucy gloss. And they're the 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:39.199 different flavors of their chicken wings. So if you want 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:44.360 me to read you the names of the yes, sorry, sorry, buddy. Um. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:48.320 The one is called give Me Hot Buffalo, and it's 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:53.320 coral colored sweet Chili Kiss and that's gold flakes in 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:59.000 a deep red color. Then there's one called Bema Honey Pepper. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.440 That one's golden. Someone got paid to come up with these, yeah, 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:09.080 and then there's Honey Barbecutie Barbecut, and that's a burgundy color. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.240 They're eighteen dollars apiece. They taste like the barbecue sauces 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.280 that they're named for. So are you supposed to like 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.680 put this on and make out? And they let the 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.880 taste of chicken wings come between you and the person 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.360 you want to get intimate with um Yeah, sorry, I 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.200 mean that this way instead of like just really going 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.800 to town on a bucket of wings and then making 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.840 out with someone, you can make out and go to 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.000 town on the bucket of wings. They're eighteen dollars a piece. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.040 If you want a whole set of them, there sixty five. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.080 They also apparently made a dance music video called Taste 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:47.000 My Face that goes with them Taste Face. The founder 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.480 of Winky Looks said that she got a message on 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.760 LinkedIn from an Applebee's rep and that's how they started 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.960 all this. This all started on a LinkedIn d m 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:00.880 y so perfect and so like each loss looks like 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.560 the sauce. Let your m and tell you about some 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.040 lip glosses. It is I have for like a synergy 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.280 between our corporations. I love it. They said that they 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.440 had to use all these like materials so that to 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.919 make it taste like the sauces, and so their labs 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.680 smelled like barbecue sauce for a really long time. Can 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.320 you imagine the taste test for the lip gloss. It 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.760 doesn't taste like chicken. You just got like a guy 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.000 in the corner who dips the one thing and sucks 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.120 on it. Tastes like rubber boots, tastes like my cousin, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.440 tastes like a tire fire. Next, you don't want to 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:37.360 taste like berry. Next, Well, that's all very ridiculous. I 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.200 don't even know how to recover from that. You can't, 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.280 but I've got something for you that's it's ridiculous. But 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.280 also it's a crime. Okay, So this one takes place 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.919 in those super sexy, super fun seventies. In July ninety six, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.960 there was a group of French hard ben and they decided, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.680 you know what, let's quit messing around. Let's go big. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.920 Let's robbed the las at the General or the main 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:09.520 bank in Nice, France. Now that main bank is like, um, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.800 pretty much a medieval structure, big stone walls like eight 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.120 meters thick, so you're basically a castle. So they're like, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.000 let's break into a bank that's a castle right now. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:25.040 In France, this case became known as le cas d sc, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.800 which is means the bank robbery of the century. Why 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:50.320 because they got away with it nice, You're ready, I'm ready. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:57.120 This is ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:02.240 capers heights and cons it's all always murder free and 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:08.240 one ridiculous. Don't you forget it? Never? Cow? Could I so, Elizabeth? 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.920 This bank robbery, I'd like to tell you about the 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.920 lecas Do Sack, the bank robberty of the century. It 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:19.320 was a thirty million euro bank job, which at the 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.520 time this was not euros. It was actually still Frank's 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.120 and in modern dollars. If the currency converters are correct 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.960 and the inflation converters are correct, this is a hundred 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:32.800 and forty million dollar job they pulled off. Dang, yeah, goal, jewelry, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.880 bank notes, all the best things that you can hide 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.120 in safety deposit boxes. Now, many folks believe this job 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.080 was an inspiration for the Spanish swiler show, that one 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.640 that we both like, the La casa the papel or 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.560 in English money heist. Yeah, which is not what costa 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.080 the papel means in English. No, it is not at all, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.479 but you know whatever the paper house is like. But 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.960 that's also a nickname for that specific Spanish bank. So 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.560 actually it's the it's the money printer in Spain, right, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.200 you know, the mint So it makes sense in that 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.520 I don't think we would be like yes, the mint. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.200 I don't know if that would work in English, So 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.400 I guess whatever that money simple people. So the stories 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.479 about bank robberies we both enjoy. It's something that we 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.039 will if we see a good and will tell the other. Now, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.400 do you have a favorite bank job or that's in 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.200 from a movie or a book not reality, Like you 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.760 think of a favorite bank job that's pulled off, You're like, oh, dude, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.560 the one in the Italian job was pretty good. Whatever 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.960 that sexy beast. I really like that. So now could 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.240 you imagine deciding to take a movie that you love 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.520 and going that's going to be my criminal bible, that's 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.279 going to be my like self help book. You can 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:46.080 sure you're very open today. I like that. I'll do anything. Now, see, personally, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.680 I could not. That's you're limiting yourself to one source. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.040 And so if anything that's not in the scope of that, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.839 will you run the risk too? If if you're using 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.600 it as a model, then others are going to realize that, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.719 and it depends on when they when they realize that 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.080 that's a good point. Yeah, they can get a couple 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.039 of chapters ahead. They're like, wait a minute, I've read 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:08.200 this book, so yeah, much like you know the French 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.000 bank robber, the fictional one or Saint Lupint. We have 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.800 a very charismatic Frenchman for this story. And his name 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.240 was Albert or Speggieri, which is an Italian last name, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.039 I know, But he's a Frenchman. He's from the Alps, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.440 the French Alps, so you can see how the name 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.760 might have moved over borders, or borders moved over names. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.920 I don't know, but he's from the how is that 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:34.200 the department or the High Alps Department in English, which 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.360 is basically the French Alps region, So in southeast France. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.680 That's what this dude is raised. Now, as a teenager, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.839 he gets to crime real quick. He's like, you know 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.760 what this whole like, Hey work a day and it's 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.800 not from me, and I got things I need to do. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.400 I got this girl I'm trying to impress. So as 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.279 a teenager, he uh pulls off his first robbery to 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.440 impress a girl. He needs to buy a diamond ring. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.680 He hasn't had that kind of money painting fences and 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.359 delivering newspapers or whatever the French equivalent was for a 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.719 teenage boy. I guess sixties running a crape stand, running 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.960 a crape stand. That hot crepe business wasn't really working. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.480 So he's like, I'm gonna rob a bag, and he 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.800 pulls off a robbery, gets a diamond, impresses the girl, 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.320 and then after that he's like, you know what if 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.360 you want to make your dreams come true? Crime exactly. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.360 He's also a flashy, somewhat arrogant criminal, and if you 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.880 know anything about flashy arrogant criminals, they eventually get caught. Yeah, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.440 that's why we're talking about him today. Didn't take him 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.200 long to get busted early on because he had not 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.120 yet learned that lesson, and so he gets busted as 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.920 a young man. And for some reason what I was 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.239 reading about him, I couldn't quite get the same answer 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.120 from two different stories on this. He goes to work 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.800 for some anti de Gaul but yet pro French colonial 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.520 paramilitary wing that is against the Algerian independence movement. You 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.560 say so, right, So he's like down there working in 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.160 like a right wing paramilitary like let's hold onto our 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.360 colonial countries, I guess, And uh, that gets him put 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.680 into prison. So I don't know exactly what happened, but 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.120 whatever he was doing as a paramilitary wing person. He 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.360 gets thrown into prison. He says, oh, you know what, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.040 that's not good. I'm going back to crime. Crime is 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.520 where it works. So by nineteen seventy six he's out 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.880 a freeman, and ostensibly he lets everybody else believe that 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.760 he is a gone legitimate, you know, because he's realized 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.920 I cannot be the flashy criminal because that calls attention 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.720 to myself. So I'm gonna be a comma photographer. He 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.240 gets a photo studio, he lives in Nice, France, and 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.800 he takes pictures of people. Zim Boom Boom is also 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 very nice, and he does such a good job. He 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.200 becomes the official photographer of Nice France, so he's noting 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.600 down there. If you've seen a picture from the early 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.280 seventies and it was a tourist photo of Nice France, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.439 most likely he took me. Yeah. So dudes like any 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.440 comes from friends with the mayor. He ingratiates himself and 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.959 this is a tourist economy. So these people, they're a 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.920 little more easy breezy than others, say parts of France 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.120 very well. Maybe now that he's gone legit friends with 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.040 the mayor, the whole it He's like, I need to 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.440 go first some kind of score. I got everybody looking 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.000 the other way, which, you know, maybe a little room 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.040 to move. He hears from his friend that the bank, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:15.080 the Society's days general, has this um issue at the moment, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.320 they're about to install a bank alarm. Now, for the 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.320 longest time, they never had a bank alarm because, as 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.400 I told you, it's a castle eight eight meter thick walls, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.160 so they don't need anything like that. If you've got 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.600 twenty four ft walls, you know, alarm huh. But they're 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.959 like huge by the way, right, But they're like, well 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.559 things are times are changing, you know, it's the seventies. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.600 A lot of banks have alarms. We should get with it. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.760 So they're going to do that. But it's France, so 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.800 there's all these permits they got to get and construction stalls, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.959 and so the friends complaining about this and basically lets 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.520 it be known there's no alarm in the bank. He 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:51.559 was venting to the wrong person and ten percent. So 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.360 the French permitting process that allows us all to occur 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.640 this delay he becomes like almost like a taunt for 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.120 man Albert. Right, So Albert says to himself quote whoever 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.720 herald of a bank with no seismic or ultrasonic alarm, 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.920 no TV system. Right, it's like offensive to him, kind 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.720 of like that's offensive to everyone. So just let's just 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:23.760 skip past that and let me do it. You're either 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.800 getting inspector Cluso or you're getting Pepe. So which one 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.240 do you want? Do you want to bumbling like the blend, 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.600 I'll just kind of hit the middle. So this dude, Albert, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.200 he writes a book later on about being a criminal. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.560 Much later, he writes, and that's where that line comes from. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.480 Right now, he wasn't just a writer. He was also 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.520 something of a reader. And uh, he's a renaissance man, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.840 tell you amount of letters. And now this book that 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.160 he reads and becomes, as I said earlier, a criminal bible. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.640 In this case for him, it was called to or 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.920 Loophole or how to Rob a Bank, and it was 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.400 by Robert Paul. It was a English book, but he 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.680 obviously read it in French. So that's the French title. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.560 I read. The English title is a buch easier how 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:11.160 to rob a bank exactly, but it's called Loophole or 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.800 how to Rob a Bank. It's so I will be 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.880 referring to it as loophole because how to rob a bank? 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:20.000 Make it confusing? Or if I did it exactly this 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.880 book that was published one year before the robbery goes down, right, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.160 So it's a brand new, fresh, contemporaneous book. And it 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.520 builds itself quote as a fast moving and gripping plot. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.520 And most importantly, and I quote, loophole provides a shrewd 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.880 and fascinating insight into the preparation execution of a major crime. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.640 It supposed to be like a novel as blueprint crime 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.120 thriller is about it English bank robber, who's the best? 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.400 Who's ever cracked a safe? Right? And I'm just gonna 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.160 quote from the inside flap of this book because some 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.160 of it is just so deliciously anyway, here's a quote 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.640 of the example of the dialogue ever heard of the 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.640 City Savings Deposits Bank. I know what they got, I 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.559 know every foot of that place. I'm telling you get 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.680 in and get out, and I won't be cut. I 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.320 made him American just because it just sounds like somebody, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:11.240 a guy named would say Steve. Now, this guy, he's 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.160 an architect who that's the main character. He gets fired 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.840 three weeks before Christmas. That is such a you know, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.520 they always have people the architects. It's it's a job 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.520 nobody does except in movies and books. I mean, obviously 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.680 there are real architects, but if you never ever see 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.880 it treated as anything other than we need A character 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.520 has a job that will not matter in the plot. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.199 But yet he's like wealthy and a dresses interesting people 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.120 like him. So it's like, how do you make him 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.960 a doctor? But he didn't have to go to the hospital, 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.480 and he doesn't have super long hours. Yeah, and he 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.199 doesn't have any of the complications of morality. Yeah. So 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.520 this architect fired three weeks before Christmas. He doesn't know 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.079 what to do. He's got all his money problems, he 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.400 can't afford his life and because it's apparently he's living 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.880 high on the architect salary, and he's like, what am 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.880 I gonna do? And so and I quote Mike Daniels 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.160 has always been looking for the one big job that 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.840 will enable him to get out of the game, and 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.560 recently he's got his eye on the City Savings Deposits bank. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.000 With his alarm vault, infrared beams, radio frequency waves, and 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.040 unscheduled patrol vis it's all the thieves in London declared, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.679 this is the one jug you cannot blow. Oh no, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.920 I don't know about you, but I don't come from 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.840 jug blowing people. So for a book to tell me 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:21.840 this is one jug you can't blow, I'm just gonna 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.520 take their word for it. And then like typically, I 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.480 think that's fighting words. I don't know. I've never met 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.080 a jug. I couldn't blow me. I will not be told. Yeah, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.520 don't don't limit me. You don't know the jugs I know. Bro. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:40.240 So this fictional man, Mike Daniels, I'm with this dude. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.360 He takes the bet. He's like, I will blow this jug. Bro. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.400 So Daniels and I quote thinks he's found a loophole 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.360 in the bank security. You damn right he did. Brothers, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.600 He's gonna exploit that because it is a loophole. So 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.679 he has this loophole. And I quote, if you are 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.199 Mike Daniels, ambitious professional thief and master safecracker, you plan 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.800 for months, in minute detail. You hire three hard bitten 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.640 colleagues whose working respect, and you find yourself Stephen Booker, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.280 out of work architect and civil engineer, whose comfortable suburban 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.560 life is coming apart. You pick his brain, get him involved, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.160 where down his moral resistance and hire him. Then you 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.440 enter the London sewer and bore from within the safe 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.320 as a timelock. And you have a weekend in which 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.040 to dig a tunnel under the vault and blast it open. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.640 If you throw the alarm, half the police force will 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.600 be on your tail. The timing must be split second. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.080 Nerves are stretched. One of your men is claustrophobic. There 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.880 is constant danger of lethal gas. A rainstorm can wipe 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.840 you out. But if you pull it off, the prize 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.440 is several million pounds and pride and having done the biggest, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.560 most daring and ingenious job in history. If you pull 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.200 it off, that is it sounds like a you're advertising 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.880 a monster truck rally, right, chicken wings. I could not myself. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.880 That's all from the flat of the inside of the book. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.880 I want to read this book now, Mike Daniels jugg blower, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.040 I can blow that jug brother so our real wife 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.480 criminal Albert Speghiari he takes from this book Loophole and 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.000 he's like, you know what, this author nailed everything. I'm 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.760 going to follow this to the t I'm gonna find 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.960 a sewer. I'm gonna find a bank. I'm gonna rob it, 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.840 I'm gonna bore a tunnel. I'm not gonna get an architect. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.320 I don't know if I were get an architect. But 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.120 other than that, I'm gonna follow this to the letter. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.440 He's gonna blow jug. So he's like, you know, if 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.840 this guy wrote the perfect blueprint, what could go wrong 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.080 if I follow it? And he's on this show? So 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.880 something went wrong. Well, after this short little break, we'll 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.760 get into Albert throwing the wheels of this crime into motion. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.600 Elizabeth ready for Albert to set the wheels in motion. Okay, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.960 so my brother, my dude, my fulk hero criminal about 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.160 to be. He's eyeing what's going to be a career 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.800 making crime. He's like, this could be the biggest job. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.200 I need to be smart about this. So he's like, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.160 I'm gonna map the sewers because that was in the book. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.120 So he goes and he maps the sewers. He starts 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.280 figuring out, he gets blueprints, He walks the sewers, so 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.200 he knows every left and right turn, every dead end, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.080 so forth right. He's like, that's step one. Now for 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.200 step two, he's like, okay, I need to test the 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.800 system to see what I'm dealing with. So he gets 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.640 a safety security deposit box. He rents one of those, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.320 and he goes in and they when they leave him alone, next, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.320 we will leave you to your privacy so you can 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.640 inspect you all the little pictures and jewels to whatever 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.520 you bring. And he's like, may wee thank you all right, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.360 So he pulls out an alarm clock, winds it up, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.680 sets it to midnight, throws it in a box, puts 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.080 the box in, closes it, locks it up, and he's like, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.160 I'm good, and then knocks on the door, let me out. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:07.800 I'm good. They're like, that was fast, So he's like 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.520 it's fine, and so check and see if it was yep, Yeah, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.800 that's it. He sets the alarm from midnight. And he 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.440 has a reason for this because he wants enough to 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.479 vault has an alarm and it will be tripped by 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.480 noise or by shaking. So he figures this alarm clock, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.919 there's like an old rattley kind will do enough to 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.440 trigger the alarm because if if it, he can keep 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.640 the sensitivity of what he plans to do underneath that 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.119 level of shaking is essentially his idea. Yea sets it off. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.160 The bank does not report, oh we've been broken into. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.080 He's like, so I think I've got it, and we 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.399 got a good measure of what I can get away with. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.760 So now he's like, okay, sticking to the plot of loophole, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.200 what do I need to do next, he goes like, okay, now, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.560 hire a crew of hard men. So he's done his mapping, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.959 he's got a safety deposit, and he's checked with the alarm. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.000 Go hire some bad men. So he's like, where can 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.440 I get bad men around here? So he goes down 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.919 to the port town of Marseille. He goes up and 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.240 he's like, a good crime town. You smell the crime 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.240 in the air, right, mars is the kind of place 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.000 like if you imagine a Guy Ritchie movie, but a 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.439 Guy Ritchie movie that has been running for centuries, like 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.359 that's Marseille. Okay. So he's at this, uh, this inspiration 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.760 loophole and he's like going, you know what, in the book, 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.159 there's this many criminals. I'm gonna go a little bit bigger. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.879 So he hires fifteen veteran Marseille hardman. Oh that's a 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.639 that's that's that's worries big more. The more people, the 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.480 more trouble. Totally, you got a lot of mouse to 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.120 keep quiet. So but he picks them and he goes 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.480 and he doesn't just hire them off the street, like, oh, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:33.960 you look like you have a strong back. If you 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.479 ever held a shovel, you know. He goes to a 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.320 crime family and he's like, hey, I get some guys. 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.960 He's like, they're the OMERTA part will come from them, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.399 their their coat of silence will be to their boss. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.400 And if I get their boss, then I get their silence. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.200 So he's like, this should be fun. That makes way 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.119 more sense than I was thinking, Like sit outside of 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.520 a cafe reading loophole and then kind of give people 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.879 knowing looks when they walk by. And if anyone know, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.080 you're like over here, I want to talk about a book, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.280 or you hold additions, here, hold this shovel. Does that 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.920 feel natural? So he he gets his fifth team, Marc 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.160 hard Men, and he's like, Okay, now back to the book. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.200 What do I do now? And so he's like, okay, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.240 I've got to drill a hole in the bank fault 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.600 from the sewers. Okay, check, check, all right, I've got 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.840 my map. Okay, it's time to get the equipment. So 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.160 he's like, okay, hard Men come to nice France, I'll 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.040 put you up. Okay, here's the deal. He had them 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.639 take their own little scooters there, like twelve little tiny 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.119 citron No. No, I'm imagining them all in vespas, like 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.360 in a row, fifteen hard men on vespas. That's beautiful. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.760 That's beautiful. Leather jack hits, mean glares and shiny light 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.359 blue vespas, lots of chrome. Now that everything's set up 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:49.639 in the hard men are in town, he's like, we 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.200 need to get equipment. So he's like, look, guys, I'm 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.879 gonna get all this stuff that is, like you know, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.040 the filters and the power cables. I'm gonna need you 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.560 to get the drills, but do not go buy them. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:00.399 They like, what do you mean? And don't buy them? 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.600 He's like, hey, go steal them. So he hasn't go 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.360 to construction site, so there's no purchase records of any 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.359 of this stuff, and so he just they've spend a 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:12.760 couple of months stealing all the pneumatic drills, the industrial pumps, 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.280 anything that they think they need, right, and now they're 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.320 like a thermal lance. One might need a thermal lance 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.879 or a powerful jack. It's a good dry run to 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.560 like if any of them kind of balk at the idea, Yeah, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.320 you can see how good they are priming. Yeah, So 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.080 once they have everything set up, they set up their 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.800 work site and the okay, let's run some filters. So, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.720 because we got to deal with all the toxic smells 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.760 and we're gonna have in the sewer system, we're gonna 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:38.480 have to get our industrial drills down there is we're 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.720 gonna need electrical So they run electricity through the street lights. 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.119 So they just plug into the street lights and they 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.480 would drop cords down. They're super serious. So they only 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.080 work on alternating nights. And then this allows them to 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.399 want sleep for ten hours, which he insists that they do. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.080 He's like, you have to sleep for ten hours and 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.680 that you get your good night's sleep. He's like, your crew, Yeah, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.200 not only that there only does the demand ten hours asleep, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:06.240 which I knew you would love. You will be so 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.280 impressed with his just wherewithal he doesn't allow them to 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.800 drink while they're working. They cannot bring in caffeine. They're 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.280 not allowed to do anything. They have to run clean 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.840 and they gotta run natural, right, So he has them. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.879 So it's like a sports season has just begun. But 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:21.720 when you say they had to be really serious, I 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.920 imagine they're all working away and one guy cracks a 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.240 joke and everyone just stares at him in silent shaking 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.520 their heads. No, we don't do that, mean bug until 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.359 you stop that funny business. So they're sitting there working 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.560