WEBVTT - They Call Me MacGyver: Gerald Blanchard 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.960 E Elizabeth Dutton, Mcgirls, Aaron Burnett. I got a question 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:08.959 for you. Have been burning as uh huh. You know 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:09.760 it's ridiculous. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.080 I do? 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.560 Do you I do? We're just making that face. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:20.000 I'm one hundred percent serious. It's ridiculously cool. Oh really yeah, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.960 our listeners, Yeah, totally sure. So I have two things 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.960 for you today, listener mail. The first is from Summer 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.639 that says, Hi both. I'm a new listener from London, England. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.559 I'm absolutely loving listening to the show. I'm currently listening 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.479 to The Ocean's ten the Baker Street robbery episode, and 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:44.680 have more information for you on the emergency circumcision ambulance mentioned. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.360 At the beginning, Oh thank you, Sommer. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.400 It was owned by a man called from Josevic, who 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.360 is a Hackney based private circumcisions surgeon. I say that 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.480 eighty five times. Who does home visits? 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.240 He's not a moil, He's not to somebody who does 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.160 the circumcisions culturally, Well, no he does. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.199 Yeah, I suppose he's an and Hackneys in East London. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.640 The Audi TT was a private ambulance, so not part 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.840 of our national health service, so you can't call nine 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.520 nine nine our version of nine to one one to 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.160 get a call out. I believe, but can't confirm that 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.840 it services the Shamrim Jews. I'm maybe not saying that 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.960 right Jewish community in London, but don't quote me on that. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.960 I'll attach the relevant links below. Anyway, I'm loving the show, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.199 can't wait to hear more. Summer. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:29.040 Nice, Thank you. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.280 I came through with the intel on that, so that 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.680 was ridiculously cool to get an update, a ridiculously cool update. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:41.839 And then we heard from Jeremy through Instagram and he said, hey, y'all, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.520 not sure if you guys already talked about this monstrosity 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.600 on the podcast intro, but if you haven't enjoyed this 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.200 food crime, they were first come, first serve, is what 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:53.680 he's saying. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.640 Oh was this a mashup? Did you sneak a mashup? 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.520 Hask me? He gave me all like, oh, listener, Summer's 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.240 got this cool bit of fun fact. And then all 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.840 was by the way, if somebody decided they made an 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:05.680 edible bagel that you can wear as a shoe. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.160 Close. So it says they were first come, first serve 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.040 on their Sauccles website late last year, and each box 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.560 got two tongue torchin and two zax sauce flavors. And 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.480 I was quote lucky enough to get a box of them. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.560 And yes, they were just as horrendous tasting as they look. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.960 What is sauccles. I don't even know. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.560 So Zaxby's. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.280 Oh yeah, the chicken price in the fast. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.400 Food place, which is, if I think, is a fancy 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.800 fast food place. Where I lived in the deep rural South, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.520 you had to drive like an hour to get to 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:36.880 fancy Zaxby's. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:38.280 High class. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:44.200 We have Bojangles. So they had saucicles which were popsicles 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.640 that were sauce flavored. Oh god, So it says Zaxby's 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.640 sauce is going where no sauce is gone before freezer. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.679 Well they're saying that they've gone where no sauce is 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.000 gone before the freezer. Guess what people freeze sauce? Zaxby. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.360 I don't know. I don't know how people live. And 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.959 it says why because we figured if you'll lick every 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.440 last drop of that legendary sauce off your fingers, you'll 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.760 probably lick every last drip of sauce off a popsicle. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.400 So what are you waiting for? Get them? Will they're cold? 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.959 I question your reasoning about what I will do, sir. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:22.560 Two flavors, yes, tongue torch, a mild garlicly peppery heat, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.160 just cold. In other words, spice spice baby is what 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.760 it says. And then it also says ice cream. Use 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.280 This is for Zack's sauce, which I suppose is they're 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:39.320 like house sauce, You know, sauce Somalie draws up ice cream, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.280 you scream, We all scream for this creamy blend of 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:42.360 zesty spices. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.600 Can I be left out of this? Can I be 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.320 left out of the WII? Say? 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.760 The sauce sauccle freezer is empty, so they're not available anymore? 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.080 Oh darn. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.280 And apparently they were shipping them places, but it says 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.360 here they couldn't ship them to California. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.920 So is this like the Fall of Rome is the 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.000 weirdest stuff? 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:06.240 Weird decadent fall of Rome? In this country? 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.360 We were making animals extinct because they're just like, yes, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:09.400 I like to eat their tongues. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.440 Okay, well they're taking out the rare wild zaxonies. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.840 I can't chicken with eight breasts a saucicle. I didn't 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.159 need to know that way, Thanks, Jeremy oh Man, I 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:23.520 got I got something for you. You got a second 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.200 I want to get you back. No, this one's fun. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.560 It's a guy from Omaha, Nebraska, and I thought you did. Yeah, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.360 his own mother said, quote, he looks like a nerd. Now, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.520 this guy, he'd given himself the street name mcguiver, So 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.800 you know I love him. Yeah, yeah, So he's basically 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.600 you know. For those who don't know, this story takes 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.200 place in the mid nineties, and mcgiver was an early 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.400 eighties poster boy for Ingenuity under Pressure. Right now, this 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.000 nerdy team from Omaha. He was like, I'm known for 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.040 my improvisational skills, right, but not to like blow up 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.800 cartel speedboats with like a hunk of bubblegum and like 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.040 a double a battery and a paper clip. No, that 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.560 kind of mcguiver. More like I can go to a 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.799 gas station and walk out with cartons of cigarettes mcgiver, Right, Okay, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.800 whatever you know. Anyway, So this cat, he said, he 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.960 turns to crime, finds he's good at it. He's so 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.360 good he earns himself a new nickname. The James Bond 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.680 of Crime. That's an upgrade, right, totally right, and it 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.160 goes from TV to movies anyway. Supremely fitting because by then, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:23.400 at this point the dude was allegedly parachuting onto Austrian 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.719 castles to steal priceless Crown jewels. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.440 Get out. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.760 Not bad for a kid from Omaha, huh huh. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:52.360 Yeah, this is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:53.680 outrageous capers. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.320 Heicce and cons. Yes, it's always nine to nine percent 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:02.640 moder free and one ridiculous. Elizabeth saren so glad to 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.800 have you here, Thank you, because, oh boy, do I 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.400 have a very special episode of Ridiculous Crime for you. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:08.920 Am I going to learn a lot By the time 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:09.760 it's over, We're all. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.320 Going to be changed. Yeah. So you hear me say 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.600 this a fair bit a lot. We'll say these are 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.760 my kind of guys, or like, this is my dude, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.600 this chat I love him, right, But in this instance, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.080 I'd say all of those are true. This is my 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.480 kind of guy. Oh really, my dude, I love this cat. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:26.800 Right. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:32.839 So meet Gerald Blanchard, International Burglar Extraordinaire. He's also the 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.920 star in the focus of a new documentary that's about 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.720 to come out from Hulu called The Jewel Thief. Now, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.000 the folks from Hula, they reached out to ridiculous Crime, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.000 and they said to me, you don't open the emails. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.400 I opened the email, so they sent me an early screen, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:47.800 or they would have sent you on if you opened 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.040 your email. But anyway, I watched it. I enjoyed it, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.560 and I didn't tell you about it. So I'm gonna tell 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.480 you about it now. So I thought i'd tell you 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.800 about my dude, Gerald Blanchard. Now I told you up 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.440 tom dudes from Omaha, Nebraska. That's not exactly true. I've 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.560 already started lying to you. Oh right, you know, so 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.880 history begins earlier than that. He was originally from Canada. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.000 Oh, like, is he conceived in Canada? 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.480 No? No, he's not that kind of guy. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.120 Is that how far back you're going? 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.760 Like he was a glimmer in his parent's eye? But no, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.480 he was. He was adopted by two loving parents and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.880 then raised in a family and home of wealth and privilege. Right. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.560 But then, as so often happens for those featured on 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.160 this show, there was a schism in his childhood and 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.320 fracturing of a sense of what is and what could 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.680 be and what was about to be, because he went 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.120 from living as a comfortly secure Canadian to being the 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.240 son of a single mother barely scraping by to care 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.760 for herself and her young son in America. Oh wow, Yeah, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.000 So his parents get divorced, right, that was the schism 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.800 for Gerald. Parental divorce. This fractured his life into before 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.920 and after. Right now, after the divorce is newly single mom. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.000 She moves across the border, as they said, to Nebraska. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.800 She finds work, she tries to raise her adopted son 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.640 on her own. It's not easy because America, but they 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:57.920 make a go of it, right, I don't want you 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.840 worrying too much. And they had each other. Their love 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.840 was just you know, holding them as their bond, their 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:03.760 bond super strong. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:08.600 So they had each other, but not health insurance exactly America. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.760 So the bank for closes on their home and this 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.200 is like a devastating blow to the young boy. This 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.920 becomes the real final schism that brooked'reilled away from we'll 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.840 call the path of a normal life. Right at this point, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.120 he's like, I despise the banks, you know, He's like 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.040 one of the depression era of people like maybe he's 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.360 gonna start shooting at the revenue man, right. So he's 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.280 like decides that what the banks have done to his 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.200 mother and to him is a crime, right. And his 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:32.960 mother had begged and pleaded and said, I can make 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.439 a new payment arrangements, please don't take our home, and 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.480 the bank's like, a lady, this has more value do 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.360 it to us than to you. She's like, but it's 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.200 my home, right, And he's like, this is just cruel. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.679 So he decides, I'm going to go full nineties on this, right, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.000 So he did as many of our folk heroes opted 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.920 to do. He turns to crime. So he starts with, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.720 you know, initially stealing food from stores. Yeah, nothing big. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.000 Very very like you know, limiz of him, very. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.360 Lame, is very limb, is very lea miz in Omaha. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.200 So he's going down to like the local like gas 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.240 and gulp and grabbing like stuff, right, and so this 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.320 is mostly for him and his mom, and then he 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.800 goes both moves on to stealing us as I said, 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.280 cigarettes or whatever for his teenage friend. Now you were 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.920 there for the early nineties, Elizabeth, I was. Now you 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.840 remember the bangs that were hair sprayed into gravity defining. Yeah, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.520 you remember the Aquinet bathroom era, right walking, they be 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.520 a cloud. Okay. Now, imagine like two or three of 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.640 those girls with the acid washed jeans. They're all giggles 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.680 and like hair sprayed bangs, and there's this skinny teene 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.199 boy shirtless because you know o mah, and he's outwitting 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.079 the clerk at work in the night ship. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:39.880 He's shirtless in the in the. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.640 Gas station, he's getting service. He's no shoes, no shirt, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:43.600 no service. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.000 All around with no shirts more often. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.760 Oh yeah, well into the nineties. You know, people think, oh, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.000 it's a seventies and I'm like, no, that really kept going. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.000 It was like, that's up. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.400 What happened nine to eleven. I don't know. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.120 I don't know what towers fell. It was just like 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.200 the spark out of. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.680 Go shirt list. He can't be showing your nips and 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.559 that anymore serious people. But in all seriousness, it was working, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.319 you know, the local gas and gulp late at night 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.440 and he's there, shirtless, skinny boy impressing the girls with 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.720 the bangs, snaking out carts cigarettes right under the eyes 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.960 of like, you know, this dopey clerk. Now that's not 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.840 too hard. So he's like, oh, I'm good at this, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.680 and he was getting a name. So he's like known 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.680 as like the guy takes risks, right, and everybody else 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.280 cigarette dirt bag exactly, all the kids know. He's like 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.320 he'll be the one man he's steal like a you know, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.680 the stereo from radio shack. Yeah, okay, yeah, exactly. High crimes, Elizabeth, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.520 high crimes. So I saw, as I told you the 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.400 documentary about him, so I know a little bit about him, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.600 and I know some things like he broke ridiculous crime 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.560 Commandment number two do not film yourself in the commission 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:45.120 of a felony. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:45.360 Right. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.520 That's the way I know about how these girls looked 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.520 and everything is that they had cameras in the gas 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.720 station filming him, and they filmed him like steal the 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.120 cigarettes and run out to the car and everything. So 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.679 he was just always doing this. But like I said, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.000 this is the early nineties, so this wasn't like a 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.760 camera phone. They had like a video camera in somebody's hand, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:02.920 you know, like they're filming. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.600 So it wasn't like security cameras his buddies for filming 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.240 it like an episode of cops. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.800 Yeah, or like reality bites or something. It's like like 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.360 they're like talking to the camera anyway. So this guy 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.040 looks like a nerd. He's the one who's gonna grow 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.959 up to be the James Bond of crime. So how 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.520 does he do this? Well, okay, so budding antihero Gerald Blanchard, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.480 he as I said, starts to make a name for himself. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.040 He does actually start stealing from Radio Shack. He starts 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.040 stealing stereo components, speakers, cameras. He's selling it to these 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.440 other kids. They got this new thing called a cell phone. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.560 The cell phone. It looks like a like a red 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.000 brick wrapped in plastic with an antenna shoved in. It 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.800 is huge, right, It's like Radio Shack's cell phone. Now 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.040 you can call from like the Little League game or whatever. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.360 So his peers and Omaha are loving him because he's 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.160 dealing all the stuff that they would want to buy 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.160 hot commodities. Now he starts getting living the good life. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.839 He's buying new clothes, he's buying himself in the tech toys, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.160 fancy watches, expensive labels. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.599 He develops microwaves, cd ron exactly. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.000 So into hotels with free cable, who waterbeds, you know, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.959 HBO anyway, So now he's that one guy at the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.040 school everybody knows, right, and so eventually this means the 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.000 cops know about him. So soon enough the fate follows. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.760 He gets busted, Swat shows up at his mother's house. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.240 They go breaking in, they find all this stolen gear 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.920 he's got stored in the garage. Age fifteen, Gerald Blanchard 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.320 is busted for the first time. All right, cocky teen 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.440 did not see it coming, even if he knew it 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.080 was a possibility, still a surprise because he's fifteen. Yeah, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.240 we were fifteen boys were like, no, it won't happen 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.840 to me. Happened to him, So well, he gets lucky though, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.880 because what happens to him is American racism. Floats his 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.679 boat right, because he gets to go to court and 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.840 rather than have his future snatched away from him by 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.720 some over zealous judge, the judge looks at him and goes, well, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.040 was just just a little white boys gotten himself into 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.800 a little spat of trouble. You know, it is a 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.280 wayward kid. And he decides, you know, this youthful indiscretion, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.880 she could probably best be met by some parole. So 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.080 he lets him go even though this guy was moving 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.720 basically moving trucks worth of stolen equipment. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:01.680 It was that much. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.719 Yes, yes, so still a youthful in discretion, right. So 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.959 he gets granted parole and the wayward white boy does 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.760 he fix his errand ways? Elizabeth? 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:11.679 He does not? 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.480 He no, Instead, he goes and as Blanchard puts it, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.880 he got smarter, better and bigger. Okay, see why I 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.160 love this guy. So he gets still good at crime. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.680 He's able to buy his mother a house. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.040 Oh yes, new. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.319 Home, and won the bank can't take away because he's 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.520 all paid for. He pays for the whole thing. Why 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:30.440 is the house right? 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:30.760 Nice? 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.160 And he buries about one hundred grand behind his mom's 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.760 house for tough times. So at that time, Gerald was 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:37.760 sixteen years old. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.240 He bought a home at sixteen after earlier? How does 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.040 that work? You know? 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:44.680 In terms of he had He told his mom that 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.560 he worked to deal with his friends, and his friend 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.960 paid for the house and then his mom's like, okay, details, how. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.439 Did they transfer all this? I have logistical question. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.360 I don't know if it was like, you know, they 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.640 put it into an escrow account as like and then 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.679 just wrote, you know, a credit line from there. I 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.920 don't know how the money was managed, but I know 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.200 that it was worked through other adults. Interesting, that's the story. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.920 That's what I know. Now, Boom, this starts his real 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.200 crime career. He's buying houses. Now, yeah, exactly. So at 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.520 this point on he's a career criminal with a heart 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.040 of gold. And at one point he has this miraculous 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.520 double escape from police custody as a Gerald tells the 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.280 story in The Doctor Jewel Thief, and he's like all 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.200 casual about it. He's like, quote, a friend of mine 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.360 set his car on fire to collect on the insurance. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.240 That's the start of the story, right, so, you know, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.200 as one does when you're a middle aged guy or 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.360 you know, or a made man. You know, this is 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:36.800 what that's what you come up with when you just 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.240 set the car on fire to get the insurance. But 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.480 because he's a teenage boy and he's in Omahan, they're 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.040 doing it in the middle of nowhere. They're like, yeah, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.240 how much gasoline do we need to set a car 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.280 on fire? Elizabeth? How much gasoline do you think you 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.160 would need? I don't know them gallons and I'll give 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.240 you just you know, numbers. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.160 I don't know two gallons of guess. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.560 They used ten ten gallons of gas. Ten gallons was 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.359 too much, that was overkill. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.760 That's like two of those like tanks you fill up 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:02.480 for your lawnmower. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.880 Yeah, those small ones usually music too. The bigger ones 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.320 like for like cars and trucks, and they do five 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.040 the bigger, bigger red one. Yeah, I know, two of 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.360 those those red pour it all over a car and 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:20.480 then throw the match. Now they have a fire bomb, right, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.320 the fire bomb goes off, boom, but just to get 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.400 it going, they get the fire started. No gas tank yet, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.680 fire enough, the big black smoke oes. Cops see this 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.480 on the horizon, like what's going on over the hill. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.240 So they go and they go and to check, well, I. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.680 Wonder how much gas was in the car? 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.800 Good question? Thank you, Thank you so much, like that 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.400 you bring your a game to thank you. So the 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.200 boys hide out when they see the cops come up. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.920 And then Gerald's like, you know what, I'm tired of 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.920 hide now. So he's like he tells his buddy, who's 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.960 like a little bit less brave. We'll say, He's like, uh, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.920 you wait here, And I said I'm waiting here. So 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.280 he's like, I'm gonna go talk to the cops. He 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.480 walks out in the middle of nowhere and the cops 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.920 are like, what are you doing there. He's like, well, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.400 there's a car on fire, so I thought i'd come 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.600 over here and see what's going on. The cops like uh. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.960 Huh so and he reeks of gasoline. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.800 Oh yeah, that's the other thing. So he's like, oh 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.520 the afternoon officers, what's up with the car fire. They're like, sir, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.960 you smell like gasoline. Oh no, he did, yeah, absolutely 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.680 reeked up it right. And they also recognize him because 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.400 I said, the kids all have been talking about him. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.760 He is that guy in a small town. So they're like, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.240 it's you. So then he gets busted. So while he's 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.040 talking to the cops, the car explodes. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:23.560 Come home. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.640 Now. They're like, sorry, we're taking you in. They arrest them. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.040 They cough, and they're like, you know what, you're coming 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.640 with us. So they take him into the cops shop 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.200 and then Gerald's word, they make the mistake of disrespecting him. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:35.480 That's a mistake. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.600 Yes, So this sixteen year old is gonna make these 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.440 police officers learned that you don't disrespect him. Let's take 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.280 a little break, and I'll tell you how it goes 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.400 when he gets his vengeance against these local cops for 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.760 trying to disrespect him for pulling a you know, an 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.280 insurance shop when he shouldn't have. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.960 All right, Elizabeth, Okay, we're back and now, okay, I'm excited. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.640 Okay. So we had the car be a fire bomb 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.040 by the teenage boys. The cops have arrested one. They've 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.760 taken Gerald back to the cop shop, and as Gerald 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.600 said in the documentary The Jewel of Faith, they said 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.720 he said, quote, they brought me into the police station. 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.439 The police officer totally disrespected me. And I knew I 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.160 was smarter than him. I knew I was better than him. Yeah, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.399 little cocky kid, right, So he gets to work on 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.920 getting his revenge. So keep in mind, he's in police custody, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.159 he's in the cop shop. His buddy who you know 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.080 whose car they blew up, That guy is still on 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.440 the loose. He's out there. So he has a police 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.960 scanner radio because they've been at this little while. So 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.880 they roll around with the police scanner radio and he's 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.840 listening for a word on Gerald, right, and then he 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.320 hears something while Gerald was in the interrogation room. Apparently 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.960 not handcuffed, Gerald climbed up on the table. He opened 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.400 up the ceiling tiles, pulled himself up into the space 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.959 for the air ducts, and then he slid the ceiling 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.960 tiles closed and then starts crawling around the police station's 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:13.919 ventilation system. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:14.879 Are you kidding? 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.479 Oh my god, Yes, it's amazing. The cops walk back 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.399 into the terry gation's room. He's gone, right. They're like, 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.000 the kid's gone, What the heck? Right, They're like aliens magic, right, and. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.720 They're wondering why in the rest of the building the 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.080 tiles move every now and then in dust comes from 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:28.360 the scene. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.480