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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Dunnon Zaren Burnett.

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Speaker 3: I got a question for you, my friend. Yes, do

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Speaker 3: you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: I know it's ridiculous. No, you don't you know what?

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Speaker 2: How I know it's ridiculous. We got an Instagram fella

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Speaker 2: here Ron.

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Speaker 3: Do Good, Ron do good, do good.

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Speaker 2: He's got a phenomenal name. D I U g U

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Speaker 2: I d oh, And I thought I'm going to butcher

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Speaker 2: this name, and that's not fair for this dude. So

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Speaker 2: I looked it up and if I got it wrong,

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Speaker 2: then Ron, oh my god, I'm so sorry, but I

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Speaker 2: think it's do Good. Anyway, he tipped me off to

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Speaker 2: something that you know, Uh, the interns told him this

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Speaker 2: is amazing, this is horrible. And then he told the

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Speaker 2: interns amazingly horrible or horribly amazing.

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Speaker 3: And I'm glad they can have some fun.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he gets us. I need to read

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Speaker 2: you something from a promotional.

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Speaker 3: What you you know something about me?

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Speaker 2: I'm all ears, I know so quote. We are committed

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Speaker 2: to supporting Australia's music industry and nightlife. And that sounds good, right,

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Speaker 2: that's what you're part of it. I love the nightlife

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Speaker 2: and providing Assi's with the ultimate KFC experience. It's so

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Speaker 2: exciting to be partnering with such incredible local Aussi talent

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Speaker 2: on what is sure to be a fantastic night out

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Speaker 2: and we cannot wait to open the doors to our

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Speaker 2: very first night club in Australia. We love to throw

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Speaker 2: a gig, so it's encouraging fans to grab their tickets,

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Speaker 2: unleash their free spirits and embrace the fried side of life.

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Speaker 3: Producer Dave, can you turn her mic off? Just just

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Speaker 3: turn it down?

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Speaker 2: I have to ask you, what is preventing you from

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Speaker 2: embracing the fried side of life?

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Speaker 3: I don't know common sense?

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, So KFC is partnering with UH producer Lude

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Speaker 3: E HD LUDINGFC there again.

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Speaker 2: So apparently it's like some like hibbity hoppity guy. Right,

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Speaker 2: he's a club guy. He has a mullet psh Australian style.

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Speaker 2: So so there they've paired up. So he's not only

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Speaker 2: going to headline the club, he's he's got a mash up.

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Speaker 2: He's collabed for ludes Zinger Sliders, which are the sliders

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Speaker 3: You get so much joy from this?

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Speaker 2: I do you have no idea? They're each packed with

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Speaker 2: half of a Zinger filet, and is a zinger a

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Speaker 2: new kind of animal? I don't know. One is smothered

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Speaker 2: which I think is just like a four local reduction.

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Speaker 2: And they're gonna I don't know. KFC says they're going

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Speaker 2: to be certified.

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Speaker 3: Fire, certified fire.

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Speaker 2: To summarize in conclu there's a KFC night club in Australia.

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Speaker 3: You hear yourself, I do, I hear you know?

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Speaker 2: My life is just one string of like Elizabeth, did

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Speaker 2: you hear what you just said? And I go, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I guess yeah I did. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Well that is certified ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: It so is.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: Please share?

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Speaker 3: Do you have a moment?

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Speaker 2: My life is a series of moments. Okay, most of

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Speaker 2: them are available to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, you're so generous with your time. I've got

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Speaker 3: a story for you. Did you know that one of

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Speaker 3: the most famous mystery writers ever, forever ever? They once

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Speaker 3: disappeared for eleven days. But not only did she disappear,

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Speaker 3: but many think that she faked her death, and not

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Speaker 3: only that Elizabeth, she may have been attempting to frame

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Speaker 3: her husband for her murder. Oh yes, that famous mystery

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Speaker 3: writer was drummroll, please I get the Christie.

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Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, buckle up, love her.

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Speaker 3: This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,

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Speaker 3: heists and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free

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Speaker 3: and one hundred percent ridiculous. Wood Bee, I like it.

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Speaker 3: You're in one, You're on one, and you're writing.

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Speaker 2: I am all over one.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk Agatha Christie, Let's undisputed queen of the murder

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Speaker 3: mystery book right totally. Now you know how we're ninety

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Speaker 3: nine percent murder free, one percent murder. I guess Agatha

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Speaker 3: Christie ninety nine percent murder. Oh I know, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: Well, because here's the thing. She's kind of got Like

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Speaker 2: the original uh version of murder she wrote, you know where,

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Speaker 2: like if she shows up in town like somebody's gonna

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Speaker 2: you know, get got uh she miss Marple. Yes, Like

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Speaker 2: if she shows up to your country estate for some

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Speaker 3: Town by life insurance on all the people I am.

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Speaker 2: Hopping on a horse and to lose and with Puaro.

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Speaker 3: Too, same thing. Yeah, he also rides.

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Speaker 2: With curly mustache coming in. I'm like, curly mustache my

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Speaker 2: way out of it.

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Speaker 3: Did you have a favorite between Marpo and Puaro.

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Speaker 2: I think I like Paro really yeah, uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Part of me is the problem that I'm having is

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Speaker 2: I'm having trouble disconnecting the books from the television versions

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Speaker 2: love that the television Puaro with David A Camera's name

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Speaker 2: and he plays a great Quaro and he's kind of

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Speaker 2: Mazy Dobbs novel series amazing. Yeah, Maurice, I guess his

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Speaker 2: larger issue assessment of the crimes instead of the like

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Speaker 3: So you're not a big fan of the Columbo style

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Speaker 2: I just love murder mysteries.

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Speaker 3: I know you do, really do. I always thin it's

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Speaker 3: funny about Miss Marple is that she's the one people

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Speaker 2: So she covers they're sleeping on the on the bad

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like you. The older you get as

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Speaker 3: I've heard this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's great, the opposite effect. There are parts

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, totally. And so we're social preachers.

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Speaker 2: The aged Miss Marple. She goes somewhere and people say

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Speaker 3: And she's she's just like a raw knife.

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Speaker 2: And that's why you shouldn't underestimate us, old broads.

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Speaker 3: That's so true. I always say that now, speaking of

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Speaker 3: a you know, underestimating people, And you mentioned the movie versions. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 3: the classic, in my opinion, is The Murder on the

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Speaker 3: Orient Express, not the new one, the nineteen seventies version

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Speaker 3: with everyone in it. Yes, that movie incredible, right, Albert Finnie,

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Speaker 2: I love Albert.

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Speaker 3: Unforgettable. Right now, For those who don't know, the plot is,

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Speaker 3: there's the train, the Orient Express, and then there's a

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Speaker 3: Charles Limberg, and I won't tell you anymore right now.

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Speaker 3: The cast for that film is this also an insane

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Speaker 2: Run it by me? Because you mentioned Albert Finnie. I

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Speaker 3: Anyway, go ahead, Okay, we got Ingrid Bergman, Wow, Lauren Bacall,

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Speaker 3: Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery, John Gilgood, Anthony Perkins. It's just

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Speaker 3: like a crazy hit list. Yeah yeah, Now, of that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you did you play both shots?

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Speaker 2: No, that's one to take shots. That's all I can do.

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Speaker 2: That's it what I mean. Or I could do like

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Speaker 2: a real impression of him.

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Speaker 3: Could you do an impression of Sean Connery for us?

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Speaker 3: Would you favorite producer? David and Irick one?

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Speaker 2: Okay, have about this miss Sean Connory and a little

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Speaker 3: Wow, that I know who's the man now dog? Okay,

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Speaker 3: So La has a three seasons. As I told you,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's true. Actually, now, the forty seventh Oscars

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Speaker 3: Murder on the An Express cleaned house that year because

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Speaker 3: I told you all those stars right. They won for

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Speaker 3: Best Adaptive Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography,

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Speaker 3: I mean just everything. Now compare that to the recient adaptations.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's the one to start. Wonder Woman and the

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Speaker 3: alleged Cannibal, grandson of Armin Hammer exactly. It was so

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Speaker 3: The murder on the Arin Express version that was a

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Speaker 3: I had a brilliant conceit. The whole setup was a

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Speaker 2: I thought it was good.

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Speaker 3: That was a little bit oh hunting in Venice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just not good movies. He puts a lot

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Speaker 3: This casting agent's not reading the local trades, the news anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like what Bozo's can I put in here? They're

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Speaker 2: nice to me, They said, yes, and then they're just

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Speaker 2: they're very convoluted in their retellings.

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Speaker 3: So Agatha Christie writer, we talked about Agatha Christie, you know,

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Speaker 2: She's a content.

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Speaker 3: Content Agatha Christie content creator. So what about Agatha Christie

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Speaker 3: cultural phenomenon? Did you know that Agatha Christie has sold

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Speaker 3: more books than almost any other writer you can name.

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Speaker 2: Who's the Da Vinci code man?

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Speaker 3: Agatha said about this. She wrote about this period later

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Speaker 3: the car's gearshift was in neutral, right, which is strange.

434
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 3: The handbrake wasn't engaged, which that tells someone who's you know, investigating.

435
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 3: It looks like someone was trying to roll the car,

436
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,199
Speaker 3: push the car, right. But Agatha Christie, she couldn't be

437
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,120
Speaker 3: strong enough to push a car all a cliff into

438
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 3: a quarry, right, So what was her plan? Maybe she's

439
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 3: just gonna roll it down a hill. Yeah, we don't know.

440
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 3: It's inconclusive, right. What we do know is that Agatha

441
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 3: Christie walked to a railway station and then, as she

442
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 3: put it, he's strange the railway authority they had did

443
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 3: not recall me as I was covered with mud and

444
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 3: I had speared blood on my face from a cut

445
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:21,160
Speaker 3: on my hand.

446
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,640
Speaker 2: Wait, that's why they didn't recall her. Is everyone walking

447
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,199
Speaker 2: around buddy and bloody? Because like in.

448
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 3: Nineteen twenties in England, I don't know. Can you tell me?

449
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 3: Maybe she got in with the union busters. I don't

450
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,399
Speaker 3: know Elizabeth, but they didn't recognize her. Right. So there

451
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 3: she is at King's Cross train station, one of my favorites.

452
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 3: I've been to that one so many times. Right, So

453
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,399
Speaker 3: she purchases herself a ticket to a resort spa in

454
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 3: a town called Harrowgate. I may be pronouncing that Harrowgate

455
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 3: up in Surrey. At the station, she grabs a taxi cab.

456
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 3: When she gets up to Harrowgate and she asked the

457
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 3: driver to take her out to the Hydropathic Hotel.

458
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 2: That sounds awesome.

459
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: Then that sounds awesome. It's a resort spa. Right, Agata

460
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 3: walks in. She's a lone, no luggage. She tells the

461
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 3: front desk that she'd recently arrived from South Africa and

462
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: her name, wait for it, Teresa Neil.

463
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 2: I was hoping for Agatha v. Stallion.

464
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 3: Now now miss Regina Corntower. It comes and making up

465
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,399
Speaker 3: a new name. She picked the last name of her mistress,

466
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 3: Nancy Neil. She became Teresa Neil.

467
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,719
Speaker 2: Oh wow, there's a lot of what's like psychological.

468
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 3: What's your take on that name choice? You know?

469
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 2: And I don't know. I'm guessing that the Neil gal

470
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 2: is younger, Yes, yes, yeah? And so oh.

471
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 3: Is she framing her husband? Is she taking on the

472
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,360
Speaker 3: identity in some strange pathology?

473
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say it's that. I mean, I don't know.

474
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 3: No one can know, no one either way. The resort

475
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 3: spa manager. He escorts the new missus Neil upstairs and

476
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 3: to as Agatha put it, a good room on the

477
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 3: first floor, fitted with hot and cold water because remember

478
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,440
Speaker 3: nineteen So you don't promised to cold water in Oh yeah,

479
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 3: real nice. Right. So she's made it, she's made her break.

480
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 3: She's in the hotel, she's got a new name, a

481
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 3: new self. So what does she do next? What does

482
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 3: she do now that she's an anonymous and a lone

483
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 3: formerly famous person. Well to answer that, Elizabeth, I'd like

484
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 3: you to close your eyes as a club and picture it.

485
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 3: It's early December nineteen twenty six. There is a piano plane.

486
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 3: You know the tune. It's the recent hit song, Yes

487
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 3: we have no Bananas. You, Elizabeth, are currently not at

488
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 3: a speakeasy in New York or a slanky private music

489
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 3: club in London. Nope, you're at a health spa and

490
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 3: resort in the English countryside, and you are a patient

491
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,479
Speaker 3: at the resort, that's what they call the guests at

492
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 3: this spa. And you are a wealthy Glasswegian woman of

493
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 3: a certain age who's come to this spot to get

494
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 3: her humor's balanced to like the ancient Greeks.

495
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 2: Ah, that's great.

496
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 3: So that's what your latest doctor told you. Your health

497
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 3: requires some time at a spa, so you found this

498
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 3: spa to convalesce. Now that you've been here for a

499
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,439
Speaker 3: few weeks, you're feeling much better, and you've come to

500
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,360
Speaker 3: enjoy the night times. For Dressed in one of your

501
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 3: favorite moomoos, you come downstairs, drawn by the sound of

502
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 3: the music. Tonight there's a soiree of sorts. They're in

503
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 3: the downstairs ballroom. Guests are dancing, some seated at tables

504
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 3: that encircle the dance floor. They're drinking punch. Others are

505
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,479
Speaker 3: drinking healthy cocktails like gin and carrot juice. That's so healthy,

506
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 3: Hey man, what are you talking about one of the

507
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 3: new patients. A single middle aged woman is behind the

508
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 3: keys of the piano. She's playing that light and airy

509
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 3: pop song, Yes we have no bananas, as she sort

510
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 3: of half sings the lyrics, the bouncy words, dance right

511
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 3: along with the patients.

512
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 7: Yes we have no bananas. We have no bananas today.

513
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 7: Our eggs are delicious, but they act suspicious. They look

514
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 7: like they passed away. If you try some of our spinish,

515
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 7: we'll tell you you're finish. But yes, we have no bananas.

516
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 7: We have no bananas today.

517
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 2: And with that, all the relaxation I've gained at the

518
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 2: spaws gone.

519
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 3: The woman behind the keys, missus Neil, as she calls herself.

520
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 2: Oh man, she's really bitch, chaps.

521
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 3: Up from the piano. Another patient takes over for her.

522
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 3: Missus Neil spins and pirouettes onto the dance floor, all

523
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 3: gayety and joy. You spoke with Missus Neil earlier today

524
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 3: at lunch. You recognize her. She remember she told you

525
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 3: she's from South Africa. That's right, and sadly she lost

526
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 3: a son not too long ago. Yet the loss of

527
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: her son doesn't show up in her glowing smile as

528
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 3: she dances towards you. You find that Missus Neil is

529
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: rather good at the Charleston. It's the dance craze at

530
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 3: the moment on both sides of the Atlantic. She even

531
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,479
Speaker 3: shows you how to move your hands and knees in

532
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 3: that jazzy way, the coordinated knock knees dance step of

533
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 3: the Charleston. You laugh as you attempt at talk talk talk.

534
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 3: You're a quick study, and with not much time you're

535
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 3: doing the Charleston better than Missus Neil. She's not as

536
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: good a dancer as you are. After a few turns

537
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 3: on the dance floor, Missus Neil is winded, so she

538
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 3: returns to the piano. She warbles out a few more tunes.

539
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: You lean on the piano with another patient. When either

540
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 3: of you recognize a song, you sing along, but Missus

541
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 3: Neil seems to prefer the upbeat jazzy tunes, so you

542
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 3: don't recognize many of them. You sip from your gin

543
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 3: and carrot juice. This is the life. You'd have no

544
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: reason to believe that you've just spent the night carrying

545
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 3: on and carousing with Agatha Christie, the most famous woman

546
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 3: in the world, who isn't a Queen.

547
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 2: Elizabeth man if I if I could still drink booze.

548
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: I loved gin. You love carrot juice, and I love

549
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 2: carrot juice.

550
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 3: You got this gin and juice carrots?

551
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 2: That sounds kind of good. Blood orange juice.

552
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 3: Dress it up, yeah, put a fur coat on it.

553
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 3: I like that. Okay, so good. Well, other than dancing,

554
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 3: carrying on and sipping on your gin and juice, did.

555
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 2: You did you know how to do the Charleston when

556
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 2: you were a kid?

557
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 3: Of course I was one of those kids.

558
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: Think I was raised like my grandparents helped raise me,

559
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 2: and I think that's why I talked to propaganda poster.

560
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 2: But yeah, like totally did the Charleston as a kid.

561
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a great dance. What's up at that?

562
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 2: But let's start teaching kids with Charleston?

563
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 3: I think we should. So other than dancing, you know,

564
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 3: carousing and hanging out with Agatha Christie and shaking your knees. So, yes,

565
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: we have no bananas. What else did Agatha Christie get

566
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 3: up to while she was on her break?

567
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: Cocaine? No, surprisingly, you're telling a story.

568
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 3: I have no cocaine in the story. Can you believe it?

569
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 3: And also it's like surprising how much cocaine shows up

570
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 3: when I hate cocaine. Here's cocaine again, and.

571
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 2: Two of us are like, it's disgusting.

572
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 3: Let's talk about let's talk about how stupid it is,

573
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 3: so silly, and what terrible decisions you make and one

574
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 3: of the things you will sacrifice for if anyway, there's

575
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 3: no cocaine in this story. But I did think you'd

576
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 3: appreciate this Elizabeth, what she did decide to do.

577
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: Yes, she slept in, Oh god, bless super late.

578
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 3: She slept in late. And then she took breakfast in bed. Yes,

579
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 3: she lazed about. She just let Agatha be Agatha every day,

580
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: breakfast in bed.

581
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: We'll hire her at slots, and I'm heart.

582
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 3: She also, you're kind of girl. She she read a lot.

583
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: The resources spot had a library, and the librarian helped

584
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 3: her find mysteries to read, because Agatha wasn't just a writer,

585
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 3: she was also a reader.

586
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 2: She's painting herself by reading through her old stuff like

587
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 2: crap I should, and she's.

588
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 3: Making to have dog airing the pages.

589
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: Or like I nailed it on that one.

590
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 3: The other thing that she was reading a lot of

591
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 3: was the newspapers covering crew with disappearance. So she's just

592
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 3: sitting there reading them, hoping nobody recognize that, right, and

593
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 3: of course they don't. So in her bedchambers though, she

594
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 3: did keep a frame picture of her daughter on her

595
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,239
Speaker 3: bedside table because she did still think about her. She

596
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 3: wasn't planning on disappearing from her entire life. She was

597
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 3: just kind of taking a break. She'd not forgotten about her,

598
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 3: right And so, as I told you, she arrived alone

599
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 3: with no luggage. She had no clothes, so homegirl needed

600
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 3: to go shopping. So that was the other thing she did,

601
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: like day two, she went out and bought herself some luggage,

602
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 3: a whole new wardrobe because there's going to be a

603
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 3: new miss thing. She's got all sorts of sundryes. As

604
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 3: she put it, she bought a new hat, a coat,

605
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 3: evening shoes, books, magazines, pencil and fruit and various toilet requisites.

606
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 3: So she bought herself with femine napkins.

607
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 2: Right, you know, she got like you know, rose water

608
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: for her skin. Oh that kind of tilt requis toilet trees.

609
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 3: I thought requisites was like a British euphemism for like, you.

610
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, what you require a woman would require. So

611
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,719
Speaker 2: she probably got like powders and skinry, you know.

612
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 3: And I've seen that written on old machines. I think

613
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 3: it's the funniest term.

614
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 2: They used to have it where apparently like it was

615
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: before my time, like I don't know, have some contraptions.

616
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: Attached one into another.

617
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,959
Speaker 2: Exactly like a parachute.

618
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 3: Anyway, So that night, the second night she goes down,

619
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 3: she shows up for dinner. She's all decked out in

620
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 3: her new.

621
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: Duds, big pat on.

622
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 3: She also had a very tipey scarf that she had

623
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 3: picked up. I like a good scarf, I know you do,

624
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 3: so I bring that up right. So she's out there

625
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 3: obviously got her new friends. They're noticing the scarf right well,

626
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 3: one of the employees she noticed the scarf, and she's like,

627
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: oh right, like everyone's just taking now taking notice of this,

628
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 3: like creature come alive. Right. So, as I told you,

629
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 3: the second night act of the Christie, she's chilling with

630
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 3: her new friends. She played billiards. She was apparently pretty good,

631
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 3: but she could rack them right. So she played piano again,

632
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 3: saying more popular tunes with the jazz as if she's

633
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 3: just doing sets. At this point, she's like she got

634
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: a big, like one of those whiskey glass of the

635
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 3: dollars and on top of her piano. Anyway, the resorts

636
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 3: Spat had an entertainment director, as I told you, kind

637
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 3: of like a cruise ship. Will just imagine that her

638
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 3: name was Miss Corbett. She was the one who started

639
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 3: to really take notice of the new patient and she

640
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 3: noticed the beautiful scarf. She also noticed that there was

641
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 3: a price tag still attached, so she's like feeling sorry

642
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 3: for her, But I don't think she's recognizing that this

643
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 3: is like the behavior of someone on the lamb, right,

644
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 3: She's like thinking, oh, she forgot only go get some

645
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 3: scissors or whatever. So on the next few days, other

646
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 3: guests they start to have their suspicions about this new person, missus.

647
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 2: Neil mini pearl hat with the teg zach.

648
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 3: So you see by now at this point the London

649
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: press is going crazy. Right, they discovered that ACTAA Christie's missing.

650
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 3: It's front page new.

651
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: The quarries exactly there.

652
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 3: They've got police everywhere. But finally they publish a portrait

653
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: of her on the front page. So now, because you

654
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 3: don't they don't really have photography dominating newspapers in.

655
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: The nineteen twenty sketchy exactly.

656
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 3: So they finally get an image of her. Right. So

657
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,239
Speaker 3: now back at the health spot resort, these newspapers are

658
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: arriving each day. Now they got one with her face

659
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 3: on it. She doesn't care. She's still reading the newspaper.

660
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: That ain't me. I don't know who that lady is.

661
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: I would be telling people, you guys, look, I look

662
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: just like Agatha Christie wild yeah, exactly, get ahead of it, get.

663
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 3: Two steps ahead that just now the hotel.

664
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 2: Manage, because I keep tripping forward.

665
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't going to bring that part up. I'm respectful. Now.

666
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 3: The hotel manager, his wife would come down around I know,

667
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 3: I don't know, pick him up for work. I don't

668
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 3: know how, but she'd come around. And so she was

669
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 3: there and she's like noticing this person. Apparently she's a reader.

670
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 3: She reads the news. That's Agatha Christie, right. So she,

671
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 3: as the hotel manager remembered, when she had been here

672
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 3: about days. My wife said to me, I believe that

673
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 3: lady is missus Christie. So the hotel manager what does

674
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: he do? He dismisses his wife's suspicions. He's like, oh

675
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: you what are you talking about? That's flat out absurd.

676
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 3: Why would Agatha Christie be in Surrey? So anyway, meanwhile,

677
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 3: there's about three hundred constables out searching Hill and Dale

678
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 3: for her, right, just anywhere they can. But they begin

679
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 3: to have their doubts that she's alive because like, after

680
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 3: forty eight hours, you know how it goes. Oh, first

681
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 3: forty eight man, this is still still true in nineteen twenties. Man,

682
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 3: you're gonna find her. Then he gets his seventy two hours,

683
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 3: they're like, should we tell the husband? Yeah, so the

684
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 3: Bobby's as I said, they start to believe she's dead. Right,

685
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 3: So four days after she went missing, in three days

686
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 3: of searching, the police call off the hunt to find

687
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 3: Agatha Christie. They're like, so much for that, you're kidding,

688
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 3: Guardian to the cops. Agatha Christie's brother in law had

689
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 3: received a letter apparently from Agatha, so she informed him

690
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 3: that she was at a resort SPA in Surrey, quote

691
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 3: for rest and treatment. Now our girl, Agatha like Dracula,

692
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 3: she's dead and loving it, right, So she seemed to

693
00:32:58,760 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 3: hang it out.

694
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 2: She sends it a letter to her brother.

695
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 3: Brother in law.

696
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: Was not on another end, okay, and does he give

697
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 2: this to the cops or does he keep it hush

698
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: hush on the QT.

699
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 3: He does for a second, then he gives it to

700
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 3: the cops.

701
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So then they're like, oh, she's not dead.

702
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 3: Well, I'll get to that in a second, because there's

703
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: a reason why he gets brought to the cops. But

704
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 3: at this point she's unaware. She's still swanning.

705
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: Around, probably like how long does it take to get

706
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 2: someone declared?

707
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 3: Exactly? Because he's doing well with the books, you know.

708
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 3: So at this point though, missus Neil is going around,

709
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: and she would say later on, I was very happy

710
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: and contented, right, she doesn't realize things are like, you know,

711
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 3: the walls are closing in. At the other end of

712
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 3: the spectrum, as her husband, Archie, he was beside himself

713
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: with worry. Of course, it was not his missing wife

714
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 3: that he was worried about. He was concerned for Archie.

715
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 3: He was writing about all these news reporters circling about

716
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: the story, you know, following anybody asking questions. He was

717
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 3: rather certain that they would discover that he'd been having

718
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 3: a year long affair with his mister me look bad.

719
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: And he was a colonel, so he had all that

720
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 3: British look, not that kind of colonel. So at first

721
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 3: Archie's in Fideli. He gets overlooked, right, he's golden. No

722
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 3: one susses it out. Then he decides, you know, what

723
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 3: the hell, I'll make a colossal mistake on my own.

724
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 3: He decides to speak with reporters from which paper, the

725
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 3: Daily Mail, all the papers, the Daily Mail.

726
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 2: Captain good decisions there, keep the streak going.

727
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: To the tabloid reporters. They do their due diligence, Elizabeth.

728
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 3: They ask him about his side piece, They're like, hey,

729
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 3: what's up in missus Neal. Archie wheels about in his

730
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: mind trying to decide what he's going to say. Right,

731
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 3: he doesn't know he's grasping for an excuse. So he

732
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 3: while he's thinking, he sort of just half attacks the

733
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 3: reporters out of instinct. Right, I told you he's a colonel.

734
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 3: He's like attack, So he says, and I quote, it

735
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 3: is absolutely untrue to suggest there was anything in the

736
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 3: nature of a row or a tiff between my wife

737
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 3: and myself on Friday morning. I strongly depreciate introducing any

738
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 3: tittle tattoo into this matter.

739
00:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 2: Quit your tittle tattle.

740
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 3: At tabloid reporters. That's their job, is tittletable.

741
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 2: Right.

742
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 3: So, in his panic of self defense, the husband he

743
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 3: throws his wife fully under the bus. He's like, he

744
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 3: raises the prospect that maybe his wife missing on purpose.

745
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: Maybe she planned and designed this, you know, carried out

746
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 3: her own disappearance. He's like, ask Agatha when you find her.

747
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: Well, they were still locking women up for being exactly hysterical.

748
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Archie Christie told the Daily Mail reporters, quote,

749
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,919
Speaker 3: my wife had discussed the possibility of disappearing at will.

750
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 3: Engineering a disappearance had been running through her mind, probably

751
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: for the purpose of work. Personally, I feel that is

752
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 3: what happened. Right. So back to the constables on the

753
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: search for the missing mystery writer. They aren't entirely convinced

754
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 3: of the letter to the brother in law. They're like,

755
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 3: isn't that something that a husband is trying to hide

756
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 3: a murder would do? Like, oh, yeah, my brother, he

757
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 3: got a letter from my wife saying she's fine, it's cool,

758
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 3: it's cool, don't worry about it, because he bets. We know,

759
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 3: whenever a woman, married woman goes missing, who's the first suspect?

760
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, the husband rightfully, the husband.

761
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 3: Right exactly. So December tenth rolls around. We're now about

762
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: a week after she first went missing. The police now

763
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 3: they decide to bring out the dogs because Archie, he's

764
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 3: one hell of a suspect. He just oozes with the

765
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: foul scent of guilt. So they're like, we may be

766
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 3: able to find a body. So they bring out the dogs.

767
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 3: The dogs, the hounds. They bring out. They can't find it.

768
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 3: They just start barking and whining. Nothing. Right, So the

769
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 3: London Times reported that the constables quote are now said

770
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 3: to be of the opinion that it is a case

771
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 3: of suicide. Oh yeah. So the public though, still hungering

772
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 3: to find what happened to this famous writer. So the

773
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 3: papers continue to cover the story with constant front page updates.

774
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 3: By the next week, the story begins to shift. And

775
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 3: after this break, Elizabeth, I'll tell you how the story shifted.

776
00:36:41,640 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Elizabeth, we're back as I was telling you,

777
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 5: stories were shifting.

778
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, people were looking for dead bodies. Yeah, were not

779
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 3: dead because they were dancing in and exactly just being

780
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: their best Agatha. So at this point on Tuesday, they

781
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 3: basically we're a week into her being gone, an editorial

782
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: gets published. Once again, the Daily Mail steps into it.

783
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 3: The writer for the Daily Mail, they argue that if

784
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: the rumors are indeed true, and the letter to the

785
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 3: brother in law is accurate, and Agatha Christie is indeed alive,

786
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 3: then this is a terrible hoax to pull on the

787
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 3: people who loved and supported her. The writer he basically

788
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 3: called it, to quote, a heartless, practical joke. So this point,

789
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 3: we're December twelfth, Okay, just give you a date night,

790
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 3: nine days after she's disappeared. The next day, the cops

791
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 3: still at it. They're still looking for something. Agatha Christie's

792
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 3: still laying low. People's suspicions ratcheted up. Everyone that the

793
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 3: spa is like, I'm pretty sure that dying crush, right, Yeah,

794
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 3: she's still running with it. And however, the cops at

795
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 3: this point they're no longer convinced she's dead. They've at

796
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 3: least caught up to the idea. You know what, she

797
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 3: may not be dead. They now believe she's on the

798
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: run somewhere. They're like, we don't know where, but we

799
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 3: think she's on the run. So they what do they

800
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 3: do for clues? Elizabeth? They turned to her books. They're like,

801
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 3: why don't we start reading her books for clues? So

802
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 3: they read the manuscript of her newest novel. They're like,

803
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 3: let's see what that is about, right, because it's just

804
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 3: about to come out, but it hasn't come out yet.

805
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 3: And the book is called the Blue Train. They're like,

806
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 3: the Blue Train to wear She's on the train now.

807
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 3: I may not be doing a really good job of covering,

808
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: like how big this search was for Agatha Christie. So

809
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 3: for just for give you some numbers and some scale.

810
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 3: This marked the first time that a plane was ever

811
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 3: used in England to search for a missing person. Oh,

812
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 3: there were so many people out looking on the grounds

813
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: that they put the number right between ten and fifteen

814
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 3: thousand individuals. It's people, just locals out there looking like

815
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 3: I've got my dog in a cane and a walking stead,

816
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 3: let's go see if you can find him. As I

817
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: mentioned dogs, they had trained animals as in and I

818
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 3: quote six trained bloodhounds, a crate looad of of Aarradale terriers,

819
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 3: many retrievers and Alsatian police dogs and even the services

820
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 3: of common mongrels.

821
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: Wait, that sounds like the greatest group of dogs.

822
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 3: It sounds like your next birthday party.

823
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: Sounds like my dream back.

824
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 3: So the hunt drags on despite all the dogs and

825
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 3: all the locals looking cops they pull out their latest theory.

826
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 3: They go, okay, we're gonna ask for the public for help.

827
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 3: The bobbies they now believe that Acta Christie is on

828
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 3: the run and she may be hiding out in London.

829
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 3: Not only that, but she was quote likely disguised and

830
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 3: probably in mail attire. Oh so now are supposed to

831
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 3: be going up to men who don't have a sloth

832
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 3: th goo, are you act at the Christy? Give them

833
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: the once over? So the cops they all mentioned that

834
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 3: there may or may not be a sealed envelope with

835
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: the specific instruction that it should only be opened on

836
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 3: the event that her body was discovered. So now they're

837
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 3: ratcheting up the stakes. So basically the Daily Mail and

838
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 3: the police are competing for who can come up with

839
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 3: the craziest theory.

840
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 2: Didn't finish the manuscript of this book.

841
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 3: To help in this case. Forgot the spiritualist because this

842
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 3: is the highest spiritualism time they come rushing in psychics

843
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 3: of all they come by the score. They stepped forward.

844
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 3: In one news story there was in London Times. The

845
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 3: psychic reported that I get the Christie was indeed alive

846
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 3: and well and would be found very soon, which turned

847
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 3: out to be correct. But the psychic really had a

848
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty chancel on that one. So I mean,

849
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 3: like what to be given them? Like, oh, she's you

850
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 3: alive or dead?

851
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 2: This is such a fantastic I say, that is it.

852
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 2: It's an interesting it's the most interesting period of time

853
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: for me in like not necessarily just European but mostly

854
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: British English culture of the time between the wars. Yes,

855
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 2: completely the mindset of it, and there's like this identity

856
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 2: but yet they know that they've like they're doing things

857
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: not knowing what's about to happen. Yes, well, oh man,

858
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 2: I love.

859
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 3: It so so okay, remember once again I told you

860
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: the author of Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

861
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 3: He was big in a spiritualism to the show. Oh

862
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 3: my god, that the friend to the show. He got

863
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 3: his own gear and once he heard his peer in

864
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 3: the mystery game was missing, he's like, oh, threw on

865
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 3: the deer stalker hat and he was like, grab my

866
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 3: wife's crystal ball, let's do this. Right. So somehow, Sir Arthur,

867
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 3: He's like, I need to get some personal property. So

868
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: he gets a hold of Agatha Christie's personal property. He

869
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 3: gets his hand on one of Agatha Christie's gloves. Don't

870
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 3: ask me how. He takes the glove to a spiritualist.

871
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 3: The psychic did the routine and then she declared Agatha

872
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 3: Christie is alive.

873
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 2: Uh huh.

874
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 3: And not only that, but she'll be found soon.

875
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: She is mad.

876
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 3: Both times pistols the spiritusts were correct. She would be

877
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: found very soon. So the next day, December fourteenth, the

878
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 3: police announced they found new evidence, not Agatha Christie, but

879
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 3: new evidence. They found new clues, namely quote a bottle

880
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 3: labeled poison, lead and opium, some fragments of a torn

881
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 3: up postcard, a woman's fur lined coat, a box of

882
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 3: face powder, the end of a loaf of bread, a

883
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 3: cardboard box, and two children's books.

884
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 2: Where did they find these things?

885
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: This sounds like the you're giving away your next birthday party.

886
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 2: Fish hooks, gum drops. Where did they find her car?

887
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: I believe Oh I thought it was just like in

888
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: the world.

889
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 3: Yeah no, this is he says. They walked around. We

890
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 3: think this could be hers that's my coat. Well it's

891
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: now a clue.

892
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 2: I'm taking your coat in the end of the loaf

893
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: of your breath.

894
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 3: And the rest of this whiskey. Okay. Not only that,

895
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 3: the detectives they also declare that they believe missus Christy

896
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 3: had left her home on purpose with no intention of returning.

897
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 3: So now they're trying to refine their announcements. The police

898
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 3: they also continue to investigate the husband because they're not

899
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 3: entirely certain about old arch Right. One of Archie's colleagues

900
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 3: at this time, he was quoted in a paper. He

901
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 3: said he was in a terribly nervous state and told

902
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 3: me the police had followed him and we're now waiting outside.

903
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 3: They think I murdered my wife, he said. So he's

904
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 3: like going around screaming to his friends that they think you.

905
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 3: People were like, yeah, well, you know, Archie, you act

906
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 3: a certain way exactly. Anyway, all as all these theories

907
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 3: and suspicions start to come to a had two underemployed musicians,

908
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 3: that's right, two under musicians. They cracked the case because

909
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 3: they worked at the resorts Spa and they saw her

910
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 3: all the time. That's Agatha Christie. So they when they

911
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 3: confirmed that Archie was indeed no murder by coming forward

912
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 3: and going, yeah, you can find her right here. The

913
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 3: cops show up, the newspaper reporters show up, and they're like, oh, yeah,

914
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 3: that's Agatha Christie. So the next day, December fifteenth, aga

915
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 3: Christie is discovered to be alive and indeed at a

916
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 3: hotel resorts spa. All the newspapers they start printing everything

917
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 3: they can about this, and the interesting point is that

918
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 3: they find out that she's been staying out of the

919
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 3: name of her husband's mistress. So now the story gets

920
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 3: so now that Agatha.

921
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 2: So it's only the last name, it's not the first thing, Teresa.

922
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 3: Neil and yeah, exactly kind of exactly. So once she's found,

923
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 3: what does Agatha Christie do? What does she say? How

924
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 3: does she what does she tell? The public has all

925
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 3: these questions? How does she explain her sudden abrupt absence

926
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 3: from her own life?

927
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 2: Elizabeth, I'm going to guess the car accident.

928
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 3: That's a good but but what does she say? What

929
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 3: do you think she grabbed? She like, was there a deer.

930
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 2: End forever and I didn't know who I was?

931
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good to stick to simple. Yeah, well, she

932
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 3: would be proud to know that she did what any

933
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 3: good fabricator of stories would do.

934
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she lied, good for her.

935
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to Chrissy told the detectives that she

936
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 3: did indeed hit her head in the car crash. She

937
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 3: bruised her dome and was temporarily knocked unconscious, so she

938
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 3: had no memory of the past eleven days. Okay, so

939
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 3: she's covered the whole time, right. The cops say they were.

940
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 3: They were like, but you don't have a bruise on

941
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 3: your forehead, and she's like, oh, it's been two weeks.

942
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: What are you doing?

943
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 3: Exactly?

944
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 5: I was.

945
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 2: I was psychically murdered by my husband.

946
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 3: He broke back exactly. So there's the question of her

947
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 3: transient amnesia. Is that and that's hard. You can't see that,

948
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 3: you can't detect it, So they have to take her

949
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 3: word for it, or possibly the word of doctors. Right.

950
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 3: So meanwhile there's her sad sack half a man husband, Archie.

951
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 3: He arrives at the hotel resort spot to pick up

952
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 3: his wife and bring her home. What do you think happens?

953
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 2: She can't get in the car.

954
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 3: He was met by a stony silence. That's a quote.

955
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 3: And then he eventually he's like, you know, we can

956
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 3: get you out of this. So he sticks to her

957
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 3: story and he says, oh yes, he tells all the

958
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 3: gathered reporters, so she doesn't have to talk to him

959
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 3: that quote. She does not know who she is. She

960
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 3: just suffered from the most complete loss of memory, like

961
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 3: even my mistress.

962
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 2: Right, he's hoping.

963
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 3: So the couple they employ an act of subterfuge to

964
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 3: escape the resort, spa and the press. They use a

965
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 3: pair of decoys that go out dressed as the couple.

966
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 3: They got the front door and the meanwhile the couple

967
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 3: they escape through the side door. Right, So now she's

968
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 3: able to get home. They take the train and they

969
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 3: get to London. There's all these people waiting for her.

970
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 3: She's like, oh, dear lord, she's a writer, right, so

971
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 3: she's introverted. This is not what she wants. You want

972
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 3: to get away, and now everything's closing in on her

973
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 3: and they all have faces right, right, So the press

974
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 3: also is keen to crucify Agatha Christie because of what

975
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 3: they now believe is a presumed hoax. Because one, there's

976
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 3: the costly distraction for all the people and the police,

977
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 3: the volunteers, but also Agatha Christie had a new book

978
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 3: coming out, so they assume this is all publicity, so

979
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 3: they rail against her. So in her defense, Agatha Christie,

980
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 3: she calls in doctors to examine her and prove that

981
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 3: she's had in a legitimate medical episode. The doctors they

982
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 3: interviewer at her sister's house. Agatha confesses to the doctors everything,

983
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 3: and by everything, I mean she had no clear memory

984
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: of anything. So she was like, I don't know anything,

985
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, that sounds legit to us. So

986
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 3: she says, only thing that she has is some hazy

987
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 3: memory of that she went by missus Neil, but she

988
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 3: doesn't know why she gave that name, and even though

989
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 3: that is her husband's mistress, and so they're like, okay,

990
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 3: good to us. The doctors listened to Agatha Christie, the

991
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 3: examined her, and then they announced their findings. The doctors

992
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 3: both of them agree missus Christie has had about of amnesia.

993
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 3: So the story goes, this didn't end the cries of

994
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 3: hoax and fraud. Elizabeth, we got tabloids on her exactly

995
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: so months after she was found safe and mostly sound,

996
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 3: an MP in Parliament decides to go and rail against

997
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 3: her and like drum up some business for himself. He's

998
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 3: from your old stomping grounds, Glasgow, Govind, I say that right,

999
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 3: huh okay Glasgow, Govin, not.

1000
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 2: S Glasgow, glass Glasgow.

1001
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 3: Glasgow, Glasgow, Glasgow.

1002
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 2: Glas Go glads go there you go.

1003
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 3: Govin, Here you go, MP mister Neil McLean McLean. He

1004
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 3: put forth a question to the Home Secretary and he said,

1005
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 3: the number of the Metropolitan Police specially detailed for the

1006
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 3: search of missus Agatha Christie. The time occupied and the

1007
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 3: total cost including the wages of the office are so detailed,

1008
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 3: or like, basically there was a price to the Crown

1009
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 3: that was impossible to pay it. So he goes saying

1010
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 3: that we need to have an investigation into this, right,

1011
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 3: So he's just trying to drum up business for himself. Anyway.

1012
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 3: The reasons for all the suspicions in the hubbub was

1013
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 3: at Agatha Christie. As I told you, had the new

1014
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 3: book out, so everyone assumed it was a capitalistic play.

1015
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 3: But also if you recall the front pages splashed on

1016
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 3: newspapers across the globe, we're also portraying her husband as

1017
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 3: a lying, cheating, no good, sad sack excuse of the

1018
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 3: man once it came out about the mistress, So now

1019
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 3: that starts being well, maybe she was trying to get it.

1020
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 3: Now the debate is, was she trying to get away

1021
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 3: from him? So, well, what about the mistress? We haven't

1022
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 3: talked about her at all? Yeah, what is she dealing

1023
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 3: now that she's the scapegoat for all of this and

1024
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 3: people are either she knows he's mare exactly, she'd be

1025
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 3: well aware the mistress. In the wake of the scandal,

1026
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 3: her parents, her poor British parents, they were shook, scandalized, embarrassed.

1027
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 3: So they to protect their daughter and their good name,

1028
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 3: they sent Nancy on a trip around the world. They

1029
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 3: did ten month long trip around the world. She got

1030
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 3: a reward for this, so, I mean, you're going to

1031
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 3: be scandalized. That's the way to do it, really, I mean,

1032
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 3: this is a free trip around the world, no internet,

1033
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 3: nothing anyway. This, however, was not the end of their

1034
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 3: illicit love story, because in March of nineteen twenty eight,

1035
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 3: fifteen months after she disappeared, Agatha Christie sued her husband

1036
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 3: for divorce. Two years after that, her ex husband married again,

1037
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 3: can you guess who we married? His new bride, Nancy

1038
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 3: new Oh yeah, she came back around the world, came

1039
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 3: back from her trip, and she's like, I still love him,

1040
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 3: and so Agatha Christie though Elizabeth, she also got remarried

1041
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 3: in nineteen thirty. Her new husband far more her speed.

1042
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 3: He was an archaeologist from the British Museum.

1043
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.

1044
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 3: So he's a thief, a professional thief. For their honeymoon,

1045
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 3: the new couple went down to the Holy Land, where

1046
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 3: her husband conducted an excavation. Yeah, there you go. I'm

1047
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 3: just saying, is she got to her happy place. She

1048
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 3: had a husband. It was dusty and been interesting. Like her,

1049
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 3: she's like, oh I love this, and she got rid

1050
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 3: of the old sad sack Colonel Archi.

1051
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the Neil lady needs to realize that

1052
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 2: how it starts is how it ends. So he's probably

1053
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 2: gonna have a wandering eye.

1054
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 3: Yes. Now, later on, you remember I said that there

1055
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 3: were the rumors of murder. Yeah, yeah, like well, it

1056
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 3: would have been claimed by some, including a nineteen seventy

1057
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 3: nine movie called Agatha, which, apparently people who like Agatha

1058
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 3: Christie say, is a terrible movie. Anyway, that her disappearance

1059
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 3: in the car crash at the query, all of it

1060
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 3: was designed to frame her husband for her disappearance and

1061
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 3: her subsequent murder, that she was going to off herself

1062
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 3: and blame him. Many folks like to say that Agatha

1063
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 3: Christie never spoke about her disappearance. I'll say, oh, we

1064
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 3: don't know why she did it. Well, that's not exactly

1065
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 3: true if you dig deep enough that she did talk

1066
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 3: about it, just once right in an interview with the

1067
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 3: tabloid newspaper once again the Daily Mail heading that story

1068
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 3: conducted in nineteen twenty eight, so it's two years after

1069
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 3: the incidents, ill fresh and not like twenty years later.

1070
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 3: So she explained how the afternoon she disappeared, and after

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Speaker 3: her husband told her he wanted a divorce and he

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Speaker 3: walked out, she'd first taken a driver with her daughter,

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Speaker 3: and then she debated what to do next and take

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Speaker 3: it away. Agatha, there came into my mind the thought

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Speaker 3: me in the car, I dismissed the idea at once,

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Speaker 3: and driving into it is the quarry, sure? And then

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Speaker 3: she said that night I felt terribly miserable I felt

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Speaker 3: that I could go on no longer. I left home

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Speaker 3: that night in a state of high nervous strain with

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Speaker 3: the intention of doing something desperate. So that night, without

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Speaker 3: her daughter in the car, is when she acted on

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Speaker 3: the impulse, and it may not have been the best plan.

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Speaker 3: I admit that anybody would see that, but it certainly

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Speaker 3: was irresponsible leaving her daughter alone. But thanks to her

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Speaker 3: eleven day walk about, Agatha Christie became a liberated woman.

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Speaker 3: So I assumed she left her daughter in good hands.

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Speaker 3: We don't know exactly the details. My point is, sometimes

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Speaker 3: all one needs is to get away to get some perspective.

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Speaker 3: Right here. Her disappearance also helped catapult her into a

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Speaker 3: new level of fame, because, much like the Mona Lisa,

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Speaker 3: after it was a stolen, it became the most famous

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Speaker 3: painting the world, exactly after she stole herself, she became

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Speaker 3: the most famous woman in the world who wasn't a queen.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. So, Elizabeth, what's our ridiculous takeaway here?

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Speaker 2: You know what, sometimes you need to stop and have

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Speaker 2: some me time exactly, and also don't debase yourself and

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Speaker 3: Good point my ridiculous takeaway once again, thank you for

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Speaker 3: asking a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for asking.

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Speaker 3: You can't spell crime without me. Sometimes you need a

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Speaker 3: little me time, and crime is how you get there.

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Speaker 3: So that's all I got for you.

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Speaker 2: Excellent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're in the mood for a talk bag.

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Speaker 2: I love talking about.

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Speaker 3: Dave hit It.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god.

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Speaker 6: I went, Hey everybody, it's me Elizabeth Sutton. I'd just

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Speaker 6: like to say that I'm really enjoying the show. I've

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Speaker 6: been listening in for a long time and I'm down.

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Speaker 6: Is I Heart app just like a send us talkback?

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Speaker 6: Hey there, what's their ridiculous takeaway?

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Speaker 3: Hello?

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Speaker 6: This is eyes Undernett. I've been voking on my German

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Speaker 6: accent obviously, and I wouldn't say it's cut in bettle,

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Speaker 6: but it's quoting different. Keep it up. Yeah, alrighte you.

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed the talk all right. As always, people, you

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Speaker 3: can find us online Ridiculous Crime, Twitter, Instagram, We have

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Speaker 3: a website. It's Ridiculous Crime dot com. Uh that's where

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Speaker 3: you can find merch and stuff. And also, as you

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Speaker 3: can tell, we do love your talkbacks, so please leave

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Speaker 3: us one. Go on the iHeart app. You can figure

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Speaker 3: out how to do it there, and also if you're

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Speaker 3: an old school you can email us if you want

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Speaker 3: a Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. As always start

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Speaker 3: the email Dear Elizabeth, Okay, thanks for listening. We'll catch

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Speaker 3: you next crime. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton

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Speaker 3: and Zaron Burnette, produced and edited by her Quel Prowhile,

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Speaker 3: Rose Mustache wax salesman Dave Houston. Research is by Marissa.

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Speaker 3: I'm totally team Agatha Brown and Andrea is anyone team

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Speaker 3: Archie song sharpened here. Our theme song is by Thomas

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Speaker 3: Me five hundred. Executive producers are Ben you know I

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Speaker 3: once had amnesia, but I forget when Bowlin and Noel

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Speaker 3: what is amnesia? Brown?

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Speaker 2: Reds QUI say it one more times crime.

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