WEBVTT - Are You Experienced... With Kidnapping? 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.440 Elizabeth got totally. You've been waiting in here all day. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.480 With the lights out. My knees are killing me. I've 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:12.799 been under that console. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:13.920 Why are you wearing a tiara? 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:15.000 Why not? Dude? 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:16.959 I mean, it looks good, but why aren't you wearing 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:18.920 that was a permanent marker? 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:20.599 Yeah, it's good. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.360 Anyway, do you know what's ridiculous? Besides that? 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:27.600 I do now there is a listener. He's not ridiculous 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:33.479 in the slightest stever. Neither Steve Neither on Instagram. This 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.959 man he sent something in that I swear to you, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.480 I thought was fake. There was just absolutely no way 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:41.600 in the world this could be real. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:42.720 And then you got your team on it. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.839 I got the team on it me two dogs, hamster 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.839 and a year old kid that I just found, you know, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:51.960 walking to school. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.760 Train circus monkey and only answers to Pierre. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.320 You know Pierre, Yeah, okay, cool the crap. My crack 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.800 team and I mm hmm investigated this. It's true. This 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.880 exist is true. This is one hundred percent true. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:08.680 I'm gonna have to take your word for it. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.440 Like, okay, So here's here's the thing. When what do 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.639 you think of? When I say Tom Petty, I mean. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.919 But I think of music videos? Yeah, specifically like ones 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.240 like about like you know. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.520 Scenes of l A Don't come around here no more? 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.640 Oh yeah, but then like the free falling. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.880 Free following. Yeah, what's the one with the Johnny is 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:37.120 a Dead woman? Oh yeah, that was later one? Crazy yeah, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.200 crazy imagery that one. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.679 Great videos, liked it, great songs, American. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.759 Great songs, tragic end, Yes, this is it. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.120 Wasn't too long ago. You know, he was another victim 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.480 of you knowventyl and, which is just the absolute devil. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.600 So when you think of him, do you think of 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.000 any anything else? Like it's non music or video related. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:04.880 Yes, I'm so sorry. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.200 Do you do you think of like Marshmallows? 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:09.520 No? I know I don't, Elizabeth. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.119 Moving on, do you think of a lot? 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.200 Nope? Still no, you should. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.480 You should think of chocolate? 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.160 Back my tracks up and thank my Chocolate. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:24.600 Nothing says chocolate, like Tom Petty, nothing, nothing, Florida. Nothing 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:29.240 says chocolate. So there's this company Chocolate. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.600 Oh sure, sure, don't make me say that. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.440 I'm not saying it right. Probably Okay, So they have 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.080 this collection of chocolate bars that are the it's a 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:44.720 mash up, a crossover Tom Petty Voge chocolate, and it's 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:45.600 a limited edition. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.600 This is the chocolate company that takes certain body parts 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:49.200 and makes it. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.080 Okay, there you know. This collection marries the world of 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.119 music with the art of chocolate making, offering an experience 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.480 that transcends the ordinary. Let me tell you what makes 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.000 this sound so horrible and fake? 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.520 Please do I'm gonna. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.880 Read you about Chukla harmony. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:08.360 Okay. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.880 The magic of this chocolate collection lies in its unique 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.120 infusion process. So we're talking about Tom Petty and chocolate 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.880 and there's an infusion process. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.760 Okay, I'm really hoping it's gonna be like some weed 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:20.519 butter or something. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:25.800 As these bars gently make their way through the cooling tunnel, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.000 they are serenaded with the timeless music of Tom Petty. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.520 They're infused with the music. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.680 This innovative technique is inspired by the belief that music 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:41.120 can influence the crystallization of chocolate, resulting in a product 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.720 that not only tastes extraordinary, but also embodies the spirit 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.680 and essence of Tom Petty's music. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.520 So this is like the same science of like if 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.840 I whisper mean words to water it'll make ugly crystals 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:53.560 of ice. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.400 It's sort of like like the movie like Water for chocolate, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.960 like Tom Petty that I don't you think there's sort 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.920 of a sorrowful edge to Tom Petty. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.240 It's going to be some bitter chocolate. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:06.280 I don't like sad chocolate. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.680 Yeah, that's gonna be some sad, bitter Florida chocolate. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.760 They have three three flavors. Dark chocolate with sea salt 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.200 that reads sad, sad, Deep milk chocolate with marshmallow. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.200 I'll go win some America, but go yeah. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.480 That's that's more American girl. Yeah, and then deep milk 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.360 chocolate with crispy hazelnut. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:24.960 I don't know what to make of that. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.120 I don't mean either. But let me tell you something 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.360 Saren Saren Walter by Elizabeth c. D. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.760 This is ridiculous. Oh I'll give you that one there. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.039 It is Produce Your Day of mark one up for Elizabeth. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:37.200 That's ridiculous. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.599 A box set of it is fifty bucks. Otherwise they're 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.360 seven dollars a bar, which. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.560 I didn't like the CD old CD long boxes. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.200 Like almost almost. But yeah, and this's got like pretty 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:49.640 cool art. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.520 But will kids be selling these at like public transportation 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.360 stations to raise money for the school, and then maybe 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.320 they'll get my seven. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.480 Bugs in like Brooklyn. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.360 Okay, cool, I'm going to do it. You got a second, Yeah, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.120 of course I got some ridiculous for you. Okay. You 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.279 remember when you were young and dumb, you loved a 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.960 particular band. Oh sure, it doesn't matter what band. Picture 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.200 a band you loved, right, and even more specifically, picture 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.159 a single performer that you loved. Right, You're just like 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.760 I just longed and pined for them, right. Do you 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.440 ever have like a musical crush where you felt their 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.279 music so deeply in your bones, just like in every 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.920 fiber of your body that didn't say, a weak moment 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.720 maybe hmm, or maybe an emotional high. I don't know 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.000 which way you roll. You would dream a particular dream, 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.920 like what if I could literally kidnap that performer and 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.320 make them saying just for me? 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:37.640 Right? 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.240 I mean nothing weird or creepy, you know, it's just 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.520 like more like a Genie wish, really positive Disneyfied wish. Right? 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.640 Were you reading my journals? And you know what I 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:49.640 wanted to do to victimone's. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.120 This is about to be Happy birthday, Elizabeth, I didn't know. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.279 But if you could have one performer other than the 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.760 fabulous victimone play for you over a long weekend, who 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:57.159 would it be? 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:58.800 Elizabeth Victimone. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:05:59.120 That's it. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.720 That's it. Okay, that's your answer, your final answer. Well, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.440 today I have a pair of stories for you, not 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.240 about Victim oone, but about people who did exactly that 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.679 to people other than Victim oone. They lived your dark dream. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:24.960 Oh yeah, you're ready. I'm so ready. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:38.040 This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.240 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:48.600 one ridiculous ridiculous. Hello, I feel like I should start over. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.800 I feel like I may have set up to your 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.880 stories to sound kind of weird. We'll super creepy, right, yeah, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.559 but not in the fun flirting way, but like truth 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.520 be told. These stories they're kind of weird, right, but 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.560 not like I want to wear your skin is a suit? 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.040 Kind of weird, you know, not that weird. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:03.920 Please victim O one, let me wear. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.880 Or like who did what to who? That kind of weird? 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:09.360 Right? 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.800 You love that kind of weird? Okay, so let's dive in. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:12.880 I like all kinds of weird. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:14.920 You kind of a weird girl, I am, You're a 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.520 maven of weird. Yeah. Well, anyway, what do you know 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.440 about Fats Waller? 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:19.920 Oh? 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.520 Wow, street name Fats Waller, government named Thomas Right Waller. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.360 Uh, nothing in depth? 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.400 Right? He was one of the early jazz legends. Yeah right, yeah, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.440 piano of jazz. I know you know this, right, famous 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.200 right took the New Orleans sound that was where jazz 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.320 was getting to start, and he ran it through like 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.120 a Harlem filter and out pop's stride piano, that style 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.560 he basically took like the uh it's like jumping like 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.960 yeah exactly. So you know anyway, born in nineteen oh 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.080 four May twenty first, to be exact, comes into his 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.520 full stride in the nineteen twenties. That was right when 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.320 this is the point when jazz is the hottest thing 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.680 going in the world. Right, And I think you know 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.920 some of his songs. If I ran some titles past, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.040 you like yet me high suckle rose? Oh yeah, ain't misbehaving? Yeah, okay, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.160 I figure you do as I told you. Guy musical virtuo, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.360 So you put him on eighty eight keys and he 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.440 would make that thing sing so pretty and This started 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.360 back when he was six years old. Six six years old, Yeah, yeah. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.000 Father was a preacher. Father wanted his son to use 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.880 his gifts for the law, and he was like, no, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.040 I want to do it for the coch So he 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.040 got out there and he started dancing his fingers over 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.760 the keys. All these beautiful ladies and dapper gentlemen. Would 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.320 you know, get down. He loved that lifestyle. This man 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.360 was about about it now. Also, he started so young 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.600 as a performer, right, young Thomas Waller, he does the 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.000 inevitable thing. He drops out of school, he chases the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.320 music on the night life. His father most displeased, but 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.760 young Thomas Waller he's loving it. Right. Flash forward to 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.480 the nineteen twenties, earned the nickname Fats, and now he's 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.880 this up and coming piano player working in Harlem night spots. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:00.199 And as I said, dud dude, great personality, brash, funny, garrels, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.360 all kinds of charisma. Just you want to watch him. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.160 The right guy at the right time. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.000 Totally, totally. Now he's a star in the nightclub scene 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:12.680 in Harlem. Boom kids, like nineteen years old, god years old, right, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.000 Fats Waller gets the attention of all kinds of people 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.600 who are looking to make money in this new music, right, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.400 they get him at a studio, he cuts a record 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.280 nineteen twenty four Boom, his first hit song, Squeeze Me 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.839 right Fats Waller. Sound, as I said, stride piano. Now, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.520 you're more of a musician than I am, so maybe, well, anyway, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.920 the sound of what stride piano. I had to kind 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.160 of look it up to make sure I got this 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.320 all right. But if you take Scott Joplin's Ragtime, right, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.400 and then you made that sound a little more jaunty 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.120 and jazzy, right, and then the piano player's left hand 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.320 is the one that strides. Yeah, okay, so he kind 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.720 of walks around on the keyboard and apparently he holds 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.360 down a four beat rhythm, and then the left hand's 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.360 playing on the ones and threes, and he's playing a 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.640 chord right on the twos and four. So it's going 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.560 back and forth between a rhythm note on the ones 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.080 and threes and a chord on the twos and four. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.600 So it's kind of walking around right. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:09:59.960 Yeah. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.920 Now, as I said, you have more faculty with music 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.720 than I do, or facility rather, Uh, I can play 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.040 a harmonica. I like a messy instrument with like here 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.000 kind of there, I'm gonna fudge it over here, I'm 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.640 gonna bend it into this. Right. You played the cello, Yeah, correct, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.600 I did. So that you have a fingerboard, you're used 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.040 to that placing the emphasis, because when you play an 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.400 instrument with wind, it's very different about putting the emotion 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:24.559 in it then with the fingers. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.840 Yeah. Well there's no fret on it. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.880 Yeah, but there's no fresh there's a neck and but 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.520 there's still basically a string section where you're running an 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:33.600 imaginary threat. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:34.560 Board in your mind. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.480 You know where the Yeah, you're imposing it. So when 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.360 you're putting emotion into strings, how did How does that occur? 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.360 You know? Is it? Is it the rhythm? Is it? 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.120 Do you feel it? 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:43.600 Well? 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.240 I think it's particularly for something like the cello, it's 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.720 it's you know, uh, when you're playing with a bow, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.360 it's you know, how the pressure on it, you know, 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.000 verbrato with your finger or you can bend notes, you know, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:58.120 and move it. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.000 And do like thessando type stuff. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.320 And then if you want to do a sound sneaky, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.800 then you dozo little cat. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.719 So back to mymon Fats Waller, as I told you, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.400 lovable roguish character. He's able to impart emotion into the 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.480 feeling of the strings. He's sitting there dancing on his 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.040 piano bench. So imagine him in a suit, just gliding around, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.880 bouncing his little butt on the on the piano bench, playing, 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.520 as I said, stride so ole. Everyone loves him. Now 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.920 he starts recording on RCA Victor. He's got this six 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:30.600 piece combo Elizabeth Fats Waller and his rhythm right, hottest 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.880 thing going in the mid nineteen twenties. Fans all across 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.120 the country, not just in Harlement, in Chicago and Detroit, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.720 but all across the country. One of his biggest fans, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.559 you know this man, you know his name, yes, one 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.559 of the friend of the show. Oh, mister Alphonse Capone. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.599 Oh yeah, the legendary Chicago mob boss, king of a 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.960 gang land right, Capo de tuti Copi. He was also 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:52.600 a jazz. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.840 Man, really, I know, he played the banjo exactly. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.960 He liked the hothouse jazz tunes. He was sitting out 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.880 there like Jango Ryan all right. Anyway, I always kind. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.600 Of imagine him playing like, you know, wagon wheel music 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:11.880 on a banjo well, I think it's funnier that way. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.040 It's funnier, Yeah, definitely funnier. But picture his speakeasies right, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.840 he's hanging out. He loves the hot jazz. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.800 He kicked off the square dancing craze in fourth grades 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:21.760 across the country. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:26.720 I'm just gonna set that aside. The music the people 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.600 listen to while sipping on his bootleg liquor, hot hot jazz. Yeah, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.960 square dance music now, also the ladies of the night 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.080 who they beef dancing as folks are gambling in his 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.760 Alicic casinos. What type of music, Elizabeth. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.199 Banjo Scarce. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:51.000 As I'm pointing out, jazz, hothouse jazz into jazz, totally 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.480 everything sexy, fun elictit. That's what al Capone is all about. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:13:00.000 And jazz is suaggy horns, yeah, exactly, jumping beats, hot Claire, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.680 and lift your skirt up, drums. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.800 Lift your skirt up? What kind of instruments you play 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.880 when you're dancing? Oh we're back to dancing? 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.679 Yeah, like you hear this music and you. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.320 Just player skirt over your head, dance. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.440 Stock still in the middle of the dance floor and 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.280 lift your skirt. That's not how you dance at a 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:19.840 jazz club. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.959 When I do it, I do more of a frilly skirt, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.400 like a flamenco dancer. I do the action with my skirt. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:25.440 I mean, what are you talking about here? 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.080 I just let my wool socks sag down from between 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.840 my knees to my ankles, and then I slowly lift 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:37.679 up my skirt and people turn in host sailor. Yeah. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.840 So back to the nineteen twenties. Al Capone was born 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:45.320 in January of eighteen ninety nine in Cicero. Yes, very good, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.720 January seventeenth, eighteen ninety nine. Thus he was always one 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.600 year older than the date, right, Okay, Yeah, So nineteen 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.400 twenty five al Capon's twenty six and eight nineteen twenty six, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:56.120 al Capone is. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.640 Elizabeth twenty seven. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.560 Very good, So let's focus on that. Keep going on this. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:01.199 What about the next? 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.320 How about in nineteen eighty four? 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.400 Trick question nineteen eighty four Elizabeth Gough? How old is he? 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.559 He was nineteen eighty dead? 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.480 He was dead? Nice, totally nailed it. Okay, So let's 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.800 focus on Alcapone's twenty seventh birthday. Okay, he obviously did 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.679 not join the twenty seven club so he made it 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:19.600 past twenty seven. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:20.080 True. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.440 This story comes to us from Maurice Waller, the son 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.880 of Fats Waller. He wrote a book about his dad. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.600 He shared a family story, right, So here we go 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.400 the kidnapping of Fats Waller by the gangster al Capone. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:32.960 Wait, kidnapping. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.280 Fats Waller by the gangster alone. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.040 Sometimes my brain needs to catch up. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.200 But I told you this will be Who did what? Who? 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:42.360 Where we are? 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.200 So anyway, nineteen twenty six, Fats Waller is twenty one 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.440 years old. Okay, he's been a star in Harlem now 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.520 since he was nineteen. He's young, as I told you, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.520 but he's used to the night life by now, or 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.120 so he thought. He gets booked on a tour. He's 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.080 playing northern Midwestern cities Cleveland, Detroit, he makes out Chicago 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.120 and he's playing a gig at a place called the 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.240 Sherman Hotel Elizabeth. It's a multi night standing gig. Since 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.920 it's nineteen twenty six, Fats Waller attracts a bunch of 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.200 Chicago gangsters. They all come out to see them, right. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.480 They show up their big mohair coats. They got a 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.560 dame on their arm, exactly picture that crowd, but it 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.760 run through your imagination. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:23.320 Like an informal personal picture it right, Ca'm good? Yeah. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.480 So a bunch of dames on their arms who aren't 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.240 their wives, yeah, men who are there basically to provide 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.880 them protection. They got those bulges under their suits, right. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.800 Fats Waller, he's from New York. He's used to playing 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.640 for gangster's. He's not afraid of this crowd. He's like, 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.560 they're gonna dance in my music on anybody else. So, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.320 as I said, the bulging overcoats and the heaters with 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.560 them don't worry him none. So after he gets done 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.960 playing one night, Fats Waller walks out of Sherman Hotel. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.280 What does he walk into? Elizabeth? A pair of suspicious 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.160 faces men walking right up on him. One has his 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.080 gat out for persuasion. They hustle Fats Waller into a 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.520 waiting getaway car, long black limousine. The two got him 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.440 into the limo, right, So Fat wall is in their 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.360 limo with him. One of the hoods gives the driver 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.000 an instruction, He's like, take us back, d Cicero. Fats 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.840 Waller has no business in his sister, right, so he's like, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.360 who did who did I wrong? Was there was there 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.360 a dancer I've been talking to? I shouldn't have been 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.520 talking to? Why have I done? He cannot figure out 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.560 why he's being taken to Cio right, he's desperately trying 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.680 to think of why he's been grabbed and who would 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:24.480 want him dead? 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.680 And fast Waller and came out just a little poop. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.200 So the long black limo arrives at his destination in 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.040 East Cicero. It's a saloon Elizabeth called the Hawthorn in. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.200 The two hoods pull Fats Waller out of the car, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.680 take him inside the salon. But really, once he's inside, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.440 he notices it. Oh, it's more of a nightclub all right, 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.920 for gangsters. It's just packed with monsters. In fact, the 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:50.240 Hawthorn is is owned by a gangster, one Alphonse Capone 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.040 business capone spot outside of town. So Fats Waller walks in, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.280 sees the joint is a jumpin folks, dancing, drink and 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.400 carrying on the whole carousing bit hoods. With the one 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.200 hood with the gun in his back, he guides Fat 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.280 Swaller over to the piano. He tells him, you play now, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.280 Fats Waller All twenty one years of him and hoping 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.520 to make twenty two. Yeah, he does, has instructed. He 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.520 starts playing. He gets that piano up, bouncing those keys, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.880 start a singing, eating up and Fats Waller he gets 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.560 done with his first song. Crowd applause. They go nuts, 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.199 right everyone, because remember I said jazz is the hottest 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.040 music going. And they got the man playing Fat Swaller 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.600 above all this applause. After it starts to die down, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.159 there's one man who's clapping the loudest and he continues 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.560 to clap. You know who that man is, Elizabeth. Friend 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.680 of the show, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meadi pause himself al Capone. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.879 For his twenty seventh birthday, the boys got the boss 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.880 a big surprise Fats Waller. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.160 That's crazy as a birthday presence. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.200 Yes, let's take a little break and when we get back, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.200 I'll tell you how this birthday surprise plays out for 0:17:49.280 --> 0:18:12.200 mister Waller. All right, Elizabeth, Yeah, Hey, we're back. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:12.960 Hey, what's it? 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.440 Chicago specific East Cicero. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:16.960 I love I love Chicago. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.640 You're enjoying it right old time by the lake. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.400 I love Chicago. I'm loving this story. By the way, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.439 this is fantastic. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.800 Okay, well, let's get further into what happened with mister 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.040 Fatz Walla and mister Alphonse Capone. So his boys grab 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.199 the hottest musician in jazz, going to make sure that 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.800 their boss has a great twenty seventh birthday. But they 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.199 did not contact his agent or manager. They did it 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:40.879 the Chicago way right right. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:42.640 So you could probably organize this. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.040 Yeah, you could. There's people you can talk. 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:45.119 Content you have to pay for. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.639 He has managed me, yes exactly. But they're like, no, no, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.400 I have a gun. This will work easier. No, ten 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.640 percent of this one. So Fats Waller he's in good 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.840 company now that he knows he's not going to die, right, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.679 He's like, they want me to play, They're not going 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.080 to kill me. So he plays a second song, Then 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.480 he plays a third song, fourth song, Elizabeth. He just 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.920 keeps playing the rest of the night. When he gets tired, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.760 he stretches out on the piano bench and sleeps. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:07.879