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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Saren Yoh, Elizabeth Duddon, Hey, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Please keep it down?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Sorry?

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Speaker 2: Why are we whispering?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, let me look. Okay, it's clear, let's go.

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Speaker 3: We're good.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank god.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so listen. Yeah, do you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yes, Oh, sit back down. Yes, yeah, you start whispering. Okay, listen, ready.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ready.

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Speaker 5: Harlem Globetrotters. Okay, they're not ridiculous at all. Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Pope John Paul the Second No, also not ridiculous. But

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Speaker 5: do you know they were on the same team. No,

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Speaker 5: and by that I mean literally, Pope John Paul the

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Speaker 5: Second was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, And.

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Speaker 5: He met them in Saint Peter's Square on October first,

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Speaker 5: nineteen eighty six. The meeting went so well that fourteen

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Speaker 5: years later, the second time they met, they showed up

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Speaker 5: and they presented him with an autographed basketball and a

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Speaker 5: jersey of his own with his name on it, number

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Speaker 5: seventy five in honor of the Globetrotter's seventy fifth anniversary,

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Speaker 5: and they said the quote they were making him giving

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Speaker 5: him a new title, one befitting the man, and they said, quote,

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Speaker 5: this prestigious title recognizes an individual of extraordinary character and

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Speaker 5: achievement who's made an everlasting mark on the world. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: they said that similar to the Pope, the Globetrotters have

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Speaker 5: touched tens of millions of people around the world as

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Speaker 5: moral leaders and champions of human rights. I shouldn't have

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Speaker 5: paused so much pause kind of mass that up, but

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Anyway, John Paul too was

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Speaker 5: an honorary Globetrotter and also a saint. So the Harlem

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Speaker 5: Globetrotters have a saint on their team.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. Do you like do you think he ever

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Speaker 3: put the jersey on?

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Speaker 2: I think he played that night in it skills with exactly.

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Speaker 3: Do you think it's like in a museum or is

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Speaker 3: it in a box somewhere?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I bet Benedict had it burned.

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Speaker 5: Pope Benedict, He's like burned this probably that's what the

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Speaker 5: smoke was when he got elected with he was the

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Speaker 5: seventh person to be an honorary Globe trot So there's

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Speaker 5: not a lot of them Oh yeah, he's like, they're

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to look up and see who the

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Speaker 3: others are. Okay, okay, so that is ridiculous. Do you

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Speaker 3: know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: No, that's right. I came here to ask you.

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Speaker 3: Having your name become a word in the dictionary because

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Speaker 3: of something you did.

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Speaker 4: Oh my dream.

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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists,

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

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent ridiculous. Okay, I was waiting for that. Saren,

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Speaker 3: you're a bath guy, right, yeah. I think we've talked.

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Speaker 2: About bad bath and beyond.

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Speaker 3: Baby, what is your ideal bath?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 5: It's like, what do you mean, like the bathtub or

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Speaker 5: like the type of bath? Just walk me, walk you

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Speaker 5: through my favorite bath.

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Speaker 2: Okay? So there?

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Speaker 5: Am I a bubbles or no bubbles person, Elizabeth, No surprise,

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Speaker 5: I'm a bubbles person.

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Speaker 3: Oh you are?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh yeah, you gotta have some bubbles. Why not?

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Speaker 5: You're doing it, beat deck and enjoy it, luxuriate. So yes, bubbles, yes,

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Speaker 5: bath bomb maybe if I'm in the mood, but probably not.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the salts.

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Speaker 5: If my muscles are aching, but maybe I'm gonna baby

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Speaker 5: drop in a little Doctor Bronner's, you know, just get

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Speaker 5: a little that pepper mints feel.

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Speaker 2: I like that one. That's always a nice one. And

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Speaker 2: then I want the temperature of.

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Speaker 5: The water to be extremely hot, so hot that it's

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Speaker 5: like one of those Japanese baths. But they do it

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Speaker 5: with fire, so that's really nice because it doesn't then

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Speaker 5: tickle the skin. I've here, but my bass, they tickle

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Speaker 5: the skin like it makes the skin itch.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god, this is like it's like red.

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Speaker 3: You're like red.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I want to look like a like a silkwood shower.

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Speaker 5: That's what I'm going for. So then I sit in

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Speaker 5: there for like thirty forty minutes, and I wear I

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Speaker 5: wear my reading glasses, and I bring a phone and

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Speaker 5: I read the day's news, the day's events, my email.

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Speaker 5: I catch up with friends. It's awesome. Sometimes I bring

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Speaker 5: a slice of cake in there if I want I relax,

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Speaker 5: like you want me to keep going on. I can

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Speaker 5: tell you about the drinks, like tell you, but the music.

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Speaker 2: I like candles.

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Speaker 3: Do you have like duckies?

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Speaker 5: No, no floaties, nothing that I'm breaking. I'm not bringing

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Speaker 5: anything anything into the water. But I have I have

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Speaker 5: I like I will admit when I was like a

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Speaker 5: very young bachelor and I was bathing, I would sometimes

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Speaker 5: bring a beer or two into the bathtub and then

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Speaker 5: I would float the empties in the water. So it

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Speaker 5: looks like I meant the beginning of like a movie,

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Speaker 5: like like Smoking the Band at two, it's like a

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Speaker 5: really depressing part of the movie. Yes, exactly, it's like, Oh,

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Speaker 5: we're at the park before his life.

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Speaker 2: It's better.

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Speaker 3: For You're a bad guy. That's great, that's cool for you.

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Speaker 3: Do you like bads? You also? Do you like Italian culture? Italy? Italians?

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Speaker 2: Never heard of it?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I like Italy and Italian culture and Italians. I

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Speaker 3: think we've talked about that before. You like planes, right,

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Speaker 3: I love them. You said you've always.

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Speaker 5: Wanted to learn to fl I always wanted to learn

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Speaker 5: to fly. I'm against helicopters, but I love.

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Speaker 3: Planes, right, and so aviation it thrills you the most.

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Speaker 3: And we've talked about that. Yes, I really love talking

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Speaker 3: about the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes you did, and

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Speaker 3: I've done that to death.

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Speaker 2: Anders I don't care and.

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Speaker 3: I won't stop. I love Bay Area history and culture.

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Speaker 3: It's in Memmisota. No, And anytime I can tell a

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Speaker 2: Story, I will, Yes, you will.

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Speaker 3: I am annoying that way, Dave, Dave, you love a

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Speaker 3: good immigrant story for sure? Yeah, Hell, who doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Who doesn't.

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Speaker 3: We need people coming to the US. And we've talked

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Speaker 3: about that before. So I have a good one for

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Speaker 3: us today.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like that you're hitting all the bums.

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Speaker 3: It's something for everyone. Come on, It's something we haven't

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Speaker 3: repeating all the old ones. I want to tell you

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Speaker 3: the story of a family.

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Speaker 2: We could just tell each other's the ones that you've done.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 3: Time when you were talking about Yeah, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna tell the one you did, but I'm gonna do

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Speaker 2: it funnier, faster.

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Speaker 3: So this is the story of a family. A family

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Speaker 3: that's scrappy and sharp, big dreams, bigger work at a

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Speaker 3: I'm going to warn you that this story has more

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Speaker 3: history than crime.

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Speaker 2: Okay, just coming in up top, Just indulge me.

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Speaker 3: I was looking into this and I was so taken

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Speaker 3: just make it work.

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Speaker 2: I'm so curious.

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Speaker 3: So this is the story of Giovanni and his wife Teresa.

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Speaker 3: He was the patriarch of a large family in Casarsa

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Speaker 3: de la Delicia.

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Speaker 2: Is this badonna's father, That's why they only have first name.

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Speaker 3: Yes, everyone only has first names. So this Cassara de

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Speaker 3: la Delicia. It's a farming community in northern Italy, northeast

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Speaker 3: So it's an idyllic setting, very nice, gently rolling hills, vineyards.

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Speaker 3: There's a beautiful church in town. As you can probably guess,

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Speaker 3: I went a Google street viewing and I want to

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Speaker 2: How was your tour?

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Speaker 3: It was fantastic. So it's this lovely little Italian village.

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Speaker 3: But it had some issues at the turn of the

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Speaker 3: Yea, not so great. So Giovanni he was a carpenter.

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Speaker 3: He was a very hard worker who came from a

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she was blown out, so they kept that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Rakaylee was one Valeriano Francesco.

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Speaker 2: What do people do before there was radio and TV?

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Speaker 3: Well, we know now, thirteen kids Giuseppe, Gillian though, Jacondo, Felicita, Angelina, Anquila,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're feeding two basketball teams.

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Speaker 3: Basically, Giovanni and Teresa they wanted their children to succeed,

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Speaker 3: So the boys they studied to become engineers, the girls

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Speaker 3: trained to be seamstresses. Yeah, all right, it's nineteen oh seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 3: Europe is changing, the whole modernizing. Yeah, the whole world's changing.

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Speaker 3: Giovanni he felt war coming.

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Speaker 2: Yea, the Empires are about to follow.

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Speaker 3: Well oh yeah, and he didn't want to lose his

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Speaker 3: He decided to take his sons and move to the

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Speaker 2: Good plan, imagine.

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Speaker 3: Common plan at that time. It's in small group after

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Speaker 3: San Francisco. They worked any job that they could. Paolo

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Speaker 3: whose great grandson of Giovanni, He said, quote, they dug ditches,

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Speaker 3: hard workers. Slowly but surely that's what they did. They

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Speaker 3: in nineteen oh seven, nineteen twenty. The whole family was here,

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Speaker 3: dribs and drabs. Don't forget the brothers had all studied

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Speaker 3: mechanical engineering. So while they may have been picking oranges

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Speaker 3: or stocking warehouses to get by, they were saving the

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Speaker 3: money that they made to start a business. In nineteen fifteen,

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Speaker 3: they opened a machine shop in Berkeley, California. Oh wow,

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Speaker 3: right on San Pablo Avenue, the wide boulevard that cuts

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Speaker 3: its way across the East Bay. You know, the building

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Speaker 3: is still there, It still stands. It's currently a kind

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Speaker 3: of posh furniture store called Fenton McLaren one. Yeah. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: back in the day they made airplane propellers there.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the sends Rik Kaylee. He was super

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Speaker 3: geeked on flying in.

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Speaker 2: Those big wooden airplane Okay, yeah, these.

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Speaker 3: Were like nineteen fifteen, so Rik Kayley Aviation super into it.

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Speaker 3: July twelfth, the plane, piloted by Bud Coffee, landed in

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Speaker 3: He totally so, Like, he swoops down the roar the

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Speaker 3: His motto was Koele navigari necessit est and in flying

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Speaker 3: shut down operations.

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Speaker 3: There's no way they could go on. They had to

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Speaker 3: It was so amazing. So no, they there were stumbles.

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Speaker 3: So Rickela in nineteen thirty seven, he was only fifty

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So Giuseppe took over the family business for a little while,

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Speaker 2: They invented the dental pick.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so agriculture in California booming at all ways. More

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Speaker 2: I'm sort of think maybe I might not know this family.

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Speaker 3: They came up with these ingenious inventions and then they

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Speaker 2: Oh, the largest dog park in the nation.

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Speaker 3: Aka best place on Earth. So this family nineteen forty one,

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Speaker 3: Candido had a boy. He named him Kenneth, Kenneth Jacuzzie. Oh,

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Speaker 3: my goodness, the Jacuzzi family, son of Candido Jacuzzie. Yes,

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Speaker 3: this is the Jacuzzi family. So how do they get

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Speaker 3: it was like basically a bacterial infection. Yeah, pretty much.

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00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 3: So he started to lose his mobility. Doctors said that

441
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 3: if he did make it, every year would be borrowed time,

442
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,440
Speaker 3: and if he managed to grow up, he wouldn't grow

443
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,240
Speaker 3: old and he'd never live independently. So the family tried

444
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 3: having him put in a full body cast to straighten

445
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,959
Speaker 3: his limbs, but that didn't work. They gave him injections

446
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 3: of gold salts and that's what they were calling the

447
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,400
Speaker 3: gold standard. I suppose it may have helped, who knows.

448
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 3: And then they heard about hydrotherapy. So the family lived

449
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 3: over the hill from Berkeley in Lafayette, California. Berkeley, though,

450
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 3: is where the hydrotherapy treatment for Kenneth was. There was

451
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,719
Speaker 3: a Hubbard tank at the hospital there. So the Hubbard

452
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 3: was an oval shaped tub with a wooden bench in it,

453
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 3: and the patient would sit on the bench and water

454
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 3: would swirl around the patient's body to relieve stiffness and

455
00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 3: improve flexibility. Yeah yeah, provided Kenneth with incredible relief. His

456
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 3: parents started taking him twice a week because suddenly he's

457
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 3: just loosening up. He can move a little bit better. Pain.

458
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 3: Oh completely, as you will.

459
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 2: Where you started out was in a bathtub of hot water.

460
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 3: Exactly in your mama's bed. So it took the family

461
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 3: an hour each way to get to the hospital for treatment,

462
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 3: driving over the hill. While his parents would have driven

463
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,239
Speaker 3: to the absolute ends of the earth to take him

464
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 3: to these appointments, it's still war on them. So one

465
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 3: day Kenneth's mom came home from the drive and she

466
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 3: asked Candido the dad, if it would be possible to

467
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 3: make one of these machines for the house. You know,

468
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 3: you work in water pumps. She's thinking, like, come on now,

469
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 3: And thus the J three hundred was born. So this

470
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 3: this thing made everything is the jay whatever with them,

471
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 3: the plane was the J South. So this thing, it

472
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 3: made a whirl of warm water just like the Hobbard,

473
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,200
Speaker 3: but it could be attached to a whole bathtub, and

474
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 3: so like the Hubbard let patients only sit upright. This

475
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 3: way you could lay down and kind of get the

476
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 3: back and everything as well.

477
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 5: So, oh, thus the seat in the jacuzzi right, this

478
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 5: isn't the full but that's why you see those seats

479
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 5: in the jauz.

480
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons for it. Yeah. So Candido

481
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 3: invited his son's doctor to come and look at his invention,

482
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 3: and the doctor was just blown away. He asked Candido

483
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 3: to make more for other patients, at which point Candido's

484
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 3: business acumen kicked in. He decided to patent it and

485
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,239
Speaker 3: market it. Yes, so this was a big jump for them,

486
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 3: not the patenting a design part, but the marketing. They'd

487
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 3: always made products that were sold to larger manufacturers and distributors,

488
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 3: and Candido he wanted to own this Holly. He didn't

489
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 3: want to distribute it through anyone else.

490
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 2: Smart.

491
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 3: He wanted to go up against the big dogs of

492
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 3: the appliance world. Okay, it took convincing, but he got

493
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 3: the family on board that.

494
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 2: Like singer sewing machines would like I don't know, like

495
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 2: maytag ge maytag.

496
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, So he and his brothers they honed the sign

497
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 3: and they started selling the J three hundred and nineteen

498
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 3: forty nine. They were available in bath supply shops and

499
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 3: pharmacies at the very beginning. Then the Jacuzi brothers took

500
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 3: their machine to the full market in the mid fifties.

501
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 3: It was they said, it was a quote lightweight, portable

502
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 3: hydro massage unit, perfect for the tired businessman or harried housewife,

503
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 3: for the golfer with sore muscles, for the aches and

504
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 3: pains of senior citizens, for frolicking youngsters, and for those

505
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 3: who just want to relax and pamper themselves with a

506
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 3: hydro massage bath. That's you at the end, that's me.

507
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is me though. So was this a portable Yes?

508
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 3: So this is like plug it in and then you'd

509
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 3: like into the wall and then you drop the unit

510
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 3: into the bath.

511
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: Huh.

512
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 3: And so it's totally portable.

513
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 2: It's basically all of the filters and everything.

514
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 3: This isn't like a total filter no, Yeah, it just

515
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 3: drops in and.

516
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,719
Speaker 2: It's whirling around here. Yeah the pomps I guess right.

517
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the J three hundred was featured on Queen

518
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 3: for a Day. Oh yeah, TV show.

519
00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 2: I've heard about that.

520
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 3: That's great concept. Like women would be asked about their

521
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 3: hard luck stories and the audience would decide who had

522
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 3: the most upsetting, heartbreaking story. I heard clause meter.

523
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 5: This was insane the show they would go on there

524
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 5: and these hard luck stories were like crazy hard luck story.

525
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 3: You would currently they have to battle it out with

526
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 3: applause meter.

527
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 2: You're like myself.

528
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 3: So the winner was named Queen for a day, Like,

529
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 3: and what do you get? You get a crown and

530
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 3: a crown, but then you get prizes that are like

531
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 3: kind of related to yourself. Kenneth Jacuzzie said, quote, every

532
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 3: time a queen had a story that had some medical

533
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 3: related aspect to it, one of the prizes was a jacuzzie.

534
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 3: The name Jacuzzie became known overnight.

535
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's right.

536
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 3: Little Kenneth commented on this because Kenneth is a survivor,

537
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 3: so he's talking about this later on. Right, the water

538
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: helped him immensely, but they said he wasn't going to

539
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 3: live to like c three or eight. Right. His family

540
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 3: worked tirelessly to make sure he had everything he needed

541
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 3: to thrive. His progress was noted through the years in

542
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 3: local papers that like applauded every single milestone. There's just

543
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 3: tons of articles. He was wheelchair bound, but that didn't

544
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 3: make a lick of difference, which is how it should

545
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 3: be in this world. So the kid they didn't think

546
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 3: would make it to eight at the outside went on

547
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 3: to get a master's degree work in Italy for the

548
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 3: family business. He got a gig as the director of

549
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: the Office of the Americans with Disability Act for the

550
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 3: state of Arizona. He was a lifelong advocate for ada

551
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 3: and writes of people with disabilities. He got married. He

552
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 3: wrote a book called Jacuzzie, a Father's Invention to ease

553
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 3: a son's pain. Damn. He was an extraordinary human being

554
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 3: who lived to the age of seventy.

555
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: Five against all odds. You know what that is, Elizabeth,

556
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: proof of the beauty and power of bathing.

557
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 6: Bathing, Thank you, Base Jacuzzie couldn't do that with a shower.

558
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 3: So back to Queen For a day, twenty million people

559
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 3: watched each show. Roy Jacuzzi, who worked at the factory

560
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 3: in the summer as a teen, said quote, We ran

561
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 3: ads that claimed heal headaches, heart disease, sexual drive, everything.

562
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 3: We demonstrated door to door in people's bathrooms. So they're

563
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 3: just out there hustling. People were a little spooped though.

564
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 3: They didn't really want to submerge something that was plugged

565
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,479
Speaker 3: into an electrical outlet into their bath tub.

566
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 2: I want to be electrocuted just to feel good.

567
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 3: Well, they thought it would be like trying to heat

568
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 3: your bath water with a toaster. Yeah, so, Zarin, close

569
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 3: your eyes, I want you to picture it. You are

570
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 3: Roy Jacuzzi. You've graduated, and now you work in the

571
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 3: Jacuzzi Brothers offices full time. Yesterday a salesman came in

572
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 3: and complained about how customers wanted the whirlpool but they

573
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 3: were afraid of being electrocuted, and then discovered all charred

574
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 3: and blistered in the tub that they were just relaxing

575
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: in no bueno. So this was a problem you'd heard

576
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 3: from a bunch of people. They wanted to be relaxed,

577
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 3: but they also didn't want to die. So no matter

578
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 3: what you did, you couldn't seem to convince people that

579
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 3: this was perfectly safe.

580
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 2: You could have both, Yeah, why not?

581
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 3: You left work and you decided to go for a

582
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 3: walk along the shore of the bay. There were some

583
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 3: mudflats not too far from the offices that you like

584
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 3: to visit, you know, at the end of a stressful day,

585
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 3: just to unwind.

586
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 2: Of course, I love a mud flat.

587
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 3: Who doesn't. You watched a gorgeous sunset there everywhar and again.

588
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 3: So though you know the birds are flying over, you

589
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 3: know you hear cars in the distance. You slip off

590
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 3: your shoes, you walk into the kredy sandy mud. I'm

591
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 3: all for a walk on the beach, believe you mean,

592
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 3: but this is gross, dude, whatever you're lost in thought.

593
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 2: Just leave a man to his mudflats.

594
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 3: You just have to figure out a way to get

595
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 3: the water moving without putting something attached to actual voltage

596
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 3: right in the water. So as you stare at the

597
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 3: muddy sand, you see bubbles, bubbles forced to the surface

598
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 3: by little clams. They push the air out and off

599
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 3: it goes, bubbling out at your toes.

600
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: I need diesel powered clams.

601
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 3: You've got it. You scramble up to your car and

602
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 3: you race back to the shop. You peel up to

603
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: the cob and sprint into the building, hoping to catch

604
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 3: your great uncle Candido before he heads home for the day.

605
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 3: Luckily he's there at his draft desk. Deep in thought.

606
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 3: You slam your hand down on the desk, startling him,

607
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 3: I've got it. You explained to him that if you

608
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 3: installed jets coming from outside of the tub that there

609
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 3: wouldn't be any wiring in the water and people would

610
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 3: feel more comfortable. It was easy enough using their water

611
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 3: pump technology, sealing materials and new age polymers make it

612
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 3: self contained like the original plane. Plus now we sell

613
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 3: them a whole ass tub.

614
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: Oh brilliant, more material.

615
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 3: Candido looks you square in the eye. You've done it,

616
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 3: he yells, and then you high five and you get

617
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 3: suspended in a freeze frame that traps you until this

618
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 3: very day. So Jacuzzies always have an answer. The family

619
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 3: wasn't on board initially, like every big decision, but you

620
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 3: had the old Jacuzzi moxie and got your way. The

621
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 3: true Jacuzzie was born. The family then made it into

622
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: the Oxford English Dictionary, Oh My Dream Jacuzzie noun a

623
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 3: large bath incorporating jets of water to massage the body.

624
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 3: Origin named after the Italian born American inventor can Ito Jacuzzi.

625
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 3: So notice that it only says Candido. That's the official line,

626
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 3: But the truth is it Roy Candido's grand nephew is

627
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 3: the one who came up with the logistics in the idea.

628
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 3: We don't know if that's who knows, but whatever, But.

629
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 2: He wasn't there for the bubbles in the car you were, Roy, Yeah, Oh,

630
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: you're right.

631
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if he honestly, I don't know

632
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: how it came to him stealing my thunder. I made

633
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 3: that up. So Jacuzzi's they're really coming up in the world,

634
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 3: and not just the people, the actual baths, the Jacuzzie bathtubs.

635
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 3: They were glamorous and sexy and some wholesome at the

636
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: same time, really and associated with what we now obnoxiously

637
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 3: call wellness.

638
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was like a health It was like

639
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: a health thing.

640
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 3: It really didn't start to get sleezy into like the eighties.

641
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 5: I did the late seventies with the marine San Francisco saying,

642
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 5: and then you add in the eighties where they go, oh,

643
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 5: I want that in Modesto, I want that in Minneapolis.

644
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 3: We had them all over at that other people wanted.

645
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: It was actually movies and TV and media that started shampoo.

646
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 5: The movie, the Warren Baty movies as types of movies

647
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 5: in the seventies were showing that that that norcoal la

648
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 5: like I'm a swinger vibe all of a sudden, people

649
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 5: like wanted in Bristol, Connecticut.

650
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 3: Well, and the Jacuzzie was a status symbol in an

651
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 3: America desperate for status.

652
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: Totally, that's very early eighties.

653
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 3: So Elizabeth, you're asking, Elizabeth, please, I come to you

654
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: with tears in my ear.

655
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: Look at my eyes.

656
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 3: There must be a crime in here somewhere.

657
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: Cry my cheeks.

658
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 3: Hold fast, young sailors.

659
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 2: Thank you.

660
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 3: It's roiling up from under the surface. It's ready to

661
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 3: bubble and swirl around you.

662
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: I sense it coming.

663
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 3: When we get back from this break, we'll get into crime.

664
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 6: All right, jacuzzieoooo.

665
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 3: So, while the Jacuzzie was taken the world by storm,

666
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 3: dark clouds were forming over the factory, and Rich Candido

667
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 3: had always been let's say, a tough bossuh. He made

668
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 3: decisions without consulting the family. But that was pretty much

669
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: necessary because like, the number of family members employed was

670
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 3: almost north of two hundred people by the mid sixties.

671
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, forget babies sick with Jacuzzie.

672
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 3: So in fact, there's a really great article in the

673
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: San Bernardino Sun Telegram about the Jacuzzi family having a

674
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 3: family reunion at the Columbo Hall in Oakland, with one

675
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty eight family members showing up, including nine

676
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 3: of the original thirteen kids. Damn, obviously there weren't kids anymore.

677
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 3: So anyway, it was a big deal, like this is

678
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 3: huge family.

679
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 2: Yeh, slung a cat and without hitting a no.

680
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 3: So that the core group was still there though, sure

681
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: what remained of the original siblings and their children and

682
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 3: the children's children. They ran the whole thing you in Richmond, Yeah,

683
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 3: the main offices in Richard. Is it right by the

684
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 3: five right where eighty and five eightieslit right split?

685
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's and they needed to make right at the beginning.

686
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 5: I used to live on that pimple of a hill

687
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 5: in Albany, and I used to look down on where

688
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 5: the jacuzzis are lined up there against the back wall.

689
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 3: Called Jacuzzi Drive, like I used to drive when I

690
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 3: would take the dog to the dog park, I drive

691
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 3: right by Jacuzzi Drive, And never really I just.

692
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: Thought, well, that's you know, you've seen them right, They're

693
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: all lined up all the spot I've been going past,

694
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: all of this history.

695
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 3: All this spot exactly. So Candido, he thought that the

696
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 3: best way to manage the Jacuzzi money was to form

697
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 3: a holding company in Switzerland.

698
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: I've had that same thought.

699
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 3: And he also felt that this would minimize taxes. That's why, right,

700
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 3: So a splinter faction of the Jacuzzis disagreed. Ridolfo and

701
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 3: Rosy Jacuzzi along with Reno Stella Silvano and George Marin.

702
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: There's a man named Reno Jacuzzi.

703
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 3: No no, no, Reno Marin, so Reno Stella Silvano and

704
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 3: George Morin another part of the family. They all filed

705
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 3: suit to stop the transfer of assets. So Rose Jacuzzie

706
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 3: was the widow of the original sibling, Jellindo Jacuzzi, and

707
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 3: Ridolfo was their son. So this splinter faction thought the

708
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 3: choice might be, how do you say the illegal to

709
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 3: put it all in Switzerland. They also felt that this

710
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: was a way for Candido to conceal funds from the.

711
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: Rest of everybody. Yeah, not just the taxes, right.

712
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: Well, Candido he had a powerhouse lawyer, a notorious man

713
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 3: who would later go on to be the mayor of

714
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 3: San Francisco, Joseph Alioto. No way, if you have any

715
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 3: interest at all in San Francisco history. As an aside,

716
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 3: here you have got to read a book called Season

717
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 3: of the Witch by David Talbot. It's about San Francisco

718
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 3: from the late sixties through the early eighties, which is

719
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 3: my favorite era of California history. Anyway, it's a great book,

720
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 3: and Joseph Alioto shows up in there quite a bit.

721
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: I've heard plenty of stories about the Alioto family over

722
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 3: the years out side of this book. Good, inspirational, bad, terrifying,

723
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 3: always entertaining though. So anyway, ou Alioto was Candido's lawyer.

724
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 3: Alioto told him just go ahead and transfer everything over.

725
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 3: Let just go ahead, said, you're the boss. You're the boss.

726
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 3: You can do it whatever you have. So the cousin sued.

727
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 3: They're like, actually no, you can't. So back in nineteen

728
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 3: sixty one, they filed suit against the other remaining original

729
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 3: family members, demanding that Candido be removed from his position

730
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 3: as president of Jacuzi Brothers, Incorporated. They also wanted the

731
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 3: Swiss holding company deal canceled. They said that overseas assets

732
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 3: of the firm were sold to a Swiss holding company

733
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 3: for about a million dollars less than the fair market value.

734
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 3: The sale price was listed at one point two million,

735
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: so the six complainants. They had about fifteen percent of

736
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: Jacuzzi Brothers stock, and they wanted a complete accounting of

737
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 3: all the company's financials, something that hadn't been given thus far.

738
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 3: In nineteen sixty three, a judge awarded this Splinter group

739
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 3: six point one million dollars in the matter. That's like

740
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: sixty million dollars today. Was the one million they said

741
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 3: they were cheated out of, as well as five million

742
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 3: for the actual assets themselves. Hot damn so never fear.

743
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 3: Shortly thereafter, Candido at All filed a relief plea. They

744
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 3: wanted these six million dollars judgment voided, and they said

745
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 3: that they had been denied due process.

746
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 2: So this thing.

747
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 3: You'll see. So they said that the judgment wasn't valid

748
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 3: without a court determination setting out the exact amount. And

749
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 3: then on top of that, they said that if they

750
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 3: did have to pay it, it would ruin them in

751
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 3: the business, and the court's like and I supposed to

752
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: care about this. Yeah, So there wasn't any movement on

753
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 3: the case until nineteen sixty six. So while the world

754
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 3: was introduced to the luxury line hydrotherapy pool, the Splinter

755
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 3: Faction was suing Candido and the others once again. Yeah,

756
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 3: they said that he fraudulently transferred company stock shares and

757
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 3: real estate worth more than two million dollars to other

758
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 3: family members in order to keep the Splinter group from

759
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 3: collecting the six million dollar judgment.

760
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: Oh wow.

761
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 3: They wanted the real estate and the stock put into

762
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 3: receivership and then sold to pay them what they were owed.

763
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: At long last, it finally came to a close at

764
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: the end of nineteen sixty seven, a court determined that

765
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 3: the Swiss holding company was, as the judge put it,

766
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 3: a quote alter ego of Candido. What they said, because

767
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 3: they're like, basically, it's not a Swiss holding company, it's you,

768
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 3: Candido of the he was. There are three people on

769
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 3: the board of the of the holding company. Oh, he

770
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 3: was the head of it, and the other two had

771
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 3: had documents that had like no dates and their signatures

772
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 3: and no one can finued this.

773
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.

774
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 3: So it's his alter ego.

775
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: So they came to a settlement and my vice president

776
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: Ken d do and.

777
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: So they figured like, Okay, this is how we're going

778
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 3: to get Candido to return the assets, and he agreed,

779
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 3: and he'd also have to personally pay a judgment of

780
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 3: sixty thousand dollars, which is like half a mill today.

781
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 3: What's really wild is that the court awarded more than

782
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: eight hundred thousand dollars in attorney's fees on this and

783
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 3: that was the largest award recorded for fees in California

784
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 3: at that time. So that's like seven million dollars today.

785
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 2: Koozies making history twice Zoozies.

786
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 3: So Candido, he gave a statement from the new company

787
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 3: headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. Right, they moved everything else

788
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 3: at Rock. I don't know the cheaperose so it probably

789
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 3: the labor you know, the Richmond that was a union

790
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 3: shop and they had a couple strikes there over the year.

791
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 3: So he gave this statement. He said that settling it

792
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 3: all was in the best interest of the company and

793
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 3: its shareholders. And he said they were cleaning house in

794
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 3: management and the executive suite. Everything's gonna be fine. We're

795
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 3: just going to move forward from here. And he's like,

796
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: by the way, we're also going to build a new

797
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 3: plant in Milan, Italy, my home country. Isn't that cool

798
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 3: for us?

799
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: Love that?

800
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 3: And they're like, yeah, that's cool for you. You know

801
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 3: who else was moving to Italy. What year sixty sevens.

802
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: Moving to Italy in sixty seven, that's top. I don't know, Candido.

803
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 3: Oh and you want to know why tax evasion?

804
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 2: No, I could have guessed that one.

805
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 3: So Candido hadn't been paying his taxes, okay, and Zarin,

806
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 3: that is a crime.

807
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 2: That is technical. You got it well.

808
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 3: Here the view is great from here for city, it

809
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 3: marks the beautiful. So crimey. So nineteen sixty nine, Candido

810
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 3: he gets indicted on charges of evading more than sixty

811
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: thousand dollars in federal income tax. And like for those

812
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 3: who like to do inflation calculation, that's like half a

813
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 3: million dollars. Yes, today, it's a lot, but it's not

814
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 3: a lot in the grand scheme of like his wealth.

815
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 2: It's more that I want to pay, but it's not

816
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: a lot for his wallet.

817
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 3: Right exactly. So a bench warrant was issued, all right,

818
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 3: and the charges were only for sixty thousand dollars, but

819
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 3: the IRS made sure to note that he actually owed

820
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 3: a lot, more like around one point three million, which

821
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: calculates out to ten million dollars today, which is okay.

822
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 2: That's a lot. That's a lot.

823
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 3: But there's Candido nowhere to be found. He off to Italy.

824
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 3: The papers all said Milan. But I found that in

825
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 3: family obituaries they would list their surviving family members and

826
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 3: they always noted him as living in Portanone, which isn't

827
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 3: far from cassarso where they were originally from. So that

828
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 3: kind of makes sense. So to avoid the bench warrant

829
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 3: and the I R S. Candido moved to Italy. Going home,

830
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 3: He's like double douce as I'm out, and he made

831
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 3: his way to the IRS most wanted list.

832
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know the IRS had.

833
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 3: And what's interesting is the papers are all confused about Okay,

834
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 3: they have this bench warrant for sixty grand, but they

835
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 3: say he owes one point two million. Why isn't Why

836
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 3: not the one point two million like that?

837
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 2: Maybe that was maybe the one was criminal and the

838
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 2: other was negligent.

839
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 3: Perhaps that's a good point you should have written for

840
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 3: the papers in the sixties. So he splits his time

841
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 3: between Italy and Mexico because there was no extradition treaty

842
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 3: for tax evasion in those yeah, and for tax evasion

843
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 3: in those countries at that time.

844
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.

845
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's changed. I started to look

846
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 3: at up and then I got down into this rabbit hole,

847
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 3: and I realized it doesn't matter because we're talking about

848
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 3: how it was in the late six exactly. Let go, Elizabeth,

849
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 3: let's live in the moment. Get off my back, sarahen

850
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 3: I didn't look it up. So anyway, Mexico, he worked

851
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 3: on building a luxurious home there, and there were other

852
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 3: like high flyers and celebrities and rich people in this

853
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 3: little area of Port of Iarda where he was going

854
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 3: to build a house. He had it made, and then

855
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy six things changed. Candido Jacuzzi had a

856
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 3: heart attack in Puertoviarda. He was paralyzed from the chest down,

857
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 3: and then they flew him to Houston, Texas for surgery.

858
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 3: And he hadn't been on US soil since nineteen sixty nine.

859
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 3: This is nineteen seventy six.

860
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: So you coming back from medicine, Candido.

861
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 3: Uh huh. So he still had that five count tax

862
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 3: evasion hanging over him.

863
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 2: Get handcuffed to his hospital.

864
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 3: He was up against ten thousand dollars in fines and

865
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 3: five years in prison for each count. And you know,

866
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 3: I'd hang out in Italy and Mexico too. If I

867
00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 3: were him, live it up.

868
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: Heck, I hang on Barbados, anywhere, anywhere but here.

869
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 3: So but he goes to Houston. His attorney, being an

870
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 3: officer of the court, had to do the right thing,

871
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 3: so he called the Justice Department to let him know

872
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 3: that his client was back. Baby.

873
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: Oh he really did, and if he need.

874
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 3: Him, he's in Houston. So he was arraigned in his

875
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 3: hospital bed.

876
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 2: Oh I did it.

877
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, by a US magistrate. They will totally, Oh,

878
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 3: they will totally. Bail was fifty thousand dollars and he

879
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 3: secured that with his daughter's home back in Lafayette, California.

880
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 3: Oh did she know the house on Upper Happy Valley Road?

881
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, so I think that was the house

882
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 3: that he had and his daughter. So later that year,

883
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 3: the Jacuzzi brothers sued John Jacuzzie, Candido's son, for illegally

884
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 3: transferring eight hundred and seventy one thousand dollars in stock

885
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 3: to a Mexican trust and they wanted twenty million dollars

886
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 3: in damages. Right, So, John Jacuzzie is such a great

887
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 3: name to use to like check into a hotel or

888
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: make reservations or like, if you have to give a

889
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 3: man on the street in view on TV, what's your name?

890
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 2: John Jacuzzi, John Kacuzzie, Table four.

891
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 3: So I don't know whatever happened to that lawsuit, the

892
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 3: one about transferring to a Mexican trust. John Jacuzzi also

893
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 3: had been living in Mexico for some time. He was

894
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 3: in the papers for evading the draft, I suppose for

895
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 3: the Korean War, which I didn't whatever.

896
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: I didn't even know people did that.

897
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 6: I didn't think they did.

898
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 3: But in nineteen fifty.

899
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: One he ran out to me, you'd be presiding and

900
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 2: so he was.

901
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 3: Like going to be arrested, and he said, no, I

902
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 3: went there to work for my family's coming.

903
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 5: But at the beginning of the Korean War, everybody treated

904
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 5: it like World War two, like the Act three or whatever.

905
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, we have to do it again.

906
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 4: We got to.

907
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 2: So I think at the very beginning you could see

908
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: people being upset about Yeah, I think that's right. Afterwards

909
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 2: it turned into a police action, so it made it.

910
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 3: Makes sense his you know, John is in uh, you know, Mexico,

911
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 3: and he goes down there. And so I don't know

912
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 3: whatever happened with the trust thing. I'm not even sure

913
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 3: how Candido resolved things with the irs, like it's not

914
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 3: in any of the papers, and.

915
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: I'm sure we both know the answer. He paid them

916
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 2: some money and then they were like, this is good enough.

917
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 3: But he still had plenty. So in nineteen seventy five,

918
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 3: he gave an interview to Sports Illustrated. Of all places,

919
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 3: there you go. He felt that the problems with the

920
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 3: company all came from including non family outsiders. Who did he'

921
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 3: said quote When there were just us brothers, we'd put

922
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 3: a bottle of wine on the table, and that's solve

923
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 3: our problems, he said, Today there are too many of

924
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 3: us to do.

925
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: That sounds like my dad's brothers pretty much.

926
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 3: So in nineteen seventy nine, the Jacuzzis sold their share

927
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 3: of Jacuzzi Brothers to Kid Incorporated Kidd Company, a New

928
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 3: York conglomerate.

929
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: To nineteen seventy nine seventy nine.

930
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 3: Wow, the company made five point six million dollars in

931
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 3: yearly profit on ninety million dollars of revenue, and the

932
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 3: family made fifty nine million dollars off that deal.

933
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 4: Damn.

934
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot. They spread that around, like there's

935
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 3: a Jacuzzi family winery up in Sonoma. It's apparently like, yeah,

936
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 3: that's them, one of the great grandkids or something like.

937
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 3: So they they've kind of spread out and held on

938
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 3: to the wealth. He got away with tax evasion. So

939
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty six, Candido Jacuzzi passed away at the age

940
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 3: of eighty three at his winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

941
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 3: And at his death he held he wants to well,

942
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 3: you know, I think like his son was living in Arizona, Kennis.

943
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 3: You know, he's working with his family. Yeah, and I

944
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 3: think so he was with his son.

945
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 2: And it was probably didn't climate Scottsdale. It was a

946
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: good climate for Oh yeah, I get that.

947
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 3: So he had fifty patents at the time of his death,

948
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 3: fifty and you know, like I said, got away with

949
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 3: tax evasion.

950
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 2: So bravo to use her a tip of the head.

951
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 3: That's Aaron, What is your ridiculous takeaway? I think ask?

952
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 2: Oh, well, I will ask you what yours is. I

953
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 2: don't have one, but go ahead, Oh really, okay, well

954
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 2: I'll just share mine.

955
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 5: Then the Jacuzzi brothers, I had no idea like that.

956
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 5: I've been driving past such like northern California history all

957
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 5: this time, and I was so close to it, and

958
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 5: I was like, oh man, and then have these like

959
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 5: these names and we don't have never heard anybody tell

960
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 5: this story. How does how can both of us Northern

961
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 5: California people and we've never heard the Jacuzzi story?

962
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 3: Right, I know, my ridiculous takeaway. Thank you for asking?

963
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 3: Well I wait and so yeah, no, I I'm with you.

964
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 3: I'd never heard this story. I see the name wrong.

965
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 3: I never associated I guess I never even thought about

966
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 3: where does the name Jacuzzi? No?

967
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 2: I also, I never really thought of it as an

968
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: American invention. It makes perfect sense, tell me.

969
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 5: So I thought it was like, you know, the Hitachi

970
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 5: came in from somewhere outside and gave American's pleasure.

971
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 3: I'm gonna skip that and say I am a particular

972
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 3: fan too of that. It all came out of helping

973
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 3: Kenneth h and that I love that, just like the

974
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 3: whole family pours into making Kenni's life livable. Yes, and

975
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 3: he goes on to live to seventy five.

976
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 2: I do love that.

977
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 3: That is like, it's just incredible.

978
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 2: So, and you know, once again, power baby, right exactly.

979
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: The power of the bad. That's it. That's all I have.

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981
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,480
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982
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 3: email address, leave a talkback on the iHeart app and

983
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 3: that's it. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and

984
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 3: Zaren Burnett, produced and edited by Dave Jacuzzi.

985
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Speaker 6: That's Him.

986
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,880
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987
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988
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989
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