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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And one and did Elizabeth five, six, seven eight. What's

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Speaker 3: How you doing doing pretty well?

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Speaker 2: You know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: Do you know what? I got a question for you? Yes,

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Speaker 3: you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: Oh, honey, I do not. Sarah TACIONI she is amazing, okay,

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Speaker 2: but I'm kicking it off with her. She and I

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Speaker 2: my my my soul sister, closest, she my bff. She

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Speaker 2: and I in like the late nineties early aughts loved

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Speaker 2: Demeter perfumes and they had these weird sense like gin

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Speaker 2: and tonic dirt and those sort of things. And then

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Speaker 2: Sephora had these little knockoff ones and they had caramel

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Speaker 2: and honey, and we were obsessed with the caramel and

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Speaker 2: honey sense, really warm all the time, loved them, and so,

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Speaker 2: you know, then they kind of discontinued it, but we

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Speaker 2: still if you smell it, like if we find and

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Speaker 2: you know, something that smells like that, it takes us

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Speaker 2: back to our crazy days. So I thought of that

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Speaker 2: when a number, a large number of your dudes sent

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Speaker 2: us a line on a mashup. Yeah, it's legal. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of like the other. It's like the alt what's

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Speaker 2: it called Aldi?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, I've seen the Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So it's like Aldi is like deep Impact and Legal

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Speaker 2: is Armageddon.

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Speaker 3: Sure is that right about movies or switch them up?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but they're both meteor whatever. Have at it?

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Speaker 2: So letal.

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Speaker 2: They sell these forty nine cent croissants quassan okay, and

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Speaker 2: apparently they're just incredible, but also forty nine cents is

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Speaker 2: the big thing. People love them. So they're like, well,

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Speaker 2: people love these, I bet you they want to smell

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Speaker 2: like them. So they got together with a perfumer, Perfume

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Speaker 2: Sarah McCartney, and they came up with this limited edition

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Speaker 2: Fragrance au des croisson and they're like, you want to

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Speaker 2: smell like you? You know, Oh, I just got back

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Speaker 2: from Paris croissants in my jacket, like what. But then

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Speaker 2: it made me think about how much we loved the

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Speaker 2: caramel and the honey sense and so perhaps I did,

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Speaker 2: I really did. And so this is like this like buttery.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, just to say. It comes in a

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Speaker 2: bottle that looks like a croissant man, But you know what,

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Speaker 2: you can't buy it. You have to enter to win

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Speaker 2: and we missed the window. December eighteenth is when it stopped.

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Speaker 2: You had to do something through Instagram anyway.

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Speaker 3: You know Google alert for this.

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Speaker 2: I always find out like right right when it's ending,

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Speaker 2: and I I just feel like I started that public

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Speaker 2: facing Instagram account so that because I may have to

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Speaker 2: put like sponsored.

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Speaker 3: Stuff Elizabethdutton crime right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I'm thinking like, well, I'm doing all

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Speaker 2: these mash up things. I'm doing the lord's work and

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Speaker 2: selling their garbage for them.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they could hit you up.

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Speaker 2: Because give it to me ahead of time.

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Speaker 3: Hey, marketing departments.

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Speaker 2: I want to be an influencer. We've got four followers anyway,

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Speaker 2: that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: That hits ridiculous. So is your aspiration to be an

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Speaker 3: influencer of mashups?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a mash up influencer.

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Speaker 3: Well, Elizabeth, I got something for you.

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Speaker 2: I bet you do.

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Speaker 3: You know it's the holiday season and I've already established

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Speaker 3: my love of Christmas yeah, and Christmas themed entertainment products. Yes, Well,

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Speaker 3: if I noticed something else for some reason, Christmas time

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Speaker 3: in the holiday season, it's not just a time to

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Speaker 3: gather with those you love and to celebrate those relationships,

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Speaker 3: be they romantic or friendly family community. But it's also

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Speaker 3: a prolific time for crimes. Oh yeah, it is many

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Speaker 3: which are ridiculous.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd.

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Speaker 3: And outrageous capers, heists, and cons. It's always ninety nine

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous ridiculous Elizabeth oh Zarin.

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Speaker 3: So it's now actually officially Christmas time. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 3: already told you the story of Johnny Cash getting robbed

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Speaker 3: in Jamaica at Christmas to kind of, you know, get

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Speaker 2: That makes me feel it's not Christmas until I hear

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Speaker 3: You're so kind. Well, this week, I i'd be more

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Speaker 3: fun to return to the theme of Christmas and to

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Speaker 3: a roundup of some of the hair brained, hilarious, ridiculous

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Speaker 3: Christmas crimes that I found. So buckle up, Buttercup, Yes, sir, Now,

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Speaker 3: I do have to admit I got this idea from me. No, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: It was another iHeart show one that I co host,

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Speaker 3: the one called very Special episode.

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Speaker 2: It's a great show, right.

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Speaker 3: So last year I did an episode about all the

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Speaker 3: many folks who tried to steal Baby Jesus over the years.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people they hear that episode and

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Speaker 2: then later they think it was one of ours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well because it was put in our feed too, and.

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Speaker 2: They talk to me about it like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't invited to that party.

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Speaker 3: You think not hearing your voice the whole time would

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Speaker 2: Too blessing for many people.

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Speaker 3: No, So that episode did include the shock rocker Maryland Manson,

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Speaker 3: who has a Florida boy had stolen a baby Jesus

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Speaker 3: from a nativity scene and replaced it with a ham

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Speaker 3: at the top of the list of celebrities who you

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Speaker 3: would not be surprised to learn had stolen a baby.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of his whole brand. But anyway, if you've

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Speaker 3: never checked Very Special Episodes, I definitely recommend it. It features

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Speaker 3: some great stories. They're like audio based magazine stories. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: what's up with all the stolen baby Jesus is that

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Speaker 2: Great question, Elizabeth, It's such a good question that.

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Speaker 3: It be Baby Jesus or Baby Jesi.

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Speaker 2: The Jesus, the magi and the Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. You see where I'm going with the gift

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Speaker 3: to the Jesus, because Maggis is you know, and then

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Speaker 3: Jesus and in the same us, and then you get

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Speaker 3: Magi Jesi. It's sleep that's not on, you know, like

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Speaker 2: For some say multiple christ children, all of them tender

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Speaker 2: and mild. It's so true, so tender and mild.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know well either way.

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Speaker 2: I've been telling my dog that he's tender and mild recently.

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Speaker 3: Holidays.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get it on. Chris.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate your enthusiasm, your spirit. So we'll be going

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Speaker 3: at our round up the larceny of the baby stolen

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Speaker 3: from his manger. Now, back in two thousand and eight,

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Speaker 3: that began to offer its GPS services to safeguard Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Really yeah, so you see, for whatever reason, it had

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Speaker 3: become a holiday tradition to you know, at least in America,

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Speaker 3: from stores or storefronts, or from their neighbors' dativity display.

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Speaker 3: Why I do not know, but that's the thing. What's

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Speaker 2: I'm a naughty person, I'm a stinker.

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Speaker 3: I'm quirky.

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Speaker 2: Well it's not quirky. They're just like, look at me,

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Speaker 3: So the company Brickhouse Security, they stepped into the breach

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Speaker 3: and they were like, if you need to keep your

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Speaker 3: baby Jesus safe, do not look to the Lord, but

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Speaker 3: rather look at brick House Security. Wow, that wasn't their

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Speaker 3: marketing slogans. What a slogan that would be.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, the Lord can't help, you know.

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Speaker 3: Jesus saves, but we saved Jesus. So it's a proof

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Speaker 3: of concept for a GPS enabled baby Jesus. In an

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Speaker 3: Associated Press syndicated story from two thousand and eight, the

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Speaker 3: company Brickhouse Security was cited as the cause for a

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Speaker 3: baby Jesus that was saved, you know. So so the

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Speaker 3: point is that there was a different Florida team, not

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Speaker 3: Marilyn Manson. Instead, a teen girl from Wellington, Florida had

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Speaker 3: gone out and joinked a baby Jesus from antivity scene

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Speaker 3: outside a community center in the town. The people they

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Speaker 3: were AGAs Elizabeir. You know, of course, you know, why

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Speaker 3: would they not be, who would do such a thing,

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Speaker 3: who would steal Jesus? Have you no respect? No sense

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Speaker 3: But when the police in Wellington found out about the

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Speaker 3: poorer loined baby Jesus, they didn't panic. They didn't send

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Speaker 3: out a team of bloodhounds to sniff out the purp. Instead,

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Speaker 3: they turned to brick house security who pinged the location

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Speaker 2: Cool I like to hear that.

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Speaker 3: So they pinged the location of the GPS monitor secreted

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Speaker 3: arrested for stealing baby Jesus. Chrisis averted now. The CEO

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Speaker 3: of Brickhouse Security, One Todd Morris, told the press how

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Speaker 3: the baby snatching crime had been solved and in his words,

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Speaker 3: if somebody moves baby Jesus, emails and text messages go

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Speaker 3: out to several people from our server and we can

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Speaker 3: check with them to see if there's a problem, if

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Speaker 3: he should be moving, if he shouldn't be moving, they

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Speaker 3: call us and say we can't find him, we will

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Speaker 3: log on while on the phone and interface with local

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Speaker 3: law enforcement to help them track down baby Jesus. If

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Speaker 3: he should be moving, should your Jesus be moving?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: He'll get something now, you know how like people want

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Speaker 2: to get package thieves and they put explosion with glitter

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Speaker 2: and blue and confetti. Why not do that with a

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Speaker 2: baby Jesus in the manger? And you have like you

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Speaker 2: have like a remote button where you can deactivate it

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Speaker 2: for when you do need to move the Christ child.

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 2: But then you know how great would that be if

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Speaker 2: you go to steal Jesus and then it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: glitter city, glitter bomb Jesus. Yes, they'll teach you.

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Speaker 3: I like that idea. Maybe not the spirit of Christmas

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Speaker 3: and or Jesus, but.

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Speaker 2: It's a you know, it's effective though, Well if it

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Speaker 2: was red and green glitter and confetti.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Keep it on thinking and keep it on.

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Speaker 2: Brands and then like the party horn.

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Speaker 3: So the folks down south, I figured this is kind

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Speaker 3: of fun to be able to track Jesus, you know,

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Speaker 3: because so often when they lose their way, they turn

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they can look for him, have each other's back.

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Speaker 3: They get to save Jesus for once. Anyway, if you're wondering,

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Speaker 3: brick House Security doesn't limit its savior services to Baby

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Speaker 3: Jesus and the Christians who worship him. The New York

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Speaker 3: based firm also offers its trademark lightning GPS services for

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Speaker 3: say a'm an noora display for Jewish folks celebrating Honkakah. Sure.

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Speaker 2: Was it one of those When I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: Was it just a baseball bat that he spray painted red?

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Speaker 3: I think he got it from inside the toys r us.

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Speaker 3: Either way, the Portland Police they confront this wannabe Jedi,

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Speaker 3: I shouldn't jump the conclusions.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth, Yeah, I don't know, don't label him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because obviously the Portant police they had no lightsabers

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Speaker 2: Well het they didn't light them up, no right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, but dude wasn't having it because he used

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Speaker 3: I think he just knocked him out of it, you know.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't like he was like a lops off a

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Speaker 3: So they had to go old school and just straight

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's not really enough for a holiday

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Speaker 2: Force's what's the tradition, you go tack some cops.

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Speaker 3: I don't hey, I don't invent holidays. So you see

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Speaker 3: So the headline is what did it for me? And

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Speaker 3: So this time it was a Georgia man, because you know,

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Speaker 2: A grown man dressed as an in line with the families.

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Speaker 3: I'm picturing him in the tights like this, like this,

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Speaker 2: And if I'm one of the parents, I'm looking at

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Speaker 3: We take him out because he's so good.

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Speaker 2: This is not good whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, you got all these families there. You know,

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Speaker 3: That wasn't any of the stories I read. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: End quote. So can you picture the face of the mall,

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Speaker 2: Not here, nice, he needs a lightsaber.

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Speaker 3: Picture words carefully with fatman. So, according to local outlet

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, good call Santa, right, and they.

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Speaker 3: What's up? You know, Paul Blard mess around. So that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy probably doesn't have it, but you can't

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Speaker 3: So the local police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't know if.

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Speaker 3: It was the same Massanta the next day or not, Like.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, U like, I'm done.

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Speaker 3: Who would blame that Malsanta for being like, no, I.

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Speaker 2: Quit after a grown man in a you know, elf

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Speaker 3: cross and we're back, Elizabeth, Yes you're ready for some

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Speaker 2: I most certainly am Okay, why'd awake and ready?

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Speaker 3: This next fellow was far more personal in terms of

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Speaker 3: Well yeah right, I mean he does break into people's homes.

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Speaker 3: After his unlawful entry, he's known to eat up their

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Speaker 3: The children were nestled, all snug in their beds, while

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Speaker 3: of like reverse Santa Claus move. No, quite the opposite.

439
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,160
Speaker 3: He decided to increase their holiday cheer. You see, Elizabeth.

440
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 3: He put up some Christmas decorations all around the house.

441
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 3: What he hung a Christmas wreath on the door to

442
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,880
Speaker 3: the garage. Then he entered the home via the back door.

443
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 3: He found that no one was about, no mice you

444
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 3: know about so to speak in the poem's terms. So

445
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 3: he got comfy. He lit some holiday candles on the

446
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 3: coffee table, and then he lit a couple more on

447
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 3: the kitchen table. Then he turned on the TV. Maybe

448
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 3: he wanted to put on like a holiday movie, like

449
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,159
Speaker 3: did Jimmy Stewart Holiday Classic Gets a Wonderful Life. I

450
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 3: don't know. The news stories didn't tell me. But satisfied

451
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,919
Speaker 3: with his work, he lay down on the couch for

452
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 3: a short winter time. Now, now, Elizabeth, the house was

453
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 3: not empty. There was someone else in the house, an

454
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,919
Speaker 3: eleven year old boy who lived there. And when he

455
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,199
Speaker 3: heard all the rustling downstairs, he came down to the

456
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 3: steps to see if perhaps Santa had shown up early

457
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 3: that year. And what did his young eyes spy. Well,

458
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 3: it wasn't that jolly old elf. No, Instead, it was

459
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 3: forty four year old Terry Trent, high on bath salts

460
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 3: on the family's davenport with the TV blaring at loud volume.

461
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 3: Oh no, And at this point he'd kind of roused

462
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 3: because he was playing with the child's toys left strewn

463
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 3: about the living room. Returning to my man, Clement Moore,

464
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 3: and he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

465
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,919
Speaker 3: His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry, His

466
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 3: cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry. But

467
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 3: that's not what this kid saw. Instead, he saw a man,

468
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 3: as he said, high on Basalts, playing with his stuff. Right,

469
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 3: so it was more like his eyes were like roses

470
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 3: and glassy to boot. So the intruder sees the boy. Well,

471
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 3: the interloping man was polite actually, and back to Clement Moore,

472
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 3: a wink of his eye and a twist of his

473
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 3: head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

474
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 3: Except in this real life version, the manhaigh and Basalts,

475
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 3: with his penchant for holiday decoration, said sorry, I didn't

476
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 3: mean to scare you. I'll get my things and go.

477
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 3: So poor kid. The kid, though, was not particularly cool

478
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 3: with this particular Christmas surprise, so instead of bidding him farewell,

479
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 3: he phoned his mother, who was visiting with folks next door.

480
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 3: Oh imagine the mother getting that call, right, Oh so

481
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 3: he ran through a wall. Oh yeah, totally cool, eid

482
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 3: Man style. The mother gets back from the neighbor's house,

483
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 3: she confronts the stranger in their home and then phones

484
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 3: the police. Herself. Thankfully, the holidays were not ruined because

485
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 3: nothing bad happened to the mother, or the child, or

486
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 3: even the forty four year old man high in bath salts.

487
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

488
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 3: In fact, according to someone who knew him and had

489
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 3: worked with Trent the intruder just the week prior, he

490
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 3: was quote a very caring person involved with the Boy

491
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 3: Scouts and a local church program to help convicted felons

492
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 3: currently in prison.

493
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 2: Oh, we can go visit his friends.

494
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 3: I guess the holidays were a little hard on him,

495
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 3: so he got high on some bath salts, sort of

496
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 3: lost his head. What year is this, two thousand and.

497
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 2: Nine, Yeah, that was the bath salts era. Remember you

498
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: hear stories about people getting high on bath salts and

499
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 2: eating other people's faaces.

500
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 3: That's Florida style.

501
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 2: That's the Florida stream.

502
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 3: Ohio, you break in and you decorate with Chris is

503
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 3: sparkling bath salts. So anyway, this dude, Trent, he spends

504
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 3: the night in the county jail. Hopefully he was able

505
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 3: to spread some holiday cheer with the other men in

506
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 3: lock up.

507
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

508
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 3: So okay, now let's go into our next crime with

509
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 3: a holiday twist. Love it. This one also features a

510
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 3: home invasion not perpetrated by Santa Claus. Spoiler alerted does

511
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 3: involve a chimney. Technically, this one didn't occur during the

512
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 3: holiday season, but it still has a holiday vibe, so

513
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 3: I included it. The story goes in King County, Washington.

514
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 3: That's up where Seattle is. A man decided to commit

515
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 3: a burglary and he got a little cute with it.

516
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 3: So rather than smash a window or probe open a

517
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 3: back door, instead, he decided to descend into the home

518
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 3: via the chimney.

519
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 2: Is he not familiar with anyway.

520
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 3: So according to Seattle Time I'm to the newspaper, twenty

521
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 3: three year old Sean Chanel was naked and on top

522
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 3: of a roof when he reached into the chimney to

523
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 3: retrieve his lost backpack. At least that's what he told

524
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 3: the judge in his trial.

525
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 2: Naked.

526
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 3: Now he was indeed naked. He was stuck in a

527
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 3: chimney when the police found him after someone passing by

528
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 3: heard a man calling for help. Now trouble for him

529
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 3: was he was stuck in that chimney for about six

530
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 3: full hours on that fateful February day. Can't imagine that

531
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 3: was warm no, no. After the passerby called nine one

532
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 3: one police and firefighters, they respond to the call. It

533
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 3: took the medics forty five minutes to chisel their way

534
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 3: through the bricks of the chimney to release the trapped,

535
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 3: naked twenty three year old.

536
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 2: Do you think he's going to like grease himself up

537
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: and slip down it? Did he go flip first or

538
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 2: head first?

539
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 3: I wished I was my big question, wish first either way.

540
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 3: I think head first would have been funnier, but fore

541
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: head first. Yeah, I'm pulling for that me too. Side note,

542
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 3: Who pays to repair the damage to the fireplace? Is

543
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 3: that a case where it's like, I hope you have

544
00:25:58,680 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 3: homeowners and shirts.

545
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 2: I think it would have to be homeold insurance. Yeah,

546
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 2: because I know.

547
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 3: The medics aren't paying for it and their company's not

548
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 3: paying for it.

549
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: It's like when the police, like you hear about people

550
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 2: who the police come breaking into their house. They kick

551
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: down the door, but it's the wrong house totally, and

552
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 2: like then the door's all busted over. If it's the

553
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 2: right house, who pays for with those?

554
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 3: I think you can actually appeal to the city or

555
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 3: the county, depending if it's sheriffs or local police. But

556
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 3: like if you're in a car, if you have a

557
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 3: car accident in a high speed car chase, yeah, I

558
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 3: think you have to go with your own insurance company.

559
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 2: Right Yeah. Like if someone hits your car in LA used.

560
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 3: To always have the cars would just getting nailed, like

561
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 3: six cars on the street where the guy would lose

562
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 3: his control. Right then, yeah, are like, hey man, sorry,

563
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 3: that's just.

564
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: That's why we haven't shuret to God.

565
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 3: Huh. So Anyway, when this twenty three year old faced

566
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 3: a judge in his trial, boy was he quite a handful.

567
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 3: So first off, the story, it's just ludicrous on the

568
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 3: face of it. He claimed in trial that his friend

569
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 3: tossed his backpack into the chimney, which was covered that

570
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 3: there was a top he had to take off anyway.

571
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 3: He then climbed up and then climbed into the chimney

572
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 3: to retrieve his backpack, which the police later discovered leaning

573
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 3: against the garage, nowhere near the roof or the chimney

574
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 3: of course, and so and plus then there's the whole

575
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 3: naked part, like my friend also throw your clothes down

576
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 3: the thing. So for obvious reasons, the press dubbed this man,

577
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 3: the Santa Claus Burglar, for his failed chimney son. Well,

578
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 3: there you go. So when the Santa Claus Burglar was

579
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 3: in court before the judge, he was definitely placed on

580
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 3: her naughty list because he chose to cuss her out

581
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: just before she sentenced him for attempted residential burglary.

582
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: Captain's decisions, right.

583
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 3: He's like, let me wait for the sentencing, that'll cuss

584
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 3: you out. And he's like, no, just can't wait.

585
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: I she is going to judge me in the name,

586
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna at any point cuss this woman out.

587
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 3: And then, in a move that eluded both making sense

588
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 3: to his lawyer and confounded the judge, the so called

589
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 3: Santa Claus Burglar asked for more time behind bars. He says,

590
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 3: I want two years in prison. So the judge is like, now,

591
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 3: I'm giving you seventeen months. So I don't get it.

592
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 3: He was like, that's not enough. Interestingly, though, there is

593
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 3: an official Christmas connection to this story, because you see,

594
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 3: he'd been recently released from jail just a couple months prior,

595
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 3: where he'd been spending time for charges related to possession

596
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 3: of a stolen vehicle. His release date from His prior

597
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 3: charges was December twenty fifth, Christmas.

598
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: Day, Special boy.

599
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: All jokes aside, It must suck to be released from

600
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 3: jail on Christmas Day? Can you imagine that? But yeah,

601
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 3: you're called around, can you pick me up? I'm sorry,

602
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 3: I'm with the kids. I mean like, nothing's open, Yeah,

603
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 3: nothing's open. Yeah, you get out. Everybody else is like

604
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 3: in a really good mood. There you are, like trying

605
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: to go. I need a shower. Just so fun. Anyway,

606
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 3: moving right along, We've got our next tale of holiday

607
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 3: high jinks, and this one also involves a burglarizing Santa Claus.

608
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 4: So.

609
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 3: According to the sf Gate, the local news outlet that

610
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 3: I know you like from San Francisco, back in twenty fourteen,

611
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 3: Santa Claus robbed a bank, or rather, a man dressed

612
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: as Santa Claus did. I don't want to be specific.

613
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: So I have a fun fact for you one I

614
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 3: did not, but I learned while researching this story. Elizabeth,

615
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 3: have you ever heard of Santa con Yes, it's typically

616
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: this big news story out of New York each year

617
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: where a bunch of folks get dressed up as in

618
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 3: Santa Claus outfits. They descend on the city they get drunk.

619
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 3: They do like a pub crawl, and they parade around

620
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 3: and act a fool and get into all sorts of

621
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 3: trouble and misdemeanors.

622
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing, Yeah, I just know. It's a

623
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: bunch of people dress is Santa, walk around, get drunk,

624
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 2: and it's I just know. The San Francisco one. My

625
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: friends who live in the city hate, Yes that night.

626
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's in a Union Square, which is like a

627
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 3: big tourist area anyway, but it bills out in the

628
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,959
Speaker 3: North Beach and yeah. Yeah, so well, Santa Con did

629
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: not start in New York. It actually started in San

630
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 3: Francisco in Square. That was the first one. So according

631
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 3: to SF Gates, Santacon started in SF in nineteen ninety four. Yeah,

632
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 3: just three years after Burning Man Connection. Yeah, so this

633
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: Santa themed pub crawl. It became instantly popular spreads across

634
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 3: the country and now New Yorkers have sort of made

635
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: it their own thing. Okay, anyway, the Santa Con in

636
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: San Francisco back in twenty four, on the ten year anniversary,

637
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: one of the revelers decides to make a quick pit stop.

638
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: Well it's a twenty year anniversary, you're right.

639
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that twenty years ten years twenty who's

640
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 3: doing math?

641
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 2: Or I feel like laid a trap for me. This

642
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 2: is see if you go for it.

643
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 3: Yes, No, I wish I could claim that I just

644
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 3: breeze past it. It's just like on the fly, I

645
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, it's that whole nineties matheties ten years ago,

646
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 3: trunk hat that time. So this guy, one of the revelers,

647
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 3: just in a Santa outfit. He decides like he's gonna

648
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 3: make a quick pitstop. He ducks into a bank dressed

649
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 3: as Santa and proceeds to rob the bank. After he's

650
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 3: done making his illegal withdrawal, he dips back out of

651
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 3: the bank and joins the hundreds, if not thousands of revelers,

652
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: all dressed as Santa Claus.

653
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:45,959
Speaker 2: That's brilliant.

654
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: It's a perfect crime. Really, my messed up opinion. It's

655
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 3: so good no one got hurt and he was able

656
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 3: to escape into the drunken madness of Santa con right.

657
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: I never got him.

658
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, they had pictures of him, but it was like.

659
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: Well that's any of these drunk fools.

660
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, So he got away with it. His plan worked perfectly.

661
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 2: Wow.

662
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 3: And since he didn't get caught. We don't know if

663
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 3: he was drunk and celebrating with his fellow Santa Claus,

664
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 3: he was just like, I don't I'm gonna get the

665
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: next round, let me dip it into this bank, or

666
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 3: if he like was just like waiting for this is

667
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 3: the perfect cover because he could like hide out with

668
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 3: all that was it Santa clausa Santa Claus eyes, Santa Claus's.

669
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 3: I got the same problem with.

670
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: Elizabeth, Santa's clause, the Santa's clause, Santa's Claus.

671
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 3: So either way, he escapes into this madness and the

672
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: police had almost zero chance of finding on which obviously

673
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 3: they did not easy. They said, perfect crime, right it

674
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: really is. Now this brings us to another bit of

675
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 3: unhinged holiday criming. This story comes from your old neck

676
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: of the woods, South Carolinas. U Back in two thousand

677
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 3: and six, in the town of Anderson, South Carolina, they

678
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 3: were having their annual Christmas parade when holiday festivities got hijacked.

679
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 3: But rather than me tell you about it, Elizabeth, close

680
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 3: your eyes, well as a closed I'd like you to

681
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: picture it. It's the annual Anderson Christmas Parade on Main Street.

682
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 3: The airs Chris and chills the cheeks. Families huddle together

683
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: on the sidewalk on both sides of Main Street. Rosy

684
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 3: faced children smile wide at the sight of all the floats,

685
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: and they thrill and dance to the sound of the

686
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: local high school marching band. The aromas of hot chocolate

687
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 3: and muld cider and the sugar sweet smell of kettle

688
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 3: corn mixed together in delight the noses of the parade watchers. Basically,

689
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 3: it's a picture perfect holiday scene in small town America.

690
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 3: This unpretentious holiday parade is an undeniably cheery celebration of

691
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: the season. At the moment, Elizabeth, you are standing on

692
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 3: the sidewalk along Main Street. You hold a paper cup

693
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: of hot chocolate that's warming your hand. You enjoy another

694
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: sip as you see a new float turn the corner

695
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 3: and pull into view. It's the flower festooned float for

696
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 3: the local dance teacher and her Steppin' Out dance studio.

697
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 3: A stupid big pickup truck pulls the float down Main

698
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 3: Street a top the float slash trailer. The driver of

699
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 3: the truck, by the way, is the father of the

700
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 3: child who dances on the float along with their classmates.

701
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 3: The crowd cheers at the sight of the dance class

702
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 3: doing their well practiced holiday best, and then you hear it.

703
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 3: The truck's engine roars for some reason. The truck pulls

704
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 3: out of formation and rumbles forward. Is the driver trying

705
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 3: to pass the float in front of him?

706
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 4: Why?

707
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: Yes, yes he is. Guess the float was going too slow,

708
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 3: you think to yourself as you marvel at the mood.

709
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 3: The dancing children and their dance teacher are thrown by

710
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 3: the suddenness, but thankfully no one falls off the float. Meanwhile,

711
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: the driver of the truck doesn't slow down. In fact,

712
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 3: he speeds up. He races past multiple floats as he

713
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: thinks this holiday parade is a race down main Street?

714
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 3: What is going on? A woman next to you pulls

715
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 3: out her cellphone and calls nine to one one, which

716
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 3: seems unnecessary since there are so many cops along the

717
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 3: parade route. You turn back to check on the racing

718
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: dance school float, just in time to see the driver

719
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 3: blow through a red light. Thankfully, it's a parade route

720
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 3: and there's no cross traffic. Two motorcycle cops race past you.

721
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 3: They give chase to the runaway dance school float from

722
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 3: where you are, you can see down Main Street and

723
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 3: you watch the now high speed chase as the driver

724
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 3: of the truck leads to the motorcycle cops on a

725
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 3: three mile chase. Finally, the cops do get in front

726
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 3: of the truck and force him to slow and then stop.

727
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: So there you go. Crisis averted is so terrible. No

728
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 3: one gets injured in the parade float, so there is that.

729
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 3: It's a minor Christmas miracle. When the police confront the

730
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 3: driver of the truck, the one pulling the parade float,

731
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 3: the cops discovered that the driver, forty two year old

732
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 3: David Allen Rodgers, has an open container of alcohol in

733
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 3: the truck. Oh no, which explains his amateur Dale Earnhardt

734
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 3: move or the parade route. But Elizabeth, this driver isn't

735
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 3: done yet. He's got one or two more laws he'd

736
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 3: like to break. Because when forty two year old David

737
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 3: Alan Rodgers is asked to step out of the vehicle,

738
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 3: what does he do? He gets belligerent and attacks the officers.

739
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 3: He's quickly calmed down after that, he's arrested. He's charged

740
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 3: with the doi for obvious reasons. He's also charged with

741
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 3: eighteen counts of kidnapping, yeah, the kids in the floor,

742
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 3: along with the charge of assaulting an officer through.

743
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 2: Some child endangerment in there too.

744
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you definitely could enhance those charges. I guess

745
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 3: we can chock this one down to sometimes the holidays

746
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 3: bring out the worst of people.

747
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

748
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, And with that, I say we take another little

749
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 3: break for some holiday advertisements, and after these messages we'll

750
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 3: be back to dive into a couple more holiday crimes.

751
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: Elizabeth, I'm wondering about, like, did that girl not allowed

752
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,959
Speaker 2: to go back to the dance, Like that's uncomfortable? Yes, right,

753
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: she has to quit the stepping Out crew.

754
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: Totally could have been a boy though. It could have

755
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 3: been like a little billy.

756
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 2: Boy, yeah, the child? Yeah what did Yeah? I'm just wondering, like,

757
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 2: how uncomfortable is the next.

758
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 3: What is that Broadway play with the boy.

759
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 2: Kid Elly Elliott?

760
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 4: There?

761
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 3: You go there it is? Yeah, Billy go, little.

762
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: Billy Elliott over there. He's gonna have to open his

763
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: own dance.

764
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love stepping Out as a dance. All right.

765
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 3: So far we've kept it conventional and stuck to stories

766
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 3: based in America. Time to broaden our focus and take

767
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 3: this Internationale. Remember when I told you some crime stories

768
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 3: about beloved mascots and costume superheroes getting in fights with

769
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 3: each other and the police getting involved in New York

770
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 3: and other places. I've got a holiday version of that theme, Oh, Elizabeth,

771
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 3: If you had to name a holiday figure or beloved

772
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 3: character from fiction or movies who you would get dressed

773
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 3: up as in fight a stranger? Who would you go

774
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 3: with a holiday figure out here? I'll give you a

775
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 3: moment to think, and I'll tell you mine. Now. Personally,

776
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 3: I go with the John Lovetz character from Saturday Night Live,

777
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 3: Honikah Harry.

778
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 2: That's a good one.

779
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: I always love that sketch from the reruns and the

780
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 3: bit like do you remember that one? Instead of a

781
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 3: sleigh and eight flying reindeer, Honikah Harry had a cart

782
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: and a team of magical donkeys on Moisia on herschel

783
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 3: on slo right, yes so? And he also give the

784
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: catch practical gifts like socks.

785
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

786
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 3: So that's who I go is Honakah Harry. Okay, so okay,

787
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 3: now you got that going. Who were you gonna be?

788
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 5: Well?

789
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 2: I can't choose between two. I think my impulse is

790
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: the little match girl oh, okay, I just set the

791
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,919
Speaker 2: person on fire. I like that, but I'm actually thinking

792
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 2: the Grinch.

793
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 3: Oh, Bob, well, I got good news for you.

794
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 2: Grinch. You know it is like if you bucks.

795
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, he's down to throw hands. So my second

796
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: question is what two beloved holiday characters would you like

797
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 3: to see get into it.

798
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 2: And throw blows holiday characters?

799
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 3: You already got one, the Grinch.

800
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 2: Oh, the Gridge. Okay, Grinch versus Miss Claws ooh fun.

801
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, kind of like a mixed bag there. I

802
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: like that.

803
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 2: I like that too.

804
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 4: Well.

805
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 3: Last year, down in Mexico, two men dressed up as

806
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 3: holiday faves decided to mix it up. One man was

807
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 3: dressed as Santa Claus, not Missus, but Santa. The other

808
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: one was dulled up as the Grinch, and in true

809
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 3: Grinch fashion, he tried to ruin Christmas for the man

810
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 3: dressed up as Santa Claus. Oh no, hell yeah. According

811
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 3: to the New York Post, the two were quote posing

812
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 3: for pictures with passers by in the central Mexico municipality

813
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 3: of Aguas Calientos when the apparent disparity in their tips

814
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 3: sparked a brawl. So the Grinch was getting stiffed and

815
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 3: got pressed about it. So it's kind of perfect that

816
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: the Grinch got mad and he wasn't getting as much

817
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 3: love as Hanta, which I assume is that we go

818
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 3: what happened, but who knows. Anyway, It could have been

819
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 3: the other way around, but I have to assume it

820
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 3: was the Grinch was getting the shorthand yah short change.

821
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 3: Either way, Santa the Grinch. They get into a full

822
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: on brawl in front of all the holiday goers in

823
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 3: the families. They have to watch the Grinch throwing haymakers

824
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 3: at Santa, or maybe Santa's like handing out, like, you know,

825
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 3: a two piece special of his own. I don't know.

826
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 3: Detail were scant. It was just kind of fun to

827
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 3: imagine if you're a sick oh like me. So back

828
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 3: to the New York Post account of events, quote onlooker,

829
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 3: it's mainly tourists checking out the Christmas displays, and the

830
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 3: city square called the cops as the conflict escalated. This

831
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 3: was good since apparently the Grinch could throw blows. As

832
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 3: the New York Post reported, a viral video captured the

833
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 3: aftermath of the fight as the police handcuffed the Grinch,

834
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 3: whose heart was apparently still two sizes too small. Saint

835
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 3: Nick was lying on the ground a little further away,

836
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 3: receiving medical aid from a paramedic before he also was handcuffed.

837
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 3: They kids got to see Santa.

838
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, well see you understand Deputy Santa's representative. You know, kid, you've.

839
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 3: Heard the stories. The Grinch is a bad, bad man.

840
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 2: Bade Sanna got his blood up right, He's been working

841
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: over time in the I'm surprised that, like some parents

842
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 2: would jump in and split it up, like, I swear

843
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 2: to God, you too stup it.

844
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 3: So now what would a roundup of Christmas crimes be

845
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: without at least one mafia tale?

846
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 2: Oh God, but this one, I mean nothing says Christmas

847
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 2: like the mafia.

848
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 3: Right to realize holiday you got here, she will be

849
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 3: ashamed of somebody ruined it. So so anyway, this one

850
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 3: is also, by the way, a little too on the

851
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 3: nose for my taste. So I was like, this is real?

852
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 3: Is this AI? What's going on here? But I have

853
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 3: to trust it's reels. It It was on the BBC

854
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 3: and as we reported Numero like more than a decade ago.

855
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: I trust them.

856
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 3: So the story goes back in twenty thirteen four alleged

857
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 3: gangsters from the Italian mafia were arrested after their Christmas

858
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 3: extortion plot was uncovered. See in Italy, point settias are

859
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 3: part of the Christmas decorations.

860
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 2: Yeah we care.

861
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Italy they're called Christmas stars. But really, as

862
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 3: you point out, for any Catholic population, the red and

863
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 3: green poisonti plant is often part of the holiday to core.

864
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 3: My mom used to always get them for.

865
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: So they're all poisonous. You're like, don't let the dog

866
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 2: eat it. Yeah, why do we bring this in?

867
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: Why do we have to put it up high? So

868
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 3: enter the mafia to take a cut of this holiday tradition.

869
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 3: So the four gangsters had cornered the point Setia market

870
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 3: and they were charging a price far higher than the

871
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 3: wholesale price. Like how much far higher? Great question? Yes,

872
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 3: try one hundred times more than the wholesale price. So

873
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 3: you see the fur mafios or they were operating down

874
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 3: in Naples, which is still a mafia stronghold.

875
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 5: To this day.

876
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 3: It is so for three years the mafia had been

877
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 3: running a point seti extortion racket. They would approach shops

878
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 3: and they make the proprietors a quote Christmas offer they

879
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 3: couldn't refuse. The Mafiosa would tell the shopkeepers, these are

880
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 3: some nice point SETI as you got here. Sure we

881
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 3: be ashamed of something bad happened to your store if

882
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 3: you don't jack up the price up to one hundred

883
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 3: times the wholesale price. So for the shopkeepers who ignored

884
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 3: their threat and refused to jack up the price, their

885
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 3: stores were vandalized. According to the BBC, the Italian police

886
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 3: said quote, it wasn't someone dressed like Santa Claus tapping

887
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 3: on the doors of shop owners and businesses. Instead there

888
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: were four emissaries of them Mozzarella clan.

889
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 2: The yes, is that like a like a real thing

890
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 2: or are they like right?

891
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 3: That's why do you believe the story? I'm like, you're

892
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 3: just making this up?

893
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 2: Is that some sort of like very offensive insult.

894
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 3: But I may be pronouncing that incorrectly because it's spelled

895
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 3: m a z z A r e l l a,

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00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 3: which is different than the m O spelling m A

897
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 3: z z A r e l l a. Mazzarella. Yeah,

898
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 3: I figure that's how it is, so the Mazzarella clan. Anyway,

899
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: why were these gangsters strong arming the shopkeepers? Was just

900
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 3: for some easy loot. Nope. Turns out the men had

901
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 3: a specific goal. They needed the money to pay the

902
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 3: legal fees for members of their crime family who were

903
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 3: already locked up and facing charges. And then like a

904
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 3: Christmas time, we're gonna we're gonna clear some clear some numbers.

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00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 2: They had like a brainstorming session, like you know, they

906
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 2: sat there around these little cups of espresso, like how

907
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 2: do we do this? What can we do?

908
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 3: Look around?

909
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 2: Where can we get money?

910
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 3: Point SETI, it's everybody needs points SETI is right, here's

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00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 3: what we do.

912
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 2: They'll pay, they'll pay, they'll.

913
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Speaker 3: Pay through the nose, right. So let's keep it moving

914
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 3: because I have another fun one for you. It's another

915
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 3: tale of a bad Santa. Okay, I guess in this case,

916
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 3: the bad Santa couldn't get his flying sleigh going, so

917
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 3: instead he hijacked a helicopter. Oh yeah, this one went

918
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 3: down in Brazil back in twenty fifteen. It was the

919
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 3: start of the Christmas season, when folks were out getting

920
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 3: the shopping done, and the guy a dressed as Santa

921
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 3: Claus booked a helicopter and then, according to a syndicated

922
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 3: story I found from Reuter's quote, the thief rented the

923
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 3: aircraft late Friday from an air taxi service at the

924
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: Campo Martday Airport in sal Paulo for a Black Friday surprise.

925
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 3: The sal Paulo State Security Secretariat said on Saturday, so here,

926
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 3: guess what happens next now that Santa.

927
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 2: So they do Black Friday Thanksgiving?

928
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like this is like late, it was

929
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 3: like December. Yeah. So once the chopper was airborne, the skyjacker,

930
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 3: dressed as anti quote, forced the pilot to fly to

931
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: a small farm outside of sal Polo, where they were

932
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 3: met by a third person. It was the third person

933
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 3: missus clause. So what do you think is going to

934
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 3: happen next? I have no idea if you're this helicopter

935
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 3: pilot and you've got Santa making you fly around and

936
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 3: pick up members of his gang. Yeah, yeah, so like

937
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 3: where they dressed his elves or did they kind of

938
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 3: keep it casual? Grinch? I wish I knew, but I

939
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 3: can tell you this. The Santa Claus who had the

940
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 3: chopper pilot kidnapped, then tied him up, and then he

941
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 3: and his will say elf assistant flew off with the

942
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 3: stolen helicopter, disappearing into the blue of the sky.

943
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 2: And left the pilot behind.

944
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, my man Clement Moore would say, he sprang

945
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 3: to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, and

946
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 3: away they all flew like down of a thistle. But

947
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,479
Speaker 3: I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight,

948
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 3: Happy Christmas to all, into all good night. So the

949
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 3: pilot was able to wriggle free and contact police, but

950
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 3: by then Santa Claus was long gone with the stolen helicopter.

951
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 2: The opening chords of Gimme Shelter.

952
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 3: So there you go, Elizabeth, a sack of Christmas time cribs.

953
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 3: But I have to ask you, what's a ridiculous takeaway?

954
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: My goodness, my stars? Uh yeah, I think that this

955
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 2: is a very complex holiday.

956
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 3: Right, people get fired up for Christmas. You don't hear

957
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 3: about this. For Thanksgiving. You hear about like, oh, doorbuster

958
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 3: sale issues. But do you know why you hear someone like, oh,

959
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 3: they broke in and they jazzed up the turkey.

960
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: I think that the iconography of it plays into it too,

961
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 2: And this notion of like bringing gifts and you know,

962
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: I think then highlights the taking. What's your ridiculous takeaway?

963
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: Well, thank you? For asking Elizabeth for once. I do

964
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 3: have this sneaking suspicion piggybacking off your idea that because

965
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 3: it's such a you know, Christian Christmas thing, people are like, hey, Santa,

966
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 3: forgive me the baby Jesus, forgive me. I think they

967
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 3: think they can get away. It's like a free past,

968
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 3: like how, hey, I didn't like murder anybody, so forgive me.

969
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 3: So I stole a helicopter.

970
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 2: But you you know, Santa, he's got the naughty and

971
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,479
Speaker 2: nice and it's like when you're on the naughty list.

972
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 3: But if you've stolen the helicopter, you've already done your

973
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: Christmas shopping for yourself. It is true, right, You're like,

974
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 3: I'm good. I don't need standa this year. So you

975
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 3: in the mood for talkback. We can wash this down

976
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 3: like uh, some delicious hot chalk.

977
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: Really thick egg nogs.

978
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 3: Oh there you go. I never liked that stuff talk nog.

979
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 2: I can't stand it.

980
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 3: You make it seem good.

981
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: No, I hate it.

982
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I like get.

983
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Speaker 4: Lizamas and Aaron checking in after listening to your Dallas

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985
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Speaker 4: I used to dance. Also had insane requirements for training

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Speaker 4: all the facilities or at least an hour away. We

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Speaker 4: had requirement to quote volunteer at egun and if we

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Speaker 4: lost any parts of our uniform, we had to pay

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Speaker 4: in full. I learned that's the hard way. Ridiculous, spike.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that is messed up. I just looked up in

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Speaker 3: the exploitation a cheerleader. It's one of the like the

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Speaker 3: more favorite part of the games for a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: You think they get more respect. So you remember their

994
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Speaker 3: women and you're like, oh, it's this American culture that's

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Speaker 3: not going to get respect.

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Speaker 2: The list of problematic elements of football, yes, it's like

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Speaker 2: maybe five or six, dude, the list.

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Speaker 3: I learned an interesting fact when I went to college

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Speaker 3: in San Francisco. I had a bunch of lesbian classmates,

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Speaker 3: and they all liked the Pittsburgh Steelers. You know why

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Speaker 3: they've never had cheerleaders. Really they supported Yeah, but back

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Speaker 3: then it was like a solidarity move to the all

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Speaker 3: the like the lesbian football fans. I knew, like this

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Speaker 3: was like superandom. Yeah, exactly, you like Steelers?

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Speaker 2: Okay, nice, Now I'm starting to Okay, Yes, it's made me.

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Speaker 3: More of a Steelers fan, to be quite honest. So

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