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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's You've got a fascinating breaking news story

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Speaker 1: from nineteen thirty From the nineteen thirties. Great, It's an

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Speaker 1: extraordinary story to make a great movie. It's about a

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Speaker 1: guy called Michael mlloy, Mike mlloy, Mike the Durable, or

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Speaker 1: Iron Mike. He was known as He's from New York City,

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Speaker 1: a former firefighter, and he became famous for a number

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Speaker 1: of attempts on his life by his friends. So he

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Speaker 1: was unemployed, he was alcoholic, and he was homeless. That's nice.

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Speaker 1: Every day he'd go to the bar and five of

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Speaker 1: his acquaintances plotted to kill him and take his life insurance.

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Speaker 1: So they said to him. The owner of the bar said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, unlimited credit. You can drink as much

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Speaker 1: as you like here, but when you die, I'll have

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Speaker 1: your life insurance policy. And Mike goes, Yep, sounds good.

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Speaker 1: So he turns up at the bar and every day

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Speaker 1: they just waited for him to die because he drink.

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Speaker 1: He'd drink himself, they thought, to death. But he's homeless.

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Speaker 1: How does he afford life insurance? Isn't Oh look I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sorry, Okay, I'm ruining the story Brendon.

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Speaker 1: What shuit was he wearing? Was he a sagittarian? So anyway,

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Speaker 1: this guy his life. They didn't ask questions. His life

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Speaker 1: insurance was only three and a half thousand dollars. Then

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Speaker 1: today the equivalent of that would be sixty nine thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: So every day he'd turn up at the bar and

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Speaker 1: heyd plime full of alcohol and send him off into

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Speaker 1: the New York night, expecting him to carg it. Next

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Speaker 1: day he'd turn up again, so the bartender replaced his

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Speaker 1: liquor with anti freeze. Next day he turns up at

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Speaker 1: the bar. So next day they replaced the anti freeze

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Speaker 1: with terps. Turns up at the bar. Then they used

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Speaker 1: horse lineament, finally rat poison. None of it killed him.

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Speaker 1: The group then gave him raw oysters soaked in methanol,

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Speaker 1: gave him a sandwich of spoiled sardines mixed with poison,

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Speaker 1: and harpet tax. Oh god, none of it killed him.

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Speaker 1: They then decided to freeze him to death. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: tweaked to any of this. He probably doesn't remember what's happened.

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Speaker 1: On an extremely cold night in New York, he passed

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Speaker 1: out from drinking, which he did most nights. They carried

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Speaker 1: him to a park. They dumped him in the snow.

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Speaker 1: They poured five gallons of water on his bare chest.

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Speaker 1: He woke up in the morning and went straight back

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Speaker 1: to the bar. The group then attempted to kill him

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Speaker 1: by running him down in a taxi that was going

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Speaker 1: at the equivalent of nine of seventy two k's per hour.

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Speaker 1: Put him in hospital, broke his bones, didn't kill him. Finally,

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Speaker 1: February twenty three, nineteen thirty three, passed out for the night.

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Speaker 1: His mates but a hose in his mouth and connected

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Speaker 1: it to the gas jet, and it killed him. So

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Speaker 1: the rumors of Mike the Durable were spoken about in

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Speaker 1: bars all over town. So the police thought, well, let's

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Speaker 1: check this out. When they heard that a man called

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Speaker 1: Michael Malloy had died, they forensically examined his body and

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Speaker 1: the five men were convicted. All his mates were convicted.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should have cooked for him with my muck

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Speaker 1: that Mum made. Could have done it. Found out he

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Speaker 1: was only insured third party. Oh what a shame, waste

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Speaker 1: of time, What shame. Jonesy and Amanda's