Do Go On - 451 - The Pierre Hotel Heist

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

The Pierre is a luxury hotel located on the Upper East Side, facing Central Park. And in early 1972, it was the target of the largest hotel robbery in history... This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 08:06 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSupport the show on Apple podcasts and get bonus episodes in the app: http://apple.co/dogoon Live show tickets: https://dogoonpod.com/live-shows/ Watch Do Go On The Quiz Show: https://youtu.be/GgzcPMx1EdM?si=ir7iubozIzlzvWfK Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/  Instagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.  REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.insideedition.com/how-the-men-behind-the-infamous-1972-heist-of-new-yorks-pierre-hotel-were-never-officially-caughthttps://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Pierre-Hotel-Robbery-A-Daring-Heist-That-Shook-New-York-Cityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Hotel_robberyhttps://nypost.com/2016/04/10/last-living-crew-member-opens-up-about-infamous-hotel-heist/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnke and as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Yo, yo, yo, Jess Perkins in the house. Tallyho, good day to all.

Who's that? You have to say who you are. Oh, hello, it's Matt Stewart in the manor. What a lovely manner it is. I can see you behind there. you are streaming in via satellite. We can see you from the manor. We can see the grounds, the stables behind you there. Yes, yes.

I have 17 horses. 17? Yeah. One just gave birth. So there's always a sweet 16 stables. That's what it's called that. I'm going to have to change the name now. Pretty frustrating.

Or put one hand up as misery. Okay. They are all miserable. That's something we should say. Last in first out, I think. Get rid of that foal. Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

Wild fall How would you free? Oh, okay. I was getting rid of it in a different way but yeah, no, free is better. That's much nicer. How would you... How would you...

I don't think I want to get into it. Okay, I think that's probably the right call. Matt, do you want to explain how this show works? Oh, sure, yeah. Dwight Works is one of the three of us selects a topic, usually based on a suggestion from a listener. We take that topic away. researching it, really jump in it, bathe in it, absorb as much as we can, put it into a report,

everything we've learned in sort of like, you know, grade 10, year 11 sort of school report, and we read it out to the other two while they, to be honest, go on tedious dog shit riffs and interrupt. Don't even bother putting her hands up. No. No. Meas, can I do a dog shit riff? None of that here.

And no, it's not year 12 level. work. Oh my God, no. Absolutely not. Year 10, I reckon. Yeah, year 10's probably right. Year 9, maybe. Year 9, maybe.

Year 9, but like they're pretty clever for year 9. Yeah. So a good year 9, but a shit year 11. An average year 10, but a shit year 11. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We peaked it. 100%.

I think I was all three of those, actually. Yeah, I was just thinking that too. I was like, that's probably about how I went. That's okay. The brakes started hitting. Yeah. The brain started slowing. Coasting in nine, ten.

Oh, yeah, he's still good. Eleven, oh, oh. Yeah. Oh, no. Should I be thinking about an apprenticeship, maybe? That's not really hit the finish line hard. Mm. Dave, can't relate, can you?

No, I didn't hit the finish line hard either. I probably peaked in grade one. Oh, you reckon? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. I was really good. You're really good with blocks. Really good box.

You knew what a triangle was straight up. Triangle. Triangle. Anyway, what bit do we get up to explaining it? I think we've got through the gist of it, except to say that it's Jess's turn to report, and we always start with a question to get us on the topic. Because Matt, now we're completely in the dark. We don't know what you're going to talk about.

Well, my question to get us onto that topic is, what is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest, most successful hotel robbery in history? Oh, my gosh. Also, I did try searching on the Guinness Book of World Records and could not confirm if this is true, but a few sources say, really?

This is the largest, most successful hotel robbery in history. But they didn't say about Guinness, Guinness didn't rock up on the day and said to the person like wearing the full burglar outfit, congratulations. Congratulations. I just need to verify a few things and then. Well, the burglar would have had to have brought them along.

They would have had to pre-organized to have someone there to verify. Yeah. Sorry, don't worry everybody. He's a guy without the balaclava. That's Greg. He's just here from Guinness. With a clipboard. And at that point, I wonder if Guinness is then obliged to call the police.

No, I think it's Guinness client confidentiality. Exactly. They're going to do a job. Yes. Yep. Do I ever have you know of any hotel robberies? No. The Ritz.

Not the Ritz. The Ritz robbery would be cool, though. That would be cool. To be fair, it's not a hotel. I'm familiar with, but it's in a pretty, pretty big city, one of the big ones. So it's not the New York Big Four Caravan Park? It's not the New York Big Four Caravan Park, but it's, that's the right kind of area, I guess. New York is the right kind of area?

Yeah. Or Big Four, I'm not sure which one is. I'm going to put you out of your misery. It is the Pierre Hotel in New York. Oh, the Pierre Hotel. The Pierre. So when you said the right kind of area, you meant the exact right place. Well, I don't know where the big four caravan park is.

Okay, good point. A lot of those big fours are actually quite outside the town. You know, it's like, oh, it's the Marimula Big Four, but it's like 20 minutes out of town. So I don't know. The New York big four could be in fucking New Jersey for all I know. Probably would be. Don't the two football teams, the two New York football teams play in New Jersey? I mean, what's going on there?

What's going on there? If that's true. Yeah, if that's true, that would be ridiculous. If true. But there's no way of us to verify that. A big disclaimer there, if true. If true, ridiculous. Yeah, I can't believe that the Rams play in Seattle.

That's weird, if true. If true. If true. So the topic today is the Pierre Hotel Heist. It's been suggested by one person, Emma from Germany. And it caught my eye in Jack the Hat, McVitty, where people can suggest topics. And I put it up to the vote. Our Patreon's voted on it.

And of course, it had heist in the title, so of course they were on board. Oh, you weren't searching for Pierre. I wasn't searching for Pierre. I was just actually, I was randomly scrolling, to be honest. I went to like some of the most recent and just sort of scrolled up, just having a bit of a look around. That caught my eye. Good on you.

Because that can be an overwhelming experience because there is over 10,000 suggestions these days. So it is hard to find. Putting a topic up for the vote can take hours. Yeah, because you've got to find usually three, if not four good ones that you'd be prepared to do if they won the vote. You have to sort of quickly do a check and make sure, like, is there enough information on this?

Yeah, that's right. The preliminary search. And yeah, it takes a weirdly long time just to put up the topic for a vote. But the patrons have spoken and they have chosen this heist topic, which is not a surprise, really. I'm excited. Honestly, I'm excited. I would have voted for it. I don't know what the other options were.

I would have picked it. Love the heist. There were some other good ones too. And, you know, it's coming up to free choice for me. So I might get around to them anyway. Great, great, great. Was it three Pierre options? Yes.

Pierre Cardan, the fashion? person, I guess. Yep. I guess that's a person. Yeah, isn't there a chef? Yeah, Chef Pierre White. Oh, Marco Pierre White. Marco Pierre White.

It was an option. And also then the St. Kilda Pier. Oh, yeah. I've never known how to say that word. Is it Pierre, St. Kilda Pierre? A lovely Pierre. Sorrento Pierre. Oh, my goodness.

Dramana Pierre. One of the best, the three best peers in Victoria. I'm going to start. calling Pierce Pierre's. He must go on the Sorrento Pierre. That's funny. That's funny stuff. Instantly classier, isn't it?

Yes. Ooh, we, we. Really, the pier. Really classes up the Mornington Peninsula and it needs it. Yeah, oh my God. It's disgusting down there. Dog shit down there. God, was it?

You get a house, what, three, four dollars? Ridiculous. I've got about 18 houses down there. Oh, burn them all down. Worthless. Okay, so a bit of background for starters on the Pierre Hotel. It's a luxury hotel. It still exists.

It's on the Upper East Side. on East, 61st Street and 5th Avenue, facing central park. Sorry, Jess, upper-ray side, that is where the big four is. Oh, okay, I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure. But that makes sense. They would put a big four on the upper-ry side. It just fits in.

Yeah, right next to the Nanny House, where they filmed the Nanny, that I almost went to when I went to New York last year. That is the humblest of brags. I almost went there. Okay, I'm going to New York in a few months. Please go for me. I'll go. I'll go.

And give it a good review because a lot of people, I'm sure I talked about this at the time, have given it a bad review because they were annoyed that it was just the outside of a house that are actually apartments and they can't go in

and experience the nanny house like at some sort of tour even though that has never been advertised. Yeah. People are great. I love people on the internet. Anyway, so it's a luxury hotel. It opened in 1930.

It had about 100 employees at the time. Still open today, apparently with over 1,000 employees. It's really expanded. That's huge. In the late 50s, Some of the apartments were sold to private residents, and some of the notable permanent residents of the pier have included Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammad Al-Faed, the then-owner

of Harrods, and the late designer Eve Saint Laurent. Oh my goodness. So, you know, we're talking fancy. I looked up their rates, the cheapest room available. And I was looking in sort of summer. I just picked a random date in July. And the cheapest room was 865 a night, US. Whoa.

That's $1,300 Australian per night. And is that like the janitor's closet type room? Yeah, it was just the basic room. Sleeping with the mops. Which is still very nice, but, you know, not my architectural style. A lovely closet, lovely closet. Lovely closet. A beautiful closet.

That's the threat that the janitor mafia make. Hey, we're going to make you sleep with the mops. It's very damp in there. Yeah. A lot of mold. You'll get a cough. That's for sure. We'll not be comfortable.

Was that Harrod's guy, the. the dad of Princess Diana's partner? D'O. Elfayette. Oh, yeah, possibly. Yeah, it is, yeah. Yes. So at one stage, lived in the pier. I thought you'd be more shocked at $1,300 a night.

That's a lot. No, for the cheapest room, that's why. Matt, did you look up the penthouse? I didn't even bother. It would be tens of thousands. And obviously, it's more to have a park view. So I'm pretty sure that cheap room, it looks over a car park or something. It looks over the big floor.

It's just straight. Yeah. You can see the kids on the swimming. pool. That big bouncy thing. Yeah, there's always a big bouncy thing there. Not quite a trampoline. But it's like a half dome.

Yeah. It looks dangerous. Yeah. I love it. Almost a jumping castle, but not quite, yeah, very, very weird. People were living there as well. So like, that's a lot for like monthly rent, let alone. Yeah.

Daily rent. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's, and that's, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's wild. And it was most, it's still mostly hotel, but I think there are still, like, permanent residents there. I was just trying to convey this place is fancy. It's very fancy.

And in early 1972, it was the target of the largest hotel robbery in history. Unverified. Guinness is still waiting to verify. So let's meet some of our main characters in today's story. What I've actually written here is let's meet sour main characters today. Oh. Sour. Oh.

I must have meant hour and I was riding late. Anyway. But I want to, are there any sour individuals? Uh, yeah. Okay. No robbery? The first two people to introduce are Samuel Nalo and Robert Comfit. How good is that name?

Bobby Comfit. He should start a motel business. What would he call it? Bobby Comfit's motel business. Not comfort in or anything? Okay. Bobby Comfort. I tell business.

That's good. I would love to invest. Is Robert Comfort? Is he some sort of butler? No. Oh, they're amazing. They're both professional thieves. Okay.

Bobby Compt. I love how you can go pro as a thief. Well, yeah. Maybe it's just a, maybe it's, oh yeah, I wonder when you do consider yourself pro. Maybe it's sort of like when you start to consider yourself a comedian. It's sort of like, if it's different for everybody, sometimes. it's a certain number of gigs, sometimes it's like a certain amount of money. When you have to start filing a tax return as a professional one, I think. Yeah, yeah,

I think that would be a good sort of indicated that you go, okay, I can really call myself a comedian now. I've got my own accountant now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm making money from this now. And yeah, so maybe it's about that. But, you know, everyone's different. Yeah, started out as a hobby and a passion. Yeah. And you know, they say, work a job you love, you never work a day in your life. Yeah. Absolutely not true. You work more. You never really switch it off. That's the thing. So they're professional thieves. They've previously performed major robberies at the Regency Hotel, the Drake, the Carlisle and the St. Regis.

I don't know what any of these are, but they all sound sort of fancy, you know. Nalo was apparently the main planner behind all the highest comfort, also a major organiser. They were sort of, apparently, I think, the top two. Right, right, right. Project managing together. They'd also notably stolen a million dollars in jewelry and cash from Sophia Lorenz Suite in the Sherry, Netherlands Hotel. Now, I googled this and found several archived articles from the 70s, and it seems like Sophia Loren was robbed a lot.

Really? Because I looked up like 1971 Sophia Loren robbery, and I was like, oh, yeah, cool, there's some archived articles here from then, but it was for a completely different hotel. And then it also mentioned that the year before she'd been robbed in London. And so I was like, I think unless the, I was like, maybe the hotels change names. Yeah. I don't think that's the case.

think they're two different places. So I was like, unless they've gotten mixed up, and this is the robbery we're talking about, she's been robbed several times, several times from hotels. Why would you stop staying in hotels? Yeah, stop trusting the people. Yeah, you keep getting robbed. She's, you know, like people with a valet parking or whatever, they throw their keys. Yeah.

She just does that to anyone. Yeah. You know, a lot of women get home from an event and take off their bra. She just takes off her diamond, $1 million necklace and throws it at a valet. Darling, you look after this for me. Good to be home, froze it. And where did I put that necklace? Somewhere here.

Somewhere here. On the floor. I've been robbed. Yeah, she's just losing a lot of things and then saying it's a rubber. They're robbed again. She's just really messy. Anyway, the team for the Pierre Heist also consisted of another Robert, Bobby Germain, an associate of the Lucchese family, a crime family.

Now, the Lakesse crime family, I think I'm saying that right, is an Italian-American crime family, one of the five families that dominate organized crime in New York City. Each family has territory and an organizationally structured hierarchy, and they report to the same overarching governing entity. It's very interesting. So we have Samuel Nalo, Robert Comfort, Bobby Germain, and then we also have Nikki Seiko, Val Visconti Oh, that's great Donald Franks That's a good one

Don't know heaps about the three of them And sort of what their roles were But we also have A contract killer Who worked primarily for the Albanian Mafia His name was Ali Ben And his brother-in-law, Al Green

Really? Yeah The singer The singer I know Wow 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 We got eight

Eight people in the crew Okay So, the gang arrived at the Pierre Hotel at 3.50am on January 2nd, 1972. At 4 a.m., Al Green, dressed in a chauffeur's uniform, drove a black Cadillac limousine up to the hotel's 61st street entrance. Because it's the middle of the night, all the other entrances are closed. This is the only way in. Right, and you've got to go undercover with a limousine. Yes, because Bobby got out of the limo and told the security guard, we got a reservation, Dr. Foster.

Security guard calls the front desk confirmed, yep, there's a reservation for Dr Foster. This is Dr Foster arriving at 4 a.m. That's because Bobby Comfort had booked and paid for a room under an alias because that was sort of the only way in. Hopefully, be claiming that on tax later on. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's an expense. So the security guard, he unlocks the door and was quickly held at gunpoint.

Oh, no. He's like, oh, come on. I just let you in. I was just doing my bloody jar. I checked? Yeah. He got a Razi. He got a Razi.

He got a gun in my head. Oh, come on. It's not having a good day at work. That's a bit much. Obviously, they've chosen to arrive in the wee hours of the morning because there's going to be less people around. That means less obstacles in their way. But the date of January 2nd was actually specifically chosen too.

And I found this really great resource. It's sort of all about heists called Wikipedia.org. Oh. And it said, Most of the hotel's guests were soundly sleeping off their escapades from the previous New Year's extravaganzas, which they had attended wearing their finest jewels. The jewels were kept in safety deposit boxes downstairs until more secure bank vaults reopened at 9 a.m. that morning.

So, like, the banks are closed on New Year's Day. So people are storing their jewels and stuff just in the hotel safety deposit boxes until they can take them back to the bank where they're safe. Clever. author Daniel Simone, who's written about this, said, they only had two securities on duty at night. Most of the other luxury hotels had far greater security. And the second advantage to robbing the Pierre as opposed to the others

was the fact that the guests were typically extremely affluent and wealthy. I mean, that's the same thing, isn't it? Affluent and wealthy? He's just padding for words there, isn't he? I mean, it does make sense to target the wealthy. I mean, you probably could have walked into the big four and held everyone up and they don't have as much money

as these people with safety deposit boxes wow Dave wow somebody hasn't stayed in a big four yeah actually pretty expensive

that bouncy thing that doesn't come cheap that place has got two pools two you think you're paying bloody the cheapest rates you can you're getting two pools I don't think so

no not on my watch mate that's ridiculous genuinely they're not that cheap Dave but but they are a cheaper family alternative what compared to the Pierre Compared to the pier.

Sorry, I can pay everything to the pierre. Yeah, you're not going to be paying $1,300 a night for a big four. That's true. That is absolutely true. But I don't know if it would be that far off for like the deluxe cabin. I think it would be up there. One time we went to, um, Byron Bay and had booked accommodation for January instead of December.

And I had to get the last Airbnb in Byr. Well, there's also a music festival there over New Year's. So all accommodation was gone. We had to get the last Airbnb, which was a shitty little cabin in a big four. It had one towel and cockroaches. And it wasn't cheap. So, you know, but that was sort of demand and fuck-ups on somebody's part. Who's?

Not mine. Okay. Never mind. No, in turn. Okay. Coward. It wasn't me. She's looking at me.

It wasn't me. Okay? I booked a place with two towels. Anyway, still Daniel Simone here saying, it was known in those circles that many of the guests were loaded with jewelry, bearer bonds, cash, and they would use the hotel safe deposit box to store their valuables. Why are you carrying bearer bonds around to a hotel?

I don't know what a bearer bond is. They, you know, they're from, you go steal them and die hard. Yeah. And also like, stocks and such on paper, I believe. Sometimes people have got huge wads of cash in the safety deposit box, like over a million. And it's like, what were you going? to be doing in New York that you needed a million dollars of cash.

Like how long are you there? You know what I mean? They have banks. You can go to the bank to get some cash out if you need it. You don't have to take a million out at once. But I guess they thought, you know, the banks are closed January 1st. You got to just in case you see the Lambo that you want. Yeah, just in case you want to build it, you want to buy a hotel in cash while you're there.

Yeah. So I get it. I take that back. So the crew held the sole security. I'd tell you. Yes. Big for deluxe room. It's wondering why he went quiet for a second.

On the Witt Sundays. Only 211 a night. Get fucked. What a bargain. In the Wits Sundays? On the Wits Sundays. Does it say how many towels it has? Unlimited tails.

Unlimited. How many does it sleep? Is it three? Can we go? Sleep's five. Oh my God. Oh my God. We can all take a.

Teddy bear. I was going to say we could all pick up. Well, two of us could. Well, there's a queen. Yeah, Matt would never be able to pick up. Yeah, good luck, man. Oh, I'll take the single bed then. Yeah, of course.

There's also a single bunk, so one up, one down, one on the single and two in the queen. Do you, how many of the rooms at the PA have bunk beds? Oh, I didn't check. Does the deluxe suite have bunk beds? I'm sure it does. A room full of bunk beds. They do have hostel style as well. But that is a...

On the Witt Sundays, that's a bloody bargain. Okay, yeah. So, you know, we were saying the big falls on that. That's pretty good. Yeah. For five as well. I mean, I'm sure that's for a family and I'm sure the kids are contributing.

So you split that five ways. Yeah, exactly. That's nothing. Hey, son, I'll just give him my bag details if that's okay. Huge transfer me for your share. Thank you. So they had the security guard. They took him captive,

took his clothes, which one of the thieves put on. So now he's pretending to be a security guard. I thought that they were like really desperate. They're like, just in case this doesn't pay off, we'll have to sell the security guard's clothes. That's what you thought. Yeah. We'd have to sell the security guard's clothes. And how much would you get for a security guard outfit?

From the 40 bucks? Yeah. In the 70s? It's probably three-a-card-dain. It'd be like real designer stuff. Yeah, it'll be good stuff. Yeah. Okay.

It's just a backup plan. And once you open the safety deposit boxes, then you give him his clothes back. You say, I don't need this anymore. I've made three to three to three. $4. And I feel that point. Yeah, yeah. Because you've got to cover for the, you know, the up fronts that Bobby Comfort paid to book the room.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So you've got to at least break even. You don't want to do a job and be paying for the privilege. I mean, they're passionate about it for sure, but. Yeah. I mean, sure, when you start out in comedy or robbery, that sometimes you are sort of paying money. That's a full exposure.

Exactly right. Yeah, yeah. But you've got to get back what you can. You've got to take the free drink cards. I reckon, did Bobby Comfort go straight? to the breakfast buffet and say, just give me an hour in here. Yeah.

I'll load up, I'll eat as much as I can, and then we'll open in the boxes. Yeah, I think that would be reasonable. And I'm sure the breakfast buffet is open at 4 a. Yeah, is the omelet bar open. Actually, this is in New York, isn't it?

Yeah. Because I think, I think open mics over there, some of them you do have to pay to be on. Right, okay, yeah. So maybe that is fair enough over there. Different culture. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy.

Yeah. Whatever. Hey, it's the home. It's the home of, I think it was the gym. That's where I go to work out. Also, the minimum, the minimum spend for each customer when you go in there, check a minimum, or that kind of thing. A beautiful place.

Can't wait to spend so much time there. Okay, so they rounded up all the staff members who were working and a few guests who are unlucky enough to not be in their rooms at this time. Frankos guarded the 61st street entrance, handcuffing anyone who confronted him and leading them to Visconti, who brought the hostages to a large alcove near the registration desk where he ordered them to lie face down on the ground. How many handcuffs does this guy have? That is so funny you mention that because several articles do mention how many sets of handcuffs they have. They had three dozen, apparently.

That is crazy. That is crazy. That's the logistic. That's crazy. Well, they had, the number of hostages grew to ultimately about 19. Oh, okay. They were handcuffed, but gently. They didn't handcuff anybody who looked ill or sick, and they referred to their hostages as sir and miss.

They never raised their voices. They were very polite in terms of, we're robbing the place, but just chill out, and it'll be over soon. So they were all dressed in disguises as well. Nalo wore a huge wig, fake nose and eyeglasses. How big are we talking? It's funny that it says huge wig. Couldn't get through a doorway.

He's having to like dump. He has to pull the sides in to get through doors. I'm not doing like a fool like Mard Simpson. Yeah. Straight up. So it's tall. It's really tall. It's not necessarily wide.

It's very tall. It's hard to run too. He's off centre. Top heavy. Yeah. Oh, put these handcuffs on. All the burglars wore gloves and carried guns. Nalo forced the hotel auditor to provide the index cards that matched

the boxes to the depositors. So they had these little records of whose safety deposit box was whose. They only broke into lock boxes of people whose names they recognized, which were not names that I recognized, but the examples given were Harold Eurus, who was a real estate entrepreneur Tom Yorkie, who was a major league baseball executive. And also apparently ahead of the highest,

Bobby Comfort had apparently befriended a woman who worked at the pier, who oversaw records of what was in each. safety deposit box. So they also sort of had that and so they knew which ones particularly they wanted to target. Right. As in like he befriended her, like so she became part of it or he just got a bit of information out of it. I think he got a bit of information out of it.

Just by chatting. Yeah, yeah. And then they, I think it ended up having like a bit of a list of, so they knew this one's probably more worthwhile trying to break into because it's got X, Y and Z in it. This one, it's something like like 50 bucks. Don't worry about it. I feel like that wouldn't even be that suss, you know, Bobby Comfort. If you met someone and their job was knowing what was in those things,

it would be something you could ask without being like, hang on, why are you asking that? Are you trying to rob us? You know, it would be interesting. Oh, these celebrities staying there. What have they got in their lockboxes? Don't you reckon? Or like, like, um, deal or no deal?

Like, I bet you don't know. I bet you can't remember them all. Like, for example, I bet you don't know what's in number 17. Oh, really? You know that one? How about 18? 90? But it's actually now that think about it,

there's no way for me to verify. If you have some sort of master list of what's in all these things, then I could quiz you. Yeah, give me the answers and I'll say, all right, number one. And he's just sort of taking it all in. Yeah, he's got a photographic memory. That's brilliant. You're right, Matt. That's not suspicious at all.

Yeah. I think if that was your job, you'd shut the fuck up. You know, I would probably not be telling people stuff. What, but this guy just met her? Surely a guy you've just met. Yeah, you're right. Actually, shit. Sorry, I forgot that element of it.

Give her the benefit. A guy I've just met. I'm telling anything he wants to blood to know. Somebody I've known a long time, I'm putting a wall up, okay? Because I know not to trust them. And I'm going, why do you want to know that, eh? Why are you asking how my day's going? You, sir, you sick, son of a bitch.

All right, dad, you're weirder. Get out of here, dad. Anyway, so four of the criminals comforted the hostages in the lobby, kept them calm. Bobby comforted them. Bobby comforted them. That's good stuff. and it's unclear exactly who

the different resources say different people were the ones downstairs in the vault like breaking into the boxes one resource says it was Sammy Nalo and Nikki Seiko others say it was Robert Comfort, not 100% sure but they used everyday tools to begin raiding the safety deposit boxes. Time was of the essence

and so the group used records comfort obtained from this woman who worked at the hotel to plot out a strategy to target the safety deposit boxes containing the most precious and expensive valuables. So they have a lot of info that they need. Great. To really maximise their yield. Yeah.

So over the next couple of hours, the gang got to work with a couple of them working on breaking into the boxes while the others kept watch of the hostages. And a few hours have gone past. So presumably the breakfast buffet is opening and these people are handcuffed missing out of the breakfast that they've paid for. And you want to get their... early too because otherwise you're getting like

the dregs. Oh yeah yeah the worst little the last bits of baked bean or the crispiest bacon that's just beyond burnt beyond. Yeah it's not fun crispy it's no oh my god I'd be furious at these guys it was saying the omelab part is only open until 8 30 breakfast at hotels are always a strange time it's always six till 830 or 9 like when a breakfast ends by 9 I'm like fuck you yeah I love when they're open to 11 11 that's what should be Six to 11.

I'm on holiday. I know some people are up early and they're sickos. Yeah, they're disgusting. But what about the rest of us who are on holiday and want to have a little bit of a lion? Yes, please. Okay, Jesus Christ. Breakfast is served from 6 till 6.30. I'm like, fuck you.

Yeah, when they try and make it really difficult to get you. Then out of spite, I'm there at 6. You wake up? Have too much food and then go back to bed. And I look like absolute shit because I haven't showered because you didn't give me any time to. So I'm in my pidgeygy. still. I'm shuffling in there.

Give it that food. This part I read made me laugh and I think you'll enjoy it as well. This is from Inside Edition, who quotes Claire White, the director of education at the mob museum in Las Vegas, said, they know that a hotel environment is going to pose all of these risks and they're willing to absorb some of that random chance.

And that is one of the things that does make this into such a Hollywood story. So this is, Among the moments unable to be accounted for ahead of time was the uncovering of an affair between a newlywed staying at the hotel and his apparent mistress. A newlywed?

Yes. What? You can't even make it through the honeymoon period? Isn't that wild? He missed his mistress. Oh, okay. No, I didn't think about it like that. Yeah, no one ever thinks of a mistress.

That's love. He missed her. She probably wasn't even allowed to go to the big day. Yeah. So there's one full day as and seen her. Yeah. Can you believe that? Well, you go one full day without your mistress?

Come on, mate. Come on. So this is all from Daniel Simone, the writer who's written a book about this. He says, there was a newly married couple in the hotel, and it turns out that the groom, a Brazilian magnate, had planned on seeing his mistress in one of the other rooms of the hotel after his wife, his new bride, would have gone to sleep. However, the groom's mistress was one of the hostages in the lobby.

unaware of what was happening downstairs or why the elevators were shut off, he made numerous calls to the front desk until some of the thieves, pretending to be hotel employees, went to his room. They then took him hostage, waking his wife and her mother, who was along for the trip in the process. Okay, starting to understand why there's a mistress. Your mother-in-law is on the honeymoon with you? She's in the hotel room?

Boundaries, lady. She's in the hotel room? In like a different bedroom, but in the same sort of sweet. Come on. But did they wake up the mistress's mother? It was also there. No, she slept through. The robbers also brought their mothers.

It was a different time. It was a different time. You couldn't travel without a chaperone slash mummy. I do love the idea that he has been so annoying and called the front desk so many times. Like, that's it. We have to kidnap this man. Yeah, this guy's really annoying. I'm so bored of his calls and complaints about the lift.

We're busy. We've shut up the lift off. So nobody's fucking coming up and down, mate. It's 4 a.m. Go back to bed, you idiot. What are you doing? So when they brought him downstairs, they brought down the groom and his wife into this alcove. The mistress was dumbfounded to see him with a woman and the two women started squabbling.

So the mistress didn't know about the wife. The mistress didn't know. She didn't think was suspicious that he only came in for one hour at 4 a.m. every day. And stayed in a different room to her. All right, I'm going back to bed now. Well, she has to, yeah, she must have known. So they started fighting. And of course, then that's when it's revealed that she is his mistress

and that he was sneaking out of his room in order to meet her in the lobby to spend the rest of the night with her in a separate room that he'd already booked. So, Nikki Sakeau, one of the crooks, he was interviewed extensively for the book that Daniel Simone wrote about this, and he recalled the fight between the newly words. He says, there you're robbing this place, and you've got to listen to some marital problems that the guys just got married. What the hell did he get married for?

Yeah, it's a good question. It's a great question. Also, from this Inside Edition article, this is the only place I read about this other wild part of the night. In another instance, one of the hostages suffered a heart attack. One article I read so they learned that a guest to the hotel was a doctor and they went and got him and then also kept him hostage in the end. Are you a doctor?

Yes, put these handcuffs on. Come with me. But the article on Inside Edition says, comfort quickly sprang into action and called 911. What? He didn't want this man to die because then this wouldn't only be a robbery. It could have been a murder as well. Right.

Because the argument being that he wouldn't have had a heart attack unless he did the robbery, you therefore killed this man. Maybe, yeah. Oh my gosh. He just didn't want anybody to die. They didn't want anybody to be hurt. Yeah. So Simone keeps writing about this.

He says, this is why this is such a daring, daring act that they did. But they did it in good conscience because their intention was not to hurt. anybody first and foremost. The police arrived and they relocated all the captives inside the safe where the safe deposit boxes were stored. They locked the doors so that even if they yelled and screamed, nobody would have heard them.

So they just moved the hostages out of the way. The like an ambulance turns up and the man suffering a heart attack he was taken to the hospital. He ultimately survived, never mentioned anything to the police

about the heist. Do they say to him you can't? Yeah. Like threatening him or something? I guess so, yeah. Well, yeah, they did that to everybody else. I assume they'd done that to him. Because that's the biggest risk is that, yeah, in the ambulance, he's like, oh, by the way. By the way, they're robbing the place.

They're robbers. You might want to send some people back there. Did he leave? Was it like his wife left behind maybe? And they said, maybe. Don't say anything because we've still got your. Misso. Or maybe they said, your mistress is upstairs and we will bring her down to your wife if you say anything.

Every man in that. hotel had booked two rooms. And he said, wait, which one? Oh, no, I've said too much. That man had booked eight rooms. Hence the heart attack. He was going at it non-stop. He hadn't slept in weeks.

It was too much. Too many mistresses. Anyway, so when the police came, naturally the police were concerned about getting medical assistance for this man. They didn't notice anything abnormal. Bobby Comfort was wearing a concierge's jacket. He acted like he worked at the hotel.

and so the cops. He's wearing the jacket, but no pants. No pants. We're into the poo style. He's like, well, it's 4 a.m. Yeah, he's standing behind a desk. They're like, oh, can you help us carry him to the ambulance? I can't come out there.

I cannot. I cannot. My pants are over there. I can't. But thank you. No, thank you. His pants are burning in a bin in the background. As every concierge does, come 3 a.m. Take off the pants, burn them, start fresh at six.

So all of this happened in the space of about two and a half hours. Wow. Crazy. It's a big night. It's a big night. This is very Hollywood movie. I can see the movie for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And you can see it with a real rag-tag bunch. It's got an ocean's 11 vibe to it. Love that. You know, they've planned it for ages. They got this guy who's good at breaking into stuff. And this guy, he's the tech guy. This guy, he's an actor. They always see an actor.

Yes. Yeah, they're sort of. slightly eccentric and they love doing characters and costumes. And there's always a moment where the actor is sort of put on the spot and everybody else is, there's a moment where he pauses and everybody's like, oh no, this is the jigs up. This is going to, and then he bang and he's into it and he's really convincing and amazing. And they're like, whoa! It's like in the A team where one of them is being spoken to in a different language and they're like,

oh, fuck, this is going to be. You can't speak this language, surely. And then he does speak the language. He's like, what? And he's like, what you can't see is there's cue cards with the sounds written out behind the camera. Vincent Donofrio played that character in the Kevin Hart film that I watched recently. It's called, it's called, I can't remember the name, but it's something really, it's like the drop or something. And then they go, all right, it's time for the drop.

And they say it in the film So it's actually really sick Incredible That's not the name though I'm going to have to look it up I'm so sorry Okay please we'll wait Are you sure I wasn't Vince Fawn

Do I frequently confused with Vincent Donofrio Oh No I mean no I'm not sure Hang on hang on Come on Geez he's done a lift It's called lift

And it's all about them lifting, like stealing things. But do they say you've got to do the lift? They're going to do the lift, but I think his code to let them know that they're ready to go is, all right, it's time to lift. So good. That's inspiring. That's inspiring.

Oh my God, the director's F. Gary Gray. What a great name. F. Gary Gray. Yeah, F. Gary Gray. He knows what he did. You change your name by Dean Paul just to take a shot at Gary Gray. Your name's like Roger or something I don't want to Roger Gary

I want to F him Different Oh hang on no You can't change your name more than to us in a year Okay I'll have to wait at you And then I'll update Okay So anyway this is all happened in about two and a half hours

Love it Within that time Bobby G and Bobby Comfort Were able to see this is where it's saying This particular resource was saying it was Bobby G It was the Bobbies that were breaking in But anyway They were able to break in

to close to a quarter of the 208 lockboxes in the vault. They got into quite a few in two and a half hours. And I just smash and grab. You said it was just tools. Yeah, I'm not really... It's like drilling and hammering that kind of stuff. Not 100% sure how, how, you know, precise they're being or how delicate, or whether it's just like smash this shit open.

Yeah, interesting that they didn't... Dynamite, boom. Are the keys just not behind, like, somewhere? Great point. Great point. It's got to be keys. Yeah, it's got to be key. But it's also more fun to smash and grab.

Yeah, I reckon it would be. This is from the New York Post. After a little more than two hours, the robbers had four suitcases filled with loot. We had at least 75 to 100 boxes we didn't open, Saco said. It was time to leave, but Nalo wanted to open one more box he thought belonged to a princess. He was obsessed with these princesses, Saco recalled. I said to him, listen, Sammy, we got four suitcases, money, jewels and everything. Buy yourself a princess.

Everybody started laughing. That's so good. He was like, it crushed. Even the hostages saw the funny side of that one. Even the hostages were like, fuck, yeah, Nikki, you got it. Got it. Buy yourself a princess, bitch. So, so strange.

So, about 6.15, Bobby Comfort informed the hostages that they were leaving to not tell the police if they were able to identify anyone, or they would be murdered. Oh, okay. If you figure out who we are and you tell them, we'll kill you. Okay, that's a proper threat. But, so that's not very nice. But before departing, Comfort gave a $20 bill to each hotel employee that they detained.

Got more $20. Except the security guards because he sort of saw them as cops. But the other hotel employees that were hostages got $20. So the cops, the security guards lost his outfit and he's down $20. Yeah, I wonder if they gave the clothes back or if they'd like sweat in them and he's like, I don't want him back. I'll dry clean these and I'll bring him back tomorrow. I'll bring him back tomorrow.

But you are naked now. Without $20. You've just got to get home from work and whatever. I think the concierge is still wearing pants, just no top. No jacket required That's the most important part of his uniform He is going to be heavily penalised for that More than $20 too

The Pierre's like sorry man You really left your duty Part of the deal is you have to wear your uniform for the whole shift No matter what So we're not paying you for this shift Yeah and he's like Oh my gosh, it was 20 bucks That's probably more than they'd make in a day

So maybe 20 bucks is actually quite a bit I think it is In the 70s Pretty big big money In the 70s we were talking about this the other day when my parents bought a house mum said something like she was earning

$58 a week or something like that Oh my God So 20 bucks is probably quite a lot Yeah When my dad would say like On the way to school You buy a can of Coke and a pie For 14 cents or something

Yeah Yeah yeah yeah So 20 bucks You'd probably be quite happy with that as a tip Yeah That's probably a week's wage That's a lot of pies Oh you know what

I'd be happy if somebody Going to be 20 bucks now Yeah realistically If for nothing Somebody just said Do you want 20 bucks Yeah

Or just handed me me $20? I mean, I wouldn't be upset about that. If you were quite, you know, probably fearing for your life for two and a half hours. Yeah, that's why I said for nothing. That's what I said for nothing. Not that. I've just been like, you just happened to have, you had too many $20 bills that were overflowing in your wallet and you're like, can you take one of these? I'd be like, all right. I wouldn't be upset about it. That's all I'm saying. If you want to give me $20, go for it. It's very generous of you. You have my bank details. Anytime. Transfer me $20. So they gave them $20. They left it about.

630, just ahead of the hotel's incoming 7am shift. So they're like, before we have an influx of people arriving for work, we're going to get the fuck out of here. Clever. Apparently, though, and again, I only read this in one resource, their getaway didn't go as smoothly as they'd hoped either. Oh dear. This is from Daniel Simone again.

As they attempted to make their getaway, one of their cars, a limousine, parked in front of the hotel, wouldn't work after the car battery died. Another one of their cars then made in a legal turn To jumpstart the limo Which police nearby noticed Rather than give the men a hard time For the traffic violation The police gave the men a hand

In jump starting the limo That's sick Oh no we just jump starting the limo Oh fair enough Well look you know it's like 6am's not a lot of traffic Yeah boys will help you out We'll give you a hand But you know do be careful

All right no legal you does This is a warning Just don't do it again You can't chuck at you just anywhere All right, it's New York City. Okay? And they hate cops as well, so they just quite everyone. So they've managed to get away with quite a hall of stolen goods.

So that's twice now police have attended this venue. So they've managed to get away with quite a hall of stolen goods. Accounts vary a lot. But the main sort of amount that people say is it's believed they made it out of the hotel with approximately $3 million, which would be about $27 million today. Oh my God. Think about how many pies and Cokes that is. That's so many.

If 20 bucks was a lot, three millions, that's too much. Unbelievable. All of a sudden, those tips feel a bit tight, don't they? Yeah, true.

But again, I wouldn't, like, three million today, of course, that's going to buy you a lovely home, set you up, you'd be comfortable. I wouldn't say no to three million.

Okay. If somebody wanted to give me $3 million, I wouldn't say no to that. It's good to know your scale. You know, it's life altering, not life-changing.

Um, three million. Yeah, it wouldn't change the thing. Wouldn't change, you know, I'd still have to work. It'd still have to work. But it would certainly help a little bit. It would have to work just a lot less hard. Because I already work very hard. I don't know what Bobby Comfort and the others are going to think of you taking the whole

three million. No, I'm just saying if somebody wanted to give me three million. Like Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, one of the bobbies, if you just want to give me. All of your cut and everyone else's cut, I would take it. I'd take it. I'd be right with that. So the New York Post says, the heist made headlines for weeks,

but media accounts of the time said the men got away with 3 million, far less than the 28 million Simone believed was taken. He reckons it was 28 back then. Oh, wow. Some things he says were like, the modern equivalent would be $450 million or something. He says it's a lot more, and he offers several reasons for the disparity. One is that Comfort Nalo didn't disclose the full size of their take

because they didn't want to share it all with the other criminals. Another is they simply may not have realized the value of some of the jewelry, and the wealthy victims of the robbery may have had reasons for not fully reporting their losses. How do you explain to the IRS $3 million in a safe deposit box? Yeah, right. Or you've got a necklace that's worth $300,000. but yeah where did you get the money for that that kind of thing so it could be that

some of the wealthy maybe slightly dodgy guests that were robbed god this is great good news of victimless crime then yeah if they've lost like three mill and don't want to report it because that'll beg other questions so they're just happy to have a loss of three million dollars back then yeah they're probably they're fine

they're okay none of the hostages were hurt everyone's okay good they were out just in time for breakfast because it closed at 6.30 yeah so no one missed out they all got breakfast

no one missed out but what do you do with that kind of cash without rousing suspicion that's the other thing with jewels and stuff you have to sell them to get the money for it right it's not cash or so from Claire White again she says you can plan a burglary but what you can't

always plan for is how to sell off those goods you can't take a $500 bill to the corner convenience store and use it to buy goods. Yes, I did then immediately Google $500 bill and they were a thing. They've taken out of circulation a long time ago, but they were still legal tender. So I think even then they weren't. Oh, right. So that would raise even more alarms, wouldn't it?

Yeah, absolutely. People like, $500 bill, we haven't been making them in my lifetime. Exactly right. Why are you spending this at the milk bar? They used to have like 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 notes. Isn't that crazy? That is why it was like a $50 million bill. Because I was like, is she just being hyperbolic?

Like, you can't take a like $500 note somewhere. But no, that used to exist. Wow. The last $500 bill right off the press in 1945. Formerly discontinued 24 years later. Cop that, President William McKinley, who was on the front of it. Oh, brutal. The McKinley family must have been shattered.

Yeah, there goes their legacy. So, yeah, she's saying you can't take a $500 bill to like a, a, corner store. You've got to find someone who's willing to take it and launder it for you. You can't take an eight-carat registered diamond to a normal jeweller and expect them to purchase it from you with no legitimate paperwork. So you've got to find ways to launder this money to sell off these goods. The New York Post says, Seiko said he had a little trouble getting rid of his share of the loot. He and his compatriots had contacts in the city's jewelry districts on 47th and in those days, Canal Street, or as Matt says, Canel Street.

Wait, I just said the same word twice. They found experts who ground away any identifying marks on the gems they'd swiped. So we'd lose half a carrot, Saco said. But they didn't care. The stones were set into new rings, necklaces and other settings and sold to jewelers across the country. It's a lot of hassle. And you're losing a bit of value on the jewels.

And that's all that matters. This is where it becomes a job. Like, the passion is the highest. This is when you realise you're a professional. Like, you know, you think like, oh, yeah, the job's only going to take two and half hours, but really the work that goes into it after the fact, it's, you know, it's a lot of work for, and then you kind of have to weigh up, well, how much am I getting here? Half a mill?

Is it worth it? Is that worth the dozens of hours I've had to put in here? Dozens, Matt. Literally dozens. Dozens? How do you think they divvied up the jewels? Do you think they all put them in a pile and they just got to pick like you were picking your soccer team at high school.

Yeah, your first pick. You get the real big one. The big red one. That's mine. I wanted the big red one. Well, I got first pick. Sorry, you're next. I want the big blue one.

And then it comes up to my turn and like a really famous diamond walks in. Hey, what's going on here, guys? I'll take the real famous diamond. Oh, crap. Meanwhile, the NYPD didn't have very much to go on with no surveillance cameras and no one talking. It was not going to be an open and shut case for them. Claire White thinks.

that the way that the thieves treated the hostages probably helped. She says one thing that I think the crew did really well was treat the hostages in a way that really did make them think that they should not tell the police anything. I'm not defending these criminals, but I do think that that behavior is above and beyond in a hostage situation. So you're talking about because they were nice to them, not because of the murder threat, because of that one nice to them. They were just like, hey, here's 20 bucks.

I'll kill your family if you tell. All right. And she's like, I think it's because they were nice to them. nice to them. Yeah, they were so nice to them. And not because they said, I'll kill you family. Yeah, because the handcuffs were loose. That's right. It wasn't too tight. I was comfy. It was okay. I got a bit chilly. They got me a blanket. They were fluffy cuffs. It was very nice. I actually felt quite sensual. They let me keep them. That's for me and the mistress.

One of the money, though. But Daniel Simone also thinks that perhaps is another reason the people in the hotel didn't want to speak to the cops. So this is essentially what I was saying before, but I'll read his question. quote, many of the captors who had items that had been stolen, they didn't want to admit that they lost anything. They didn't want to admit that they even had any items of value in the safe deposit boxes. I mean, how do you explain to the government, to the IRS, that your 84-carat necklace was stolen? Because the question may present itself, well, where did you get the money to buy a necklace for $300,000? Yes. That's so funny.

Who's the real criminal here? It's just, they're just taken the loss rather than facing, um, jail. So the police apparently suspected that Samuel Nalo and Robert Comfort had something to do with the crime. They were known to police, but ultimately couldn't prove it. But the crooks didn't exactly get away with their crime. Oh, meddling kids?

It's always meddling kids. According to Wikipedia, Nalo went to a Likese family concierge, Christy the Tick Fanari, to fence the stolen goods. I'd never heard fence, but it's like hiding the goods. Right. I've got to fence the goods. Fonari demanded an outrageous, 33% of the take.

Nalo became so enraged that he transported the bulk of it to a friend's house in Detroit. Nalo also owed a lot of money to illegal bookies and his whereabouts at one point were revealed to police by an informant. He was arrested, as was Robert Comfort, for having stolen items in their possession,

which were items from different robberies. Had nothing to do with the pier. They never gave up any information about the Pierre Hotel robbery. Never said they had anything to do with it. Both Comfort and Nalo served four years in prison. Another source said 19 months for possession of stolen goods. Their charges were not, again, not connected to the Pierre Hotel robbery.

In fact, the case of the Pierre Hotel robbery remains officially unsolved. Oh my gosh. Mystery? It's not quite a mystery, but it's still fun. Exactly. Good one. So they got away with it. Right, but we know about...

But the story's been told. Yeah, because other people have since told their story. So, what happened... Is it like a statute of limitation sort of thing? It's more... Well, we'll find out in a sec. So what happened to the others and most importantly, the loot. So shortly after the arrests of Comfort and Nalo, Nalo's friend in Detroit became nervous.

They were the one, like, he'd gone and dumped all this stuff with them. So they got a bit nervous because they got arrested. So they turned over $750,000 in jewels to police. Millions more in currency and jewels were taken by another friend of Nalo's who absconded to Mexico and was never heard of again. Ali Ben and his brother-in-law, Al Green, read in the newspaper about the stolen property recovered in Michigan and perceived that Nalo had tried to swindle them out of their share,

and so they fled the country to somewhere in Europe. They had some money. I think maybe Nalo had more. So they were just like, let's get the fuck out of here. And they just went and lived like kings in Europe for a bit. From Wikipedia, Robert Comfort then fenced the jury to mobsters in Rochester, New York, to the New York Mafia. The mobsters kept the loot, and when Comfort attempted to retrieve some of it, they nearly murdered him. What loot?

Donald Frankos was supposed to receive $750,000 and was enraged that all he initially received was $50,000. Over time, he was given a total of $175. the same with Bobby G and Val Visconti. Saco received about 2 million. Oh, wow. So it's all like really... So I reckon it probably is the case that Nalo and Comfort, it was a much bigger haul than they'd let on,

so they were holding on to more. Yep. But we're not, we don't know. Robert Comfort ended up with about 1.5 million. Samuel Nalo received his jewels that his friends hadn't stolen. So they were both still fine after this robbery. Donald Frankos, Heathly blamed Nalo for the rip-off and vowed to murder him.

And in 1988, Samuel Nalo was murdered by an unknown gunman, although it was not Donald Francos. But maybe? Or somebody associated with? So Samuel Nalo was killed. Frankos did, however, murder both Ali Ben and Al Green in 1981. Oh my gosh. Although I'm not entirely sure of the motive.

Two sentences earlier, it says he was also angry at his co-conspirators, Ali Ben. and Al Green, but Francoz knew that they too had been cheated by Nalo. Right, but he killed him. In 1981. Robert Comfort died of cancer in 1986. Oh, wow. And the only one who was still alive a few years ago, I assume still is, is Nick Seiko. So this is the curse.

It sounds like they robbed Toot and Carman's tomb. They were also all connected with mob families. So they were involved in a lot of like dangerous crimes. I don't see any correlation here. What are you saying there's a lower life expectancy for mob connected people? I think so. I think I've read that. Yeah, it's sad.

It's sad actually. They're all cursed. They have to do something about it. This is a quote. It says, Saco owes his longevity to the witness protection program, which he entered in 1975 after telling authorities what he overheard in jail about a mob triple murder.

So he's been in witness protection ever since. Since 1975. Yes. And this happened in 1972. Wow. He collaborated with author Daniel Simone on his book at the Pierre Hotel Affair, which was released, I think, in 2015. Oh, so I was just about the mistress.

Just about the mistress. It was my only, yeah, it was like, it's like a 400-page book. 300 of that is about the fight between the mistress. It's really in depth. Wow. That's not the best way to be in witness protection, though, is it to publicly write a book about crimes. Yeah.

Well, there's a New York Post article. written and it says he and Simone speak on the phone and share documents via Seiko's post office box in California. They've never met in person and Simone is not sure California is where Saco really lives. Oh, interesting. So, Saco is sorry his days as a crooker over. I get lonely. It's so boring, he said of his life today. I miss it. That type of money, I never would have had that type of money in my whole life. When you're born to poverty and you start making money, it's different. Yeah, wow. So that was a few years ago now.

He was in his late 70s, so he may still be alive. He may have passed, not really sure. But he's the only one who kind of survived after the 80s. The rest of them all died of the others that aren't really mentioned, I think just sort of died of unknown causes. But, yeah, Donald Frankos killed a few of them as well. Wow. So.

Does feel like a curse. Yeah, it does a little bit. But yeah, that's a story suggested by one person into the hat. Great one. That was really fun. And so that's the story of the Pierre Hotel Heist. Has there been any movies on that? Because it feels like it could be a movie.

There is a documentary series hosted by Pierce Brosnan. PS Hotel. P.S. A bit of fun. That's fun stuff. Lovely. And there's an episode about this. And he's doing his natural Irish.

I hope so. Beautiful voice. Hope so. Piss Brosnan. Don't get me started. Do not get me started. So yeah, there you go. It was cool.

Can you say it again? Because I'll do it in the proper French accent. The Pierre Hotel. Heist. Heist. Pierre Hotel Aist. Beautiful. That was the most you've enunciated when speaking French ever.

It was nice. It was nice to see. It was a niece. It was nice to see. But there you go. Well done, that was great. That's very, very interesting. Thank you again to Emma from Germany for suggesting that one.

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And also those bonuses, they're all ad-free as well. So that's just a little something for you. Something to enjoy. The first section that we are going to do, I'll like and read these if you like, Dave. But it's a little section we like to do. And I believe it has a jingle. it goes a little something like this. Fact quote or question.

D-Dee! Oh, he always remembers the ding. So if you were going to read, I'll explain what it is. So the fact quote or question is basically... Hang on, I just have to say, I always remember the sing. Okay, now go. Thank you, so, so, so-so-so-so. So-so-so-so-so.

Matt usually is in charge of this part of the show. But basically, people submit on this level or above, a fact-quot or a question, a brag is suggested. Basically, it's a way to be part of the show to submit some content for us to, to, chat about and they also give themselves a nickname. Yeah. Or a title. They do. And first up, on the fact-crotter question, we have Nathan Hansen. Nathan has given themselves a title. Sometimes I feel like I'm a seahorse. Sometimes I think that I'm a horse shoe crab. And that's

beautiful. Oh my God. And Nathan has given us a suggestion, which I love to see. That's right. Hopefully it's not go fuck yourself, but we'll find out. That would be, that would hurt. We're having such a nice day. That would really, that would really throw me off. I can be honest. So let's see. Hopefully Nathan's been nice. Okay, here we go, because we don't ever proofread these. We never proofread these, so that's why we fumble through them a lot.

Exactly, here we go. Nathan says, I recently traveled to Texas to view the total solar eclipse in April. I highly recommend anyone with a chance to see one of these celestial events to do so. It's one of the most amazing experiences I've had. There will be one in Spain in August of 2026 for all your European listeners. And in July of

28 in Australia. Oh, put it in the calendar. That's very cool. Thank you. That's a really wholesome suggestion. I love it. It's not like, I think you guys should shut the fuck up. Yeah.

Or I think maybe the episodes were better eight years ago when you were much younger and dumb. You know, because we can't change that. But this is just a wholesome suggestion. That's lovely. That's lovely. I can't remember ever seeing like a proper eclipse. Do they ever happen? I remember as a kid, a lunar eclipse was happening.

and I asked mum if I could stay up to watch it and she was like, go to bed, I'll wake you up. Oh no. And I woke up in the morning and I was like, you didn't wake me up? And she's like, are you kidding me? I woke you. We sat outside for like an hour looking at it.

And I have no memory of it. And to this day, I felt, I feel guilty for like having a go up mum, but also I'm a bit suss. That sounds like, yeah. I'm like, I think you forgot and you gaslit me. What are you talking about, Jesse? You loved it. You loved it.

We sat out on the little swing chair we had out there. It was nice. And you said I was the best mum ever. And then we went back to bed. And you said you were going to be a very good girl today. I can't believe you've forgotten. Gut feeling, do you think it happened? Yeah, I would, I do.

If it was dad, I'd be like he was lying to me, but I don't think mom would. Dad would have slept through and just gone, oh, you did. You was great. Mum would have actually, you know, gotten up in the middle of the night for her child to see it. She's a nice lady. Thank you, Nathan. That's very wholesome, and I'm delighted for you that you got to see that. Very cool.

Love it. I'm going to Texas and I'm excited about it. I imagine they have these eclipses all the time. All the time. I think it's just a Texas thing. This is a nightly thing. So yeah, I'll just go see that. Whatever night I feel like it when I'm in Texas.

Next up we have Brayden Douglas. Braden's title is Pizza Folder 5000, which I love. That's excellent. And Braden has a question. Braden's question is, oh, it's kind of a long one. Here we go. Hey, peeps. Yesterday in the office I referenced something that I realized isn't a common

cultural touchstone or anything, and it got me thinking, do any of you have a common reference or in-joke that's mostly just for yourself? Like if you said, I'm walking here, everybody would know what that was about, but if you referenced some kind of kids cartoon from 30 years ago that no one but you watched, the reference would go over everyone's head. In my case the other day while my co-worker was folding some paper, I went, you call that a fold in reference to a probably 10-year-old Domino's ad in Australia for the New York-style pizza range, where they had a a little skit with a New York Italian guy saying, the slice is so big, you've got to fold it.

And then his, then his ma heckling him with, you call that a fold? I kind of thought that was a recent and recognizable enough that other people would know it. But yesterday I realized it only made an impression on me. Anyway, love the pod. Bonbon.

Now, Matt, obviously, this would be a great question for Matt because he does reference ads a lot and we never have any idea what he's talking about. Always ads. Because they're from like early 90s when he was an old. old man, but we were babies, so we don't remember. That's like 89% of his entire memory, his ads. I'm sure there is stuff that I think of all the time, and I can't, oh, you put me on the spot, but there's definitely like TV shows and movies that I reference that,

or that I, phrases from it that I say that nobody really understands. Yeah, I'm sure there's. The first time I ever saw Alan Partridge was when I was 11 on a plane. It was just something you could watch on the plane. And I watched his TV show, a sitcom. I didn't, I don't think I knew Alan Partridge had been around for that long. Oh, yeah, since the early, like, started in the early 90s as a character. Oh, shit, okay, cool.

And then it's been through many different iterations. Like, he hosted a fake chat show and then this is I'm Alan Partridge, which was just a sitcom. And my whole family didn't watch it, but I did. And I, there's a bit in it. I'm trying to remember now, because I have watched it since. such a great show, a lady singing and he interrupts her and says, don't sing, Susan, it sounds bad. And for the whole trip, and even when I came back to primary school,

I would just say that line. And no one had ever heard of Alan Partridge in my class. Don't sing, Susan. Sounds bad. Yeah, there were always like, yeah, movies that we referenced a lot. My brother and I watched Wayne's World a lot together. So there'd be lines from that that we would just. Shwing, swing.

Yeah, shwing. Oh, I mean, we did one, we do one nearly every time we set up in this studio. Camera one, camera one, camera two. Yes, because there's three different cameras and we can never remember which is which. And I'm like, is that camera one, I say? And then we all go, camera one, camera two. It's from Weinsworld. Classic stuff.

But I'm sure, yeah, that's a great one. I reckon over the next week, a bunch will come to me and I'll say something and go, that's the perfect answer for that. I think it's actually, yeah, it is quite a universal experience, but it would be with such different niche references. I think we all do it. but with different things. Very cool.

My wife now has it with TikTok, which I'm not really on. Oh, yeah, okay. And she'll make it... Brother, ooh. Or she'll reference something. And I go, that's really funny. Did you come over with that? She go, oh, no, it's a big TikTok thing.

And I'll go, well, you should have just lied and said it was yours. And I would have been like, you're a genius. Okay, we have a running joke in my house that I'll say something funny. And I'm like, me, I just said that. I'm just saying it right now. And so then it's become this joke that he doesn't believe me, the comedian, could have possibly thought of something funny. of that. Very good.

So that's good stuff. Thank you, Brayden. Pizza Folder 5,000. That's excellent. And finally, Austin Horst. Austin's title is placeholder. Add think of cool title to my list. And I hope you did and I hope you have a cool one for next time.

I don't know what I'm having to go. And Austin is giving us a question. Austin's question is. Are you buzzing into this? Yes. Okay. What's your answer? 640.

Incorrect. Hey, guys. it's been a while since I've submitted at FQ&Q. I'm very good at procrastinating. A while back on the weekly planet, James and Mesa mentioned that an Aussie show called Upright was great and worth a watch. I took their advice and really enjoyed both seasons of the show.

Being from the US, I don't think I would have discovered the show without their recommendations. My question this time is, are there any other Aussie shows, movies, other media that you love that I should check out? Definitely Jeannie from Down Under. Oh my God.

Was that Rees Maldoon? I think it was. Yeah, yeah. So that's a 90 show that was like a kid's... I don't think I know upright. Upright. It's Tim Minchin. That's the only thing I know about it.

Cool. Well, you've given us a suggestion. I think Fisk is on Netflix internationally now. Watch Fisk. Fiske is great. They're short episodes. It's very funny. I really enjoyed it.

Marty Sheargold, very funny in it. Julia Zemiro, very funny in it. And the old version of, thank God, you hear as well was fantastic. Newer one, not so much. I'm trying to think of other classic Aussie shows that they might not have heard of. Or just any other sort of like, are there any Australian movies or just TV shows that you think are good? Yeah, I've really enjoyed Fisk.

We don't get to make a lot of stuff, to be honest. Yeah, I'm sure there's a bunch. Oh, um, uh, fucking deadlock. Oh yeah, yeah, I didn't actually get to see that yet. The Cates. Right, that. That it's fantastic. Great.

I've heard great things about it there. It took me a little while to get into it because it's dark visually, like on purpose. And it sort of starts kind of heavy or like there's characters that are just a bit annoying. Stick with it because it is fantastic. So yeah. On the ABC is not funny, but a couple years ago, the newsreader. Did you ever watch that? No.

I've had a second season of that. That was. It looked great. Very good. Yeah. Very good. Good one. If you can find the newsreader from the ABC somewhere online.

Good on you for giving it a go. Yeah, give Aussie stuff a go. Thanks. Thanks. On behalf of Australia. We might get to make more stuff. Oh, God, that'd be nice. So yeah, there you go.

That was our fact quota questions for this episode. Thank you again to Austin, Braden and Nathan. Well, now we get to do another bit of thanking Patreon people by thanking them by reading out their name. And then usually just comes up with a game connected to the episode or the topic in some way. We give them a little nickname, a little shout out in some. other way. What about what they've got in a safety deposit box at the hotel? That's great. So we've smashed it open. We're in the

in the vault, smashed it onto the floor. What have we seen? What have we seen? What questions do we have to ask? The heck. I love that. So do you want to go one for one? Yeah, let's do it. Beautiful. I'll keep things off if you don't mind. I would like to thank for supporting us

on Patreon. I'd like to thank from Fairbolt. Oh. Sorry. the size on my screen is not enough. I've zoomed in a bit. It's Ferrebolt. The size on my screen is not enough. It is not enough.

Zoom in, it is not enough on my eyes. I cannot see it. It is not enough. Okay, yeah, I've solved it problem now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From Fairbolt, Minnesota, which is the county seat of Rice County, Minnesota. I've now looked it up.

Sam Tempul. Oh my God. Sorry. Now you've got even bigger. Now you've got too big because now you're blocking off. I'm doing a letter by letter. Sam Temple from Febel. Sam Temple.

You know what's in their safety deposit box? And this is quite embarrassing. Their hotel room key. They can't get into the room. They're actually thankful they've been robbed. Yeah. They're like, oh, yeah. Actually, this is really helpful.

Yeah. Thank you so much. Honestly, thank God to you. So we had to crack that open so that Sam could get back into their room. Thank you, Sam. Good one, Sam. But really, the safe deposit box, mate, they are actually for like higher valuable things. Yeah, yeah.

Not just your card. I would like to thank from, oh, what is this place? How is this Belgium? Would that be Ghent or gent? How exciting. This is great. Is it Belgium? Dave's looking it up.

It's Belgium. Whoa. Very cool. Well, from Belgium, I would like to thank SJA. S.J.A. I can tell by your email address that those are your initials. Oh, so it's not like Sieger or something. Yeah, it's not like SZA, which is S-Z-A.

Gotcha. S-J-A. What is GENT famous for is when you look it up? Ghent is a special place. It has three towers and the Ghent Altarpiece. Holy shit. A vibrant energy due to its many students, magnificent museums, medieval streets and countless cultural hotspots.

That sounds absolutely divine, and we have a wonderful listener there. How exciting. And what has SJA left in the safety deposit box of the hotel? Left inside the safety deposit box is, and thank goodness we're getting it out because it was getting a bit hungry, a killer python, a real one, not the lolly that we have here. What? An actual python. But you couldn't just say python because you're a child who grew up in Australia in the 90s,

so you had to say killer python. Which was just a really big candy snake. They were awesome. They were so big. They were really, really good. And they'd be different colours. Sometimes there'd be different flavours as you went along. I want a blue head.

Yeah. It was very important to get the right one. That's great. Okay, so they kept a python in a safety deposit box. Yeah. And again, like if it gets stolen, they're not going to say anything because possibly they don't have a license for it. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You got a license for these things. I'm going to just pronounce now from Google, how you say GNT? Okay. Gent. It's Gant. Fantastic. We got it. Thank goodness.

Do you want to thank the next person? I'd like to thank from a location that is unknown to us because it has not been shared through Patreon. I believe that means they're probably deeper than the fortress of the malls and trying to cover up their tracks. It is Xavier. Xavier. Or ex-Zavia. I think I like when people say ex-Zavia. Like it sounds cooler, even though Xavier makes more sense.

It sounds cool for sure. But also in Australia, we always shorten that to Zave anyway. So you'd be XAVE. XAve. I don't like it. Xavier. Xavier and your email implies that you have possibly a surname or a second name that starts with C in case you're not sure.

This is you. This is you, baby. Xavier actually left in the safety deposit box because Xavier was at the hotel for a wedding. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a groomsman in the wedding. And he's a wedding. Yeah.

And left his whole suit. Shoes, pants, rolled up in there. Because it was like a three-piece. So the vest, shirt, blazer, the boot-in, the little buttonhole, the little fucking, what's this called? Lapelle. The lapel flower thing. Yeah. That's not a bootingere, is it?

Maybe. Sounds good. Sounds good to me. It's all in there. Cufflings. It's all in there. Cufflings. It's sort of rolled it up like a sleep.

Ruffed in like a sleeping bag. And then went back up to, you know, have some morning mimosas with the boys in preparation because that's what the boys do in preparation for weddings. And then they're all like, where's your suit? And he was like, oh my God. I was such a deal. I went down there to get the rings that were kept in the safety deposit box. And instead I'm buying put my suit in one.

What am I doing? What am I like? And then he was quickly demoted. I'm falling apart. Yeah, yeah. Kicked out of the Brata party. Kicked out. Can't be trusted.

Go on. So, yeah. It has pretty serious consequences. I would like to thank from Myrtle Beach in, is that South Carolina? I believe it is. Oh, my goodness gracious. I would like to thank Robert Hamlin. Robert Hamlin.

smash open Roberts box and inside it is it's just the four of diamonds a card and a little post-it note saying is this your card whoa and you know one and fifty two chance that it might be that's cool that's a ball of move i like that a lot con your robert your magic i would like to thank also from tempi arizona it's evan burgomini or burgomini oh that's a good name also a mini Your name could basically be Evan Slider. That's good. That's good stuff. And actually what's inside the safety deposit box is Evan's great-grandmother's famous family recipe for Sliders.

Oh, wow. She made the best mini-burgers. And those kind of recipes, like Coca-Cola recipe is literally in the vault. Really? It's locked away. Really? Yeah. Do you remember we did the...

did a report on it? Of course I do. Seven years ago? Yes. You remember it was light. I loved every detail. Possibly our first ever live show. Really? At the Melbourne Comedy Festival, 2017. God, we were babies back then. We were. But what I'm saying is the slaughter recipe, that's very valuable. It's very valuable. So I hope the cooks haven't overlooked it. I hope they've put it into the bag. Oh, good point. Yeah, they're open. They're like, oh shit, we shouldn't have opened this one. Paper. Just a bit of paper. What a waste, it's not even a bearer bond, whatever that is. Important paper. That's good stuff. On you, Evan. Thanks, Evan. Sounds like your secret's actually safe. I would like to thank from Newlands in Wellington over in New Zealand.

It's Tarnie Lepine. Oh, Tarnie Lepine. That's a great name. I don't mind if I do. Tarnie Lepine's safety deposit box is a Venus fly trap. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, shoved it in. Wow. And it's going okay without any daylight or? It's a bit like when you open one of those jars. So they open the safety deposit box and the Venus just flytrop kind of gets like, boing out. So it's pretty scary.

Wow. And then it will obviously, like, eat you. It attacks you. So it's just an extra level of security. But does it sing Little Shop of Horror's style? Yes. Wow. Absolutely it does.

It's pretty exciting stuff. I would like to thank from, oh, how do you say this place? Is it poo yarlop? I think you might be right. Have we had this before? It's ringing a bell. Oh, I looked at W.A. as well, thinking it was Australian, but it's Washington. Okay.

I think that's what's happened last time. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As we've thought it was, Poo Yallop. It can't be poo. Okay, I'm going to do this. No, I don't want the British pronunciation of an American place.

Give me this. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. We're going to hear it. Pue Allop. Puellup. Puellop.

Puellop. But we're just, yeah, just do it. That's perfect. In that accent. Puyallop. Not Poo Yarlop. Poo Yarlop. That's what it would be in Western Australia, though.

Yes. But in Washington, I would love to thank Brian Duffy. Brian Duthy Brian Duthy, maybe Doofy? Inside, that's if he's from W-A-O-B-Duthy. Inside Brian Duthey's safety deposit box is a bar fridge.

Whoa! Stocked? Stocked with basically everything you get in a hotel, like one beer, one can of Coke, one white wine. $15 worth of M&Ms, which is actually very small. A pringles.

Small pringles. A biscuit. Oh, yes. High-end chocolate. Yep. Yeah, you don't touch any of it Yeah It's all been sitting there for years

But if you were to take them out Have you ever been? I've never seen it But my mum told me about once There was a place where If you pick it up You get charged Yeah, it's waited

No, I've heard of it as well I'm not saying in fancy enough places And then they put it on the bills She's like, whoa whoa, whoa, I didn't have that But that's what Brian's got as well For double security So no one can rob his bar

So very smart Very smart Is it your turn? Yes Yes, I think I would like to think from Ashland. I believe this is Oregon.

All right. Ethan Roberson. Ethan Roberson has got inside the safety deposit box a gun. Oh my gosh. And so the criminals break it up and they're like, whoa. And then they look closely. It's actually cake. Sorry, bad time to take a sip.

That's great. I've been getting really into TikTok videos that are, is it cake? Is it cake? Is it always cake? It's not always cake. Oh, right, because it's not very satisfying if it's not cake, right? Yeah, you're like, oh, I've just seen a chest of drawers. But sometimes you're like, that looks, that's 100% real.

That's a real orange and then they cut into it. It's freaking cake. Yeah, that's great. See, that's satisfying. It's really fun. Can't be cake every time. So this is a cake gun. It's a safe.

So one of them has picked it up and tried to point it so on. And then Ethan's like, pull the trigger and realized it just crumbled because it's cake. Oh, no. Incredible stuff. It's Mazepan. It's Marsa pan. And finally from us this week, we'd like to thank from Sandusky. higher, which Matt would say is God's country.

Fantastic. Agreed. Martin Drabbick Hampshire. What a name. Incredible name. Martin Drabbick Hampshire. And inside the safety deposit box is my mum. What?

Let her out of there. Annie, get out of there. Patty, what are you doing? She's being punished for lying to you about the clips all those years ago. Get out of there, your bloody goose. But she's happy. She's got a little pillow. She's reading a book.

You know, it's, okay, great. She's got, I'm having to sleep in here. actually just having a bit of like a bit of peace and bloody quiet. This is the only place I didn't think that would be found. Dad had the bloody whippersniper going. She was like, I need a bit of P and Q. I'm going to go to New York. I'm going to get that safe deposit box.

I'm going to finish my book. It's cheaper than bloody getting a room there, am I right? That's true. So thank you. Is that everybody? Yes. No. Yes.

That's everyone. So thank you. Martin. Ethan Brian Tarnie, Evan Robert Xavier, S.J.A. and Sam. And the final thing we need to do is see if there's many people to induct into the Trip Ditch Club. We have a couple this week.

So how this works is these are people who have supported us on the shoutout level or above for three consecutive years. They've already had their shoutouts. They may have put in some fact quote or questions. And this is just where we get to welcome them in for supporting us for three years, which is huge. It's a long time and we appreciate them so much. And we like to think of it as like a cool exclusive club. You know, I think of it as an airport lounge. Dave, you think of it as more as like a boys club.

Boys, boys, boys, boys. Boys, boys. disgusting. That's not true at all. Because you're a bad man. I'm actually described it as a ladies lounge. Oh my God. You can't have that. That's a reference to a museum in Tasmania, had an art installation called the Ladies Lounge that only let women in and a man sued. What a fucking loser. What an absolute loser.

Because the whole point of the ladies lounge was like a commentary on people not being allowed into certain spaces based on their gender, etc. I just can't believe. And so he sued. Who has the time? And he won. And then he went in there and what's it all about?

What's it all about? I need to get in there. I've got nothing else in my life. Shut up, you fucking loser. What a loser. Anyway, that's the kind of man that Dave is. And so. No, no, no.

This ladies lounge, what's just a lounge? We've got a lounge. Yeah. We've got a lovely lounge. How it works. Kick back. I'll just save you here, mate. How it works is that...

It's a lovely loud. Dave, Matt is usually with the clipboardy, it lifts the velvet rope. He calls your name. We cheer you in. I'm behind the bar. The bar is only open from 630 to 635, so do make sure that you get in for your breakfast.

I'm only opening it. That's good. You weren't listening. No, no, that's good. It's good. That makes sense. Half an hour. Love it.

That's good stuff. No, it was 6 to 605. Is that what you said? Yeah. Okay, it wasn't listening? It was five minutes. Okay. Get in there.

Get in everyone. It's a bit of fun. And if you miss out, well, sorry. You got plenty of notice. Sorry. I told you. I'm sorry, wait for lunch. Yeah.

And how long's lunch opened for? It's from 12 to 12. 12 minutes for lunch. That's pretty good, actually. That's pretty good. How much as long do you need for lunch? Just get it down. Now, Matt, usually, you also book a band day.

Yes, and sorry, that's why I was zoned out for a second. I was checking my emails to see if they're confirmed. I understand. And I was actually hoping that more of them would have said yes. I did reach out. to the cast of Mamma Mia the movie. Merrill. Merle.

Amanda? No, no. Okay. So a lot of them have said no. Bill Nye is he in it? Bill Nye is not in it, no. Well, he's also a no. Okay.

I reached out to him by mistake. Pierce Brosven? Pierce is in. Colin Firth? No. Okay. Scarsguard. No.

Okay. Shit. Dominic, the guy who plays Amanda Safefried's fiancé. Let me just check. Dominic is a no. Okay. So, so far, we have Pierce Brosnan.

Have we got Julie Walters? No. Okay. Rachel McDowell's a no. Absolutely, he's a no. Tommy Fransom, who plays stag number seven, is also a no. Okay. Hen number six, Christina McMillan, no. Is it just, sorry, I just want to check as well. Is it just the first movie or is the second one as well?

I didn't realize it was a sequel. There's a sequel. It's fantastic shares in it. Is Sherryan? No. Okay. So what you're saying is we have Pierce Brosner. No, no, no, no.

Okay. Well, yes to Pierce, but we've also got, Lisa Reynolds, who plays hen number 21. Wow. Back together at last, Pierce and Lisa performing in its entirety, the Mamma Mia soundtrack. Welcome to the stage, Pierce and Lisa, aka Hen number 21. Why did you go for the Mamma Mia soundtrack if I may just ask that question? Well, you're never going to believe it.

We talked about the Pierce Hotel and the documentary was narrated by Pierce Brosnan, who also stars in the Mamma Mia. It was a Pier Hotel. But that is... Sorry, it is a Pierrotter. fucking listens to me. That is also a coincidence. That's good stuff.

All right. So we have two people to welcome into the club. I'll read their name. Dave, you hype them up. I'll hype you up. She's going to be a big old hype fest. You're still not listening.

I'm not because I could have got the guy from Simple Plans. Name is Pierre, apparently. Next week. All right. Be happy with Hen and Pierce. It's good. It's going to be good. It'll be great.

I mean, it's the songs of Abba. It'll be good. Yeah, that's better than Simple Plan. How bad can be? They're fine, but the Abba's better. But Abba's better. But Abba's better. Yeah, sorry.

Aver is actually fantastic. A simple plan would admit that Abba's better. I agree. They're not offended by. They're a good band. But they're not Abba. Exactly. Aver, one of the greats.

We all know their songs. Even if you don't like them, you like them. We should, when we stop for lunch in a few minutes, I'm going to play you, share singing Fernando in Mamma Mia. Here we go again. That's brilliant. Sorry, we have two people to welcome in. Are you ready, Dave?

Yeah, so did you explain? You already explained that I hype them up. That's why I'm about to do. Yes, but you don't fucking listen. No, because I was looking at Pierre. Before I accidentally googled, Pierce, and nothing came up. So, anyway. Here we go.

So, first up, from Milwaukee in Wisconsin. It's Kristen. They're Milwaukee here. Shulred. Oh, sorry, sorry. Shulred. Shulr be right. Kristen, this night ain't going to mistin.

It's Kristen Shulred. Fantastic. And from London in Great Britain, it's Rachel Ball. I'm going to have a Rachel. No, I'm going to have a ball. The haircut. Give me the Rachel. Everyone's getting a Rachel tonight.

We're all getting the Jennifer Anderson. Yes. We're all going to have a bowl, a Rachel ball. Thank you, Rachel. Thank you, Kristen. And... I'd love to have you on board. Enjoy this singing of Pearson Henn 21.

Please enjoy the lounge. It's a good name for a band, actually, Henn 21. Henn 21. Yeah. I like it. Thank you. Or 21 Hens. 21, that was good.

That's pretty good. 21 Hens opens for Henn 21. I'm just thinking merch-wise. Imagine putting 21 hens on a t-shirt. Yeah. That's good stuff. Look, only other thing we need to tell you is that, like we mentioned before, anybody can suggest a topic. So if you would like to, there's a link in the show notes.

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Yeah. Some love. And I can't remember, I think by. now all if not almost all of the episodes of our web series will be out yes eight episodes in total check it out now free to watch and enjoy yeah at your own pace and leisure stupid old channel on youtube it's called do go on the quiz show we have some amazing guests um with a really fun show that dave works really hard on and matt and i fuck around exactly we all have a role to play it's you know we're all very busy um but yeah it's really fun we'd love you to go and and check it out and

that's all i have to say dave if you want to boot this baby home hey we'll be back next week, can you believe it? What? For the 450 second time, if I'm not mistaken. But thank you so much for listening. Until then, I'll say thank you and goodbye. Later. Later, bye.

Yeah, that is, I think I can't, I don't remember. Okay. I did have a thought, though. We believe that. We believe that to be true, that there was a thought, and it's just gone. Can I just go get my power for the computer? Yes. Thank you so much.

My theory is that he's just shit himself And that's why he lost his train of thought And now he's quietly going to clean up Oh, it's kind of like Oh, hang on Oh sorry AJ on the video Matt is getting the power cord But he has gone off quietly to the bathroom

Yeah and then I was thinking Oh God, oh God, oh God oh God So I've lost my train of thought I need to leave I've lost my train of thought And control of my balance I need to leave the radio frame I need to leave right now

Please don't ask you any questions I need to close the laptop and never come back I assume you've just sat in a respectful silence since I've been gone Absolutely of course I could hear through My headphones Like bleeding out was something about

Empting my bowels Yeah It came across I thought that maybe Because you'd go on Started a sentence and gone Actually I've lost my train of thought And then you said

I just need to get up for a second I thought that you'd shake your I mean you're like pretending to get a power cord but really you're rushing to take your pants off yeah I'm needed in the basement just give me a second I'll just be I'll just be a few minutes saying on my power cord is in it's somewhere else the power cord just in the background I'm putting my pants into a into a bin and lighting them on fire sorry the power cord is in another pair of pants I did you think you've turned your camera off you have it.

We're just watching clear yourself up. I'm watching you sort of start to cry. Scrubbing. It's sad that that all has to be cut. Oh, it's funny though. Patreon exclusive. Don't forget to sign up to our tour mailing list so we know where in the

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