Two In The Think Tank - 462 - DB Tuber

Starting point is 00:00:00 Dave, I'm so excited. Can you tell me why? Because we're doing lots of live shows, both in person in Melbourne, but you can also watch those streamed anywhere in the world. This is our Blockbustertober shows where we're doing a weekend of Do Go On, Who Knew It, and Bookcheat all in one weekend, October. What a time to be alive. So pumped. And then we're also going to Europe. Oh my goodness. The next month in November, we are coming to Europe. We're doing shows in Berlin, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and London.

Starting point is 00:00:31 Oh my goodness. So excited. I cannot wait to get back and it'll be even better if you're there, dear listener. Yes, please come. Some of the shows are almost sold out. Unbelievably, Berlin has less than 15 tickets left. We didn't think anyone would come. That's so great. But better more. I'm so pumped. I can't wait to have a beer with each and every

Starting point is 00:00:48 one of you in each and every one of the cities. That's a promise. And you can get tickets to all these shows, both Block Bustertober and our European tour at dogoonpod.com. Hello, yes, you're right. What are we right about? Well, I just heard the listener say, oh, we're going to listen to a live episode recorded in Sydney at the Ritz Cinema. Oh, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, that's what I was saying to them. Yeah, they're right. Correct. Well done.

Starting point is 00:01:34 If you're listening and you didn't just say that, I wasn't talking to you. So we think about you all individually. Yeah. But I did hear. What gets you next time? Yeah, you did say it And you were right, but it's it was a lot of fun. Yes. So we're live at the Ritz Cinema this one fantastic lovely venue I don't know if you need to know this but we came out this popcorn on the stage. We came out holding hands and I took a bit of a risk here I threw a bit of popcorn up in the air to try and catch it in my mouth And I got it and it was and then the crowd cheered and it was probably the best moment of my life

Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah, I think I think you didn't realize that at the same time. I got one in first go. I Thought it went one then the other and we were both like no and then and that all the cheers was for me And I think if you listen really closely Any crickets yeah people can actually can hear people yelling hack Matt already did it No, I think I did it after you. I didn't think I was gonna get it though You know and then when I got it felt so good so anyway You're about to hear some audio of reacting to that but from then on it's a normal episode you'll understand everything yeah I think so it was a lot of fun. Just did a great report. It's a beautiful episode you'll understand everything. Yeah, I think so. It was a lot of fun. Just did a great report It's a beautiful old art deco theater. Yeah

Starting point is 00:02:48 One of those ones that they've kept up everything and it's just just beautiful. Lovely curtain behind this big classic red velvety curtain There's a weird R Above the stage. I don't know if that comes up in the episode but what does it mean? I've emailed the Ritz Cinema to ask what does the R stand for? Yeah being a bit cagey I think they're like recording, but it's not a recording. I mean it was that day Yeah, they put up an R just for that but they changed it to M for movie later that day. Yeah, I wonder I don't know can't be sure anyway. We'll be back at the end of the episode You know with everyone's favorite section of the patreon section, but if you want to sit through it, here's the actual report

Starting point is 00:03:23 live in Sydney. How you doing out there? Oh my gosh. My name is Dave Warnocky. I'm standing on stage at the fabulous Ritz Cinema with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Oh my gosh. My name is Dave Warnocky. I'm standing on stage at the fabulous Ritz Cinema with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Oh my goodness. Hello. Wow, what a pleasure to be here.

Starting point is 00:04:10 This feels right. This feels about as classy as we deserve. Yes. Look at this lovely setting. Agreed. We just got a little cheer because we threw some popcorn up in the air and caught it in our mouths.

Starting point is 00:04:21 Yeah. They did see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was visible to them. I'm going to sit down. Are you going to sit? Hey, thanks so much for coming out. Are you enjoying your lovely cinema seats out there?

Starting point is 00:04:33 Oh, my goodness. Let's hear it for cinema seats. You've cheered enough. You've cheered enough. Jess and Matt, how are you feeling? Good, thanks. Great. It is so good to be in Sydney. I love how, like I put on a shirt because I'm in Sydney.

Starting point is 00:04:48 And it's just like, we on the way here, Jess and I saw a woman waiting for a bus. And she looked like she was ready to step on a catwalk. And I'm like, that's Sydney to me. She was drinking a Chardonnay. She was drinking a water. His eyesight is not good. She also looked fine.

Starting point is 00:05:07 I don't know if Matt's seen many runways. Well, the difference between me and Jess is I lift women up and I thought she looked fantastic. Because I think that's the most important thing a woman can be. I support women by being honest and babe, could have done better. She's not here, she was catching a bus in the other direction. She could be here. Are you here? She knows. Did any hot people catch a bus today? That's all of Sydney though isn't it? They're all fucking hot. Yeah. Who caught a bus here today? Anyone catch a bus? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Hoddies. Yeah. I was surprisingly few people, to be honest. Thought there'd be more Hoddies in the crowd, but the rest of you, yuck. Let me ask you, I'll ask you another question. Who caught a tram here today? Woo!

Starting point is 00:06:01 Oh, you actually have trams here? Yeah. Oh, they have them in other places apart from Melbourne? First time hearing of it. That's our thing. That's a bit rich, isn't it? That's our thing. Next thing you'll be telling us, you have coffee here too?

Starting point is 00:06:13 Who's had a coffee today? Yeah, all right. It's catching on up here. I couldn't believe it when they had clouds here. I thought that was ours. Anyway, what are we doing? Who knows? Well, we're here to do a Do Go On podcast and we always start our live shows by asking,

Starting point is 00:06:32 give us a cheer, who's heard the show before? Fantastic. That is always a relief, I won't lie. It is. Has anyone stuck around from the screening of Inside Out 2 that was on just before? Have you put it in? You're welcome. No, and other end of the scale.

Starting point is 00:06:48 We always ask this, and don't be shy. Give us a yell, give us a cheer if you've never heard the podcast before. Okay, a few people. Thank you. A few people. How you doing? I can tell you're going to be trouble. This ends the crowd interaction portion of the show.

Starting point is 00:07:07 Just gonna nip that in the bud. You thought you heard someone say, Hi, yes. And I went, whoa, trouble. Directly answering a question that you asked. Oh, you're gonna be trouble. Hi, yes, I'm hearing it for the first time. This fucking bitch.

Starting point is 00:07:22 Matt loves women. He thinks they're fantastic. How is he being Jess? I think women are hot. Can't wait to watch this show. There's popcorn everywhere. Immediately. Now for the people that haven't heard the show, Jess, would you like me to explain that?

Starting point is 00:07:44 Please. I don't want Matt to because his face is full of popcorn over immediately. Now for the people that haven't heard the show Jess, would you like me to explain? Please. I don't want Matt to because his face is full of popcorn over there. Don't worry, he'll get through that box in about 10 to 15 minutes. And then we can hear from you again. But basically what we do here at Do Go On is we take it in turns to research and report back on a topic often suggested to us by one of the listeners. We go away, we do a bit of research and bring it back to the group.

Starting point is 00:08:05 Now Matt and I have no idea what Jess is going to report on today. That's right, there's a Bob report, yes, exciting. I have fans. We always, you have so many fans. I have fans, so nice. I did feel like less than a third applauding them though. Shut the fuck up. You hear this?

Starting point is 00:08:24 I love women, except this fucking bitch. No, I think you're hot. Who you've chosen to spend your life with. Now, we always start with a question to get us on the topic. And Jess, sometimes you forget to ask or to write a question to us. I always ask a question. It's just never usually a good question. And that's

Starting point is 00:08:45 goes for today as well. This is for you and also for the audience. What is our favourite kind of crime topic for a live show? Heist. We have a heist. All right, I was going to say. Right, we love a heist. We do love a heist. Can you talk for a sec so I can have a drink? Yeah, no worries. So much to talk about. No, I'm always excited for a heist. I mean, I was going to say...

Starting point is 00:09:17 We probably could have just sat in silence, okay? I was going to guess like a murder or something. No. Yeah, true. But this is much less scary. Yeah, because we learnt from the time in the UK where I did a guess like a murder or something. No. Yeah, true. This is much less scary. Yeah, because we learnt from the time in the UK where I did a report about a serial killer who it turns out was from that area,

Starting point is 00:09:33 and it was also too recent. And so some people knew people who had been victims. So... She did a report on Dr Death. Yeah, too recent. Well, in Bristol Bristol that was big. Yeah, it went down almost as badly as the time Jess talked about you two in Ireland. Almost! Almost. I don't love doing the live reports anymore if I can be honest, but I thought I'd play it safe with a heist because the only victim is money. Yes. The Irish equivalent of a serial killer is Bono. That's right.

Starting point is 00:10:09 I hate that guy. OK. So this is to set the scene. Oh, this has been suggested by a bunch of people. Let's see if any of them are here. Emily White from Albuquerque. No? OK.

Starting point is 00:10:24 Michael Welch from Parramatta. That's a better chance, I wasn't there. Peter Pritchard from Wales. Aaron Calhoun from Las Vegas. Fantastic name. Which Wales? Is it the one that's new in South? No. The old North one. Old North one, yeah. That one sucks. I agree. Comparatively. They have a dragon on their flag though. No, Wales is sick actually.

Starting point is 00:10:50 Me and Dave went there and it was sick. Yeah, we had a great time in Wales. Thanks for inviting me. Is this boring? Not for you, you've got popcorn. I'm loving it. It's also been suggested by Alyssa Moran from Ventura, California, Luke Hughes from Manchester, Andrew Johnson from the UK, Danielle Vizzini from Mount Pleasant.

Starting point is 00:11:16 Now to set the scene. In late September 2008, two Brinks guards were making a routine delivery to the Bank of America in a small town in Washington a normal day at work for them was about to change as they were about to be victim to one of the most elaborately planned armored car heists in US history fucking awesome elaborately planned yes, but just awfully poorly executed Elaborately planned? Yes. But just awfully... Poorly executed. Terrible execution. You spent six years planning this? That's not true. It was well executed for a bit. But it's not a mystery because this is the story of Anthony Curcio.

Starting point is 00:11:59 Curse my name. Curse my name. It's going to go wrong. Alright, here we go. Anthony Curcio was born and raised in Monroe in Washington in 1980, a fairly small town. He was a talented student athlete. He was the captain of both the high school football and basketball teams. So you just know he had a letterman jacket. By the way, talking about letters, what the fuck is this? Incredible stuff. Just one R, all of us out of nowhere. No one can explain to me what it means.

Starting point is 00:12:29 Hey, hey, hey, hey, swap hands, swap, take that. Hold that one down, hold that one down. Yeah, cool. We've got two more boxes. It's a mystery and I think one day we'll do an episode about it because it's like just a random R right up there. What could it mean? Did you take in anything of him?

Starting point is 00:12:55 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You said he was the captain of the basketball team, captain of the football team and I thought this guy sounds like a real Dave Warnocky. I'm really, I'm associating a lot with this character. I am fighting for my life up here. But he's a cool guy. He's cool. Well that's subjective. I know, Dave said on the record, whatever this guy does, Dave looked up to and he appreciates him. And you said you see a lot of yourself in him too. Oh god. And that's beautiful and we support you for that.

Starting point is 00:13:28 So he followed in his father's footsteps. He played football for the University of Idaho. Their team's called the Vandals. Pretty sick. His father had been the star wide receiver who after an injury launched a successful landscaping company in the town. The family, they were very well known. It was a town of about 16,000 people.

Starting point is 00:13:48 Like I said, the landscaping company was pretty big. They were quite wealthy. They had that all-American vibe to them. They had the two generations of star football players. And this is listed somewhere as something the family's quite proud of. Anthony's grandmother, mom, and older sister had all been homecoming queens.

Starting point is 00:14:06 Oh. And then who gives a fuck what they did after that? But doesn't matter. They're important. They sound hot. Yeah. From my understanding of homecoming queen, yeah. Anthony, he received an athletic scholarship at the University of Idaho

Starting point is 00:14:27 and his girlfriend, Emily, who was a cheerleader. I mean, it's just... Oh my God. It's the stuff of movies. She went to the nearby Washington State University. He was a bit of a party boy at uni. The change from high school to college football was huge and the workload was a lot and they took football very, very seriously and he was like, I'm here to party. He was really overwhelmed by the amount of work that you had to put into college football. I have to try? He's like, what the fuck?

Starting point is 00:14:57 So instead he just drank a lot, which I think, great call. I think it sounds like he would have been better suited to the NRL. That's the league where all the players piss in their own mouths. They have better priorities, yeah. More aligned with his. So he just wanted to party and be a bit of a college fuckhead. But then there was a change in coaching staff and he sort of finally pulled his head in a little bit, started to party less, work a bit harder, focus more on his

Starting point is 00:15:29 football career. But during spring practice, Anthony was injured, tearing his ACL, which isn't good. Did you hear the crowd ah at that? Yeah. They haven't ahed at anything so far. I think we've got a jock crowd in. Aard. Is that? Is that?

Starting point is 00:15:48 Oh my god. Do you reckon they all just looked up at that at that moment? At the same time, they're not listening, but they are enjoying the aard. So yeah, he had this pretty bad injury. It put an end to his football career. That's fine. Now he can be a full-time party animal. That's right. Well, because it did also introduce him to Vicodin. Very addictive, very strong painkiller. So he was quickly addicted to pain pills, so much so that after experiencing withdrawals he kicked an oak coffee table repeatedly in order to re-injure himself and get more pain

Starting point is 00:16:30 pills. It's not great. His family and friends, they pressured him to seek help. Is that all you have to do? Kick a coffee table. Kick a coffee table. What's this one made out of? Don't. Don't.

Starting point is 00:16:46 Do it. Would you believe that's the guy who caught the bus here? I don't know what that means. Bus people are angry, I don't know. I mean, do you have to kick the table? Can you just say you kicked the... you know what I mean? I think they might do x-rays and stuff. Yeah, it might help to have a bruise or some broken...

Starting point is 00:17:05 We're not endorsing this, by the way. Any doctors in... No, don't answer that. So his family and friends, they pressured him to seek some help. He completed an inpatient program at a drug and alcohol treatment facility. Now sober, he started his first business. He's still in college, by the way. His business was called Tony's Gaming

Starting point is 00:17:26 and they bought and sold casino tables and other gaming merchandise. Cool stuff. They bought and sold them. Some of the nerds got really excited there for a second. Tony's Gaming? Not little figurines you get to paint. I'm over it. So, but within a few months of being open to the public, Tony's Gaming was unexpectedly shut down. The Washington State Gambling Commission and local police raided Tony's Gaming and confiscated the inventory, stating that Curcio did not possess the proper permits. So Anthony picked himself up, dusted himself off, sat down at his computer to forge prescriptions. dusted himself off, sat down at his computer to forge prescriptions. Can I just double check, what were those gambling tables made out of?

Starting point is 00:18:10 Because if they were oak, then I think I know where he was going with this. Yeah. He kept breaking so many tables, he's having to buy and sell them. He buys them in better condition than he sells them. That's why the business didn't last very long. Apparently at one stage he became aware of the reason that the police had raided his gaming business was because of a tip-off from a local real estate broker who had financial interest in a local casino.

Starting point is 00:18:36 So as revenge, Anthony and some of his friends broke into that guy's business and stole computers and files. He's a cool dude. Just setting the scene for you. I don't, look, you made that sound like, that feels fair enough. He got fucked over, he fucked that guy over. Fuck him.

Starting point is 00:18:53 That's how they do it up in Sydney. This is dog eat dog up here. Yeah. No one up here is surprised by that. We're in the fucking big smoke now, Jess. You better grow up or fuck off. Yeah, all right. See ya. Jess. Yeah, alright. See ya.

Starting point is 00:19:06 Jess Piggins everybody. It has been good. I'll take it from here. Okay. So Jess has left the stage. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It looks like... there's nothing written here. She was just making this up. I'm doing Jess's laugh. This is bad, that feels really mean. Jess, I forgot my glasses, please come back.

Starting point is 00:19:34 Please. This is awful. We did three episodes before you and this is what it was. Let's... we'll show everyone what it was like. Okay. Uh, Curcio had... Yeah, that sounds good. Uh... She's coming back to save the day! Jess, I've read ahead and I can confirm this guy rules.

Starting point is 00:20:05 You can't see that. I can't see shit. Jess, please forgive us. No. We're sorry. We'll talk about this after. We do a debrief where after the show Jess tells us what we did wrong and... She treats us like an oak coffee table.

Starting point is 00:20:22 It's brutal. Kick the shit out of him. And that's how we're this good. Is because of me. You keep a sharp. So those people who have never heard us before, welcome, you biggest fans. Yeah. We're scared to fail.

Starting point is 00:20:35 Because of what you'll do. Good. All right. So he transferred schools because he lost his scholarship. He moved over and graduated from Washington State University in 2004, married his high school sweetheart, and to anyone who saw him, he looked like a very successful young man. Edward Anderson writes, Anthony and his wife, Emily, flipped houses. They made a lot of money doing it.

Starting point is 00:21:01 Some in their social circles even thought they might get their own house renovation show. But then the housing market began to crash in 2007 and continued to do so well into 2008. Now, I don't know if you guys are business minded, but if your business is houses and houses not good, you're not good. Wow. How strong were they flipping houses? Fucking hell. See that pity applause? I'm making a note of that. That'll be in the deep. Their early success has put them on a good road financially, but after one house took more money to renovate and brought in less money than expected, things began to look bad for the couple and the pill addiction grew.

Starting point is 00:21:54 He's still on pills by the way. Someone working in real estate is drug addicted? I know. That's weird. Everyone in Sydney by the way, Jess, is in real estate. So... Yeah, and pills. It's a beautiful city up here.

Starting point is 00:22:08 They are genuinely listening going, this guy rules. Despite having completed four drug and alcohol treatment programs, ABC News stated that Curcio was spending nearly $15,000 a month on his increasing drug habit. But imagine how much more he would be spending if he hadn't gone to four drug and alcohol rehab places. He'd be spending like 60 grand. It could have been 100. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:22:30 Yeah. It's saving money. Yeah. That's girl math right there. It could have been this. So he was now also into cocaine and benzos. So he's got a bit of everything, up as down as... He's expanding his portfolio, real estate and drug flows.

Starting point is 00:22:46 That's right. So financial pressure, I mean, I think cars were repossessed, a lot of their stuff was... it was very dire. So it sort of led him to think outside the box. And he decided to rob an armored car. And it would later be known as one of the most elaborately planned armored car heists in US history. So this is the elaborate planning. For three months, not years, three months, Kercia carefully observed a Brinks armored car

Starting point is 00:23:23 as it made deliveries to the Bank of America branch in Munro, his local branch. He'd been a member since he was two years old. I looked up, I looked on Google Maps to try and see the area and I looked up Bank of America in Munro thinking there'd be heaps. There's one in Washington and that was it. Did you look at it on Google Earth and you've done more research than this guy has done? Quite possibly. He had a Dolomites with him. He'd been there from when he was one years old.

Starting point is 00:23:55 As he's scoping it out out the front, all the staff are like, hi Anthony. Shut up, I'm staking you out. He's got a fake mustache on, he's like, fuck. He noted down the schedule, sketches of the location of cameras in the branch and estimated how much money was being transferred to the bank and how much was being removed via ATMs. So every person who walks up to the ATM, he's like, I reckon they're taking out 50 bucks. Oh, 150, I reckon. Did you just ask them?

Starting point is 00:24:21 Yeah. Excuse me, how much did you withdraw? Always answer that question at the ATM. He considered the location of the bank in relation to the location of the police station, the probable routes that the police would take, how long it would take them to get there. After careful consideration, it became very clear to Anthony

Starting point is 00:24:40 that the most effective getaway method was an oldie but a goodie. He would escape by creek. That is old school. And this guy was high on coke all the time. Yeah. And Benzos. This doesn't seem like that kind of plan. And we'll get away by the creek.

Starting point is 00:24:58 No one will get us in the creek. No one will think about the creek. Can't see me in the creek. No one can see us in the creek. No one will think about the creek. Can't see me in the creek. No one can see me in the creek. Something you need to know about Sydney, Jess, is coke is big up here. OK, so you guys can relate. There was a creek nearby, would you believe, which, looking at it on Google Maps now, empty, dry.

Starting point is 00:25:20 But this is 2008. I'm sure it was full. Oh, yeah. How unlucky would that have been if he had his getaway plans with the boat down at Creek and it was dry. Ugh. Ugh. I needed to check if there was water in it. I didn't fill it up. I should have looked at the creek.

Starting point is 00:25:36 In order to perfect the conditions of the creek, it was going to require a little bit of work. So, Curcio spent weeks hand dredging the creek. You're not kidding. He's filling up his own creek. And like, people would see him doing that. He's like, I flipped a house, I can flip a creek. How could it be?

Starting point is 00:26:00 Welcome back to Creek Flippers. When I came in here, this was just an empty creek. Now it's got two kitchens. It's got an en suite. And a cinema room for the kids. Does sound like he's now doing a lot of unpaid work. Could he have got a job for this sort of effort? Oh, that's a good point.

Starting point is 00:26:20 Yeah, he wasn't doing his job at this time. Because he was busy staking out the bank every day. So that's interesting. Investing. Investing. That's right. So he had a bit of a practice run of escaping on the creek using a jet ski. Oh, that's...

Starting point is 00:26:34 Oh, shit. That is the bad ass way to get away. Sorry? That's the most bad ass way to get away. Jet ski. Take three. Security. This guy's been giving me grief for 10 seconds now.

Starting point is 00:26:58 I need him out. I need this guy. He's wearing a homemade weed hornet t-shirt. Yeah. It's very good. This is my high school band. Appreciate that. So he tried to get away via jet ski, which as we can all agree, this is the thought I'm having. It's a pretty badass way to escape.

Starting point is 00:27:17 It's so obvious though, isn't it? When you're practicing on the jet ski, everyone is noticing you're the guy on the jet ski in the creek that you built. Yeah, exactly. And it's a small creek, not like a big lake or something. Like if you're hearing a jet ski in the middle of the city, you're not like, oh yeah, summertime, jet ski is. You're like, what the fuck is that noise? You go have a look, you take the photos,

Starting point is 00:27:40 you take video of this guy. But it's a small town and he's a big shot. So you go, Anthony Curcio's on a jet ski on the creek like it's not a good the homecoming King Yeah, it's not a good system. I went to school with him. What are you doing? He's not gonna end it'll do the perfect crime getting away and he'll get done for riding a jet ski You know how to do that man. They won't check it's I didn't realize this was Cososio. So close. So he did a practice run on the jet ski but he hit a boulder and cracked the jet ski's

Starting point is 00:28:13 fibreglass shell. That's why you have a practice. Yeah. So he was like okay I'm gonna change my approach and so what he did was... He's gonna avoid b boulders. Put a ramp over the boulder. He's getting air every five metres. So no, he went to the next best thing, which was creating a cable pulley system to quickly pull himself and the large bags of cash upstream using a connected canvas wrapped inner tube, like a big inflatable dough donut thing. So he gets

Starting point is 00:28:47 into a donut and then... But it doesn't have a hole in it but it's just it's a big round thing you sit in and normally you get like towed by a boat but he's gonna pull himself with the cat with a pulley system. He's gone from the most badass getaway to the most embarrassing getaway. And like I imagine slow. It's like forever. People are walking along the creek having to slow down. Yeah I was about to say I could run faster but I could walk faster. In his test is he testing with the weight of all that money? No. He's gonna sink. No. But he did not think about the weight of the money, no. The best planned heist.

Starting point is 00:29:30 Yeah, the most elaborately planned. Nobody said best. He just thought a bit too much about it. So he planned and practiced and it's time, it's heist time baby. A few days before, whoo, he wooed a heist time baby. A few days before, whoo, woo to heist. Police. So a few days before the robbery he placed an ad on Craigslist. Sorry? Craigslist. Craigslist? I've never heard of Craigslist. She means Craigs. Oh, Craigslist. I said Craig and then he said sorry and then I just didn't want you to be saying that I was the idiot

Starting point is 00:30:05 He's the idiot He's not to be fair you both idiot. I mean to be really fair We don't have to be that No, what do you want the ad in why was he was he that he placed an ad? And it was for a city cleanup project which needed 15 to 20 workers for the day, paying $28.50 per hour. That's pretty good. Applicants were told to wear the following, jeans, a blue shirt, work shoes, a yellow safety vest, safety goggles, and a painter's mask. I was with... I could have applied for the first half of that.

Starting point is 00:30:42 You got a blue shirt on. Yeah, that was... Is that part of it? That was the bit of it. So we just needed. You got a blue shirt on. Yeah, that was... Is that part of it? That was... So we just need to get you a yellow safety vest. Yeah. Anyone got one? Something you need to know about Sydney is they all have yellow safety vests.

Starting point is 00:30:54 It seems like none of them do, actually. Too good for safety vests. So the ad instructed the laborers to meet on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11am in the car park of Bank of America. There's an article written by David Kushner for GQ. This is from David. After applying, each man received an email from the supervisor telling him to show up wearing a blue shirt.

Starting point is 00:31:25 If a project manager is not there, it concluded, somewhat ominously, do not leave. As the men waited, one landscaper was already going hard at it. It's weirdly worded. He'd been there since before the others arrived, killing weeds outside the jack in the box, and he continued working the lawn until 11.05 a.m. when a Brinks armored truck rolled up to the Bank of America branch next door. As the messenger got out and started wheeling bags of cash to the bank, the landscaper stopped spritzing, tossed aside his pesticide sprayer and sprinted towards the truck. He was only a few paces from the guard when he fired enough pepper spray

Starting point is 00:32:05 to stun a 1,000 pound grizzly bear. As the guard clawed at his eyes in pain, his attacker simply grabbed the bags, heavy with cash, and sprinted into the nearby woods. The whole job took about 30 seconds. He's just pepper sprayed them and fucked off. Because the pepper spray makes you go, ah, hands off the money. Now I've got the money.

Starting point is 00:32:31 Elaborately planned heist. That is elaborate. But now he's got 20 guys dressed like him hanging around. That's smart. But he's gone straight to the creek. He's the only one who's gone to the creek. That was great utility. He was the only one who's gone to the creek. That was great utility. He was the only one that ran away.

Starting point is 00:32:47 Where'd he go? To the creek. Twenty of them are going that way. He's accidentally hired a bunch of witnesses. He. He's used his real email on Craigslist. It's really bad. Don't leave. I'm planning a robbery. I need you there.

Starting point is 00:33:14 Yeah, if the supervisor doesn't show up or if the bank gets robbed, please don't leave. Please don't leave. Please don't leave until the bank is robbed, then you're free to go about your day. Curcio grabbed two bags of money containing more than $400,000 and ran towards the creek. At the edge of the creek, he threw the money into the inner tube and pulled himself up the creek with the cables. He travelled about 200 yards or 180 metres upstream and exited the creek behind several businesses onto the opposite side of the highway

Starting point is 00:33:46 from the bank. What a... It was 200 yards. Yeah. He could have just walked though. Yeah. Was he going to do that on a jet ski? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:33:54 And I'm done. And in that 180 metres he somehow hit a boulder. Was he going to do that on a jet ski? Yeah, meh, and I'm done. Oh, man. And in that 180 metres, he somehow hit a boulder. He's the thing, too. I was listening to a BBC series about this, an eight-part series. I was like, I'm doing this in an hour, mate. Let's go. Anyway, but apparently, not in a way of defending, but apparently, I don't know why I'm defending, but apparently people

Starting point is 00:34:26 that were interviewed in that were like, it's not that far, like as the crow flies or whatever, but it's kind of like a different part of town. Like I think because he's kind of gone under the highway, it is harder to get there via road or something. It's funny if it's, it's's actually it seems quick if you go like as the crow flies like by the walking path but the creek is really windy. So in his defense it actually is quite a while by the way he chose to go. And so you can definitely justify it. Anyway so yeah he's gone 200 yards. He removed his wig and workers clothing.

Starting point is 00:35:06 He was wearing a wig. What kind of wig? Brown. He has brown hair in real life. It was just a different shade. Imagine if I had like a really dark chocolate brown wig on, you'd be like, who the fuck is that up there? What's she doing?

Starting point is 00:35:22 You know? Yeah. Or if you had anything other than gray, it would be unrecognizable. Yeah. Dave Silver Fox, man, that's, I'm so jealous about fucking hot you are. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:39 Honestly, Australia's Mr. Sheffield, right? Are you? Thank you so much. That's who I model myself on. That dreaded Andrew Lloyd Webber. Matt models himself on the nanny. I'm more of a CC Babcock type. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:58 I'm Gracie. That surprisingly depressed child. That kid's dark. Anyway, so he takes off his wig and his clothes that had been attached by Velcro. Oh, that's sick. Did he do a big... He's wearing a stripper suit. Underneath, completely different clothes. He's wearing a leopard thong. Nobody will ever recognise me now. I know you two have always been in the arts, didn't know sports, but I think sports came up with that first, the ripoff

Starting point is 00:36:29 pants, so he was a sports person. He probably just was wearing sports clothes. I know you hear sport and you think, oh, you mean what, like getting naked? No, there's other kinds. There's other reasons to get changed quickly. Yeah, well, yeah. That doesn't make any sense. You know, you've got to be warm on the bench, and then you've got to take off the clothes to go on the field. And in this case, I don't mean the field isn't the pole, which I know you think of it as. Which I know you think of it as... Me and Sydney don't see eye to eye.

Starting point is 00:37:18 Is it because I'm not a coked up real estate agent wearing a fluoro yellow vest? Is that it? It's the only people they can connect to. Who is about to catch a bus to a runway. She's drinking a Chardonnay. Honestly she looked fancy as and I feel out of place up here. This is the fanciest town I've ever been to and I've been to... honestly I can't think of another place that's equally... yeah is there any other fancy place in the ballpark? Gary. I have been to Gary, Indiana that's true. It's true. Just between you other fancy place in the ballpark? Gary. I have been to Gary, Indiana. That's true. It's true. That's fancy.

Starting point is 00:37:47 Just between you and me, Sydney, it's not that fancy. So many people were genuinely relieved and surprised that Matt was not killed in Gary. I loved it. And I'm gonna go back. I loved it there. Okay, can I keep going? Jess? Please do go on. I'll it there. Okay, can I keep going? Jess, please do go on. I'll stop you right there, Jess. Anyway, so he's ripped off his clothes like an athlete. He jumps into the trunk of a getaway vehicle driven by a friend of his. Shortly after, police arrived to find the bank's parking lot filled with men matching the robber's description.

Starting point is 00:38:27 Genius. Detective Tim Buzzle ran down behind the strip mall where the crook was last spotted. Along the gravel leading to the woods, he found a trail of discarded items, a blue cap, a long brown wig, a white particle mask, sunglasses. The path stopped at the edge of the woods creek, a narrow stream less than two feet deep. It's not a big creek. A jet ski.

Starting point is 00:38:58 It's crazy that a jet ski didn't work. How is there a boulder in a two foot creek deep? I think it was probably just a pebble. Over an hour later, the police didn't have much to go on and their search hadn't produced all that much evidence. They found the inner tube that he'd escaped on and a few feet away, a blue shirt and a two-way radio had been tossed on the creeks bank. And they're just there looking at it like, huh.

Starting point is 00:39:24 But they didn't have too much to go on. The careful planning and bizarre getaway, unsurprisingly, caught some media attention. The mysterious robber was referred to as the Craigslist robber or DBTuber. That's inspiring. After DB Cooper. DBTuber. Come on, that's good stuff. Yes, that's the reason I chose this topic. You got to call the episode DBTuber.

Starting point is 00:39:55 Of course. DBTuber. And when does he start playing it? Because I think you didn't mention he had a wig and now you're bringing up this brass, big brass instrument. But so as I said, police don't have much to work on. They were able to swipe a bit of DNA from the mask, but there was nothing matching the database. There's no match.

Starting point is 00:40:19 So it was kind of worthless without a suspect. They replayed a few seconds of grainy surveillance tape from Bank of America, which caught the perp as he pepper sprayed the guard. He seemed to be a young guy, about six feet tall, white, but that was about all they could tell. He's got mask and a wig on, hat. You can't really, they couldn't make much else. They were like, it's hard to explain, but he's sort of like, you remember that guy who

Starting point is 00:40:42 was our star quarterback? He was kind of like that guy. Yeah, that sort of build. Yeah. It was that kind of type. It was a Tony type. Yeah, yeah. He was a Tony type.

Starting point is 00:40:52 Does anyone know anyone in town who looks kind of like this famous guy in town, Tony? The next day, a patrol officer remembered an odd visit he'd received a few weeks before on the 9th of September. A city worker had stopped by the station to tell him about a homeless man who'd found a disguise and a radio near the bank. The police were able to track down that homeless man who was a 53-year-old guy named Alan Dean. Dean told him that he'd been in the mall near the Bank of America when he spotted the radio behind the dumpster. He picked it up when he saw more stuff,

Starting point is 00:41:28 a particle mask, a dark wig, sunglasses, and a can of mace. He made quick work of the clues. He was like, well, that's a disguise. And that's not good. A disguise is rarely good, he thought. So he's never been to a dress-up party. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh my god, Shrek, oh my god. I don't want any funny business. Well he was a bit nervous actually because he had been convicted of a

Starting point is 00:41:53 felony for chopping down trees illegally. Felony. And he didn't want to wind up behind bars like if it got connected to him and it would have his fingerprints on it now. So he was like oh no. So he went and found a city worker named Randy Osh who was working in the sewer and he was like, are you going to call the cops or should I? And Randy's like, yeah, yeah, I'll go tell the cops. Anyway, so Alan Dean, he's just kind of going about his day then until he saw a silver SUV pull up behind the dumpster a bit later and a young guy jump out to retrieve the pile of goods. And Dean said,

Starting point is 00:42:29 hey, I wouldn't mess with that stuff. I called the cops. They're coming to pick it up. And the man replied, what did you do that for? And then Dean said, well, look at it. Anyone in this neighbourhood knows what that's for. Like, that's dodgier shit. And the young guy stared at the pile of stuff for a moment, then picked it up and drove off. And as he sped off, Dean wrote down the license plate number.

Starting point is 00:42:56 Which was Tony QB. He was just like, that was a strange interaction. I'm gonna make a note of that So yeah Alan Dean he's written down the license plate and the license plate was registered to Anthony Curcio Actually, I think it was registered to his wife, but you know for the point of this story. It was his anyway So this is why you're getting an eight episode series down to one hour. That's right. You're cutting out You're merging characters eight episode series down to one hour. That's right. You're cutting out, you're merging characters like husband and wife. Hey, in my eyes you're one. He was married to himself. I guess I'm just better at editing than the BBC.

Starting point is 00:43:35 So what Alan Dean had seen was one of Curcio's practice runs to ensure proper timing of the heist and Dean later laughed, he probably thought, just an old tramp, he ain't going to do nothing. Wrong. Got him. He probably thought, just an old tramp. He ain't going to do nothing. Wrong. He said wrong. Game over. Really? That's awesome.

Starting point is 00:43:52 It wasn't entirely game over. But it was definitely the beginning of the unraveling of Curcio's perfect crime. The license plate and the unmatched DNA sample weren't enough for the police to act on. So they had to be careful and strategic in their next moves, because if they let on that they suspected Curcio, he could flee and then they're kind of stuffed. But they didn't know that he kind of already had fled, but not because of the crime. So he was acting weird,

Starting point is 00:44:17 understandably, and his wife was like, are you on drugs again? And he's like, why? How dare you ask that what you're crazy and robbery I never did that robbery I didn't heist you idiot I didn't spend the last three months taking your six foot sixty centimeter deep creek oh why would anyone do that that's insane what was it him? If it ended up as a two foot deep creek, it wasn't a creek before. He found like a... I think it was a puddle. A puddle.

Starting point is 00:44:51 Yeah. He dredged a puddle. He dredged a puddle. She was just not having it. I think she'd given birth a few weeks earlier. Oh my god. She's like, I'm not dealing with you. Was it his baby? Yes.

Starting point is 00:45:04 Okay. That's like I'm not dealing with you. You're insane. Okay that's cool then. Because I think it's important Dave you'll agree with this that you have to have an outside interest in those early days of fatherhood. You need to be absent. I mean where's, you know, I'm just saying. I'm not saying anything at all. Alright. Just please go on. What are you saying? I'm just saying, Dave, if you're going to try and avoid your kid, don't deal with podcasting.

Starting point is 00:45:43 That's embarrassing. Go Dredger Creek. All right, now just please dig on. So she's like, you're acting insane. I can't be bothered dealing with this. Get out. She kicks him out and so he goes to Vegas. Remember, he's stolen this money out of desperation because he and his young family are in financial

Starting point is 00:46:02 trouble. It's a lot of money, not that he deserves it, but they need it to get back on their feet. So he takes it to Vegas. Perfect. That's the quickest way to double it, triple it. Exactly. Triple it, double it, triple it again. Lose some. Triple that. Double it. Triple the loss.

Starting point is 00:46:22 Did you triple the loss? Yes. At some point, you've got to put some of the winnings in your pocket, right? Yeah, you could just rob another bank while you're there. There's heaps of banks. Heaps. You could rob a casino while you're there.

Starting point is 00:46:34 Isn't that crazy you're telling a story that leads to Vegas? We're in the Vegas of Australia. Yes. Sid Vegas. That is crazy. Sid Vegas. That's what you call yourselves, isn't it? They're both known as Sin City, I'm pretty sure.

Starting point is 00:46:49 Do you know? Is that what you call yourselves? I truly have to move on. I'm just desperately trying. I'm keeping an eye on the time and we don't have it. I'm trying so hard. You are trying a bit too hard. Look, bup bup bup. I am...

Starting point is 00:47:01 As a strong feminist man, I think it's important that I get my words out for feminism. And these words are, please, Jess, go on, mate, we've got to finish this. So he's gone to Vegas. He's gone to Vegas. With 400k. From David Cush. He didn't take all of it, but he did take a lot of it. Anyway, he rented rooms at the Palms and hired a guide for two and a half grand a night to get them into

Starting point is 00:47:27 clubs. Clubs like LAX, confusing, Playboy and The Moon. I'm just gonna head down to The Moon tonight. You coming to The Moon? I love that. Anyway they even hit up a party for a Jessica Simpson single release. Whoa. So that dates it a little bit. This is sick. So he's got this money now to get his family back on his feet and he's, I can hear, feel he's starting that process now. Yeah. At the moon. He partied all night with friends into the early hours, night after night.

Starting point is 00:48:02 At one point he was dead to try to jump over a coffee table and he fell and broke his arm. Oh, did he do that accidentally? It's him and coffee tables. I reckon he did that on purpose. When he returned to Monroe, he and Emily made up and he assured her that everything was gonna be okay. He'd made a real estate deal, some money was coming in.

Starting point is 00:48:20 Everything's gonna be okay, he's just got a mystery broken arm. Yeah, no, we'll get to that. It's gonna be okay, babe. Can you sign my cast? They weren't gonna have to face foreclosure's just got a mystery broken arm. Yeah, no, we'll get to that. It's going to be okay, babe. Can you sign my cast? They weren't going to have to face foreclosure or move or give up their dreams. He's like, I'll get us a car. I'm going to make things right. The arm in the sling? Yeah, basketball. I was playing basketball. I fell.

Starting point is 00:48:37 So I don't feel bad for him at all. Anyway, a couple of months later, November 3rd, he drove his brand new Range Rover, purchased in a friend's name, to the parking lot of a Target in Munro. He had arranged a money drop with a buddy. It was going to drop $17,000 cash. He just got out of his car and he saw the cops close in. Not long before, the FBI had been trailing him

Starting point is 00:49:02 when they saw him toss a Gatorade bottle with his chewing tobacco spittle into the trash. They plucked it after he left. The DNA from the spit matched the DNA in the particle mask, giving them enough evidence to arrest him once and for all. With nowhere left to run, Curcio got on his knees. This is slander, he whined. Don't you know who my parents are?

Starting point is 00:49:29 You haven't mentioned his parents. Who are they? The homecoming queen. Oh, yeah. And a landscape guy. My dad has a landscaping business. I mean, there's no good answer to that. Even if it's the president, it's embarrassing no matter who it is. Oh, it's awful.

Starting point is 00:49:47 But landscape guy is pretty funny. Don't you know my dad? My dad who played college football 40 years ago. You're making a great mistake. Your lawn will never be cut again. Not in this town. Which is where your lawn is. He was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison.

Starting point is 00:50:08 He served his time across three different correction facilities, some fun names here, Big Spring, Latuna and Coleman Correctional Complex. That one's less good. Latuna, obviously the best. While being housed in Latuna, he became close with a fellow inmate, George Jung. Jung encouraged Kershio to write a book and put him in touch with author slash biographer Dane Batty, and they began writing back and forth. Upon his release, he wrote the book Heist and High, promising to prevent others from making the same decisions he had made. Don't even bother with a jet ski, honestly.

Starting point is 00:50:47 I do love it. It's like this is, I'm only telling you how to rob a bank just so you know what not to do. That's right. Kids, don't do this. But if you were to do it, this is how you do it. Yeah, this is how you can perfect my perfect crime. Throughout the duration of his sentence, Curcio wrote and illustrated over 20 children's books

Starting point is 00:51:05 as well. He's a prolific writer. One was aimed at children of incarcerated parents and it was called My Daddy's in Jail, which I think his two daughters would have appreciated. Something you've got to know just about Sydney people is all of their dads are in jail. Yeah. White collar crime, of course. Yeah, oh, of course, yeah.

Starting point is 00:51:27 Insurance fraud, money laundering. Yeah, yeah. Et cetera, et cetera. Sorry, that was a bit too close to the bone for some of you. Did you feel the air just left this room? Yeah, and they're going, allegedly. Daddy's gonna beat those crimes. Daddy's innocent.

Starting point is 00:51:46 Yeah, okay, too close at the moment, so sorry. Sorry to all your innocent dads. Since his release in 2013, he has been working with youth and giving presentations regarding drug abuse prevention and the importance of making positive choices. He speaks to schools all over the country. So it is kind of nice to see that he sort of turned his life around a little bit, you know. Except that he's currently under investigation for scamming buyers out of $2 million through fake PSA, professional

Starting point is 00:52:16 sports authenticator, gradings for rare Pokemon and sports cards. They're all still on cocaine, yep. Although the cards were genuine, he and his accomplice reportedly inflated their value by falsifying their PSA gradings. So they had, there's records that he had ordered materials online to create forged card cases and labels. Honestly, there's no bigger scum on earth. No bigger scum on earth than those who forge PSA values. And I think that's the only reason I think Australia should bring back the death penalty. You like this. His accomplice's name was Joseph Bondachuk. I do like that.

Starting point is 00:53:08 I know. That's pretty fun. I got this piece of news from mynintendonews.com, which is obviously everyone here's homepage. Their scheme, which lasted around two years, began to unravel after they sold a 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card for $171,000 at a Manhattan auction. The card supposedly graded PSA 10 raised suspicions when the PSA company denied any involvement in its grading. It's almost like there's like a paper trail and an actual company knows what they've done. Jess, I know the answer to this but just in case anyone here doesn't or anyone listening at home, let's not be talking about it.

Starting point is 00:53:51 Please ask me what PSA means. What is a PSA? Because I said it before. Yeah, that's right. No, I just, I was listening. It's professional sports authenticator. Yes, and what is the rating? So the like playing cards, Pokemon cards,

Starting point is 00:54:05 they are rated from 1 to 10 based on their condition. So a 1 is in shit condition, a 10 is in perfect condition. So these cards are probably actually a 7, they're putting fake labels on them saying they're a 10 and then selling them at insane prices. Are you on board yet or have you wandered off? Yeah, good night. Yeah, that's so good. Yep. So close, Jess, so close. I'm loving this. Are you? I'm loving this.

Starting point is 00:54:37 Are you talking about the popcorn? Really enjoying the popcorn. It's the audience that I don't like, but I'm loving your story. Loving your story. Is this one of the shittest crowds I've ever had? Yeah. I love you. I love it here in Sydney. No, these guys are great.

Starting point is 00:54:53 I'm gonna dress like a real estate agent tonight. Dave and I are playing good cop, hot cop, and I'm the good cop. Look at him tonight. Dave, just undo one of those buttons. Undo a button. You want to see a little bit of this? Ooh. Yeah, you're ready to talk now? And all of a sudden everyone's like,

Starting point is 00:55:14 please, I'll tell you everything. Oh my god. Oh god, please. Anyway, I was just saying that, you know, he redeemed himself and it seemed like he turned a corner and then he did some more fraud and I hate him. He's learned nothing.

Starting point is 00:55:32 I don't feel bad for him at all, but there is a little bit of a happy ending, Dave. For the woman in the audience. Honestly, this crowd is dog shit. David Kushner, he concludes his article with this reflection on the DB Tuba case. And the homeless man who unraveled it all said it was the perfect crime, Curcio insists, except that it wasn't. He got caught. If anything was perfect, it was how the guy who feared losing his house got busted by a man who didn't have one. A man nobody expected anything from. Even Buzz and Barry, those are the detectives, admit that without Dean's help Curcio could have gotten away with it. Dean used the reward money to buy

Starting point is 00:56:16 himself a Nissan Pathfinder. He plans to drive back to his family in the Ozarks and get off the street for good. I'm going back to see my kids again, he says. That is awesome! Oh! L.D. So that's nice. That's nice. But that's the story of DBTuber.

Starting point is 00:56:32 Oh, give it up for Jess Perkins. Oh my gosh. Pay attention BBC, that's how you do it. Yeah, eight parts? Eight parts. And it's they interview him a lot and I'm just like shut the fuck up. Anyway is that the end of the episode? Hey thank you so much for coming out to the fabulous Ritz Cinema here in Randwick. Thank you so much for having us here, Ritz. Luke is over there who made everything possible today. Thank you so much, appreciate you.

Starting point is 00:57:14 Good luck for Luke. Now we only get to come up here, it looks like every couple of years, so we really appreciate you coming out. We love you so much. And until next time, we'll say thank you so much for listening and goodbye, Sydney. Later.

Starting point is 00:57:27 Yeah. All right, we're back in the studio here. Dave and I are just as fine. She's not here, but she is fine. Haven't seen her since that day in Sydney. Yeah, because I think she got carried away by the crowd in like a you're our new hero. Yeah throwing up in the air. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:57:46 Everyone cheering. I think she's now the king of Sydney. Yeah she is. Yeah. So you know we wish her all the best. Yeah well done new Lord Mayor Jessica Perkins. But uh well we got to forge on without her. We have to.

Starting point is 00:58:01 As you know in show business the Ritz, if the Ritz is anything, it's showbiz. Exactly. And then what's the number one rule of showbiz? Jess is fine. Jess is fine, stop asking questions. Stop asking questions. Yes. And the show must go on and this is everyone's favorite section of the show where we thank some of our fantastic Patreon supporters. If you want to get involved you can go to patreon.com slash to go on pod and we do a few things here at the end. There's different levels you can sign up to. If you sign up on the Sydney Scharnberg level or above, you get to give us a fact quote or question.

Starting point is 00:58:29 In this section of the show, we like to call fact quote or question. I think it actually adds a jingle to go something like this. Fact quote or question. Ding ding. He always remembers the sing and the ding. Well done. Did a double ding there.

Starting point is 00:58:40 Double ding. Is that okay? I thought you were driving a tram for a second. Get out of the way. Mesa was in the house. The fifth beetle. But um, and Yes, he's always been the fifth beetle. I know we misspoke at some points. I got into a... Is it true? I thought he surely was the fourth beetle. I think he might have been at some point, but I've retconned that. Okay.

Starting point is 00:59:01 What do you say? Why don't you retcon and we make him the sixth beetle? Oh, yeah, cuz Ringo's the fourth. Yeah Who's the fifth Pete best Pete best? What about Stuart suck cliff? Okay, and then there's also George Martin. Yeah, okay, so Yeah, yeah, he's pretty good. And then you know Cass page is often on the show Yeah, so maybe he's our tenth beetle 10th? Top 10 Beatle. Top 10 Beatles. That'd be a great article. Name them, Top 10 Beatles. Great listicle, Top 10 Beatles. Anyway, so yeah, a bunch of different things you can do. But yeah, in this level, Sydney, Sheinberg level, fact quota question. I read a couple out, just going to do a couple today. The

Starting point is 00:59:40 fact quota question bag is getting a little low in stock. Oh wow, dry bag. Dry bag, mainly because we've been recording a little bit ahead, but if you are on the Sydney Schomburg level or above, get them in. Get your facts, your quotes, your questions, all your braggs, all your suggestions, or really whatever you like. You're also gonna give yourself a title.

Starting point is 00:59:58 Gonna read out two today. The first one comes from one of our favorites here. I mean, everyone we read out is one of our favorites. Absolutely, you're all our favorites. But this one's from Pete Holberton. Okay, wannabe steely-eyed missile man. Nothing wannabe about it Pete. You for us are the steely-eyed missile man. Say hi to the boys and gals at NASA for us. Oh wow. Or is it NASA? I always forget. Pete's got a fact. Thanks so much Pete. Pete writes,

Starting point is 01:00:24 while working on Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast album, oh my god, for half a second I thought he was saying, while he was working. I'm like, I don't think he's- Oh my gosh, he's done that as well? Yeah. Pete, could you get any cooler? I mean, that's pretty sick. I got that on CD, not at the time, but as a teen, and absolutely flogged it.

Starting point is 01:00:46 It's been when I got my first car, that was on high rotation. All right, did you have the six disc changer in the boot? I had the one disc changer in the dash. In the dash. Old school. So he writes, while working on Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast album,

Starting point is 01:01:00 music producer Martin Birch was involved in a car accident with a minibus carrying nuns,ch was involved in a car accident with a mini bus carrying nuns and Was left with a repair bill Guess the number in pounds six six six. Oh my god number of the beast Is the album called the number six six six the number of the beast should have called the album the number of the bill Whatever this bill comes to that's what we'll call the album. Oh my god. Oh my god. 666.

Starting point is 01:01:32 That's badass. Wow. But I mean, I don't know why they had it like an Australian accent. They're British. Very British. You say that. Give it. Oh, steady on go.

Starting point is 01:01:43 666. Hello, hello, hello, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, So sweet. Thank you, Pete. Much love to you. Thanks so much, Pete. And the second final one this week comes from Cole Maravilla. First time I'm into the fact quite a question. Great name, Cole. Maravilla.

Starting point is 01:02:14 Cole's title is secretary general of the National Organizing Committee for the Democratic Republic of Cats and Kittens. That's important. We got a lot of dog types on the show. We need a few cat people. As a cat man, myself. You're a cat man? Cat man, see cat man do. And I don't know what's going on. I mean, I had a cat, it died, but you know, I think that...

Starting point is 01:02:39 You're closer to a cat man than dog man. But I mean, I love them all. I think it's part of the reason I don't know anything about pets is because I had a cat man then dog man, but I mean I love them all I think it's part of the reason I don't know anything about pets is cuz I had a cat I Don't know I didn't need to know their pets Penny didn't want me to know Yeah, she took a look at you and said back off you put food in the bowl got this food and water Kitty with a you know You listing some essential stuff to know about having a cat there. Yeah. Well, I mean, they're the only things you need to know about having a cat.

Starting point is 01:03:09 Dogs though, I don't know, you walk them and stuff, cats walk themselves. But there's no litter. No litter, yeah. So there is bags. You have to pick up a shit with a bag. Yeah, I do. I'm really into dogs. You guys have won me around on dogs.

Starting point is 01:03:22 Yeah, Matt started sending us into the group chat dog videos that he's found on Instagram Yes, they are so I love I love them and I'd love to watch you watch them I think that you know I did a thrusting video on my YouTube channel I think I might do a dog watching video dog reacts. Yeah might even be out by the time that we get like a view Yeah, I'll just do like 10 minutes of watching dog videos That's right Anyway, anyway cats are good too. We like cats. Cole is is from cats and from cats And under the section of do you have a factor quarter a question Cole's written?

Starting point is 01:03:58 Inception what I don't think we've had an inception before that do we have to get a sleep for that Cole? What? I don't think we've had an inception before. What is that? Do we have to get a sleep for that, Cole? Wait, I'm just spinning this top just to make sure. No, it's not falling over. Cole writes, Hi team, I recently uncovered an impressive conspiracy while listening to your podcast. Whoa. I was tuned into the Big Sandwich recent bonus episode, James and Maceau's time crapshul. That's good stuff.

Starting point is 01:04:23 So that's like the, for people that, that's the weekly weekly planets sort of Patreon bonus stuff isn't it? They have done it again. The time crapshawl. God that's why they're so big. That's true. Because they're the best. I love it. We are in about 10 minutes or about well after we finish recording this we're gonna be we're having a big sandwich with Mesa actually. Oh a burger. We're having a big sandwich with Mace actually. Oh, a burger. Sharing a big burger with Mace. Anyway, he says they mentioned the Black Dahlia murder. So naturally I jumped over to Douga on to catch up on your episode about it. Episode 210, Blockerween 2019. Imagine my surprise when the episode begun with a plug for the bonus episode on none other than Nick Mason himself.

Starting point is 01:05:07 What? That was the moment I knew I had to sign up for that bonus episode. Sorry, I was wondering, I knew I had to sign up to this level so I could tell you. Carl, we love it but our email is open. Congrats on what I can only assume was a nearly five year long inception plan. Yeah perfectly got it executed She is Cole 100% Cole That was all and you were the only you were the you were the chosen one exactly It was all about you Cole. It was always you Cole Cole

Starting point is 01:05:39 We can now wrap up the whole podcast wrap it up wrap it up Move it up. Wrap it up. Move it up, boys. Thanks so much to Cole and Pete. Cole, I hope you hang around. Stick around. Give us, I wanna hear more. Coleceptions. Coleceptions, wild conspiracy theories.

Starting point is 01:05:55 Will you make that a new drop down menu, so fact, quite a question, or Coleceptions? Coleceptions, I think so. I'd love to hear another Coleception. No pressure. The other thing we like to do, Dave, here is shout out to a few of our great Patreon supporters. Jess normally comes up with a game based on the topic, but as she isn't here, but she is fine, do you want to...?

Starting point is 01:06:15 Yeah, I think the one that immediately came to mind was what about heist escape, vehicles, systems... Because he tried a few wacky ones jet ski and also digging out a creek and then the pulley system whilst on like an inflatable tube that were at the money was too heavy for just I don't know mate he should have got away in a mule okay don't burn any don't burn the mule but I thought maybe one of us reads out the names. How about me and the other one? Yeah, why don't we swap halfway through here? So we get a okay the brain of Dave Warnock in and also bit of the brain of a steward

Starting point is 01:06:53 Yeah, a bit of the brawn of you Alright, well, let me go first from address I know can only shoot from deep within the fortress of the moles. Speaking of dogs, it's Woof! Hello, Woof! Uh, Woof is very slowly getting away on a tractor. Oh yeah, imagine a dog on a tractor. That's the kind of thing that my dog videos- There'll be no video.

Starting point is 01:07:16 Well- What's this dog doing? Was he driving a tractor? Oh. Oh my god. Pretty great. Pretty crazy. Um, in case Woof doesn't remember who who they are their email address has 97 in it a good year

Starting point is 01:07:30 And it's not wolf 97 so we're not giving in too much away. No Thank you so much wolf and great work on the tractor Next one. Oh my god must be a roommate of wolf is also from Address unknown must be in the fortress of the miles. It's Bethany Sherritt. Bethany Sherritt is getting away by quietly strapping themselves to an Olympic javelin and then being piffed. By a hulking Olympian.

Starting point is 01:07:59 Yeah. Wow. Big hulk. I can't name any javelinists. No. But Bethany, you're being piffed by a really big athlete. Yeah. And then you quietly... and then you sort of landing in the ground head first, like, and sort of sticking out, like they do,

Starting point is 01:08:14 and then burrowing back down to the fortress of the moles. It's a bit of a shame that we're recording a little bit ahead of time because the Olympics are about to start and we probably could have learned some javelin names. I know. But I've got Olympic fever. I can feel it building up. Yeah. It's about to start and we probably could have learnt some javelin names. I know, but I've got Olympic fever. I can feel it building up. Yeah. It's about to kick off.

Starting point is 01:08:30 Oh yeah. At the time of recording. Next up from Mount Pleasant in Pennsylvania in the United States. Thank you so much to Connie Lingues. Lingus. Connie Lingus. Linguees. Linguees.

Starting point is 01:08:43 Lingueezy. Lingueezy. Connie is getting away on a Razor scooter. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Reminds me of the classic Tism song. Five points for a Razor scooter.

Starting point is 01:08:56 Is that what that one was just about? Driving and different things you knock over and the points you get. That's pretty funny. Stupid. Bit of fun. From Adderley in Queensland, Australia. Thank you so much for your support. Jen Whitfield. Jen Whitfield. Look at Jen go. They're up in the sky and they are in hot air balloon. Oh That's a great getaway. But also I don't think you can really steer them very well. Can't steer them, but can you chase them?

Starting point is 01:09:22 Yeah, that's true. Why do the cops try and take you in their own? You gotta get a hot air balloon. And then they, like how long it takes to set it up, you gotta inflate it, and then hopefully you're in the same, you know, currents. Yeah, the slipstream. Wind currents or whatever. I mean, I guess they could fall them on the ground

Starting point is 01:09:38 or shoot them down or something, but I think it's a great plan, Jen, well done. Finally, from me, I'd love to thank from Florence in South Carolina in the United States Rick Mosley Rick Mosley is a rock star Getting I love that name Rick Mosley Rick You're getting away by being dinked on the front of the yellow jersey holder of the Tour de France

Starting point is 01:10:01 If you're gonna get dinked by anyone They can do it you see him like they'll ride hands free. Yeah You see that one one of these sort of like bike guys Was going down a hill everyone else is pedaling he just goes in a Superman pose and flies past him. It's like he's some sort of dart Yeah It's almost like he's Bethany Sherritt, you know flying through the air and a javelin being piffed Rick Because you are from America is dink. Is that a universal time? I think dink could be universal You're basically sitting on the handlebars. Yeah, I'm sure dink is universal

Starting point is 01:10:40 Wait, we don't have many words, you know like but just dink it just, just fair dinkum, dinky die, just feels a bit off. I bet even those came from England. All right, I'll look that up while you're reading out the next person. Okay, fantastic. So, I would like to thank now, from Yakima in Washington in the United States, thank you to, one word name Stein thank you Stein Stein is such a great name makes me think Oktoberfest makes me think getting away on a pork knuckle rolling down a hill on a pork knuckle you know

Starting point is 01:11:23 like walk like on you know sort, like on, you know, sort of like a log, you know, when you see people sort of- Sort of balancing, kicking. Moving down the hill on a log. What a getaway on a knuckle. On a pork knuckle. Stop that knuckle. Stop that, stop Stine on that knuckle.

Starting point is 01:11:38 Is that man getting away on a knuckle? You get back here. Get back here, knuckle. Stine, that's great. Thanks so much, Stine. Good work, Stine. It does look, Knuckle. Thanks so much. Stein, that's great. Great work, Stein. It does look like it might be Australian dink. Okay, well I'm glad we took the time, just in case. I would like to thank also from Kalamazoo!

Starting point is 01:11:54 Is this Michigan? It's gotta be Michigan here. Kalamazoo in Michigan, incredible. That could be made up, but I love it. Kalamazoo. You hearing this? Kalamazoo's fantastic. Kalamazoo's the best name I've ever heard. And from their fantastic resident is Janice Seniki. Janice Seniki. I've heard of Kalamazoo. Have you? Yeah. I think it's referenced in something. Is it like on a list of funny place names? No, I think it's referenced in an old

Starting point is 01:12:20 show or a riddle. Kalamazoo, really big shoe. Really big shoe is actually the getaway device that Janice float and it was way more buoyant than DBTuber's tube. Way better, better tuba. Better tuba. DBTuber. DBTuber, that's what Janice is known as. DBTuber, really Schuber. That's what Janus is known as. DB Schuber.

Starting point is 01:12:46 Really big shoe. Really big. Really big. Oh, now I'd like to thank from St. Peter's in MO. Is this Montana? I always get, I keep doing this. Oh, it's Missouri. Missouri.

Starting point is 01:12:58 Missouri. I would like to thank, from St. Peter's, Will. Did you say St. Penis? It's St. Penis. It's basically, all right, from St. Penis, Will... Did you say St. Penis? It's St. Penis. Alright, from St. Penis, it's Will Ross. That's another Tizen Band member's name. John St. Penis.

Starting point is 01:13:13 Is it really? Oh my god. Will Ross. Will Ross... Or what? Ross get away in... a choo-choo train There's no way to know where this train is going yeah But put the pedal to the metal job

Starting point is 01:13:36 Chuck some more coal. Oh my god. I get behind engine Lose that train behind but it's the one it's this this the train from a Back to the Future three. And Dave, I'm sure you'll enjoy that reference. Absolutely. I'm going to make you watch Back to the Future. I've seen one now in the movie club since we've got a movie. Since eight years ago, we did the report. I just need number two. And what did you think of it? Fun, enjoyable.

Starting point is 01:14:04 Damn right it is Sorry they canceled the order so I need to take this call Oh Hello Is this podcast HQ I've got some hot content for you. That is hot. That's hot stuff That is hot Can I jump in? So listeners Dave has just been on a long call. Thank you bye bye Not sure if we're being scammed but our burgers there might be a problem with them

Starting point is 01:14:38 The burgers have been cancelled the guy was on his way six minutes away now He's no longer coming Nick Mason has joined us in the studio. Can you chuck on Nick Mason mic? Oh, yeah, sorry about that. Which one is made? Just turn on all of them Number four please Turning them all on! How many mics do you need? I need several microphones Dave Mesa is also talking into a sex line. I'm called the sex line. You thought they were all gone, but there's one still left so Really? Yeah, 0055 Yeah all gone but there's one still left. So. Really? Yeah 0055. Yeah. Nudie Rudy's. So Mesa just

Starting point is 01:15:10 walked into the studio. With a visual gag. With a visual gag. So I found in a bin. He's brought a phone from a bin. Like an old landline with you. Yeah correct. Which bin was it in? One of the stupid old studios bins. Oh right, not on the street. No, this isn't a street. This is, you know, this has only been touched by probably celebrities, you know. Are we recording this on film, Dave? No, this is not being filmed. Why am I bothering with this though?

Starting point is 01:15:39 I'm putting it down. I'm just trying this not being filmed. I can just keep it up forever. That would work too. So, Maceo, yeah, apparently there's a problem with that burger order, but. Yeah, and then I had to get a call about it from Uber to explain.

Starting point is 01:15:56 Burgers are off. That there's a lot of traffic and that the food was gonna be spoiled by the time I got here, so they made the call to cancel it. I would have eaten the cold burger rather than, I just ordered eaten the cold burger rather than... I just ordered from the same place again. Yeah, I kind of...

Starting point is 01:16:07 That's interesting because like... I feel like the essential part of a delivery burger, like any kind of delivery... It's gonna be cold when you get there. Yeah, we accept this. Yeah, that's right. We know it was gonna be cold. But maybe it's gonna be like they already expected it to be a little bit cold but now it's gonna be super cold. But maybe it's gonna be like they already, you expected it to be a little bit cold, but now it's gonna be super cold.

Starting point is 01:16:27 But I'm still fine. I didn't get the option to be like, it's cool. Yeah. To me that sounds like they had something else on. Yeah, kinda. Yeah, they wanted to cut out early. I was like, no, I'm canceling for your benefit. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:16:42 This is for you, which I appreciate. Maceo, do you wanna be here for just this last? Little bit of this episode. Yes This is the end of the our Sydney live episode where Jess told the story about a bank robber Who became known as DB tuber because his getaway vehicle was a tube in a creek I love that. Like an inflatable tube and then he pulled himself along on a pulley system. The creek wasn't deep enough so in the lead up he had to dig it deeper. Oh okay right this isn't an impromptu like uh like uh he'd assembled the pulley system and uh it's like oh wow. He spent months dredging his own creek. I reckon probably could have just got a regular job. Yeah

Starting point is 01:17:23 he spent so much time there. I don't know much about this guy, but you know, whenever, like I love the idea of a scheme or a heist or any kind of, you know, you know, bank robbery where nobody gets hurt and et cetera, et cetera. But at a certain point it's like, probably could have just got a regular, or like one of those scams where it's like super elaborate. Yeah. Or they spend like hours on the phone to you scamming you.

Starting point is 01:17:44 Yeah, yeah. You're working at it. This is a real job. You're just working in a call center, man. Every now and then they get tens of thousands of dollars. Which I think they just got that from me, I think. This burger order. Yeah. They said, just read out your credit card details over the phone and we'll get those burgers to you. And the number on the back. Yeah. So you're not subjecting the live audience to the Patreon read? Or you're not gifting them the Patreon read?

Starting point is 01:18:06 We're not gifting them, no. They didn't pay enough for that. Yeah, yeah. No, we only get given a 60 minute slot at the cinema and then they had to play the Midnight Oil documentary. So we all had to get out quickly. Okay. Which I wasn't, yeah, I was intending to go to, but I never, just realising now I never

Starting point is 01:18:19 made it. Damn. I got caught up with other things. Life. Get some ideas in it. You got life all day. Yeah. So what were we up to Dave? Have we will Ross have we given him a getaway vehicle? I don't sure we gave will Ross We've said he's from st. Peters, Missouri. Oh, that's right. We're giving them like penis. Oh, yeah

Starting point is 01:18:37 I said st. Pina penis by accident. Um, what was it an accident? That's pretty fun. We were also just shitting on, uh, we weren't shitting on it at all. We also had a good time, uh, one of the, someone mentioned before that they were listening to your episode about time crapshul. Oh sure, yep. Oh yes! We were just talking about you. I've learned something slip by saying crap shitting on it. My ears were burning. I'm calling the doctor because my ears are burning. He's forever at home.

Starting point is 01:19:10 He's picked up the phone. I've picked up the phone that I brought with me. The landline that I brought with me. We applaud Time Crapshaw. Thank you. We think that was great. That was Cole Maravilla. Is that name ring a bell?

Starting point is 01:19:21 Yes. Yeah. He was listening to your crapshaw. Oh, do you want to explain Colseption? Oh. What do you Mesa's take on Colseption? Oh, do we need to go back? Okay, I think we should.

Starting point is 01:19:31 It's worth it Mesa. So Cole, sign up to our Patreon. Love it. Because he was listening to James and Mesa's time crapshaw. Love it. About the year 1947, they mentioned Black Dahlia murder. So then he went and listened to the Dugon episode to catch up on that. Love it. About the year 1947. They mentioned Black Dahlia murder. So then he went and listened to the Dugon episode to catch up on that. Love it.

Starting point is 01:19:49 From Block 2019. And then at the start of the episode, he was surprised to hear us plugging a Nick Maceau episode and that's when he knew we had to sign up for our Patreon and he believes it to be a conspiracy. The rest is history. That's right. And we call that coldception. I mean that's, you know, that is the podcast economy essentially. It's just everybody going, listen to these guys, they're good.

Starting point is 01:20:17 I've got a Patreon. We've got a Patreon too. So we need food. We need burgers. So if you could, if you wouldn't mind. We really need burgers now. I wish this was going out live. Is anyone making a burger right now?

Starting point is 01:20:31 Absolutely, if you could ship it over here. If you could spare. Can we come over? If you could make an extra three, that'd be fantastic. So yeah, now you're all caught up, mate. Thank you. Yes, Nino. So we were up to, we got two names to go here.

Starting point is 01:20:43 Will Ross and we were giving them their getaway vehicle. Okay, great. Do you want to come up with these? Yeah, absolutely. So far we've had things like a tractor. Or being tied to a javelin. A large shoe. Have you used the jet pack from the movie Goldfinger?

Starting point is 01:20:55 No, but that is Will Ross's getaway. That's exactly right, yeah. You've given, you've, we never thought of good ones. God, he's good. That's a fantastic one. We said a really big shoe or a pork knuckle that you can stand on as it rolls down a hill. Oh, that's good. I mean, if you want to risk your death to fly like a hundred meters in a contraption

Starting point is 01:21:15 that looks like some sort of device you'd find in a brewery, you strap that to your back and then risk plowing into a building. Yeah, absolutely. And use the jetpack from Goldfinger. I'll tell you who wants Threw a building. Yeah, absolutely. Then use the jetpack from Goldfinger. I'll tell you who wants to. Will Ross. Yeah, that's right. Let's get away.

Starting point is 01:21:32 They love jetpacks in Missouri. Oh, yeah. That's the it's the jetpack state. It is the jetpack thing. What a number plate. Good on you, Will Ross. And finally, from a location unknown, we can only assume that deep within

Starting point is 01:21:43 the fortress of the moles right now. Thank you to Liam Dunne. Love that. Liam Dunne. What do you reckon Liam Dunne's getting away with? Have you considered the jetpack from Goldfinger? Now what about that, the James Bond, that mini plane or helicopter, the helicopter that he sort of builds?

Starting point is 01:21:59 Oh, the little gyro, yeah. That looks dangerous, doesn't it? Yeah, that's right. That also looks like you're getting into your death. Is that the same movie? No, that feels like... Now, that's a Roger Moore it? Also looks like you're getting into your death Is that the same movie? No, that feels like Now that's a Roger Moore movie

Starting point is 01:22:10 I thought it was the one where James Bond is undercover in Japan Oh I think James Bond is in it Yeah, yeah, yeah Sort of, there's a fake marriage Yeah One of the good ones And the music goes like this. It's not just

Starting point is 01:22:26 Liam Dunn's game anyway. It's that or the invisible car. Can you get that from the music? Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Stein, Rick, Jen, Connie, Bethany and Woof. The last thing we need to do, which episode is this Dave? 462. 462 everyone, we've made it to our... We've got four people to induct into the Triptych Club, mate. So these are people who've been signed up on the Shout Out level or above for three straight years. They get an invite into this exclusive club. That's right.

Starting point is 01:23:02 You're allowed to, you get an invite in, you're not allowed to leave but you wouldn't want to anyway. That's right. And it's a beautiful lounge, or it's whatever you want it to be, really. You can picture it however you like. You might picture it like the jet, the jet pack from Goldfinger or whatever. That's right. Yeah, just floating around in the after atmosphere, you know? Dave, what's going on? You've booked a band for the after party here? Yes, you're never going to believe who I booked for this week. They're in the charts as we speak, can you believe it? But we got onto them really early and thank you to...

Starting point is 01:23:38 Do you have a band book, Dave? Yes, they're in the charts as we speak. Okay. Can you please welcome Chapelappell Rhone. Chappell Rhone, I've been enjoying some Chappell Rhone lately. Pretty good stuff. Big time, the Zoomers are loving them. Oh the Zoomers, yeah mate, who I think of as my people.

Starting point is 01:23:58 Absolutely, yes. And 34 million players on Spotify, but we signed Chappell up many years ago. Yeah. When there were only a few thousand. So to say thanks for the early support Dugo1 has given Chappell, they're hitting the stage right now. So good. Like the mob in Las Vegas in the 50s. You signed her up for a thousand bucks a week and now she's filling stadiums still for a thousand bucks a week.

Starting point is 01:24:19 And I think that's beautiful. Sorry, it's called a contract. That's right. And Mesa, do's called a contract. And Mesa, do you have a cocktail based on DB Tuba? Oh, well, I'd have to have some tasty tubes in it. It'd have to be topped with a tasty tube. I think it'd be a sort of a cheesy beverage, I reckon.

Starting point is 01:24:35 Oh, yum. A hot, cheesy beverage. I think people, you know, people, people discount the hot, savory beverage, like a Bovroll, so like a hot meat drink. And then you top, you sprinkle a bit of parmesan on the top. Oh my god. And then some tasty tubes, I reckon. This is somehow worse than what Jess comes up with.

Starting point is 01:24:54 Yeah. And those are edible. Yeah, they're poisonous. Yeah, this is definitely edible, but I don't think you'd- would it stay down? I don't know. Oh, yeah, I don't know. It'll test you out. Yeah, I think it would harden in your stomach.

Starting point is 01:25:04 So, I'm calling that the very tasty tuber Yes, I know. Yeah, it wouldn't I won't it will stay down probably forever. It'll never come out again So we've got four inductees this week. I'm gonna read them out Dave's on stage. He's MCing the show He's gonna hop them up with some weak wordplay based on their name It's not weak. It is wordplay. Or where they're from. Well, that's pretty weak. And I'm just setting the expectations safe. And then, yeah, we'll welcome them out.

Starting point is 01:25:31 You run out if you hear your name. Everyone else who's already in the club will cheer you on. Are we ready to go, Dave? You feel I'm pumped up? Absolutely I'm pumped up. May so feel free to, if Dave does look like he's flagging, feel free to give him some positive affirmation. I love that.

Starting point is 01:25:46 I can't really. That's what Jess will often do. Dave, stop flagging. You've immediately started flagging. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Thank you so much.

Starting point is 01:25:54 We're in the corner of a box and you're ringing, you're just like sort of throwing a bucket of water in my face and I'm a... Smelling salts. Okay, here we go. From West Harp Tree in Great Britain, please welcome into the club. It's George Wright. Well, I don't want to be George wrong, but I do want to be George Wright. From I reckon Vien, maybe it's is that Vienna how how it's actually meant to be? Vien? Vien in

Starting point is 01:26:19 Austria, I reckon it's SR. We've all been asking Vien will they arrive? And here they are, it's SR. Which stands for, Super? Yeah, something of a good word. Super Racer. Yep. And they're going in, and they're going like this. Vroom.

Starting point is 01:26:39 Nice. Oh hell yeah. Classic Super Racer. I tell you what, this isn't weak stuff. This is rock solid. This is as rock solid as your guts. After you've had the DB Cooper, Tuba cocktail.

Starting point is 01:26:52 I was going to say, we should put a time code in the episode description, because this is the only bit people want to hear. From Northcote in Queensland, oh my god, it's a good friend of mine, Jessica Cooper. Hey Coop. Jessica Cooper, more like Jessica Tuba. Nice. It's a reference to the episode, that's not bad. That's perfect.

Starting point is 01:27:10 That's not bad. That's not bad. JC. And when I say JC, some people think of someone else, but I think of my Messiah. It's Jessica Cooper, is that better? It's good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's blasphemous, I like it.

Starting point is 01:27:23 And finally, from Champion Lakes in Western Australia. It's Katie Clays And when I say Casey some people think of the Sunshine Band, but I think Katie Clays Where she's from is called Champion We are we are the lakes Champion Lakes nice Thanks and welcome. We'll keep on tubing till the end. To Katie, Jessica, Esa and George. Hey, make yourselves at home. Come play table hockey with me. It's ice. I've converted the table hockey into an ice hockey rink. It's great.

Starting point is 01:27:58 Which is really good. I was gonna say, how do you keep it frosty? It's a lot of work. Yeah, it is a lot of work and a lot of energy. Our energy bills have gone through the roof recently. But please make yourselves at home. That brings us to the end of the episode. Is there anything we need to tell people before we go, Mesu? Get your life sorted out. Yeah. You know? Get tested. Yeah. Oh that's a great idea. Yeah, let's make sure you clean before you go out there putting your thing, you know, who knows where. Let's make sure it's clean before you get it dirty. Is this the kind of shit that Jess would say? No way! She doesn't believe in any of that. She says clean your butts, it's similar.

Starting point is 01:28:41 Yeah, yeah. Clean your butts, get tested? It's all similar stuff. It's all in the same realm. But yeah, follow us on, why don't you follow us on- The Netherrealm. Exactly. Follow us on the Netherrealm. Follow us on social media, we're DuggoonPod and yeah. What about our website, duggoonpod.com?

Starting point is 01:28:58 Fantastic place to hang out. Fantastic. Yeah, you can find out about it. Who's got duggoon.com? I don't think everybody went for it. We are stupid. We are from the like I think it anyway I think it's vacant on things still but anyway, it's not gonna be cheap No, no people should sign up for those that patreon I tell you what thanks so much for joining us, Meso

Starting point is 01:29:16 You're very welcome. Listeners would have heard you on an episode a few weeks ago That's how this is going and and it went very well go. Oh, that's how this is going. And it went very well. Very well. Dave, put this baby home. We'll be back next week with another fantastic episode. But until then, I'll say thank you so much for listening and Jess is fine. Good. She's fine. Goodbye.

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Two In The Think Tank - 462 - DB Tuber

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