You've Got Mail: Another Dive into the Ridiculous Crime Mailbag

I have been inundated. Inundated. Yeah, I'm overwhelmed. I'm drowning in it. Recommendations for a ridiculous for me, It's coming into my Twitter, it's coming into our Instagram. It's all the same one. Everyone's focus on the same one, same one. What pray tell You'll never hear me? Ask this again? What is this hashow? Do you know what HVR is? No? Okay, Well, HBr goes with just about everything, right. I think I do, pete, carrots, French fries, you name it. I think I do. But

ice cream you better believe it. I'm reading from their website. Coming to a walmartin near you on March twentieth, for a limited time only Hidden Valley Ranch ice Cream Ranch ice cream. Oh there's that brand Van Luin. It looks super fancy. Yeah, it has like a fancy box cursive writing yeah, which means fancy box. Yes, of course, and so they have You can't even read that anymore. That's they can't and they certainly can't mimic it. They're not going to draw it on a piece of paper like

a Stucy s No Van Louin ice cream AnyWho. Um, you know, if you go to the Hidden Valley Ranch website, which I do every day to check, you can sign up for Hidden Valley Ranchology rewards. Um, it's a rewards program. Down by slow is a place called Hidden Valley Ranch that looks like it Is that the original? You know? I have no idea, but perhaps let's say it. Yeah, So you can Ranchology one O one, join us, explore

and be rewarded. So sign up. You know, rude dudes, I ask you go to Walmart get some of this garbage, because I know I'm not come back. Report, tell me all about it, give us a flavor review. If you give us flavor reviews, honest to goodness flavor reviews of Ranch ice cream. We will read them. I will read them. That will be ridiculous for me. I will suffer for it. Yes, and I want like in depth, tell me the flavor profile, tell me how it made you feel. What did your

spirit do? You don't have to do this? Yeah? You do? So, that's ridiculous ulous? When will this stop? Never? But Elizabeth, you got a second? I do. It's been a minute, and I thought it was time time, mind you, for us to once again turn the mic over to our fans. Oh, yes, yeah, that's rights a listener male episode. Oh I'm so excited for you. Ready to get ridiculous with dudes? Yes, I

did not even see this coming. This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and ridiculous. Seven to start off. In order to wetch your appetite from what's succumb, allow me to reach into the listener mail bag here beneath my feet and pull out our first segment. Now, this one comes from listener Brogan Luke Boquise. I'm hoping

I'm saying that right. It's b o u w h u I s okay boise so Brogan, whatever it is, it's beautiful, he writes in because y'all love trains, If you visit a certain small town in the America West, a park ranger will show you a crater and tell you the story of a meteor taking out the town's railroad in the aftermath of World War Two. There was no meteor. My dumbass grandfather accidentally blew up a train. Yes, broke,

and we love this. It's incredible. So this is what we were talking about, snitching on your family and reminding us all that there's always more to the stories they get told. Yes. Now, we also receive some very nice emails from a very smart, imperceptive fans. Sometimes they will offer corrections of my my pronunciation of things, which yet those two, or they offer local insights bits of history. Other times, like this email from listener Jim Robertson, the

listeners will give us helpful context. So Jim Robertson, he told us about the more meaningful side of the rainbow bridge. Remember the rainbow bridge. Yes, the rainbow exactly going to Doggie Heaven or whatever the rainbow bridge except be dope. I want to go to Doggie Heaven right right now? Is it me? That's what it is? Okay, I get it. So listener, Jim Robertson, he writes, and I quote, hello, you wonderfully entertaining people. You recently suggested that one should

email just to say you're cute. Well here it is. Well, thank you, John Wow, thank you. Additionally, I heard some confusion concerning Jimmy hendrickson his ascension to dog or pet Heaven. The concept of the rainbow bridge leading to pet Heaven is a recent affectation. Decades ago. When I was studying a religion as an undergraduate, we delved into Zoroastrianism. Back in my youth, the translation of sacred texts referred to

the rainbow bridge, whereon all souls must tread. For the evil, the bridge is narrow and guarded by a demon waiting to push them into an eternity of torture. For the good, the bridge is wide and easily crossed. The last album that Jimmy consciously recorded was the soundtrack from the documentary of which you spoke. It was titled Rainbow Bridge. There you have it. May Ahura Mazda be awaiting you with open arms when you cross over, or maybe your favorite pets. Sure,

that's awesome, that's wish is Jim Roberts. I think that's why dogs get the wide bridge exactly. Yeah, they get just three bridge exactly. That's really you know they're going over, So yeah, that's right. Now, you know how we both love Australia, but having never been there, it's more that we love the Australia of the mind, yes, right, but

we also do love the Australian people. Oh they're they're awesome in reality, like we sure there's some not some awesome people guys, of course, you know the ones that we've encountered, but as a culture, the people that we have met were like, it's west. Yeah, yeah, they're goers. I'm into it. Yeah. So this next one, it comes to us from down Under. Listener Dylan g wanted us to know, Hello, a ridiculous team. Oh wait, let me try that again, A ridiculous team. I have a ridiculous

crime tip for you guys. Saw TikTok about it, thought it might be right up ye alley. He is a quote from a Voice dot com article on it. Dawn Sands was at drinking in his hometown off Wan garretta three hours north of Melbourn when he stumbled upon a bank glitch that briefly made him rich. He'd left the bar to get cash and discovering atm that was allowing him to withdraw way beyond his balance, and after a bit of trial and erra, the twenty nine year old

realized he'd found a loophole and ran with it. Where does this go? Yeah? Doing jeez got us in a benda that lasted some five months. Dan managed to spend around one point six million of the bank's money. What he threw lavish parties, shotted private jets, and paid off his friends university fees, until, unsurprisingly, the police caught up with him. He was getting all this out of an atmack GTM visits do you have to do to pull out? One point six minute? How many different ATMs? He's going back?

Apparently the same one? So well, aren't they getting suspicious that someone's just bleeding it dry? I don't, I don't know. I love this though. This is amazing, And he paid off his friend's school day. What would you do if you got a bank card that was like a magic mystery bank card? Certainly not ranch ice cream. I don't know. I don't know what i'd do. I would, I'd offered to Rihanna, No, I would to make a new album. I like, reread what's it gonna take to get you

in the studio? Like give it as a dowry for yourself? No, no, I'm not like that. I don't think she'd take that up. But I'm gonna give her one point six mil to get in the studio. I'm like, what this is for? I don't care, recording time, the man, whatever you need, just get in there goes. That is something I would not spend the money. Yeah, I know you would, ye money, I might how much? One point what point six mil?

I don't know, you know, not really you don't have like a Rihanna plan, right, I would like, you know, queue up a boombox with some eighties music and go on like a crazy spending spree with my friend Sarah soundtracked spending. We'd have to have the Yeah. I mean, if you're gonna do it, it's like a like a what's it called an yea for a film? Yeah, or TV if you want. I don't know, I don't speak this language, but so yeah, I would just like grab the boombox, Sarah T and I would just walking on

sunshine or something. But how great would that be walking into like the you know, the store, just bumping this music because you're throwing cash at everything. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna go find an atmry and bleat it. I got another one for you. This next one was specifically for you, Elizabeth, for me. Yes, it comes to us from listener Ala gerloc Baretto and Alla wrote to us about a recent Vincent Cassuga like cornering of the market on onions move

in their home country of the Philippines. Oh really yeah, but then they also had a special bit just for you. Okay, so they said, and I quote, Hi, I'm a lay A Filipino American residing in the Philippines. Longtime fan, first time sending you both a letter. So when you did release the onions the Vincent Kisuga story, I thought, Hey, that was just within the last few months here in the Philippines. No idea where Vincent Kisuga is. But we have our fair share of ridiculousness here. First it was

the sugar, then the onions. Maybe the onion mafia is Cassuga related. Well, it turns out I looked into it. Yeah, Filipino onion crisis. It wasn't manmated. There was no cossuga. There's a series of storms that ravaged the Philippines agricultural sector. But the ridiculousness comes in for how people respond to

this onion crisis, and well, first, how bad did things get? Apparently, according to the BBC quote, earlier this month, ten crew members from the Philippines Airlines were investigated for attempting to smuggle nearly forty kilograms of onions and fruits in luggage bags. So they're like getting to smuggling onion levels onions. So okay, on a more positive inspiration from the onion crisis, this is where we cut to you all right, back to

lay quote not a mashup. But Elizabeth might be interested in this bride's bouquet which was made of you guessed it, onions. So there's his pictures in the BBC of this woman getting married the huge bouquet of onions. Wow, like she's just flexing on them. Who got onions? Girls? Yeah? I thought she's like, you know, basically, according to the BBC's quotes, onions have been so sought after that April, like a Bori, chose to carry a bouquet of the crop at her

wedding in Iolo City. I asked my groom if we could use onions instead of flowers, since after the wedding the flowers would wilt and up being thrown away missus piori total local newspaper. So why not onions. It's practical in a way that it could still be used after the wedding. Yeah, you're gonna use them. Then they're gonna

like French. If I ever got married, I would probably have just like a stick with like a long thing of onion rings on it, and then you don't know the bouquet, You just take them off and you fling them out to the good people, a little onion disc at him. You've thought about this, Okay, I like that one. Now this next story, I assume this one has sent for me, but maybe for both of us. Who knows. You remember the shepherd fairy stickers under the giant has

a posse? Yes? Yes, I had a friend who made some that were like a riff on those for himself and put them all over the town. Did he also have a posse? Yeah? Sure, the same sticker. He's like, Bob has a posse. Yeah, that's hilarious. Anyway, Well, apparently, you know Andre the Giant. It may have been said that he needed a posse Shepherd Ferry, but truly clearly the brother did not. That man did not need a posse.

He was a posse exactly. Thank you. So this listener, Anthony Page, he wanted us to know about the time that Andre the Giant once took on the Cedar Rapids Police Department. Oh whoa, yes, I loved this. So the year was nineteen eighty nine August twenty first to be exact date line. Cedar Rapids, Iowa arresting officer Dave Zanner recalled, He's definitely the biggest dude I've ever arrested. So I'll get into it already. Andrew the Giant rusom off. He

stood seven feet four inches tall. He weighed five hundred and twenty pounds. He could drink one hundred beers in a single sitting. I've seen the pictures of him holding a beer and it's like a little tiny baby one. It looks like like a doll silverware. Yeah, and it's like a tall boy exactly. Yeah, that's Salandre the Giant. So trouble started after this giant wrestler is ragdalling a cameraman around inside the US Cellular Center and cedar rapids. Right.

The cameraman, Ben Hilderbrandt, was a local media guy. He's just there to cover the WWF matches because at the time he's WWF before WWE, So he's there to cover the WWF matches the World Wildlife fund Man exactly. The panda is going against the giraffe. So the main event is Andre the Giant versus the Ultimate Warrior. Remember the Ultimate Warrior. He's the one had like face paint and regalia. He had like arm chains and like I don't know,

like like a fringe and ribbons and stuff hanging off him. Yeah, he looked like Burning Man before Burning Man. Okay, so that's him. It sounds pretty ultimate. Yeah, but he's supposed to be like a warrior, so he's gonna fight the giant, right, So hilderbrand is there to film the funny bits, but then he gets warmed that not all the wrestlers would want to play along. Specifically, the seven foot four, five

hundred and twenty pound giant called Andre like him alone. Yeah, as Hilderbrand recalled, the ring announcer comes over and says, Andrea is different. You can't record him wrestling. I said, fine, maybe I can record him walking in and the bell being rung. And then now she said, nah, fine, So Andre walks in, I shoot that, I shoot the bell being wrung, and immediately he's pinned. I'm not even looking and suddenly Andre is on me. So it turns out

the cameraman Hildebrand missed the action. It's what wrestlers would call a squash move. So Andrea is supposed to go in and pin the Ultimate Warrior within thirty seconds. It's really fast, right, the young cameraman totally miss the action. This pisses Andre the giant off makes no sense to me. He storms over, he takes the camera from Hildebrand. Now keep in mind, Hildebrand is about five foot nine, he weighs about one hundred and sixty pounds, so he goes

with the camera pretty much. Yeah, both of them. So, as it's Hildebrand recalled, it was really much like someone who is whipping a towel or piece of paper around. So yeah, that's him getting totally raged. So at some point Hunter. The giants slapped Hilderbrant in the side of the head, just a standard wrestling move, but not for Hildebrands shot out of his heart apologies, ashot other ears before. At some point gone through, the grabs the camera from

Hildebrand and he tosses it down, breaks it, smashes it. Hildebrandt. Fine, he doesn't breaks and smash hildebrand The guy's still there, right, and hildebrand says, quote, I had never been in a fight before or after in my life, and I just got whipped around like a doll in front of four thousand fans, who, by the way, thought this was part of the entertainment. Beer was thrown on me, people spit on me. It was just surreal. So nobody gets it

this as part of the show. So the whole time he's jeered as like the villain, right, he's been treated as the heel. So the promoters of the show are able to get the two men separated. Right once they get Hilderbrandt to safety, what do you think they do? They start yelling at him, like why you mess up the show? What the hell has runs? So now he's getting yelled at by the promoters. Right. Oh, then the

cops show up. So now on the cops show up and they had to do something about this enraged giant who was just beating up this helpless camera man as the fans cheered on. They're like, what do we do? The cops, you know, they get orders from their captain back of the station. He's like, Andre the Giant is to be arrested on assault and crim little message car. They don't have the cups for that exactly, So the

cops they have to go. They find Andre the Giant at this point, he is you know, like they're there to arrest him, right, So they have to go and find him somewhere because he's not on the main stage anymore. He's in the back of the stadium. There's a problem with the finding him. He's naked, right, So when they find him, they find a naked Andre the Giant, all five hundred and forty pounds of him, and he's in

the shower. So now the cops have to stand around and wait for him to finish totally, and he gets like toweled off and everything, and so once the Giant is clothed and his hair is dry, then the cops have to arrest him. So one of the arresting officers is dude, Sergeant Jerry Potter. He goes and he recalls under the Giant's response when the cops tell him, look, you're under arrest, he said, I think this is the

cops off Sergeant Jerry Potter's recollections quote. I don't remember his exact words, but he said something like, I'm not going anywhere and you're not taking me. Yea, what do you do? Exactly? Like, first of all, he's not going to fit in the back of a cop car. Oh, I have answers for that. So they can't shoot him. They don't have tasers. What do they do? They have to ask him nicely to come down to the police department on top of the cruiser. Would you please be

arrested with us? So the arresting officer, Sergeant Potter, he says, I just explained it to him. You're under arrest. You do have to go over to the jail with us, but it's not a big problem. Your manager can follow us, You'll be released and it won't even take long. They're like, look, it's not going a big deal. Something something. Princess bry just come with us. So eventually they convince Andre to

the Giant to come along peacefully. But as you pointed out, they have no handcuffs are gonna fit his enormous wrists. So what did they do. They happen to have leg shackles from the county jail, so they use leg shackles. They pull them out as a real fat. Sergeant Pottery tells Andrew the Giant, I'll use them if you make me. I said it a joking manner, and it got him laughing. When Andre starts belly laughing, it seemed like the whole

room shakes. Yeah, this is huge, dude. They're like, okay, now we got the other question you said, which is how are we going to get them to the station. So they have to fit them in the car. They don't have a car that'll fit them, but they find one that doesn't have the partition between the back and where the cops sit, so then they go, okay, we'll

use this. They put him on one side and they have as his feet go like over the front seat and then over the back seat, so one foot's like in the footwell the back seat, the other foots in the footwell the front seat. And he's he's got his head up against the window and they're able to get him to the police station. They didn't a truck, That's what I was thinking. I'm on a flatbed. Get the wrecker in there, and like, how did he travel around like in a bus? I suppose yeah, generally he did

everything to drive a car. They've shown footage of him driving like stuff. It's yeah, top down, do a lot of convertibles. You know, He's not driving anything with a fixed top. So they eventually get the Giant down there and they go to book I mean they asked Johndrew the Giant for a souvenir while they're booking him because his fingers are too big for the fingerprint car. So

they're using eight by eleven paper to get his fingerprints. Yes, so one of the cops like, I get a full handprint and you get you to sign it, and he slaps him in the face. There's your hand Happily A Bige was like, y'all'll ink on his face forever, like a tattoo the face. So Andre he gets fined one hundred dollars for criminal mischief and in order to pay two hundred thirty three dollars to Casey RG for their

news camera. So and also he's not he's judged not guilty of assault and everything is happy and Cedar rapids Iowa, except for poor Bed and Hilda Brand. Yeah, so I hope he's okay. Yeah. Right, let's take a little break and I'll be back to ragged all you with some more fun facts from the Weird Dudes test Test one two three sending a talk rack to ridiculous crime podcasts. Just in case you were wondering, it's pronounced. All right, Elizabeth, we're back. Hey, and look at that. I've got another

fresh hit of ridiculousness for you. It's all queued up here. So did you know that you've been inspiring p people? No? I did not know that. Yes, you are an inspiration. Oh yeah, you are the wind beneath my wind. Oh no. But for real, people have been wanting to use your baring in their own lives. So listener, Lindsay Shrek writes in subject line baring yea ballast. Yes Hi, I just wanted to drop a line to tell you two quick tidbits.

One dig your podcast early, thank you. Two or in this case, b I just got home from a work conference, enduring every presentation, every speaker, literally any time a person was talking in my presence. It took every ounce of my adulting restraint to keep myself from shouting, baring for all to hear. I must have looked like a lunatic giggling to myself all week. So thanks for that. Keep up the good work. Ridiculous crime is hilarious A plus,

Lindsay Shrek, Yeah, Linds. So I'm stoked. Anything that can make a conference a little more bearable. Yeah, right, man, You're now an influence. So that's scary. Yeah. So we have another one. This one is uh well, it's from my cat named Jackson. I'll get into that in a second. Here your cat, my cat Jackson. Dude, all right, a little my dog Jackson. I've been talking to the neighborhood. This cat down the street told me a story, a

little kitty cat named Jackson. I was taking a walk and he said yea, and I was like, what's that Jackson? And then he told me this. So I'll translate. You're ready, Yeah, wait, let me translate. So I'm from Seattle and I am a lifelong hockey fan. My dad introduced me to the game, and he has been a lifelong fan too. He was even the assistant equipment manager for El Paso, Texas, is

short lived minor league team, maybe the Raiders, I can't remember. Anyway, I love watching the Seattle Crack and even when we lose. But when we are losing, I get this urge. I want a mass text everyone in the city we are losing against with suck at douchebag, literally everyone in the city. I'm being extra here because I mean everybody. By the way, if you read this on the podcast, can you please get Aaron extra and everybody into good voice. It would

make my year. No need to read this part. Oops. Sorry. I write this as the Krack in lose to the Flames and I want to mass text everyone in Calgary and tell them they suck. I know this is dumb, and I need someone to talk me out of it or into it. I've started foolish Google searches on how to do this and emailed you, so there's already a paper trail. I kind of don't care if I get caught doing this. I used to live in a marginally criminal environment as a homeless weed dealer, so nah, I

guess my life needs some dumb excitement. Can you either convince me this is seriously ridiculous and also whether or not to do it completely true listener, need true help, Jackson requiem. Now, I know I have a last name for a first name and a weird name for a last name, so I figured i'd give y'all some help. My last name is pronounced raikwam. It is a bastardized version of rachvam, which I believe means farm by the sea in Norwegian. Love y'all, tons, keep up the awesome work. Wow,

since you know, thank you, Jackson. We appreciate that where you're here for you though, So I bulled this one over. I talked to the katy kat up the stream. I got an answer. I'm happy to help you, right, really, Okay, for the record, telling everyone in the city of Calgary to suck at douchebags via mass texting. Yeah, it's the sort of thing that's best left as a fantasy. Yeah, I would definitely say something. I mean, it's perfect as

a fantasy, it's a beautiful fantasy. As a reality, it'll probably just result in lots of time in a courtroom. So yeah, unless you want to spend tots of time in a courtroom. Keep this one a fantasy. We should start a service where you can text a number whatever angry thing you want, thinking that you're texting an entire city, and then you'll get like a bunch of texts back. Okay, man, that's not fair. No, Calgary is number one. Brot bucko. Yeah, I'll tell you all the book Calgary. Eh, you'll come

over here. Watch your language now. We also receive a lot of meaningful feedback, and so I kind of want to dip in a little, just for a second, and a meaningful one. So we got an email from listener Andrea Robertson. Okay, right, dear all. My name is Andrea Robertson. I live in a little house in the country in northern Vermont. I retired a few months ago at sixty seven years old. It can be a bit isolating, but

I'm okay with it. My routine, at least until the snowfalls, is to sit on my porch late afternoon, tap into your stories and laugh or blurt out you're gidding me. When Zarin gets excited and talks a mile a minute, I crack up. When Elizabeth starts to laugh and can't stop. I do the same. You two are super bright people, and I enjoy producer Dave's input. I have learned a lot roared with laughter and I've had my spirits lifted thanks to your great stories. The bank robberies are the

ridiculously bestest. This is just a note to reach out that you make a lot of difference to people you don't even know. Many thanks, Andrea robertson Northeast Kingdom, Vermont. Oh wow, so you know. So it's incredible everyone, So thank you so much, Andrea. We are doing it for you, and everyone's sitting on porches laughing out loud by themselves. Yes, or everyone at a job that can't Yes, for the workingmen and women. Now, Elizabeth, you love animals, animal stories. Yes,

Producer Dave does well. So listener Dustin Pile has got y'all covered, okay, quote did you know? In nineteen o eight, The New York Times reported on a dog in Paris who saved a child from a river, and he was rewarded with a steak. Over the next few weeks, that dog continued to save more kids from the river for more steak rewards, untill they figured out the dog tossed the kids into the river to save them for the steak treats. That's one kind of dog. I love that dog.

Dustin Pile had another one for you. This is the story of a pig in Texas. Okay quote there is also a pet pig in Texas currently who can escape his house. He can even escape a harness. He then went on an escapade of eating the neighbors jack o lanterns. This led to neighbors being sad because the pig did not eat their pumpkins. Ultimately, the neighborhood and pig owner started a drive to give leftover jack o lanterns to the pig. Again. Thanks for the podcast. Oh yeah, that

runner your beer? Your mother's dog. Bob, Dude, Bob can get out of any harness. Yes, And when she takes the dog to the vet, like when she takes Bob, she basically has to wheel him in Hannibal Electric style like job to something he can't move because otherwise he'll weezle out and then go stand in the middle of the road and be like, what are you gonna do? Do you want to chase me? Do you want to play traffic games? I love Bob but man, he's a shirt.

I got three words for you. Ready, huh bum Farto shirts? Oh? Oh yeah, yeah, where's Bumfarto? Exactly? Listener Logan Wilkerson. He went on, and where's Bumfarto's shirt? Hunt? Oh yeah, he writes, and I hope this is the right email address. But I love y'all show. I listened to it at work, and I listen to new episodes when one comes out, and it's nice that y'all make me laugh at work. But anyway, I got just done listening to your new episode.

And if you go on Amazon, there are Where's Bumfarto? Shirts? And the Depo hospital is real. I had to look it up. Paul. I hope this does reach you, and if not, it's too much to ask. Can you give a shout out to Logan from Tennessee? So I know you got the email about the where's bum far those shirts? Okay, y'all, so I thought we could do this on three. Let's give a shout out to Logan Wilkerson from Tennessee. Shout out there. Good. Now, by the way, Logan had another

story to share. Okay, you're ready. I don't know if this would be considered a ridiculous story. But I have a story about my uncle who's currently serving a prison sentence for an elementary school break in spree across three counties Smith Wilson into Cab County or around the mid two thousand tents. Some details I know is that my baby mom is the one who did the driving while

he did the break in. And I don't know if it was every time, but they would have their son with them, and they got caught because an officer drove by a school and noticed it was broken in. And ironically, this officer and his family knew my mom and stepdad. This wasn't the first time he got in trouble with the law. Back in the early two tents, my uncle and this guy robbed a school and Mount Joliet. When the videos and pictures were shown on news networks, I

was at work on break when I saw them. The first thing I thought to myself was what the excuse the language? And I called my mom and she knew. Basically, it seemed like a lot of people on side knew it was him because of his mannerisms, but my grandmother was in denial about it, and I think her and my grandfather got into an argument about it because he knew it was him all my grandmother said it wasn't a little while later he got arrested, but it turned

out to be for a different charge. And that's all I can remember about it, yea. Anyway, keep up the good working on the show. I'm loving it. Wow. I just loveing family all knowing immediately it's him on TV, like, oh, that's Uncle Johnny. I know that walk that I recognize that little anyway, So Elizabeth, I got four more words for you, Yes, but in this case of four words are also for producer Dave. Oh yeah, the Buddy Sancy musical. Yes, Island's finest now listener Brian writes in and I gotta

quote him. Hey, guys, I loved your episode on Buddy. You reminded me how much I loved and miss Buddy. I'll never forget the night the Feds charged him. The local news sent a young reporter out to a bar to get reactions from locals. She obviously wasn't from around here because she was shocked that everyone's reaction was just and she could not convince anyone it was about thing we all know, Buddy was corrupt. But he was corrupt

for us exactly. I met a stafford at a bar once and she told me a great story about a woman who came to his office representing a charity and he shouted, to someone, where's the money from that drug bust? Give it to this lady. You have to understand, though, that Rhode Island was a mob state at the time. The patriarcha family operated more or less in the open and did a great job of keeping disorganized crime down. In fact, one of my first jobs was that a

known mob front. It made for a great story in college. Whenever someone asked what I did over the summer, I tell him I worked for the mob. They turned white and asked what I did. I told him I was a short order cook. So I can't. I still can't watch mob movies because they always make the mafia out to be bad guys. Nonsense, and you missed a great detail. Buddy had a locker at the Capitol Grill. I believe it was locker number one, with a few bottles of

his Marinera in it, even while he was in prison. Cheers, Brian, So right, you gotta love the bit about we all knew Buddy was corrupt, but he was corrupt for us that, you know. Listen, I will put up with, you know, municipal corruption if they take care of the people. Yeah. I'll just say, now, Dave, do you is this accurate? I mean, were we speaking out of turn here? Yeah? Mari Narrow bottles cigars and I think a backup to pay is amazing. All the capital grill just on demand.

So I got another one for you. This is from listeners, doctor Stephen Angel. Okay, he writes in quote, I don't know if this is necessarily a crime yet, but could be. And the headline alone, Yeah right, excry just letting us know. I'm about to give you guys great a content. Watch this space, hold my beer now. Headline he sent in was player at Saint Louis Chess Cup accused of using anal beads to cheat. Oh yeah, so that face you

just made me amazing. By the way, thanks so. According to the Riverfront Times quote, the matching question happened on September four during the sink Field Cup, one of the longest running chess tournaments in the United States. It is the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour. It features some of the world's best chess players, as well as

three hundred and fifty thousand dollars total prize fund. So the story goes on to note in round three of the Cup, Magnus Carlson thirty one, a chess grand master from Norway, played against Hans Niemann nineteen, a chess prodigy originally from San Francisco. So stories start a pick up, right, So a grand champion goes as this young upstart from the city. Right, Yeah, not exactly alarm bells yet. But

when did the anal beats enter the picture? Great question, Elizabeth, I know you wanted to know to know before the news story outlines who these two chess champs are and the relative to each other. Let's just get into that first. We'll get into the anal beats next. Thank you, so stay patients. Quote. Carlson is a five time grand champion and one of the greatest chess players in the world. He's been a chess for nom since he was thirteen, and there's even a documentary about him titled Magnus that

found a general audience beyond just chess players. Nieman is also a grandmaster, though according to World Chess dot Com, Nieman was the lowest rated player at the tournament other than that little dig at the end, right right. The last time these two faced in an online tournament, Carlson lost to Niemen, right, So who then said in his post victory press conference, the chess speaks for itself. That's the young upstart. Right after that, he went on to

lose two of the next three matches against Carlson. So well, the chess spoke for itself exactly. He set himself up on that one. So cut to the chess event in Saint Louis, the one under question. Yeah, Nieman beats Carlson in this shocking victory that Fiss referred to as quote an upset for the ages. Now, why would VISs say that,

You know, I'm not what they're known for their chess. Now, it's according to the Riverfront Times, Carlson had played fifty three classical matches without a loss, and Carlson was playing white, which has a statistical advantage over black since white moves first in chess. Now, after the victory, Nieman told this Saint Louis Chess Club, which subsequently posted his comments and a YouTube channel for everyone to see. Quote. I think Carlson was just so demoralized because he's losing to an

idiot like me. It must be embarrassing for the world champion to lose to me. I feel bad for him. Oh right, So now the gossip starts. He's basically texted, suck it, yeah, exactly due the whole city of this guy. So the YouTube videos get posted. More YouTube videos get posted. Another chess champion, this dude, Hikaro Nakamura. He posts a video where he outlines his theory that Nieman cheated, and so Weiss follows this you know, and it basically explains

Nakamura's whole theory. Weiss describes a discussion of this player who could cheat by quote using vibration based buttons in a player's shoe. And here Elizabeth is where anal beads entered the picture. Okay, enter Elon musk. Oh. He followed the drama in the chess world, and being Elon musk he wanted to add his two cents. He tweeted a riff on a quote from philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and I quote, talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one can see because it's in

your butt richest man in the world. Yeah. Yeah, so that tweet has since been deleted. Really, you can always count on Elon Musk to give his twelve year old boy opinion on everything. So keeping things weird and inedible for you, I have another one for you. Well wait, yes, I feel like there was a Reddit post about chess cheating. Yeah, same story, it's the same one. Yeah, but I don't think it involved anal beats an all beat. Oh, well,

there's are you talking about? There's a poker where the poker cheating where they had the woman going against the guy and they accused her of cheating. Now you know that. I'm a big a Subreddit lurker. Yeah, and I feel like there was something another, like it was like in a local chess club. Oh, I don't know, I don't whatever. There's been a lot of cheating, Like there's the fishing cheating in the Bass Championship, there was cheating in poker,

cheating in the chest. There's been a lot of cheating. That fish story of waiting the Fish I am. I would love to do an episode on it, but I just don't have enough. I've like done all sorts of deep dive research Yeah. That's the one problem with those stories is unfortunately there's not enough for us to stretch it into a full show. Yeah, so you get it like this to get this so yeah, So I have another one for you. This is from listener Tree. Wait

a minute, erin. Yeah, it looks like it's to add o' clock. Oh it's at a clock? Oh is it? I need some ads to keep going? Well, then that's you're right, producer Dave. Let's we'll sidetrack this because I know you like trains, Elizabeth. We're gonna put this on a side spur. Thank you, producer Dave, and we'll be back in a flash after these ads ragged all you around. Hey, I'm listening to your podcast. Hello, Elizabeth and Zaren, thank you

so much for doing the podcast. It is Stephanie from Minnesota. Hey, Elizabeth and Zaren, just want to say thank you for the great work that you do on this podcast. It's my very favorite. This podcast is like one of the funniest podcasts I've found about crime. No, I'm sorry, the only podcast I've ever found about crime. All lesbet We're back in. Those ads were delicious, Thank god, they're so good. I bought everything so keeping things weird and in edible.

Did you buy like the public service announcements? I hope there are all public service announcements. I did bottom. I bought all gold. It was just gold, gold gold. But look, I can't trust the market anymore, No, who can. I gotta buy gold. Yeah, I had that in like paper products, and then if you guys bridge you can sell me. I got all the toilet paper I gotta. I got a storage unit, just filled a toilet paper for the next time. Everyone wants toilet paper. I got damn covered paper.

Don't go bad. No, So anyway, listener, Tracy m she wrote to us, did you want us to let know about another ridiculous thing. It's called the Spam Museum of the And it's not an email museum, it's canned meat museum. Yeah. So, according to TRACYM had a quote, Austin, Minnesota is home of spam. Spam, as you know, was the first can meat that didn't need to be refrigerated, which was beneficial

in the war. Now spam is popular all over the world. Hormel, I think bought out spam, but one of the conditions of the buyout from the owner creator of spam was at the headquarters, had to stay in this tiny town of Austin, Minnesota, and a certain percentage of yearly sales of spam had to go back to the community, and another larger percentage of sales had to go to a cancer researched institute that is also located in Austin, Minnesota. Yeah, all dope stuff. Way to go spam, right, how much

cancer has spam cost? Oh? Come on saving more people that it's putting over. That is true, that's sustaining. The spam stand for something. Yeah, it's uh, what is it? Some pretty as meat? No, it's some pretty as I think it's a it's some thing about pork and ham. It's I don't I don't remember. I don't know. Okay, Yeah, yeah, some pretty as meat. That's what it stands for. Now.

In Austin, there is a spam museum quote where they have all sorts of spam facts and facts and things to look at, like a motorcycle to drove across country on Greece. Not sure if it was spam juice. It is actually an interesting and fun museum. While they're visiting, one of the workers told us all sorts of fun facts about spam. The best was about a man from England who loved spam. I mean loved it. He loved it so much that he went to the Crown to ask to have his name changed. Not sure what his

name was before, but let's say John Smith. So John Smith changed his name to John I Love Spam. He also got married and his wife took his I Love Spam last name. John I Love Spam wanted to get married at the Spam Museum and their response was you spam and believe it. I added that part. They said, we will allow you to get married at the spam

Museum as long as we pay for it all. So they flew him and his friends and a family to America, had a big media event with news cameras, and I think I Am even sent them on us honeymoon as well. TRACYM wow. So it's not really a crime in that one, but it was ridiculous. It is totally ridiculous. I didn't know there's a spam museum, so now we know, and there's John I Love Spam out there somewhere in the world where I don't think so. I wonder if he goes to Hawaii and they're like yeah, oh my god,

they're like brought up. Yeah. Now this next one we have an email is from listener Steph Stewart. Okay, right, this is the last of the emails for you, right, okay, so buckle up. Yes, quote hello, I just quote hello. That was it. It was a short email. Ridiculous, right, suck. So this one goes and I quote I just adore your podcast. I used to work as a nine one one emergency dispatcher, and the ridiculous crimes were a big

reason I love my job. I have some short crimes that I thought you would enjoy, some from my time as a dispatcher, and some from my hometown of Waukeisha, Wisconsin. Well, we'll read just one because she was kind enough to give us a bunch. But for this story, Steph is given it the title the Gorilla Man. I already loved this, so she wrote, this one is my favorite because I was the connecting factor to solving this case years after it took place. So, like you, special investigator, she's down

to solve a mystery years after the case. She got to the bottom of a gorilla man mystery. So, Elizabeth, are you ready for this one? Yeah? I'd like you to close your eyes. Picture it. Picture quote. When I was a freshman in college, I lived in an on campus housing. One day, one of my classmates came knocking on my door unannounced. You'll never guess what just happened. A guy dressed as a gorilla jumped out at me from behind the bushes. She excitedly told me, Oh, no,

is he okay? I asked you. See, my friend did not look intimidating in the least. She was a little Korean woman. Little did most people know she was a black belt in some type of martial arts. You can't remember which anymore, but from Atlanta, Georgia. She had started martial arts to protect herself in her neighborhood. She had beaten the gorilla man too badly, just enough that he ran off. Yes. So fast forward a couple of years

and I'm working as a nine one one dispatcher. During a dead stretch, my co worker started telling me stories from before I started at the department. Quote, just a couple of months before you started here, she shared, there was this guy in a gorilla suit who kept jumping out from bushes at people. By the time our officers would arrive he would be gone. We could never figure out who he was, since you know, he had a

guerrilla mask on. Then one day he just stopped. We haven't gotten a single call about a guerrilla man since I know what happened, I said. I then told her about my friend and her lightning fast reflexes. After work, I headed over to my boyfriend's apartment unrelated. He's now my husband and also loves your podcast, and told him all about how I solved the mystery what happened to the guerrilla man. Jeremiah sat there quietly for a minute before saying, so that's why he got rid of that what?

Needless to say, I was intrigued. You know my old roommate who rented that TV, the one who's jeep you filled with tumbleweeds? Yeah, that one. What about him? So he had this gorilla costume he always had in his backpack, and then one day it was gone and he would never tell us why. Next time I shared a ship with that coworker, I told her the rest of the story. It was such a weird coincidence. I'm not even sure she believed me. I wow, right, that's an amazing story.

So good. So Steph also recalled when the Stratavarius was stolen in Milwaukee, which we've covered, and she writes, quote, I also remember when the Stratavarius was stolen in Milwaukee. It was right before my parents came out to help me with my first baby, when the master art thief wanted to keep the violin in Milwaukee. That's just the most Wisconsin thing I've ever heard coming from that area. There's a lot of local pride. It's kind of fun. Steph Stewart, I love it. Thank you, Steph. Oh that

was so good. I love the Gorilla Man story. That's one of my favorites. I love the local pride. I wish that, by the way, for anyone, not just people in the Midwest in the South, but I love where you are from, or maybe you should move and find somewhere you do love well. I mean, I think right now, it seems like I've talked about next door and everyone I know all over the country who lurks on next

door like I do. Everyone complains about everything and they're you know, kind of fearmongering, And I think it's a good idea to stop and think about the things you

actually like the exactly about where you live. I mean not to be like all like gratitude warrior about it, but you know, like maybe like you know, listics to yourself, a couple of things you love about where you live, so they can kind of balance out all the things about like man, the car break ins or whatever it is in your neighborhood that are getting you bummed out because there's a lot to love. But also you know what, not to get super cheesy on it, but to get

super cheese belt to bring it. It's a good idea to just do that in general, not just from where you are, but like you know, when you're thinking in an kind of negative headspace, to stop and be like, Okay, what are the things that are rad right now? Yeah we can be thankful for yeah little perspective, Zar and I am thankful for you row listen to you. Wow, I'm now I'm gonna have to ask you what was your diculous takeaway? Oh well, now, Dave, you owe me

five bucks. My takeaway is that once again the listeners have come through. Yeah right, with's just incredible stuff, ridiculous stuff. Yeah, it's amazing. We have the best fans. We're ridiculously lucky to have you all along for the ride, so thank you. Yeah, and thanks for listening exactly. So that's our show. Awesome anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it. This one was for you. You can find us online if you like, at Ridiculous Crime, on Twitter and Instagram. We're all over the place, really,

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