255 - The Transy Book Heist
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Summary
On the 17th of December, 2004, Transylvania University librarian Betty Jean Gooch was waiting for her meeting with a man named Walter Beckman - within hours, a crime was committed that is now listed among the F.B.I.’s all-time most significant art-theft cases... it was also one of the most bungled. Listen to hear what went down!
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/transy-book-heist
https://web.archive.org/web/20110210225111/http://transy.edu/about/name.htm
https://people.com/movies/true-story-behind-american-animals/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Animals
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article212180224.html
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. |
| 0:03.0 | Visit PlanetBroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. |
| 0:18.5 | My name is Dave Waniki and as always I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. |
| 0:23.0 | We're here! |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:25.0 | I genuinely just stopped for a second and we were like, |
| 0:29.0 | oh no, this is where I meant to talk. |
| 0:32.0 | Wow, I can't believe that was going to be the record of me fucking this show. |
| 0:36.0 | Do you think? |
| 0:37.0 | Time wise. |
| 0:38.0 | Seven seconds in. |
| 0:39.0 | It's going to go out of Do a Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | He's that good. |
| 0:43.0 | Well luckily, Matt, you're in charge today of the report. |
| 0:46.0 | It's not like you'll have to have too much input on this episode. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, great. |
| 0:50.0 | Can I have a time out at any time, if you want? |
| 0:52.0 | All right. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, I think I've already used that token up. |
| 0:57.0 | I really want to just get straight into it because it's a longish one. |
| 1:01.0 | You guys up for just kicking in, cracking on. |
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