420: The Jewel Thief

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Fam! You know we're always a fan of a good heist documentary! While Gerald Blanchard was heralded as one of the most skilled and audacious thieves in modern history, his robbing exploits were far from the glamorous hijinks of "Oceans Eleven." Always chasing a bigger thrill than the last get, Blanchard eventually nabs one of the most famous pieces of jewelry in European history, all the while staying one step ahead of some bungling investigators.

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0:00.0	Girl, we are meeting the Chuck Norse of Canada today.
0:02.3	Yeah, whatever.
0:03.2	Okay.
0:04.6	Can you tell I was not the demo for this doc?
0:07.5	You know what?
0:07.8	I totally am.
0:08.9	I know.
0:09.7	I mean, I'm such a sucker for this kind of thing.
0:11.4	We were just, we just went down.
0:12.9	Two roads diverged in a wood and we went down separate directions.
0:24.5	Hi, Julie Betzavali.
0:25.5	Hello, Patrick Heinz.
0:26.4	Are you going to tell them? You got to tell them.
0:27.4	All right, fam, we have launched full video episodes on YouTube for free.
0:32.4	Yes, we just have them now.
0:33.6	We have them.
0:34.1	They're going to look like our current studio, but we're in the process of, like, redoing our whole studio to see like 2017, me and Jillian. Aaron and Tom are like, oh God.
0:55.7	Oh, God.
0:56.8	And a big thanks to Aaron and Tom who are making these videos because I kind of made it sound
1:00.2	like they just appear.
1:01.1	They do not appear.
1:01.9	No.
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