#47 Criminals (Part 2)

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! It’s time to take a look at some of the most infamous criminals history has to offer; the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the infamous Al Capone and American crime boss Arnold ‘The Brain’ Rothstein. Also.. What were you doing during the great storms of the past? If you’ve got anything on that or anything at all! Do send us an email at: [email protected] If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER? In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get: - two bonus episodes every month! - ad-free listening - episodes a week ahead of everyone else - And first dibs on any live show tickets Subscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.com You can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod Aaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice? Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk). Chris, Elis and Tom x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to part two is laugh and with it wrong.
0:16.8	All right, I'm here to tell you about notorious gangster, Al Capone.
0:21.8	He came up a little bit in our Al-Katraz episodes, Great Escapes,
0:27.0	because he was once a prisoner at Al-Katraz, but let's give you the backstory now, born
0:31.0	Al-Fons, Gabriel Capone, born the 17th of January 1899 in Brooklyn his parents
0:35.9	came from just outside Naples his father was a barber his mother a seamstress
0:39.6	the older capones they arrived in New York in 1893 and they settled in Navy Street and that is where Al grew up and when he was 11 years old they moved to the Park Slope Area of Brooklyn, which is now one of New York's most desirable neighborhoods.
0:52.6	Oh, he must have great.
0:54.0	If his father was a barber and his mother was a seamstress,
0:56.5	he must have looked great.
0:57.5	That's a great!
0:58.5	What amazing clothes, fantastic hair.
1:00.5	Well, funnily enough, he was known for dressing really well.
1:05.0	Oh really? His nickname was Snorke and he was known for being sharply dressed.
1:10.0	Of course, his other nickname was Scarfaceface which referred to his facial scars that he got from being slashed with a knife
1:17.0	But that was the nickname he hated.
1:19.0	If you get in your one day time machine you meet Al Capone do not call him Scarface that is the nickname
1:24.8	he doesn't call him Alan.
1:26.7	Alan!
1:30.7	Alan!
1:31.0	Alice so good to see you Alan.
1:34.0	I don't think it completely changes it, doesn't it?
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