570: Marc Fennell | Cracking California's Nut Jobs
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Marc Fennell (@MarcFennell) is an award-winning journalist, interviewer, author, and documentary maker. He is also the writer and narrator of Audible Original Nut Jobs: Cracking California's Strangest $10 Million Dollar Heist.
What We Discuss with Marc Fennell:- Who stole $10 million in nuts (specifically almonds and pistachios) from California's Central Valley farmers -- and why?
- Why are nuts (and prepackaged food in general) such ideal targets for theft, and how do current security protocols make it so temptingly easy for thieves with the means to haul them away?
- What makes nuts grown in California's Central Valley valuable enough for organized criminals to take notice, and where do they go?
- Who wins and who loses when hot nuts change hands?
- What will it take to stop these heists from continuing?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | The organized criminals would get into that system, |
| 0:05.9 | get the contact details, get the paperwork, |
| 0:08.5 | then they'd call the truck driver, |
| 0:09.9 | we'll send the truck driver and mess it up, |
| 0:11.0 | go, hey, hey, hey, just to change the plans, |
| 0:12.4 | actually our shipping details have changed. |
| 0:14.0 | We actually needed to take it here. |
| 0:15.5 | Truck driver who invariably was being paid cash and sort of, |
| 0:19.6 | and usually had to do multiple different loads at once. |
| 0:22.4 | They're just like, yeah, cool. |
| 0:23.7 | Rock up, get paid, leave. |
| 0:25.6 | It was actually happened is that they've been hijacked |
| 0:27.6 | and they don't realize it. |
| 0:28.6 | And then another truck comes along and they attach the back of them, |
| 0:31.6 | they go off, take it to a different port. |
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