CLASSIC: Conspiracies and Crime: The World's Biggest Heists

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Everyone loves a good heist film -- but how accurate are they? Join Ben and Matt as they delve into the stories of modern history's biggest heists, actual criminal conspiracies carried out across the world to steal millions of dollars' worth of loot. Who got caught? Who got shot? Perhaps most importantly... who got away free, and where might they be living today?

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0:00.0	Welcome back, fellow conspiracy realist.
0:02.8	We are returning to you with one of our favorite subjects of discussion.
0:09.2	Heist.
0:09.9	Did you guys hear recently Guy got arrested in the United Kingdom for stealing $389,000 worth of cheddar?
0:19.4	Oh, man, we love a wacky heist.
0:21.2	There was the one where someone like stole like change, I think, or it was like pennies,
0:26.4	I believe.
0:27.4	There's just some of the wie flavors.
0:29.1	Yeah.
0:29.8	Well, wait, oh, that's right, the blueie coins.
0:32.0	That's right.
0:32.4	Maple syrup cartel.
0:34.1	We've got an episode about why maple syrup heist are surprisingly profitable.
0:39.9	Back in 2019, we started exploring the biggest heist in history, actual criminal conspiracies,
0:49.3	you know, the kind of stuff that's cinematic. And I don't know if you guys remember this one, but it was a
0:57.5	rollicking good time. It was one of those episodes where we had to take a breath off air and
1:03.7	remind ourselves that sometimes people did get shot. Sometimes people did die.
1:09.5	Oh, yeah. You know, the one that we haven't covered that would be
1:13.6	great for this is the one that fight night was based on right wasn't that a kind of a heist or maybe
1:20.2	million dollar heist well it was a stick up at like a poker game that took place during the big
1:24.9	mohammed ali comeback fight but it was a it was a heist of a type for sure.
1:28.7	It counts.
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