Diamond Wheezers: Aging Thieves Plan One Final Heist
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén
Spotify Studios
4.7 • 30.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Death comes for everyone. |
| 0:11.3 | But humans never stop trying to bargain. |
| 0:14.1 | As long as we've felt time closing in, we've chased myths and miracle stories about |
| 0:19.3 | springs that can rewind the clock or help us outrun the end. |
| 0:24.1 | The fountain of youth might be the oldest of them. |
| 0:27.1 | A shimmering promise that somewhere out there is a way to live forever. |
| 0:33.1 | In 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon sailed north from Puerto Rico. |
| 0:37.1 | Officially, he was looking for new land, but, legend says, |
| 0:41.4 | he was also chasing that fountain. |
| 0:44.2 | A middle-aged conquistador desperate to reclaim what time had already taken. |
| 0:49.4 | To carve his name into history before history, |
| 0:52.7 | erased him. |
| 0:54.9 | He never found immortality. |
| 0:57.4 | He found Florida. |
| 0:59.3 | But the impulse behind his journey never died. |
| 1:02.8 | It just change his faces across centuries. |
| 1:06.1 | That same hunger, the refusal to fade quietly is what drives today's story, about a retired |
| 1:12.2 | criminal chasing his own private fountain, one perfect final heist to bring his name and |
| 1:18.7 | his life back from the dead. |
| 1:22.8 | Let me ask you, when the fear of fading, said Sen, what would you risk to outrun it? |
| 1:32.9 | I'm Harvey Guillain, and this is Killer Stories. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm Harvey Guillain, and this is Killer Stories. It's 2015. |
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