Ep. #246: What If You Stole a Hotel?
The What If? Podcast
Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud
4.6 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In 2018, Mickey Barreto checked into a hotel. Over the next five years he refused to leave, briefly owned the hotel, tried to take down an international cult, and got arrested.
Sources:
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
The History of The New Yorker Hotel
A loophole got New York City man a free hotel stay for five years until he claimed to own the building
How to Fake-Own the New Yorker Hotel
Missing 411 David Paulides Presents Missing Person Cases from Montana & Oregon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | conspiracy podcast any percent one hour hi buddy i don't know why i don't know why i cut that off |
| 0:18.4 | so early but hello we're here i played like a bar and a half of our intro song. |
| 0:24.2 | It's because it's a speed run. |
| 0:25.5 | Of course, that's why you did it. |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:27.1 | We got, we got hurry up. |
| 0:30.1 | If it's a speed run, you better get to the shit, my boy. |
| 0:34.3 | Fuck an intro. |
| 0:35.1 | We're here. |
| 0:35.7 | We're back. |
| 0:36.3 | What's up? |
| 0:37.0 | We're in a hurry i'm gonna play all the longest |
| 0:38.8 | sounders that that's why you did it we needed room for the longest sounders so you have to cut the |
| 0:44.9 | intro right right right right right that's fair that's fair only fair how you doing bud well's |
| 0:50.5 | hadginen what's uh let's get right to it what's's, what's your joy for the, what's it been? Last 17 months? Last 17 months. |
| 0:59.6 | I know, I know it's been a minute because when I opened up my laptop that I now only used for recording podcasts because it's the super old one that I haven't moved the soundboard session off of. |
| 1:11.1 | It told me that I have not backed up my computer in 1738 days or roughly five years. |
| 1:19.4 | I'm pretty bad at math, but yeah, I think that's like about five years, which would have been probably when that soundboard was made. |
| 1:27.3 | Oh, that was like 2017, 16 or 17. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, I mean like whatever the newest iteration of it was made. |
| 1:33.9 | Oh, right, right. |
| 1:34.6 | Yes. |
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