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Heist Podcast

Heist by Parachute! [#118]

Heist Podcast

Matt And Sie

Society & Culture, History

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today we tell the story of Gerald Blanchard, an incredible criminal that used his vast technical skills to pull off a series of heists as well as run an international crime ring. At one point he parachuted onto the roof of an Austrian palace to steal a priceless peice of jewelery known as the Sisi Star.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Schoenbrun Palace.

0:02.6

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

0:05.6

Best Buy?

0:07.6

Heist.

0:11.4

Hiest podcast.

0:14.4

Hey everybody.

0:15.9

Welcome to an episode of Heist podcast.

0:18.5

I'm Simon.

0:19.6

And I'm Matt.

0:20.4

And this is the True Crime podcast without any of the murder.

0:23.3

Episode 118. Absolutely no murder today. Matt, how are you doing, bud?

0:28.2

Woo, feeling good. This is a great story. And recording Sunday. I'm a little bit,

0:33.7

got some of those Sunday blues, a little sleepy, but I'm ready to jump in on this. Yeah. I mean, this story will empower you. Live vicariously through the story because it's a super hot one. But also, happy to hear you got the blues, man, because that's probably a sign that you had a good weekend. Yeah, you and I did some hanging out last night, and it was good. It might be why I'm a little bit sleepy today.

0:54.6

Yeah, exactly.

0:55.8

But that's neither here nor there.

0:57.9

Let's jump right into it with some heist news.

1:00.2

You ready?

1:00.8

Do it.

1:02.7

Heist in the news.

1:04.9

All right, so this amazing piece of heist news comes in from at Wayne Punkdude on Twitter.

1:10.2

Thanks for sending this in you know you know what

1:12.3

we like uh this is from the BBC and the headline reads fugitive caught after blowing his cover with

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