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Heist Podcast - Episode 58 - The baron

Heist Podcast

Matt And Sie

Society & Culture, History

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This is the tale of Maximilian Shinburn aka Baron Shinbrun. He was a master thief in the late 1800s who got a job at Lily Safe Company (the biggest safe company in the united states) and worked there for an entire year learning everything about the vaults that sat in banks all across the country. And then after that he went bank heist crazy. www.heistpodcast.com

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0:00.0

Today on Heist Podcast, the story of the greatest, most prolific bank robber in history

0:07.3

that chances are you have never heard of.

0:12.1

Heist!

0:15.0

Hoast podcast.

0:18.0

That was definitely more serious than we usually do.

0:21.3

I know you really, you had like a real intentional like pauses and things to it,

0:26.5

whereas usually we make like some dumb joke or a song or something like that.

0:29.4

Yeah, there wasn't some like, yeah.

0:30.7

Maybe we're getting older.

0:32.2

This is, for those of you listening, hello, welcome to another episode of Heist podcast.

0:36.2

This is episode 58, Matt. Yeah. I feel like a 58-year-old man's a no-nonsense man. And it really goes to the show that like, you know, people, when they go into later years, like the years just fly by. The years just fly by. These episodes are flying by. They're flying. Yeah. Everybody, for those of you listening for the first time. this is a show where we discuss heists in the news as well as a famous heist from history, as well as listener correspondence and all sorts of other awesome things. But more importantly, Matt, how are you doing, man? I'm doing good. You did the research for today's podcast, and I was a lazy bum who didn't really read this until a few hours ago.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.4

Boy, you put something together that I'm really excited to talk about.

1:18.8

I'm really stoked on this. Hey, we go back and forth and we take the load off each other's back.

1:23.7

You know, when we research. And this was really cool and it was really an interesting experiment in researching because it wasn't like you could pull up a Wikipedia page.

1:33.9

Yeah, you did some digging.

1:35.4

Yeah, I was reading old newspaper articles.

1:38.3

You know, newspapers have these like clippings that you can look up.

1:40.9

And I was reading those.

1:41.9

And yeah, so it was really cool just putting this whole story together, which makes me really excited because I feel like it, it, uh, no, this is big. This is really great. It's a great story in that a lot of people, I'm sure, have never heard of this. Oh, you did something fantastic here. I can't wait to talk about it. But first, I can't wait to talk about heist news. Should we get into it? Yeah, let's do it.

2:02.2

Hise in the news. Should we get into it? Yeah. Let's do it. Heist in the news.

2:04.7

All right, so big news on the heist wire.

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