Inside an Addict’s Bank Robbery Spree – Drug Addiction, Crime, and Consequences | Mason Balbier

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Mason Balbier shares how drug addiction led to a shocking bank robbery spree, the high-stakes moments, and the consequences that followed. From desperation to incarceration, this is a real story of crime, addiction, and the fight for redemption. #BankRobbery #AddictionRecovery #TrueCrime #DrugAddiction #CrimeStory #PrisonStory #OvercomingAddiction #Redemption Thank you to THE PERFECT JEAN & NORDVPN for sponsoring today’s episode: The Perfect Jean: F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code LOCKEDIN15 at https://theperfectjean.nyc/lockedin15 #theperfectjeanpod NordVPN: To get the best discount off your NordVPN plan - go to https://nordvpn.com/ianbick which willalso give you 4 extra months on the 2-year plan. There's no risk with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Connect with Mason Balbier: https://www.instagram.com/mason_t_b?igsh=MWFjaXdpanE5NjA1bQ== Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://convictclothing.net/collections/convict-clothing-x-ian-bick Timestamps: 00:00:00 From Felonies to Entrepreneurship: Mason's Transformative Journey 00:05:25 Early Life and Family Challenges 00:11:09 The Ultimate Travel Test: Relationships and Adventures 00:16:54 Struggles with Addiction and Descent into Drug Abuse 00:22:38 Growing Up in a Jewish Neighborhood 00:28:14 Reflecting on 10 Years Clean: A Journey from Addiction 00:33:59 How NordVPN Protects Your Online Privacy 00:39:20 Plotting a Drug Deal Heist 00:45:10 A Series of Crimes and Arrest 00:50:51 The Bank Heist: A Personal Account 00:56:51 False Accusations and Deception 01:02:34 Life Inside North Carolina State Prison 01:08:28 Transformative Encounter in Prison 01:13:12 From Work Release to Reselling Sneakers: A Journey to Success 01:18:28 From Construction to Sneaker Business: A New Path 01:24:25 Successful Store Launch and Vision for Expansion Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mason, welcome to Lockton. We're in L.A. right now at Spotify Studios. Pleasure having you on the show, man.
0:06.2	Thanks for having me. And thanks for being a listener of the podcast on YouTube. You're not a Spotify listener. You're a YouTuber.
0:13.1	I love, I just love a ratchet prison story, man. So you came up in my algorithm on my feed one time. It's been, I don't know, it feels like a couple years or something. And yeah, I just, you know, I've been watching ever since. That's so cool, man. Well, I appreciate you reaching out to me, you know. For anyone that's listening that doesn't know, you can literally just DM me or email me on, you know, on Instagram, social media. I respond. You come on the show if you have a
0:37.6	cool story to share. Yeah, you know, I didn't know if it was cool, but I've been arrested a lot.
0:44.1	And, you know, I remember one time I was in this like little jail in Henderson, Hendersonville,
0:50.0	North Carolina. And my lawyer brought me my criminal record. And it was like, you know, it was so,
0:56.4	I couldn't believe how bad it was, you know. And at that time, I was up to like 75 or something.
1:02.1	And it ended up at 97, 97 felonies. Wow. And now you're an entrepreneur. You own your own
1:09.2	businesses. Definitely plug those in and what you do now.
1:12.5	So my wife, Beck, and I own three retail stores. Follow the stores. So you have DG Reserve MD for Maryland. That one's near Baltimore, Maryland. There's another one called Daly's, D-A-I-L-Y-S-Towson.
1:33.6	It's like cozy stuff, sweats, hoodies. We designed a line of clothing ourselves. Everything's made in L.A. It's all L.A. brands, but it's on the East Coast. And then we have another DG reserve.
1:46.4	DG. Dot Reserve. That one's in North Carolina. Awesome. Yeah. Very entrepreneurial. And we'll
1:51.8	have the links to those. Do you do an online store at all or no? Yeah. Yes, we do.
1:57.3	Okay. Well, we'll have those in the description of this episode for you. Nice. Thank you. And anyone listen in those areas, check out Mason's stores. Mason, D. Okay. We do, yeah. Well, we'll have those in the description of this episode for you.
2:00.8	Nice.
2:01.0	Thank you.
2:01.5	And anyone listen in those areas, check out Mason's stores.
2:14.6	Mason and Becca. Yeah, I got to shout out my wife. She runs the show. She didn't want to come today? I didn't know I could bring a guest, you know, when you told me about that drunk guy, you know, around like fish tailing. Yeah, I was like,
2:16.7	my wife has a cool story too, you know?
2:17.8	She went to prison?
2:17.8	No, not prison, but, you know? She does? Oh, she went to prison?
2:18.7	No,
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