Introducing - The Burden: Get the Money and Run

Alphabet Boys

iHeartPodcasts and Western Sound

Society & Culture, Government, True Crime

4.6 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.”

That’s Joe Loya and his path was bank robbery.

Joe was one of California’s most daring bank robbers. He used disguises, body doubles, speeding getaway cars…and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, even as the FBI was closing in. Joe was also a soul searcher, driven by a dark rage he set out to understand. To do that, he must understand why trying to murder his father felt so good.

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Season 5: Get the Money and Run immerses you, the listener, into Joe Loya’s world. This podcast is a fast-moving and entertaining listen that keeps you locked in from start to finish.

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0:00.0	Hello, Alphabet Boys listeners. This is Benadair. I'm the co-creator of Alphabet Boys with Trevor
0:05.6	Aronson, and I'm dropping into your feed today to tell you about a new true crime podcast that's out this week that I know you are really going to love.
0:15.0	It's a true crime story called The Burden. Get the Money and Run. And it's got everything you want in a great story. It's got
0:21.6	high-speed chases, a methodical police pursuit, a murder that changes everything. But it's also
0:28.4	a lot more than that. It tackles big human themes about love, loss, forgiveness, all told
0:35.2	through the story of a man named Joe Loyah, who at one time was one of
0:39.5	Southern California's most prolific bank robbers.
0:42.9	Again, it's called The Burden, Get the Money and Run, and it all started with this one question
0:49.0	that I wanted to find out the answer to.
0:51.9	How on earth does someone become a bank robber? How do you rob a bank
0:56.7	for the very first time? Then I met Joloya, and I got to ask him. How much had you planned this
1:03.4	all out in advance? What did you know going into it? How are you going to go in? How are you
1:07.8	going to get away? None. None. None.
1:14.0	I mean, you can't just rob a bank with no plan, can you?
1:21.5	What I do remember about the day is this.
1:22.8	I started 10.
1:31.5	I walked into the first bank and I grab a slip and I write,
1:36.6	we have a bomb, this is a bank robber and I wrote a bank robbery note.
1:40.2	And then I'm like, oh, fucking I don't want to do this here.
1:42.4	For some reason, this doesn't feel right.
1:45.1	So I start walking away and as I walk away, there's like three cameras at me at the door. And I realized, I could have been busted
1:51.4	right. If anyone just kind of like, you know, zoomed in on the guy who was writing something
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