Hey, everybody. It's me, Kelly Razzberry. And I want to tell you about a new podcast hosted by John Stamos, the grand scheme snatching Sinatra. Now back in 1963, Barry Keenan was broke alone and desperate to save his family from personal and financial ruin in a final Hail Mary attempt to set things right, Barry rolled the dice on an elaborate scheme so bizarre. It's hard to believe it actually happened.

He kidnapped Frank Sinatra, Jr. Now host John Stamos sat down with the kidnapper who tells us the complete story for the very first time, every detail, every plot twist, every goofy character he conned along the way.

You're about to hear a preview of the grand scheme snatching Sinatra. And while you're listening, follow the grand scheme on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or binge all the episodes by subscribing to Wundry Plus and Apple Podcasts or the Wundry app.

The commas nerves Barry turned on the radio.

Every radio station we came, kept announcing the kidnapping.

And then they were playing Frank Sinatra's songs and Jr. came up with a comment like, is that typical of the media? They're now trying to take advantage of this terrible mistake that you guys made and make it into a show business thing.

And then just as they're coming up on the lights of this tiny little mountain town, they just started playing strangers on the night.

Now look, sure it was a coincidence, but the scene is so perfect you couldn't write it.

Think about it, a troubled and mentally unstable drunk, strung out on his misguided fantasy of redemption on the run after committing a felony, albeit one he believes to be divinely ordained.

His reluctant and slightly dimwitted accomplice, the former James Dean of Uni High, battered bruised, frozen half the death, and the passenger seat put loyal to the last.

And in the backseat, the son of Hollywood royalty, woozy on booze and sleeping pills, sneering at the radio for spinning the story of his kidnapping into yet another story about his father.

I thought, wow, how amazing is that? Here we are, three strangers.

Of course, Junior was also being held against his will here, so he didn't have much agency in the narrative Barry was crafting about this trip.

But in Barry's mind, they were just three men, all outcasts in their own way, slipping and sliding down the highway towards an unknown fate.

Salvation or downfall, they could go either way. For Barry, there was only one possible way to interpret this moment.

So I thought it was another divine revelation that we were on the right track and so forth.

Barry was counting on some more divine intervention to see this thing through.

He still had a few hundred miles to drive in a blizzard in order to make it back to the safehouse.

And the perfect soundtrack for his plan of operation wasn't the only thing coming through the speakers.

And the radio was saying, they're going to start a door-to-door search first thing in the morning.

I'm John Stamos, and you're listening to the grand scheme, snatching Sinatra.

Chapter five, strangers in the night.

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