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Ridiculous History

J. Paul Getty, Part Two: A Kidnapping Discount

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For members of the mob, the plot to kidnap J. Paul Getty's grandson was a home run -- after all, what's a few million to a literal billionaire? Yet, as it turns out... the mob didn't know who they were messing with. In the second part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore a series of terrifying events that led to one of most ridiculous examples of miserliness in human history.

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1:39.4

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2:07.4

Welcome back to the show ridiculous historians. Thank you all so much as always for tuning in Jay Paul get a John Paul get a JPEG so cartoonishly JPEG incredibly incredibly cheap JPEG was he's a miser.

2:24.4

He's a skin Flint. He never met a penny. He didn't think should be his.

2:30.4

What is the origin of skin Flint it makes me I mean I know we're a family show but it makes me think of skin flute. Oh boy now we learn to you can be put together what you will with that one, but that's what I always think of when I hear skin Flint.

2:43.4

What is the origin I must know it comes from the fact that Flint as like Flint is such a brittle and hard material that you can't remove the skin of a Flint without shattering it.

2:58.4

So people who try to do that are so cheap that they just won't buy more Flint. This was back when Flint was a much more active part of most people's lives for fire.

3:08.4

Man, the more you know.

3:13.4

Yeah, JPEG. Oh man can't believe we went through a whole episode without making that connection. I have another there's another coworker of ours that call JPEG. I used to call Casey Pagrum CPEG and he didn't like.

3:28.4

Yeah, CPEG is good. He didn't like it. He's a very particular dude. That's fair. That's fair. Lovely. I got to see Casey Pagrum in in Corporial form the week or so ago, right?

3:39.4

Yeah, I like it did a training session at the new office and there he was. Same as he ever was. It's been almost over a year since we've seen each other in person. It was really lovely. Yeah.

3:50.4

Oh, that's super producer Max.

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