My Fugitive Dad | 1. Becoming Thomas Crown

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Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.0 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The summer of 1968 one of the most iconic heist movies ever made came out. The Thomas Crown Affair starred Steve McQueen as a clever businessman who pulls off an elaborate robbery. Ted Conrad, a kid from Cleveland, admired this film so much he walked out of Society National Bank with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a paper bag. Some say he stole the money for the same reasons Crown did: to see if he could get away with it. But Ashley wonders, what was his real motive? Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad, ad-free right now. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Neon Hum Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	podcasts.
0:31.6	The Binge. The bench.
0:34.0	Okay, I guess if we're going to tell the story from the top, we kind of need to start with the movie. You got to give the people
0:45.5	what they want.
0:52.1	The Thomas Crown affair was released in 1968.
0:55.0	It was one of the most iconic heist films ever made. Go.
1:05.0	In the movie, Thomas Crown is a clever and charming businessman who pulls off an elaborate and inimitable robbery of a bank in Boston, Massachusetts.
1:17.0	Go.
1:18.0	Steve McQueen is the lead. His character is already rich. He does it seemingly because he can.
1:27.0	The getaway car, a wood-paneled station wagon, exits the Massachusetts turnpike, canvas sacks of money in the trunk.
1:40.0	The driver drops them off in a trash can at the Cambridge Cemetery.
1:45.0	A little while later, McQueen arrives in a black rolls Royce to pick up the sacks.
1:50.0	He drives home. His butler asks him about his day.
1:54.0	Fine, just fine.
1:57.0	He tells him, go home early.
1:59.0	Thank you, sir.
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