Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown.

I start to float, I float away from the earth.

Have you ever smoked crack before?

We're all kind of frantically searching for meetings.

They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all

juggles in some way. Yeah, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our

last day, young man. Listen to Here Be Monsters, the Podcast About the Unknown on the KCRW iTunes Page.

From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and right up front

here I'll let you know that there is a fair amount of foul language in the first

story of this episode maybe even in the first story of this episode, maybe even in the introduction to the first

story of the episode. If you're listening on the radio, all those words will be bleeped,

but if you're listening on a podcast or online, those words will not be bleeped. You have been warned.

My Life of Crime, three stories about people making a snap decision that sends them down a road of lawlessness.

So there I am in Mexico, desperate for cash.

The China and the crystal and the silver.

There is a cocky. the china and the crystal and the silver.

There's a car key sitting just on the other side of that window.

Crime often comes as an impulse decision.

I need to get some money right now.

In the three stories of this episode, it's a sudden thought, an idea.

I take a silver spoon off the table.

That seems like the right thing to do at the time

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