Practice Should Have Made Perfect: The Great Brink's Robbery

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This heist team was more meticulous than most. They planned, they schemed, they made years of dry runs and observations. And the plan went off without a hitch. After the plan? Not so much. In a sort of early Stanford Marshmallow Test, these crimers just couldn't delay gratification. And for that, they paid the price.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:23.1	Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Zarin. Hey, Elizabeth. How are you? Doing pretty well. You good? I'm looking forward to seeing you this week. Yeah, it's good to see you. That didn't seem very emphatic. I didn't seem like a kind of like a checklist. Yeah, I said it. How are you? How are you feeling?
0:37.6	Listen, you know what's ridiculous? I do. Tell me. I'm going to put you on the spot here. Okay, okay. I saw something. I thought this will be a fun thing to ask Elizabeth, because it's ridiculous. There are six U.S. state capitals west of Los Angeles. West of Los Angeles.
0:38.4	Isn't that wild?
0:39.2	You just don't think, I didn't think about that.
0:41.3	Can you name all six?
0:43.4	Juno.
0:44.3	Correct.
0:45.9	Honolulu.
0:46.8	Correct.
0:49.8	What's the Oregon one?
0:51.3	Salem.
0:51.7	Salem.
0:52.3	Correct.
0:54.6	What's Washington? Olympia Salem. Salem. Correct. What's Washington?
0:56.4	Olympia.
0:57.5	Olympia.
0:58.2	Correct.
0:59.0	Okay.
0:59.4	What's that for?
1:00.4	There are two more.
1:01.7	Two more.
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