Selling the Eiffel Tower [#134]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In 1925 Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel tower to an up-and-coming scrap metal dealer. One thing though, the Eiffel tower wasn't for sale and the whole thing was a big ol' scam. This also wasn't Lustig's only scheme either, he also sold a machine that printed $1000 bills. Check it out. Also in Heist News -- keep an eye out for hot tubs on the black market.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey buddy. |
| 0:01.8 | Yo. |
| 0:02.5 | Come over here for a sec. |
| 0:03.7 | So, man. |
| 0:04.0 | What you got? |
| 0:04.6 | You interested in buying something a little crazy? |
| 0:07.4 | What do you got, man? |
| 0:09.3 | How about buying the Eiffel Tower? |
| 0:14.5 | Heist podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | That was more theatrical than we're used to, Matt. |
| 0:29.2 | That was stretching our limits there, if I'm being honest. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Heist Podcast, The True Crime Podcasts without any of the murder. I'm Simon. |
| 0:38.7 | And I'm Matt. And this is episode 134. Still doing it remote. I'm still in Canada. Matt's still in |
| 0:46.3 | America. Matt, how you doing, buddy? Doing good. I think we got a really, really fun episode coming up. |
| 0:51.8 | And it's a swelteringly 110 over here. So, uh, yeah, |
| 0:56.3 | it's a little steamy. Wow, it looks steamy. I don't know. People obviously can't see the |
| 1:00.5 | video through that we're talking through, but it, it looks steamy, like literally, like there's |
| 1:04.7 | steam in front of you. Yeah, that's just because I dropped my phone this weekend. I broke the |
| 1:08.8 | little FaceTime camera. |
| 1:17.3 | Well, either way, it's working for this form of picking up on how hot it is there. |
| 1:22.3 | But enough about your steamy camera, dude. We got a crazy story. We got some good heist news. |
| 1:24.0 | Should we get into it? Let's do it. |
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