Shortcut: The young law student who began robbing TABs - Part 1
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
We're going back to the "stick ups" this week with Arthur Bolkas.
He's a Criminologist, actor, public speaker and proud father of two.
However, before he was all of these things, he was a very promising young law student, and a flamboyant armed robber.
Part two of this two part series will be released later on this week.
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.0 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.4 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:42.0 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.5 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | We're going back to the stick-ups this week on Australian True Crime with Arthur Bulkis. |
| 1:16.2 | He's a criminal activist actor, public speaker and proud father of two. |
| 1:20.9 | But before he was all of these things, Arthur was a very promising |
| 1:25.0 | young law student and a flamboyant armed robber. We begin our conversation by |
| 1:31.0 | delving into Arthur's childhood and the incidents that germinated the |
| 1:34.7 | seed of discontent in his mind. |
| 1:37.0 | Look in my case I didn't wake up one morning and say oh, I'll go and rob a T-A-B. |
| 1:44.9 | No, I didn't. |
| 1:46.3 | The process for me started when I was a kid. |
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