Solar panels, Speed boats and Metallurgical-Grade Silicon
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
George Wellford and Willie Richard Short were just two best buds working at a Mitsubishi plant in Mobile, Alabama. When their 401K's got toasted after the 2008 banking crisis they devised a plan to get back what had been stolen from them. Over the course of five years they slowly snuck out 43 tonnes of high grade silicon in their lunchboxes. How does one sell silicon on the black market? And how did they get away with it for half a decade. Tune in and find out only on HEIST PODCAST.
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| 0:00.0 | Solar panels, speedboats, metallurgical-grade silicon? |
| 0:06.2 | Heist! |
| 0:10.0 | Heist podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to episode 87 of Heist podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Simon. |
| 0:18.4 | And I'm Matt. |
| 0:19.0 | And this is the True crime podcast without the murder, |
| 0:22.7 | which we're proud to say after last week's episode doesn't have any murder. Murder free, baby. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah, Matt, how you doing, man? I'm doing good. How you doing, how you doing, |
| 0:29.9 | I'm good? We got a great episode this week, as we usually say. Yeah. It'd be weird if we were |
| 0:35.6 | like, this one sucks. Just don't listen to it. |
| 0:38.3 | We're fucked up. We dug up some garbage. But no, we got a great one this week. And I think this |
| 0:44.4 | one's funny because it's so every man. Yeah, that's what I love about it. It's just always a |
| 0:49.8 | characters. This is like, these characters I can relate to. Sometimes you see people intent on committing a crazy crime. And then other times you see kind of people in a situation where things get out of hand. Yeah, they see an opportunity and then all of a sudden things get out of hand. And before you know it, they realize they're in deeper than they thought. And that's kind of what this one's all about. So stay tuned. It's really great. |
| 1:11.9 | But first, we got some heist news. Should we get to it? Let's do it. |
| 1:16.7 | So, Matt, this one was sent in by a ton of people, almost as many people as the golden toilet. |
| 1:26.3 | Shout out, House Nation. Shout out, Heist Nation. Not quite as many people as the golden toilet. Shout out, House Nation. Shout out |
| 1:28.3 | Heist nation. Not quite as many, but quite a few. And the headline reads from the Washington |
| 1:33.5 | Post, he robbed a bank the day before his wedding sheriff says. He allegedly did it to pay off |
| 1:39.3 | the ring and flowers. I like that this headline is just basically the article. I know. I don't even need to |
| 1:45.6 | read it anymore. Yeah, like there's no creativity here. Like, this is what happened. It'd be like, |
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