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Heist Podcast

The Biggest Book Heist at Transylvania University ft. Shane Cunningham [#148]

Heist Podcast

Matt And Sie

Society & Culture, History

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On this very special episode of Heist we welcome great buddy Shane Cunningham (This Family Tree & Mike on Much, Podcasts) Shane tells us yet another crazy heist he's pulled off and we dive into the Tansy U. book heist made famous in the 2018 film American Animals when a bunch of college kids tried to steal over $15 million in rare books from the special collection library at T.U. HEEEIST. Go roosters!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Soccer buds.

0:02.1

College years.

0:03.6

Tasing old ladies.

0:05.9

Heist.

0:10.0

Heist podcast.

0:13.1

Hello, everybody.

0:15.7

Welcome to another episode of Heist podcast, the True Crime Podcast, without the murder.

0:20.6

I'm Simon.

0:21.6

And I'm Matt. And this is episode 148. And this is an extra special episode. We got an amazing

0:26.9

guest. You may have heard some of his tales on other listener specials. Shane Cunningham,

0:34.0

a potter from another fodder, from Family from mike on much podcast a good buddy of the pod

0:40.9

and a close friend Shane welcome to heist podcast oh thanks for having me I'm I'm honored to be here

0:47.2

I thought it was never going to happen I know goodness for COVID you've never come out

0:52.1

you know you got to come out to LA, man.

1:15.9

And then that was the only missing link. But now with COVID, we're like, let's just get you. This is the new norm. Shane, you know this podcast. We're so excited to have you on it. We are, this isn't your first time on it. You've obviously given some confessions and stuff like that in the past. So this shouldn't be too surprising. But every visitor, every guest on our show, they have to do one thing, which is share a heist story from their life.

1:17.8

So I give the floor to you to kind of see what heist story you'd like to tell.

1:23.6

So I thought I possibly have told this heist on heist before my voice was warbled, but I ran it by Unsworth and maybe it didn't make the cut because it didn't seem to ring a bell.

1:34.5

But I used to work at a movie theater and I did the announcements there.

1:42.2

And then that's when someone would walk out, like this is 20 years ago, but someone

1:46.4

would walk out and before your show began, someone would with a microphone walk out and

1:52.7

just tell you about the movie, run some trivia by you.

1:56.0

This is before they played things on the movie screen beforehand.

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