The Flapper Bandit: Rebecca Bradley Rogers

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The 1920s was an era of radical change in the culture. One of the major indicators was the advent of The Flapper –- young women who rejected the previous generations' notions of femininity and embraced their own ideas of modern womanhood. This of course inspired a nationwide moral panic! Enter the Flapper Bandit –– a young woman who rejected previous notions of legality and embraced her own ideas of how to rob a bank... and in the process became a national news story.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.8	Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, hey, hey, hey, Elizabeth Dutton. Hey, hey, hey, hey. So good to see you, my friend. How you've been? Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. Really good, really neat. Yep. Yeah. Well, I got a question for you, bright ass. Well, I got to ask you, how have you been?
0:21.0	I'm still here, right?
0:23.0	There you go. There it is.
0:23.3	I'm not pushing up daisies. I got a question for you, bright-ass. Well, I got to ask you, how have you been?
0:22.6	I'm still here, right?
0:37.4	There you go. There it is. I'm not pushing up daisies. Above ground and getting paid. I'm on the right side of the grass. There is. There it is. So, question for you. Yeah. Do you know what's ridiculous? I do. You like grilled cheese sandwiches. I love grilled cheese sandwiches. And you hate mayonnaise.
0:39.1	I'm not a fan, but it does make a good spread on the outside. Right. I feel like I'm the one who convinced you of that. I think you're the one to push me over the top. I'd had it try. I tried it once before, but I never incorporated into my game after you introduced me to it. Now I use it. Don't tell anyone. I won't. I've been using like a hybrid when I make grilled cheese for my nephew. So you use like a little bit of butter, a little bit of mayonnaise. Yeah. And then you, you know, grill the cheese. Can you use it for eggs too? Because I use butter for eggs. Yeah. Of course you use butter for eggs. Yeah, but can you use mayonnaise for eggs?
1:11.3	It's made of eggs. Well, I know. It's sort of cannibalistic. What? Kind of. Anyway, so Tillamook cheese. Yeah, I'm familiar with them. Yeah, they're like, we know you love grilled cheese. Guess what? What? We also know you're lazy. So we're going to combine butter and mayonnaise for you.
1:28.8	Are you real?
1:29.7	We got this coming at us from... Guess what? What? We also know you're lazy. So we're going to combine butter and mayonnaise for you.
1:28.8	Are you real?
1:29.7	This, we got this coming at us from every, you know, platform, people sending.
1:35.5	How does everybody find these things I never see online?
1:38.1	I don't know.
1:38.7	But it's like if something drops, we know about it.
1:41.7	Good job, rude, dude.
1:42.6	Emails, Instagram, Blue Sky, everything, voicemails.
1:48.7	The only thing the algorithm does right for me is it shields me from all of this stuff
1:52.6	until you drop it in my lap.
1:54.1	Also like, you know, I always find out first.
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