The mastermind that used Point Break, Heat and Reservoirs Dogs like DIY Heist videos [#169]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about famous heist mastermind slash prison escape artist Redoine Faid. From stealing packs of gum at 6 to running a gang of thieves at 18 to robbing armored vehicles and escaping prison via helicopter, Redoine was a heister right out of the movies. Which makes sense because he used many of the classics as blueprints for his crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | You know when they say it was a heist right out of a Hollywood movie? |
| 0:04.8 | Well, this thief took that idea literally. |
| 0:09.0 | Heist. |
| 0:13.0 | Hiest podcast. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello everybody and welcome to episode 169 of Heist podcast, the True Crime Podcasts without any of the murder. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Simon. And I'm Matt. Matt, how you doing today, man? Doing a good, Cy. It's a lovely day in |
| 0:30.2 | Los Angeles, you know, running around being busy, but no complaints, man. How are you doing, |
| 0:37.3 | Sigh? I'm good. I'm good i'm good um feels feels very |
| 0:41.4 | different this sunday than most admittedly when i got a little crazy last night but uh can't |
| 0:46.3 | complain very happy for it very happy for the experience hope uh hope everyone else is starting to |
| 0:52.0 | um get those kind of experiences becoming more of a normality soon. |
| 0:56.8 | So fingers crossed for that. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, world's opening up slowly, you know, different places. |
| 1:01.0 | Shout out to the people that are still kind of in lockdown and stuff. |
| 1:03.5 | But it does feel good to slowly start seeing things, get back to normal and seeing buddies. |
| 1:09.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:09.9 | It's the best. It's the best. |
| 1:12.8 | Buddies are the best. Buddies in person are the best. Yeah. But Matt, we got, I don't think this |
| 1:18.9 | is an exaggeration. This is one of the most excited I've been to tell a story ever. This isn't a crazy |
| 1:24.9 | one, man. I'm really, really excited for our featured heist today. |
| 1:28.5 | And I can't believe we hadn't talked about it yet, to be totally honest. |
| 1:33.1 | I know. I mean, when we, you know, we've scoured the internet for these stories all over the place. |
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