The Rise and Fall and Rise of John McAvoy

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

He was a man born into crime. He came from a family of British hard men. Movies were made about the men of his family. He was also enraptured by the criminals he saw depicted in other crime classics. All of this combined to make him a nepo baby of crime. But John McAvoy surprised the world and himself when he forged a new identity, thanks to a rowing machine.

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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.
0:08.0	Elizabeth Dut.
0:09.0	Zaron Burnett.
0:10.0	Good to see you, my friend.
0:11.1	Hi, how are you?
0:12.2	Oh, you know, I've just been sitting over here waiting to ask you a question, and that question is simple.
0:16.7	It's straightforward, right to the point.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:18.6	Do you know what's ridiculous?
0:19.5	I do.
0:20.3	I knew you would. it's straightforward right to the point. Yeah. Do you know what's ridiculous? I do. I do know it's ridiculous.
0:21.9	You were sitting with us in the break room here at HQ the other day and just doing a monologue about your favorite TV shows these days.
0:32.1	I like how you put it, but yes.
0:33.9	Well, I mean, it's like none of us could get a worded edgewise, but I was just like, all right, tell me more about your pirate show.
0:40.7	But then you were like, the best show on television, your new favorite show, and I haven't
0:45.3	watched it yet, is Tracker.
0:48.5	That's not true at all.
0:50.5	That's all you've been talking about.
0:52.0	So I checked it out.
0:52.9	And I was like, what's the trivia on tracker?
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