The Taser, The Tupperware Salesman and the Stolen Stradivarius

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

An amateur art thief conspires with a barber/part-time “Tupperware consultant” named Universal Knowledge Allah to steal a multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin; it’s step one of the thief’s Robin Hood-style plan to, uh…renovate and fix Milwaukee?

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1:43.3	You know what's ridiculous? Yeah, I'll tell you what's ridiculous. There's a name for the
1:47.8	wave-shaped blob of toothpaste on your toothbrush. Is it, is it, um, my guess, Philip?
1:53.8	Ronda. It's Nurtle. Nurtle. So that, that shape that like swoop you see is called a Nurtle?
2:01.9	Yeah, I guess two of the companies were fighting it out over being able to use the striped
2:07.2	little swoop of toothpaste in it. Like Aqua-fresh and Colgate with battling in the car.
2:10.8	Yeah, and so a Nurtle. The great Nurtle Wars. Did that toothpaste?
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