October 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Are school lunches just becoming ridiculous?
Hayley & Max take to the mat in today's Debate After 8!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts, hear more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists, and listen live on the Free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, we're having a debate today because there's an
article out today about how parents are getting so stressed
over the ridiculous school lunch rules about.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
They just don't stop.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So you've got you can't take your soft plastics, got
to put it in a hard plastic. You can't have
anything that another kid might have.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
An allergit reaction to fruits. Yeah, and we have to
do a debate.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
When you get given a debate topic, I just want
to put it out there that the things that I'm
about to say, a lot of them I don't believe in.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I just have to fight.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What do you mean the best side of the topic.
I firmly agree with what you're about to sacc.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, but no, because I am I do love the environment, Okay,
I do hate pollution.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
But I'm about to say things that will come across
the other way.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's not a great way to start your debate, just
putting a preface around it.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
You know, all right, the topic school lunch boxes, the
rules are getting ridiculed, Haley, you're debating on the affirmative. Max,
you aren't debating on the negative. And Hailey Pierson, you
start now with thirty seconds on the cloth.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mums have enough to deal with now that you hit
us with the stupid Bento boxes and the banning of
all soft plastic. Just so you know, when we're packing
those lunches, we're tearing open those barbecue shapes and roll
ups and purposely putting those rappers in the general rubbish.
We're not even putting it in the recycling. I will
show you environment. Bring back the days where you'd see
like balls of glad rap blowing across the oval and
(01:39):
snack wrappers half buried in a sawdust pile from someone
who just spewed near the gym. How do you even
have detention when you don't have rubbish to pick up?
Bring back the rubbish now, let's talk about the nut band.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I get it. Allergies they're serious. Have you ever heard
of an EPI pen? Guys?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Schools are going ridiculous? And I have a testimonial from
a kid as a ten year old.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
This is a testimonial.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Let me eat nuts and.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Kiwis and peace.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I swear timing. If you're largic to any.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Of that home school don't care.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, Mike drop, thank you very much. Thirty seconds is
too short, Guys, I had heaps more to say.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You went for a full minute, and you had someone's.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So much more, had pages of other points.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
For a full minute.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Also, you suggested that we should be recycling plastic at
one point. Anyway, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, I said, you put your plastic in the general rubbish.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, I know, we're moving on for prefacing things. I
mostly disagree with this, but I don't because I want
to win.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
All right, School lunchboxes are getting ridiculous, negative max birth
for thirty seconds, time starts.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now follow the rules, you selfish pig. This is bigger
than you, Hailey Piers, and this is about saving lives.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Do you want people to die because of your laziness?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
How can you honestly think that sending your lad to
school with a few cheeky peanuts, even if there's a
one percent chant that he's going to run into an
anaphylectic kid, he's going.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
To be a murderer.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And then you're gonna be a prison mum, and you're
gonna have a murderer's son, and you're gonna have to
visit him in prison. Just swap out the nuts or
some dried fruit or some crunchy cereal or something the plastics.
What you said is that you hate dolphins and you
want your music bar rappers to end up blocking their
blowhole and suffocating them because you couldn't spend an extra
four seconds unwrapping the product at home. I had more,
but I will just cut to save the planet, you
(03:22):
inconsiderate heathen.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I don't think dolphins have blowholes? Do those? Isn't that whales?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Are you kidding me right now? Is that a joke?
Have you just tried to do a gotcha moment on me?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Like maybe the dolphins most distinguishable feature?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, maybe they don't have a blowhole.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Okay, I just laughed like a dolphins.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
We're not We're not debating whether or not dolphins have
a blowhole.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yes they do.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
They're debating school lunchbox rules. Getting ridiculous, And you know what, Adelaide,
Now it's your turn thirteen one oh two three? Cool?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Are you sick of it?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So annoying? Just let us be.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Should little Timmy be homeschool or wrapped in a bubble?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Poor little Timmy?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Your son wants to kill little Tip.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
No he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Three.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Come on, chime in our debate, all right, beck In Hewitt,
Not beck Hewitt, just back in Hewitt.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Tell me what side of you on.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
I'm team Hayley. Okay, Well, I haven't had kids in
primary school or high school for a long time now,
but even back then it was getting ridiculous. But why
don't the schools now actually supply lunches to the kids,
which then eliminate any possibility of the kids bringing the wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Food because of money?
Speaker 8 (04:47):
Yeah, but the government supports so many other things that
they really need to be supported, So why not put
some money into this?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's a great idea. They do it at childcare centers.
You just play like an extra eight dollars a day
or whatever it is.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Yes, but it's to incorporate into the school fees.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, and then you don't get the passive aggressive messages
from the school the principal going excuse me, but you've
got a red colored food in your at lunch box.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Of red colored food?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, because they have like that's bad. Red is bad.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You've maybe snuck in a little cupcake or something because
it's their birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You get in trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You also don't get passive aggressive in real life messages
from your son, like I used to give my mother
saying Mum, thank you so much for making me a sandwich,
but also you put one corner of vegamite on one
half of the.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Sand You would have written, feed plain bread.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
Meg.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
She did her best.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's really soul destroying when you're trying to pack a
lunch and do it healthy and do all the right things,
and then you get a passive aggressive message from the
principal going, sorry, but that's a.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Red flute food.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can't pack that. You can't pack those nuts. You
can't pack this. You have to do hard plastics, not
soft plastics.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The basis of my argument was one save the environment,
stop using self plastics, and to stop trying to kill
other kids who are allergic to nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And it's Kiwi fruits.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Just give them apples, yeah, give them some dry cereal whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
All right, Harry, you're twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
What are your thoughts on this lunch rules getting ridiculous?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I think they're getting pretty ridiculous. It's really it's like
putting more pressure on parents.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Harry, do you notice that your parents are a little
bit more stressed with your lunch box with all the
extra rules.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Absolutely definitely, Really, what.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Sort of rules do you have to worry about?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Well, it's basically the amount of plastic in our lunch
boxes and how like sweet treat and yeah, basically it.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, it's the plastic stuff. That's that's it. I get it.
You want to save the environment, that's so.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Of course, we don't want pollution, we don't want rubbish,
but that rubbish has to go somewhere anyway, and it why.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Can't we do this is easier to send them with a.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Music bar in a dolphins blowhole.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I know what you're arguing, all right, you're arguing you
want to kill all the blue whales in the ocean.
That's what you said to Meka in Parafield Gardens to Maka,
what do you think school lunchbox rules ridiculous or fair?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
I think they're fair. I'm tea max one hundred percent.
We parents all sign the same forms when we enroll
our children. We are informed of the rules. The rules
didn't change.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Likes not new too.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
If your kid takes an apple five days a week
because they can't have like you said, a kiwi fruit
or a kish because there's an egg allergy, so they
take an apple five days a week.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Do you find it? How do you find it?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
When other moms post on Instagram they're perfect bento boxes.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Ah, If two of my kids love a bento box,
two of my kids could not care less what their
lunch looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Mom.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I'm not like a fancy shape mom, but my kids
like the individual like compartments.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You don't do flowered carrots.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
No, absolutely not. I've got too many kids to make it.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Fancy lunchbox culture. It's ridiculous because you do see the
other kids there sometimes you oh my god, mind doesn't
look that good. And then also they don't eat. They
like to eat what everyone else is eating. So if
there's different to someone else's, they don't eat.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, it's so frustrating. Amy in Monopara West, what are
your thoughts? Who side do you want?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Look?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
So a few years ago it did get to the
point of being too stressful, the serious amount of condescending
little notes that I would get sent home from the
kids teachers because they were like, oh no, it can't
have this, can't have that, can't have this, can't have
that it was genuinely getting beyond a joke, and when
I just started to question myself, I'm like, look, is
(08:43):
this really that bad? But then I kind of reflected
and zoomed out with my thought process and looking at
the broader picture there where I was like, you know what,
I'm actually justified. I'm actually quite justified in myself in
what I send my kids to school. With their active
kids they do outside of school activities. So in the end,
(09:06):
I just started ignoring the notes, and it got to
the point where the school called me about it, and
I said to them, look, I respect the nuts free,
I respect that if there's a specific allergy in the classroom,
but outside of that, I am not changing what I
put in my kid's lunchbox. They didn't like it, but
(09:28):
in the end, it was it was driving me insane.
I couldn't do it anymore. And so since then I've
never received another call or another note in my kids lunchboxes. However,
I do still get the questionable behavior calls and the
fake illness calls.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, God, you can't do anything wrong. I actually think
she's got a great point. What just the school, now
what you want? Do what you want don't do nuts
because it's going to kill another kid. Maybe, but just
pack what you think as a mom or a dad
is good for your kid.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So your advice, what you've taken out of the debate
is if your school says band plastics, but you think
it's easier for you pack plastics.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You know what you do.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You there's no point having debates to Hailey Peace. She
doesn't learned anything most year.
I heard podcasts, hear more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists, and listen live on the Free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, we're having a debate today because there's an
article out today about how parents are getting so stressed
over the ridiculous school lunch rules about.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
They just don't stop.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So you've got you can't take your soft plastics, got
to put it in a hard plastic. You can't have
anything that another kid might have.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
An allergit reaction to fruits. Yeah, and we have to
do a debate.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
When you get given a debate topic, I just want
to put it out there that the things that I'm
about to say, a lot of them I don't believe in.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I just have to fight.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What do you mean the best side of the topic.
I firmly agree with what you're about to sacc.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, but no, because I am I do love the environment, Okay,
I do hate pollution.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
But I'm about to say things that will come across
the other way.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's not a great way to start your debate, just
putting a preface around it.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
You know, all right, the topic school lunch boxes, the
rules are getting ridiculed, Haley, you're debating on the affirmative. Max,
you aren't debating on the negative. And Hailey Pierson, you
start now with thirty seconds on the cloth.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mums have enough to deal with now that you hit
us with the stupid Bento boxes and the banning of
all soft plastic. Just so you know, when we're packing
those lunches, we're tearing open those barbecue shapes and roll
ups and purposely putting those rappers in the general rubbish.
We're not even putting it in the recycling. I will
show you environment. Bring back the days where you'd see
like balls of glad rap blowing across the oval and
(01:39):
snack wrappers half buried in a sawdust pile from someone
who just spewed near the gym. How do you even
have detention when you don't have rubbish to pick up?
Bring back the rubbish now, let's talk about the nut band.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I get it. Allergies they're serious. Have you ever heard
of an EPI pen? Guys?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Schools are going ridiculous? And I have a testimonial from
a kid as a ten year old.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
This is a testimonial.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Let me eat nuts and.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Kiwis and peace.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I swear timing. If you're largic to any.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Of that home school don't care.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, Mike drop, thank you very much. Thirty seconds is
too short, Guys, I had heaps more to say.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You went for a full minute, and you had someone's.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So much more, had pages of other points.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
For a full minute.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Also, you suggested that we should be recycling plastic at
one point. Anyway, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, I said, you put your plastic in the general rubbish.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, I know, we're moving on for prefacing things. I
mostly disagree with this, but I don't because I want
to win.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
All right, School lunchboxes are getting ridiculous, negative max birth
for thirty seconds, time starts.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now follow the rules, you selfish pig. This is bigger
than you, Hailey Piers, and this is about saving lives.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Do you want people to die because of your laziness?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
How can you honestly think that sending your lad to
school with a few cheeky peanuts, even if there's a
one percent chant that he's going to run into an
anaphylectic kid, he's going.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
To be a murderer.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And then you're gonna be a prison mum, and you're
gonna have a murderer's son, and you're gonna have to
visit him in prison. Just swap out the nuts or
some dried fruit or some crunchy cereal or something the plastics.
What you said is that you hate dolphins and you
want your music bar rappers to end up blocking their
blowhole and suffocating them because you couldn't spend an extra
four seconds unwrapping the product at home. I had more,
but I will just cut to save the planet, you
(03:22):
inconsiderate heathen.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I don't think dolphins have blowholes? Do those? Isn't that whales?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Are you kidding me right now? Is that a joke?
Have you just tried to do a gotcha moment on me?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Like maybe the dolphins most distinguishable feature?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, maybe they don't have a blowhole.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Okay, I just laughed like a dolphins.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
We're not We're not debating whether or not dolphins have
a blowhole.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yes they do.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
They're debating school lunchbox rules. Getting ridiculous, And you know what, Adelaide,
Now it's your turn thirteen one oh two three? Cool?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Are you sick of it?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So annoying? Just let us be.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Should little Timmy be homeschool or wrapped in a bubble?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Poor little Timmy?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Your son wants to kill little Tip.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
No he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Three.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Come on, chime in our debate, all right, beck In Hewitt,
Not beck Hewitt, just back in Hewitt.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Tell me what side of you on.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
I'm team Hayley. Okay, Well, I haven't had kids in
primary school or high school for a long time now,
but even back then it was getting ridiculous. But why
don't the schools now actually supply lunches to the kids,
which then eliminate any possibility of the kids bringing the wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Food because of money?
Speaker 8 (04:47):
Yeah, but the government supports so many other things that
they really need to be supported, So why not put
some money into this?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's a great idea. They do it at childcare centers.
You just play like an extra eight dollars a day
or whatever it is.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Yes, but it's to incorporate into the school fees.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, and then you don't get the passive aggressive messages
from the school the principal going excuse me, but you've
got a red colored food in your at lunch box.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Of red colored food?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, because they have like that's bad. Red is bad.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You've maybe snuck in a little cupcake or something because
it's their birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You get in trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You also don't get passive aggressive in real life messages
from your son, like I used to give my mother
saying Mum, thank you so much for making me a sandwich,
but also you put one corner of vegamite on one
half of the.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Sand You would have written, feed plain bread.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
Meg.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
She did her best.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's really soul destroying when you're trying to pack a
lunch and do it healthy and do all the right things,
and then you get a passive aggressive message from the
principal going, sorry, but that's a.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Red flute food.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can't pack that. You can't pack those nuts. You
can't pack this. You have to do hard plastics, not
soft plastics.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The basis of my argument was one save the environment,
stop using self plastics, and to stop trying to kill
other kids who are allergic to nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And it's Kiwi fruits.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Just give them apples, yeah, give them some dry cereal whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
All right, Harry, you're twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
What are your thoughts on this lunch rules getting ridiculous?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I think they're getting pretty ridiculous. It's really it's like
putting more pressure on parents.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Harry, do you notice that your parents are a little
bit more stressed with your lunch box with all the
extra rules.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Absolutely definitely, Really, what.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Sort of rules do you have to worry about?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Well, it's basically the amount of plastic in our lunch
boxes and how like sweet treat and yeah, basically it.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, it's the plastic stuff. That's that's it. I get it.
You want to save the environment, that's so.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Of course, we don't want pollution, we don't want rubbish,
but that rubbish has to go somewhere anyway, and it why.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Can't we do this is easier to send them with a.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Music bar in a dolphins blowhole.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I know what you're arguing, all right, you're arguing you
want to kill all the blue whales in the ocean.
That's what you said to Meka in Parafield Gardens to Maka,
what do you think school lunchbox rules ridiculous or fair?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
I think they're fair. I'm tea max one hundred percent.
We parents all sign the same forms when we enroll
our children. We are informed of the rules. The rules
didn't change.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Likes not new too.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
If your kid takes an apple five days a week
because they can't have like you said, a kiwi fruit
or a kish because there's an egg allergy, so they
take an apple five days a week.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Do you find it? How do you find it?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
When other moms post on Instagram they're perfect bento boxes.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Ah, If two of my kids love a bento box,
two of my kids could not care less what their
lunch looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Mom.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I'm not like a fancy shape mom, but my kids
like the individual like compartments.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You don't do flowered carrots.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
No, absolutely not. I've got too many kids to make it.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Fancy lunchbox culture. It's ridiculous because you do see the
other kids there sometimes you oh my god, mind doesn't
look that good. And then also they don't eat. They
like to eat what everyone else is eating. So if
there's different to someone else's, they don't eat.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, it's so frustrating. Amy in Monopara West, what are
your thoughts? Who side do you want?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Look?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
So a few years ago it did get to the
point of being too stressful, the serious amount of condescending
little notes that I would get sent home from the
kids teachers because they were like, oh no, it can't
have this, can't have that, can't have this, can't have
that it was genuinely getting beyond a joke, and when
I just started to question myself, I'm like, look, is
(08:43):
this really that bad? But then I kind of reflected
and zoomed out with my thought process and looking at
the broader picture there where I was like, you know what,
I'm actually justified. I'm actually quite justified in myself in
what I send my kids to school. With their active
kids they do outside of school activities. So in the end,
(09:06):
I just started ignoring the notes, and it got to
the point where the school called me about it, and
I said to them, look, I respect the nuts free,
I respect that if there's a specific allergy in the classroom,
but outside of that, I am not changing what I
put in my kid's lunchbox. They didn't like it, but
(09:28):
in the end, it was it was driving me insane.
I couldn't do it anymore. And so since then I've
never received another call or another note in my kids lunchboxes. However,
I do still get the questionable behavior calls and the
fake illness calls.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, God, you can't do anything wrong. I actually think
she's got a great point. What just the school, now
what you want? Do what you want don't do nuts
because it's going to kill another kid. Maybe, but just
pack what you think as a mom or a dad
is good for your kid.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So your advice, what you've taken out of the debate
is if your school says band plastics, but you think
it's easier for you pack plastics.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You know what you do.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You there's no point having debates to Hailey Peace. She
doesn't learned anything most year.
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CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.