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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh boy, all right, hey, hey long time, no talk on
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
my friend, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I can't complain.
The sun is shining.
Basically it was mostlySiberian weather here in merry
old Billings, montana, since welast discussed Mr Bourdain, but
it has a balmy like 45 degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Nice, yeah, we're creeping into spring here
ourselves.
I mean, hopefully, get this outquickly, everybody.
You're going to have to springyour clocks forward this Sunday.
Not to date everything too much, but I guess I don't really
give a fuck.
Nonetheless, you know,something that I was thinking of
is the Blue Dog Boogie.
You know Boogie's Bodegalocated in Billings, montana, on
(00:44):
First Avenue North.
Okay, guys, we're Owen.
The McMcMichael has his ownlittle business there where you
can pick up a lot of cheese andstuff, right, but anyway, Boogie
Indeed.
Yeah, you know he's done.
You know he's done.
The heist, the little food,just you know a food heist here
and there.
(01:04):
Snatch something if it's leftout.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, his main tactic is just straight up extortion,
but if that does not work thenhe will straight up heist it.
He's a tricky one for being a90 pound land seal.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Jeez, these pit bulls guys.
They're up to nefarious acts,Sorry.
Well, these pit bulls guys.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They're up the nefarious axe, Sorry.
Well, let me though, for therecord, say that he was not the
one responsible for the 100,000eggs 400,000 eggs stolen in
Pennsylvania, right, Holy shityeah.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh no, no, I'm sorry.
40,000 worth 100 grand.
I forget, I don't have thenotes, but still Boogie's not
responsible for that, as we'venever been to Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No doubt.
Yeah, that was a recent heist.
I wish I would have kept thatup.
Professionalism, Owen, we're ontop of things.
You know, if it was $100,000worth of eggs when I read the
article about a month ago,they're probably worth about
$200,000 at this point month ago.
They're probably worth, youknow, about $200 at this point.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I would assume they just give you the Taj Mahal for
the eggs.
Yeah, it sounds about rightWhere'd you get that?
Oh, we gave them some eggs.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, just shipped it on over, right?
Well, you know it's unfortunatewe can't get them from Canada
Anyway.
So yeah, the Australian salmonheist was almost comparable to
this egg thing, except for itwas quite a bit bigger, a little
bit slower moving, not like a,you know, jacking a truck or
anything.
It sounds interesting.
I'm up here in the PNW salmonvery near and dear to our hearts
(02:36):
up here, guys.
Okay, what happened was fiveemployees at a fish processing
plant orchestrated an inside jobto steal massive quantities of
premium salmon, Not just, likeyou're running the mill, canned
salmon, owen Premium salmon.
They misclassified the fish aswaste, right?
So, like they're, you know itwas bad fish.
(02:57):
So they were throwing it awayand it was allowing them to
remove it from the facilitywithout raising suspicion.
Okay, I'm going to hit you withsome numbers here, some facts I
don't even know.
250 tons of salmon is what theystole, worth approximately $1.4
million.
It was taken over severalmonths.
That's a lot of fish, man.
That is a lot.
That is a lot of fish.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I mean, that seems like a good deal, salmon's
not cheap.
No, it's not.
Is seems like a good deal,salmon's not cheap no it's not.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is that street prices ?
I know it's like when they buzzsomebody for like a half ounce
of weed on the news and theydon't do that anymore, but they
used to.
They'd be like street value,$20,000.
It's like who the fuck are yougetting your weed from?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That was like on the show Weeds, where she's like
supporting a family in thesuburbs selling an ounce a week,
and I was like, wow, I wantthose victims Not that it has
anything to do with anyactivities such as that Not
anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Not these days, Not anymore Correct.
Yeah, so you know you may bewondering how they got caught.
The fraud was eventuallyuncovered, leading to the rest
of all five employees.
You know I'm sure they justsniffed around.
They're like dang, this is alot of wasted fish.
Guys like what's going on?
Probably check some stuff tosee if machines were working
correctly when they weredescaling it or whatever they
(04:15):
may have been doing.
I don't know.
But you know they probably wentthrough some processes and, uh,
they figured it out.
Investigators did believe thatthe stolen fish was resold
through illegal distributionnetworks.
I'm assuming, like you know, ifthey're in Australia, they're
probably selling the salmon tolike Asia or something you know,
at a cheaper price, You'reselling it to American tourists.
(04:38):
Would you like some bad salmon?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Cut it in your coat.
It's like the old 80s drugdealer commercials where you
just open your coat and have allthe drugs.
It's like the old 80's drugdealer commercials where you
just open your coat and have allthe drugs and it's like, yeah,
I got some salmon.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Something smells fishy here, owen, I don't even
know.
I know, hey, I am a dad, thusthe dad jokes my friends out
there in podcast land.
It is very good to be back onthis glorious day where we're
talking about food heists.
This is great, my friend.
Do you got one for me?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I do Also an inside job, they believe, and I don't
think that the olive oil heistculprits were ever apprehended.
Let me check on that real quick, ever.
Let me check on that real quick.
But yeah, 18 truckloads ofolive oil worth $2.5 million was
stolen from an award-winningTexas company.
(05:32):
Whoa, I don't think of Texasdoesn't immediately jump to mind
.
I wonder if they grow olives inTexas.
I mean, I guess, the climate.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Right, I'm looking it up, google, I guess.
The climate?
Right, I'm looking it up,google, guys, google, let's see.
Yeah, apparently they do what.
Oh yeah, they're making oliveoil there.
Right, Just checking, guys,just checking Fact.
Checking our own talk right now, live on this podcast that will
air at a later date.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Checking our own talk right now, live on this podcast
that will air at a later dateand that was one of the larger
total values.
Speaking of Canada, I imagineyou did see what, as far as I
can tell, is the largest foodheist in terms of monetary value
(06:23):
Between 2011 and 2012,.
Contents were emptied of maplesyrup barrels, they were
replaced with water, andCanada's beloved maple syrup
that was stolen was worth $18.7million back then.
Holy shit.
So we're well into the 25-ishrange, I would think.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, wasn't it a bunch of old ladies that did
that, or something like that?
The Great Maple Syrup Heist?
There was something to that,owen, I just can't remember.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I don't know what I was reading off of is
like, and we won't cover all ofthem, just some of our favorites
.
Uh right, spicy chefs, and itwas the article and they're just
very brief mentions of each ofthese, which I love.
Heist, that's like.
You know.
Price was art like gems?
(07:15):
Like no, yeah, we stole someeggs, right ice is a great guy.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I know an egg guy.
I know an egg guy.
He's got a big head.
Yeah, so yeah, 18.7 million.
Damn sorry, bro, Go ahead, I'mjust this maple syrup thing's
got me.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, that's like that just dwarfs any of the other
heists.
But this is an interesting one.
40,000 pounds of allegedlygourmet meat was stolen from a
truck yard in Hamilton, ontario.
The apparent value is 100 grand, so by my math that's $2.50 a
(07:54):
pound.
Where is that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
gourmet.
I don't know, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, I have some beef with this one.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Keep them coming, bro .
Yeah, dad, jokes galore overhere.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, they never, ever.
Yeah, the thieves were notcautious with beef.
Oh wow, because the cops stillhave beef with the thieves?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, I'm sure they do .
That's amazing, jeez.
You know you think about these,this, these food heists and, uh
, the fact that this shit'sgonna spoil.
So it's quite a bit moreelaborate to an extent than if
you were to like steal diamondsor something like that.
I mean, I know there's othercomplications with reselling
things of that nature, but atleast you could sit on it for a
(08:39):
while.
You know what I'm saying.
Whereas if you like steal abunch of like beef or salmon,
especially.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Or fish.
Yeah, I'm going to be sittingon fish for a long time.
That's what she said Literallyor figuratively.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, no, sorry, anywho.
So that's pretty crazy, thoughthat's all I got to say.
The one that I thought you may,you know, be interested in Is
you are quite the foodie, myfriend.
In a good way, though, youspread positive knowledge and
enrich the culture.
No foodie.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Sorry, hate that term .
Food them.
Food is Sorry, just soundspretentious and rather
effeminate.
Foodie does it?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
does, does it not?
I like the foodist one, to behonest, you know that's pretty
clever, I like that.
So, anyway, here we go.
The French truffle heist in2005.
A group of sophisticatedthieves equipped with night
vision goggles.
These guys had night visiongoggles and they broke into a
truffle farm at night and, uh,stole a large hall of pedigord.
(09:45):
I said that like spanish damnit, pedigord black truffles, one
of the most expensivedelicacies in the world.
How much was stolen, my friend?
A hundred thousand dollarsworth of troubles were taken in
a single night.
Uh, you know, it's prettyobvious.
Yeah, yeah, and you know,beyond the fact, I doubt these
guys were eating them all, butthese truffles can sell for over
(10:06):
$1,500 a pound as of 2005.
So it's pretty lucrative, myfriend.
It's a heck of a target.
In addition to stealingtruffles, the gangs in France
often steal truffle-hunting dogsas well.
I guess that was another fact Ilearned today or the other day,
whichever you decide.
Yeah, I guess that was anotherfact.
I learned today or the other day, whichever you decide.
Yeah, these dogs can be worththousands of dollars.
Yeah, because you know they'regoing to go find the troubles
(10:29):
that make the money.
It's just like a birding dog,I'm assuming.
I don't know, but apparently,uh, truffle thefts are pretty
common in France and Italy,leading farmers to patrol their
land with guard dogs and evenfirearms.
Sheesh, all right, there we are.
Go truffle.
Protect your truffles.
(10:49):
Guys, watch them.
That's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And the damn thing changed.
Boy, protect your truffles, ooh.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, step on my truffles, You's in trouble.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thief in London's Borough Market passed himself
off as a representative of theworld-famous French cheese
distributor and was able to makeoff with $300,000 of cheddar.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What I like cheese but I like cheddar.
Oh, yep, we knew, we know it.
King Nicky, over there underNicotine, and my friends Check
him out N-I-C-K-A-T-I-N-A if youwant to spell it correctly.
Yeah, I actually read aboutthat one.
That's pretty crazy, man.
Cheddar cheese is a heck of athing.
From the town of Cheddar iswhere it was invented, I believe
(11:36):
I read one time, and theoriginal cheddar cheese actually
is aged in a cheddar cave.
So apparently, to these peoplein this town, if it's not aged
in this cave, it's not reallycheddar cheese, but whatever,
that's what I say.
So, yeah, fake credentials andemails.
(11:58):
I actually had that one, owen.
That was when I looked up too.
That's pretty crazy.
There's, um, let's see whatelse we got here.
What else we got here on thisfine day of theft the vanilla
bean heist.
That sounds interesting.
What do you think about thatone?
Yeah, so what happened, owen?
A woman who was working at thisvanilla bean import company
(12:18):
stole large quantities ofvanilla over time and then just
resold it on the black market.
She stole 130.
Wouldn't it on the black market?
She stole 130.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Wouldn't it be the white market if it was vanilla?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, shit, huh, jeez, guys, get it right, these
sources.
The Spicy Chef as well.
That's where I got this one.
We're doubling up on the SpicyChef.
Anything that I did havepersonally on that last one was
due to the Cheese Professor.
That's a pretty good source.
Yeah, anything that I did havepersonally on that last one was
due to the cheese professor,that's a pretty good source.
Oh, okay, yeah, pretty top menhere, yeah.
(12:50):
So $139,000 worth of vanillabeans, that's a lot.
Vanilla beans are the secondmost expensive spice in the
world after saffron, huh, whichyou told me Sometimes selling
for over $7,000 per pound, youknow, and that also would
probably be why there's like alot of fake vanilla.
You know, I mean it's onpurpose imitation, but I do feel
(13:14):
here in the US, when I think ofvanilla and I've used it for
cooking and such things orwhatever, I'm up to that the
vanilla real vanilla extract andfake vanilla tastes different
and I'm more used to the fakevanilla flavor, because I did
have a bottle of vanilla fromMadagascar and it was really
(13:35):
good, but it definitely had adifferent flavor to it.
I mean it was more like whenyou buy, like the vanilla bean
ice cream and how it's thedifference between French
vanilla or whatever, your normalvanilla ice cream, and how it's
the difference between Frenchvanilla or whatever, or your
normal vanilla ice cream, Isuppose would be better.
Supermercados here.
That's the Spanish word forsupermarket.
Not too much different, myfriends, but now you learned
(13:56):
something else, anyway, wow.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, informative.
Here's another one.
I just have a problem with thenumbers on.
Maybe I'm missing somethinghere, but caviar well known to
be one of the most expensivefoods in the world.
A Russian businessman returnedfrom a New Year's party and
(14:17):
discovered that 22 tons ofcaviar was missing in Moscow.
Holy shit, or yes, yes, it wasMoscow.
Sorry, but yeah, they'reclaiming that's worth $470,000.
That works out to only like $10a pound and I don't think you
(14:41):
can get caviar right is there.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I don't even understand.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I mean a ton is 2000 pounds, correct?
Yes, yeah, yeah, it is oh no,I'm sorry, I did the math wrong.
That's my bad.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh it's okay, I did do it wrong.
Oh, owen, you're off the show,bro.
You're off the show.
Oh no, I'm sorry, I did themath wrong.
That's my bad.
Oh, it's okay, I did do itwrong.
Oh, owen, owen, you're off theshow, bro.
You're off the show Just joking.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, that makes more sense.
Yes, that's More like pushing11 grand a pound.
That's making a lot more sense.
I fucked that one up.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's okay.
It's okay, we have smartlisteners, they can do math,
$2.50 for beef.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's not gourmet.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, no shit, that is not gourmet at all.
I was trying to look up ifthere was any food heists in
Montana, you know real fast here, and I didn't quite get there.
Owen, I don't think so.
Apparently, people don't stealfood on that level in Montana
because you know there's notenough food in Montana.
I don't know, but that wouldhave been fun.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Not on that level but interestingly enough hopefully
soon to be friend of the show,jeremy I was telling him he's a
regular friend of myself andBoogie and visits us often here
and regular friend of myself andBoogie and visits us often here
.
And I was telling him the dayColton and I discussed even
doing this and talked about youknow some of these large numbers
and apparently a barbecue placein Laurel just outside of
(16:10):
Billings had two briskets stolenand Jeremy read me the article
and they did.
They referred to it as a heistand he just kept kind of
laughing.
Every time he was like, I don'tknow, too brisk, it's still
what a horrible thing To stealsomeone's barbecue.
But so yeah, incidentally itwas not on this level, but there
(16:31):
was a recent Food heist.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Right, yeah, there you go, see, now there's some
Montana facts Folks here.
So I Briefly looked up weirdestfood heist Right In the neck of
the woods.
There you go, see, now there'ssome Montana facts folks, hey.
So I briefly looked up weirdestfood heist, just for fun.
Okay, guys.
One thing, though, that struckme on this list immediately as
you were reading that was itcame up with a bull sperm.
I don't know how that's a food.
(16:54):
In Ulf in Germany, you stole 60containers of bull sperm.
All right, guys, that's whatyou need to think about for the
rest of your day, what they weredoing with it.
I'm not going to read anymore,that's it.
Just know that in Germany, theystole 60 containers of bull
sperm.
Maybe it's because it's goingto be eventually producing beef,
I don't know.
(17:16):
Wow, yeah, what a wacky world.
Yeah, I expect stuff like thatto happen in Finland, but not in
Germany, guys, Just joking.
Finland had to bring that beefback.
Ha, I ain't got nothing againstFinland, wouldn't it be
reindeer?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, I don't know, Is that what they say up there Is
like instead of having beef withsomeone, you have reindeer with
someone.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Possibly, oh, I don't know, possibly, oh, my dear, oh
, my dear goodness, I don't know.
Nonetheless, bro, I reallyappreciated this episode.
It was nice to get into kind ofa list and get back
lighthearted.
Currently, I tell stories,headquarters was going through a
brief transformation, settingup a new studio still in
(18:05):
temporary location at this pointin time.
But other than that, things areclicking right along, guys, and
we do hope to be coming alittle bit more fast and furious
with these episodes on our roadto 100,.
Okay, this will be our 96thepisode and we're creeping up on
100 episodes, guys.
I feel like that's kind of anaccomplishment for me and Owen,
you know, considering that thiswas our first go at it and we
started it just because wewanted to.
(18:26):
We started, I Tell Stories, todo something where maybe we
could share some positivity withpeople.
You know, make lighthearted ofsome of the things that go on
and, you know, maybe make youguys interested in learning some
stuff.
It's never meant to be like weknow the facts, we're 100% right
all the time.
We just want to share with youwhat we've seen just by looking
(18:49):
at our phones, looking at ourcomputer, reading a book and
then doing a little bit ofresearch.
So we hope sometimes that youguys follow up on us and maybe
get interested in something elsebesides your daily grind,
because we all know that's easyto get caught in.
So at the end of the day, weappreciate you.
Podcastlandia From Germany downto.
(19:12):
You know we do have some Mexicolisteners I've seen.
You know we get a lot ofcountries Pretty amazing.
Owen.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, I think it's 56 overall.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, and that's just within those periods.
So when we do look at that andshout out to Japan, we've had a
lot of UK listeners.
That's always nice.
Canada Shout out to Canada.
For sure, just everybody whosupports us really appreciate
you.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, we appreciate all of you.
Much love everybody.
Oh boy, all right, hey, hey long time, no talk on
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
my friend, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I can't complain.
The sun is shining.
Basically it was mostlySiberian weather here in merry
old Billings, montana, since welast discussed Mr Bourdain, but
it has a balmy like 45 degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Nice, yeah, we're creeping into spring here
ourselves.
I mean, hopefully, get this outquickly, everybody.
You're going to have to springyour clocks forward this Sunday.
Not to date everything too much, but I guess I don't really
give a fuck.
Nonetheless, you know,something that I was thinking of
is the Blue Dog Boogie.
You know Boogie's Bodegalocated in Billings, montana, on
(00:44):
First Avenue North.
Okay, guys, we're Owen.
The McMcMichael has his ownlittle business there where you
can pick up a lot of cheese andstuff, right, but anyway, Boogie
Indeed.
Yeah, you know he's done.
You know he's done.
The heist, the little food,just you know a food heist here
and there.
(01:04):
Snatch something if it's leftout.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, his main tactic is just straight up extortion,
but if that does not work thenhe will straight up heist it.
He's a tricky one for being a90 pound land seal.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Jeez, these pit bulls guys.
They're up to nefarious acts,Sorry.
Well, these pit bulls guys.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They're up the nefarious axe, Sorry.
Well, let me though, for therecord, say that he was not the
one responsible for the 100,000eggs 400,000 eggs stolen in
Pennsylvania, right, Holy shityeah.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh no, no, I'm sorry.
40,000 worth 100 grand.
I forget, I don't have thenotes, but still Boogie's not
responsible for that, as we'venever been to Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No doubt.
Yeah, that was a recent heist.
I wish I would have kept thatup.
Professionalism, Owen, we're ontop of things.
You know, if it was $100,000worth of eggs when I read the
article about a month ago,they're probably worth about
$200,000 at this point month ago.
They're probably worth, youknow, about $200 at this point.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I would assume they just give you the Taj Mahal for
the eggs.
Yeah, it sounds about rightWhere'd you get that?
Oh, we gave them some eggs.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, just shipped it on over, right?
Well, you know it's unfortunatewe can't get them from Canada
Anyway.
So yeah, the Australian salmonheist was almost comparable to
this egg thing, except for itwas quite a bit bigger, a little
bit slower moving, not like a,you know, jacking a truck or
anything.
It sounds interesting.
I'm up here in the PNW salmonvery near and dear to our hearts
(02:36):
up here, guys.
Okay, what happened was fiveemployees at a fish processing
plant orchestrated an inside jobto steal massive quantities of
premium salmon, Not just, likeyou're running the mill, canned
salmon, owen Premium salmon.
They misclassified the fish aswaste, right?
So, like they're, you know itwas bad fish.
(02:57):
So they were throwing it awayand it was allowing them to
remove it from the facilitywithout raising suspicion.
Okay, I'm going to hit you withsome numbers here, some facts I
don't even know.
250 tons of salmon is what theystole, worth approximately $1.4
million.
It was taken over severalmonths.
That's a lot of fish, man.
That is a lot.
That is a lot of fish.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I mean, that seems like a good deal, salmon's
not cheap.
No, it's not.
Is seems like a good deal,salmon's not cheap no it's not.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is that street prices ?
I know it's like when they buzzsomebody for like a half ounce
of weed on the news and theydon't do that anymore, but they
used to.
They'd be like street value,$20,000.
It's like who the fuck are yougetting your weed from?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That was like on the show Weeds, where she's like
supporting a family in thesuburbs selling an ounce a week,
and I was like, wow, I wantthose victims Not that it has
anything to do with anyactivities such as that Not
anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Not these days, Not anymore Correct.
Yeah, so you know you may bewondering how they got caught.
The fraud was eventuallyuncovered, leading to the rest
of all five employees.
You know I'm sure they justsniffed around.
They're like dang, this is alot of wasted fish.
Guys like what's going on?
Probably check some stuff tosee if machines were working
correctly when they weredescaling it or whatever they
(04:15):
may have been doing.
I don't know.
But you know they probably wentthrough some processes and, uh,
they figured it out.
Investigators did believe thatthe stolen fish was resold
through illegal distributionnetworks.
I'm assuming, like you know, ifthey're in Australia, they're
probably selling the salmon tolike Asia or something you know,
at a cheaper price, You'reselling it to American tourists.
(04:38):
Would you like some bad salmon?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Cut it in your coat.
It's like the old 80s drugdealer commercials where you
just open your coat and have allthe drugs.
It's like the old 80's drugdealer commercials where you
just open your coat and have allthe drugs and it's like, yeah,
I got some salmon.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Something smells fishy here, owen, I don't even
know.
I know, hey, I am a dad, thusthe dad jokes my friends out
there in podcast land.
It is very good to be back onthis glorious day where we're
talking about food heists.
This is great, my friend.
Do you got one for me?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I do Also an inside job, they believe, and I don't
think that the olive oil heistculprits were ever apprehended.
Let me check on that real quick, ever.
Let me check on that real quick.
But yeah, 18 truckloads ofolive oil worth $2.5 million was
stolen from an award-winningTexas company.
(05:32):
Whoa, I don't think of Texasdoesn't immediately jump to mind
.
I wonder if they grow olives inTexas.
I mean, I guess, the climate.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Right, I'm looking it up, google, I guess.
The climate?
Right, I'm looking it up,google, guys, google, let's see.
Yeah, apparently they do what.
Oh yeah, they're making oliveoil there.
Right, Just checking, guys,just checking Fact.
Checking our own talk right now, live on this podcast that will
air at a later date.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Checking our own talk right now, live on this podcast
that will air at a later dateand that was one of the larger
total values.
Speaking of Canada, I imagineyou did see what, as far as I
can tell, is the largest foodheist in terms of monetary value
(06:23):
Between 2011 and 2012,.
Contents were emptied of maplesyrup barrels, they were
replaced with water, andCanada's beloved maple syrup
that was stolen was worth $18.7million back then.
Holy shit.
So we're well into the 25-ishrange, I would think.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, wasn't it a bunch of old ladies that did
that, or something like that?
The Great Maple Syrup Heist?
There was something to that,owen, I just can't remember.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I don't know what I was reading off of is
like, and we won't cover all ofthem, just some of our favorites
.
Uh right, spicy chefs, and itwas the article and they're just
very brief mentions of each ofthese, which I love.
Heist, that's like.
You know.
Price was art like gems?
(07:15):
Like no, yeah, we stole someeggs, right ice is a great guy.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I know an egg guy.
I know an egg guy.
He's got a big head.
Yeah, so yeah, 18.7 million.
Damn sorry, bro, Go ahead, I'mjust this maple syrup thing's
got me.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, that's like that just dwarfs any of the other
heists.
But this is an interesting one.
40,000 pounds of allegedlygourmet meat was stolen from a
truck yard in Hamilton, ontario.
The apparent value is 100 grand, so by my math that's $2.50 a
(07:54):
pound.
Where is that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
gourmet.
I don't know, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, I have some beef with this one.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Keep them coming, bro .
Yeah, dad, jokes galore overhere.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, they never, ever.
Yeah, the thieves were notcautious with beef.
Oh wow, because the cops stillhave beef with the thieves?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, I'm sure they do .
That's amazing, jeez.
You know you think about these,this, these food heists and, uh
, the fact that this shit'sgonna spoil.
So it's quite a bit moreelaborate to an extent than if
you were to like steal diamondsor something like that.
I mean, I know there's othercomplications with reselling
things of that nature, but atleast you could sit on it for a
(08:39):
while.
You know what I'm saying.
Whereas if you like steal abunch of like beef or salmon,
especially.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Or fish.
Yeah, I'm going to be sittingon fish for a long time.
That's what she said Literallyor figuratively.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, no, sorry, anywho.
So that's pretty crazy, thoughthat's all I got to say.
The one that I thought you may,you know, be interested in Is
you are quite the foodie, myfriend.
In a good way, though, youspread positive knowledge and
enrich the culture.
No foodie.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Sorry, hate that term .
Food them.
Food is Sorry, just soundspretentious and rather
effeminate.
Foodie does it?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
does, does it not?
I like the foodist one, to behonest, you know that's pretty
clever, I like that.
So, anyway, here we go.
The French truffle heist in2005.
A group of sophisticatedthieves equipped with night
vision goggles.
These guys had night visiongoggles and they broke into a
truffle farm at night and, uh,stole a large hall of pedigord.
(09:45):
I said that like spanish damnit, pedigord black truffles, one
of the most expensivedelicacies in the world.
How much was stolen, my friend?
A hundred thousand dollarsworth of troubles were taken in
a single night.
Uh, you know, it's prettyobvious.
Yeah, yeah, and you know,beyond the fact, I doubt these
guys were eating them all, butthese truffles can sell for over
(10:06):
$1,500 a pound as of 2005.
So it's pretty lucrative, myfriend.
It's a heck of a target.
In addition to stealingtruffles, the gangs in France
often steal truffle-hunting dogsas well.
I guess that was another fact Ilearned today or the other day,
whichever you decide.
Yeah, I guess that was anotherfact.
I learned today or the other day, whichever you decide.
Yeah, these dogs can be worththousands of dollars.
Yeah, because you know they'regoing to go find the troubles
(10:29):
that make the money.
It's just like a birding dog,I'm assuming.
I don't know, but apparently,uh, truffle thefts are pretty
common in France and Italy,leading farmers to patrol their
land with guard dogs and evenfirearms.
Sheesh, all right, there we are.
Go truffle.
Protect your truffles.
(10:49):
Guys, watch them.
That's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And the damn thing changed.
Boy, protect your truffles, ooh.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, step on my truffles, You's in trouble.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thief in London's Borough Market passed himself
off as a representative of theworld-famous French cheese
distributor and was able to makeoff with $300,000 of cheddar.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What I like cheese but I like cheddar.
Oh, yep, we knew, we know it.
King Nicky, over there underNicotine, and my friends Check
him out N-I-C-K-A-T-I-N-A if youwant to spell it correctly.
Yeah, I actually read aboutthat one.
That's pretty crazy, man.
Cheddar cheese is a heck of athing.
From the town of Cheddar iswhere it was invented, I believe
(11:36):
I read one time, and theoriginal cheddar cheese actually
is aged in a cheddar cave.
So apparently, to these peoplein this town, if it's not aged
in this cave, it's not reallycheddar cheese, but whatever,
that's what I say.
So, yeah, fake credentials andemails.
(11:58):
I actually had that one, owen.
That was when I looked up too.
That's pretty crazy.
There's, um, let's see whatelse we got here.
What else we got here on thisfine day of theft the vanilla
bean heist.
That sounds interesting.
What do you think about thatone?
Yeah, so what happened, owen?
A woman who was working at thisvanilla bean import company
(12:18):
stole large quantities ofvanilla over time and then just
resold it on the black market.
She stole 130.
Wouldn't it on the black market?
She stole 130.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Wouldn't it be the white market if it was vanilla?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, shit, huh, jeez, guys, get it right, these
sources.
The Spicy Chef as well.
That's where I got this one.
We're doubling up on the SpicyChef.
Anything that I did havepersonally on that last one was
due to the Cheese Professor.
That's a pretty good source.
Yeah, anything that I did havepersonally on that last one was
due to the cheese professor,that's a pretty good source.
Oh, okay, yeah, pretty top menhere, yeah.
(12:50):
So $139,000 worth of vanillabeans, that's a lot.
Vanilla beans are the secondmost expensive spice in the
world after saffron, huh, whichyou told me Sometimes selling
for over $7,000 per pound, youknow, and that also would
probably be why there's like alot of fake vanilla.
You know, I mean it's onpurpose imitation, but I do feel
(13:14):
here in the US, when I think ofvanilla and I've used it for
cooking and such things orwhatever, I'm up to that the
vanilla real vanilla extract andfake vanilla tastes different
and I'm more used to the fakevanilla flavor, because I did
have a bottle of vanilla fromMadagascar and it was really
(13:35):
good, but it definitely had adifferent flavor to it.
I mean it was more like whenyou buy, like the vanilla bean
ice cream and how it's thedifference between French
vanilla or whatever, your normalvanilla ice cream, and how it's
the difference between Frenchvanilla or whatever, or your
normal vanilla ice cream, Isuppose would be better.
Supermercados here.
That's the Spanish word forsupermarket.
Not too much different, myfriends, but now you learned
(13:56):
something else, anyway, wow.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, informative.
Here's another one.
I just have a problem with thenumbers on.
Maybe I'm missing somethinghere, but caviar well known to
be one of the most expensivefoods in the world.
A Russian businessman returnedfrom a New Year's party and
(14:17):
discovered that 22 tons ofcaviar was missing in Moscow.
Holy shit, or yes, yes, it wasMoscow.
Sorry, but yeah, they'reclaiming that's worth $470,000.
That works out to only like $10a pound and I don't think you
(14:41):
can get caviar right is there.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I don't even understand.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I mean a ton is 2000 pounds, correct?
Yes, yeah, yeah, it is oh no,I'm sorry, I did the math wrong.
That's my bad.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh it's okay, I did do it wrong.
Oh, owen, you're off the show,bro.
You're off the show.
Oh no, I'm sorry, I did themath wrong.
That's my bad.
Oh, it's okay, I did do itwrong.
Oh, owen, owen, you're off theshow, bro.
You're off the show Just joking.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, that makes more sense.
Yes, that's More like pushing11 grand a pound.
That's making a lot more sense.
I fucked that one up.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's okay.
It's okay, we have smartlisteners, they can do math,
$2.50 for beef.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's not gourmet.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, no shit, that is not gourmet at all.
I was trying to look up ifthere was any food heists in
Montana, you know real fast here, and I didn't quite get there.
Owen, I don't think so.
Apparently, people don't stealfood on that level in Montana
because you know there's notenough food in Montana.
I don't know, but that wouldhave been fun.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Not on that level but interestingly enough hopefully
soon to be friend of the show,jeremy I was telling him he's a
regular friend of myself andBoogie and visits us often here
and regular friend of myself andBoogie and visits us often here
.
And I was telling him the dayColton and I discussed even
doing this and talked about youknow some of these large numbers
and apparently a barbecue placein Laurel just outside of
(16:10):
Billings had two briskets stolenand Jeremy read me the article
and they did.
They referred to it as a heistand he just kept kind of
laughing.
Every time he was like, I don'tknow, too brisk, it's still
what a horrible thing To stealsomeone's barbecue.
But so yeah, incidentally itwas not on this level, but there
(16:31):
was a recent Food heist.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Right, yeah, there you go, see, now there's some
Montana facts Folks here.
So I Briefly looked up weirdestfood heist Right In the neck of
the woods.
There you go, see, now there'ssome Montana facts folks, hey.
So I briefly looked up weirdestfood heist, just for fun.
Okay, guys.
One thing, though, that struckme on this list immediately as
you were reading that was itcame up with a bull sperm.
I don't know how that's a food.
(16:54):
In Ulf in Germany, you stole 60containers of bull sperm.
All right, guys, that's whatyou need to think about for the
rest of your day, what they weredoing with it.
I'm not going to read anymore,that's it.
Just know that in Germany, theystole 60 containers of bull
sperm.
Maybe it's because it's goingto be eventually producing beef,
I don't know.
(17:16):
Wow, yeah, what a wacky world.
Yeah, I expect stuff like thatto happen in Finland, but not in
Germany, guys, Just joking.
Finland had to bring that beefback.
Ha, I ain't got nothing againstFinland, wouldn't it be
reindeer?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, I don't know, Is that what they say up there Is
like instead of having beef withsomeone, you have reindeer with
someone.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Possibly, oh, I don't know, possibly, oh, my dear, oh
, my dear goodness, I don't know.
Nonetheless, bro, I reallyappreciated this episode.
It was nice to get into kind ofa list and get back
lighthearted.
Currently, I tell stories,headquarters was going through a
brief transformation, settingup a new studio still in
(18:05):
temporary location at this pointin time.
But other than that, things areclicking right along, guys, and
we do hope to be coming alittle bit more fast and furious
with these episodes on our roadto 100,.
Okay, this will be our 96thepisode and we're creeping up on
100 episodes, guys.
I feel like that's kind of anaccomplishment for me and Owen,
you know, considering that thiswas our first go at it and we
started it just because wewanted to.
(18:26):
We started, I Tell Stories, todo something where maybe we
could share some positivity withpeople.
You know, make lighthearted ofsome of the things that go on
and, you know, maybe make youguys interested in learning some
stuff.
It's never meant to be like weknow the facts, we're 100% right
all the time.
We just want to share with youwhat we've seen just by looking
(18:49):
at our phones, looking at ourcomputer, reading a book and
then doing a little bit ofresearch.
So we hope sometimes that youguys follow up on us and maybe
get interested in something elsebesides your daily grind,
because we all know that's easyto get caught in.
So at the end of the day, weappreciate you.
Podcastlandia From Germany downto.
(19:12):
You know we do have some Mexicolisteners I've seen.
You know we get a lot ofcountries Pretty amazing.
Owen.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, I think it's 56 overall.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, and that's just within those periods.
So when we do look at that andshout out to Japan, we've had a
lot of UK listeners.
That's always nice.
Canada Shout out to Canada.
For sure, just everybody whosupports us really appreciate
you.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, we appreciate all of you.
Much love everybody.
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