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hey it's your boy Mike The Situation Santino welcome to statute of limitations it's the ultimate lineup
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it's Cooks this is not my fault that I stole this car it's conmen this is my
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chance I can be rich for life it's w to be King Pins we all made together $500,000 and queen pins it was basically
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a lounge of criminals these are stories of the nonviolent lucky punks and Robin hoods
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that Dodge the law I could have gone to prison not jail prison because here's
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the situation baby it's only a matter of time before the statute of limitations
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is up and technically you might walk away Scot free but don't take her from me guys I'm obviously no lawyer this is
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statute of limitations what's up everybody I'm Mike The Situation Santino welcome to the
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show where run-of-the-mill people get to tell all about crimes they committed back in the day and on this episode we
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see one man make an elaborate plan to just walk right out of a warehouse with a precious p pie of history and an
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animal lover who has seen enough and races to save an innocent animal's life
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by stuffing it in a u hole now it's time for a story of a man who moved from
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Italy to Chicago in search of a better life which sounds like a good idea but then he also goes and steals a famous R
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Stars guitar which sounds like a bad idea but instead of getting into a gym Jam he
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played the whole thing perfectly now he's here to tell the tale let's call
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him Frank my name is you can call me Frank and I committed the perfect crime and I got away with
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it statutes of limitations has passed 5 years ago for me this story is so freaking
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crazy so early 2000 I left Italy because I was financially struggling and uh I needed to take action I need to do
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something so I decided for Chicago because my cousin was already there so at least I had one roof on my head
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immediately after a few years ended up working for a AC Plumbing Company and one day me and my colleagues have been
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recruited to go to a special Warehouse because they were having problem and remodeling the old place Place why is it
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special because it was an auction Warehouse it was full of artifact uh pricess pieces original documents posan
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it was insane the amount of uh expensive things that wasn't there and uh day by
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day I started to become friend with a guard supervisor and you know the guy like to chat and start to brag about the
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place brag about the old pieces he can out with this secret with this incredible piece that they have in there
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and uh I said uh so what's that and he said follow me so I follow the guy all
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of the sudden I found myself in front of a box he opened the box and inside there
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is the original guitar of a passed away super mega star of ragby Music one of my
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Idols I used to play when I was a kid and my dream was to be a rock star and all of the sudden I felt electricity
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through out my body holding the guitar was one of the most beautiful feeling I ever felt in my life it was great only
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thinking about that that guy made the history of music with that guitar and now it was into my hands it was like
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connecting with eternity connecting myself with him it was crazy so all the shift I've been
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thinking to that guitar I I come back home and still I couldn't even sleep I
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was thinking about it uh even because they were saying that the auction would have started maybe uh $300
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$400,000 so it was crazy crazy money he became an obsession and the only idea to
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possess the same object that he made the eory of music with it I couldn't help it
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I wanted the guitar so when I started to study a plan to to steal the guitar I at the
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beginning I was very scared because from outside I saw a lot of guards barbed wire on top of the fences and a lot of a
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uh control getting in basically impossible but at the same time a thought popped out in my mind they were
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remodeling the whole thing so even the camera system at night time was off because they were having problem with a
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part of the warehouse the other thing that I noticed is that the place was a total mess we weren't the only there and
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we were already 12 people uh nobody was supervising us nobody was supervising the other electric company working on
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their stuff that confusion convinced me to take my chances so I said well Frank nobody's looking at you nobody will
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notice at some point you have a walk go to check out the place so that's what I
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did I started to figure out where the aisles were where I could get hidden it was a Friday I worked as normal and at
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the end of the shift as I planned I thought nobody would notice if uh 11 of us will leave in one state toward the
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end of the shift I hidden myself behind the boxes and I went there probably for five or 6 hours something like that and
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I was going crazy I was wetting my ass off we were working on the AC and AC was not working yet and my legs
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were hurting all my body soared and uh it was it was very very tough at some points I hear the C
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cleaning company uh saying goodbye to each other the employees leaving and then all the electricity going down and
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being shutting off and I found myself in the darkness in the silence I took a deep bread I decided to
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leave my Cove and I went straight to that part of the warehouse where the box was and when I was walking in the middle
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of the darkness with the only help of the flashlight that I brought with me I only remember that it was two aisles to
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my left from where I was and look in the middle of the aisle on my left at the second shelf I thought that I was
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exactly in the right place but I open ined the first box nothing the second box was completely different
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stuff third box was empty I start to go in panic because I knew that I didn't have the time of the
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word and I was trying to talk myself out to leave the place at the same time the
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other part of me was convincing me to stay but was paralyzed if a dude from Italy loves
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rean music does that make him a pastafarian I know guys listen I'm Italian and I can make that joke anyway
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I couldn't help it just like our man Frank can't help stealing a famous guitar and even though he said Italians
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don't talk when it comes to these details on how he got away with it he's
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going to sing like a canary next welcome back guys the statute of limitations where a guy calling himself
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Frank is waiting to steal a famous ree Stars guitar in auction Warehouse luckily the whole thing ends on a high
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note here's how but I open the first box nothing the second box was completely different
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stuff third box was empty I start to go in panic because I knew that I didn't
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have all the time of the word but at the same time I kept going to look for and then finally I realized that I was
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looking in the wrong direction I moved some feet on my right and then I found the box that the guard supervisor showed
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me someday before I opened it and the guitar was there my heart was exploding I took a
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deep breath and then I grabbed the guitar very slowly I start to walk toward the
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exit to the parking lot that case in my hand was like gold and was like killing me at the same
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time and I was already feeling so G and uh that walk looked infinite I was walking and walking and walking faster
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and faster and faster and I had like the feeling The Sensation that that door was
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always too far away probably my mind that walked last hours and the moment I open the door with that case in my right
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hand I felt all the feelings of the world last thing you know it was me driving to W home in this very bad
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neighborhood of Chicago when I got home instinctively I said okay now I can finally Play This chords and uh try to
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feel like that Mega star but I felt so weird I felt so so off and believe it or not I put the guitar in front of me on
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the couch and I've been staring that guitar probably all night long for hours
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without not even touch it it was a mix of emotions uh I never played the guitar I never
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played it I wanted to scream to the word uh what I did at the same time I couldn't I
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didn't tell to anybody uh not even on my family not even my my best friends I
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couldn't feel safe the only one who knew about that it was me it's only been in
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my place for all the time in it to be there I know you guys are dying to know who I sold the guitar to but
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I can't tell you that I cannot you know I come from Italy and uh in my country
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we know how to do one thing very well keep your mouth shut then little by little I start to
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cope with the fact that I needed to come back to a normal life even because uh there was the risk to look even too much
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suspicious so I decided to go back to work I was looking around me like a mall but at the same time I was try to to
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look calm and and quiet of course and I had almost the the willing to steal something else but um maybe the the last
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reasoning part of my brain told me okay Frank that's it stop it you got the guitar and that's it and after some time
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when the when the moment was right I resigned I left now if you ask me if I would like
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to do that again no not even gross not even if you pay me the same amount of money I would do that again it was
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completely stupid it was it was totally crazy I could been still in jail today and
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uh that was something that I would regret for the rest of my life but fortunately I got the way with it that's
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my [Music] story are we on guys hey yo man don't worry bro like he said this is it's
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America guys home of the free including my Pisano Frank so we're in the clear
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you want to talk about a main event this is the tale of one man's mission to actually steal a race horse
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in Upstate New York that's the kind of thing that could have sent him up Upstate now he's here to bust out his
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story here's buster hi my name is Buster and I stole a horse so me and my buddies hadn't gone
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together all of us College friends for 30 years we're all over the country you
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know we grew up in the same town but it's now our chance to get together and
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by one budd's kids going you know to college you know Upstate New York he's
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got his first apartment off campus so he's got to load furniture and and bring
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it to his new apartment so he he figured hey we'll just meet there there's a
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track near his college we'll just you know have a good time gamble drink and
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after he drops his kid off at College we'll just hang out there for the weekend drink and you know go to the
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races and stuff I get out from La acting like a big shot being in the business and
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everything I want to prove I'm going to throw some money around and gamble big
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and I've actually gambled on horses before usually with moderate success which is better than most people so you
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know he comes up to the school and drops his kid off and he's got his U-Haul and
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I you know get my rent CR we all meet up at the hotel which is about about 2 miles from the
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[Music] [Applause] track so we get to the track and we're bedding and I'm kind of helping my
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buddies out and stuff and we're doing okay it's just a blast we're getting
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together and we're drinking and I'm getting a little sloppy with my beding
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big and you know I just wanted to focus on the last few races I had you know most of my money tied up in the last
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race so I kind of wanted to see that without the distraction and stuff I walk down kind of the Ender my day right next
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to kind of where they cross the finish line so I kind of work my way down right to
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the railing I'm kind of leaning as close as you can get to the track I was there
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right across through the Finish Line just where they pass and I wanted to be there just the excitement down there is
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fantastic so I'm leaning and I'm watching the horses come in and I've got
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bets spread all across and I'm really excited and you know I did well I you know I placed one of my horses at the
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end of a race they're trying to bring all the horses in they got to walk them
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and cool them down because they're all worked up and stuff they don't want to
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they got to get their heart rate down as I'm there there one of the horses was
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struggling at the end and I'm kind of watching the horse because it you know
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had a distinctive kind of looking horse different color man and everything and I'm watching this
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trainer and he's yanking the horse around he's got you know one of the little riding crap whips and just
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beating on it and just you know I'd never seen that just all of a sudden you
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get your blood starts to go like here's an innocent animal and just drinking so
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you're you know getting really riled up and you know my I'm like hey hey and the
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guy looks at me like whatever and I'm like come on don't do that to it's an
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animal and the guy's like you know flipping me off I'm like I don't know if
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I want to beat up the guy or I can't beat him up I mean run out of track or anything I'm like what you know I can I
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do anything I'm like shouting at it come on just leave the horse alone he just
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Yanks it Yanks it until they're getting off the track and I just I was just furious I just didn't know what to
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do I had no idea how but I was going to save that horse whoa easy there fella horse's way like 1,000 lb
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and they kick I got a cousin Tina like that and you couldn't pay me to mess with her so how exactly do you steal a
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racehorse and get away with it my mind is blown right now guys we're headed into the backstretch for the
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answer on statute of limitations next welcome back to statute of limitations our boy Buster is ready to
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save the day after seeing a racehorse take a beating by a trainer so he's whipped up a plan to actually steal the
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horse and bring it to greener pastures check this out there's people just kind of cleaning
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up at this time and there's a woman directing people you know she's kind of
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the manager with the staff and she obviously come some position there I didn't I don't know what it was but she
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was kind of a manager of stuff and I'm hey where they take the horses where are
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they and she's like well we don't keep the horses here they keep them you know
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a couple miles away be like I want to buy that horse there nobody should treat a horse that poorly I was able to look
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it up on the internet and see where it was and it was actually really close to our hotel where you're staying and it
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kind of all right G gave me you know an idea of you know I could do something and basically I wanted to steal the
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horse but you know we went from there we back to the hotel right after that my buddies are G they're giving me a hard
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time they're calling me The Horse Whisperer because I'm so passionate about the horse and they're like oh
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horse whisper we got the horse whisper over here then it just becomes whisper so they call me whisper and that's
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getting my blood up and you know this is it we've always did all those crazy
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stuff we used to do come on we did stuff in college we did stuff let's do something like something memorable you
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know here we are together and and the other guys are just into playing cards they're you know we're older now they're
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too lazy to get out they're just happy to have sports on in the background drink and play cards but I'm like I'm
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going to get you know I'm going to rescue that horse I'm going to steal it
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I'm going to do something I got to do something and that's where I kind of
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started hatching the plan I just started thinking to myself I could put the horse
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in the uth hul I could definitely get over there it's super close to Hotel I
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just got to get the keys for my buddy who's hammered so I shouldn't have that
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hard time and get my other friend to help me so we get the keys you know we're able to get down to where this
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Barn is so I kind of pull up it's you know a dirt road and I can see dust so
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I'm kind of looking through and I don't want to get too close I'm not sure how
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close you can pull U-Haul to a barn and I can tell you know nobody's really paying attention there's a lot there's
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activity but not crazy but we park and I get out and walk and you see guys kind of walking horses
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around like this this ring that they kind of keep near these I guess the barns or whatever Stables I'm kind of
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wandering through the barn and kind of looking and I just think you act like you know what you're doing they'll just
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kind of leave you alone so I'm kind of looking for horses and some are really
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getting riled up just me walking through and I spot the horse that has that M that I recognize and I'm kind of looking
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around and nobody's paying attention to me and you're nervous hey the animals
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are gigantic and I've never actually let a horse or done anything like that I'm
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you dying for that but you know beer bravery I'm able to get in there think it's going to stomp on me I'm able to
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lead the horse out it's looking kind of what the other guys are doing just start
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walking kind of confidently and I just keep on walking until I'm at the U-Haul
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I don't now the problem is I got to get the horse in the U-Haul I don't know how
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I'm going to do it it's kind of a problem my buddy's just drunk and laughing at me he doesn't even want to
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help he's just lying on the ground laugh me trying to jump jump and horse no idea
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I mean they're huge and he goes in the U-Haul and for some reason the horse fils in him
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because he has food in his hand and just goes to him so we get it in the U-Haul close it and I just Loosely tied it so I
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don't want to go that fast because I'm thinking I'm going to kill the horse
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that I'm actually trying to save so I'm going really slow slow I'm on this
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country road it doesn't have brights I'm thinking I'm going to crash every 5
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seconds I'm drunk and my budd's just laugh laughing the whole time you know
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and we see this sign that says Friendly Farms and it's like a sign you know you
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know oh my gosh this is where we belong we're driving for a while let's just
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drop the horse off here at Friendly Farms this is where the horse is you can see it kind of a barn or in the
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background but you know there's a big fence that keeps the horses in you don't
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want to get too close you know we just want to I just want to get the horse out and my bu's also getting a little
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nervous I can sense like we've been gone a little bit so we just pull up to where
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You' you know pull in the gate and we get the horse out amazingly it got out
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easy much easier than getting it in and we lead it up to the gate and horse just
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kind of trots off without me doing anything I closed the gate and I you hope for the look back from the horse
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you know that moment didn't really happen but I I felt amazing it was my moment you know my rescue moment and we
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hop back in to our U-Haul drive back of course we get back to our car game they didn't even know we were gone because
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we're still drunk and playing cards and we just started playing and I'm feeling
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amazed I could care less if I lost all my money it just was this great magical moment hanging out with your buddies you
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know a great story it was a perfect guys weekend that's the way it was supposed
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to be so we begin to wonder like what did happened when they got up in the morning
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at Friendly Farms and they had an extra horse did they not notice or nobody seemed to inquire like hey there was a
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horse stolen they just seemed to get away with it you know we're just pretty
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happy with Friendly Farms right now 4 years later my daughter's going to school and Upstate New York and I kind
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of convinced my wife like hey I just want to drive by Friendly Farms and in my Disney moment we drive up and I'm
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kind of hanging out and there's that horse with a distinctive main you know I
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knew that was a horse and four years later that horse is still there so now that the statue of limitations has run
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its course I got away with stealing a horse and that's the story of the great
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Whisperer I was would definitely never steal a horse again got two greyhounds now but I'm going to have to wait a
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couple years before I tell you that story and that is how you steal a horse and get away with it not that we condone
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that sort of thing Buster you're my hero and that's our show guys I'm Mike The
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Situation sorentino everyone's favorite felon it's a joke anyway remember
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despite what you've heard here crime doesn't pay see you next time on statute
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of limitations this program is for entertainment purposes only and it is not legal advice the statute of
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limitations are complicated and depend on many factors if you need advice you should seek legal counsel from a
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competent attorney in your [Music] jurisdiction [Music] yeah [Music] yeah [Music]
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yeah [Music]