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Speaker 2: Well, I have a crazy story. It's an oldie, but
Speaker 2: a goodie. It takes place in the nineteen thirties. These
Speaker 2: cases always kind of fascinate me because I'm a history nerd,
Speaker 2: But you fascinate me because of the shit people did.
Speaker 2: Because like nowadays, you can't get away with shit, like
Speaker 2: there's cameras out there, your phone gets tracked, like, you know,
Speaker 2: you can never cover your tracks one hundred percent, but
Speaker 2: back then people could. But before I get into it,
Speaker 2: I remind everyone to hit subscribe or follow on whatever
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Speaker 2: you about the murder of Michael Maloe. Okay, So if
Speaker 2: you remember in history, the Prohibition, the Prohibition Act was
Speaker 2: ratified into law in nineteen twenty. Okay, it was the
Speaker 2: eighteenth amendment to our Constitution, and it made it illegal
Speaker 2: to manufacture alcohol, sell it, import it. You couldn't know
Speaker 2: nothing to do with alcohol, okay. As the country is
Speaker 2: drying up basically because you're not allowed to go anywhere
Speaker 2: and drink it. You're not allowed to buy it. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, places like speakeasies. Have you heard of speakeasies?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, So speakeasy start to pop up. And
Speaker 2: what a speakeasy is it. It came from illegal drinking
Speaker 2: establishments that were in England and in the nineteenth century
Speaker 2: they were called speak softly shops, So that's where it
Speaker 2: kind of evolved, like speakeasies evolved from that. So it
Speaker 2: was estimated though that there were more than thirty thousand
Speaker 2: speakeasies in New York City alone.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, in.
Speaker 2: Okay, So everybody's drinking.
Speaker 3: Skin, yes, everybody's out at night.
Speaker 2: Right, So speakeasy didn't have to really be anything fancy either,
Speaker 2: you know, like you would see in the movies or something.
Speaker 2: They sometimes it would just be a room and some liquor.
Speaker 2: So the range of establishments that they had it was vast,
Speaker 2: Like it would be you know, luxurious, speak easy. Sometimes
Speaker 2: sometimes it would just be a seller and so the house,
Speaker 2: you know that I set up some tables.
Speaker 4: I'd always picture every speak easy, jazz, the being fun, right,
Speaker 4: someone out of the bugle or the coronet. Yeah, everyone's
Speaker 4: going to be bopping exactly like then, yeah.
Speaker 2: You expect this like picture like this glamorous, yes right, yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody's dressed and beautiful gowns and furs.
Speaker 3: Girls where they had the little swinger dresses.
Speaker 2: Yeah right yeah, But it wasn't always like that, no.
Speaker 2: So nineteen twenty nine in American history also we had
Speaker 2: the Great Depression.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: The stock market crashed in nineteen twenty nine, and that's
Speaker 2: where the Great Depression started from. You know, we got
Speaker 2: this big crash. People lost their money, some of them
Speaker 2: their fortunes and everything. So this is nobody can drink
Speaker 2: right and nobody can drink legally. Yeah, it sounded like
Speaker 2: air buddies getting drunk, right, yea our buddy, right, air buddies.
Speaker 2: So there was a place called Marinos, and it was
Speaker 2: just a little place. It had four tables chairs, It
Speaker 2: had a well used sofa on one end, a makeshift
Speaker 2: twelve foot bar in the middle. There was a toilet
Speaker 2: on the other end that was blocked from view, so
Speaker 2: you know, patrons could go to the bathroom, sure, but
Speaker 2: it was like a little flimsy partition pretty much. The
Speaker 2: regulars that came to Marinos were criminals and derel QX,
Speaker 2: and those were the people. I think that the whole
Speaker 2: prohibition thing was meant to dry out. I don't think
Speaker 2: they meant to dry out, you know, mister America next door.
Speaker 2: I think it was now focus on people that were
Speaker 2: more of the unsavory characters. So Tony Marino himself, the owner,
Speaker 2: He was a disaster of a person. He was twenty
Speaker 2: seven at the time our story takes place, and he
Speaker 2: was riddled with venereal disease. Oh bother he had syphilis
Speaker 2: and gonorrhea, oh my gosh, and he really didn't rush
Speaker 2: to the doctor at the time to treat any of
Speaker 2: his ailments. So they did reach an advanced stage on
Speaker 2: him with physical marks which were like absesses that developed
Speaker 2: in his growing area. And he spoke about that every
Speaker 2: now and then and openly. Yeah, just openly and yeah
Speaker 2: in this this charmer, he passed these STDs onto his
Speaker 2: wife because he was mom at the time. So his wife, Eleanor,
Speaker 2: she wasn't aware that she had any of these diseases
Speaker 2: until she was pregnant and visited the doctor. A doctor
Speaker 2: told her. So, as you can imagine, it wasn't the
Speaker 2: best marriage between Eleanor and Tony. She said. The way
Speaker 2: that she described Tony was that she said he had
Speaker 2: a nasty temper, He was prone to violent tantrums, and
Speaker 2: he would often smash furniture in their house. So yeah,
Speaker 2: he once put the stove into the hallway and took
Speaker 2: an axe to it. And his wife also said, quote
Speaker 2: on several occasions he threatened to turn the gas on
Speaker 2: in our bedroom and kill the baby and myself.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, So this is Tony a real charm yeah, charmer.
Speaker 2: His behavior was attributed to a childhood fall that he
Speaker 2: had where he got a concussion and his family said,
Speaker 2: you know, ever since then, he kind of wasn't the
Speaker 2: same he had. He ended up attempting suicide twice before
Speaker 2: he was sixteen, and during his marriage to Eleanor, she
Speaker 2: left him a few times here and there. But at
Speaker 2: the time of our story, she and Tony and their son,
Speaker 2: their baby son were living with Tony's father and his sister,
Speaker 2: and both women, Eleanor and Tony's sister, he would he
Speaker 2: would beat them every day.
Speaker 4: So he was ane and his own sister and his
Speaker 4: own sister okay, and dad.
Speaker 3: Would just let this. Dad said nothing.
Speaker 2: Apparently, I don't know if Dad's joining in.
Speaker 3: Or whatever, but right, okay.
Speaker 2: So an Marino's bar, Tony employed a man who went
Speaker 2: by the name of Joseph, and he actually went by
Speaker 2: Red Joseph Murphy. He was the bartender. So Red first
Speaker 2: met Tony as a patron of the place. He was
Speaker 2: one of the regulars that would come to Marinos. Tony
Speaker 2: eventually hired him to pour the drinks for a dollar
Speaker 2: a day. That's how much he earned. And the side
Speaker 2: benefit though was sampling the inventory. Plus he had like
Speaker 2: a semi warm place maybe to crash when he needed Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: you know, he could sleep on that sofa I mentioned,
Speaker 2: and so it wasn't bad. It's kind of a cushy
Speaker 2: set up for like a home alcoholic.
Speaker 3: Really in the middle of the great job, Are you
Speaker 3: kidding me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like he probably didn't have a penny
Speaker 2: to his name, but he's able to earn a little
Speaker 2: bit of money and crash there as well. So Joseph Murphy,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a little bit about him. He was
Speaker 2: born Archie Mott on May twenty fourth, nineteen oh six.
Speaker 2: He was taken off the streets at the age of
Speaker 2: ten and placed in the care of several different foster
Speaker 2: families and a boys' school. He was taken to Mansfield
Speaker 2: State Training School and Hospital at around thirteen years old,
Speaker 2: where he would remain a mental patient until his early twenties.
Speaker 2: While he was in the hospital, he was found by
Speaker 2: psychiatrists to have the mental age of nine years and
Speaker 2: six months and an IQ of fifty six, and on
Speaker 2: July thirty first, nineteen twenty nine, he snuck away from
Speaker 2: the hospital. He was able to make just enough from
Speaker 2: odd jobs on the street to keep his alcohol addiction going,
Speaker 2: and in nineteen thirty two is when he wandered into
Speaker 2: Marino's bar and Tony, you know, took pity on him
Speaker 2: and gave him this job. There's a lot of people
Speaker 2: in this story, so we have read and we have
Speaker 2: Tony so far. Yes, Well, the next guy I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you about. His name is Frank Pascua. Okay.
Speaker 2: He was another regular of Marinos speakeasy. He was twenty
Speaker 2: four with a wife and son at home, and Frank
Speaker 2: began working for his father at the age of seventeen
Speaker 2: at Pasqua's burial service, which was located in Harlem. He
Speaker 2: found it really difficult to engage in any kind of
Speaker 2: meaningful conversation in that career, as you can imagine, and
Speaker 2: so he would often stop by Marino's place at the
Speaker 2: end of the day to grab a drink and socialize.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: He talked to Tony about you know, being a dad
Speaker 2: and husbands, and he was able to speak to him
Speaker 2: in Italian because Frank too write their native language. So
Speaker 2: Tony and Frank they were often seen talking to another guy.
Speaker 2: His name is David Prezberg. So now we have Tony
Speaker 2: read the bartender, Frank and Dan yees Daniel and Daniel
Speaker 2: Kresburg was a twenty nine year old wholes silk grocher
Speaker 2: and father of three. Just to let you know, there
Speaker 2: was never any accusations from either Frank or Daniel's spouses
Speaker 2: that they ever got abused by their husbands. So you know,
Speaker 2: by all accounts, they seem to have loving and good marriages.
Speaker 2: So I'm just throwing that out there to kind of okay,
Speaker 2: good to pop up the story, right. Yes, so Daniel's
Speaker 2: a family man at heart, and desperation kind of drove
Speaker 2: him to a life of crime. He regularly partnered with
Speaker 2: a woman named Marie who was Tony's cousin, as part
Speaker 2: of a gang called the Pants Bandit Duo and Marie.
Speaker 2: What she would do was hold victims at gunpoint and
Speaker 2: take their wallets, jewelry, and money, and then she would
Speaker 2: force them to remove their pants, their trousers. That's why
Speaker 2: we call the pants She would take their pants so
Speaker 2: that the guys wouldn't chase after her and Daniel and
Speaker 2: Daniel was the look out and they would you know,
Speaker 2: run away with the with the loot and the pant
Speaker 2: pants pants. Okay, So now I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: about another guy Okay. His name is Michael Malloy and
Speaker 2: he's our victim. So it's believed that he originally came
Speaker 2: to New York from Ireland. He was born in the
Speaker 2: County do Google. He immigrated to New York in the
Speaker 2: late eighteen hundreds or early nineteen hundreds. He was a loner,
Speaker 2: had limited friends, and he didn't have any family to
Speaker 2: speak of, at least none that anyone knew about. He
Speaker 2: worked several jobs involving like different types of street cleaning,
Speaker 2: and there was a period where he worked as a
Speaker 2: stationary fireman before he found himself sweeping the streets again.
Speaker 2: He sometimes worked for Frank at his dad's burial service,
Speaker 2: the Pasquad Burial Service. He would sweep floors and polish
Speaker 2: the coffins, and Frank would sometimes allow him to sleep
Speaker 2: at the mortuary as well. When Michael worked at the
Speaker 2: funeral parlor, he and Frank would walk down to Marinos
Speaker 2: after work, and eventually the walk to Marinos became a
Speaker 2: regular occurrence for Michael, regardless of whether Frank was with
Speaker 2: him or not, and he appreciated the company that the
Speaker 2: bar provided and the free lunch tray because Tony would
Speaker 2: put out a free lunch tray which offered the decent
Speaker 2: makings to do like a sardine sandwich, which he really like.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So during the early days of Michael's patronage at Tony's speakeasy,
Speaker 2: he was a good paying customer. As he came back
Speaker 2: more often, he would ask Tony if he could work
Speaker 2: in exchange for drinks, and as his bar tab began
Speaker 2: to grow, Tony cut it off in November of nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty one. Michael would return to beg for drinks from
Speaker 2: now some of Tony's other customers, and when Tony's back
Speaker 2: was turned, he would approach Red the bartender behind the
Speaker 2: bar and steal twigs from the whiskey bottles.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: He was a bit of a nuisance and Tony's bar
Speaker 2: was not performing very well, so things are starting to
Speaker 2: build up. In July nineteen thirty two, in the quote
Speaker 2: unquote back office of the speakeasy, which was really more
Speaker 2: like a walking closet that was really partitioned off with
Speaker 2: like a curtain, so there was a lot of privacy. Tony,
Speaker 2: Frank and Daniel were sitting around a table and they
Speaker 2: began talking. Tony was watching a few barflies taking the
Speaker 2: free food from the free lunch tray, and he could
Speaker 2: see Michael and Red drinking whiskey from the bottle behind
Speaker 2: the bar. It was becoming difficult, like I told you,
Speaker 2: for him to cover the expenses of his business. So
Speaker 2: Frank looked up and he saw the same scene that
Speaker 2: Tony was taking it like, you know, just these people
Speaker 2: taking the free food and read and Michael having at it.
Speaker 2: Frank is an undertaker and he regularly worked with insurance companies,
Speaker 2: so he knew if thing or two about life insurance
Speaker 2: and that death was a regular part of his day.
Speaker 2: So in that moment, he suggests, why don't you take
Speaker 2: a life insurance policy out on Michael, And then he
Speaker 2: said I'll take care of the rest. He says this
Speaker 2: to Tony.
Speaker 3: Okay, right.
Speaker 2: So Michael looked like he was about sixty at the time,
Speaker 2: and he must have lived like a really hard life,
Speaker 2: like those were sixty hard years. Yes, and he was
Speaker 2: a drunk, he was an alcoholic, so being that, you know,
Speaker 2: he probably looked older than what.
Speaker 3: He really Oh my gosh, how run down that right?
Speaker 3: Make yes?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Nobody's quite sure. So, you know, they all start talking
Speaker 2: about this that they're going to maybe you know, look
Speaker 2: into this, like getting an insurance policy, and Michael and
Speaker 2: Daniel was all for it too because he could use
Speaker 2: the extra cash, right like.
Speaker 3: Oh for business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh right, And so they all agreed and the
Speaker 2: group that the tabloids would eventually call the Murder Trust
Speaker 2: was born with this discussion. The first step now would
Speaker 2: be to obtain a life insurance policy for Michael, who
Speaker 2: was a homeless, unemployed alcoholic, so good, look at that, right, right,
Speaker 2: And none of the men were related to him, so
Speaker 2: it's going to be difficult. But Frank went to work
Speaker 2: on this. The process of obtaining life insurance for Michael
Speaker 2: would take nearly five months. Oh some rejections. They stretched
Speaker 2: the truth quite a bit.
Speaker 3: They would have to like that, yeah.
Speaker 2: And they just blatantly lied on a lack of applications. So,
Speaker 2: with his eyes on being a few hundred dollars richer,
Speaker 2: Frank approached Michael on July twenty ninth, nineteen thirty two,
Speaker 2: and offered to take him to get life insurance. So
Speaker 2: Michael's agreeable. I don't know why. He went along with
Speaker 2: Frank to meet with an agent from Prudential Life. The
Speaker 2: agent was relatively new to the business, He ended up
Speaker 2: offering a policy that would cost eight dollars and eight
Speaker 2: cents a month. He described the policy as having a
Speaker 2: double indemnity clause, which is that if the insured passes away,
Speaker 2: like in an accident, the policy would.
Speaker 3: Pay double Oh wow, Okay.
Speaker 2: There's a famous old movie called Double Indemnity that I
Speaker 2: just remember. It had Barbara Stanwick in it. She was
Speaker 2: the She was the them fatale. So anyway, they're like, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: They filled out the paperwork. They said that Michael lived
Speaker 2: at the address of Marino's Speakeasy and that he was
Speaker 2: employed as a porter at Frank's funeral parlor. Michael claimed
Speaker 2: no friend or family outside of Frank, and he named
Speaker 2: him as beneficiary, saying he gave me a job and
Speaker 2: he feeds me. So they pay the eight dollars and
Speaker 2: eight cents. They signed the papers and the policy was
Speaker 2: sent in. However, during the authentication process, the insurance company
Speaker 2: questioned the fact that the person who took out the
Speaker 2: policy happened to also be the named beneficiary, and he
Speaker 2: was someone that wasn't blood related to the insured. So,
Speaker 2: with numerous other discrepancies discovered during this process, the review process,
Speaker 2: the policy was rejected at the end of August, and
Speaker 2: the eight dollars and eight cents was returned to Frank.
Speaker 2: So the same process was repeated in September with Prudential,
Speaker 2: and the same outcome happened. Now they're realizing, okay, we
Speaker 2: need to find a relative of oh yeah, right, So
Speaker 2: Joseph Murphy read he was called on to pose as
Speaker 2: Michael's brother, and so now they're like, they're three. Their
Speaker 2: trio now goes to four. So they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: split this insurance money if it ever yeah control, but
Speaker 2: you know, they're like, okay, fine, it's better than not
Speaker 2: having I guess the life insurance policy at all. So
Speaker 2: in early November, Frank reached out to a Metropolitan agent
Speaker 2: regarding a quote unquote friend who wanted some insurance. The
Speaker 2: friend had given Frank the money to purchase the policy,
Speaker 2: and when asked if the agent could meet the man,
Speaker 2: Frank said no. So, I mean that's already shady, right right,
Speaker 2: you know, he said, he works late, it's going to
Speaker 2: be too difficult. So the agent really didn't want to
Speaker 2: push it. I'm sure he just wanted to make the sale,
Speaker 2: and he drops off a blank application. The following week
Speaker 2: to Frank as a note, this was in violation of
Speaker 2: Metropolitan's policies, which required the agent to be there in
Speaker 2: person at the time of signing. So this is just.
Speaker 4: All she I was just going to say. The agent
Speaker 4: knew exactly what he was doing. He was dropping off
Speaker 4: a blank check that he was going to endorse for them.
Speaker 3: Just fill it out. I'll be back right.
Speaker 2: So Frank provided the agent with the necessary information to
Speaker 2: fill in the application and he signs it a phony signature.
Speaker 2: The name on the application was Nicholas Mellory, so it's
Speaker 2: not Michael molloy, it's Nicholas Mellory on Frank's This is
Speaker 2: supposedly Frank's friend, Nicholas Mellory. Joseph Murphy became Joseph Mellory,
Speaker 2: Nicholas's brother. That's the beneficiary. And the application was turned
Speaker 2: in on November sixteenth, nineteen thirty two, for a forty
Speaker 2: four year old Nicholas Mellory. Because they're now fudging.
Speaker 4: They took sixteen years off Michael.
Speaker 2: You know, they're trying to make the application much more.
Speaker 3: Palatable for sure.
Speaker 2: So with the name change and no other applications lying
Speaker 2: in wait, the eight hundred dollars policy with a five
Speaker 2: dollars and two cent monthly premium was accepted on December first,
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So meanwhile at the bar, with all the whispered conversations
Speaker 2: and meetings behind the beaded curtain in the back room,
Speaker 2: some of the regular patrons had caught onto the fact
Speaker 2: that something shady was going on between Tony Frank and Daniel.
Speaker 2: One of the people paying attention was a Nan name
Speaker 2: Anthony Beststony, and he went by tough Tony. Okay, so
Speaker 2: we have Tony Marino, but I'm going to call Anthony
Speaker 2: Bestoni tough Tony. Tough Tony was a forty three year
Speaker 2: old sometimes bartender, husband and father of five. Although he
Speaker 2: said to be unemployed, he made money in the unsavory
Speaker 2: underworld by printing counterfeit money. Okay, a lot of money there, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2: And he had a partner that he printed this money with.
Speaker 2: His name was Joe Maglioni, with whom he had a
Speaker 2: combative relationship. The two men would frequently go to marinos
Speaker 2: to speak easy. They were overheard discussing their funny money
Speaker 2: operation during arguments that they had regarding splitting the prophets. Sure, so, MAGLIONI.
Speaker 2: He had four children of his own that he had
Speaker 2: to provide for. So the perpetual desperation that people had
Speaker 2: during the Great Depression, you know, made pretty much everyone,
Speaker 2: I think open to CD behavior.
Speaker 3: That survival behavior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So tough Tony caught wind of the insurance
Speaker 2: scheme somehow and he wanted in. So. Knowing tough Tony
Speaker 2: was prone to violence and was willing to do just
Speaker 2: about anything to make a buck, Tony Marino relented and
Speaker 2: the Murder Trust now has five members.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: So breaking down the math of the new split of
Speaker 2: the money, even with a double indemnity, it's sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3: Dollars, Okay.
Speaker 2: The profit that each of them are getting now is
Speaker 2: shrinking because there's five people that they have to split
Speaker 2: it up, and they're taking about three hundred and twenty dollars,
Speaker 2: which in today's money is about seventy three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Wow.
Speaker 2: So it is a lot of money, but it's not like,
Speaker 2: you know, one hundred thousand dollars or something. Right, They
Speaker 2: decided that they needed more policies taken out on Michael.
Speaker 2: So they're back to the drawing. They reach out to
Speaker 2: Prudential and they meet with a different agent, and they
Speaker 2: met with him on December tenth with a fake Nicholas
Speaker 2: Mellory in tow and ever was playing the role of
Speaker 2: Nicholas Mellory. It wasn't Michael.
Speaker 3: It was someone who looked forty four.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, right, it was. It's unknown who actually did it.
Speaker 2: The Prudential agent began an application for weekly insurance two
Speaker 2: policies using mostly the same information from the MET the
Speaker 2: Metropolitan policies, and save for some mistakes, Frank gave a
Speaker 2: birthday that didn't match the MET policy. They're being sloppy, right,
Speaker 2: They shaved off another four years of Nicholas Mellory, so
Speaker 2: now he's only forty Okay. The other inconsistencies was the signature.
Speaker 2: Originally Frank had signed it, but he did not sign
Speaker 2: the new one for Prudential, So it's clearly two different
Speaker 2: signatures on these policies for Nicholas Mellory. Regardless, they were
Speaker 2: approved the following week, and both policies that they took
Speaker 2: out were for four hundred and ninety four dollars and
Speaker 2: they both had this double indemnity clause. So in total,
Speaker 2: now there's three thousand, five hundred and seventy six dollars
Speaker 2: up for grabs, Like that's the insurance amount on Michael,
Speaker 2: which in today's money is eighty one, eight hundred and
Speaker 2: forty dollars between five.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the plan the men came up with, they believed,
Speaker 2: was so simple it was laughable. They didn't need to
Speaker 2: choot him like drag on. There was no intent on
Speaker 2: putting any kind of effort in killing Michael. What they
Speaker 2: wanted to do was that Tony was just gonna lift
Speaker 2: the closure. Remember I told you he cut off Michael
Speaker 2: from alcohol. He decided he was just gonna let it
Speaker 2: flow and that they all figured that Michael's alcoholism would
Speaker 2: do okay. So they all understood, you know, the plan
Speaker 2: might not go the way they anticipated. Frank and Tony
Speaker 2: brought brought in a couple other speakeasy regulars they knew
Speaker 2: that would be willing to bump someone off for cheap
Speaker 2: as a backup plan. Their names were Edward Smith and
Speaker 2: John McNally. They both were career criminals and were enthusiastic
Speaker 2: to be offered a job no matter if I was
Speaker 2: illegal right. It was the magic word during the.
Speaker 3: Great Bath's right job.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. So they signed on for eight hundred dollars
Speaker 2: upon the death of Michael. That's pretty big cut, but
Speaker 2: they weren't only going to get it if they were needed.
Speaker 2: So with the policies and this contingent plan in place now,
Speaker 2: the Murder Trust is ready to begin acting on what
Speaker 2: they're going to do. Right Well, one evening late in
Speaker 2: December nineteen thirty, Michael walks into Marino's bar and he
Speaker 2: was strangely welcomed with open arms, no tongue lashing about begging,
Speaker 2: no remarks about his bar. Tab Tony explained that the
Speaker 2: competition between the speakeasies was becoming fierce and he really
Speaker 2: needed to change his rules. So to reward Michael for
Speaker 2: his loyalty, his drinks would be on the house from
Speaker 2: now on. So as the hours passed, Michael poured whiskey
Speaker 2: and gin down his throat while members of the Murder
Speaker 2: Truss looked at when a glass was emptied, someone was
Speaker 2: always standing close by to fill it up again. Michael
Speaker 2: drank and drank, and then drank some more. As the
Speaker 2: other patrons began to leave, and the night wore on.
Speaker 2: Michael eventually called the quits for the evening. He thanked
Speaker 2: Tony and you know, for his gracious hospitality, and he
Speaker 2: left to find a place to lay his head for
Speaker 2: the night. The following day he was back and Tony
Speaker 2: hopped to it to fill his glass up and repeated
Speaker 2: the previous day, and Michael drank and he drank some more,
Speaker 2: and Tony poured, and after drinking a spill, Michael left
Speaker 2: again for the night. So by the third day that
Speaker 2: this is going on, Tony's annoyed.
Speaker 4: Okay, Tony is cragging because it's like, do you think
Speaker 4: that alcoholism is like a plug, you just pull load
Speaker 4: them up and everything explain, No, is an irishman to
Speaker 4: this man was built.
Speaker 3: You are a whiteotype, right.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm thinking, like one night of drinking hard
Speaker 2: ain't gonna do.
Speaker 3: It three and you're irritated.
Speaker 2: Like nos an alcoholic. It's gonna take a lot to
Speaker 2: poison him.
Speaker 4: But you're gonna need a long game if you're gonna
Speaker 4: be playing this hand exactly.
Speaker 2: I'm like, these are amateurs, right.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: So this third day, okay, after making himself a sardine sandwich,
Speaker 2: Michael pulled up a seat at the bar, and Tony's
Speaker 2: watching all of his liquor go down Michael's throat for
Speaker 2: free bathing, Yeah, and he's yeah, he's seething. And Michael
Speaker 2: looks no worse for wear. And as he left the
Speaker 2: bar that night, there was only a faint hope that
Speaker 2: he would taken out by being exposed to the elements.
Speaker 3: On the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, oh, maybe maybe winter will get him right,
Speaker 2: you know, in combination with alcohol, the desperation of their
Speaker 2: situation starts to settle in for the murder trust, and
Speaker 2: Michael's endurance with drink is beginning to become clear to them.
Speaker 2: The reality of this easy money that they really hoped
Speaker 2: to obtain was just forcing this group to reassess the situation.
Speaker 2: Michael was drinking by the bottle, and he was getting
Speaker 2: rip worn drunk, but never showed symptoms of being like
Speaker 2: pissed drunk. Right, like he was drunk, but he.
Speaker 3: Wasn't his body his brain.
Speaker 2: Yes, there was no like alcohol poisoning. There's no vomiting.
Speaker 2: He's not guesting out. Even so, tough Tony began to
Speaker 2: argue that it was time for a more or straightforward approach.
Speaker 2: He wasn't one to continue with subtlety, as if there
Speaker 2: was any other choice, right, But the group discussed and
Speaker 2: the majority agreed that they would continue as planned. Red
Speaker 2: was the one who came up with the next idea,
Speaker 2: Gaining the attention of the other members of the Murder Trust,
Speaker 2: he suggested that they switch the whiskey and gin out
Speaker 2: for something stronger and toxic. Okay, so why don't they
Speaker 2: start pouring wood alcohol into his glass? And wood alcohol
Speaker 2: is impure alcohol or denatured alcohol, paint thinner, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever you choose to call it, it's lethal, right.
Speaker 2: Bellevue Hospital stated in nineteen twenty seven that three drinks
Speaker 2: of four percent wood alcohol could cause blindness in people.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: So if Red poured a whole glass of this paint thinner,
Speaker 2: then Michael fully ingested that maybe he would finally succumb
Speaker 2: to right drink like it had to happen, Like they're
Speaker 2: all like it's got to happen, right, Sure, So Daniel,
Speaker 2: Frank and Tony were enthusiastically on board. The wood alcohol
Speaker 2: was purchased for ten cents a can, and the endeavor
Speaker 2: began that night. So Michael begins drinking a regular old
Speaker 2: Shadow whiskey. That evening, he drank three or four shots
Speaker 2: to wunt his wits before they started pouring him straight
Speaker 2: shots of paint thinner, and concerned that he would be
Speaker 2: able to tell that shots were being played with, Red
Speaker 2: watched Michael's expression for any kind of sign of.
Speaker 3: You know, oh yeah, night for sure, but.
Speaker 2: Michael continued to ask for more, and the murder Trutch
Speaker 2: just watched and stunned astonishment. As Michael continued to drink
Speaker 2: the paint thinner and leaving that night, the group was disappointed.
Speaker 2: The Daily News reported quote that Michael merely slept it
Speaker 2: off and appeared at the speaking the next day, none
Speaker 2: for the worse of his exposure.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: The following day, when Michael showed up, they again started
Speaker 2: with the whiskey. They tainted it with wood alcohol, which
Speaker 2: soon then became glasses of nothing but paint thinner, and
Speaker 2: Michael remained oblivious to this betrayal by his so called friends.
Speaker 2: He never noticed the taste, and he actually seemed to
Speaker 2: like it. He would drink it all and ask for more.
Speaker 2: This irritated the gang, seeing that is he immuned, like
Speaker 2: what the right, So they set out a challenge to
Speaker 2: speed things up. Daniel asked Michael, let's see how much
Speaker 2: we can drink. We're gonna have a contest. So Red
Speaker 2: sets up to pour Michael some shots of the paint
Speaker 2: Thinner and Daniel has drinks of whiskey. Shot after shot,
Speaker 2: Michael drank his friend under the table.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I get so much he drank. He drank a quote
Speaker 2: and a half of paint Thinner that night. I think
Speaker 2: there's what two quarter.
Speaker 3: Of a gallon? Yeah, four quurts make a gallon.
Speaker 2: So yeah, a little over a quarter gallon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking, were you really sold paint thinner where
Speaker 4: you sold water?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, I don't get it. What kind of jacket
Speaker 3: paint thinner than paint center? Quote unquote air quotes.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: So, the same story would continue several nights in a
Speaker 2: row until like these people are like something has to give.
Speaker 2: Red would pour Michael shots of what alcohol just as
Speaker 2: quickly as they were drinking. Finally, Michael started to lean
Speaker 2: and sway. One night, his words were slurred and he
Speaker 2: was incoherent. The final drink took him to the floor.
Speaker 2: He finally passes out, and the men watching. They've been
Speaker 2: waiting for.
Speaker 3: This for days.
Speaker 2: Raw Red's success gave him a sense of and the
Speaker 2: Murder Trust they had been beginning to lose money on
Speaker 2: the scheme. They'd been paying the monthly and the weekly
Speaker 2: premiums buying the liquor and the poison. The murder of
Speaker 2: Michael wasn't a cheap enterprise that they thought. Shit adds
Speaker 2: up when yes, So Michael's passed out on the floor
Speaker 2: and Frank bends down to take his pulse to check
Speaker 2: and see if he's still breathing, and then, as if
Speaker 2: to slap the Murder Trust in the face, Michael begins snoring.
Speaker 3: That is fucking hilarious. I love that.
Speaker 2: I know. So they're like, Okay, he's not dead, he's oh,
Speaker 2: but maybe he's gone blind, Like maybe this is finally
Speaker 2: the tipping point, Like maybe they're thinking is an he's
Speaker 2: not nauseous, like his stomach is like an iron stomach.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be like gross funny.
Speaker 4: You know what, this reminds me of what's that Jim
Speaker 4: Carrey movie Me Myself and Irene?
Speaker 3: Like he used to put down that cow in the.
Speaker 4: Road, Ivy walks away the cow You know, it's just
Speaker 4: like I'm not trying to say it's funny like that.
Speaker 4: This group of idiots just to even keep up, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't see how you can not one time in
Speaker 4: the days that you're trying to kill this guy.
Speaker 3: No one had a crisis of conscious. This is this
Speaker 3: is a sign from God. Yeah, in and nothing.
Speaker 2: This paint thinner is supposedly gonna make somebody go blind
Speaker 2: if they have three shots of it. And here he's
Speaker 2: drinking quarts and gallons of the ship days per days.
Speaker 4: And then snores. I just wanted to kiss them on
Speaker 4: the forehead. Way to go, Mike, way to go, I know.
Speaker 2: So he ended up spending the night on the floor
Speaker 2: of Marina tough. Tony once again he brought up the
Speaker 2: quick and dirty method.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: He pats the gun on his hip and he's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we've sunk way too much money into this. We need
Speaker 2: to move. And Frank and Tony they declined, and they
Speaker 2: decided to plan another attempt to ensure now that they
Speaker 2: received that double indemnity policy. Oh right, drinking yourself to
Speaker 2: death doesn't qualify as an accident, and neither would some
Speaker 2: of the other attempts that they were going to follow.
Speaker 2: So the thought process was they're going to continue to
Speaker 2: do what they need to do. Frank pitched this plan.
Speaker 2: He said, Okay, what we're gonna do is we're going
Speaker 2: to soak some oysters in a jar of the paint
Speaker 2: dinner and serve them to Michael. He had run into
Speaker 2: this fatal mixture as an undertaker. I guess it happened
Speaker 2: to someone. So they're hoping that this now is going
Speaker 2: to cause like a cute indigestion when the oysters go down.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's going to be like concrete in Michael's Okay,
Speaker 2: So early January, Michael makes his way to the speakeasy
Speaker 2: and he took a seat at the bar. Although he'd
Speaker 2: been drinking paint dinner for weeks now and the entire
Speaker 2: building smelled of this chemical, oh my gosh, he didn't
Speaker 2: seem the least bit phased. After a few dreams, Tony
Speaker 2: placed a plate of oysters that had been marinating in
Speaker 2: the poison for a few days in front of Michael
Speaker 2: as they played cards at a nearby table. Frank and
Speaker 2: tough Tony look on. Michael down to oyster after oyster,
Speaker 2: and he thanked Tony for his generosity at providing him
Speaker 2: such a delicious meals after pushing away the plate, and
Speaker 2: there's no sign of any kind of illness and no complaints.
Speaker 2: They're just looking at him like what the fuck? Absolutely,
Speaker 2: and Michael's like another drink, garsone.
Speaker 3: I love your French, Michael Michel.
Speaker 2: Yes, a few regular patrons of this place, not involved
Speaker 2: in scheme. They began to see something. Yeah right. The
Speaker 2: men involved were constantly whispering and huddled in frantic discussions.
Speaker 2: The murder plot had become desperate, and it's becoming an
Speaker 2: obsession for these guys. But you know it wasn't supposed
Speaker 2: to take this long. So rather than give up, the
Speaker 2: men continued, almost as a matter of principle, like they're like,
Speaker 2: we're going to kill this fucker. So, walking away from
Speaker 2: the Oysters that night, Tony asked Michael how he was feeling,
Speaker 2: and Michael answered, never felt better in all my life.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: So after a thoughtful discussion, Red's next plan wins out.
Speaker 2: They chose to try to poison sardines. On many nights
Speaker 2: after beginning his binge, Michael would saunter up to the
Speaker 2: free lunch tray and make himself a sardine sandwich. So
Speaker 2: the next night Red purchased a can of sardines. After
Speaker 2: opening it, he left them open on a shelf to
Speaker 2: rat for a few days, and when Michael came in
Speaker 2: a few evenings later, Red smeared the rattenfish on a
Speaker 2: piece of bread. He added to it metal shavings that
Speaker 2: he got from a local machine shop, bits of broken glass,
Speaker 2: and carpet tacks, before placing one more slice of bread
Speaker 2: on top.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Once he gives this to Michael with your first shot
Speaker 2: of the paint thinner, he offers the sandwich and Michael
Speaker 2: hungrily accepts it. Yeah, and he begins eating. So Red's waiting,
Speaker 2: and he could see in his mind's eye the metal
Speaker 2: shavings and the carpet tacks like attacking Michael's organs and.
Speaker 3: Try cutting them up. Share.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's eating this. Yeah, but Michael didn't seem to
Speaker 2: feel a thing. He thanked Red for such a well
Speaker 2: crafted meal and asked for another drink after he ate
Speaker 2: the entire sandwich.
Speaker 3: Hats off to you, irishman.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I am so impressed, and just that they're so dumbfounded.
Speaker 3: Yes I would, I can't blame them.
Speaker 4: I I mean, if I was of that mindset and
Speaker 4: that was my goal, I would just be like, what
Speaker 4: the f.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like honestly, metal shavings, glass, I mean, and the
Speaker 2: paint center for now it seems weeks right right, and
Speaker 2: carpet tax like you're thinking like, okay, this has to
Speaker 2: kill it.
Speaker 4: Battle shavings, Oh my gosh, you're not digesting that, noy're
Speaker 4: putting your insides up pollary. Oh maybe he doesn't have teeth,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe thirties, because I'm like, man, if something
Speaker 4: hits my too, them all like what the fuck is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know.
Speaker 2: So on his we home one cold winter evening, Tony
Speaker 2: was thinking back to early nineteen thirty two when he
Speaker 2: had an affair with a lovely blonde hairdresser, and her
Speaker 2: name was Mabel Carlson. She was twenty seven. Originally from Washington,
Speaker 2: d c. Mabel moved to New York in December of
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty one after her mother died and her marriage failed.
Speaker 2: She found herself sitting at Marino's bar regularly, and then
Speaker 2: he brought her into his home, much to his wife
Speaker 2: Eleanor's dismay.
Speaker 3: Oh fuck that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when Eleanor left her husband after Mabel became
Speaker 2: a regular fixture. Yeah, and Eleanor moved in with her
Speaker 2: sister in law and father in law. On March seventeen,
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two, at ten thirty in the morning, the
Speaker 2: police were called to the Marino apartment where Mabel was
Speaker 2: found unresponsive in bed. And this is why I mention it.
Speaker 2: You might be sitting there like we were talking about Mike. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is important. So the autopsy said she died of
Speaker 2: pneumonia and acute and chronic alcoholism. So Tony had told
Speaker 2: authorities that she'd been drinking heavily over the course of
Speaker 2: a few weeks, and she'd refused to stop or seek
Speaker 2: medical help. There were signs that she'd been physically abused,
Speaker 2: and the bruises had been covered up by like makeup.
Speaker 2: And Tony had taken out a two thousand dollars life
Speaker 2: insurance policy on Mabel, and he collected it in less
Speaker 2: than a week after she died. So, after our story ends,
Speaker 2: in Michael's death happens, I mean, I told you you'd
Speaker 2: begin it was his murder. It would come out that
Speaker 2: Tony force fed the whiskey down Mabel's throat until she
Speaker 2: could no longer drink. He helped her to bed, which
Speaker 2: he had moved under an open window. He poured ice
Speaker 2: water on the mattress, stripped her naked, and wrapped her
Speaker 2: in cold wet bedding.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so leaving her under the open window, she succumbed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the elements of course, for sure, in.
Speaker 2: Being drunk as fast. Right. So Tony's like, he's thinking
Speaker 2: back to what he did to Mabel, and now he's
Speaker 2: got this new plan that they're going to try and
Speaker 2: do this to Michael. He'd been successful, so okay, so
Speaker 2: he's like, we're going to do this.
Speaker 3: How we're going to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So in mid January, Michael came into the bar
Speaker 2: and Tony sat with him, had a conversation for hours
Speaker 2: with him, making sure that Michael's glass was never empty.
Speaker 2: He knew that for this to work, Michael couldn't just
Speaker 2: be drunk. He needed to be unconscious. Yes, one weather
Speaker 2: report described it to be an arctic day that day,
Speaker 2: which would be a perfect setting. Sure man out to
Speaker 2: be surrendered to the elements. But after drinking himself into
Speaker 2: a stupor, Tony and Frank carried Michael to Frank's roadster,
Speaker 2: put him in the back seat to drive him to
Speaker 2: Krotona park where he would be dragged to a park
Speaker 2: bench and laid down. So they carried a bucket of
Speaker 2: water with them, and once he was laid out on
Speaker 2: the bench, they stripped the clothes off his chest, poured
Speaker 2: water over him, and took off back to the speakeasy,
Speaker 2: confident that there wouldn't be any way that Michael was
Speaker 2: going to survive this. Right the next day, Tony walks
Speaker 2: into his bar to start the day, and he probably
Speaker 2: would have been curious as to the fate of his
Speaker 2: loyal customer, but it wouldn't take long for him to
Speaker 2: discover what happened. During the night. Michael had woke up
Speaker 2: to find himself freezing on a park bench. He made
Speaker 2: his way half a mile through Cole, New York, winner
Speaker 2: to the back of Marino's bar. Red who was not
Speaker 2: party to this plan, let Michael in. He was woken
Speaker 2: up because he was sleeping in the bar. He was
Speaker 2: woken up bicycle and he led him in to sleep
Speaker 2: in the bar. So Michael made his way down to
Speaker 2: the basement, where Tony found him. The following day, sleeping
Speaker 2: next to the heat of the guest.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, this is so I'm glad this is
Speaker 4: given Tony a hard time because he's not such a motherfucker.
Speaker 4: I'm glad that this is a thorn in his side.
Speaker 2: That day, they were like, Okay, we're waving the white
Speaker 2: flag for the day. But the group decides they got
Speaker 2: up their game because they're determined now they're gonna kill
Speaker 2: Michael somehow. It's believed that Michael would have been in
Speaker 2: severe amounts of pain struggling to reach warmth that night.
Speaker 2: Just as a side note, the next attempt would be
Speaker 2: more violent on him. Harry Hershey Green was a cam
Speaker 2: driver described as a deeply disturbed young man who saw
Speaker 2: very little value in human life. At twenty four, he
Speaker 2: hadn't killed anyone yet, but it wasn't due to lack
Speaker 2: of interest. He admitted that he was keen on the
Speaker 2: idea if an opportunity presented itself, but he needed to
Speaker 2: get paid for it. So being a friend of Joe Maglioni,
Speaker 2: if you remember he was the other counterfeitter with tough Tony, Yes,
Speaker 2: Hershey was finally going to get his chance. He would
Speaker 2: happily accept one hundred and fifty dollars to run over
Speaker 2: Michael in his cab.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the next plan.
Speaker 2: So one evening in late January, Hershey came to Marinos
Speaker 2: and met the rest of the game. During the discussions
Speaker 2: of how to get the job done, he was told, quote,
Speaker 2: if there's any doubt, back over the bastard and make
Speaker 2: sure the job's done right end Quote her She found
Speaker 2: a nice stretch of road where he'd be able to
Speaker 2: gain quite a bit of speed. January thirtieth, nineteen thirty three,
Speaker 2: Michael was plastered with wood alcohol. The smile, I mean,
Speaker 2: the smell was just odd from his schoolers. He fell
Speaker 2: limp around me. So they take him to Hershey's cab
Speaker 2: and they drove to that stretch of road that her
Speaker 2: She had found tough. Tony and Red carried Michael out
Speaker 2: of the car and held him up by both arms.
Speaker 2: Hers She backed up aways and he reaved the engine
Speaker 2: and punched the gas. The car launched. Tony and Red
Speaker 2: are now prepared. They're holding up Michael, and they're prepared
Speaker 2: to jump out right right at the last possible moment.
Speaker 2: And then Joe yelled stop. A woman had lit a
Speaker 2: lamp in her window. So this place, they decided wasn't
Speaker 2: remote enough. Hers, she had Tony and Red put Michael
Speaker 2: back in the car, and they needed to find somewhere
Speaker 2: else to carry out this plan. So just around the
Speaker 2: corner they found a spot and they pulled Michael out
Speaker 2: of the car. Again. They stood him up, and they're
Speaker 2: attempting this again. On the first attempt, tough Tony and
Speaker 2: Red were holding him up and when they jumped to
Speaker 2: get out of the way, so did Michael. For someone
Speaker 2: on the edge of consciousness, he moved quickly, so they
Speaker 2: stood him up to try it again, and he got
Speaker 2: the car for the second time. The third time they
Speaker 2: hit him. Okay, his body created a loud thump and
Speaker 2: it rolled unto the hood and up the windshield. Michael
Speaker 2: wasn't moving on the ground now Hers. She went up
Speaker 2: the hill to come back and give him a second go,
Speaker 2: But when he came around the corner, there was a
Speaker 2: car stopped at Michael's body.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, her.
Speaker 2: She picked up Red and tough Tony and continued back
Speaker 2: to the speakeasy to regroup. So they're not sure. They
Speaker 2: they're sure, like he's dead. They're positive he's dead. But
Speaker 2: they haven't chucked. Yeah, and they're sure, like the next
Speaker 2: day they're going to read all about this body that
Speaker 2: was found on the road. But the next day there's
Speaker 2: no article in the newspaper, nothing, nothing mentioned of this incident.
Speaker 2: So they're thinking, like, how did did he survive? It
Speaker 2: happened he was hit at fifty miles an hour, living
Speaker 2: at Like, how the fuck did he survive this? Everyone
Speaker 2: had seen him fly into the air basically, so where
Speaker 2: was he? They couldn't collect the insurance money without proof
Speaker 2: of a body, Yeah, So they decided to wait for
Speaker 2: a couple of days and if he was alive, you know,
Speaker 2: they figured he'd come back.
Speaker 3: Oh, he'd pop in right.
Speaker 2: But Tony wasn't satisfied. Nobody meant no insurance money. They
Speaker 2: needed a body, So less than a week after the attempt,
Speaker 2: Tony sent everyone on a quest for a substitute victim.
Speaker 2: The victim needed to look like Michael so they could
Speaker 2: put Nicholas Mellory's ID in his pocket to identify him.
Speaker 2: On February sixth, her she took his cab out to
Speaker 2: hunt for the five foot six, one hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: pound substitute victim, and the speakeases of Harlem with Tony, Joe,
Speaker 2: tough Tony and Rhett. They're hunting for a victim. Joseph
Speaker 2: Patrick Murray was a thirty one year old unemployed plasterer's assistant.
Speaker 2: He'd spent the beginning of February sixth looking for work,
Speaker 2: but had gotten quite thirsty and decided to stop at
Speaker 2: the speakeasy on the first floor of his apartment building
Speaker 2: for a few drinks. On his way out the door,
Speaker 2: he was approached on the sidewalk by tough Tony, who
Speaker 2: offered him a job. After accepting, they ushered him into
Speaker 2: Hershey's cab and took him back to Marina's. Tony was
Speaker 2: aghast at the resemblance between Michael and the new victim,
Speaker 2: and he poured drink after drink, waiting for the man
Speaker 2: to lose consciousness. Once he landed in a crumpled heap
Speaker 2: on the floor, they put Nicholas Mellory's ID in his
Speaker 2: pocket and piled him into Hershey's cab with everyone else.
Speaker 2: Like they all went and midnight, tough Tony and Red
Speaker 2: were holding Joseph Murray up the same way they had
Speaker 2: held up Michael, and Hershey was aiming the cab right
Speaker 2: at him. It took seconds for Joseph Murray to end
Speaker 2: up under the wheels with a shocking thumb and crutch.
Speaker 2: Just after the cab pulled to a stop to check
Speaker 2: the vitals on their new victim, someone shouted that a
Speaker 2: car was coming, so Tough, Tony and Red piled back
Speaker 2: in the cab and they headed back to the speakeasy,
Speaker 2: abandoning another body. Oh my gosh, And this is where
Speaker 2: I'm going to end part one.
Speaker 3: What are you Kanya? I know I am.
Speaker 4: I'm fucking hating Tony Tough, Tony fucking Joe right.
Speaker 2: Red, These idiots, idiots, right yeah, Hershey with his fucking cab.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fucking Hershey and the cab and then they
Speaker 3: killed that girl. They're just horrible people.
Speaker 4: They are horrible people. And now you're making us weights
Speaker 4: because you're cruel and you're hateful.
Speaker 3: Five. Yeah, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4: That was a This is a fucking excellent story. I
Speaker 4: can't believe you know, you think nineteen thirty When I
Speaker 4: think nineteen thirty. To be honest, I'm always like, what
Speaker 4: am I doing for deodorant? What am I doing for
Speaker 4: sanitary napkins? How's my hygi and I'm thinking that alcoholism
Speaker 4: is rampant. Yeah, the country is poor, they're in the
Speaker 4: depression and there is nothing happening.
Speaker 2: This is like, yeah, there's no jobs, don't job, nothing
Speaker 2: for anyone to do all day but get the exactly
Speaker 2: or commit crimes.
Speaker 4: I guess yes, print fake money and full life insurance policies.
Speaker 3: That's that's the kind of survival.
Speaker 4: World it is apparently in nineteen thirty, really not seeing
Speaker 4: much change one hundred years later.
Speaker 3: But we'll see.
Speaker 2: Everything's just gotten a little bit more difficult.
Speaker 3: It sure has it, Sure has well.
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