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  • (epic upbeat music plays)

  • - Oh, my God, the land that I own,

  • this land used to have a theater on it and no longer does.

  • What the F happened.

  • - Oh, Mark.

  • - I'm good.

  • Hello, my name's Mark Gagliardi

  • and today we're gonna talk about William Shakespeare

  • and The Great Theater Heist of 1598.

  • - (laughs) Oh, (beep).

  • - All right, let me set the stage for you.

  • It's the late 16th Century in a neighborhood,

  • just North of London called Shoreditch,

  • where the most brilliant minds

  • of the time have started gathering at the taverns.

  • You've got, Sir Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe,

  • who's like the biggest playwright in the world.

  • And it was there that James Burbage makes this land deal

  • with Giles Allen and decides to build his own theater.

  • It is called The Theatre with an R E not an E R.

  • You do it with an R E 'cause it's classier.

  • - [Moderator] Yeah.

  • - So William Shakespeare shows up.

  • I'm William Shakespeare.

  • I'm the new guy.

  • So then he spends the late 1580s writing

  • and starring in some of his early works,

  • but in 1594, the theater scene was viciously crippled

  • by Bubonic Plague outbreak, so James Burbage,

  • founder of The Theatre has decided,

  • "Here's what I'm gonna do.

  • I'm gonna get together a troupe of actors made

  • of all of the actors whose troupes

  • had disbanded during the Bubonic Plague

  • and create a supergroup of Elizabethan actors

  • called the Lord Chamberlain's Men."

  • - Would you like water?

  • I'll take that as a no.

  • - So Shakespeare's found his home

  • and his home is The Theatre.

  • And at this time, Shakespeare is prolific.

  • He's writing some of his best plays.

  • He's churning out, he's like,

  • "Okay, here, try this one out, this one's called Hamlet.

  • Here, try this one out, I call this one Othello.

  • You're probably gonna need some shoe polish

  • to play Othello, but nobody's socially conscious enough

  • that black face isn't a bad thing at this point."

  • So Shakespeare has these guys doing these amazing plays

  • until 1597, Giles Allen says,

  • "Hey, you want to renew the lease?"

  • "Hang on a second, I've decided these plays are bullshit.

  • I hate The Theatre."

  • And James Burbage is like, "Wait, what?"

  • So Giles Allen, Giles Allen?

  • Giles Allen, Giles Allen, says,

  • "I'm a Puritan, so I think that plays are dumb,

  • even though you're doing Shakespeare and your plays

  • are gonna be read by (beep) school kids in 2015,

  • because they're that GD important.

  • Theater is like, you know, of the devil, so sorry."

  • And James Burbage was so distraught by this that he died

  • of a broken heart and Giles Allen said,

  • "James Burbage is dead.

  • This is my land.

  • I'm gonna do what I want with it."

  • But one of the Lord Chamberlain's men went,

  • "Hey fellas, hang on a second.

  • I've been looking at the lease, the like actual piece

  • of paper that our lease is written on,

  • and that lease says, Giles Allen owns the land,

  • but technically speaking, we own the building.

  • What are we going to do about this?"

  • So then, hold on, (shakes face)

  • So on the night of December 28, 1598,

  • it happened that Puritan landowner,

  • Giles Allen, was out of town for the Christmas holiday.

  • The Lord Chamberlain's Men decided

  • to take matters in their own hands.

  • William Shakespeare and the members

  • of the Lord Chamberlain's Men are like,

  • "You know what?

  • This building belongs to us and we're going to take it."

  • They went into the costume storage rooms,

  • they put on their most terrifying military battle gear,

  • and they proceeded to take down the entire building,

  • including the thirty-foot beams

  • that held the building a loft brick by brick.

  • Every last piece.

  • - I got you.

  • - What are we talking about?

  • - Alexander Hamilton.

  • How dare you.

  • So Giles Allen came back.

  • He realized that, "Oh my God, the land that I own,

  • this land used to have a theater on it

  • and no longer does, what the F happened."

  • - Try to bring you back up.

  • - So Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men,

  • they took down a whole building and they took all

  • of those pieces across the Thames and board by board

  • they rebuilt this theater, rechristened it The Globe,

  • and this is where Shakespeare premiered his greatest works.

  • And Hey, did you learn Hamlet in high school?

  • It's 'cause Shakespeare and his buddies stole a theater.

  • - Hello.

  • My name is Jimmy O. Yang and today we're gonna talk

  • about the kidnapping of Lincoln's body.

  • - Nice and thirsty, huh?

  • The story began in 1875 in Chicago.

  • This dude, Big Jim Kennally had like

  • the best counterfeiting ring in Chicago.

  • But the real man behind the scene was this guy named Boyd.

  • He was the guy that made the best press

  • and his fake bills are so good people would look

  • at them and be like, "Yeah it looks like real money to me."

  • But it's not. (laughs)

  • So they were making so much money

  • that the Fed finally caught up with them

  • and then Boyd took the heat, and he went to jail.

  • And now big Jim is like, "Shit, I just lost my guy,

  • I don't have my cash full anymore.

  • What can I do about this?"

  • So he went to the saloon that he owned called The Hub

  • and he talked to a couple

  • of his goons called Mullen and Hughes.

  • And he's like, "Guys, we're gonna

  • go kidnap Abraham Lincoln's dead ass body."

  • - Wow.

  • - And we're gonna hold it for ransom for Boyd's release

  • from prison and 200 grand.

  • Boom.

  • And then his buddy, Mullen, and he was like,

  • - "Big Jim at it again with the great ideas."

  • - And in that midst of that conversation,

  • this other guy named Lewis Swegles came up to him like,

  • "Hey guys, you guys talking about stealing Lincoln's body?

  • 'Cause um, I don't mean to brag,

  • but I am the boss of body snatching."

  • So now Mullen and Hughes was like,

  • "Whoa, Swegles, you seem like a legit guy.

  • Come on in in our crew."

  • So now Hughes, Mullen and Swegles

  • are now in the kidnapping crew of Lincoln's dead body,

  • but little did Hughes and Mullen know that Swegles

  • was actually an informant for the new agency

  • called The Secret Service.

  • So he went back to the head of The Secret Service Agency,

  • Patrick Tyrell, who was from the Tyrell family

  • of Game of Thrones. (laughs)

  • - Do you ever go outside?

  • - Not really.

  • Mostly video games and game of Thrones.

  • (both laugh)

  • Okay.

  • So Swegles is like, "Yo, Pat, I got a scoop for you.

  • These guys are ploying to kill your dead president."

  • "Well you can't kill him."

  • "Sorry, these guys are plotting to kidnap their president.

  • You should go cash their ass red handed."

  • So Patrick Tyrell, he was super down with this.

  • He was like, "Yes, this is it.

  • If we have protected that president,

  • that means we are protecting live president.

  • This is the publicity we need to cement ourselves

  • as the goddamn Secret Service

  • of the United States of America."

  • So Hughes, Mullen, and Swegles went to the grave

  • that night, and the Secret Service guys,

  • they're all camped out around the graveyard to try

  • to catch these guys red handed,

  • and then when the three guys got to Lincoln's grave

  • they're like, "Whoa, I guess this is how

  • like rich people burry themselves.

  • It's a mausoleum, a sarcophagus, and then a coffin."

  • Like, "Shit, what should we do?"

  • So Mullen took out his axe and he was like,

  • "I'm just gonna bash this shit and take Lincoln's body."

  • And Swegles, obviously, he didn't want

  • to damage Lincoln's body.

  • He was like, 'Oh, whoa, guys, you can't do that,

  • dude, you know, that's gonna alert the graveyard owner

  • and we'll have less time to run."

  • And then Mullen's like, "You know what?

  • You're right.

  • We're going to do this slightly more, what's the word?"

  • Like sophisticated?

  • "Slightly more, yeah, you're right, we're gonna do this

  • with a little more finesse."

  • So then Mullen picked the padlock, right?

  • And they got in the grave, they're like,

  • "Okay, let's try to lift it, and then

  • we just take the whole thing."

  • And then they realized they're all too weak

  • to lift the sarcophagus, so they're like,

  • "Shit, we're really unprepared."

  • So Swegles like, "Ah, you know what, boys, you know,

  • I'm just going to go outside, smoke a cigarette,

  • and think about this."

  • Is somebody having sex next to us?

  • - [Moderator] It's definitely an animal.

  • I don't think it's sex. - It's an animal?

  • - It's a coyote or a dog.

  • - That's a sexy ass coyote.

  • So Swegles uses this opportunity

  • to signal Patrick Tyrell and the Secret Service guys,

  • so they all like tippy-toed in there.

  • But then this guy, George Hay, was so stoked and nervous

  • he fired his firearm on accident. (makes gunshot noise)

  • Oops!

  • And everybody freaked out.

  • So Hughes and Mullens like,

  • "Shit, we gotta get out of here."

  • And all the Secret Service Agents

  • start like firing in the dark.

  • They're like, "Boom, man, this is (beep) bullshit, dog."

  • So by the time they got to the mausoleum,

  • Mullens and Hughes has gotten away.

  • So it was a huge mess and the Secret Service guys are like,

  • "Ah, shit, we really (beep) this one up."

  • So Hughes and Mullens, they didn't know

  • it was the Secret Service.

  • They just thought it was some random dudes shootout

  • at a graveyard, so they just went back

  • to the hub and they just chilling.

  • And then the Secret Service (beep) bust

  • into the bar and catch up with them.

  • So they're all patting each other's back.

  • They're like, "We finally got these

  • (beep) assholes, you know?

  • This is the establishment of the Secret Service.

  • We're gonna protect president's dead

  • or alive for now to eternity."

  • So in the end, to quote my grandfather...

  • - Up, up, down, down, BA, BA, select start.

  • - Si, Senor.

  • - Hi, my name is Mark Gagliardi,

  • and today we're gonna talk about the theft

  • of the Mona Lisa painting.

  • This is a painting.

  • It's 1911.

  • Paris is the center of the universe.

  • But at this moment in time,

  • the Mona Lisa was not actually a terribly famous painting.

  • It's just one of the paintings that's hanging in the Louvre

  • and the French are like,

  • "Yeah, it's a painting in the Louvre.

  • It kind of looks like my aunt, but you know,

  • I don't think it's all that important."

  • And at this point, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian immigrant,

  • got a job as a glassmaker in the Louvre.

  • And he's like, "Oh, look at this, all

  • of these beautiful paintings in the Louvre."

  • But the French are like, "Oh, you're, you know,

  • a dirt bag from Italy who's come in to steal our jobs,

  • so clean the floors, Macaroni."

  • And that's the world that Peruggia was brought into.

  • And he would think to himself,

  • "Why are these French calling me Macaroni

  • when this great piece of Renaissance art came

  • from my homeland, and was stolen by Napoleon.

  • You know what, (beep) these assholes.

  • Leonardo DaVinci worked out of Florence.

  • He painted this painting of Lisa

  • that (indistinct) in Florence.

  • This is our painting, and I'm bringing

  • it back to my people."

  • I'm beyond drunk, by the way, F Y information.

  • So on August 20th, 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia

  • went to the Louvre and he hid in a closet until Monday,

  • the day that the Louvre is closed for cleaning.

  • So he comes out and he walks up to the Mona Lisa,

  • he puts it under his smock, and well, he steals it

  • and he leaves the Louvre, walks home

  • to his one room apartment, and places the Mona Lisa

  • on his breakfast table.

  • So Tuesday, August 22nd, The Louvre realizes Mona Lisa,

  • (indistinct) has been stolen from the Louvre. (gasps)

  • And every newspaper in the world printed any picture

  • they could that was like,

  • "Here's what the Mona Lisa looks like."

  • Little kids are selling newspapers

  • for a penny, a pape going,

  • "Oh, this is some Oceans Eleven shit right here."

  • So this picture of Mona Lisa is being spread throughout

  • every continent in the world, and everybody was going,

  • "Oh my God, what a beautiful work

  • of art this woman is." (burps)

  • - [Moderator] Rude.

  • - I feel like the magic has been taken out

  • of my soul and put on to display.

  • Well, that's what happens when you do television.

  • So Louispine, the head of the French police,

  • brings in Perrugia for an interrogation,

  • andpine's like, "What'd you do?

  • What'd you do at The Louvre?"

  • And Peruggia's like, "Uh, why am I here?

  • What's all this all about?

  • And thepine's like, "Uh, the Mona Lisa, it's been stolen.

  • Why aren't you listening?"

  • And Peruggia's like, "The Mona Lisa was stolen?"

  • Andpine's like, "This guy's an idiot, man.

  • There's no way he did it."

  • So for the next two years,

  • every morning Vincenzo Peruggia

  • would look at this masterpiece and he would say,

  • (sighs) "I've looked at a lot of paintings,

  • but until I looked at the Mona Lisa,

  • no painting ever looked at me. (sniffles)

  • And that smile on Mona Lisa's face is saying,

  • "I acknowledge you and know what

  • you're going through, and it's okay." "

  • - [Moderator] Everything's okay.

  • - Yeah, I need another one of these.

  • So after two years, Peruggia reaches out to Alfredo Geri,

  • who is an Italian art dealer.

  • And he goes, "I have something you might be interested in.

  • It's the Mona Lisa.

  • I'm gonna give you the picture and I'm gonna get some money.

  • So Alfredo Geri, why don't you call me on the telephone?"

  • - Now is it true if he found a mushroom

  • he would become a little bigger?

  • (game noise plays)

  • - You don't like my accent, is that it?

  • Okay, so Alfredo Geri reaches out

  • to the Italian authorities and he's like,

  • "Ay, you were looking for the guy that had stolen

  • the Mona Lisa, so here is the number."

  • So the Italian authorities are like,

  • "Oh, hey, you're Peruggia?

  • You're under arrest."

  • And he's taken before the Italian court, and he says,

  • "This painting, (foreign language), the Mona Lisa was stolen

  • from Italy by Napoleon and it was my task

  • to take this painting out of the Louvre and

  • bring it back to the Italian people who deserve it.

  • I have nothing to be ashamed of as an Italian."

  • And after his impassioned speech, the Italian judge said,

  • "Actually, this painting wasn't stolen by Napoleon.

  • Leonardo DaVinci came to France and actually gave

  • this painting to the King of France as a gift,

  • so you really don't have a leg to stand on.

  • But you know what?

  • We're super into your patriotism.

  • You're super good at being Italian, so how about this?

  • We give you a sentence of seven months,

  • which is what you have already been in prison

  • and we release you today.

  • And Peruggia was like, "I really like you guys.

  • Thanks, man."

  • Vincenzo Peruggia was an inconsequential house painter

  • from Italy, and by stealing the Mona Lisa, he made that work

  • of art the most famous painting in all the world.

  • (beep), Well, dude, what are we doing,

  • a (beep) fairy special blossom here?

  • - Hello, my name's Brendon Walsh.

  • And today we're going to be talking

  • about the Santa Bandit's.

  • (clock chimes)

  • Our story starts in 1927 in the days leading up

  • to Christmas.

  • Marshall Ratliff got out of jail and he's

  • like, "I'm out of jail, time to rob another bank,

  • but I need help, so I'm gonna get this guy, Ed Helms."

  • - [Moderator] Oh, from The Hangover.

  • - Henry Helms?

  • I'm gonna get Henry Helms and Robert Hill,

  • and they rope in Helm's brother-in-law, Lewis Davis,

  • and Ratliff says, "Help us rob this bank in Cisco."

  • And Ratliff's afraid he's gonna get recognized.

  • He goes, "I want to disguise myself.

  • Hey, it's Christmas."

  • So they steal this Buick and they arrive in Cisco

  • on the morning of December 23rd.

  • Ratliff gets out of the car.

  • He's dressed as Santa and gets mobbed by kids.

  • - You see Santa, kids are gonna come towards you.

  • - Kids wanna see you.

  • You're like the Justin Beaver of the times.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And he is a bank robber, but he's like,

  • "Oh, okay, I gotta go, Santa's got to make a deposit, kids."

  • So after that, he goes into the bank.

  • He doesn't even say anything.

  • And the tellers are like, "Santa's here!"

  • And then Hill, Helms, Davis all bust in

  • with their guns a blazing.

  • They go, "Hey, all right, everybody shut up!

  • We're robbing this place."

  • Santa Ratliff gets $12,400 in cash and $150,000 in bonds.

  • Santa's like, "Yeah!"

  • But this lady, Mrs. (indistinct) goes into the bank

  • and (beep) loses their shit.

  • She's like, (screams), so she runs

  • out screaming her head off. (screams)

  • - I love that Duncan Trussell is this woman.

  • - Hey, Terence McKenna predicted this bank was gonna

  • be robbed, man.

  • (both laugh)

  • So then the whole town, they hear her running

  • up and down the street. (screams)

  • And at this time the Texas Bank Association was like,

  • "Well, we're offering $5,000 for anybody

  • who shoots a bank robber during a bank robbery.

  • And the whole town is like, "We could use $5,000.

  • That's a lot of money back now."

  • So everybody grabbed their guns,

  • 'cause an angry mom's about to,

  • angry mom's, about to form.

  • So they go into the bank while all the robberies go on,

  • and then everybody just starts shooting.

  • (makes shooting noises) Customers are getting shot,

  • a guy gets shot in the leg, so the Santa Bandit's,

  • they're like, "Why is everybody shooting us?

  • Get into the alley."

  • 'Cause that's where the Buick is.

  • But everybody keeps shooting.

  • The Bandit gets shot, the Bank President gets shot,

  • everybody's going nuts.

  • All right, so the Santa Bandit's,

  • they grab these two young girls as human shields

  • to get into their Buick and get the (beep) out of there.

  • So Santa's driving the car and he looks at the gas gauge

  • and he goes, "What the, we're almost (beep) out of gas."

  • What a bunch of idiots.

  • And they're like, "We drove a hundred miles

  • from Wichita Falls and we didn't get gas, in 1927?"

  • So they see this Oldsmobile and they're like,

  • "Give us your Oldsmobile."

  • And he leaves, Helms gets shot, and they're like,

  • "Come on, put all the money in here and get Davis in there."

  • And they get in the Oldsmobile, and then they realize,

  • (beep) the keys.

  • So they're like, "Well, we can't (beep)

  • do anything with this."

  • So then they like, get back into the Buick

  • and they leave Davis there.

  • Poor, (indistinct) (beep).

  • And they're like, "Well, that sucks."

  • And they're like, "Oh shit, we left the money

  • in that car, too, in the Oldsmobile."

  • And they're like, (burps)

  • "What's it mean when you're swallowing too much?"

  • - Good question. (laughs)

  • - So they're trying to cross the Brazos River,

  • but they get ambushed and they shoot Ratliff six times,

  • so Helms and Hill just give themselves up

  • and Ratliff survives.

  • So the towns folk are out there.

  • They're like, "We've had it with this guy."

  • And they put a noose around his neck.

  • They're like, "We're gonna publicly lynch you,

  • 'cause we've had it with your shit."

  • And he's just like, "Hey, I got an idea, forgive me."

  • And then they're like, "All right, no, no, no."

  • And then they (beep) hang him.

  • And we get it, then he's croaked.

  • These guys (beep) up because back then

  • it was so easy to get away with crimes.

  • They were stupid. (laughs)

  • - So the day was, - Erin will tell the story.

  • - Yeah, I'm good at that part, Michael, so the day was,

  • - Are you guys married?

  • - Yes we are.

  • - Three years. - No one could tell.

  • - So at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,

  • a few blocks away from where we are right now.

  • - Yeah, Isabella's a very eccentric woman.

  • She was sort of like,

  • "I'm gonna wear a headband when no women wear headbands"

  • and she thought that,

  • "(beep) life, I'm going to do something awesome."

  • And so she built this museum.

  • I mean, she had like thousands of pieces of art

  • that were from the like these most expensive places

  • of the world, so do you want me to go to 1990?

  • - [Moderator] Yeah.

  • (dramatic piano music plays)

  • So the story (indistinct) that there was two gentlemen

  • that were dressed as police officers that went

  • to the building of Isabella Stewart.

  • They rang the doorbell and they said,

  • "There is a disturbance of teenagers

  • we heard around the building.

  • We just want to make sure that everything's okay."

  • The security guard said, "Well, I'm not really supposed

  • to allow anyone in, but I will allow this because

  • you're police officers," which is insane.

  • And he said, "Mr. Blah, blah, blah, blah,

  • there's a warrant out for your arrest.

  • You're under arrest for the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

  • And he was like so (beep) that he was like,

  • "Okay, like something's happening.

  • So I got to like, kind of say, hey, what's going on."

  • So he moved and as soon as he moved they,

  • boom, boom, boom, tackled him.

  • What was so crazy, was okay,

  • they like called the other guy on security.

  • They had him call on security and say,

  • "You need to come down here, something's happening."

  • So this guy came in,

  • (suspenseful music plays)

  • so they taped them up, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

  • duct tape their mouths, they realized

  • that Isabella was so smart in her time

  • that she like, literally, like secured the art to the wall.

  • They panicked, they panicked.

  • - Couldn't get the frames off, so they needed to...

  • - Oh, (beep) we gotta get outta there.

  • So what was even crazier was they took a knife

  • and just went like, "(beep) you!"

  • Like, "Boom, boom, boom, crazy," ya know?

  • Like they were just like, "(beep) it!"

  • They were like idiots, they cut it out.

  • And we're like, "Ooh, let's roll it out

  • and sell it on like Canal Street in New York."

  • - Like they took out razor blades?

  • - Yeah, so, (beep), like thug like nation.

  • So these guys go through, they steal like hundreds

  • and millions of dollars (indistinct).

  • So this FBI guy came in and people reported these guys

  • were like around thirty-five years old, like 5'10",

  • like these policemen that got

  • in this car, like, you know what I mean?

  • Like, it's crazy, and he's like,

  • "I've seen Rembrandt's appear at these Chinese restaurants

  • in the bathroom before, or I've been in Paris

  • where I've been in this underground tunnel

  • and there's been a picture of Monet."

  • So what was even crazier was every lead

  • was dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.

  • And he was just like,

  • "I have never experienced something like this.

  • I have never, like ever,

  • in my life not been able to follow up."

  • 'Cause he worked for the FBI.

  • He worked in the art theft situations.

  • The art has never resurfaced ever in its time,

  • and which is so rare that like...

  • - Twenty-two years with a $5 million reward.

  • - Somebody somewhere in some Southie place is holding

  • that Rembrandt up in some frame somewhere.

  • That's what's happening.

  • They were either idiots, they were con men,

  • they were just (beep) stupid, or they were brilliant,

  • but they never made it to the fourth floor,

  • because that's where all the expensive art was.

  • (suspense music plays)

  • (historical instrumental plays)

(epic upbeat music plays)

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