The Baker Street Heist: Britain's Most Mysterious Crime
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- Uncover the SHOCKING truth of the 1971 Baker Street Robbery! Dive into the hidden world of Tony Gavin's gang, inspired by Sherlock Holmes. Discover the MYSTERIOUS twists and controversial conspiracies that still surround this infamous London heist. Don't miss this gripping tale of crime, corruption, and unanswered questions!
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Danny's scripts on this channel have been TOP NOTCH. Let him out of the basement and on to Decoding the Unknown more often, Simon.
Thank you! There are a lot more on the way.
@@DannySalteryour my favorite writer from business blaze and dtu ice appreciated your scripts since bb launched
@@DannySalter Danny, I dont want to wait 48 years for a follow-up. Cant u just tunnel from ur basement into the archieves for those sealed records? 😇
@@DannySalterhey Danny, I’ve heard this question answered before, but it was more related to model making.... your freelance art is wildly different. but how does one go about finding freelance work as an amateur/new writer, or even as an experienced writer such as yourself? Love your work for the channels good sir.
@@ChakasCaveI'm sure it's different for everyone but I got started by signing up to platforms such as Freelancer and Upwork. You unfortunately have to take on low-end jobs for rubbish money at the beginning, but after I'd built up a portfolio and good feedback, I was able to start pitching for some of the more high-end jobs.
I love that the script writers know Simon so well that they regularly predict Simons reactions in the text of their scripts.
That’s one of my favorite things too!
And he always reads them explaining it after reacting 😂
So Simon's advice is that if you do a big robbery you might need to leave the country ... after he left the country and moved to the Czech Republic ... and is wearing a gold Rolex. Yep, sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
Either that or Raid finally accepted his cost of £20 000 for a sponsorship spot...
Allegedly
Are we sure it's not a gold-plated Czech-olex? You can get good fakes for a few hundred ... but maybe Simon's into ostentatious displays of wealth now. Steady on, Simon!
Based
Don't forget he's also shared where to go to avoid extradition. His plans are sorted. 😂
I'm a casual criminalist subscriber, after that last one with that horrible baby murdering "Nurse" I'm perfectly happy to hear about a crazy, sophisticated Burglary. Thank you, Blaze Brotherhood!
Blaze Be
Just a question before giving it a watch: how many Pedro Lópezs would you rate that so-called nurse with?
@@jorgelotr3752 Uh...
12% of a Pedro Lopez. Lower victim count and far less graphic, still horrible because of the age.
@@Iris_1217 Good to know. I was fearing it would be a 70% or worse.
Thanks for the info.
But how many Harold Shipman would you rate the nurse?
The way Simon blew right past the "imagine no possessions" bit that Danny wrote into the paragraph involving John Lennon 😂
It's easy if you try.
I could forgive him completely missing "The Dude", Walter and Donnie last episode because I recognize it's a cult movie reference, but missing that one genuinely hurt my soul.
@@bo7341 I am the Walrus?
All I can think of are the celebrities singing that on a zoom call whenever it's brought up. It's the ukulele of apology videos from this day forward. Nothing like a bunch of out of touch millionaires singing about communist ideals.
Simon: professional pun misser
One day I want Danny to end a script saying, “And that is how I ended up in this basement!”
Imagine if MeatCanyon made a parody of The Casual Criminalist, where he keeps his writers and editors in his basement.
Parody?
@@--enyo-- Ha ha!)
I'm also waiting for the official work history of Danny.
CasCrim should start a special series. Once a year, on April first, we get an episode of "Tales from the Blazement" told from the perspective of a different writer or editor.
We had the worlds worst bank heist in Melbourne Australia. During the gold rush, 1890's, one very well off bank took to bolting sheets of gold to the ceiling. Vaults were expensive and had to be imported from London and the ceiling was 2 stories high with no way up and showed their wealth and credit worthiness at a glance. While there was no way up there was a way down from above. Someone cut a hole in the roof, chiseled though the stone and plaster and popped out beside one of the sheets. He then proceeded to unbolt the sheet he was almost done when gravity intervened. No safety harness! A two story drop onto marble is no fun. The staff arrived to find him dead the next morning. The bank bought a vault.
Holy crap, that's insane!
I'd love to see the burglary done by the pensioners mentioned at about 37:00 in an episode of Casual Criminalist if any of the writers wanna pick it up! I think it would be a fun breather episode for Simon.
Yes! There's way too much heavy stuff in there imho, I sometimes just don't want to listen any further to all this murder, blodshed and horrible madness.
The episode with the guy that lived in a toy store was top notch and so refreshing!
I bet there's enough material of this kind where crime gets done, it's tense like an old umbrella but nobody really gets hurt, let alone killed in cold blood. Maybe that's worth a separate channel even?
@dereinzigwahreRichi yeah, he has BB (Business Blaze) and CC (Casual Criminalist) maybe he should keep the double letters going something like Amazing Absconces or Dastardly Deeds
@@QBCPerdition Dirty Deeds? Done dirt cheap... ;-)
The only complaint I have is that the audio levels for these videos are so inconsistent. It's such a wide range from Simon speaking softly that I need to raise the volume and then speaking so loudly where I have to lower the volume in a span of 5mins. That's the only complaint, which is like the ads being louder than the sound level of the video itself (but I have premium now bc I hate the ads)
You have to turn the volume up more than normal and as for lowering the volume, it still isn't as low as other peoples videos on youtube need to be played at.
Came here from Spotify to day the same thing. The music got so loud I couldn't hear a damn thing
Snap!!! The music cancels Simon’s voice. The volume continually changes. And doesn’t translate well on podcast. Simon is brilliant btw. But he’s being upstaged by bad techies. 😬
It’s part of a great story teller. Just like the cadence changes.
A bit of a late reply but might be helpful still. Crazy volume fluctuation in any media is something I Really hate but there is a solution (although it's different depending on your device setup). Google Loudness Equalization
Yes, police corruption in London is well documented. The 70's was a particularly corrupt time for New Scotland Yard. The reason the post office had the tracking vans is because it was them that used to track down people who did not have a TV licence.
that was the excuse for the post office vans, which when one thinks about it doesn't make a lot of sense. the real reason was to triangulate unauthorised transmissions of one sort or another e.g. soviet spies
Yes - Robert Marks was Commissioner and set out to clean it up - with some success. At one point about 80% of detective cops were under suspicion.
Yes this is why HMRC was not initially willing to work with the police over brinks Matt
You can't track unauthorised TV reception if the TV screen is completely hidden from public view, like inside a windowless room. The only way you would have a reasonable suspicion is by seeing an antenna, which is why a lot of people who don't pay the extortion fee have them in their attics, or use a signal booster.
@@SunRabbit yes you can. A relative of mine's career was making secure rooms to guard from the output device's emissions being intercepted.
"The 500million dollar inspector", written by George - is my favourite casual Criminalist episode. I guess that makes me an outlier, but we aren't all "Albert Fish" fans. Good work Danny and Simon.
I love this series but the audio on this video was so off. The music was incredibly loud compared to previous episodes and it become quite frustrating and bothering, and it’s the only episode ever to have this issue for me and I’ve listened to all of them
Yer I thought it was just me, but struggle to hear some bits sometimes
simons voice is way quieter than the audio thats added for videoclips and transitions so much so its quite hard to hear him at times
I was going to report the same. I'm listening to this on Spotify and can't make out what Simon is saying over the accordion 😢
Same here!
Of course all the added audio is the same volume as the commercials. So I would say Simon is too quiet rather than the additions too loud. 🤔
@Tora0dead I had to switch to TH-cam from the podcast version because the accordion was so obnoxious. So glad it's not here!
I switched to the TH-cam version for the same reason. I thought I was losing my mind.
Has no one seen the movie "The Bank Job" 2008 with Jason Statham? It is the Baker Street Robbery... Absolutely Fantastic!!
Tell me you never finished the video, without telling me you didn't finish the video...
I’m glad Simon kept the original title.
I was confused
I feel like he's done that before too - said he would change the title and then I look down and it's definitely the same title. It makes me happy every time
Meanwhile we're giving him credit for reconsidering once he finished when the reality is, he just forgot 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mmayhew - that’s hysterical 😝
I absolutely love Danny's writing and I really enjoy heist stories so this was a treat for me!
He should do fric frac
Love your videos Simon, I always listen to your podcasts on my daily commute. Is there any chance of fixing this week's podcast version? It'd be great to hear about the bank robbery without being drowned by this random accordion music
I came here to see if anyone else had the same problem! Thought my eardrum was bursting in my walk to work 😅
Ya that music made this one very hard to watch
Same issue here, the accordion music made it really hard to hear what Simon was saying
Also the music didn’t really fit
Glad to see I'm not the only one with this issue!
With regard to Corruption and Simon's complete innocence of history, a cursory read about West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, Scotland Yard's "Flying Squad" and the introduction of the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence act, would be educational.
Yes. Disbanded in the early nineties? Supposedly worse than the criminals they were supposed to be catching. Bag of truth and the rope of redemption. Dark.
This is something people go around repeating unthinkingly. But no objective evidence is ever presented.
@eadweard. Objective evidence presented in court was sufficient to overturn convictions and also convict serving officers of corruption. An invitation for Simon to look at these historic cases and draw his own conclusions is not an unthinking repetition, rather an opportunity for education, nothing else.
Anyone else out there old enough to remember "Operation Countryman" ?. Up until the early 80's the Metropolitan Police were known as one of the finest police forces money could buy...😂...It could be argues that the met are still rotten to the core, but just in a different way than they used to be.
@@iangregory3719 not quiet old enough to remember it, but have watched the BBC documentary Bent Coppers. Simon's innocence in thinking British Police couldn't be corrupt is amusing - does he think Line of Duty was completely made up? Maybe he just hasn't watched either.
i love the episodes but we really need to work on volume mixing. most of the episodes are great but theres no reason background music and background noise is louder than Simon actually talking. it doesnt happen every episode but it kind of ruins the episode for me. hope this doesnt come off as aggressive but it seems to be happening more and more often now adays.
No I don't get this on YT.
This reminds me of the robbery of Gotabanken in Sweden in the '90s. They drilled through the roof of a bankvault inside a mall. The vibration sensors went off time and time again. Security eventually ignored it since there was nothing to be seen from inside the bank.
14:40 “Better to do it slow with less people than fast with more people.” Life rules with Simon. 🤣
Coincidentally also Princess Margaret's Orgy Rules.
Don't fall for it Simon. This is just a cover for Danny's research into how to tunnel out of the basement
Listening to this on Spotify and i cant hear shit because there's some music blasting over half the friggin thing.
I just love how Simon is like "We all know History Channel is rubbish, but i expected better from you, Pierce Brosnan! I can't believe James Bond lied to us."
I do love these stories about these super-competent bank heists. These are consistently the most impressive stories of crime, especially the folks smart enough to hit the safety deposit boxes like this.
And honestly, this might be the one exception to keeping the conspiracy as small as possible - if you pick your bank right and have enough time to crack open a good number of boxes, you're walking away with a lot of money and the authorities don't even know what's missing. Everyone's walking away with a pretty penny and it's not gonna be easy to trace it. So you can get a fair number of people involved.
The insurance thing never crossed my mind. Makes sense that a place can't insure what they can't see and put a value on. I used to have a safety deposit box myself. Thieves tried to break into the bank through the roof and were swiftly stopped. So i felt like my papers were safe there despite knowing it had been a targeted location.
Considering that I know Lloyd’s as an insurance company I have to agree. Back when they were big they would give insurance to rather bizarre things like a certain Old Hollywood actress’s legs. Is Lloyd’s still around? Because I don’t know if they finally shut down.
@@mirandagoldstine8548No idea. Only one I remember doing that was David Beckham. Needs his legs to play soccer so he had his insured.
I just looked it up@@WaywardVet and they are apparently still around, albeit they have had several scandals. So yeah I do think it was insurance related.
@@WaywardVet They apparently did it a lot. I actually think Simon did a video on this a few years back.
@@mirandagoldstine8548 Yup, I use Lloyds.
If the police are monitoring the walkie-talkie chatter and know that there is a lookout, then they would know that they are at the correct bank if they hear the lookout warn the crew that the police are outside the bank. Unless, of course, the lookout just wasn't doing his job.
The ironic situation where someone not doing his job increases the chance that the operation is successful.
A few years back, a 'spontaneous mob' of people in LA attacked rail-cars carrying UPS packages.
Very much a targeted attack as no other rail-cars were tampered with.
My bet is the operation was to intercept an extra-spicy package being transported on one of those rail-cars.
Do you have a habit of winning your bets?
As someone who used to work at a bank I'd just like to say it's a SAFE deposit box, not safety lol. It's literally a box in a safe.😂
Came to the comments to say the same thing. It's funny how most poeple say it wrong every time.
Did you also catch at 25:52 that it's a *time locked* vault door? That's why the police and employees couldn't just open the vault door and peek inside?
Your money is probably safer in a rusty old tool chest covered by a tarp in your backyard, because nobody would ever look for it there.
@@SunRabbitthan at a bank? Sure bro. Banks have insurance for cash anyways lol.
@@liamevans7661 Historically, tyrranical governments have confiscated the contents of safety deposit boxes, a good example being the confiscation of Gold by the US government in the 1930s, and then later (1980s) in selective confiscations under the Asset Forfeiture laws enacted by that same country.
When I saw the video title, I had believed it was a casual criminalist. I was happy thinking we were getting a lighthearted one after the last few
We can't have murder/rape/cannibalism (pick a combination) all the time.
“Who isn’t a fan of Sherlock Holmes??” Arthur Conan Doyle.
lol
Imagine being one of the burglars and finding out someone caught your radio communication and only the laziness of the police saved you from being caught in the act
Background accordion music makes this pretty tough on the podcast.
On the podcast it's impossible to hear Simon around 16 mins for a few minutes due to the background music. I love this story but it was really frustrating!!
Sorry to disappoint you Simon, but this caper seems to have been inspired by an old Edward G Robinson film called "Larceny Incorporated" from 1942, where a bunch of criminals (some coming straight out of prison) got hold of a failing luggage store and tunneled their way into a bank. And they even used the cover of street construction work to cover up their drilling sounds. I swear I kept picturing the movie unfolding as I heard more and more of the details of how these guys in 1971 pulled it off. PS: Great film. Worth a giggle.
Where do you suppose the scriptwriter might have gotten their inspiration?
@@pfadiva According to your logic, from thirty years in the future?
Take a closer look at the two dates again.
@@Horvath_Gabori may be wrong but i think they where implying the script writer got their inspiration from the Sherlock Holmes story....not a bank.robbery from 30 years in the future lolol.
@@pfadivaGood point, never considered that. Well done.
@@craigstobbs9215 Fair point, but to me, it certainly came off as if they did just that, switching up the dates and thinking that the actual robbery inspired the movie. I suppose we can give the benefit of the doubt.
Guess the name wasn't changed lol.
The music audio is too loud and distracting. The volume of it needs to be turned down. I could not even get through the video.
Please tell the video editors to get consistent with audio levels... Some of your videos are so god damn quiet.
I think it was just down to bad communication, their dispatch probably didn’t even inform the officers that they were digging under the bank and just told them something like “robbery at a Lloyd’s bank”
“What do you think they were tunneling in through the main door?!” In the most high pitched Simon voice ever 🤣😂
It is a shame that the more non-violent heists don't do well on CC because they are so fascinating. I love a good heist story. So landing on Decoding works for me as well. Good job Danny
staff calling him out at 24:50 for his sidetrack lmao that was the best. thank you, Simon and staff. you're fantastic.
Hey, the volume has been a bit all over the place recently (on several channels) : relatively low with sudden burst of loud sounds. It’s an easy fix (basically a nice compressor + limiter) so I let you know
Yes I have my phone on 98% volume.
Hey Simon and crew. I was listening to this on Spotify and for some reason for like 20 mins at the 16 min part there is really really loud french music playing. It's too loud hear Simon. I thought I'd let you know just in case you weren't aware 😂
Love the story, but could the video editor just drop the background music down a bit?
Love this channel, but I tried listening to this episode as a podcast, unfortunately, they added some music to that version, making it very hard to hear the narration. So here I am, hoping to hear the story.
I really loved the movie with Jason Statham. It's probably his most accomplished performance to date. The story is very strong, as well. Can't say whether it's factual or not, but it sounds interesting, to say the least.
I might give it a watch then. Old skool Jason Statham already sounds good to begin with (I'm already hoping he rips into the whiny look-out, lol).
@@JeeVeeHaych It's an old fashioned caper film, it has that 70s vibe (it's set in 1971), great cast, Saffron Burrows is beautiful, great film. One thing, though: Statham only kicks ass in the last 15 minutes, so he's not playing an unstoppable force. It's more like his early roles in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch.
I worked in a bank for a number of years, and the safe deposit boxes differed by branch. Some had much more elaborate set ups like Simon described. The branch I worked at the most had just a relatively small room with the boxes, maybe 6 ft wide by 10 ft long. We had a small table in there. It was inside the main vault, so it was behind the "vault door" you see in banks. But that was about it - no sliding doors or other stuff. We did have the two keys - we had one for employees to use, and then the customer had to bring in theirs (if they lost their key, it was a long and expensive process to get the box open). We'd open the locks, and leave them in the room (unless they requested help, usually older clients that would struggled with the length of the box and weight, so we'd move it to the table for them). I think the charge was like $15 a month? Maybe even less if they'd had it for a while? It's been a while
yeeeeessss! thank you Danny for a bank robbery episode!
Thank you for watching it!
@@DannySalterthat was a great one man, would love to watch more mystery crime stories from you! I even have some suggestions: the yamagami family disappearance (possivly crime possibly not) and the blue blanket butcher (absolutely 100% crime), both are japanese cases with some sort of mystery, both were never completely solved as far as i know
@@DannySalter thank you for the script! always top tier stuff from you 👍
Danny is my favorite writer. This was a great video!
Wimpy was a character on the (very) old cartoon, Popeye. He had a famous repeated conversation with other characters where he would ask them to lend him money for a burger, and he would pay them back on Tuesday. God I'm old ...
And there was a burger restaurant chain in the UK called Wimpy: there are still a few branches open to this day, but not too many.
Danny... dropped the ball on this one. There's this a tiny detail that got glossed over as a blunder by the police and bank employees... but it wasn't. at 25:51 *TIME LOCKED VAULT* .... They physically CAN'T open the vault door and peek inside, Simon. It's not possible! "This blunder of blunders gave the gang the rest of the weekend..." *This isn't a blunder!* It's TIME LOCKED. I kept waiting for Danny to circle back and explain why the bank employees couldn't open the vault door even when they want to, but he never did? That's the real blunder here. I'll explain: There is a timer on the *inside* of the vault door that is set by the employees before they leave. If they left at 3pm on Friday, and were returning at 8am Monday, then they would have set that timer for around 64 hours. Until that timer runs out, there is no opening the vault door. Not unless you drill through the vault door in the exact location of the timer itself and disengage it. You can try the combination all you want, the door won't open until the timer runs out. That's the whole point of the timers. That's why tunneling up into the vault itself was key. It's far easier than trying to get through that vault door itself outside of banking hours.
Or do I owe Danny an apology because I just missed the part where he explained it...?
(ETA during rewatch) 35:54 "All they had to do was open the vault door .... but they decided not to bother." *THEY CAN'T! It's time locked!*
Some colleagues and I once had some grapefruit which literally fell off the back of a lorry. Our office was near a large road junction. One day a lorry turning sharply dropped a box and the driver carried on. We rescued it to find it was full of grapefruit
Texas here. There are a lot of food vendors who just put up the platform thingy, and leave the rolly door open, and I've seen random food/bev stuff on the side of the highway, so I guess it does happen.
I live in Wisconsin, USA, and when I was a kid, my mom was driving us to grandma's and happened to be following a Schwann's truck (food company that sells direct to customers door-to-door, known for awesome ice cream), when the truck pulled way ahead and out of sight. We came to a stop sign a couple minutes later where a box had fallen out of the truck. It turned out to be root beer float ice cream bars which aren't my favorite but taste pretty good for free😂 It was so random we found them because we were way out in the country with sometimes miles between houses and lots of side roads.
@@RareInTheHistory I loved those vanilla ice cream cups with the chocolate swirl. We lived in conifer, co (middle of nowhere) and my brother and I would get really excited when the Schwan man came by.
Thanks, mate, for not having the loud music over this version.
Not shown but Danny actually beat Simon into submission to keep the title.
Let us not talk about what happened that day.
Usually listen to these on Spotify but the audio is drowned out on this episode so much you can’t actually hear it
Simon seems to be particularly enjoying this one. So fun to see.
I watched the film, but never looked in to it any further, i found this fascinating.
Simon or whoever sees this, there is an issue with the podcast version of this episode the music is louder than the Simon's voice, which some people might think is a positive, but makes it impossible to follow the narration.
Yep in the US we have 'it fell off the back of the truck', or 'it came off the docks', and we have if you see some seedy flea market or parking lot van dude selling things out of their van and says, don't ask where I got this. Saw one of those at the old flea market (a junk sales lot, sort of like a city garage sale), and did not buy obviously.
One time some stooge was selling obviously contraband coats from the coat store, still in the wrappings, in the mall in the parking lot! He got caught obviously.
Crooks were stealing unmarked books from the bookstore some decades ago.
This was an excellent piece! Great job Danny! Good read Simon and of course, the added commentary is why I love Simon. Thanks to the editor(s) for making awesome videos with excellent inserts! ❤❤❤
How did you even hear the commentary? I found it hard to hear some of the story over the background music, let alone the commentary that his mic had trouble even picking up what he was saying!
Is it me or is the music to loud?
Struggling to actually hear Simon clearly 🤔
Simon, I listen to the Podcast version of this channel as well as Casual Criminalist and they are usually excellent. However i had to turn this episode off due to the overly loud and really annoying French style accordion music! It kept stopping then starting again.
On a different note I used to work in a small branch of a well known British bank and we kept safety deposit boxes. Some had been in the walk-in safe for almost 50 years. It always amazed me that people could put anything they wanted in and the bank would never check it or ask what was in it!
Yes, the loud volume of the accordian music made listening really uncomfortable.
Safe deposit box.
Simon, you and your crew are absolutely fantastic. Keep up the great work, all of you!
A note about the editing in this one: I listened to this as a podcast via Spotify, where I cant leave any comments.
In this episode there's bits with this "french style" accordion music. This is way too loud, being in the car I had no chance to understand what Simon was saying. That was really annoying, the rest was ok.
Also Simons voice sometimes gets very silent when he also speaks lower, but that's an ongoing problem I'm meanwhile used to. ;-)
I tried to setup normalizing the volume but it doesnt work so well. Maybe you could normalize the sound volune of the podcast a little, also third party ads in the podcast are generally much louder than the pod itself.
They [edit: Scotland Yard, that is] could not open the vault even if they wanted to: it was probably time-locked. To prevent lock picking / kidnapping the bank manager, once the vault is sealed for the day, it only opens via an internal clock controlled lock at the next programmed time - probably Monday morning in this case.
I'm betting they got quite enough to be happy with without the vault as people are notorious for keeping things in the boxes they are not reporting to anyone, like large amounts of cash.
@@angelachouinard4581 I meant Scotland Yard couldn't open the vault when they checked on the bank.
I'm not sure if the boxes and the cash were behind the same door, but bank cash reserves often contain new, sequential bills. Very easily traced. The boxes were the better target with contents far harder to trace.
Not 'probably', he literally says it at 25:52 that the 'time locked vault hadn't been tampered with'. It was time locked.
I cant comment on Spotify so I'll just do it here.
What is up with the very loud music around the 16 min mark?
it is so loud i can barely hear what simon is saying
Extra casual casual criminalist. I like it
Whoever decided to make the random memes and music effects 1000 times louder than Simon can go jump off a bridge. I'm not sitting through 71 minutes of ear-bleeding jumpscares though. Which SUCKS because this seems like a really interesting video.
there are still a few Wimpys left! there was one in or near a train station in Essex. is that still there?!
Is this the heist in the Jason Statham movie?
The Bank Job, yes.
@@Blinkerd00dI thought it was 👍
Love your shows, mostly listen as podcasts. The last couple the music has been to loud and i can barely hear you, it’s frustrating
Saw the movie. Fun film. It was weird listening to you reading out the plot. Definitely see the movie. :)
Audio on here is far better than spotify. The accordian "background" music is louder than simon thru the whole thing
So usually when Cas Crims drop on a Friday I just toss them in my Watch Later for the weekend when i go food shopping....I saw the title and absolutely never looked at what channel this really was. I absolutely love the heist stories because they end up feeling so much more enjoyable.
But yeah I seriously went 15 minutes and missed Simon mention the channel name.
This was a really good one. Well done Simon and Danny!
Simon you should make a video on the Hatten Garden burglary! Id love to here the exact details of the crime!
I am not usually a fan of the true crime stuff, but this was fascinating.
this was an absolutely fantastic episode. Danny killed it.
Oh thank God Simon needed something like this
When Simon mentioned the difference between burglary and robber I said to myself, ”oh like The Bank Job”
Always love your content and normally listen on podcast. I have found that the music is very loud though on some of these and I find it very distracting. Sometimes it’s very hard to hear what Simon is saying.
Less volume on the background music please!
Simon you have far to much faith in the police and secret service. Ofcourse they'd cover it up.
Great episode BTW
I mean I'd think it would be that they'd just... not share and spread it. Especially if it was sensitive information. Imagine if your house was robbed and the police started giving out a detailed inventory of your house...
Too* much faith
Great episode! So intriguing! I hope there will be more like it while we wait for the 48 years to pass...
Hey Simon…There is odd French music on the Spotify version which is…kind of ear grating. I’m just letting you know here because there is no proper way to let you know on Spotify.
Simon not ever heading about the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary is quite baffling there is even three films based on it, but none of them are that good.
But it was big news at the time.
I listened to this on the podcast, and during the robbery itself there’s some really loud accordion music playing, making it hard to hear what Simon says. I’m sure it’s some clever reference, but can it be turned down a bit?
25:52 "TIME LOCKED VAULT hadn't been tampered with..." Simon, you CAN'T just open the vault door and stick your head in to look. That timer will NOT allow the vault door to be opened until it runs out. And it was likely set to finish on Monday morning. The bank and the police effectively have their hands tied. Nothing they can do until then. **unpauses video**
Edit: Wait... We never circle back around to this detail? Really? Danny dropped the ball on the research.
Yo whistle boy...what's with the bloody "tune over" on Apple Podcast!? Otherwise...love your stuff!
It ended way too soon. The comment about AliExpress had me chuckling too. So much left to think about. Love it.
41:19 wait, wait... The ANGLICAN archbishop of Canterbury refused a royal marriage because the husband was a divorced man? Wasn't the Anglican Churc founded on the grounds of allowing royal marriages where the husband was a divorced man (a couple of times, and a couple more widowed by force)?
1:05:13 this brings to mind that time last year (or the one before last, not sure right now) where a complete police station was found guilty of corruption for accepting bribes from drug smugglers after the new chief arrived the first day to his new post and found that while he drove a relatively cheap car, every single one of his new subordinates was driving cars like BMWs and Mercedes Benzs.
This whole story was just nuts. Fantastic telling.
Great one Danny! Now blink once if Simon is treating you well in the Blazement
Blink.
😂
An 84 year old Simon still doing this. I'd watch/listen then.
You'd have to stop and then come back and watch in another what, 40years?
Tried listening to this one on Spotify and there is a loud constant overlay of French style music over Simon’s voice making it difficult to hear.
Y’all need to lower the volume on the background music on the Spotify podcast. Had to move to YT because I could barely hear Simon over the accordion.
I was listening to this on Spotify, not sure how it looks like here, but in the main part were was described how they dug the music was so loud, that I couldn't understand a word :(
That part with John Lennon... wtf, that's some weird and obviously suspicious stuff. The worst part, when documents about this case will be public, a lot of us won't be alive to finally know the full story. xD
It's a great episode. However, the background music is too loud.
I've noticed the audio on some of the channels is really quiet, I've got everything turned up all the way and it's still quiet.