The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra | Chapter 3: Just Play Along

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Episode Description:
Having scraped together some cash and settled on Frank Sinatra, Jr. as his target, Barry assembles his rogues gallery of accomplices. In short order, he recruits his mom’s ex-boyfriend (and small-time mafioso) John Irwin, as well as an old friend he used to pull pranks with back in high school, Joe Amsler. But then, something unexpected happens: Barry falls in love with a woman named Pam. He’s certain she’ll dump him when she finds out about the kidnapping scheme, but much to his delight, Pam instead wants in on the caper. With his crew assembled, Barry heads for a state fair in Arizona to stake out Junior’s hotel…
Series Description:
Hosted and narrated by John Stamos, The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra is a complicated, nuanced story of one imperfect man trying to redeem himself by pulling off the perfect crime. Did you ever feel like everything’s broken, and it’s your job to fix it? That’s how Barry Keenan was feeling back in 1963. He was broke, unemployed, hooked on booze and pills, and his family was falling apart. Barry needed a miracle. And against all odds, he got one. One day the voice of God came over the radio in Barry’s car and told him there was a simple solution to all his problems: all he had to do was kidnap Frank Sinatra, Jr. For the first time ever, Barry Keenan shares his version of the bizarre story in his own words, from beginning to end.
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[@brianramsay7056]

This is a pretty good thing here... Entertaining and informative. I never in my life thought I'd be saying, Thank you, John Stamos," haha

[@uncheck]

i got this add and fell asleep

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Drop off Jr. ( the Plan ) And stick with Pam to the Moon, but I Guess she was Excited for the Ride

[@robvelders4583]

oops....it is said at the beginning that he saw Sinatra's magazine in the library.
Previously it was at the hairdresser.

[@danielparkison8234]

I got the world on a string hanging by a rainbow