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The Barefoot Bandit: High-Flying Crimes · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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Along this latest stretch of his journey as he passed through from Western Washington
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into Oregon, he left a note at a Raymond Animal Hospital that read, "Drove By Had Some
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Extra Cash Please Use This Money For The Care Of The Animals."
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He signed it, "Colton Harris Moore In parentheses, aka The Barefoot Bandit, Kameno Island Washington."
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Ever heard of me? Ever heard of her?
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Hi Cassie. Hi Caitlyn. Hi creepy people. Hello! Hello! I've never really thought about it.
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I don't know why we wave, but I kind of like it. We wave because we're on camera now, so now we can wave to the camera and people on YouTube and Patreon see us.
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We feel like it's just like we don't know what to do with our hands.
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Well, we used to wave when we didn't have cameras, so that made no sense. That's true. True story guys.
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But now if you want to see us waving back at you, go to YouTube, join Patreon, add free, do the things, do all the things.
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Yeah. What do we weigh? Who are we? Yeah. We're going to get back to that, okay?
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It feels like pretty on-brand to just have an aside in the second sentence of the intro. That's just who we are.
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Five seconds in. It's fine. If you don't like that leaf, now get out now.
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How are you so glad?
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This is PNW Haunts and Homicides, where we chat about true crime, the paranormal.
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And all things spooky, we're going to do something spooky after recording today.
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Yes, we are. In the Pacific Northwest.
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I'm wearing this special cemetery necklace just for our little outing later.
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You know what else we do in these episodes?
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What?
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Tero readings at the end, just so we can get a little deeper insight into what we're talking about for the day.
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Yeah. That thing. It's fun. That old gal.
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All right. Are you ready?
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I have wine.
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Chapstick. Water. I think I'm prepared.
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I had to make sure I had my chapstick. Got the water.
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Okay. Yeah. We got all the necessities.
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Necessities?
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Yes. And we already said, "Asside your goodies for our other new show coming soonish."
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What?
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What?
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Is this breaking news right now? Are you just dropping this bomb on everybody?
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I feel like we've hinted at it.
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Kind of. I don't think we've actually said it was a new show.
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No. We haven't.
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Stay tuned.
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Stay tuned.
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Stay Titty-Tunid.
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Wow. Really on one with the titties today.
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I like titties. All right.
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She's all about it.
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Wow.
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All right. Look at her. She's getting a after it.
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Okay. We can get the sillies out.
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All right. And then we'll go to your probably serious episode.
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Well, it's not to say that this is a completely unserious episode, but it's a little bit more like-hearted.
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Okay. Well, I love that.
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Yeah. I like to.
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Do a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
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All right.
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Today, we're talking about someone who became somewhat of a folk hero during his teenage years.
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A modern-day teen Houdini.
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Oh, okay.
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I'm very intrigued.
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There's no magic involved.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, okay. Why would you bring up Houdini if there's no magic?
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I don't- that was just one of the nicknames that they gave him.
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So, Colton Harris Moore, also known as the Barefoot Bandit or Barefoot Burglar.
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Okay.
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Colton's story is one of adrenaline, reckless crime sprees, and some truly jaw-dropping crash landings and escapes.
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Okay.
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So buckle up like you're strapped in on a Boeing jet.
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Oh, God.
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I don't know if I want to be strapped in on a Boeing jet.
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I think I want a good escape, escape, escape plan.
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Yeah.
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This is sounding like DB Cooper.
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I can't say that there aren't maybe slight similarities, but...
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Yeah.
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Okay. I'm excited for this one.
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Yeah. I thought you would really like this one.
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In addition to digging through everything I could find online,
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I watched the Barefoot Bandit documentary as part of my research for this case.
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Ooh.
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Which is actually kind of cool.
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They do like part animated, like reenactment type scenes and stuff.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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There are some instances where they have like live action, like real actors doing reenactments of things as well,
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which I will say makes it a little bit confusing at first to try to figure out, like,
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wait, is that real footage?
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Oh.
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But I really liked it.
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I really, really liked it.
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Colton's criminal activity began early.
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He was born to parents with addiction issues,
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and seemingly not a lot of resources.
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That's unfortunate.
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Yeah, it's not a great compo.
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Yeah.
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But I feel like usually that's how that patterns out.
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Locals were shocked when they realized that it was none other than 10-year-old Colton Harris Moore,
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who'd broken into the Stanwood Elementary School on Camano Island.
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10 years old.
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Yeah.
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Oh my God.
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I can't even imagine trying to break into something when I was 10.
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Yeah.
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He was even known to hit hike at this tender age.
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Oh.
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I mean, I feel like living on an island in the Puget Sound at this point, probably that was,
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I mean, still not a safe thing to do.
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It wasn't safe to do, like, five decades prior, even, but yeah, but like in that sort of a smaller,
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more rural community.
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So young.
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I know.
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When Colton was still a young child, his dad began an awful cycle of coming and going,
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returning and then leaving again, which is not super healthy just because obviously I think
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whether you're a child or not, most people crave a little bit of stability in their life.
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Yeah.
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Especially kids.
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They need that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Eventually, his father stepped completely out of the picture.
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He was a heavy drinker.
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Not so subtly hinting at alcoholism as a factor for their unstable home life.
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Well, it's probably got a good thing that he left.
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I mean, yeah.
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The whole thing.
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Yeah.
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There's, it's kind of one of those things where like is it worse for the kid to grow up in
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an environment where someone is maybe having outbursts or they're seeing things related to,
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you know, issues with substances that they can't really process or is it better to deal with
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that, you know, the potential abandonment or I don't know.
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None of it's good.
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No.
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No.
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And you know what?
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We don't even have time to unpack it because my notes are super long today.
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I know.
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I mean, I don't want to unpack it.
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So it's fine.
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Yeah.
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You're like, okay, moving on.
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Just like, I'm a sad.
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I know.
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Ultimately, Colton was raised by a single mother in a mobile home on the island.
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It may be that keeping himself fed was the initial or at least the primary driver to start
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with when it came to his criminal career as a kid.
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But it doesn't seem like we should write off shits and giggles or run of the mill rebellion
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in the face of an unstable home environment as sort of contributing factors.
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Yeah.
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And not to say that that's an excuse per se, but, you know, we talk about this a lot where
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it's like understanding where this person is coming from and their background.
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Yeah.
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You know, we can figure out ways to maybe, okay, how do we make that not a thing?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But I feel like a lot of kids go through that thing where they're a little rebellious.
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Maybe they break into places here and there.
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Probably mostly like abandoned places, but I don't know.
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Abandoned places that can be really dangerous.
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Well, yes, so dangerous.
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But I'm just like, not for the intent of like harming anybody is kind of what I'm getting
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at.
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It's like, I feel like some kids are rebellious and they do that kind of thing, but they
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don't turn into like criminals in the end.
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Yes.
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Hardened, violent criminals.
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Yes.
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That's, I feel like the main priority.
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Like what's avoid that.
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Yeah.
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Renton, Washington.
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By that point, he was already becoming a menace in the region.
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Moo.
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Yeah.
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Not like Dennis the menace, not like in a super cute kind of way.
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Yeah.
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That's like, you know, lovable, brosglous.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I wouldn't say harm.
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Foooo.
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But also not harmless.
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Okay.
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At six foot five and two hundred pounds.
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Holy sh-
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Owls.
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I know.
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Yeah.
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I was like, oh, f*ck.
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That's big.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think that's why when I read that, I was a little bit confused because the reenactment actor
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that they had in some of the documentary clips.
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I was like, that kid, I guess that's why I.
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Wow.
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So when I read that, I was like, okay.
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Probably hard to find.
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Right?
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Right?
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This green eyed and now a well versed if barefoot burglar from Camano Island.
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Colton wasn't your average runaway.
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Doesn't sound like it.
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No.
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He’s in like the 90th percentile for height.
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I'm just kidding.
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I was just thinking, I'm like, he's like a kid.
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I feel like I think about it in terms of like, you know, like a pediatrician.
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I'm like, oh my god.
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Yeah.
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You're going to keep growing like he's like, I don't think so.
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I think he probably talked out at that point.
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I don't know.
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Thus began the period that Colton, the barefoot burglar, lived on the lamb, camping in the woods
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primarily, lived on the lamb.
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Mm-hmm.
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What is on the lamb?
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What does that mean?
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You just, it's like running from the law.
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That's an old-timey way of saying they were like outlaws.
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That's interesting.
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Like what?
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I can't even picture like where that saying even came from.
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Like what does that even mean?
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Mom the lamb, doll.
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I don't get it.
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I feel like I definitely used that before in a case.
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Not just Gloucester, but I probably wasn't saying attention.
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That was where I was dissociating.
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I just want to make sure you cut onto the fact other than lived on the lamb.
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He was camping in the woods of the island.
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I thought you were saying lived off the land.
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I wonder if that's what I just feel like a chill man.
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I don't, I don't, computer.
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Okay, camping.
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Yeah.
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Not a good place to camp, I feel like.
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I feel like, you know, it's similar in terms of like the climate and everything from here.
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It wasn't cold.
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Yeah, I would say arguably quite a bit wetter.
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Yeah.
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Way more wetter-er.
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I guess I don't know what time it will be here, but I just-
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Largely during like kind of the milder months of like spring and summer, but I mean this
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lasted more than- more than two seasons.
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Let me say.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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It lasted for quite some time.
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He had a particular set of skills and apparently detested footwear, like a bizarre mashup
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of Liam Neeson and Mowgli.
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Oh, okay.
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I feel like he was definitely probably neurospicy then.
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think there's some spice in there.
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That's a thing.
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Yeah.
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Not diagnosing, but yeah.
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Sounds a little spicy.
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The skills section of his resume included breaking into homes and businesses, stealing credit
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cards and using them to purchase all sorts of things.
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GPS devices, bear mace, because you don't know if you're camping out.
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And because he's a teenage boy, we know that there had to be some porn in the mix, right?
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Couple playboys.
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That detail didn't always get a lot of playtime in the nightly news, but kind of cracked me
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up.
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I felt like I came across like sources that at least hinted at it or people in the documentary
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that like we're making kind of like joking comments about it.
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And I was like, yeah, he's a teenage boy with a credit card.
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Like, necessitated.
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Wow.
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It all circles back.
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So he definitely could afford shoes.
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He just couldn't.
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He chose not to wear the shoes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He could afford some shoes.
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He could have had Jimmy choose.
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Not in the woods, you can't.
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I mean, I feel like they make other types of footwear fancy, but maybe not with like a
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siletto.
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Anyways, that's beyond that.
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Yeah.
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It's not the point.
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Eventually all the staples one would need to turn a tree house into a tree home.
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Just a few things that he needed to survive in the dense woods of rural Washington.
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A live laugh love sign for his tree home.
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Obviously.
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Obviously.
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Colton and a friend and I swear to God, I am not making this name up.
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He's one of the talking heads.
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He has the lower fifth.
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He's got the, you know, the title.
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Like this is, this is his name allegedly.
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But it out.
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Harley Davidson Ironwing.
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Wow.
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I like the Ironwing part.
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That's pretty cool.
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I know it sounds like Game of Thrones.
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Yeah.
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Colton and a friend, Harley Davidson Ironwing, formed a burglary team.
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And soon enough, Colton's exploits earned him a catchy nickname from the media.
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It's unclear who exactly dubbed him Teen Houdini.
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But news channel reporters, Marley Genter of Como 4 and Rob Pierci of King V's reporting
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would feature the nickname.
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Wow.
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They said it.
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I don't know.
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Houdini.
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Houdini.
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Oh.
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Houdini.
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Teen Houdini.
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Such a missed opportunity.
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Kind of felt like a martini though.
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Yeah.
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So inappropriate.
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For his situation probably.
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I mean, yeah.
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I guess it's not as bad as moniker's go, but I think it also sends a message about the
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level of threat he was perceived to pose at least maybe initially.
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So that made him sound less threatening than he actually was?
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I feel like it was a little bit making light of it because it doesn't imply necessarily
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criminality.
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It's more like you say Houdini, I think dare double.
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Perhaps a bit cheeky.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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I feel like he's not typically associated with true crime.
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Right.
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I don't know.
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I mean, let me know if there's something I should know about Houdini.
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I feel like there's some stuff about Houdini.
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I like sketchy.
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I don't know.
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I can't remember what it is, but there's something.
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I feel like there are some things.
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I wait.
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Did he die trying to escape one of his things?
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I think so.
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Okay.
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Maybe that's one of them.
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Yeah, maybe.
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Yeah.
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Like someone locked him in there.
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And like someone did something shady to him.
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Something shady.
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However, the toning coverage would change over time as Colton would go on to elude the
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authorities for roughly two years from this point forward.
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Wow.
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That's a long time.
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Yeah.
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Pretty successful on that whole run in a way and escaping the love.
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That whole living on this lamb thing.
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That's almost as long as the three-year sentence that he was supposed to be serving at
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the time in that transitional juvenile detention facility.
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Oh, he escaped.
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Yeah.
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That's where he escaped from.
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And yeah.
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Wow.
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So Colton and Harley would take a vehicle at one of the island vacation homes that they'd
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broken into for joy rides.
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Here's the thing.
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If you fuel it up, put it back in the exact right spot and maybe even do a little light
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detailing.
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Which apparently they did, the person might not notice.
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Also I might not mind if you borrowed my car occasionally at that point.
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Right.
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If you're going to clean it and fill it up.
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But I also don't drive a brand new Mercedes-Benz.
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Wow.
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So that was really nice and considerate of them though.
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I think they were just trying not to get caught.
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Yeah.
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I could see that.
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Yeah.
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Such a nice boy.
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I know.
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Such sweet boys.
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Very polite.
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Very jimure.
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So mindful.
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So mindful.
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So jimure.
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Right.
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Mindful.
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I don't know.
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I don't know the words you guys.
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I don't take talk.
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I don't take talk.
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One of the primary areas where he operated other than Camino Island where he was originally
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from was the East Sound, a village on Orchist Island.
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Ooh.
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You love you some Orchist Island.
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That's so funny because that's literally what I was going to say.
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This is a place that I know and love.
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Orchist truly spent much of her youth around the holidays and particularly during the
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lovely summer months in this very place.
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No.
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You have to take me there someday.
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I know.
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Okay.
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You'll love this next part.
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The deer on the island are adorable.
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Oh.
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They're deer, right?
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Not deer.
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No.
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They're actual deer.
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They're just tiny.
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They're so small.
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Oh.
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Watching them eat the crab apples off the lawn at my grandparents' place is a very fond
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memory.
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Oh.
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Along with card games and you know, they went on for hours, holiday meals, everyone seated
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around the living room and dining room that those sizeables they might have been.
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Oftentimes felt too small for an Irish Catholic family and all of their progeny.
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Oh, you're really painting a picture right now.
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Yeah.
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Very nice.
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Good night.
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Leading into the holidays.
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I know.
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Okay.
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So here's the weird thing.
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I'm not even going to mention this, but I feel like I have to know.
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It was a sign.
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I decided just now.
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We never really did Turkey for Thanksgiving when we went up to the island.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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Weird, right?
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We did land.
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Oh.
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And it's because my paternal grandmother developed an allergy to Turkey as an adult.
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Wow.
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And it wasn't that it's wild because I feel like I don't know.
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We didn't really have anything else that was like, I don't know, a deviation from kind
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of the traditional meal plan or whatever for holidays and stuff, but that was one thing
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we always did different.
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We also had so many, like my dad is one of like nine and they all went on to just procreate
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like it was their mission.
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So there's so many of us.
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So I remember we did Thanksgiving one year where we had Turkey, ham, lamb, and I think there
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might have been something else.
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I can't even remember what.
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What?
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Yeah.
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Lamb sounds good though.
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Oh, my grandma is such a good cook.
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She makes a really, I've never had it for obvious reasons, but not the lamb.
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I do eat that.
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But she makes a chocolate cream pie that everybody says is to die for.
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Honestly, I want to get the recipe just because even if I won't eat it, I feel like I need
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a need that card in my back pocket.
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You know what I mean?
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I probably wouldn't need it because it's got like whipped cream in it, right?
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I think usually you whip like chocolate pudding and whipped cream basically together.
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I'm not a whipped cream person.
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I don't know.
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I'm not even that much of a chocolate person.
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Yeah.
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I think that's why we like each other so much.
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And that's, yeah, that's the only thing we haven't common.
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That's how this started.
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That's interesting lamb and then living off the lamb and...
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Oh yeah.
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So many synchronicities.
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There you go.
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Anyway, all of this is to say, I remember at the time family members expressing concern about
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my aging grandparents living in an isolated part of this very island as all of this was
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occurring.
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Oh, really?
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Yes.
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Wow.
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And other than that, I only recall occasionally catching brief snippets about Colton and his
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crimes on the news.
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I do remember seeing something about Teen Houdini in real time, but that's cool.
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I don't remember any of it.
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I remember seeing it when we were up on the island.
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I don't know that you would have seen it in the news as much here in Portland.
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Okay.
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But while he was still on Orchist Island, at least.
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Right.
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Because he's like on an island.
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So how far could he get?
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Oh, well.
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And then he said, hold my beer.
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Hold my lamb.
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I want you to remember that you said that.
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Okay.
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Hold my lamb, child.
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Meanwhile, Colton, who's the same age as my younger brother.
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So early 30s now, but at the time, obviously we're talking about his teenage years.
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We're literally born within two months of each other in the same year.
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Wow.
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I was like, okay, I know exactly what was very familiar.
22:47
Spent a lot of time with a kid just like you.
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Did your brother wear shoes?
22:53
My brother did wear shoes.
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He was known to Don footwear when it was necessary.
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At least there's that.
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Yeah.
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So that's really where they deviate the harsh ones.
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The harsh ones.
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Yeah.
23:06
So meanwhile, Colton, who's the same age as my younger brother, was getting up to some
23:11
stiff like stealing an infrared camera from a local island fire station seemingly with
23:18
the sole purpose of using it to scope out homes before burglaries.
23:21
That's creepy.
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I know.
23:23
So you can tell if people are in the house because a lot of people have vacation properties
23:27
on these islands.
23:28
I was like, was he going to go ghost hunting?
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No.
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I don't think so.
23:33
The crazy part though is that fire station was directly across the street from a home that
23:39
he had burglarized already.
23:42
Wow.
23:43
Twice.
23:44
Holy shit.
23:45
Well, small island, am I right?
23:49
How does the infamous Quico?
23:50
I think something like full me once can't get tricked again.
23:55
To which Colton said, well, my beer, which I think you're going to find.
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I will quote him as saying a couple of times, maybe worked to two.
24:06
I think now hopefully you wasn't drinking alcohol.
24:09
I have to imagine there is probably a little bit of undraged drinking somewhere along the
24:14
way.
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I feel like at a certain point that's small potatoes.
24:18
I like to think he is much of a criminal as he is.
24:21
He was like a hard pass on the alcohol.
24:24
Oh, okay.
24:25
He's like straight edge.
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Yeah.
24:27
Maybe the vibe I'm getting from this guy.
24:30
Okay.
24:31
Well, I guess we'll see.
24:34
But other thing getting carried away by the juvenile version of True Crime Light, it hardly
24:41
computes that he's making the news based on our story so far.
24:45
Right?
24:46
I guess what I'm trying to say is it just doesn't seem crazy newsworthy at this point.
24:52
Like some burglary happens every day.
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Yeah.
24:56
You know, that just doesn't feel like, oh, I'm not going to see that on CNN.
25:00
Right.
25:01
You know, local news.
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Yeah.
25:03
But yeah.
25:04
Well, that's because I did one of my favorite things and buried the lead, of course.
25:10
You guys are so silly.
25:12
He wasn't just a local kid causing minor problems with his shenanigans though.
25:17
Colton took his crime spree on the road.
25:20
I mean, and also or rather to the air.
25:25
Okay.
25:26
That's right.
25:27
In 2010, at the age of 19, he stole a plane and crash landed on an island in the Bahamas.
25:38
That's really far away.
25:39
Huh?
25:40
Though it wasn't his first crash or planes, silly plane theft.
25:47
In fact, far from it, his fascination with planes wasn't a secret.
25:52
He'd stolen an infrared camera from a fire station to scope out homes for burglaries.
25:57
Remember that from like 15 seconds ago, but stealing a plane?
26:01
That kind of took things to a whole new level.
26:05
Dude had a major hard on for aviation.
26:08
Interesting.
26:10
Fun fact or maybe disturbing fact.
26:13
Prior to his catching that international flight, Colton had ordered a book titled, How
26:19
to Fly a plane.
26:20
Let's go say, how did he even know how to fly it?
26:24
Having a credit card that he managed to steal somehow from a local restaurant, he even
26:29
had said book shipped to that same restaurant, which on the surface, I kind of thought was
26:36
a dummy move, proving that I probably would have needed a masterclass to get away with anything
26:42
at that age.
26:43
Yeah.
26:44
I was like, that's the stupidest thing you could do.
26:46
And then I was like, oh, actually, that kind.
26:48
All right.
26:49
So here's how it plays out.
26:52
He watched the tracking for the order so that he could ensure he'd be able to grab the
26:57
loot at an opportune time.
26:59
He waited until after the restaurant's business hours to break in after close and take his
27:04
book.
27:05
Wow.
27:06
I know.
27:08
I don't know.
27:10
That was probably still pretty risky, but who would think that you'd return to the scene
27:15
of the crime in this case?
27:16
That's murderer stuff.
27:17
Man.
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Yeah.
27:19
Not just that.
27:20
I don't know.
27:21
Is it a computer?
27:22
Yeah.
27:23
Wow.
27:24
Bro, this kid, Roll Savvy in some odd ways.
27:28
Okay.
27:29
How do you get internet in the woods?
27:31
I mean, they're, I don't think they're offering Wi-Fi in the woods, but there are other places
27:37
that you can go.
27:38
Oh, Starbucks.
27:39
Okay.
27:40
Yeah.
27:41
Starbees.
27:42
You might almost think this guy was some evil mastermind plotting his next move.
27:48
I'm not so sure about that, but his obsession with aviation was real, like a set massive
27:53
heart on.
27:55
Obviously, he put these books and manuals that he managed to get his little raccoon hands
28:00
on to practical use.
28:02
He was fascinated by airplanes.
28:04
He had pictures of them up in his room.
28:07
He drew pictures of them and could rattle off fun facts about planes as he saw them flying
28:13
overhead.
28:14
Okay.
28:15
So this is just cementing the narrow spiciness.
28:17
I feel like, yeah, of this hyper fixation on airplanes.
28:21
It's giving the tizamist strong.
28:24
Yes.
28:25
Yes.
28:26
Again, not diagnosing, but I mean, hey, listen.
28:30
So back to his exploits, like that one time that he casually broke into a safe after ransacking
28:36
a local store, netting some essential supplies that also roughly $3,000 after beating the
28:44
safe in.
28:45
Oh, I was like, how did he learn how to like lock pick a safe?
28:49
No.
28:50
In the documentary, you actually see the safe and it's pretty much demolished.
28:55
Kids of freaking beast.
28:56
Oh, so how do you beat a safe?
28:59
Uh-huh.
29:00
Yeah.
29:01
With a crowbar, I think.
29:04
And even still, I...
29:06
What?
29:07
You must have had some rage you needed to get out or something.
29:11
As it could save to say.
29:13
The crazy thing is, Colton is believed to have been, again, this work.
29:22
I'm coming back because I just...
29:23
I couldn't get over this.
29:25
Essentially living in the woods and occasionally couch surfing.
29:29
He's living off his exploits and the occasional kindness of others while executing numerous burglaries
29:36
that would continue to escalate.
29:39
People police did at times find some of his camping sites in the area.
29:44
You see quite a few of them in the documentary.
29:48
Colton's dog.
29:49
Also, they just dropped that in.
29:51
Like, he's just hanging out in the woods with a dog that I was like, we're just learning
29:55
about the dog.
29:56
Does anyone know the dog's name?
29:57
What kind of dog?
29:58
It looked like it was a black lap.
30:00
I don't know if that's really the kind of dog that he had.
30:03
But they didn't say his name?
30:04
No, I don't remember anyone saying the name of the dog.
30:08
I feel like it was aviation-related.
30:10
Right?
30:11
Orval.
30:12
I just remember that from the true crime cards we were just thinking.
30:19
Yeah.
30:21
Colton's dog was even impounded during one of their various searches and held as evidence.
30:29
Despite Colton's mother's attempts to reclaim the dog, authorities wouldn't allow it because
30:34
evidence.
30:35
I hope he was being taken care of.
30:38
Yeah.
30:39
Well, though clearly as his mother pointed out, if they planned to subpoena the canine,
30:43
they were barking up the wrong tree.
30:48
He didn't have anything to do with it.
30:50
I know.
30:51
Leave the dog alone.
30:52
I know.
30:53
I, it really stressed me out when they were talking about the dog.
30:58
So that's why there are so many puns.
31:00
I was like, I just, I got to figure out how to stress me out.
31:05
Oh, no.
31:06
What to do with my hands?
31:07
Leave Orval alone.
31:09
I love how you just, you just named him.
31:13
In all seriousness, they probably thought that the dog would be easy leverage with the
31:18
kid.
31:19
I mean, they wanted to bring his spree to an end without blowing their overtime budget.
31:25
A number of people that knew Colton well commented throughout the documentary that he was always
31:30
on the hunt for a new source of adrenaline seemingly.
31:34
And it certainly doesn't seem like he was a complete dummy.
31:39
We already know he was pretty good at getting away with his crimes and that they would eventually
31:44
take on a whole new scale.
31:47
So as you might suspect, his pooch didn't stay at the pound for long.
31:52
Of course the guy who steals things is going to steal back his dog.
31:57
Oh, thank goodness.
31:58
I was dying.
31:59
I was like, really?
32:00
Is this real?
32:01
Because they do a cartoon animation of it.
32:06
So is this real?
32:07
Did he really do this or come on?
32:10
How much artistic license are we taking?
32:12
Nope.
32:13
Nope.
32:14
Much to the dismay of the authorities.
32:17
The haven't.
32:18
The one thing I'm okay with him stealing is the dog.
32:21
I know.
32:22
Well, especially after his mom tried to get the dog back and they were like, nope, it's evidence.
32:27
And she was like, pole gay.
32:29
I mean, I can see where they're coming from, but I mean, I feel like that's pretty thin,
32:35
guys.
32:36
More of a sauce spot for the dog because the dog doesn't know what's going on.
32:38
It just knows it's not what it's human anymore.
32:40
So that's what breaks my heart.
32:43
Well, and I was really worried.
32:44
I was like, okay, yes, this is based in the Pacific Northwest, but it's a small island.
32:50
I don't know what their resources are.
32:51
I was scared, shitless, that they were going to tell us that this dog was taken to like
32:57
a kill shelter or something.
32:58
I was like, I won't finish this documentary.
33:02
I wouldn't listen to the story.
33:04
No, there was another dog.
33:05
Nope.
33:06
We'd have to go.
33:07
No, that would be a very short episode.
33:11
That's the crime.
33:12
I'm fucking cares about the Bahamas.
33:15
Okay, but I want to know about the Bahamas.
33:18
Yeah, I know.
33:19
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a big part of the whole thing.
33:24
So remember how I said that he would be arrested after making it all the way to the Bahamas.
33:31
But that wasn't the first plane that he'd stolen and then subsequently crashed.
33:35
Do you remember I said something about that?
33:37
So he crashed more than one plane.
33:40
How do you, oh my God.
33:42
Well, listen, if you're trying to learn how to fly a plane from a book, right?
33:47
After crashing one plane, I would not, how do you get back at another plane?
33:51
He is a young dumb teenage boy.
33:57
I feel like they do I need to say more?
34:01
God, plane crashes.
34:03
Yeah.
34:04
Yeah.
34:05
So I think this next part could be part of the explanation for how the story seemingly blew
34:09
up.
34:10
I mean, aside from the overall outlandishness of his series of crimes.
34:16
In November 2008, he reportedly stole the plane of then radio personality Bob Rivers from
34:22
a hangar on Orcas Island.
34:24
Wow.
34:25
So it's kind of like you fuck with a celebrity stuff and you're already like escalating.
34:29
Like, yeah, I could see Bob maybe getting on the mic and being like, this fucking kid stole
34:36
my plane.
34:37
Did they know who stole it?
34:40
I don't know that they were confident right away because at this point, he hadn't stolen
34:48
a bunch of planes.
34:50
So they're like, who could have done this?
34:52
And actually, I think initially they were sort of, the authorities were sort of like, oh,
34:55
there's got to be like, they suspected maybe even like drug runners or something.
34:59
That makes sense.
35:00
Like that or like terrorists or something bigger than just a teenager.
35:05
Mm-hmm.
35:06
Yeah.
35:07
Joy right now.
35:08
Yeah.
35:09
But that plane, a Cessna 182, was valued at over $150,000 pre-flight, which is, I gotta say,
35:19
pretty fucking cheap for a plane.
35:20
Okay.
35:21
We're gonna learn.
35:22
I'm guessing significantly less afterwards because Colton may have taught himself how to fly
35:28
a plane essentially, but for all his efforts, playing flight simulator games and reading
35:34
aircraft manuals, he hadn't taught himself how to stick the landing.
35:40
That's a very important part of flying a plane, I feel like.
35:46
Sort of essential if you ever want to do it again.
35:48
It's like, oh yeah, okay, I did it.
35:50
I'm a, I'm a shit.
35:52
Oh, I gotta get back down, guys.
35:54
I've really miscalculated.
35:56
I got, I got too excited.
35:58
I blew my load too soon.
36:00
Oh my God.
36:02
Well, 300 miles east, he crash landed it on the Yakima reservation, fleeing from the crash
36:08
site before authorities made it to the scene.
36:12
They landed on a reservation.
36:14
I mean, he crashed on a reservation.
36:17
He clearly was not in full control of where this plane was going.
36:22
I think as the crash landing implies, they've been through enough.
36:26
Yeah.
36:27
Seriously.
36:28
I'm happy about that.
36:32
Honestly, this next crime might seem like small potatoes compared to the theft of an
36:37
actual ass airplane, but he also robbed a grocery store on Orcas Island as well.
36:43
Oh, yeah, he got hungry after all that crashing.
36:46
Totally.
36:47
Based on the surveillance footage, I think I've actually been to that grocery store on
36:51
the island, even without seeing the footage from the store.
36:54
That would be a fair assumption, though, because it's not a large island.
36:59
And unless a lot has changed since I was last there, I don't think there's a Walmart
37:04
Super Center or similar down the road.
37:09
There's not that many places to go.
37:11
Anyway, the footage is grainy, but what is visible is an individual driving a forklift directly
37:17
into the ATM machine.
37:22
It's funny, but it's not funny.
37:26
Colton bad.
37:27
So random.
37:28
You crash a plane and then steal a forklift and ram an ATM.
37:34
Yeah.
37:35
Yeah.
37:36
And some of these, it's really hard to track down the exact date.
37:41
And so some of these things might be occurring within a short time of each other, but be slightly
37:45
out of order.
37:47
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38:55
Yeah.
38:56
See what I did though?
38:57
I do.
38:58
You get it?
38:59
With Colton, because this guy was stealing planes, trains, and automobiles left and right.
39:05
I mean, if you're going to steal a plane, you're probably also going to steal other stuff.
39:09
I had four glyphs.
39:10
Yeah, I had four glyphs.
39:14
Back home on Cmeno Island near the summer of 2009, he broke into a police officer's
39:19
patrol car that was parked in front of the police officer's home.
39:24
Holy shit, he's getting bold.
39:27
Pretty brazen, right?
39:28
Yeah.
39:29
He stole police equipment, including a cell phone, an official issue police rifle, and a supply
39:36
of ammunition.
39:38
Question.
39:39
Why is this policeman leaving a gun in his car parked out dead?
39:45
I feel like I have seen where they have some sort of like a rifle rack.
39:50
I sort of assume that that's got some sort of a walking mechanism to it.
39:56
But yeah, now I have a lot of follow-up shifts.
39:58
And they're probably like, who's going to break into a police car?
40:01
Like, again, Colton said, "Oh, my beard."
40:06
As the seasons changed, Colton's MO certainly had not.
40:11
This next part of the story that I'm going to tell you gives you a little bit of an idea
40:16
about just how much of a Charlie Fox trot situation, Colton's criminal antics, and the man
40:23
hunt for him had become Charlie Fox trot.
40:27
That's another one of those pilots they talk and they do the code stuff like in the military.
40:34
What's a Charlie Fox trot?
40:35
I think it's literally for like a catastrophic like fuck up or something.
40:41
Charlie Fox trot is a military euphemism for a mistake or disorganization.
40:46
It is similar to the term "snaffoo."
40:49
Oh, okay.
40:50
Yeah, got you.
40:51
Which that one I know we have like been like, what does that exactly like?
40:55
What does that technically mean?
40:56
I know what I think, but Colton had made his way to Canada from Northern Washington.
41:04
Because he stole both.
41:06
Oh, okay.
41:07
Yeah.
41:08
Like how do you get through the border?
41:11
Yeah.
41:12
Did he have his passport?
41:14
I don't think I think at this point you still did not need a passport to go into Canada.
41:20
I forget that was the thing.
41:21
Yep.
41:22
And as one might do in the land of maple syrup, he briefly befriended some Canadian musicians
41:29
when he approached them on the side of the road after their van broke down.
41:33
Oh.
41:34
The most adorable, like, meet cute with just like the most Canadian adult.
41:40
They're like, oh.
41:42
And then he became a rhodian.
41:43
That's the end of the story.
41:45
Right?
41:46
No.
41:47
When their friend arrived to pick them up, the group ended up smoking weed in the vehicle.
41:52
What?
41:53
Duh.
41:54
Canadian band.
41:56
Uh-huh.
41:57
Uh, they seemed like super sweet and like normal people, just Canadian musicians.
42:07
They just, you know, they're just live in life and being Canadian.
42:11
Were they a good documentary?
42:13
They were.
42:14
Yeah.
42:15
He stayed in one of the men's camper vans on his property after spending that night around
42:21
the fire enjoying their high.
42:23
Oh.
42:24
I know.
42:25
It seemed it was like kind of wholesome, honestly.
42:28
From what I gather, he then made his way back to the state side and in Bonner's very Idaho
42:35
on September 29th of 2009, managed to seal another sessna that he flew westward, landing
42:45
in a manner of speaking in Granite Falls, Washington.
42:51
The main island had been his intended landing site, but when the aircraft ran out of fuel,
42:59
his plans had to abruptly change.
43:01
Oh, I got to fuel this thing.
43:03
I know.
43:04
From the sound of things, that day he came awfully close to becoming another aviation fatalities
43:11
statistic.
43:12
Jesus.
43:13
Yeah.
43:14
I believe this is the plane that was, I mean, just a very, very short distance from
43:21
the nose impacting with a tree stump that was like, I mean, how old this tree must have
43:30
been because it was massive.
43:33
And it would have just gone straight down the center of the cockpit.
43:36
Like it probably would have smashed him to be it.
43:41
So he's crashed another plane.
43:42
Yes.
43:43
Plane number two.
43:44
I mean, yeah.
43:46
As far as we know.
43:48
Yeah.
43:49
I feel like there could be planes that we maybe don't even realize.
43:54
Who knows?
43:55
Who knows?
43:56
Listen, it's a lot of theft.
43:58
It's a lot of fever.
44:02
It's just a lot.
44:03
It's really extra.
44:06
When authorities were made aware of the crashed aircraft, a massive manhunt in Snohomish
44:11
County ensued.
44:13
Swat teams were deployed.
44:16
But Holtin had become a ghost, vanishing into the wilderness.
44:21
They searched the nearby area, but the only thing they could find was the cash bag that he
44:26
left behind as he fled their approach.
44:29
That's right.
44:30
He literally just like, doop, doop, doop, moon walked away from Swat team.
44:36
Reportedly with $20,000 inside this cash bag that you just dropped.
44:42
He can get more.
44:43
He's really good at stealing.
44:44
He's super good at stealing.
44:47
I mean, I don't, super good.
44:50
Maybe that's the made-able.
44:51
All it takes is a forklift to know.
44:53
Yeah, I actually think that what I remember from the documentary and some of the other research
44:59
that I did was that the whole forklift thing with the ATM, I don't think he got it open.
45:06
It didn't actually work.
45:08
Yeah.
45:09
I know you're shocked.
45:11
I was kind of thinking how he would have to smash that thing a lot and I feel like he wouldn't
45:16
at that time.
45:17
Yeah.
45:18
Yeah, I feel like the authorities are arriving, sir.
45:22
You can't get away very fast on a forklift.
45:24
True.
45:25
I don't think that's how he was going to escape.
45:29
Okay.
45:31
Meanwhile, the internet went wild for Holtin in what was cleverly coined the Holtin craze.
45:39
The shirts, song tributes and you guys, YouTube, YouTube videos, aplenty were made by those
45:47
looking to profit from his exploits or as the documentary shows, teens absolutely blown
45:54
away by his brazen escapades.
45:56
They were like, this is so wild.
45:58
They're so cool.
45:59
Yeah.
46:00
A lot of reactions.
46:01
Wow.
46:02
A lot of thoughts and feelings.
46:04
So I've just sent Cassie a picture of a t-shirt that was made during this era.
46:12
I'm going to refer to it as the Mama Tried t-shirt.
46:16
It was wildly popular.
46:19
Wow.
46:20
That's funny.
46:23
Is that his face on it?
46:25
It is.
46:26
Correct.
46:27
Because there is at least one infamous post of him just like in the woods when he was in
46:34
his camping phase still on the island and he posted to Instagram during the time.
46:40
He's like running from the law and posting from the woods.
46:45
When he was in his camping era.
46:47
Yeah.
46:48
When he was in his villain era.
46:53
His camping villain era.
46:55
He's living off the lamb era.
46:57
Yeah.
46:58
Exactly.
46:59
Suddenly, he had thousands of friends on social media.
47:04
But for all the folk hero attention, not everyone was thrilled.
47:09
One resident of Orgis Island, a place where Colton obviously had committed several
47:14
burglaries, joked about selling Cass of his footprints online as memorabilia.
47:22
That person and his wife experienced backlash real quick death threats.
47:29
Oh, shit.
47:30
Yeah.
47:31
From why?
47:32
There is it because they were trained to profit essentially off of that he's a criminal.
47:41
Honestly, I think that's really, do we not have bigger fish to fry?
47:45
I don't know.
47:46
Whatever.
47:47
But there's actually a news clip in the documentary.
47:51
Is this someone I believe this was from Orgis Island and they were having kind of like a town
47:57
hall style meeting.
47:58
It looks like they're in like the high school gymnasium.
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And this guy, somebody handed him a mic and I was like, well, that was your first mistake.
48:08
Does that man look like he needs a microphone?
48:11
I will answer that for you.
48:12
No, no, he does not.
48:15
And he basically says like, everybody wants him dead.
48:20
Like people were like at first, he was talking about like, this is like becoming a real problem.
48:25
We got to fix this blah, blah, blah.
48:26
And everybody was like, yeah.
48:27
And they're like with him.
48:28
And he's like, everybody.
48:29
But honestly, I'd rather see him dead.
48:32
And people were like, oh, you sure it's audible.
48:36
People go like, yeah, which I was glad that, you know, people weren't immediately jumping
48:45
to like, let's kill this.
48:47
Yeah.
48:48
Like, what some people definitely were like vigilante.
48:50
Like a pitchfork.
48:51
Yeah.
48:52
What are they called?
48:53
Yes.
48:54
Like, the Lagers chasing after them with their pitchforks.
48:56
Yeah.
48:57
That was very much the imagery.
48:59
Wow.
49:00
I know.
49:01
He didn't kill anybody.
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No.
49:03
No.
49:04
I mean, definitely, I do understand the danger of stealing planes and crashing them.
49:08
You could kill a lot of people.
49:09
Absolutely.
49:10
Absolutely.
49:11
And yes, obviously this is like, okay, we can't keep doing this.
49:16
Yeah.
49:17
At the height of the manhunt for Colton, he'd been squatting in a local airhanger.
49:24
When he stole a vehicle belonging to the owner's wife and drove to their home to make calls,
49:30
as it seemed he had been doing recently.
49:33
He was created by the SWAT team.
49:35
Whom he just ran away from, of course.
49:39
Okay, bye.
49:41
So he's squatting in their airhanger.
49:45
He steals the wife's truck.
49:47
He's two, those same people's home and he's been doing this, going there to make calls.
49:56
And somebody figures out like, oh, hey, I think this is what's going on.
50:02
Wow.
50:05
And the SWAT team is there waiting for him and he's just like, bye.
50:09
No, thank you.
50:11
It places to be.
50:13
Yeah.
50:14
Dude must have had quite the long stride.
50:17
This is where him being 65 is significant.
50:21
I just imagine the SWAT team.
50:23
The SWAT team.
50:24
Literally the SWAT team as like little short-feeling running after him and he's just like my mini-bodies
50:31
chasing him.
50:32
But I mean, he was constantly outpacing local law enforcement and now these dude bros too.
50:39
I mean, like the SWAT team get some serious training in their typically like, they're like
50:45
a pretty hearty athletic crew.
50:47
So a deputy recommended that locals on the island whose property Colton had passed through
50:53
at some point.
50:55
So this goes back to the people that got the death threats.
50:58
He had been on their property and he'd left footprints.
51:02
Okay.
51:03
So he was like, well, you should take cast of the footprints and see if they could sell,
51:08
you know, put them up on eBay.
51:10
You know, just while his crimes are still newsworthy.
51:15
So in the documentary, I watched the woman explained that a lot of people looked at the listing,
51:20
but they actually received more than one death threat through eBay.
51:23
Wow.
51:24
Yeah.
51:25
I don't understand why that needs a death threat.
51:27
I know.
51:28
Well, one of them apparently basically said that they were enabling his criminal lifestyle.
51:34
And she was like, what?
51:36
How?
51:37
Like, I feel to see how exactly because they weren't planning to wire Colton whatever
51:43
price they fetched.
51:45
Yeah.
51:46
But at any rate, she said they'll probably just hang them on the side of their chicken
51:50
coop.
51:51
Oh my gosh.
51:52
I know.
51:53
Still kind of cute and foxy, but like the death threats are like, oh, that's yucky.
51:57
Here reminds me of Bigfoot.
51:58
Like Bigfoot.
51:59
Yes.
52:00
That is exactly what I thought of.
52:01
And honestly, like, it's a sizable footprint.
52:04
So like, I know.
52:05
Wow.
52:06
Yeah.
52:07
Big boy.
52:08
Did they ever get any like, like, prints from his toes, like fingerprints?
52:13
I don't think so.
52:14
Oh, that would be so like a really cool way to catch someone.
52:18
Did toes have fingerprints, like, fingers?
52:20
I really want to look at my toes right now.
52:22
I feel like they do because I feel like I've actually heard about cases where they identified
52:27
people based on like the prints on their toes.
52:29
Obviously, like, in the mud, they're not going to get it.
52:32
But if you was like in people's home spare foot, this is like outside, like in the mud.
52:37
So if he like went to break into someone's house and like left foot, like footprints, they
52:42
could probably get actual prints from it.
52:44
Right.
52:45
Well, so here's the thing is sometimes he would leave little messages.
52:51
He would like do like a kind of like a chalk outline around like his foot.
52:56
And he'd put messages like, see ya.
52:59
Like, you know, and then sign it like the barefoot bandit.
53:02
What?
53:03
Yeah.
53:04
Oh.
53:08
There's so many weird little things that I don't even really have them in my notes officially
53:12
as like part of like the story.
53:15
But like I figured kind of as we discuss, they would sort of come up or if they don't.
53:20
But it's like, I don't really care if it's part of the story.
53:24
Some of it's just kind of it's interesting or kind of funny.
53:28
But yeah.
53:29
So like neither here nor there, but how do they not does for top prints?
53:35
Yeah, I don't know.
53:37
It's so interesting.
53:39
Yep.
53:40
Amidst the chaos that was Colton's reign over the island, Jackson Holtz, author of Fly,
53:46
Colton Fly, said when he asked Colton's mother what she would give him for Christmas if she
53:53
could gift him anything.
53:55
She replied, a bulletproof vest.
53:59
Wow.
54:00
Oh, that's really sad for her.
54:03
Yeah, I think she was very fearful that this was not going to end well.
54:11
Yeah.
54:12
Which I feel like is valid.
54:14
Sure.
54:15
You know, you're committing, these are big boy crimes.
54:18
So you might be still technically a kid through a lot of this.
54:22
But yeah, I mean, and especially if you're armed, I could see where.
54:28
I mean, nobody wants that.
54:31
Yeah.
54:32
And people obviously want him dead.
54:34
It sounds like so.
54:35
Yeah.
54:36
I thought you were going to say shoes.
54:38
Yeah.
54:39
Oh, that was sad.
54:40
No.
54:41
It's so much, so much worse.
54:44
Echoing that same dark sentiment, Orchus Island airport manager, B Von Tobel said, I think
54:51
we're well beyond the Robin Hood stage.
54:54
We're into the John Dillinger stage.
54:56
I don't know if that feels totally accurate, but point taken.
55:03
Perhaps sensing a shift in the sentiment from some Colton was on the move.
55:08
Flintstone style again around this time.
55:11
Get it?
55:12
Yeah.
55:13
Because he was barefoot behind the wheel.
55:14
Right.
55:15
Right.
55:16
Right.
55:17
Right.
55:18
Right.
55:19
Exactly.
55:20
Exactly.
55:21
Along this latest stretch of his journey as he passed through from Western Washington into
55:24
Oregon.
55:25
Oh, he left a note at a Raymond animal hospital that read, drove by had some extra cash.
55:32
Please use this money for the care of the animals.
55:35
Oh, he liked animals.
55:38
Oh, yeah, for sure.
55:39
He was a big animal lover.
55:41
He signed it Colton Harris Moore in parentheses, aka the barefoot bandit, Kameno Island, Washington.
55:49
Ever heard of me?
55:50
Ever heard of her?
55:51
Yeah.
55:53
As he continued east, he broke into roughly a half dozen airports on his way before landing
56:01
on one in Bloomington, Indiana.
56:05
Pun intended, you know, since landing seems to be the hard part for this wonder kind.
56:09
Obviously breaking in the airport.
56:12
I know.
56:13
I mean, small ones where it's like a private, you know, small.
56:18
He took off from that airport in yet another stolen airplane.
56:22
What?
56:23
And flew over a thousand miles south to Avaco Island in the Bahamas.
56:29
Casting with air.
56:31
We're in the Bahamas finally.
56:33
I just wanted to go bucket list.
56:36
Not on this plane.
56:38
Yeah.
56:39
New.
56:40
Those that witnessed his descent said he did fairly well.
56:43
But I guess it's all relative because court documents show that over $600,000 in damages
56:50
were done related to the destruction of the aircraft and other equipment.
56:55
Wow.
56:56
Yeah.
56:57
Yeah.
56:58
It's a lot.
57:00
This plane was said to have been running low on fuel at the time of his crash landing on
57:04
the island.
57:06
Turns out it might be a little harder to push the fuel gauge when you're piloting a plane
57:11
as opposed to sort of just, you know, coasting downhill in neutral in a car.
57:16
Doesn't.
57:17
Can't use that same tactic.
57:19
No, you shouldn't different, different things.
57:23
Yeah, different things.
57:24
I mean, you can technically, but then he did it.
57:28
Yeah.
57:29
Sure did.
57:30
I did it.
57:31
I did it.
57:32
Did you die?
57:33
Exactly.
57:34
Exactly.
57:35
Very nearly sometimes.
57:37
This one sounds like it was smoother.
57:40
He was learning.
57:41
He still didn't hurt anyone though, did he?
57:43
No.
57:44
Okay.
57:45
So didn't, you know, refuel.
57:52
I mean, it's kind of hard to refuel a plane that you've stolen.
57:55
Right.
57:56
That's true.
57:57
So there's that.
57:58
Also, he could be, you know, like me where it's red.
58:00
It's fine.
58:01
I'll get there.
58:02
Yeah.
58:03
It's fine.
58:04
You just pray to whatever other worldly being you believe in.
58:07
That's right.
58:08
Get there.
58:09
I pray to all of the gods, the old and the new.
58:13
It wasn't long before the FBI began officially working with Bahamian authorities to try to
58:20
track Colton down.
58:23
He quickly resumed his habit of frequent burglaries.
58:26
Because.
58:27
What else is he going to do?
58:28
I know.
58:29
Old habits die hard.
58:30
He doesn't have any stuff.
58:31
Exactly.
58:33
He broke into a restaurant with a crowbar, later sneaking across the dock to steal a boat
58:38
to make his way to the Alutra and Harbor Islands.
58:42
Where he totally chilled out.
58:45
Just kidding.
58:46
Obviously not.
58:47
I don't see that for him.
58:49
He has zero chill.
58:52
At the Harbor General Store owner Ruthie K. allowed him to plug in his laptop and use the
58:58
Wi-Fi.
58:59
Very nice.
59:00
Because he was like, I don't have any money.
59:03
And she was like, that's fine.
59:04
He's like, are you sure?
59:05
And she's like, take the yes, dude.
59:09
And she even offered him a sandwich.
59:11
And he was like, again, zero dollars, zero cents.
59:16
And she was like, again, take the yes.
59:20
She's definitely like a mom energy.
59:22
Yeah.
59:23
You know, I'll take the sandwich too.
59:25
I know.
59:26
She said that like many Islanders, when she learned about his background, she truly didn't
59:30
want him to get caught.
59:32
Wow.
59:33
Okay.
59:34
Well, she reflected on her own experience as a single mother of three and really felt
59:41
for a kid that didn't seem to have the same family support system that she'd had.
59:46
Yeah.
59:47
I could see that.
59:48
Yeah.
59:49
I mean, she had people to back her up.
59:51
And you know, she talks about it really briefly in the documentary, but she was like, it
59:55
was such the other end of the spectrum from people that were like wishing him dead.
1:00:02
Yeah.
1:00:03
I don't know.
1:00:05
Like, wow.
1:00:06
Okay.
1:00:07
So maybe the energy is a little bit better on a tropical island.
1:00:09
Who would have thought?
1:00:10
He's still a kid.
1:00:12
I mean, at this point, by the time he lands in the Bahamas, he is 19.
1:00:17
But you're still a kid.
1:00:18
Very much a kid.
1:00:19
Yeah.
1:00:20
Your brain is not what fully formed until you're like 26 or 25 or 25.
1:00:24
Yeah.
1:00:25
Yeah.
1:00:26
Plus, he's also been literally living on the run for multiple years.
1:00:31
I mean, going on three years at this point.
1:00:34
Wow.
1:00:35
It's a lot.
1:00:37
He's not really thinking super clearly for a lot of reasons.
1:00:42
Yeah.
1:00:43
You know?
1:00:44
On the islands, he was doing anything but lying low.
1:00:47
So again, not thinking super clearly.
1:00:50
In fact, he was trying to attract attention if anything, telling those nearby on the island
1:00:57
docks.
1:00:58
He was just bought and around.
1:00:59
He said, call the cops.
1:01:01
Frankly, he was bored and he wanted to be chased.
1:01:04
So he's like egging the locals on.
1:01:09
Some of the locals would prove happy to oblige.
1:01:14
Ten or 12 of one of the witnesses' friends on that very dock showed up and gave chase after
1:01:20
Colton from there on the water.
1:01:24
There was a reward posted for him at this point.
1:01:26
So that kind of figures.
1:01:27
They're like, yeah, we'll take free money to track this kid down.
1:01:33
And that whole situation, but did they know who Dini he was?
1:01:39
They did.
1:01:40
Yeah, no, they were aware of the reward.
1:01:42
So they were like, who Dini Ness?
1:01:44
Yeah.
1:01:46
The man captaining the boat, chasing the team, said that Colton had some serious skills behind
1:01:52
the wheel.
1:01:53
And that's saying something because that particular man, he'd been behind the wheel of a boat all his
1:02:00
life.
1:02:01
I mean, you live on an island that's right.
1:02:04
I mean, it's like a part of the culture, but he had also in back received some formal training.
1:02:10
So I think, you know, he did this professionally.
1:02:13
So he's like, yeah, no kids got skills.
1:02:15
A kind of wild.
1:02:16
It kind of like feels like a waste.
1:02:18
Like he could have done something, a boat rider, a pilot, a car driver.
1:02:24
I don't know.
1:02:25
Something.
1:02:26
Obviously he was good at stuff.
1:02:27
Yeah.
1:02:28
Definitely.
1:02:29
Just utilizing it in the wrong way.
1:02:30
Yeah, not really applying those skills in the best way possible.
1:02:35
Yeah.
1:02:36
Apply yourself.
1:02:37
But do it correctly.
1:02:38
Yeah.
1:02:39
In any case, Colton was able to get away from the group of villagers hoping to collect
1:02:45
on the cash reward.
1:02:47
He's literally, I think that's where the Houdini thing makes sense.
1:02:51
He just escapes every fricking time.
1:02:55
You know, until he doesn't.
1:02:56
Yeah.
1:02:57
Spoiler.
1:02:58
Just like Houdini.
1:03:00
You escape until you don't.
1:03:02
Yeah.
1:03:03
Happens of the most.
1:03:06
In response to Colton's audacious arrival, chief inspector Moss of the Harbor Island Police
1:03:14
mounted an operation aimed at finally arresting Colton.
1:03:18
Good luck.
1:03:20
Well, he organized his on-duty officers and even called in those that were off-duty.
1:03:28
He was like, this bitch is not getting off this island.
1:03:32
A Harbor Island security guard spotted him at about midnight.
1:03:36
So I'm given to understand this is the same day that he was basically being chased by
1:03:42
the locals on the water.
1:03:46
There's surveillance footage of Colton sprinting along the docks.
1:03:50
Well, presumably.
1:03:52
I think there's some actual footage and some reenactment in this dock, obviously.
1:03:57
So I don't know if the clip that I was referring to where you see him sprinting across the docks
1:04:02
is real or if that's, you know what I mean?
1:04:05
Yeah.
1:04:06
But anyways, phenomenal.
1:04:07
Either way, love it.
1:04:09
I love it.
1:04:10
I think they have some real footage from him like in the Bahamas and I don't know if that's
1:04:15
part of it.
1:04:16
It's hard to tell.
1:04:17
Anyways, I'm getting lost.
1:04:19
I'm getting lost.
1:04:20
Get lost in the docks.
1:04:22
Run, below and Jordan's socket, both boat captains heard that the barefoot bandit was spotted
1:04:28
near the boats belonging to them and many others and they're like, we should probably
1:04:33
go check out our boats.
1:04:34
Yeah.
1:04:35
The pair essentially joined in on the high speed pursuit on the water because they were
1:04:40
concerned that without support, the local law enforcement team might lose the team
1:04:44
who Dini yet again.
1:04:45
I mean, that's a fair assumption.
1:04:47
Yeah.
1:04:48
Even with all of that pre-approved overtime.
1:04:51
Eventually, Colton was cornered on a sand bar at which point over the loudspeakers of the
1:04:58
neighboring boats.
1:04:59
He was being told he had nowhere to go.
1:05:03
You guys aside from a kind of sad and likely neglectful childhood, this is where the story
1:05:10
kind of takes a dark turn.
1:05:13
After a dramatic high speed boat chase in the Bahamas, Colton puts a gun to his head, saying
1:05:19
he's going to kill himself.
1:05:21
He can't go back.
1:05:23
At the same time, he's also got his back turned to the wheel and the controls and they
1:05:30
can tell at least one of the boat captains are like, he's slowly maneuvering himself off
1:05:38
the sand bar.
1:05:40
So he's like steering the boat from behind himself?
1:05:44
Yeah.
1:05:45
Wow.
1:05:46
He's getting off a sand bar.
1:05:47
Holy shit.
1:05:48
Holy shit.
1:05:49
I know.
1:05:50
I'm like, I wonder, I feel like there was a part of him that did kind of feel like he's
1:05:55
kind of at a breaking point, but I feel like part of him thought, all of their attention
1:06:00
is going to be sort of on me, but in a different way by sort of saying those things.
1:06:07
I don't know.
1:06:08
I wasn't there, not in his head, but that's what I was.
1:06:10
He's given it another shot though.
1:06:12
He was still trying to escape.
1:06:15
I know.
1:06:16
He's like always being maneuvering.
1:06:19
Thankfully, in the end, he did surrender without anyone being seriously harmed.
1:06:24
Oh, okay.
1:06:25
I was worried.
1:06:26
I know.
1:06:27
I know.
1:06:28
It gets a little scary there for a minute.
1:06:30
The documentary has footage of Colton being transported in a bulletproof vest.
1:06:36
Mind you, still barefoot back to the United States.
1:06:39
Wow.
1:06:40
Which is, it's a strange thing to see someone wearing a bulletproof vest and barefoot.
1:06:47
Did they think people would try to assassinate him?
1:06:50
Is that why he was wearing a vest?
1:06:51
I think it's fair to say that yes.
1:06:53
I think it's fair to say that they didn't want to take that risk.
1:06:57
And honestly, I think in cases where particularly, I mean, the FBI is involved.
1:07:03
It's high profile enough that they cannot or they don't want to run the risk of while
1:07:12
he's in custody, anything, any harm befalling him.
1:07:17
Yeah.
1:07:18
I mean, it's a major issue if someone is harmed or, you know, worst case killed in custody.
1:07:24
Right.
1:07:25
You know, definitely see what you're saying though about like him being shoeless and bare
1:07:28
oble at professed.
1:07:29
Yeah.
1:07:30
It's a very, I don't know.
1:07:31
It's a stark contrast.
1:07:32
It's sort of strange.
1:07:34
But in 2012, Colton Harris Moore was sentenced to seven years in a Washington state prison
1:07:40
after pleading guilty to bankburg, Larry, interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, interstate
1:07:49
and foreign transportation of a stolen firearm, being a fugitive in possession of a firearm,
1:07:57
piloting an aircraft without a valid airman certificate, and interstate transportation
1:08:03
of a stolen vessel.
1:08:05
Wow.
1:08:06
Yeah.
1:08:07
That's it.
1:08:08
Well, I think it's multiple instances of each in some cases.
1:08:15
He'd previously been charged in absentia in the island county juvenile court with counts
1:08:21
related to his 2008 to 2010 crime spree.
1:08:26
He was also charged in the San Juan Superior Court in October 2009, which is when his arrest
1:08:33
warrant had been issued.
1:08:35
Wow.
1:08:37
That sentencing US district judge Richard A. Jones noted that Harris Moore had endangered
1:08:44
others with his, quote, "reclist conduct and a host and variety of poor choices."
1:08:50
Yeah.
1:08:52
And apparently the judge had just sense of humor.
1:08:57
The judge told him it was time for a new life flight plan.
1:09:02
Ha.
1:09:03
Ha.
1:09:04
Nicely done.
1:09:05
Seriously, though.
1:09:06
Yeah.
1:09:07
Judge Jones ordered that Mr. Harris Moore's federal sentence be served concurrent with the
1:09:13
87-month sentence imposed in island county Superior Court December 16, 2011, and also ordered
1:09:23
that the federal sentence be served consecutive to the juvenile sentence that Mr. Harris
1:09:29
Moore escaped from in 2008.
1:09:31
So lots, lots of sentences.
1:09:33
Yeah.
1:09:34
I don't know that there's any part of that that I want to pick apart and say I don't like
1:09:39
or, you know, I feel like it's, I mean, gosh, it seems fair.
1:09:45
For once.
1:09:46
Yeah.
1:09:47
It was kind of fair.
1:09:49
I feel like it seems like it struck a balance between, you know, obviously punishing in a way
1:09:56
that sort of, well, this next part explains how we sort of try to, in a way, prove it
1:10:04
and create some sort of balancing of the scales in terms of the debt to society and his victims.
1:10:13
So.
1:10:14
Okay.
1:10:15
Interestingly, he agreed to sell the rights to his life story for $1.4 million to 20th
1:10:21
century Fox to help pay restitution to his victims, which just right off the top, we've
1:10:29
got $150,000 aircraft that he stole from Bob Rivers.
1:10:33
We've got another one that he crash landed in the Bahamas.
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There was 600,000 or more in damage just to that.
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So you're up to like three quarters of a million dollars just from those two.
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Wow.
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Yes.
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So it probably didn't even cover it.
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I have to imagine that he's probably paying some restitution.
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Hard to say.
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I feel like.
1:10:58
I hope so.
1:10:59
Yeah.
1:11:00
Like the barefoot bandit nickname and insists that what he did wasn't fun.
1:11:06
It was just survival.
1:11:08
Okay.
1:11:09
But some of your actions seem to scream otherwise like signing it.
1:11:15
Yeah.
1:11:16
Yeah.
1:11:17
And there's a lot of actions that he took that aren't strictly speaking survival.
1:11:21
You're not stealing baby formula.
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So maybe he grew up a little bit and a little bit.
1:11:26
Oh, well, maybe that was just my kid brain being an idiot.
1:11:30
Yeah.
1:11:31
It's hard to say.
1:11:32
I do have some information coming up that I think will maybe shed a little bit of light.
1:11:37
But I don't know that we get a clear indication of like what the Colton of today maybe would
1:11:43
think.
1:11:44
But he studied aeronautical engineering in prison and his future dream is to design planes.
1:11:52
As of 2022, Colton has remained reclusive with his whereabouts largely unknown.
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Colton's lawyer, John Henry Brown, would state Colton wants people to know that he does
1:12:05
not like the attention and that what he did was not fun at all.
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When he was captured on July 13th, 2010, Colton Harris more was just 19 years old.
1:12:18
Damn.
1:12:19
And upon his release from the Washington State Department of Corrections, Colton Harris
1:12:25
more was transferred from his prison cell to Reynolds work release in Seattle.
1:12:30
There is a picture of him while he was working there.
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And I was like, I know exactly where that building is because you can see out the window.
1:12:39
And I'm like, I know where that is.
1:12:43
Anyways, where he reportedly worked for his lawyer, John Henry Brown, and was required
1:12:49
to check in and out of the work release facility.
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So what do you think?
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Was Colton a misguided wayward youth with thrill seeking tendencies or a reckless criminal
1:13:05
who let his addiction to adrenaline spiral out of control?
1:13:10
I feel like a little bit of both.
1:13:13
I, my next one, maybe two things can be true.
1:13:16
Yes, I think so.
1:13:18
Yeah.
1:13:19
It does sound like he changed.
1:13:21
Yeah.
1:13:22
Just from the little pieces of information.
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And he's free, obviously, now.
1:13:27
Yes.
1:13:28
Yes.
1:13:29
And nothing has come of that.
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So hopefully.
1:13:32
I do have a very short little Patreon bonus mini-sode where we can talk about some other
1:13:41
things that happened around the time of his release and just prior to his release.
1:13:49
And then maybe I'll go ahead and link you to his LinkedIn.
1:13:54
Oh, okay.
1:13:57
Very interesting stuff.
1:14:01
But for now, should we do some tarot?
1:14:04
Yeah, let's do some tarot.
1:14:05
Just some tarot.
1:14:06
Two of them.
1:14:07
Okay, we're doing some tarot.
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Shufflin'.
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Houdini.
1:14:21
Okay, I'll give these back to Caitlin so she can draw a car.
1:14:28
Okay, me.
1:14:29
Okay.
1:14:30
Oh, okay.
1:14:31
I don't know.
1:14:32
I don't know about this.
1:14:35
Okay, it's the 10 of swords.
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I'm going to let you...
1:14:38
Woo, we haven't gotten this one.
1:14:40
We haven't.
1:14:41
No.
1:14:42
It's a tennis sword and it's a ram or what is this?
1:14:46
I think so.
1:14:47
Like a ram school that's kind of close to a lamb.
1:14:50
Oh, ram lamb.
1:14:52
Ram a lamb.
1:14:53
So it's a ram school with like bones behind it in the desertish area, maybe sand.
1:14:59
Yeah.
1:15:00
Could be the beach.
1:15:01
Could be the Bahamas.
1:15:03
We don't know.
1:15:04
Well, it is a PNW deck, so I feel like it's probably more of a desert.
1:15:09
Yeah.
1:15:10
But I'm like, it could represent the Bahamas.
1:15:12
Hey, kid.
1:15:13
Oh, my goodness.
1:15:15
Okay.
1:15:16
Yeah.
1:15:17
And as I recalled, the imagery on the traditional deck is just as dark.
1:15:23
Yeah.
1:15:24
This is such a cool card.
1:15:27
It is.
1:15:28
Yeah.
1:15:29
Okay.
1:15:30
The three words are exhaustion, giving up betrayal, pain and sadness.
1:15:37
Wow.
1:15:38
Definitely all of those things.
1:15:40
All of those.
1:15:41
The dad giving up on him.
1:15:42
Well, but well, and then at the end, I think he kind of has to eventually just give up.
1:15:47
Yeah.
1:15:48
Exhaustion.
1:15:49
Well, he said he was like bored too.
1:15:51
He was like, yeah.
1:15:52
Yeah.
1:15:53
Yeah.
1:15:55
And many decks, the ten of swords depicts a man lying on the ground with ten swords stuck
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in his back.
1:16:03
Ouch.
1:16:04
Yeah.
1:16:05
Understatement of the year.
1:16:07
Tens represent the end of a cycle and the start of a new one.
1:16:12
Therefore this card symbolizes an end to the suffering and sadness you've endured.
1:16:18
Just in time for you probably couldn't stand much more.
1:16:22
That really makes me think of right before he was actually captured in the Bahamas.
1:16:28
Yeah.
1:16:29
Okay.
1:16:30
There's a little bit more island energy in this card than I thought.
1:16:34
Wow.
1:16:35
You were right.
1:16:36
Usually am.
1:16:37
Yeah.
1:16:38
Your trials and tribulations are ending, but you still need to clear away the dead wood before
1:16:44
you can move ahead.
1:16:45
Huh.
1:16:46
Which that's also like kind of a beachy thing.
1:16:48
That is interesting.
1:16:49
But then you also like he camped and stuff in the forest and you put this nice wood block
1:16:56
out.
1:16:57
Yeah.
1:16:58
Okay.
1:16:59
Extreme stress and worrying have exhausted you.
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Perhaps leading to an illness.
1:17:05
Oh my god.
1:17:06
Okay.
1:17:07
Well, that's going to be significant.
1:17:09
That's we're going to talk about that.
1:17:11
I think in the Patreon mini so actually.
1:17:14
Oh, okay.
1:17:16
Let the storm his past and the clouds will open up again.
1:17:21
Like in the sky in the sky.
1:17:24
That's where they hang out.
1:17:25
Make a clean break from the past to alleviate pain and suffering.
1:17:31
In a reading about money, you may need to cut your losses.
1:17:35
Let go of possessions and or separate yourself from a past financial matter.
1:17:40
Ooh.
1:17:41
Like when you left that sack of money behind.
1:17:44
That is a really good example.
1:17:46
I'm also thinking of specifically selling the rights to his life story.
1:17:51
Oh, yeah.
1:17:52
That too.
1:17:53
Tyoplus ends the move forward with the new found insights.
1:17:58
You've gained from a painful situation.
1:18:01
Yeah.
1:18:02
And there it is.
1:18:04
I feel like he definitely had a clean break from it too.
1:18:08
It's like once you get caught and put in prison, like you can't really go back.
1:18:12
Yeah.
1:18:13
I mean, that's yep.
1:18:15
So, if you're a person who's not in prison, you can't really go back.
1:18:22
I mean, I don't know.
1:18:25
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:29
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:32
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:34
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:36
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:37
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:38
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:40
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:41
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:42
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:43
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:44
I'm not going to go back.
1:18:45
This 10 can represent backstabbing so be on guard.
1:18:49
That's really interesting because I just think of him with his back to like the wheel and
1:18:53
the control.
1:18:54
Oh.
1:18:55
Sneaky, sneak.
1:18:56
I was going to ask did anyone like betray him?
1:18:59
I mean, I don't think that there was anyone close to him that really, that there was a representation
1:19:07
of betrayal in that respect.
1:19:09
Do you study specifically?
1:19:10
A partner at one point.
1:19:12
Yeah.
1:19:13
Like, way younger.
1:19:14
They just parted ways.
1:19:15
I don't think there was anything to that.
1:19:17
I mean, he was kind of stabbing himself in the back a little bit.
1:19:22
In a reading about love, the upright 10 represents exhaustion after a period of hardship
1:19:28
in a relationship.
1:19:31
Sometimes it signifies betrayal or it may represent the strain of caring for a loved one through
1:19:37
an illness.
1:19:38
Oh, my God.
1:19:40
Mini-sowed.
1:19:41
Holy shit.
1:19:42
That also just makes me think of his mom who is still cared for him from afar and wanted
1:19:48
him to have the bullet proof fest.
1:19:50
Yeah.
1:19:51
Yeah.
1:19:52
Oh.
1:19:53
I mean, he kind of had a mental illness.
1:19:55
I mean, if you're doing something like that, you're not completely healthy in your brain.
1:20:01
Well, and it does sort of remind me of a story that his mom told that I mean, kind of early
1:20:06
on in the days of him sort of Robin Hooding in the forest, if you will, the cop showed up
1:20:14
and they were like, ma'am, was he here?
1:20:17
And she was like, yeah.
1:20:19
And they're like, why didn't you call us?
1:20:21
And she's like, he was hungry.
1:20:22
So I made him breakfast.
1:20:23
And she talks about how she makes her hash browns from scratch and and and and and and and
1:20:29
she was like, he's my kid.
1:20:31
If he shows up hungry, I'm still going to feed him.
1:20:34
Yeah.
1:20:35
I mean, yeah, they could definitely have charged her with like eating and abetting, but she
1:20:40
was like, go ahead.
1:20:41
Oh, I'm glad they didn't.
1:20:43
Yeah.
1:20:44
That's kind of if that's a tough one.
1:20:46
Yeah.
1:20:47
Yeah.
1:20:48
I think at that point, his crimes just hadn't escalated to a level where they were going to
1:20:53
push that.
1:20:54
But yeah, but that's a tough one.
1:20:58
Yeah.
1:21:00
And if a relationship ends, you may look forward to starting over and being free from the troubles
1:21:06
of the past.
1:21:09
Mini-sode.
1:21:10
Also definitely general vibes from the case as a whole, but yeah, holy shit, holy shit.
1:21:17
Wow.
1:21:18
Wow.
1:21:19
It's, yeah, that's crazy.
1:21:21
Because even though he went to jail, it still feels like a better option than living the
1:21:27
way he was living.
1:21:28
Yeah.
1:21:29
I mean, I just don't think you can do that long term.
1:21:34
That's, it's certainly not sustainable.
1:21:36
No.
1:21:37
That's the whole vibe of this card is.
1:21:39
Yeah.
1:21:40
Doing something that's not sustainable.
1:21:42
It's just draining you.
1:21:43
That's true.
1:21:44
Yeah.
1:21:45
I think that's a really good, like sort of premise that you locked on to with that.
1:21:51
Oh, thank you.
1:21:52
Yeah.
1:21:53
Look at you.
1:21:54
You little witcher bitch.
1:21:56
Yeah.
1:21:57
I think that's all that I see.
1:21:58
I don't have any extra excerpts.
1:22:02
We do have our little Patreon mini-sode, which I have to say now after the terror reading,
1:22:07
I'm super excited to get into and there's some wild stuff.
1:22:11
There's some wild stuff.
1:22:13
It gets, it gets kind of weird.
1:22:14
Okay.
1:22:15
I like weird.
1:22:16
I think it might get into a little bit of a weird territory that will be interesting for
1:22:21
you.
1:22:22
Okay.
1:22:23
Okay.
1:22:24
Is there a high strangeness involved?
1:22:25
Little bit.
1:22:26
Yeah.
1:22:27
Mm-hmm.
1:22:28
Is the Mothman involved?
1:22:30
No, I mean, not that strange.
1:22:32
Yeah.
1:22:33
Sorry about that.
1:22:35
I do what I can, but I can't make the Mothman be involved.
1:22:41
I mean, he seems to be involved in everything.
1:22:43
A lot.
1:22:44
He's got a little Mothy tentacles.
1:22:46
Tentacles.
1:22:47
His little Mothy and Tennis and everything.
1:22:50
Tentacles and Tennis.
1:22:51
They have same thing.
1:22:52
And Tennis.
1:22:53
Well, I think that's it.
1:22:55
There was no extra excerpts.
1:22:56
I know.
1:22:57
No.
1:22:58
I do too, but the extra excerpt is literally the Patreon bonus mini-sout now.
1:23:03
So what are you going to do?
1:23:05
I also just like glanced at the recording clock and it's at 11/11.
1:23:08
Ooh.
1:23:09
Okay.
1:23:10
Just saying.
1:23:11
Just saying.
1:23:12
Well, should we get out of here?
1:23:16
Let's do it.
1:23:17
We have things to do, places to see.
1:23:21
Dead people to walk over.
1:23:23
Yep.
1:23:24
This is fine.
1:23:26
I agree to this.
1:23:29
Reluctantly, but you did.
1:23:31
What are you going to do?
1:23:32
Anyways, I guess have a creepy ass day.
1:23:36
We'll see you next Tuesday.
1:23:39
Unless I die at the cemetery.
1:23:42
Unless you Houdini away from us and we never see you again.
1:23:46
Please don't.
1:23:46
We like you.
1:23:47
You know, if I Houdini away, I would also like to go to a tropical island.
1:23:54
Yes, find us in the Bahamas.
1:23:58
I'd like for us to be a very well-funded production that can record remotely.
1:24:04
I'm sure they have from Bali.
1:24:06
I'm sure they have cemeteries and tropical places too.
1:24:09
They definitely do.
1:24:10
I'll have somewhere to hang out.
1:24:12
I can.
1:24:13
Okay.
1:24:14
Deal.
1:24:15
Bye.
1:24:16
Bye.
1:24:17
Here's the thing.
1:24:19
If you...
1:24:20
[Speaking illegibly]
1:24:21
Okay.
1:24:22
Okay.