Apollo Robbins
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Podcast Appearances
Teller was in the know, so he was just kind of laughing. But I dropped down one knee. I had the ring box, so it looked like I was going to propose. And she was very shocked. And she opened the ring box and inside is a blindfold. And I said, Do you trust me? And she said yes, so she put it on. I lied.
Teller was in the know, so he was just kind of laughing. But I dropped down one knee. I had the ring box, so it looked like I was going to propose. And she was very shocked. And she opened the ring box and inside is a blindfold. And I said, Do you trust me? And she said yes, so she put it on. I lied.
When I met her, she was a crisis counselor. So she was doing a job that was very intense. She was answering a hotline for people calling in. And I, at that time, was hanging out with a bunch of thieves because while I was entertaining, I was also interested in the history, the genealogy of what was part of what I did.
When I met her, she was a crisis counselor. So she was doing a job that was very intense. She was answering a hotline for people calling in. And I, at that time, was hanging out with a bunch of thieves because while I was entertaining, I was also interested in the history, the genealogy of what was part of what I did.
The provenance or the history of sleight of hand mostly comes from thieves. The reason why a magician can do a card trick is because they are borrowing from techniques that card sheets used. So what a cool thing to go out in the wild and find out what's the origin of this move if it didn't come from magic? What was before? If it came back 200 years ago, where did it come from?
The provenance or the history of sleight of hand mostly comes from thieves. The reason why a magician can do a card trick is because they are borrowing from techniques that card sheets used. So what a cool thing to go out in the wild and find out what's the origin of this move if it didn't come from magic? What was before? If it came back 200 years ago, where did it come from?
And I was forming this kind of collective of different types of thieves. And I was trying to find the detectives who arrested them or their counterparts in legal. And I was starting to bring those folks together. And at that time, that's when she met me.
And I was forming this kind of collective of different types of thieves. And I was trying to find the detectives who arrested them or their counterparts in legal. And I was starting to bring those folks together. And at that time, that's when she met me.
He was on the blacklist, and the blacklist only had 36 people. It was officially called the list of excluded persons. The casinos would collect their biometrics and try to keep them out of the casinos. The hacker was a very notorious hacker. His name was Kevin Mitnick. We had Joe, Ponchop Joe, who was very good at running crooked carnival-type scams.
He was on the blacklist, and the blacklist only had 36 people. It was officially called the list of excluded persons. The casinos would collect their biometrics and try to keep them out of the casinos. The hacker was a very notorious hacker. His name was Kevin Mitnick. We had Joe, Ponchop Joe, who was very good at running crooked carnival-type scams.
We had Joe Moves, who was one of the last guys who worked with Titanic Thompson, who was a famous conman. And he would talk about how they would run teams for these long-form cons. At one point, it was 10-plus people that the FBI would have on their watch list, all coming over to our house at once.
We had Joe Moves, who was one of the last guys who worked with Titanic Thompson, who was a famous conman. And he would talk about how they would run teams for these long-form cons. At one point, it was 10-plus people that the FBI would have on their watch list, all coming over to our house at once.
You'd see this judgment that others would have for each other, who was opportunist, who was not. D.I., the canon, he would, I mean, he was cool with stealing from certain age brackets of people. And for a lot of the guys, they just thought that was very low-handed.
You'd see this judgment that others would have for each other, who was opportunist, who was not. D.I., the canon, he would, I mean, he was cool with stealing from certain age brackets of people. And for a lot of the guys, they just thought that was very low-handed.
He did have that kind of perpetual goal of, but if I could just beat the bill validator on the slot machine. He says, I got that one little thing. I just got to accomplish that before I end. We always talked about how that was like the old grifter movies where they just have to pull this one last con.
He did have that kind of perpetual goal of, but if I could just beat the bill validator on the slot machine. He says, I got that one little thing. I just got to accomplish that before I end. We always talked about how that was like the old grifter movies where they just have to pull this one last con.
There's a tourist street that goes right down Barcelona. And as we walked down, we saw some teams doing three shell game on the street, but they were playing it with matchboxes. They call it domino. I noticed that the ball that they were using was made out of cigarette papers that they rolled up. And it's not the best way to do it. It's an older way.
There's a tourist street that goes right down Barcelona. And as we walked down, we saw some teams doing three shell game on the street, but they were playing it with matchboxes. They call it domino. I noticed that the ball that they were using was made out of cigarette papers that they rolled up. And it's not the best way to do it. It's an older way.