Two In The Think Tank - 284 - McDonalds Monopoly Heist

Episode Date: March 31, 2021

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I don't remember how to do this. Well, why don't we turn to a friend, Matt, and ask him to explain what's the point? What is this show? When you said, well, I'm like, thank God, we're in safe hands. Generally, the thought I had was, oh my God, that's so good Dave, taking the reins here. Taking the reins to dog the boys. So the way this works is for the newcomers. One of the three of us goes away and learns about a topic

that's been suggested by one of the people listening or otherwise, and then we come back with the knowledge that we have gained in report form and say it back to the other two, and then to get us onto the topic that we're gonna talk about, it's a normally isn't this concise. And to get it onto the topic that we're getting it onto

in the end, the report giver will ask a question. And that question will be asked tonight by the report giver, Jess, just what is your question? Oh! Oh! Oh! I'm, wow. I'm afraid that's all we have so far.

That was good, that was good. OK, my question. I remember what I'm doing now. Sorry, just as a question, sorry. My question is, which early 2000s controversy involved both Milburn Moneybags and Ronald McDonald? Oh, the monopoly thing. Yes.

Yeah, you mean that was, yeah. It's called a monopoly thing. Yeah. Are you suggesting a snappy title? No. What was the first guy's name? Milburn Moneybags. Pennybags, I think is that true. Oh, that's a monopoly man.

So normally what we would do is we'd... Dave and I normally have some sort of attempts at joke answers. I fucked that up, tell me. I actually... I accidentally got it wrong. Yeah. What are you doing? I had like 50 greatest ready to go. No, but it's ready to go.

All he really said was a monopoly thing, Dave. Do you have a guess? Okay. Uh. Uh. Uh, do go on. Um, McDonald's monopoly high. Yeah, it is correct, Dave!

Very good. Pretty good? Very good, Dave. Good guess. Thank you. Did anybody heard of this event that happened a little while ago? Has anybody not heard of it? Thank you guys.

Thank you. Yeah, we all know this one. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of live. Actually. I've memorized that Wikipedia page, so. I think you'll find, and I was going to start a brawl. But luckily, there's a few people who haven't, so let's get stuck in. Is that what we do here?

Yes, I'm excited. OK. OK. Love, up. Thank you so much. OK. If you get a shout compliment, something. Yeah. That'd be great.

So if you're on compliments for the night, I'm going to be encouragement. Preferably not about hair and what I'm wearing, because it's not my value. If you could direct those this way, that would be really good. It's really good. Seriously, I'll take him to. Yeah, too.

But I must be clear, I will not. Oh, thank you. Shots, great, thank you. Got little two cans on it. They two cans? They are. That's his drinking ability. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Oh yeah! Sit, sit, sit. Oh, it's going to be a long night, okay?

In the early 2000s, the Jacksonville Florida FBI office had a reputation for being a fairly quiet branch. Bit of a sleepy hollow was a good place for FBI agents to work just before retirement. In fact, a lot of their work was to do with investigating white collar crime, bank fraud, healthcare fraud corruption. Nothing that exciting. Or was it? Stick to the script, yes. I feel an ex-file coming up.

Special agent Doug Matthews, a young, fresh agent, new to the team, was partnered with legendary agent Rick Dent. Good name. Rick Dent. I want to call him Dick Dent. If I was him, not you, him. If you were him, you would insist on being referred to as dick dend. That makes sense. I'm going to insist on anyone.

That's beautiful man. Poor boy, all girl. Just gorgeous. Yeah, so the two were a bit of a, they were a real odd couple. Matthews was young, gung-ho, energetic, and enthusiastic, always looking for something fun and interesting, and was feeling a little restless investigating healthcare fraud, which he described as important but boring. Dent was a straight down the line, serious matter of fact man, who Matthews described as having

as much personality as this table. He gestured to a table. What a time. But that table had quite a lot of personality. Yeah, it was a bold table. It was a very charismatic table. I'd fuck that table. I would fuck that table.

And then I would join its cult. Oh, yeah. Now I mean, that charismatic. Let's get either end of that table and fuck I would join it's cult. Oh yeah. I mean that carers mad. Let's get either under that table and fuck it sprains out. You wanna? I don't. Oh we're under something there. He thought so. Matt you seem to look back there and it's the sea there was a table over there. That's had some fun. Do you go on up late? Let's give it a go right now.

We don't normally do this at night. No, this is exciting. Yeah, it's electric. Rarely talk about how we love to fuck tables. I don't usually show that side of ourselves, but... When the sun's up, I really, really let people in on how I like to get furniture in and around me. Okay, that was yeah. I felt like I was nudging towards the lawn and I think I found it.

I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I found it. I think I heard it. I let you know where it was. Yeah, it is. So we'll stick on from now on. We'll attempt to stick on this side of it. Thank you. Good luck. That was a long again.

Matthew's one day noticed a note on Dance Desk that said, McDonald's monopoly fraud? Matthew's always on the hub for something shiny and more interesting to do. Asked what the note was. Dance said a person had called in and said the Macdonald's monopoly game, which had been running since 1987, was rigged. Matthew's bought a health care fraud.

It was keen to dig a little deeper and see if there was anything to this tip. So Dent humid his young partner and said, yeah, go for it, whatever. So Matthew calls the source, the person had called in and given this tip. And Diggs around a little bit. And this person tells him three names of previous million dollar winners

of the monopoly game and says, I know it's rigged, because these three people are related. See, they can really read what they're supposed to do. You guys just stare at me blankly. I'm thinking, what a lucky family. It's amazing, isn't it. What are the chances? Incredibly slim. It doesn't like a jaded person hasn't won at the McDonald's monopoly game and they've called up the FBI. I had hotcakes every day for a month and I didn't win anything. Not

even free hotcakes. So the chances of winning the million dollar piece are already incredibly slim. The chance of three family members winning that, oh, impossible. So the FBI think, maybe this is worth looking into a little more. So after a little bit more digging, they quickly discovered that it was far more than just

three winners who were linked. It was just about all of them. The source also told Special Agent Matthews that the person behind the fraud was someone known as Uncle Jerry. Oh! Hello, I'm Uncle Jerry and I'm here to collect the million dollar prize. It's not a good ringleader name. But you then again want to be called Dick Dent so. That's a better name than I call Jerry if you want to commit fraud.

Dick Dent. Yeah. Alright so out of the millions of dollars in prizes over a decade of McDonald's monopoly, how much of it was one fraudulently? Who was Uncle Jerry? Was this an inside job? Trying to get a bit of suspense now. Wow, you think he might be Uncle Jerry McDonald's? Is that possible? You guys are good.

You didn't say the family name? Are they all McDonald's? I think I've blown this right open. Much like I did at the table. There it is, regret face. I don't know where the camera is at but I tried to look down the barrel alone. There's one. Be great if I told you there are unknown cameras. Why, there haven't been cameras around here? He's always pulling faces for the cameras. He's like, you know, Vinnie filming and we're like, Vinnie dies.

What? Why are you talking about that? I saw him just before. Vinnie's not here, mate. Let him go. Vinnie's very much alive. For now. Vinnie.

Are you alive, Vinnie? Might just keep checking in, then. So Uncle Jerry's won the lot. No, he's like behind it all. Dave, just, I mean, I'll fucking get to it. I mean, you asked a lot of questions. I know, and you were just trying to get me back into the topic, and I'm still gonna tell you to go fuck yourself.

So they started to look into how someone could get their hands on all the winning game pieces. The cups, fries boxes, and all the packaging was made in factories with hundreds of staff members, delivered by drivers to stores all over the country with hundreds of McDonald's, thousands of McDonald's staff members. So there's like an endless number of people who this, who it could be.

So the FBI decided they needed someone on the inside. Ronald. Oh, grimace. I wish he was a snitch. But not the hamburger glass. Not the hamburger, you can't trust the hamburger glass. What are you crazy? What's a bird one?

Is there a bird? Birdie! Birdie! I forgot birdie! From bird! It's been a long time, you go. What was the Grimese one's name again? Oh, it's Grimese. So they need someone on the inside.

They set up a meeting with McDonald's, running the risk that it was someone on the inside that was committing the fraud, and then them setting up a meeting is probably going to let them in on it. Well, they set it up with the manager of a store and it's like some 16-year-old. Oh, how can I help you? Listen here kid, we know about Uncle Jerry. So they're keeping it as harsh as possible. They met with McDonald's director of Global Security, Rob Holm, and a couple of other McDonald's head honchos. Became pretty apparent as harsh, harsh as possible. They met with McDonald's director of global security, Rob Holm, and a couple of other McDonald's head honchos. Became pretty apparent quite quickly,

the McDonald's had nothing to do with it, which I'm guessing is when they all went, what? What? Which is exactly what a guilty person looks at. Exactly. So, and they were very distressed to hear that their promotional game had been tampered with.

And as it turned out, a new monopoly game was about to start. It happened a couple of times a year, and they're about to kick off a brand new game. So the FBI viewed it as a chance to be proactive and essentially catch Uncle Jerry Red handed. McDonald's were a little hesitant, having struggled recently through the panic around mad cow disease in beef, so they already kind of, they'd taken a bit of a hit. And they were worried that... Oh no, we're just about to launch the cow theme for Noppily. This is terrible timing.

I walked past an Australia post yesterday, and they had an Australian for to have this come back to that town. And they would not sell me any stems. No, they haven't... Get out of here. For the last time. No, they had an Australia post-themed monopoly and I cannot tell you how many were stacked up in the window.

It was like... Dave, I just got a fresh shipment. It was sad, how many minutes left. Because of demand. That's cute. Did you get some? Oh, yeah. Check under your seats. So they're worried then if the word gets out to the public

that the game is corrupt, that's going to damage the reputation even more. So they're a little nervous about it. Rob Home, the director of Global Security McDonald's, says that the decision wasn't one that they made lightly, but that ultimately they owed it to the customers to do the right thing, to run the game one more time. And then every year until current day. It's so crazy, it just might work. Yeah, it's so brave, so brave. So McDonald's had to explain to the FBI exactly how

the monopoly game worked. But they're a fast food restaurant, if any of you aren't sure. So they outsourced the handling of the game to a marketing company creatively called Simon Marketing. That is nomative determinism if I'm ever over. We are not joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking.

We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are joking. We are marketing. Alright, how about a fucking other table? Yeah, I hate them. I hate them. I love you. I love you all. So I just want to quickly recap

so you said that like McDonald's, they've asked how the game works and McDonald's are like, well, we don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Who here knows how monopoly works really? No. Who's never finished a game monopoly? No. You play first. With that King hitting assembly. Six or seven hours, someone's got all the money.

Yeah. Everyone else has no money. And you go, fuck you dad. Yeah. For example. I just got a report to do. McDonald's and Simon marketing have been working together for a very long time. Simon marketing. That's like nominive determinism going mad. I'll get on board eventually. To say it enough to us.

Everyone could have scooge all the time to say it. There is, you know how I go straight to dumb to get it, not a very good joke. It couldn't be that. It couldn't possibly be. Yeah, so they've been working together a long time. In fact, Simon Marketing will be behind the introduction of the Happy Meal. Wow.

Wow. That's genuinely impressive. A lot of fans are happy meals in the house. That was, that we can't top that. You said something that made a whole crowd go, wow. Was that, was that a career highlight for you? What a moment. I'm not hairs on the... You got hairs on your arm?

They just turned up. I shaved two hours ago. I'm losing control of tonight. Yeah, yeah, she's right, you never had it. Anyway, so of course that means if not only McDonald's is involved, Simon Marketing is involved, it's even more people that are involved. Don't say anything about Simon Marketing. I know that fucking face.

And to complicate it even further, the actual game pieces were printed by a different company again called Ditla Brothers. Oh, that's not nice, is it? Ditla Brothers. Ditla your brother. No, thank you. No, thank you.

He's a married man. Ever was male, I would have called him dick-dit-lobrothers. That's just me. I didn't understand what he meant before. I just saw the joke as he put dick at the front? It's very funny to me as well, because Matt is just sitting in the dark by himself. Vinnie spent so long trying to get the lights right, and then he just sitting in the dark, making these jokes for then hating yourself. Did you guys know that Matt's also here?

All right. You're just a voice. So, Dintler Brothers, right? They're the ones that print the game pieces. But they also print like US stamps and stuff like that. So, it's like a secure company. They're good. I wasn't going to get any stamps.

Don't you know I get Dave's start on the stamps? I did. I want to send a letter to your super boss. Dave were you wearing pants? Absolutely not. There we go. It was a Sunday. It was. It was. It's my pants day. Oh my god. So the monopoly game's up and running. The FBI gets a call from McDonald's. It says a man named Michael Hoover has claimed a prize. He'd found the million dollar piece. Now I'm bluffing at everyone's names.

That's a funny name. Hoover. It sucks. Yeah. Yeah! Oh! Oh! Why? I don't want to encourage it, but I'm not discouraging it. So Michael Hoover has found the million dollar piece, but I'm not disc I'm not disc I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc, I'm not disc who's front cover? He just kept suggesting it. So this time he pipes up and he says that they should shoot fake TV commercials with the winners under the guise of celebrating the win,

getting other people to play, but also interviewing the people without bringing them into the FBI office, which would probably tips and people off. All right. I mean, when you said we should shoot people, I was a bit worried. How about we shoot them?

But we're undercover. I'll play bit worried. How about we shoot him? But we're undercover. I'll play Hitman. Perfect crime. I'll play Hitman. That's right, pretty afate commercial. And that's exactly what I mean. I think he was always rolling. Yeah, exactly.

I think he confessed. Exactly right. So he keeps suggesting undercover, and they're all like, cover, it's actually a very good idea. Yeah. So he would pose as the director, and they got a couple of other agents to pose as film crew, but they needed someone from McDonald's to work with them as well.

Enter Amy Murray. She'd been with McDonald's for a few years, but only been working on the monopoly promotion for about six months, and she was in the communications department, and part of her role was coordinating with winners of the game, so she seemed like the perfect fit to help them out with this. So Shamrock Productions, which is the name they gave their fake production company, it's not bird, it's pretty bad. Went to visit Michael Hoover to film his story on Howie 1. He told a whole story about falling asleep at the beach, waking up and being covered in sand because the wind had picked up. So he went down to the water to get the sand off and whoopsie daisy, he dropped his people magazine in the water. Water clots. What was he reading on the beach? People magazine.

I think it's a different magazine in America. I had a wink at the beach. I felt sleep. In America I think it's just like a who magazine over here. It's whatever you read, but I'm... Thank you. I subscribe, I know. I didn't know I subscribe. I really thought that was an old man thing to get, but you were right on it. People magazine, classic. I've heard. What a shit name for a gross magazine, man. Keep it vague.

Yeah. It's like it's nomative determinism. LAUGHTER Gotta get a reaction like I said something offensive. Oh. And that felt right. Offensive to good humour. But who's editing this week's?

There will be no edits. This will be baffling for the listener. Oh yeah. The live show is always hard. And then they go, can we not have live shows? And we go, ha. Then COVID. Yeah, was that an inside job for one of the listeners?

What about it? Stopping those live podcasts. We are the biggest victims here. Please do go on. So Michael Hoover's dropped his magazine. He dropped his porn magazine. He dropped his porn in the beach. He goes to the car, drives home, decides to get some dinner. So he stops at a supermarket and while he's getting some stuff, he thinks to himself,

you know what, I didn't even get to read that people magazine, so he buys a new one. He goes home, he's having a leaf through it, would you believe million dollar piece inside the magazine? This sounds like he's done COVID tracing. Every, everywhere he went and so what, so can you get a McDonald's monopoly? Yeah, in like magazines, even apparently you could just go up to someone to make Donald's and say, can I have a game piece, please? Because otherwise it would be gambling, so they just give you a free piece every now and then. Baffling.

What are you talking about? Really? Generally, I've lost the plot of this story. What's the people magazine? Why is there a magazine at the beach? There are monopoly pieces that you collect wearing magazines. And he found one. If you want me to fake commercial with him to try and catch you mount, he's got this crazy story. You know what? Just smile and nod for the rest of it. Good job. But meanwhile, so the FBI are like, oh, this is definitely bullshit. So they tap his phone.

And, well, they didn't quite get a phone call with Uncle Jerry. They weren't quite that lucky. They did get a catch another phone call between him and another man named AJ Glum. That's a good one. In which? I would have called him Dick Glum. LAUGHTER LAUGHTER Are you looking at the cameras again? I thought I'd done that. Sorry. So, yeah, so he's basically bragging on the phone about how Wellie did in the interview

and how stupid the crew are because they believed every word of his made up story. So the FBI were like, okay, so yeah, we're definitely on to something. But they still don't know how many people were involved, how wide this scam went, who's leading it. So they took the phone records of previous winners and analyzed them to see if there were any common phone numbers at all of them had been in contact with, which is a bit of a stretch, but it paid off. Uncle Jerry.

All these winners had had phone calls with one person, Jerome Jacobson, also known as Jerry Jacobson. The head of security at Simon Markett. No! Well, Matt, I think you know what this means. Yeah, I would have caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry.

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I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. I caught him dick Jerry. a diagnosis with a rare neurological disorder, and he and his wife, Marsha, moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1981, where he got workers a mechanic and she worked as a security auditor for the accounting firm, Yuck, Arthur Young. You're not an accountant, are you? Sorry. Oh, you hesitated. Anyway, so she's working as an auditor and she was assigned to one of their clients, Ditler Brothers.

I've heard of them. They wouldn't sell you any stamps. Yeah. Those were just pretters, I fucking stand. Pretters once, Sam. She got a job for her husband as well at the company, but by 1983 they divorced and Jacob's started to climb the ranks until he oversaw all production for Dittler's client. That's weird.

For their client, Simon marketing. I have must to, I've copied it, I've pasted it in a sentence where it shouldn't be, but he's overseeing Simon Marketing while working for Dit Lebrothers, and he ends up going and working for Simon Marketing as well. They poach him. But anyway, this next bit is from a really great article from The Daily Beasts. It says, when Jacobson marched through the printing works with his Slicked back hair and a little porch that overhunges belts

He looked every part the X-Cop he was quick with the joke but commanded respect for his hard work and obsession with loss Prevention what a fun guy for a dinner party He inspected workers shoes to check they weren't stealing McDonald's game pieces. They're for me. Oh, I'm a steal. But yeah, anyway, his attention to detail and police credentials meant that Simon Marketing poached him in 1988, so now he's working directly for... This episode is brought to you by Progressive.

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to get the game going. Dillabrothers would work 24, 7 for three months to print half a billion game pieces. Late end to end, the paper tickets would stretch from New York to Sydney. It's a fun visual. That's quite a long way. That helps me understand how many there are. Yeah. It's a lot. Quite a few.

Yeah. Heaps, I'd say. What do you hell? The high value winning pieces were marked with watermark code and examined under blue light when people claimed the prize to be sure they're not kidding. Yes, yes. Part of the fine print is you do have to just

have to gizz on the piece first. Well, if you've got people magazine, yeah. Explains a lot. It checks out. It checks out for this guy. It does, yeah. Check it out. The pieces are then locked in a vault,

guarded by coated keypads and a dual entry combination lock. Jewel entry. Yeah. Like that table. So thanks so much for coming to your first show. Is this how they explain it to you? Yeah. I got a well done from the first time. Well done.

You keep at it. You look like you're having fun. It's the main thing. That's the important thing. So there is someone out there who is going home and I'd be like, honey, you know what, I've got a promotion at the bank, I've been put in charge of something very precious at the vault. I am protecting the winning game piece from the monopoly McDonald's.

And his wife says I want a divorce. And there's Julian Strasst. Stop talking about it at dinner parties. We have to put out our keys in at the same time and say three, two, one, turn. And Darren always turns a millisecond too late, and we have to start all over again. Fucking Darren. Fucking Darren. Anyway, so then J. Jacobson, Jerry Jacobson took the high value pieces, placed them in

envelopes, and sealed them with tamper proof, metallic stickers. Tamper proof. That's fun to say. He then had the job of flying all over the country to various McDonald's packaging factories to distribute the pieces. All of this was overseen by an independent auditor who traveled with Jerry. And the briefcase they used to transport the pieces

was combination locked as well. With each side having a different code, Jerry had won the auditor had the other. So it seems pretty difficult to somehow steal the pieces. So maybe it wasn't Jerry Jacobson. Nah, totally was. But I had you for a sec. You don't speak for everyone, shut up.

Nah. You'll find parties too. Nah. Try again. Not impressed. I don't care, I've got your money. You'll find a party too. Nah. Try again. Not impressed. I don't care, I've got your money. Honestly Jess, she spoke for me.

Nah. I loved it. You have no idea what's going on. Who said the nah? I loved the nah. No one wants to put their hand up. Cowards. You know I'll the now. No one wants to put their hand up. Okay, I would say. You know I'll bash ya.

I don't understand that reference. Yeah, all the good stuff happens when you're all there. Anyway. So I've done one good episode. Yeah, it was a lot for the episode. That's why it's wild there. What do you do? Anyway, in the many series, Mick Millions, very good series, Jacobson's lawyer explains

that somehow by chance, Jerry Jacobson once received a parcel in the mail at work mistakenly sent to him from a supplier in Hong Kong, which contained those tamper proof metallic stickers. He just got sent some of those stickers. Without that, he would never have been able to pull it off. I'd say that as a sign of the God. That to steal millions of dollars? Yeah. And that's why I'm banned in the post office.

That seems reasonable. This meant that one steering had sneakily watched the order to enter her code into the briefcase, he could just go to the men's bathroom where she couldn't follow him, swap the high-value pieces for some spare, low-value pieces that he'd swiped, and then put a new sticker on it and everything was dandy. So he'd just pocket the... But when he takes that sort of briefcase into the bathroom.

Yeah. And say, I need to take this in there. I don't trust you. I trust you. This is where I keep my people magazine. Yes. I love the vagueness of that of a magazine with nude pictures. Yeah, you know what I'm into?

People. I've heard people so hard. Yeah, it's really hard. Nude people are the best. Well, it's really inclusive. It's nice. Yeah, it's beautiful. Beautiful. Well, I inclusive, it's nice. That's beautiful. Well, I mean it's inclusive to a point about animals,

what about dogs? Oh! I found that line again. What have made more sense if I said tables, I would have been. Can I have that one again? I think that might have been the best of the night if I had not fun for that. Maybe you've got it. Maybe you got it.

That's me, always a couple of seconds away from being real smart. So he starts kind of small. One day in 1989 at a family gathering in Miami, Jacobson slipped his stepbrother, Marvin Braun, like an hell of good names, A game piece worth $25,000. Jacobson later admitted, I don't know if I just wanted to show him I could do something or bragging. Now, don't pity him.

That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. So that's for you. Huh? Huh? I'm not a loser. I'm not a loser. Stop telling mama loser. Not long after his local butcher heard that Jerry was in charge of the prizes and said he wanted a winning piece as well. Jerry said, yeah, sure, I can make

that happen. But it looks us because we know each other because that's on record. People know who your butcher is. So the butcher gets a distant friend involved to be the one to claim the prize and they pay Jerry to grant for the stolen piece. This is basically how he makes his money over the next decade. Just like selling the tickets or getting kickbacks. So then he ups the stake and he stole a $1 million instant win game piece and locked it in a safety deposit box.

Someone who came into Jerry's life and industrialized the monopoly scam was someone that he met purely by chance. Jacobson was sitting in Atlanta Airport one day in 1995 when a man sat down next to him. That man was Genaro Colombo of the infamous Colombo crime family in New York. Oh my god that sounds like a made-up name. Well, by the way, Janara goes by Jerry. Now there's two Jerry's. Oh my god. So the two Jerry's get chatting. From that article again, it says,

when Jacobson revealed that he worked in promotional gaming, Colombo was intrigued. He enjoyed finding new ways to cheat a system. But when Charleston County in Georgia passed new laws restricting where strip clubs could be operated, Colombo changed his strip club called Fuzzy Bunnies into the Church of Fuzzy Bunnies. So I want them to read the Bible for two hours every night and then we'll drink and let the girls dance. Get on your knees, let's pray. Oh, I didn't even think of the double meaning there.

I didn't even. That was you. That wasn't me. That was not me. What a weird first impression I've made on you tonight. It's not normally like this. Is it? Absolutely.

How are we normally like this? No. No. Usually we sit and listen. Very nicely. So they decided they're going to work together. By November of the same year, Jerry Jacobson had slipped Col Colombo the winning piece of a brand new Dodge Viper soon Colombo was traveling around visiting friends Who would amazingly win a million dollars not long after it's crazy?

So it was the wildest thing that could be a coincidence It's not a coincidence because in 1996 Colombo's father-in-law William Fisher can you believe it? He won a million dollars. It's not a coincidence. Because in 1996, Columbus father-in-law, William Fisher, can you believe it, he won a million dollars? It's just a- I would've called him. I knew. I would've called him. Dick Fisher. That one felt good.

That one felt it. Would you say no, it's not? That was so good. I mean, you said it in a tone that made me think, without hearing the words you said, I, it's not. That was so good. I mean, you said it in a tone that made, may you think, without hearing the words you said, I assumed you hated it, but I love that. You were able to say something positive in such a negative tone.

That was great. LAUGHTER Generally, I love that great work. Really good stuff. So many times I've wanted a walk of the stage and I, if you hate me, I hate myself more, okay? Just know that. Oh please, no pity, please.

That's only making it worse. No, you're okay. You're okay. That feels right. Dave, can you tell me to go on, please? Please, to go on. Thank you. Please. This is good.

This is how it would work. People would give Colombo a down payment. He would give them a winning piece. They would create elaborate backstories for themselves and fake addresses in different states. So it didn't look sus that they all lived in the one place. Well, they're always wanking on a beach. Always, yeah, yeah.

I just didn't want to, I don't know that was a bit rude. Yeah. Not for me. Then that bed... Citizen, I was looking at a price office. LAUGHTER Mask help me out of you. Guys, this report is actually really long.

Really? Oh my god, sorry. I thought we were padding. If you could just shut the fuck up. Great, great, great. Happy to not talk for the next 15 to 20. Don't completely shut up. Okay, I'll just go. Just shut up a little bit. Great, fantastic. So these people would then claim the winning prizes and then send kickback to the top. Just shut up a little bit. Great, fantastic.

So these people would then claim the winning prizes and then send kick-backs to the... Matt, I did a little more for you as well if you know mine. Can you breathe? Fuck me. This is our job. That's dumb. Is that what you think of this as? A job. This is a passion thing for me. I'm absolutely in this for the money.

Are you kidding me? And we are rolling in it! There's 50-50 right here. Let's go. Yeah, that's how it turns. The worst terrible businessman. Does not know what he's worth. Dude, did you enjoy your beer?

Did you enjoy your beer? Say yummy say the yummy beer. Oh yummy All right, I'm probably I'm gonna have to edit some stuff Sorry, sorry, please too go. Thank you so much. I'm just gonna yeah anyway they they get some cash out of it. We're all good great So I don't have time to go into all the stories are a lot of people involved in this But one one of the stories kind of paints a picture of how complicated and widespread it is So in April of 2000 uncle Jerry took a drive with a friend of his a man named Dwight Baker He was a well-respected member of the local I would have I would have been a good one. I would have been a good one.

I mean, I probably don't need a side, but I would have been a good one. Dick Baker. I winked at the camera. There is no camera. I cannot stress enough. There is no camera. Let alone three of you. Well, I winked at the back wall. You gonna fuck that wall?

The words looking at me. I really just... It can't be long to go, can't it? If you shut up, no! No, I'm kidding, I just like quite a while. Oh my god. No, no, no, we're fine, we're fine. We're good for time.

We're fine. I've got a time on here. Fantastic, fantastic. Does anyone have anywhere to be? You don't come to a Digger Onshore and make plans afterwards. Do you use running our tech? Lives in a regional area. He said that to me before.

Well? And I didn't realize why until now. I live in a relationship. I have a very comfortable couch. You can crash on. Because we're going all night. Oh, that sounded creepy. LAUGHTER

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Oh, that's a reference to a previous episode. Just so you know, just so you know, that does have context. But leave it on. The Stormtrooper Man is doing a really firm arm cross now. My mother-in-law is here. I'm having fun. Alright, let's just recap. He's gone for a drive for the white baker.

Dick Baker. Dick Baker. Well respected member of the local Mormon church, a devoted father of five who lived in a split level house next to Hayfields and Farmland. I don't know why they included that, but I like it, by they, I mean me. He was a property developer. He'd been trying to build a resort and a championship golf course, but he couldn't attract enough investors.

On top of that, Dwight had an accident in his track to that spring, and severely damaged his spine. Hearing of his friends, Ms. Fortune, Uncle Jerry, told me about the monopoly promotion. Dwight was initially hesitant, but he was only 30k in backta and it started to have to sell off parcels of his land. So he was pretty desperate for cash. So we had a spinal injury and now back taxes. Geez. That's a skew.

So I mean part of the job of sitting on the site, like you see little connections and you go, is that anything? And it turns out often, no it is not. But we have fun along the way. The real winner is friendship. Yeah. And you better believe after the show I'm'm gonna ask, was that a pun? So Jerry can make all of that, all that trouble go away for the low, low price of $100,000.

His biggest kickback yet. But it couldn't be Dwight who claimed the prize. The link was too close between the two men. And it had to be someone Dwight could trust, but had a different name to him. So he spoke to George Chandler, who was 30 at the time and had been Dwight's foster son since George was a teenager. Dwight showed George the winning game piece in a tiny ziplock bag and offered to sell it to him for $100,000. Dwight explained that

the winner was going the winner, the real winner, not me, someone I know, a friend of mine. He's going through a messy divorce and he doesn't want to split the McDonald's winnings with his soon-to-be ex-wife. Taylor's oldest time. So Dwight helped George fill in the claim form, send it off, but he warned him not to participate in any promotions about the monopoly game, like TV ads or anything like that. Right. But on June 26, Dwight's phone rang, and George said, oh, you need to be up here at South Union McDonald's

at 11, because McDonald's is presenting me with a big check. And Dwight's like, maybe you don't, maybe don't do that. And George's like, that'd be fun, big check. You never mentioned anything about a big check. Yeah, I love big checks. So yeah, Dwight Baker, he arrives at the McDonalds. Two TV news crews were filming Ronald McDonald, the real one. What?

I know. Sharing George with confetti. He's like, fuck off, Ronald. You're big perfs. Get out of here. Perfs. Follow me around. Perfs.

Big shoes. You're Perth. Big shoes. Big shoes. You know what they say about girls with big shoes. Big Perth. Yeah. That's true. That's a size 8. That's absolutely. Yeah. It's so small.

So that footage, that TV footage, found its way to the FBI field office in Jacksonville. So after a massive effort from the FBI, including a lot of wiretapping following people, searching phone records, undercover operations, the monopoly game was wrapping up. And so they had to kind of move. And they had enough evidence to make some arrests. The Jacksonville branch were going to need the help of other branches in order to make the arrest because the scam was spread out across a few different states. So they put together all the info, the arresting officers would need and they sent it via facts. However, someone,

although in the Docko, no one will take blame for it, faxed it to Greenville FBI. Also, they thought, in actual fact, they had faxed it to the Greenville News. In actual fact, they had faxed it to the Greenville News. LAUGHTER And just given the journalists every piece of info they had on this very hush-hush case. LAUGHTER Hmm. The agents met, they took, they told a story in the documentary, if like getting in the little sess in a plane, flying there overnight

and turning up on the door the next day. And not bribing them or anything, definitely not bribing them. They didn't bribed them. I hate this. Idiot. I want to dummy, I was clearly joking. It's not, it's just a really funny fuck up, I felt the need to share. So they managed to keep the story hush hush for a little bit longer.

August 22, 2001, the FBI found out and made eight arrests, including Dwight and Linda Baker and Michael Hoover. And in a pre-dawn raid, FBI agents surrounded Jerry Jacobson's red brick home, crept up the garden path and knocked on his door. You! He'll never see it coming. Pre-dawn, you'd be a bit blunt, he's shocked, somebody's walking on your door. Let me tell you that. I'll be saying you get out of here, thanks very much. So a shock to Jacobson was taken away in handcuffs and charged with conspiracy to commit

mail fraud. His bond set at a staggering $1 million. So that's how they got him made it. I got a little playing piece that all got me out of this point. That's right. I got a little get out of jail free. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Also, let me tell you about the time I won third prize in a beauty contest. So, you do. So that was it. It was over. Jerry Jacobson's 12-year-skam was busted. He was Uncle Jerry. I was just doing a little bit of a...

Oh, but it was definitely here. He's the Uncle Jerry. Well, got us. I got you. I have everybody else who's on board. Got me. With each of Jacobson's nine charges carrying a five-year penalty investigators warned him he'd be 104 on his release date, in exchange for a signed confession

and his testimony in court, Jacobson pleaded guilty to three counts for a total of 15 years, and the government took everything he owned. McDonald's CEO, Jack Greenberg, told the country in a television address that the company had immediately terminated its relationship with Simon Marketing. Oh, it's Paul Simon.

Well, yeah, because the McDonald's account was about 98% of their business. Oh. So overnight, the entire place is shut down. So because of him, hundreds of people lost their jobs. This is exactly how a game of monopoly ends, isn't it? When you land on no fear and you're bartering, all right, I'll give you this, I'll give you, take everything and you like one roll that I get 200 past and go, there's no way you fucked, you fucked.

Sorry about. So fucked, you fucked. Sorry about. Um, so more than... For you've played monopoly at the end, I've never done that. Or patience. Or stupidity. So of the 50 defendants that were convicted of male fraud and conspiracy, most received only probation and are still paying back their prize money, like just in installments every month. Four winners, including Dwight Baker's foster son George Chandler had their conviction overturned by an appeals court which agreed they would juke because he had no idea. He thought it was a divorcee. Yeah he yeah he

was still like being a little bit dodgy but he didn't have the full information. So Jerry Jacobson admitted to stealing as many as 60 game pieces over a dozen years, totaling over $24 million in prizes. The judge sent him to jail for 37 months. He did not pass go. Yes! Just a little peek behind the curtain. Before we start, at Jessica's, I'm going to finish with a joke, and you and Dave are going to say it all night before and fuck it up. But turns out I was not smart enough to do that. They did it just before, and I went, oh, that's clever. But that is my report on the McDonald's Monopoly Hice.

Honestly, it's been a lot of fun. Thank you so much for coming out and coming to our first live one of these in so, so long. It really is a privilege to be able to talk to you. Yeah, we were trying to figure out our last ones, like in maybe Birmingham, like 16 or 17. Yeah, amazing. So it's so nice to be back here. Thanks so much. I was actually trying to be sincere. so much. I was actually trying to be sincere. I really enjoy being on stage here tonight and I just want to thank everyone for allowing us to make this happen. And yeah, Liv's He's not coming back. But honestly, thank you so much for coming out.

We absolutely love you so much. We'd like to give a big round of applause to Colchandre and the European beer cafe for having us like so much. We've got Andrew, Dirty Dukesson on the sound that you've been in. It's been a channel on the cameras that really are there, they're not made up. Are we going to do a go on? Thank you so much. See you next time. Goodbye! If I do say so myself a cracking episode, and you're back in the room.

And by the room I mean in my study, my very echoey study at my house. I'm determined to not edit, like I'm not gonna edit this at all, I'm not gonna stop and start. Sometimes when I start to do this stuff by myself, I just, I'm like, oh God, you're making no sense, you idiot. And I'd stop and start again.

I'm not doing it, it's late at night. I can't be stuffed. I got a lot on at the moment. I'm a little stressed. So anyway, hello Jess here. And this brings us to everybody's favorite part of the show where we like to thank a few of our patrons. And we do a few, honestly, too many different segments here. The first, of course,

is everyone's favorite. It's called Fact Quotal Question. I believe it has a little jingle because something like this. Fact Quotal Question Ding! You always remember the ding. Okay, I'm gonna do a few of these. It's always a bit weird. By myself. I do apologise if anybody really wanted an answer from Maddle Dave and is not getting it. I know that can be very frustrating or disappointing. I know I'm a massive disappointment is what I'm saying. Okay, so without further adieu, our first quote comes from Julian Barnes. Julian has given himself the title of, I'm hungry. Me too. I

guess I just had dinner but more is thinking about what I can eat next. So Julian, I'm hungry, he's given us a quote, says, hey guys, so looking forward to your upcoming live shows. Thank you so much, they're happening right now. We just heard one then. Do you hear that truck go by my house just then? The following is a quote from Terry Pratchett's book, Hat Full of Sky, and it reminds me of how excited I am to get back out into the wide world soon. This is a quote, why do you go away

so that you can come back, so that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors, and the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Oh, that's really nice. I haven't read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff. But that's lovely. What a nice quiet. I think that's very true. Come back to where you from and you see it a little differently. Lovely. Thank you so much Julian. I hope

between writing that and me reading it just now. I hope you've eaten something and if not For the love of God, please go eat something Okay, next we have Gary J from the UK Gary's giving himself a new title. It's called chick sexer someone who determines the sex of chickens What fun. What fun Gary, I'm guessing that's you telling us about a new job you have and congratulations. Fantastic.

A question from Gary, when you were younger, who was your favorite neighbor's character? And why was it Joe Mangel? I never watched neighbors, so I probably just mangled that name. You wrote when I was young he was, he's what an Australian was to me, him crocodile dundin, Shane Worn. It's not far off, to be honest. Yeah, I never really watched neighbours, um, Tody, I guess. A lot of my active friends have had very small parts on neighbours so I would say all of them collectively. Yeah, I don't know that I want to get into neighbours. Now I feel like it's something you have to

have watched as a child into your early teens. I don't know many people who watch it anymore but it's still going. So obviously there's a lot of people. I'm just not, I'm just not one of them. So that's a huge obviously disappointment for you. Apologies, but thank you for letting us know. Thank you for answering your own question. We love it when people do that. And congratulations on the new job as Chick Seckser. We also have from Michael Deritsi, who's given us the title, Dolly Parton's Rode. Oh my god, Dreamjob! And Michael has given us a fact. Says Patron St. of the Pod Dolly Parton recently got a COVID vaccine shot that she helped to fund.

Yeah, crazy. She also did a little rewrite of one of her songs to help promote it. She's so delightful and wholesome and my country doesn't deserve her. No, Michael the world doesn't deserve her. She's truly incredible. You've also sent a YouTube link which I can put that in the show notes if I remember. I'll be doing that in the next like 10 minutes but I'll probably forget. Also says PS, I hope this link works. If not, you three could probably just Google Dolly Parton Vaccines song. There you go, that's a note for everybody really. Dolly Parton Vaccines song. No worries if it doesn't work and you decide not to

mess around with it while recording. Michael, it's like you get me. PPS, at the time of writing this, I have an appointment to get my first dose COVID shot. By the time you read this, I'll hopefully have gotten my second dose. Wonderful. Congratulations. Big news. A little bit delayed here in Australia. And obviously a bit of a teed rollout. So the most vulnerable are getting it first.

Healthcare workers, first responders, you know, the people with immune diseases, disabilities, et cetera. So, hoping that I'll be able to get it soon too. Awesome, thank you, Michael. Finally, from Matthew Bohr, it's given himself the title of Director of Do-Go-On Craft Services and Canadian Ambassador of Seal Clubing. Okay, bit of fun.

And Michael Matthew has given himself, has asked a question, fuck she's struggling. Hi, I do go on crew. One thing I've always appreciated about you all as a group is vocally the podcast is always dynamic and fun. Thank you so much. It could just be the accents, but I feel you all bring a certain vocal genasequat that makes the show great. This is making me blush just reading it.

Question, if you could have a guest on the show for their voice and how it would add to the reports, who would it be and why? Oh, I feel like who has a good voice? And you've excluded Michael Cain, Adele and Sydney Shindburg as they are already on regularly. Yes, we already have them as regular guests. We really should just put them on the show description. They're essentially co-hosts now. You say, my pick is John Bailey, otherwise known as Epic Voice Guy from Honest Trailers. Oh, yeah, it's got a great voice.

Who's got a good voice? Morgan Freeman is a classic, he's the voice. Who's got a good voice? Um, Morgan Freeman is a classic, he's the voice. Um, I do like kind of like British Irish accents. Oh, I was watching, um, oh fuck, I was seeing clips of, um, uh, like a great celebrity bake off. Stand up to cancer. Was a stand up to cancer? Something like that. Dizzy Rascals on these, never's never baked before but he's actually crushing it like he's so good. And just the way he talks is actually a bit of fun. St. James McAvoy is on there

too and it's like, oh, I could listen to him talk all day. So there's a couple of options I guess. Or maybe like, comb at the frog. I think that would add a fun dynamic. So there you go. I think that's pretty reasonable. I'm just going to, like I said, I'm not, I refuse to edit any of this or stop and start again. So just a little peek behind the curtain. I'm just marking that I have answered those questions. Great, done. Okay, now the next thing we like to do is thank a few of our Patreons who support the show on the Ask Prod level. Oh yeah, if you ever want to submit a fact-quadal question, I can absolutely do so. That is for our Sydney Sharnberg Deluxe Package Patreons.

You get a newsletter, three bonus episodes, early access to tickets, and you get to submit the fact, quote, or a question. If you, an associate producer on the show, you also get to ask, you don't get to ask questions. You get a shout out, and that's what I'm going to do now. I'm going to give a few shout outs to some people and Normally we come up with a little bit of a game But okay, you know what because I'm here by myself. I'm just going to say how much money you

Fake one in the men in the monopoly game the McDonald's monopoly game. I'm going to say that so Without further ado, I would love to thank from Sheffield in England, Joshua Roberts. Joshua Roberts, you actually won illegitimately. $436 US and 42 cents. So you can figure out what that would be in pounds. Yeah, there you go. Joshua Roberts, I've already forgotten the amount because I was making it up as I went. So I hope you were listening. If not, hit that little rewind button a couple of times. I would also love to thank from Maura in Queensland, Lisa Yao. Lisa Yao wins in Australian dollars because you are from Queensland.

Actually, pretty big, $250,000. You don't get to keep any of that, but like you spend it quickly. You go real flashy, cars, jewels. It's all obviously taken off you once the FBI find you, but for those few months, you're living like a goddamn queen. And that's what you deserve, Lisa. That's what you deserve. I would also love to thank from Westgate On C.

Oh, that's fun in the UK, Thomas Williams. Thomas Williams one three pound three pound. You were not that impressed by it which is understandable that is understandable but then you did use that three pound to go by a cheeseburger to drown your sorrows and then on the wrapping of three pound to go by a cheeseburger to drown your sorrows and then on the wrapping of the cheeseburger, you won a million pounds once again. Did not get to keep it, but still pretty exciting. So not bad. I would also love to think, I'll just do, how many of I've done there?

That's three. I'll do four. I would love to think from, oh what's this? Pentech, Pentechton. Pentechton. That's confusing. In British Columbia, Canada, Matthew Bohr. Am I saying that right Matthew? way you say it sounds nicer, but Matthew bore you win in Canadian dollars. $700,000. Huge, I know. Massive. I'm proud of you. It's very exciting and weirdly actually you do get to keep it. You get away with it. Nobody ever catches you. So sorry, I just said your name on a massive podcast, which the FBI frequently listened to for tip-offs. But yeah, it's just how I go, I guess. Anyway, thank you to those of you who support the show.

You can always do that at Patreon, Slash, Dugo on Pod. And it breaks it all down there nicely for you. So thank you so much. The last thing I would like to do, and I might need to fucking pause or could leave for a second here, because I didn't do it ahead of time, is see if there is anybody for the TripDitch Club this week having a bit of a look here,

having a bit of a look here. I don't think there are any people for the TripDitch Club this week. If I've missed them because I'm not good at the TripDitch Club system, we will definitely do your next week. But from what I can see here, not sure that there are. So we're all good. Thank you so much for hanging around for this last part. I know it's a bit tedious when there's just one of us here.

But we really appreciate those of you who came out to see the live show. We really hope you enjoyed it. And also I know some of you love some of you hate the, hate, but you know aren't big fans of Listening to the live shows. We have filmed these as well So they'll come out on a YouTube channel not not too long. They won't be too far away So you can look forward to that as well If you don't necessarily like listening because you know there might be parts where you're like what's happening You can you can watch it. which is always a lot of fun.

But also, we just really appreciate you, I guess kind of sticking with us because getting out and doing the live shows is really, really great for us. We love to do it, means a lot to us. So it's so nice to be able to get back out there and perform for you again. But yeah, okay, I'm gonna get out of here. I'm gonna upload

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