Today we are telling the story of Tommy Thompson, an underwater engineer that discovered the SS central America, a ship that went down in a hurricane in 1857 with upwards of 3/4 of a billion dollars in gold on board. After a decade of fighting endless lawsuits Tommy vanished with 2.1 million dollars and 500 gold coins.  

950 Million in sunken treasure: Gold makes you crazy [#162]

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HEEEEIIISST!
Hello Heist Nation! I'm Simon and I'm Matt! Long time no heeeeeist!
We got a little hankering for some heistering and so we put together an audiobook all about heists! Its dives deep into everything heist, an info dump of all the cool stuff we learned over the years.
Five Chapters

1 - Vaults

2 - Advanced Heist Techniques

3 - Fort Knox

4 - Getting away with it / Aftermath

5 - The Turkey Heist

Chapter 5 is something special you've all been asking for!

A PLAY-BY-PLAY OF HOW WE WOULD PULL OFF AN OCEAN'S 11-STYLE BANK JOB, BASED ON EVERYTHING WE LEARNED FROM 200 EPISODES OF THE POD BABY!
We know you're going to love it because we almost died laughing while making it.
We worked really hard on this audiobook. And can't wait to share it with all of you at Heist Nation.

Love you, miss you XOXO
HEEEEIIIIIIST!!!!!!

Welcome to Heist Podcast. The Podcast all about heists. We discuss Heists in the news and deep dive into famous heists and the colorful characters that play a part in them. From the criminals to the investigators.

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In celebration of our new audio book, HEIST THIS BOOK, we decided to dust off the ol' mics and record a special mini-episode.  We've missed you, Heist Nation so we wanted to drop in, scream "HEEEEEIST" cover some Heist News and leave you with a little teaser of our new audio book.  Check it out! HEIST THIS BOOK - CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR COPY BINGO BANGO! A HEIST PODCAST AUDIO BOOK! HEEEEIIISST! Hello Heist Nation! I'm Simon and I'm Matt! Long time no heeeeeist! We got a little hankering for some heistering and so we put together an audiobook all about heists! Its dives deep into everything heist, an info dump of all the cool stuff we learned over the years. Five Chapters  Vaults Advanced Heist Techniques Fort Knox Getting away with it / Aftermath The Turkey Heist  Chapter 5 is something special you've all been asking for!  A PLAY-BY-PLAY OF HOW WE WOULD PULL OFF AN OCEAN'S 11-STYLE BANK JOB, BASED ON EVERYTHING WE LEARNED FROM 200 EPISODES OF THE POD BABY!  We know you're going to love it because we almost died laughing while making it.  We worked really hard on this audiobook. And can't wait to share it with all of you at Heist Nation. Love you, miss you XOXO HEEEEIIIIIIST!!!!!!

Magic Cards, Chicken Wings and Casino Stacks. A "HEIST THIS BOOK" Mini-episode [#200.5]

We did it, we got to episode two hundred! if you've been following along then you know that this will be our last episode, at least for a while. So in celebration of heist nation and all its glory, we decided to spend our final episode just wax'n about good ol' times, answer some Q's and maybe even peek behind the curtain of the making of Heist Podcast. Thank you everyone for sending in your love, confessions and questions. Don't unsubscribe because, well...who knows what the future holds, love you all. HHHHEEEIIISSSTT!!!

The Last Episode of Heist Podcast (For Now) [#200]

For our pen-ultimate episode we go back to where it all began, Albert Spaggiari the man who pulled off a true, made for Hollywood, right out of a blockbuster screenplay, heist. He was the topic of our very first episode so we figured it would be fun to go back and cover it again with all the things we know now. This is the second last episode of Heist podcast so shout out to Heist Nation. HHHEEEIIISSST!

Best Heist of all time -  The Société Générale Job [#199]

You asked for it, we're finally doing it. It's time to cover D.B. Cooper and jump in to the theories of what we think may have happened during America's first and only unsolved skyjacking. Matt has a theory that MAY just open this case up all over again. HEEEIIISST  

D.B. (Dan) Cooper [#198]

In part two of the John Dillinger special we pick up right when the Dillinger Gang have all broken out of jail and gear up to go on the robbing spree that made them famous. Also we discuss the controversy behind Dillinger's death, did the FBI fake the whole thing? Put on your tin foil hat, it's time to HEEEIIISSTT!

950 Million in sunken treasure: Gold makes you crazy [#162]

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