Steve Fishman sits down for a Q&A with Joe Loya, the star of the new podcast Get the Money and Run. Listen in as Joe shares with Steve the answers to many questions from listeners and reveals some of the details that went into creating one of the finest podcasts of 2025.

Get the Money and Run is a production of Western Sound and aCast Studios in association with Orbit Media Inc.

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15-year-old Barbara Louise Cotton vanished from the streets of Williston, North Dakota, on April
11, 1981, five blocks from her home. What happened to Barbara Cotton?

 In episode 1, while others called Barbara a 'runaway', a frustrated yet unyielding Sandee Evanson refuses to stop looking for her childhood friend.

A Better Search for Barbara is a deep, investigative dive into one of North Dakota's longest
running cold cases.

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Once out of prison, Joe is insulted by a stranger. His rage mounts. Will he lash out and spend the rest of his days in prison? Or will he find comfort in his once violent family? It’s his moment of fatal peril. 

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Joe is sent to solitary confinement. Alone he starts to hear voices in  his head and to hallucinate. He struggles with a question: Can he be a good person? 

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Joe is on a spree, and even arrest won’t stop him. He hires a body double to do his bidding, but things backfire. He thinks he’s blending in on a college campus when students turn on him. 

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Bank robbery is easy, profitable and…fun! But then Joe hears from a victim. 

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Joe’s floundering  until a thought occurs to him:  Murder! With that, Joe changes the arc of his life. 

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Getting started as a bank robber isn’t easy for Joe Loya. It takes courage … and rage. But Joe does the math. Thousands of dollars gained for a few minutes work. That’s what he figures he deserves. Meanwhile at home, losses mount.

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Young Joe was cute as a bug.  The rising bank robber was also a protector of the weak though he couldn't always protect the weak who he loved most. And then he picked up a knife.

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“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.”

That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Joe was one of California’s most daring bank robbers. He used disguises, body doubles, speeding getaway cars…and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars,  even as the FBI was closing in. Joe was also a soul searcher, driven by a dark rage he set out to understand. To do that he must understand why trying to murder his father felt so good.

Get the Money and Run immerses you, the listener, into the world of Joe Loya. This podcast is a fast-moving and entertaining listen that keeps you locked in from start to finish.

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