Hey listeners, I want to tell you about a new podcast hosted by John Stables. The grand scheme, snatching Sinatra back in nineteen sixty three very keenan- was broke alone and desperate to save his family from personal and financial ruin in a final Hale Mary attempt to set things right, bury role that

I saw an elaborate scheme so bizarre, it's hard to believe it actually happened. He kidnapped Frank Sinatra: Junior host John stay most sat down with the kidnapper, who tells us that complete story for the very first time, every detail, every plot twist, every goofy character he conned along the way you're about to hear a preview of the grand scheme. Snatching Sinatra, while your listening follow the grand scheme on Apple, podcast, Amazon, music or binge all the sought by subscribing to wondering, plus in Apple podcast or the wonder, yap. It had been a few hours since their slow speeches that have little very Joe and Sinatra Junior had made it across the state line and they were driving two blinding snow getting all over the road they try to navigate these narrow mountain facets to commas, nerves,

very turned on the radio and a radio station. We came announcing the kidnapping and then there were playing Frank Sinatra: Slogs Junior came up with a com, it is typical of the media there now trying to take advantage of this terrible mistake. You guys made and make it into a showed this morning and then just as they're coming up on the lights of this tiny little town. They just start applying strangers on the night. Now look It was a coincidence, but the scene is perfectly couldn't write, think about it troubled and mentally unstable, drunk strung out on his misguided fantasy of redemption on the run after committing a felony, albeit one he believes, to be divinely ordain Israel

in slightly dim would have accomplished the former James Dean of Union. I battered brew frozen after death in the passenger seat oil to the last in the back seat, the son of Hollywood royalty woozy, booze and sleeping pills sneering at the radio for spitting the story of his kidnapping into yet another story about his father. While how amazing is that Harry? Our three strangers, course juniors also being held against his will here. So you didn't, agency in the narrative barriers crafting about this trip. But he's mine. They were just three men, all outcasts in their own way, slipping in sliding down the highway towards an unknown, think salvage, in or downfall. It could go either way There is only one possible way to interpret this marked follows. Another divine revelation that we were on the right track and so forth various counting on some more divine intervention to see this thing through. a few hundred miles to drive in a blizzard in make it back to the safe house

the perfect soundtrack for his plan of operation was the only thing coming through the speakers The radio sang the door to door serves first thing in the morning. I'm just things Are you listening to the grand scheme? Snatching Sinatra chapter five, strangers in the night as the hours passed are strangers in the night work making good time on their mad dash back to L a when, over these eight thousand foot high mountain passes with no change, and I had to get out on a couple of occasions and less significant amount of air out of my tire, sloped get better traction and ass fish tailing in everything.

At one point he slid directly into a snowbank and you got to figure that life altering car wrecks in just a year or so earlier. You know the one that got him hooked on Quaaludes was still fresh in his mind at the moment yet more media concerns for one thing is casting, was almost any and every gas station they passed at signs up, saying that they were close until Monday morning and every little town go to say now got down to about lesson. I poured over ten new serious so I finally saw combination, convenience store gas station little, well. What have you of our house on top of the gas fiction and convenience store knocked on the door and the guy Guy said about her- and I said, is there anyway, you could sell me some gas and we have to get to work on Monday and blah blah blah and he said sure. So he filled up the

our gas, and I saw no thought than he saw liquor and I said: is there any way I could buy a bottle whisky from you. in some summon up and some milk now forbearing Joe gambled away all their money like tall, but that's all taken junior from his hotel room on the pretence that this was a robbery with junior high handed over his wallet, which contain a single hundred dollar bill so to repay this poor, Guy, who bury just dragged out of bed and into the snow again frank, southern our village, I can't change us all a monies locked up. I want to keep the change now. That's a hundred dollar bill in nineteen sixty three, which means that for make a gas a bottle: whisky, some seven up and milk. A station owner pocketed more than eight hundred bucks in today's money, so bear the guy would mind if he grabbed just one more thing: by another bottle booths and I'll take care of us for a trip up, and he said: ok, fair enough demand took the hundred in his pocket.

back to bed completely unaware that he just aided and abetted a federal crime very passed around the whisky in seven up any hit. The road will each of working for a radio station that was talking about kidnapping and employing Frank Sinatra songs. And finally, we hit Wolf man Jack through of broadcasting from America Station into a wall of, and so we all love will find Jackie very funny to dissuade before your time anyway. He was a very common in the record. Yes, I do indeed no, who with magic, is or was, but just in case you don't take a second to imagine. The sultry sounds of Frank Sinatra: singing voice, got it

Now imagine the exact opposite. Certainly is gonna tell of all our european railway line from our. I want you to leave a radio. May we play your regular now? Are you ready for the rich I didn't steal uncle Jesse's catchphrase have mercy from Wolf Man Jack. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. anyway, Wolfman Jack change, the energy in that car Joe took a break from Daddy blood, oozing from his head wound and took a people's whisky past the bottle Junior, who is already buzz from sleeping pills and buried, fell back the hotel. Do you bury they were having a blast, were tracking jokes from my car and where we are all drinking as much fun is very says they were having, I suspect, is and you might have been a little more anxious than he realized. Joe probably wondering when very was asking climb back in the trunk run off the blizzard again and

whose junior was playing, thinks he must have been at least a little worried that these guys were to kill whatever they, they should in seem like experts, whatever man's motivation, fun fear or frostbite, as they white down the snowy mountain passes. some little bury, knew that they were in a heap of data with every hairpins her but his mind. There was a silver lining at least strangers anymore. It was like. We were three guys on a road trip. but eventually the booze ran out, and the party died down Junior. Ask him when I was gonna, let em out myself. I can't let you out here you phrase, death, a simple way. Down to Sacramento? Will let you out near the airport and then we'll get back on the freeway get lost in the traffic and so forth.

And so he was okay, but that of course they weren't actually going Sacramento. That was just a preview of the grand scheme. Snatching Sinatra: listen to the rest of the series on Apple Podcast, Amazon, music or binge all the episodes by subscribing to wondering, plus in apple pie, CAS or the wondering app.