a man leaves 450,000 dollars worth of stuff in a taxi did the taxi driver return it I’m Charles from Alabama let’s talk about that good brother go more this episode is brought to you by Smule makers of amazing musical iPhone and iPad application including magic guitar the app that turns your iPad or iPhone into a playable guitar it’s a free download and then you can download the songs that you want to learn to play in Bangkok a man left four hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of stuff what what in the back of a taxi yeah he did but what kind of stuff are we talking about here uh it probably suitcase worth of cash no it was a jewelry in cardboard boxes jewelry and really expensive cardboard boxes in that cardboard box Oh jewelry in cardboard boxes well apparently they must he just left it must’ve been really small very valuable pieces of Joe Torre says the one hundred and fifty thousand dollar it says he was distracted in its in there’s a lot of gold jewelry apparently this guy is a gold seller I’d have to be really really distracted to leave four hundred fifty thousand dollars worth of anything in the back of a cab well it says that he was distracted and forgot because he was helping his sick wife it’s been really sick yeah okay so this is okay life-or-death situation I understand that your wife is about to die or four hundred fifty thousand dollars you make the choice sounds like he made the right choice so I’m he’s to be applauded for being forgetful well you’re you’re interpreting sick wife is like there’s nothing wrong maybe she’s just she was sick like in like a like a good like a wrapper wait linger all like she was awesome she’s so sick I just got distracted by her Oh or maybe she’s so maybe it’s like but maybe it’s negative like she’s sick like she thought she’s just gross and she talks about nasty stuff all the time he was grossed out to the point oh my gosh I’m so grossed out I’ve forgotten that there’s $450,000 worth of jewelry in boxes this suck you with me sick white not a here the sick wife could be interpreted in so many different ways that’s the problem with the English language you know we need words that mean one thing I love the fact that so this guy leaves $450,000 in a cab and he’s basically blaming his wife you know I was helping my sick wife look she’s so sick he is he is take that how you will he is not getting points but here’s the gears of good news this guy it says that the three days later three days later the taxi driver I guess his conscious gets the best of him and he returns it so he waited three days and the police were skeptical and offered the gold seller an opportunity to press charges but you know what the gold seller did he said not only am I not going to press charges I’m going to give this guy two necklaces together worth about ten thousand dollars as a reward for giving me back all this jury that I’m gonna put on my sick wife when she starts getting sick in order to make up for the fact that he blamed her for the whole incident now so that’s not even ten percent I think you know I think that was a good gesture he didn’t press charges of course he should have pressed charges even if it takes three days you know the guy should still be rewarded I think if he would have done it immediately he could have gotten 10% he could have gotten over $40,000 worth of jewelry with each day that he waited it was incremented down if there’s any etiquette to the situation well it does remind me of a situation so leave a comment if you have had anything lost and especially if it was a value and then if it was returned to you let us know because that’s what happened to me I don’t well I wouldn’t say lost I would just say stolen okay it was it was taken from my possession this is back in 2008 we were on the last leg of the alka-seltzer great American road trip which is the playlist you can we’ll link to it in the description you can watch the 21 videos we made in 2008 sponsored by alka-seltzer but one of them was a fake movie trailer that we shot in Washington DC where you played Abraham Lincoln and I played martin van buren and there was a time travel movie that should have been made but it was just a trailer I thought we ever did like it can still be made it not too late but you can you can watch that you know I think contract negotiations and are not happening but one of the scenes we shot in Ben’s Chili Bowl which is like this really popular chili restaurant in Washington DC and so we were in there and all of our what we it was the last thing we were shooting before we were to get on a plane and come back home so all of our possessions that we have for the whole week like our suitcase laptop all of that stuff were in two different cars we’ve been traveling for a week or know we’ve been travel for about ten days by that point right and so we’re gonna shoot this thing and then we’re going to leave it was so hot that they left the air conditioner running in the car so I could go back there my Martin Van Buren outfit and not sweat my makeup off because we were going from place to place all around Washington DC filming scenes for the trailer we were outside we were inside and every and you had a fake bald cap in sideburns but then they decided the guy who was keeping the car running decided to leave the car running so it would stay cool but then to leave it and to leave the car unlocked which is especially smart to do in Washington DC which is really smart in the area we were in so I go back to the car and we’re done with the shooting okay let’s go to the airport and I realize my entire laptop bag has been stolen now but this doesn’t just mean that my laptop was stolen this means that my video camera that I had in there was stolen in it in my my journal which all of my deepest thoughts were in there and then also my license because I was wearing different pants I didn’t have my wallet my wallet was stolen in my passport was sold and your passport which this is a devastating law and we weren’t I don’t know if you were like preparing for international travel but you had your passport for some reason and all this stuff I don’t yeah just did you think that Washington DC was like outside of the country is actually the capital of the country I don’t know why you don’t have to have a passport to go to Washington DC or to leave Washington DC which we were driving degrees so it was all stolen also an iPad so no iPod this is before the iPad yet in tripod right laptop camera journal in license it was a devastating loss I was dejected so I was so dejected that we still went to the airport and that’s when I realized I can’t get on a plane I can’t go through security I have no form of identification passport license nothing so then at the last minute what we have to go we have to rent a car and we have to drive home and you have to drive because I don’t even have a license yet I thought about teaching link a lesson even though it wasn’t his fault and just flying home and making him drive himself home but he didn’t even have a license it was another guy or his passport which you also do not need to rent a car and I didn’t have a sick wife there so I couldn’t I couldn’t blame her for so it kind of became a bonding experience not that we need to bond any more than we have over the past however many years we’ve known each other but we drove from Washington DC back home and we were it was the you know we it’s one of those things where you’ve been on the road for ten days and we were driving the entire time you’re like oh I’m gonna get on the short flight back to North Carolina and then we can just crash but no we have to drive now well and just having everything stolen is extremely disconcerting because there’s a guy out there with your journal there’s a guy out there with you’re in treating my basement in darkest thoughts everything that have any knows who they are who’s they are because he’s got your identification I plan on selling it one day to be made into a movie really yeah and archers those hopes were dashed but here’s my point two weeks later I get a phone call because I did have my phone by the way they didn’t steal my phone you kept it on your person I had that on my person hello ok I say hello and they say could I speak to Charles that’s my real first name my middle name is Lincoln is there the name that’s on your passport yes they can speak to Charles and I said this is he he says I have your passport here have you lost it I was like well if you have it well yeah I didn’t give gift it to you and I said who are you where did you where did you find it you thought this was a thief calling yeah and I said well I Drive a cab I’m a taxi driver and I found your passport on the hood of the car on the roof of the car on the outside of the car on top of it how crazy is that so then I started thinking about and I realized someone took my laptop bag hopped in a taxi started rummaging through everything and was you know I just figured like going through everything in the camera yes iPod yes yes Journal oh yeah Passport I don’t need lose put it on the top put it on the top this is how I talked didn’t chunk it all right so the guy mails me my passport I give him my address and everything my phone number was in my passport by the way that’s how he knew how to call me smart link I wrote it in there and but that’s the only thing that was recovered and so he mails it to me and then on the return address I just sent the guy a 20 oh you sent him a 20 I came I didn’t know you paid him in yeah I gave him a 20 that’s 10% he deserved it oh no I’m just trying to go by the etiquette that you established earlier on yeah yeah what I well that would be four dollars I think they’re $40 but it’s priceless it’s a it is replaceable I guess okay so thief if you’re out there to this day you have links laptop is Journal publish that on the internet I think that would be that would that could bring us some some positive attention yeah yeah maybe it can still be made into a movie I just can’t remember any of it okay we’re spinning the wheel of mythicality if you want us to put something on the wheel you can send us your idea on Facebook or Twitter you really spun at this time link well and when it stops this is a record spin how to end this episode a little worked up because you’re thinking about that guy is up there reading your journal and on March 25th link that’s not today I was just saying that you wouldn’t read link is a zombie so what does this mean this means that I guess I’m a zombie we’re seeking replace I don’t know when this happen but he’s been trying he’s been trying to eat my flesh for weeks all right please call your local representative or just put your comment on our Facebook page I’m looking for a new partner immediate like a partner uh see you tomorrow Oh ah dummies don’t talk don’t have you not watch Walking Dead they can’t speak and they don’t and they like to eat brains not arms and stuff oh I go Brad go hey you need to go to zombie school before you become a zombie [Music]