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Hello, and welcome to the first bonus

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episode of Juan Now,

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if you've not listened to the rest of the series, highly

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recommend that you do that first. Otherwise,

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everything you're about to hear is gonna

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be pretty meaningless.

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But

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if you have listened, and you're anything like

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me, then you'll be keen to hear more

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from our elusive con man, Juan Carlos

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Guzman Bettinger.

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Over the next dozen or so bonus

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episodes, you'll hear some of the stories

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and conversations which didn't quite make it

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into the podcast. and I'll

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be catching up with some of the people I met in the

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show to see what they make of Juan

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Carlos and the journey to find him.

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Now,

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over the hours that we sat across from Juan

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Carlos going through his life story,

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there were a few surprises. but

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none quite as remarkable as this

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story, which he started to tell

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us while the mics were switched off, but

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we had to make sure he told us in full.

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Let's just call it one's

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most audacious crime.

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You're

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probably best known if

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people google you and look you up on the internet

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for being an audacious criminal.

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And after we stopped recording, you started telling us

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about Some of your more audacious

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things. Tell us the story that you you started

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to tell us that.

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Well, it it it

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happened in the New the Marriott Marquise.

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I don't remember what I took, but

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I went into the hotel in a wheelchair

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Juan I went to the reception, I

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remember the lady, she gave

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me the key, and then they asked the the

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the the bellboy took

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drive me back into the room, you

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know. Oh

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my god. I had to do so many gracefully. What

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gave me the idea of If

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it came in by my imagination, all my

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ideas come to my imagination. I never

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asked anybody or right now. Right? You

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can do a nobody with that person. No.

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It's just me. It's just my crazy imagination,

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you know, my feeder in my head.

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So

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you go in a wheelchair to reception.

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Mhmm. Do you is it there's the same

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thing that you say every time. I I need my room

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Carlos and then I need No.

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No. No. No. I just went and say, I'm in this

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room number and they just give me the key. I'm

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in the girl. She just asked the guy. Please

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help him. You know? Why did

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why did I help you? I don't

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know. It's it's the the thing that when you

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see a person in a wheelchair, you trust the person

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in a wheelchair, and you will try to make the person's

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life as easy as possible, I believe.

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you know? So take you up to the room. And

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I just when the guy left, I just called the

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the the the the the the the operator.

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and they send the the security and the security

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didn't ask me anything. They just opened

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the door from the wheelchair and they just

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went into the thing and left and they didn't ask

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me anything, you know. but this the

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wheelchair belong to the hotel. The wheelchair

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belong to the hotel. How did

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you get it? In

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the reception,

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walked in, sat down,

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kept going. You said you've done

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lots of things. What are the other stories that

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Oh

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god so many. crossing

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immigration dressed at the priest. My

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god, this crazy thing.

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I have done too many things. I swear.

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Anything that you thought was a

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bit too far, a bit risky, a

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bit silly.

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In

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hindsight, you look back and think maybe

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I shouldn't have done that. No.

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Yeah. They regret.

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I think regretiness is stupidity.

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To me, You already

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did it. What was the point of regret

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and you already did it. So for whatever,

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you

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know,

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the life as a whole. Learn

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from whatever you have done, but don't

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regret. There's no point of correcting it. It's

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past. Just corrected

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in the future. Don't do it again or

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things like that, but I don't regret anything,

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you know. I have lived my life to

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the max. I have traveled at sixty

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six countries around the world. I

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have met wonderful people. I

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have met.

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pieces of share that I have met.

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I have eaten from the

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best tables, sleeping

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in the best restaurant, hotels,

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drink it the best and or just

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the most simple, you know.

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So there is no regrets in my life.

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Even the times when I have been in prison, I

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do not regret them because I have met

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wonderful people as well in prison.

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In

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the next bonus episode, Juan Carlos

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goes into detail to tell you everything

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about the most valuable robbery he

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ever committed and the embarrassing amount

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of riches he left behind. You

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can hear that and all of the other bonus

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episodes on our subscription channel.

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