Oct 19, 2023
The unnamed man, with undoubtedly good taste, ordered two whiskeys and seafood paella at the Spanish restaurant El Buen Corner, when he began to act a little off.
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A gentleman in Spain has
taken the whole dining and
ditching crime to dramatic new heights,
and he's gotten caught.
Now, this man has decided to
approach the crime in a novel way,
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and I respect it, I really do.
It's just that you gotta diversify
the areas in which you try this out.
Now, the man,
whose name is not publicly known,
got two whiskeys and
seafood paella at a restaurant in Spain.
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>> Speaker 1: Sounds good.
>> Or rather than pay the bill,
which came out to just shy of $37,
okay, he tried to flee.
Now, how did he do this?
Well, the restaurant workers caught
on to the fact that he was trying to
avoid paying the bill, and so
the staff confronted the thief, and
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this is where things get good.
So, [LAUGH] the man claimed he was going
to his hotel room to get cash, but
restaurant staff refused to let him
leave without paying, the manager said.
Now, the man then dramatically
threw himself to the ground,
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[LAUGH] and
pretended to have a heart attack.
In fact, let's pause right here.
We did excellent investigative
reporting for this story,
we really wanted to deliver for
you all, and
we managed to find the surveillance
footage of him engaging in this act, okay.
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>> Interesting.
>> Speaker 1: So here it is,
let's take a look.
>> [FOREIGN]
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[LAUGH].
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>> Sorry, that was the wrong video.
Do you remember that?
We covered that.
>> I do.
>> Years ago.
>> Speaker 2: So I don't know why we
always find, like, embarrassing Turkish
videos in particular to show you guys.
Also, the worst movie scene in world
history was also from a Turkish movie that
we showed and had a lot of fun with.
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Anyways, if you do that,
there's some chance that they think that
you might be faking it [LAUGH] I happened
to be faking it in a different context.
He was getting embarrassed on a talk show,
I understand the Turkish, so
I know what happened.
So he decided, I'm gonna leave in
a way that they can't question me
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anymore [LAUGH], that was fair,
they stopped questioning him [LAUGH].
>> Speaker 1: I mean, for
me it led to more questions, but anyway,
that wasn't actually the surveillance.
But we do have the
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surveillance,
here it is.
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>> [LAUGH] The Formation,
worst movie scene in world history.
>> Speaker 1: No wrong, best movie
scene [LAUGH] in Turkish history.
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] Here comes my
favorite part, when he's already shot, but
he doesn't have blood yet, and
then he brings it in with it.
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But brothers, you put it in slow motion so
we could all see him bringing
in the blood with his hand.
We all saw that he didn't, [LAUGH] but
you kept it in the movie anyway.
>> Speaker 2: My God.
But
you kept it in the movie anyway
cuz they thought masterpiece.
>> Speaker 1: I wanna know
which acting school he went to.
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>> Speaker 2: Well,
a Turkish one [LAUGH] so well, well.
No, you think it's going on too long, but
by the time he gets to the third shot and
he does it again, let alone the fifth one,
you're hooked and you can't stop watching.
>> Speaker 1: No, I love it.
>> Speaker 2: You know that you're going
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to get high and
watch this later, okay [LAUGH].
>> Speaker 1: The thing I don't understand
is, considering how talented of an actor
he is, and
how he's probably raking in the big dough.
>> Speaker 2: For sure.
>> Speaker 1: Why doesn't he just pay for
his Paella?
What's the problem?
[LAUGH]
>> Okay.
>> I'm just kidding, okay.
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>> Speaker 2: [INAUDIBLE]
is not the guy [LAUGH].
>> Speaker 1: Definitely
not the guy [LAUGH].
But when I think of someone faking a heart
attack to avoid paying their dinner bill,
I just think of these scenes
that we showed you, right?
How do you fake the heart attack?
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I couldn't do that with a straight face.
And by the way, the guy got caught,
the staff didn't buy it,
part of the reason why the authorities
didn't buy it is because,
he's already done this, like, 20 times.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
>> Speaker 1: And they're like, come on,
guy, you can't do this [LAUGH].
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>> Speaker 2: No, but look, there's
an interesting case to be made for him.
>> Really?
>> So let's hash it out, okay,
maybe with hash browns, and
then we tend to have a heart attack.
And of course, the rain check in
Spain stays mainly in the plain.
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So here what he does is, first he just
tries to calmly leave the restaurant.
This is his MO every time.
And most of the time,
he just gets away with that,
cuz they don't know that
he's gonna do that.
He just walks out.
>> Terrible.
>> And gets away with it.
Then if he gets caught,
he goes with a heart attack routine,
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which apparently worked
a lot in the beginning, but
they've caught on that this is
his 20th heart attack in a row.
So they're like, yeah, got a big guy,
yeah, we're calling the police.
But you go and
have your heart attack right there, okay?
And then the third layer is
the interesting one, he goes to jail for
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a couple of days when they
finally catch him, right?
So then he's like, so what?
Apparently the authorities
know he doesn't really care.
>> My God.
>> So he's like, so I'm gonna eat all this
great food, he always orders, like-
>> Lobster.
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>> Top shelf whiskey.
>> Speaker 1: He loves whiskey.
>> Speaker 2: And he's like,
if at the end of the day and the couple of
times I don't get away with it, if I
got to spend a couple of days in jail,
it's a European jail,
I'll be fine, okay [LAUGH].
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>> Speaker 1: Maybe we shouldn't
reform our jails, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding everyone calm down,
that was a joke.
No, but, like, would you do it?
>> Speaker 2: No, of course not.
Look, I got better things to do with
my life than to fake things for
a paella, right?
[LAUGH] And I'm not a Turkish actor,
I'm a Turkish talk show, [LAUGH] okay?
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Although on the air, sometimes it does
feel like I'm going, [LAUGH] seriously.
Look, I have two thoughts about this,
one is, no,
of course you don't do this, right?
Because it's nine out of ten times
it's not McDonald's with a giant
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corporation, etc.
It's like a local place where they're
trying to get by, and you got these lovely
restaurant owners in Spain putting
together this thing out of love, etc.
And I know I'm getting a little
stereotypical here, and
then you're ripping those guys off,
don't do that.
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Obviously, at some point, they should
throw the book at him and go, brother,
you're gonna stay longer than two days.
>> Speaker 1: But also, this guy has
no idea how good he has it in Spain.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
>> So look,
things might have changed a little
bit since I visited Spain,
I went there back in 2014.
And one thing that stood out to me about
that trip, is if you go to a restaurant,
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you sit at the bar, even if you're not
having a drink, you're sitting there with
a friend who's having a drink, or
you're having, like, glass of water.
They just bring you, like,
choice appetizers for free choice, okay.
They don't mess around, okay.
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No nuts.
Although sometimes they do bring nuts,
but they bring other stuff, too.
>> Speaker 2: Are they warm?
>> Speaker 1: Like,
dude, Spanish anchovies.
Have you had Spanish anchovies?
>> Speaker 2: No, but now I wanna go to
Spain just to have them, and then run out.
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>> Speaker 1: But
the Spanish do the anchovies right, okay?
Anchovies in America too salty,
too salty, too salty.
Anchovies in Spain they
marinate it in vinegar.
>> But if the salt dry marinated
in vinegar that sounds amazing.
>> Speaker 1: It's so good I put it on
that bread with that tomato sauce [LAUGH].
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They bring you the anchovies in Spain for
free.
>> Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
>> Speaker 1: This guy doesn't
even know how good he has,
he's looking to rob these restaurants.
They're gonna give you food for
free if you just behave.
>> Right, you don't rob from
little guys like this and
small business owners that are already
giving you delicious anchovies.
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And if the Salt Dragon tells you that your
dish is too salty, it might be too salty.
All right, but last thing guys, there is
a little bit of rooting for this guy,
because he figured out a way
to beat the system, right?
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] Come on.
>> And he pays a cost, he pays a cost.
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He goes to the jail every once in a while,
he looks like a jackass faking,
a heart attack, etc.
But there's a part of me that goes,
go get him big guy, right?
>> Speaker 1: I love his taste.
Like, he's got good taste.
He likes the paella.
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He loves premium whiskey.
>> Speaker 2: He found a way
to beat the system, and so
your heart goes out to a guy who
found a way to beat the system.
And because the system sucks, right?
Except for the fact that it's Spain, and
your system sucks a lot
less than our system sucks.
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>> Speaker 1: Yeah.
>> Speaker 2: So
if he was doing this mainly
to giant corporations,
if he was like the Olive Garden dine and
dasher,
okay [LAUGH],
although I kinda like Olive Garden.
>> Speaker 1: I know-
>> Speaker 2: Then we have a little bit
more sympathy.
>> Speaker 1: But-
>> By the way,
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when you go to Olive Garden,
when you're there, you're family.
And you love to take from family,
that's what we all do, right?
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH]
You went that direction.
>> Yeah.
>> Speaker 2: I see you, okay?
>> Speaker 1: We don't go to have
dinner at a family member's home and
expect to pay for it.
>> Speaker 2: And it's not like
just the Spanish at Olive Garden,
they also give you free food.
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I mean, yeah, you pay for
the salad and the bread, but
you could keep on eating the salad and
the bread, it is unlimited.
>> Or you can eat it is unlimited.
By the way,
they are not a sponsor of ours.
>> Speaker 2: Go although
Olive Garden call us [LAUGH].
Although I just said that maybe people
should rob you [LAUGH] I'm kidding,
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I'm kidding, don't rob anyone.
Don't be a dine and
dasher like Donald Trump.
Remember when he goes into he went
into a restaurant, a bar, and
he's like, all right, drinks on me.
And then he walked out and
didn't pay, he's unbelievable.
And then when they asked him,
Donald Trump, why did you do that?
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You said the drinks were on you, and
you're theoretically a billionaire, and
you ran out on him.
He went [SOUND] [LAUGH] then
they asked him again, and what?
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