How do you steal someone's eyeglasses from their face without them knowing? SAGAL: How do you steal someone - I was going to ask you about the belt, but the eyeglasses are better. They think that it's just about the watch, but very quickly, they learn that I might steal their wallets, their belts, their cell phones, their tie, or the hardest thing for me is their eyeglasses. Do I have your permission? Once they say yes, I play a little game with them as I'm interacting with them and I steal their watch. If they have a watch on, I might say in three minutes, I'd like to be wearing your watch. ROBBINS: Usually I'll tell someone, for example, like their watch. So you invite someone on stage, I assume, or you'll walk up to somebody if you're working a room. And a lot of people think that that makes them safe, and hopefully I wake them up a little bit. I think that's kind of my forte is that I tell people beforehand that I'm going to steal from them. The amazing thing is they know that's what you're going to do. ROBBINS: It's part of my community service I guess you'd say. Basically, you invite people onstage and you rob them blind while they're standing there. You do a show, and basically, we've seen you on video and we've read about it. But I'd been exposed as a kid to - my half brothers had been involved with some illegal activity and it kind of rubbed off. And I got invited to work in a show out in Las Vegas when I was 21. ROBBINS: But the long form, I started as a sleight of hand artist when I was an early teen, and I found that picking pockets was a little bit more lucrative. Well, when we spoke to Apollo Robbins in March of 2013, I asked him how he got into that line of work.ĪPOLLO ROBBINS: The short answer is it's a family business I guess. KURTIS: Peter, I know this looks like a chalk-striped bespoke three-piece suit, but it's actually my skin. SAGAL: Are you always in anchorman mode, Bill? #Apollo robbins pickpocket professional#KURTIS: This just in - we'll start with a man who has the coolest job ever, professional pickpocket, Apollo Robbins. We'll replay some interviews with people who have got the best jobs ever. SAGAL: Well, those of us who weren't so blessed by destiny used to spend our time wishing we had a better summer job. I announced my own birth on the 6 o'clock news. KURTIS: I've always been an anchorman, Peter. Listen, it's summer and when I was a kid many, many years ago, I spent my summers working in our family grocery store - the Evergood Market in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'm Bill Kurtis, and here's your host at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco, Peter Sagal. BILL KURTIS, BYLINE: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT.
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