This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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Here's Bill. You know what I really like if you look at a great painting. you could tell the love the artist did in creating it. And to me, that's precious. And that's what creates, in my opinion, great art.
You know, it was the love for what the artist was doing. And then food too. you know, with an outstanding chef. You could taste that, oh my god, this tastes differently. because he put a lot of love into it, which means he put a lot of energy and thought and everything else into it.
And the same with a brick layer. you know, if he really loves his work. He takes a little extra care in doing it other than slapping it together. And The same thing with wine. the great wine she could really taste the love that the vintner had in making it.
And so That to me is highly offensive when someone is faking it. Bill found out that four bottles that were sold to him as Thomas Jefferson's were fake. And then he found out that more were too. There's a huge code of silence. Because The faker Doesn't want to know that he's faking.
the middleman who's selling the wine doesn't really want to know if it's fake. And in fact, There was one big auction house. that Was selling a lot of wine in New York in auctions, and they had to have this retailer. deal with them to get through the laws. And Uh The guy who owns the retail shop said, why are you selling a lot of fake wine in this auction?
Abdul. the head in-house Council. versus the outhouse council.
So Said Authenticity is an opinion. And We're not in the opinion business. We're in the business of making our margin.
So just ignore it. And then the guys who buy the fake wine If they find out it's fake, they want to get rid of it and get their money back.
So primarily they either dump it into the auction market or they give it to a charity to auction off. or they find some sucker that will buy it.
Some of the fake wines I bought. were from Charity Auctions. Because the guy gave it to him and he got a tax deduction on it. and some others Yeah. Schmuck got him.
Mainly me. I got him. And so I just said I'm out of on a crusade. A legal crusade. to shine a bright light on it.
And I also I guess because when I was younger I was taken advantage of by people when I was naive. And so I said I just hate being cheated. Hate it. One of the fakers actually offered to give Bill all of his money back, and Bill said no. We're going to court.
That's right.
Well I ended up And one real long lawsuit. which we won hands down. And then after that, everybody wanted to settle with me. Um There was one guy. who said, well, I sold you these fake bottles.
Would you give them back to me so I could give them back to the guy? That's on to me. And so I said, all right. I will. but then I engraved on the bottles counterfeit.
and gave it back to him. I haven't heard from him since. One big faker sent me a fax saying, Why are you worried about fake wine? Even Jesus turned water into wine. And I'm hoping I could get him into a court in the Bible Belt, but I couldn't.
Yeah. One guy had a huge collection. of pre-World War II. bottles of Petrus. which is one of the best wines in the world.
and oversized bottles. And I bought a bottle. I'm 1920. 21 Petrus in a double magnum. And I opened it up.
God, that tasted like the cheapest wine I've ever had. And I looked at it and There was an article about this wine, about how it was found and who found it, et cetera. and it was raided. 100 out of 100. That's why I bought this bottle.
What the guy did, the faker, guy by the name of Hardy Runstock. poured in 1957 wine. into the bottle and he made a fake label. We even found the place where he bought the bottle and we found where he had the labels printed. And he poured in 57 wine.
Put in some juice that made it taste old and smell old. I said, what he did was put moose piss in it for me. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And we took this bottle to Petr's. And they said they never made big bottles.
pre-1945. And this one guy who had this huge collection of huge bottles called me up and said, Are all our bottles fake? And we said, Yeah. How do you know?
Well, we went to Petrus and they said they never made them. And they said, Oh my god. And then a month later he called up and said, Why don't you buy these bottles for me? And I said, why? They said, well, it's good evidence.
I said, well, I don't need to pay you. I'll just subpoena you. Unfortunately, Crusades turn out to be long and very expensive. Bill has spent $35 million going after the fakers. Over what was originally a $400,000 wine fraud, and some might say that's a crusade not worth it.
Spending 87.5 times the cost. But for Bill Coke, it is. The Crusade isn't about the wines. I mean, it's a little bit about the wines, but Bill could have bought new wines for far less. What it's really about to him is the rule of law.
And Bill's pursuit of the rule of law ended up exposing an industry of tens of millions of fake wine. I try to say well It's bad business to cheat. when you get caught. And great job as always by Alex. And thanks to Bill Coke, a rule of law series.
Because let's face it, sometimes the cops can't get these people, and sometimes, let's face it, no one else can.
Sometimes we, the citizens, have to go out and find these fakers. But if we can't bring them to a court of law, if we can't have the rule of law. then we have nothing at all. Bill Coke's story, his crusade against fake wine, and again. and against fake everything.
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Go to ouramericanstories.com and give. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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Back to schools, an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming and kids may feel isolated, a vulnerability that human traffickers can exploit. Human trafficking doesn't always look like what you expect. Everyday moments can become opportunities for someone with bad intentions, whether you're a parent, teacher, coach, or neighbor. Check in. Ask questions.
Stay connected. Blue Campaign is a national awareness initiative that provides resources to help recognize suspected instances of human trafficking. Learn the signs and how to report at dhs.gov/slash blue campaign. You heard it before many times. Water is life.
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