Get your hand off my penis.
This is the bloke who got me on the penis before.
>> The man you just saw in that video getting arrested
from 1991 is Cecil George Edwards.
Or is it?
Now, he goes by many aliases apparently and
he was mistakenly arrested back in 1991.
But the video has since gone viral and I do want to show you more from this arrest.
>> Look, I'm under what?
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.
Have a look at the headlock here.
See that chip over there?
Ge your hand off my penis.
This is the bloke who got me on the penis before.
>> Get some cups.
>> Why did you do this?
For what reason?
What is the charge?
Eating a meal, a succulent Chinese meal.
That's nice.
Headlocks up.
Yes, I see that you know your judo well, good one.
And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my lip penis?
How dare, get your hands off there.
>> Who refers to a meal as a succulent one?
>> Yeah, this guy does for interesting reasons.
So we covered this on Old School and if you remember,
you might have seen it already.
>> A succulent Chinese meal.
>> Yeah.
>> So good.
>> And on Old School, I thought he was saying succulent Chinese male.
And I'm like, well, if you enjoy that depending on the age,
that might be why you're getting arrested.
>> Different strokes for different folks.
>> A succulent Chinese male.
>> Okay, so thank God it's meal, meal.
And there's a reason why he's saying that.
It turns out it's a super complicated story.
It's so complicated, guys,
I wanted to talk about this in our Members Only bonus episode because it's fun.
And then I'm like, I wanna understand what's also going on here so
I started reading about it, but it was so confusing that I just gave up.
But apparently you have done your due diligence.
>> I did because I was going to goof it around about it and
I want to goof around about it more.
Don't get me wrong, it's freaking hilarious, every part of it, right?
And I think I might have called him a professor.
And we have been saying, wrongly arrested, it turns out not at all a professor, okay?
Although it sounded professorial, if you ask me.
And it turns out not wrongly arrested, okay?
The wrong part of the story was at the time, back in 91, they reported as he
was one of the most wanted men in Australia and the police got him.
It turns out that was wrong.
He was not one of the most wanted men in Australia, but
it turns out maybe he should have been cuz he was a prison escape specialist.
>> That's true.
>> I read that but I didn't know if it was true.
>> So this guy gets arrested in 91.
>> Wow.
>> That video exists but back then there's no internet really.
And so it doesn't go viral.
Nobody knows about it.
The video gets put online in 2009, then goes viral, okay?
They report as everyone in Australia knows that democracy is manifest and
that Chinese meals are succulent [LAUGH].
I don't know, literally everyone in Australia knows but
he becomes super famous.
So in 2020, the guy surfaces for the first time.
>> Yes, in a music video.
>> Yeah, and then there's documentary and he gets interviewed.
And that's partly how we found out the real story.
>> Okay, so before you give us more details,
I do want to go to just a snippet from one of those interviews, okay?
Because he discusses this weird guy who followed him into the restaurant.
So the restaurant by the way, where he was consuming the succulent Chinese meal
was Fortitude Valley Restaurant, okay?
He notices there's a weird strange guy staring at him.
And you'll understand why in this video.
>> An American Express investigator followed a man he thought was one of
Queensland's most wanted to a Valley restaurant.
>> There was a suspicious looking character at a couple of
tables away looking at us.
And every time I turn, he'd put his head down and pop a dim sim into his gob.
>> Minutes later, police had the business surrounded then sent in a delegation.
>> The police fell on the place, come running in.
Even one of them had a gun in his hand.
And I said, what the devil's going on here?
>> [LAUGH], here, he doesn't really talk like that, come on.
>> I think he does.
That's why he's so fun, what the devil's going on here?
>> So an investigator with American Express suspects that
he's the guy who's stealing all these credit cards.
So he follows him into the restaurant.
He's keeping his eye on him, but Edwards if that's his real name,
notices him staring and is super suspicious.
He's like, what's going on here?
And then eventually he gets arrested but
it turns out that the cops thought they had the wrong guy.
But you're right, Cenk.
I had read that he was a master at escaping prison.
>> Yeah, in fact, the reason why he did what he did was to escape.
So let me explain.
>> My God. >> So
it turns out he's a dine in dash specialist, okay?
So he'll eat a meal and then he'll just walk out, okay?
But the guy who spotted him had the wrong guy.
He thought he was one of the most wanted man in Australia which he isn't, right?
He's just a different criminal, right?
But what does he do?
Look, I don't know if the cops in that particular case got there before he left
the restaurant or if he was like, that guy was looking at me weird.
Good excuse to leave the restaurant without paying, right?
And the cops get a hold of him.
That's why he's like, what's wrong with enjoying a succulent Chinese meal?
Because that's kind of what he says whenever he's busted on running away from
not paying the bill, okay?
>> Wow.
>> Because that's his specialty.
So then eventually, through all these different documentaries and interviews.
They figure out that the reason he was making such a scene is because
he wanted to be put in a mental asylum rather than jail cuz it would
be easier to escape from an asylum than from prison, okay?
And that's why he did what he did.
>> Genius.
>> Okay, well, get a load of this.
This story is twist after twist.
You Australians, you nailed it on this one.
This one was fun, okay?
>> Definitely.
>> Yeah, they arrest him for
this wrong arrest, right?
But it's okay, they give him bail.
>> Mm-hm.
>> He runs out on the bail cuz he's wanted on other stuff and they never find him.
So when he resurfaced in 2020,
the police were like, that's where he is, [LAUGH] okay?
Cuz he escaped from all those prisons and
he'd run out on bail in that particular incident and they'd never seen him since.
>> Wow, you really did a deep dive on this.
>> Look, man, we take the news seriously.
>> You really know your judo well.
>> [LAUGH] I do, I do.
>> Yes, I see that you know your judo well.
>> You know your judo well.
>> [LAUGH] And at the very end of that clip, he goes as he's leaving or
is being stuffed into the car, he goes, Tata.
And I also want to do this story to correct him.
It's Tata.
>> Tata.
>> [LAUGH] That's a super Old School reference of course for
you Young Turks, longtime viewers.
I interviewed Colonel Tata and I called him Colonel Tata.
>> Yes, you did, you did.
It's amazing because I did watch a bunch of the interviews that he did,
and he has this side hustle of paintings.
So in every interview, he would direct the interviewer to his paintings and
show them off and they were awful.
Some of the worst paintings I've ever seen.
>> They weren't succulent.
>> No, no, nothing succulent about those paintings.
>> But then they are in the back.
There they are of that particular array.
>> Actually, those are not that bad.
I feel like Dos Equis should use him as the most interesting man in the world.
>> Yeah, and except he'd drink the beer and then run out.
>> And run out, he wouldn't even pay for it, yeah.
>> And by the way,
we say it might be his name because he has a lot of different aliases.
So we don't know what his real name is but if he had a name,
it would be Cecil George Edwards cuz he's the most interesting man in the world.