Ben Adair, co-creator of Alphabet Boys alongside Trevor Aronson, appears in the Alphabet Boys feed to promote a new podcast called The Burden. The new podcast is subtitled 'Get the Money and Run' and is described as a true crime story. Adair outlines the elements of the new show: high-speed chases, a methodical police pursuit, a murder, and broader human themes of love, loss, and forgiveness. The central figure is Joe Loya, identified as one of Southern California's most prolific bank robbers. Adair says the podcast began with the question of how someone becomes a bank robber and how they commit their first robbery. Loya then speaks in his own words about his first bank robbery attempt. He describes writing a robbery note in a bank, then losing his nerve and walking out. He noticed surveillance cameras as he left and realized he could have been caught. He rewrote his note at a McDonald's. Throughout the day, Loya walked into multiple banks and repeatedly withdrew before attempting a robbery. He describes nervously eating at every major fast food chain — KFC, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell — between failed attempts. Loya frames the sequence comically, imagining it as a short film with comic cuts between resolution and retreat. When asked what he was feeling, Loya says 'fear.' He develops a metaphor of fear as a 'big, dark, menacing curtain' blocking action. He says the only way past fear is to push through it, at which point the curtain evaporates entirely. He describes knowing he had the internal capacity to act but that his courage faltered repeatedly throughout the day. The segment ends with Loya's internal monologue reaching a resolution: 'this is where we're doing it.' The episode closes with Adair directing listeners to subscribe to The Burden wherever they listen to podcasts.
