00:00 The podcast episode is about safe cracking.

05:32 Safe cracking can be done in various ways, from the skilled techniques of a master thief to the brute force method of using a sledgehammer.

11:00 The fundamental weakness of a safe is that it needs to be accessible to anyone who needs to get into it, making it vulnerable to burglars, and while there are degrees of difficulty in cracking a safe, there is no truly uncrackable safe.

16:22 Safes can be rated for fire protection or burglary protection, with fire safes being rated for how many hours they can withstand a certain temperature and a drop, while burglar safes are rated for how difficult they are to penetrate and often have multiple bolts holding them in place, as well as other security features.

21:49 Cracking a safe is not inherently illegal, but it is illegal to crack into someone else's safe without their permission, and there are separate charges for safe cracking in addition to burglary and larceny.

27:17 Lock manipulation is the process of opening a safe without drilling or defacing it, and it involves graphing attempts over all the numbers on the dial to find where the slots and wheels line up for each number, which takes a lot longer than it does in movies.

32:33 Lock manipulation is the highest level of safe cracking, where the combination is determined by graphing and narrowing down the clicks for each number, and it is considered a dying or dead breed of criminal activity.

37:38 Drilling is a common and widespread method of breaking into safes, as it is precise and doesn't require the same level of skill as lock manipulation, and there are different ways and places to drill, such as going through the combination lock or drilling in above it at an angle to avoid the cobalt plate.

43:00 Drilling into a safe allows you to insert a camera to see the mechanism and manipulate the lock, but there are also backup systems like relockers that can completely lock you out of the safe.

48:11 Safe crackers often use tools like plasma cutters and thermic lances to cut through safes, but it requires extensive training and can be dangerous, so research on the safe and the person being robbed is important to make educated guesses about the contents and the best method of entry.

53:31 Electronic safes with electronic locks can be manipulated by using ultraviolet ink and a black light to reveal the numbers that have been pushed on the keypad, allowing for easy access to the safe.

58:55 The hosts discuss how they got into podcasting and offer advice for dealing with a quarter-life crisis.