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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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Patrick Combs

Patrick Combs

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Patrick Combs is an author and speaker recognized for his remarkable true story of depositing a junk mail check for $95,093.35 - and having it clear - which became a viral sensation and the subject of his one-man show and book. As a guest on late-night radio, his entertaining and thought-provoking account of battling the banking system over a novelty check offered a humorous look at the absurdities of modern finance.

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August 21, 1995: $95,000 Junk Mail Check - Patrick Combs

Aug 21, 1995
2h 55m
Patrick Combs, a San Francisco author, joins Art Bell to tell the astonishing true story of how he deposited a junk mail check for $95,093.35 into his First Interstate Bank ATM as a joke and watched the money appear in his account. What began as a prank, like depositing Monopoly money, escalated into a genuine legal...