A show about scams, flim flam, grifts, and graft with Dan Boeckner, Riley Quinn, Hesse Deni, and Charles Austin.
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Trouble in River City publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for Trouble in River City is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Trouble in River City requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Trouble in River City's contact route on record: verified email.
Trouble in River City is a society podcast with 42 episodes published.
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Charles regales Hesse and Riley with tales of trickery in 18th Century London, straight from the pages of a tome entitled "The New Cheats of London Exposed, or, The Frauds and Tricks of the Town Laid Open to Both Sexes...
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Riley tells the tale of the fabulist British politician Jeffrey Archer and his fragrant wife. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Dan reflects on his time working in scammy call centers in Montreal. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Charles rounds up stories about scammers hitting the DNC, RNC, and political campaigns, plus a Nigerian prince who scammed the Nigerian government. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server...
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Jim Waterson returns to the show to discuss the time he confronted illegal ice cream vendors on Westminster Bridge by pulling up with his own "completely legal" ice cream van handing out desserts for free. Read London...
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Hesse tells Charles the story of Twenty-One, a quiz show that sullied the sterling reputation of television with a rigging scandal. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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This time in 17th Century Chinese swindles: a fox that steals your yang essence, swindling the salt commissioner while disguised as daoists, and the origin of the common phrase "shut up about him!" Remember, you can't...
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Charles tells the story of Turkish wunderkind Mehmet Aydın, who pivoted from rapping to Ponzi scheming via a Farmville knockoff. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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The gang opens a dot-com-era time capsule: the 2000 Ben Younger film Boiler Room. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Dan shares the story of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II, the king of the frontier conmen. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Hesse concludes the story of how Magic Alex ensorcelled those inimitable lads famed for walking across London's Abbey Road Street. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Hesse tells the story of Magic Alex, a dubious engineer that ensorcelled a wily band of Liverpudlian moptop Scousers known only as The Beatles. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Devin O'Shea joins Hesse and Dan for a freewheeling episode covering book-tour life, harassment by Veiled Prophet thugs, an AI scam afflicting a band and its fans, and Herman Melville's The Confidence Man. Buy Devin's...
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Using the 17th Century Chinese text The Book of Swindles as our guide, we intend to inform listeners of strategies to avoid falling victim to common deceptions. This episode covers the following real-life situations...
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Riley unspools an elaborate telemarketing scam that begins in the Monégasque Community and ends in Dnipro. Plus an update on the BC ostrich farm. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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John Semley discusses his Wired article about GLP-1 telehealth scams. Read John's article for WIRED . Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Riley explores the latest A.I.-powered™ scams targeting self-published authors. Buy "Alex Branson's The Money Wars" . Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Hesse and Charles discuss the 1987 David Mamet film House of Games. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Hesse teaches the gang to run a short con. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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Charles tells the story of how Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Brett Favre defrauded the state of Mississippi out of eight million dollars intended for families in need. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join...
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