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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 26 episodes
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A show about scams, flim flam, grifts, and graft with Dan Boeckner, Riley Quinn, Hesse Deni, and Charles Austin.
Unknown Host hosts Trouble in River City, a society show with 26 episodes published.
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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: —St
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 .
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 .
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 .
Hesse and Charles discuss the 1987 David Mamet film House of Games. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
Hesse teaches the gang to run a short con. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our Discord server .
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
Riley tells the story of Albert Grant, a 19th century Member of Parliament and a prolific scammer whose legacy is commemorated at Leicester Square to this day. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our new
Devin O'Shea tells the story of Edward Gardner Lewis, the inventor of sarsaparilla blood medicine and Dr. Hot's Cold Crackers who went on to reshape St. Louis. Follow Devin on Twitter and pre-order his book . Subscribe t
Boris and Rey of the Empire Never Ended return to discuss the inimitable Robbie Coltrane lookalike Gazda Jezda. We discuss his three golden years of scamming the Balkans, his one golden day of scamming Bobby Fisher, and
Boris Mamlëz and Rey Katula from The Empire Never Ended tell the story of Dafina Milanovic's state-sanctioned Ponzi scheme in Serbia. Subscribe to The Empire Never Ended on Patreon . Subscribe to Trouble in River City on
Charles and Riley take a look at the internet's least successful scammers with Tom from Chapo FYM. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our new Discord server .
Charles explores the corruption machine that is Kalshi. Presented by our sponsor Polymarket! Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our new Discord server .
Hesse chronicles Logan Paul's various adventures in crypto, NFTs, and tokenizing Pokemon cards. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our new Discord server .
Riley shares the story of Giuseppe Morello, an early Italian-American mob boss whose counterfeiting business was a precursor to the Genovese family. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon . Join our new Discord se
Will Menaker drops by to discuss the 1973 film The Sting. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon .
Hesse shares the story of Alan Conway, a man who decided he was Stanley Kubrick. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon .
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We talk about Soulja Boy's love of NFTs, crypto, AI, knockoff game consoles, and subsequent trouble with the SEC. Is Soulja Boy the Forrest Gump of modern scams? Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon .
Today we tell one of the most 2010s tales ever told: the tale of a North Korean Hit Squad disguised as a Japanese film crew conning two beautiful young women into assassinating Kim Jong Nam. This episode has everything;
Hesse tries to convince the rest of us that the 1962 musical film The Music Man is good, to mixed results. Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon
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