Le Scandal: the French Mayor and the Nudist Fortune-Telling Ventriloquist
At the start of 2024, a conservative mayor of a small charming French seaside nudist resort town was accused of embezzlement and illegal use of city funds. Allegedly, he was secretly paying a fortune-...
11 Feb 20251h
Come Fly with Me: Airline Stowaways
Sometimes you need to fly the friendly skies, but you don't have a ticket. There was a time when the solution was to just sneak onto a plane and act like ya know. Follow a handful of young and young-i...
6 Feb 20251h
When the USA Caught "Pac–Man Fever"
In the early '80s, America faced a dire existential threat...in the form of "Pac-Man Fever." A moral panic feared that a generation of kids would be lost to the insidious new video game craze. Inspire...
4 Feb 20251h
The Flying Forger: Bad Bobby Baudin
Zany! That's how people described Robert Baudin, aerial photographer and counterfeiter extraordinaire. But he was more than zany. He was bold. He was crafty. And like Exclamation Perfume, the popular ...
30 Jan 202549min
As the Worm Turns: Dennis Rodman Goes to North Korea
What do you get when the Supreme Leader of North Korea has a sports crush on Michael Jordan but can't get the NBA great to come see him? Well, you settle for Jordan teammate, Dennis Rodman. And before...
28 Jan 202554min
Don't Let the Door Hit Ya Where the Good Lord Split Ya: Peter Popoff
It's one thing to bilk the gullible who are looking to make a quick buck, it's quite another to con those who are looking for healing and salvation. It's terrible. Sickening. Despite the valiant effor...
23 Jan 202549min
Have Mercy!: The Hard Gambling Nuns of Torrance
Holy moley! A fake nun, a fake bishop, a con man priest, and the belle of the ball... a pair of hard gambling nuns who embezzle a million dollars from a Catholic school in Los Angeles to fund their se...
21 Jan 202557min
Pietro La Greca & The Mexican Money Laundry Part 2
For the second part of this tale about Pietro La Greca Sr., the one-time gigolo, turned arsonist, turned money launderer for the Mexican cartels and who later graduated to running tax scams with the h...
16 Jan 20251h 1min
