Trouble in River City

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 our new Discord server.

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 Discord server.

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 to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our new Discord server.

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 how he completely redeemed himself by creating a perpetual energy machine that is also a Dutch Mossad Energy Weapon.Subscribe to The Empire Never Ended on Patreon.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our new Discord server.

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 Patreon.Join our new Discord server.

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 server.

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.

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; hilarious pranks, The CIA, VX Nerve Agent, tragedy, sisterhood, and, of course, Tokyo Disneyland.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.

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

London Centric's Jim Waterson shares the story of a Camorra-connected snail farmer's tax evasi… avoidance scheme that's fleeced London councils out of millions of pounds.The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxmanFollow Jim on BlueskySubscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon

We continue our exploration of Universal Ostrich Farm with a look at ostrich-inspired securities fraud, shitcoins, GoFundMes, and AI generated stomp-clap anthems.

Dan tells the story of Universal Ostrich Farm, a get-rich-quick scheme funded by securities fraud that became a cause célèbre for the conspiracist right. Special guest Dr. Ostrich stops by to explain the benefits of nutraceuticals including Ejacumax, Psychotic Hellboy, and JujiMufu AHHHHHHH!