Trouble in River City
A show about scams, flim flam, grifts, and graft, hosted by Dan Boeckner, Riley Quinn, Hesse Deni, and Charles Austin. The hosts delve into various schemes and cons, likely with a mix of humor and investigation. Topics cover the many ways people deceive and defraud others, from petty swindles to grand corruption.
Episodes
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[PREVIEW] 32 - The Ensorcelled Scousers (Part 2)
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.
31 - The Ensorcelled Scousers (Part 1)
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.
[PREVIEW] 30 - Lurking Uncle, Hidden Dragon
Riley tells the story of teen millionaire Barry Minkow, who made his fortune by running a carpet cleaning business and did not do any fraud of any kind.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
29 - Cheeky Todger (ft. Devin O'Shea)
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 book "The Veiled Prophet".Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
[PREVIEW] 28 - Trouble in Jiangxi Province
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:—Stealing silk with a decoy horse—Chen Quan scams his way into the arms of a famous courtesan—Using broom handles to play a joke on sedan bearersSubscribe to Trouble in River City on P
27 - The First Monégasque Astronaut
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.
[PREVIEW] 26 - Now You See Me
Hesse forces Charles and Dan to watch the 2013 blockbuster film Now You See Me.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
25 - Little Miss Muffet Nation (ft. John Semley)
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.
[PREVIEW] 24 - Chinese The Sting
Charles tells the story of a phony Chinese bank that went to great lengths to set up a believable brick-and-mortar location.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
23 - Field Werehouse
Riley tells the story of a hands-on salad oil swindle (and explains what salad oil is).Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
[PREVIEW] 22 - Climbing Mt. Gox
Hesse chronicles the rise and fall of the Magic the Gathering / Bitcoin site Mt. Gox.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
21 - Afscamistan (ft. Nate Bethea)
Nate Bethea joins us to explore the large-scale fraud and graft that took place during the American occupation of Afghanistan.Listen to Nate's album.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
[PREVIEW] 20 - Caffeine Addicts at the Library (ft. Alex Branson)
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.
19 - House of Games
Hesse and Charles discuss the 1987 David Mamet film House of Games.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
[PREVIEW] 18 - Short Cons 1
Hesse teaches the gang to run a short con.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.Join our Discord server.
17 - Plead the Favre
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.
[PREVIEW] 16 - Jumping the Great Megalodon
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.
15 - Wonderful Bug Chalk (ft. Devin O'Shea)
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.
[PREVIEW] 14 - Montenegro Syndrome (ft. The Empire Never Ended)
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 Trou
13 - YugoSCAMdic (ft. The Empire Never Ended)
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.
[PREVIEW] 12 - Over 33,000 Blood Loss
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.
11 - The Financialize Everything App
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.
[PREVIEW] 10 - Logan Paul's Triceratops Skull Market
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.
09 - The Highland Farm Counterfeiting Sprint
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.
[PREVIEW] 08 - The Sting (ft. Will Menaker)
Will Menaker drops by to discuss the 1973 film The Sting.Subscribe to Trouble in River City on Patreon.
07 - I'm Feeling Like the Gay Kubrick
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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[PREVIEW] 06 - SouljaTech Labs
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.
05 - The Assassination Of Kim Jong Nam By The Goofballs Doan and Siti
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.
[PREVIEW] 04 - The Music Man
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
03 - Snail Trail (ft. Jim Waterson)
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
[PREVIEW] 02 - Birdhain
We continue our exploration of Universal Ostrich Farm with a look at ostrich-inspired securities fraud, shitcoins, GoFundMes, and AI generated stomp-clap anthems.
01 - First They Came for the Ostriches
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!
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