Trouble in River City

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 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 T...

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 taxman Follow Jim on Bluesky Subscribe 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.