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We have had quite the week. Baby classes, crazy work stuff, shows, and ofcourse a three day long family baby shower event. Unfortunately that left very little time to prepare a fully researched episode. So we decided to do a bit of a current events roundup on all of our favorite crooks and frauds and have a little check in with ourselves.

Also just realized we have recorded over 100 episodes! Crazy this one will be 105??? Time flies...

This week we wrap up the story of the Buffalo Creek Disaster, when a poorly built dam system gave way to a flood and killed 125 people, leaving thousands homeless. 

We get into the lengthy court settlement, the investigation into "psychic impairment" and the idea of monetary compensation for mental trauma, the actual timeline of the disaster as far as what the owners, the Pittston Company, were doing at that time, and we d...

This week we discuss the Buffalo Creek Disaster, a disastrous flood caused by the negligence of the Buffalo Mining Company and stockholders, causing 125 people to die and hundreds of others to lose their homes. 

But the silver lining of this story is that the survivors banded together and fought back with a lawsuit seeking damages for both their physical losses and mental suffering, and succeeded! We love an underdog story! This wee...

We are back to talk about the College Admissions scandal. 

Last episode we talked about the financial structures that may have helped Rick Singer perpetuate his nonsense .Then we talk about some of Rick's key collaborators at the different schools he was working with, as well as some of the famous parents who joined in on Rick's frauds. Like Aunt Becky and Mossimo Giannulli,  Felicity Huffman and William H Macy.

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We are back to talk about Rick Singer and the College Admissions scandal!  Last episode we talked about Rick Singer leaping over the line from unethical lies on applications to setting up a crazy system to cheat on the SAT and using his so-called Side door to bribe coaches for a guaranteed college acceptance.

Rick went from a small scale operation focused on Sacramento, California to a nation/world spanning company called “The EDGE ...

We are back this week to continue the story of the College Admissions Scandal and Operation Varsity Blues!

Getting into college is getting harder and more complicated. Many Ivy League Admissions rates have fallen as low as 3% which is nuts. Parents are looking for a guaranteed way for their kids to succeed and get into the best schools.

Wealthy and Powerful Parents have had back door paths to ensure the best education for their kids....

This week we are talking about the 2012-2018 College Admissions scandal. This is definitely a story of the rich and powerful families having all the advantages when it comes to college education. And a Man named Rick Singer who came along for the right price was willing to bend the rules and break the law in order to give his clients just one more edge. 

In a world where a regular college degree means less and less and acceptance ra...

This week we are wrapping up the Jim and Tammy Faye story. We finally get to some water slide action. But this victory is very short lived. The house of cards finally tumbles down. 

The allegations against Jim finally begin coming into the light. And at the same time other powerful ministers begin trying to turn the Bakker's downfall to their advantage. 

The ministry gets temporarily passed over to Jerry Fallwell a popular Bapti...

The saga of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker continues this week while we get into the building of Heritage USA, using peoples payments from one project to fund the next, and the completion of the water park!

They are getting real footloose and fancy free with their finances and it's about to come back to bite them. Some staff is let go, and others start gathering stories and ammunition for the eventual collapse of PTL. 

PTL The Rise an...

This week we're getting into Jim and Tammy Faye's rise to TV success! Their ministry is expanding, and they're misappropriating funds all over the place! It's not illegal if its for the lord!

We'll also get into the assault of Jessica Hahn and how it will help unravel PTL in the late 80s. 

Next week, we build the theme park that will take down the whole operation! 

PTL The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye B...

This week we get into the international television ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, famous pentecostal ministers from the 70s. They revolutionized religious television, starting from the humble beginnings of a kids puppet show and eventually becoming a very successful satelitte network on hundreds of stations. 

Jim and Tammy Faye met as bible college students and went on to build an empire together, one that would be brought d...

Ok this episode we are going to be focusing on  the Volkswagen Emissions scandal. Apparently called Dieselgate or Emissions Gate.Volkswagen had big dreams to become the largest car manufacturer in the world. And it didn't mind cutting some really big corners to do it.

We are going to talk about The epa and the huge loopholes that used to be built into the system. Then we will talk about the development of the E189 engine and th...

Volkswagen was having a rebirth in the United States in the mid to late 2000’s. They had become synonymous with the idea of clean diesel and technological advancement. 

Diesel Sales in the United States were at an all time high and with their higher fuel efficiency and the promises of clean planet friendly protection systems, they were the obvious choice for the environmentally minded american. 

But it turns out VW had a dark secret ...

Today we wrap up the story of King Leopold II! He sells the Congo the Belgian government, finally dies, and Belgium continues to completely desecrate the Congo for another 50 years. 

We get into Morel and Casements continuing activism and the small victories they gained, as well as how well the stories and history have, or more accurately have not, been preserved. 

This was a tough subject, but let us know if you have any suggestions...

This week we're back to talking King Leopold II of Brussels, the king of Brussels who thought he deserved the Congo by any means necessary, and tried to convince the world he was taking over for altruistic reasons and now absolute greed. 

This week we discuss how the rubber trade escalated the brutality and Danny tries to keep it light with interspersed fun facts! And we start talking about some of the Europeans who finally try...

So This week we are going  to talk about the Downfall of the once beloved and largest seafood chain in US History: RED LOBSTER!!! Many people will tell you that  the  restaurants  failure was caused by the disastrous ENDLESS Shrimp Campaign. 

Which Don’t get me wrong was huge mistake they lost 11 million dollars  in three months. People were doing  tik tok challenges to try and eat as many shrimp as  possible. Hiding  Ziplock bags i...

This week we're continuing the story of King Leopold II of Brussels, the monarch who thought he deserved to claim the Congo of Africa just because he wanted it. 

This week we'll get into the establishing of military posts, railroads, and the conquering of many African regions. We'll talk about Leopold's continuing campaign to gather funds and masquerade as a humanitarian, and the realities the Africans ...

This week we're taking a bit of a more serious turn, discussing the history of King Leopold II of Belgium. He was a monarch in the late 1880s who seized an enormous amount of the Congo in Africa all while knowingly deceiving the public and claiming to be a humanitarian and philanthropist. 

This week we'll discuss the first European trips to the Congo and King Leopold II taking the throne and focusing immediately ...

We are back for More Lularoe! Last ep we talked about how this small MLM turned into a massive problem and almost definitely a pyramid scheme.

Mostly women and often stay at home moms were turning to Lularoe to make some extra money but instead were going into debt just to break even. The only people truely benefiting were Founders Mark and Deanne Stidhan and those lucky few that got in early and were getting massive bonus...