This week we talk the largest financial scandal to come out of South Africa: Steinhoff International. What started out as a multinational home furniture retailer who was always playing second fiddle to Ikea, turned into a huge empire with representation in over 30 countries. But behind the scenes Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste was secretly cooking the books, and things were speeding to an unhappy end.

This week we discuss an ongoing story that is developing around the viral sensation Haliey Welch, also known as the Hawk Tuah Girl. Who somehow capitalized on one bj joke and made it to a pretty comfortable position, before seemingly ruining her short career with a rug pull crypto scam.

Welcome to the season 18 premiere! This week we discuss Lou Blonger (I hardly know 'er) who had a stranglehold on Denver during the times of the Wild West into the Roaring 20s. We will discuss how he figureheaded a group of conmen in an organized crime ring that later became known as the Million Dollar Bunco Ring, and how one young DA finally took him down.

In our 17th season finale we discuss a clash of the titans that took place at the turn of the 20th century when coal and transport magnate Harry K Thaw shot famous architect Stanford White on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden in front of countless witnesses. But the real victim was the young woman caught up in the mix, Evelyn Nesbit, Harry's wife.

This week we tackle a recent story featuring a three-hit wonder from the late 2000s in Sean Kingston and a band that never really got started in Lights Over Paris. Although their level of fame achieved was different, they both have now landed in the same place: jail. Find out how on this week's episode.

This week's episode takes a look at the scandal filled presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, who while trying to rebuild the country in the aftermath of the American Civil War found himself fighting off corruption from within on multiple fronts. The largest of which was the Whiskey Ring, a criminal organization with political ties that was stealing millions from the government and was getting a little too close to the Oval Office for comfort.

This week we discuss a Fox-news anchor lookalike and Wish Pitbull Lexie Gehrke and Jeffery King who through pretty blatant Medicare fraud exploited the sick and dying to enrich themselves for almost $1 Billion. Find out how Lexie Pickles got herself into one on this upsetting episode!

This week we dive into this episode's listener submitted episode as we discuss a recent scandal with the Columbus Zoo where three C-suite executives were using the accounts as their personal piggy bank to catch T-Swift on the Eras Tour, and drunkenly watch barely legal men give each other brain damage.