On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the Kids For Cash scandal. Between 2003 and 2008, two Pennsylvania judges allegedly accepted more than $2.6 million from the developer and co-owner of two for-profit juvenile detention centers in return for sentencing thousands of children to those centers. Many of the […]
Did Elvis really die on the toilet from a drug overdose? Adam and Connor explore that question this week: here are some of the theories! The First Sighting This one suggests that the day Elvis “died,” he booked a flight under his pseudonym, John Burrows, to Argentina. No one by that name is recorded […]
Adam and Brett welcome returning guest Michael Swaim and first-time guest Marina Reimann to discuss the FDA’s shady war on Kratom! What is Kratom? Powder from a Southeast Asian tree in the coffee family is typically smoked, brewed in tea, or consumed in capsules. Much like khat and coca, it was historically consumed by […]
We decided to check back in with the dictator of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, and WOW has this guy had quite a month. Listen to the episode to hear Adam and Quincy discuss the madness! February 12th – Rod Makes Lewd Threats To Female Rebels Literally, addressing a group of former communist rebels: […]
On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the bizarre case of Belle Gibson, a blogger and “alternative health advocate” who built a business off claims that she had cured her cancer through natural remedies and healthy eating. Our guest is Beau Donelly, an award-winning journalist who written for many […]
Oh damn, it’s time for a new episode of Unpopular Opinion, the world’s most trusted podcast! This week we’ve got your boy in the booth! And by that I mean Michael Swaim (from the Small Beans Network and absolutely nothing else that comes to mind) joins us to talk about the New California movement. You can […]
There’s a new episode of The Least Anticipated Podcast of the Week with Adam Tod Brown and Chet Wild up now! You can check it out on iTunes, Soundcloud, Google, Stitcher, and wherever else fine podcasts are downloaded, you lucky stiffs! If you’re looking for links to all the things we talk about on this week’s episode, […]
Here comes the news we’ve all known we’d hear one day: horrifying things are being done with your data. This week, Adam and Brett talk to comedian Kevin Anderson and chill art dude Randall Maynard about all the terrifying ways your data is being used against you. Horrifying Thing #1: Police Threat Scores This […]
Also by: George Summers History of the Court The concept of an international court to judge war crimes was suggested during the Paris Peace Conference following World War I. The first model fell out of use with the isolationism and economic crash of the 1930s and war in the 1940s, and was dissolved […]
MKUltra was a series of CIA experiments, mostly illegal, carried out on human subjects between the 1950s and 1970s. It formally began on the orders of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953 and was headed by Sidney Gottlieb. The intent of the experiments was either to develop mind control techniques, better torture and […]