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Trustor | The Man Who Bought a Company With Its Own Money (opens the original)
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What if you could buy an entire company without spending a single dollar of your own money — by using the company's own cash to pay for itself? Ever wondered if you could buy a company using that company's own money? In the summer of 1997, a group of European businessmen did exactly that — and it's one of the wildest financial cons you've never heard of. This week the guys dig into the Trustor scandal, a mind-bending corporate takeover masterminded from behind bars by a Danish tax attorney turne
Prospera | Rich People Trying to Takeover Honduras (opens the original)
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What if a billionaire could just... buy a chunk of an island, wall it off, and write his own laws? No pesky government, no red tape, no rules. Ever wondered what happens when a Nobel Prize-winning economist, a 16-year-old's sci-fi novel, and a pile of crypto billionaires collide on a beautiful island in Honduras? This week Jaron and Tim dive into Prospera — a real-life "charter city" on Roatan where you don't just move in, you sign an "agreement of coexistence," pay laughably tiny taxes, and lit
Benjaman Kyle | This Man Forgot His Own Name For 11 Years (opens the original)
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What if the only way to escape a mob hit was to erase yourself completely — no name, no memory, no identity — and hope the government would hand you a fresh start? For one man, that gamble became a decade-long nightmare. In 2004, a Burger King employee in Richmond Hill, Georgia, showed up for the 5 a.m. shift and found a naked man behind the dumpster — no ID, severe cataracts, and no memory of who he was. He couldn't even give a name, so the hospital started calling him BK Doe, and eventually he
Mint Cakes | This Item Almost Destroyed Runescape (opens the original)
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Ever heard of a mint cake? Not the candy — the digital dessert that triggered one of the wildest speculative financial bubbles in gaming history. This week Jaron and Tim go deep — like 99 Fletching deep — into RuneScape, the game that was basically "a chat room with armor" for a generation of middle schoolers. But this isn't just nostalgia. It's the insane true story of the Mint Cake bubble, a full-blown speculative frenzy that played out entirely inside a video game. It starts with a humble sid
John Hanke | The Video Game That Was Secretly Mapping Your World (opens the original)
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What if the summer you spent chasing Pikachu in the park was actually you volunteering to build a global military mapping system? Yeah. That happened. Ever wondered where Google Earth actually came from? Buckle up, because this one goes to some wild places. This week Jaron and Tim dig into John Hanke, the University of Texas grad who helped build one of the very first MMOs (Meridian 59), then pivoted to a tiny startup called Keyhole that was basically Google Earth before Google Earth existed. No
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