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Victor Lustig is one of the most notorious conmen who ever lived. He grifted around Europe and North America using dozens of aliases and disguises to con unsuspecting people with a series of complex scams. His most famous con is selling The Eiffel Tower, not once but twice.

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-smoothest-con-man-that-ever-lived-29861908/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/victor-lustig

https://uselessinformation.org/lustig/index.html

https://observer.com/2016/12/the-most-profitable-lie-ever-told-in-history/

https://medium.com/@margolestz/in-1925-victor-lustig-sold-the-eiffel-tower-even-though-it-wasnt-his-b41a3863a36f

http://www.angelfire.com/pro/hoaxes/VictorLustig.htm

https://peoplepill.com/people/victor-lustig/

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On the 11th of September 1985, a twin-engine Cessna 404 crashed into a ridge in a remote area of Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina, three months later a black bear was found dead in Georigia - listen to find out how these two events are related and the wild stories that follow!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMrdx-YRiJ4&feature=youtu.be

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/50220

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/pablo-eskobear-story-legendary-cocaine-8474914

https://kyforky.com/blogs/journal/cocaine-bear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._Thornton_II

https://www.odditycentral.com/travel/pablo-eskobear-the-legendary-cocaine-bear-of-kentucky.html

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/08/amazing-tale-kentucky-folk-hero-pablo-eskobear-cocaine-bear/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/23/us/cocaine-and-a-dead-bear.html

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Betty White is a household name, and has had a career spanning eight decades. But how much do you actually know about her career besides The Golden Girls? Trust us, Betty White has had a very busy life!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.biography.com/video/betty-white-mini-biography-42155247

https://www.biography.com/actor/betty-white

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_White

https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_on_Television

https://www.otrcat.com/p/betty-white

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Howard Hughes was the richest man of his day, and also possibly the most eccentric. He spent the first half of his life making billions of dollars, producing films, setting aviation world records and dating half of Hollywood. But for the last two decades of his life he was rarely seen by anyone, becoming a recluse with an obsession with germs.

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

Howard Hughes - The Man & The Madness (1999):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ea5gIYfRH4

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553204_2/Howard_Hughes.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/history/houston-legends/article/Eccentric-businessman-and-aviator-Howard-Hughes-8328501.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#Death

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/howard-hughes

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Hey team! Just dropping in on your feed with a little Do Go On Presents Do Go D&D. This is the prequel episode to a Patreon bonus series we have just released where we played our first ever game of Dungeons & Dragons with Dungeon Master Adam Carnevale (whose sweet voice you might know from Sanspants, D&D is for Nerds and Getting Fruity With Matt and The Boys).

We'd never played before so we hit record as Adam was explaining things to us. If you want to hear the actual three episode campaign then you can hear it, as well as 60+ other bonus episodes on our Patreon page, or on Sanspants Plus:

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On the 23rd of August 1912, four year old Bobby Dunbar went missing while at Swayze Lake, Louisiana. Eight months later he was found. This week's episode follows these amazing events and the fallout that is still being felt over a century later.

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/352/the-ghost-of-bobby-dunbar

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/352/transcript

https://www.historicmysteries.com/bobby-dunbar/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/may/5/20040505-111755-3134r/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Bobby_Dunbar

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobby-dunbar

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/516444/bizarre-kidnapping-mystery-stunned-1910s-south

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A wild revenge story after an argument SO PETTY, you'll be confused as to how this even happened. Yet somehow, it did.

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQAC-PmsHnw

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-parents-ended-prison-school-spat/story?id=28233240

https://www.ocregister.com/2016/05/30/irvine-mom-kelli-peters-writes-book-about-drugs-being-planted-in-her-car/

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The most visited monument in the world, The Eiffel Tower wasn't always popular. Built for the 1889 World's Fair, it was an ambitious project - the tallest structure in the world at the time - almost doubling the previous record holder. On this episode we talk about the tower's inception, the protest against it, its time as a giant billboard as well as Franz Reichelt the "Flying Tailor," who tested his parachute suit by jumping from the tower.

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/gustave-eiffel

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/nnqpnm/breaking-up-with-the-eiffel-tower

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html

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Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was the most expensive Broadway musical of all time. The story of this ill fated musical has it all: drama, death, intrigue and of course Bono... enjoy!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

The Letterman clip we paused the recording to watch: https://youtu.be/5RgR0-EWuNY

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-the-greatest-geek-flop-on-broadway

https://www.broadway.com/shows/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark/story/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-turn-dark-playwright-919624

https://www.avclub.com/playwright-glen-berger-on-why-the-surefire-spider-man-m-1798250603

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/theater/reviews/spiderman-review.html

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/geeks-guide-glen-berger/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/u2-hail-late-producer-as-spider-man-strikes-gold-26808018.html

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You've seen his movies, you've done a (bad) impression of him, but how much do you know about the early life of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

http://www.schwarzenegger.com/bio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger

https://www.biography.com/actor/arnold-schwarzenegger

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arnold-Schwarzenegger

https://collider.com/galleries/30-surprising-facts-about-arnold-schwarzenegger/

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