A global team of betting whizzes hatched a scheme to take down the Texas Lottery. The plan was led by a London banker-turned-bookmaker and a mysterious professional gambler nicknamed ‘The Joker.’ The duo partnered with a Texas company and local retailers to print more than 99% of all the lottery tickets sold. And the jackpot was worth almost $100 million. Th ... Show More
Jul 10
Who Will Be the Next Fed Chair? Maybe Kevin
For years, President Trump has feuded with the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell over interest rates. And now, two Republicans named Kevin (Kevin Hassett, one of Trump’s closest economic advisers and Kevin Warsh—a former Fed governor) are vying to be the next chairman of th ... Show More
22m 47s
Jul 9
🛍️ “Fake-flation & Dumb Deals” — Prime Day’s shopping tricks. Dishoom’s dice restaurant. H-E-B’s Texas rescue team.
London’s most popular restaurant, Dishoom, has a wild growth hack… Roll the dice, get a free meal.Amazon Prime Day is now Prime Week… but it’s really a fake deal mind game.One biz is saving flood victims in Texas: H-E-B… the $47B grocery chain bigger than Uber.Plus, Ozzy Osborne ... Show More
21m 29s
May 6
How a CEO’s Faked Results Led to a $300 Million Wipeout
In late 2018, five years after launching fish-feeding company eFishery, Gibran Huzaifah found himself all out of cash. To save his business, the CEO started plugging fake numbers into financial reports. The brighter picture drew hundreds of millions of investor dollars. But his h ... Show More
16m 39s
Feb 2023
The (alleged) Chinese spy balloon.
On Saturday, a United States military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean, about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina. The balloon had entered U.S. airspace nearly a week before, garnering national attention from citizens, n ... Show More
26m 45s
Apr 2025
Get Rich Quick: The American Lottery
Want to get rich quick? You're not alone. Right now, Americans spend over $100 billion, yes billion, every year on lottery tickets. Today on the show, in collaboration with Scratch and Win from WGBH, how the mafia, Sputnik, medical equipment, and the electoral college led to Amer ... Show More
49m 41s
Jul 16
Knucklehead, Sue's News, Bitcoin, Superman movie, ICE - Full Show
Ryan Wrecker fills in today and is joined by: Josh Hammer, Newsweek Senior Editor at Large and host of the Josh Hammer Show Saturdays at 1pm on KFTK joins the show to talk about Mamdani's meeting and Epstein story. Daniel Turner, CEO of Power the Future joins to talk about Presid ... Show More
1h 56m
Mar 2025
The Sunday Read: ‘The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself’
Jim Tucker could hardly believe what he was hearing. It sounded like fiction, a nightmare too outlandish for an unassuming town like his.It was July 2023, and Tucker was hosting a meeting of the board of Heartland Tri-State Bank, a community-owned business in a small Kansas town ... Show More
27m 37s