Feather Huntin': The Great Trans-Saharan Ostrich Heist
Elizabeth, what's your third-favorite bird? On the heels of that question follows one of the strangest tales we've told. It's a globe-trotting, desert-crossing, ostrich-wrangling, feather-lusting, pit...
1 Juli 20251h
Ridiculous Crime takes on The Puzzler: Ridiculous Laws
Recently, Zaron Burnett and Elizabeth Dutton joined AJ Jacobs on The Puzzler to test their puzzling skills! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on...
27 Juni 202519min
Mad or Wise: Emperor Norton I
If you are dissatisfied with the state of the world, you have to get out there and make some changes yourself. Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, tried to do just tha...
26 Juni 202555min
The Hilarious Hair-Raisin' Crimes of Professional Wigjackers
For centuries, wigs were the look. And in the era of Marie Antoinette, the bigger the better, and the more fantastical, the more whimsical, even better. Industries were built to attend to the many nee...
24 Juni 202559min
Have You Seen My Passport: John Stonehouse
An idealistic British MP had it all, until a series of bad decisions nearly destroyed his career. But that didn't stop the bad decisions, it only made them worse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...
19 Juni 202554min
Where's the Beef...the Celebrity Beef?!
Whether it's Steven Seagal versus his pants, or Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere battling over Princess Di, over Tom Hardy going toe-to-toe with Shia LaBoeuf, or the one celeb brief that led to the...
17 Juni 202559min
Doing it for the Deeestrict: George Streeter
A true sovereign citizen, George Streeter claimed land as his own. Then he made even more of it. The cops and the courts and the fat cats of Chicago couldn't pry him out. Instead, he provided entertai...
12 Juni 202555min
Jump, Jive, and Jail: the Pot Bust of Gene Krupa
At the height of the swing music era, jazz drummer and musical great Gene Krupa was caught up in a federal bust. He was used as a cautionary tale in America's First Drug War. Taken down in order to sc...
10 Juni 20251h 3min
