Classic RC: Let's Take to the Sea!
Sometimes you just need to get away. For a Chinese dissident that meant making a daring escape on a jet ski. For a former cyclist turned "ocean jogger," it meant building himself a human-powered hamst...
8 Juli 202554min
They Heard it Through the Grapevine: Brinks Jewelry Heist
It was a pretty genius plan. Steal gems from a Brinks truck as it made its way from one jewelry show to another. And the heist crew pulled it off…sort of. Seems practice runs can both improve the actu...
3 Juli 202555min
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
