ENCORE: Gossip Girls | Part II | 149
The Matharoo sisters have gone from globe-trotting tastemakers to detained prisoners. Stuck in an airport hotel without their passports or phones, they decide to take matters into their own hands – an...
10 Mars 202536min
ENCORE: Gossip Girls | Part 1 | 148
While we work on some brand-new episodes, we’re returning to one of our very first episodes about two jet-setting sisters from Canada, Kiran and Jyoti Matharoo. In 2016, a mysterious apology video sur...
3 Mars 202537min
Priscila Barbosa: The Rideshare Robinhood | 147
When Priscila Barbosa moves to Boston from Brazil in 2018, she sets out to pay off her debts and send money back home by driving for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Eventually, she decides her...
24 Feb 202553min
Brian Wansink: Guess Who’s Conning to Dinner | 146
During the early 2000s Brian Wansink made his mark as a “food psychologist” with quirky studies backed by the USDA and Cornell. His research led to the 100-calorie snack pack, the side plate for dinne...
17 Feb 202546min
The Hitler Hoax | 145
In the early 80s, a German magazine thought it had the scoop of the century: access to Adolf Hitler’s secret diaries. But as soon as excerpts of the diaries were released, critics pounced. Soon, the m...
10 Feb 202554min
Eike Batista: Brazillionaire Boys Club | 144
In the early 2000s, Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista was seen as the ultimate mining mogul: he was a speedboat-racing showman and a playboy who liked to show off his wealth. To expand his empire, Ei...
3 Feb 202551min
Take the Monopoly Money and Run | 143
In the midst of the Great Depression, out-of-work salesman Charles Darrow sold the board game he created, Monopoly, to Parker Brothers. The game was an overnight success, and Charles became a hopeful ...
27 Jan 202544min
Frédéric Bourdin: No Country For Old Men | 142
In 1997 Beverly Dollarhide hears miraculous news: her missing son, Nicholas, has been found in Spain. But the person she thinks is her teenage son is actually a grown man, a well known French identity...
20 Jan 202554min
