$112M Tai Lopez Ponzi Exposed
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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In this high-octane Dropping Bombs episode, global entrepreneur JT Foxx storms back for his third appearance, unleashing unfiltered truths on the Tai Lopez SEC fraud, fake guru epidemic, and why silence on red flags makes you complicit. He breaks down Ponzi playbooks, shares the one question every investor should ask before writing a check, and exactly what separates the nine-figure earners from the nine-to-five.
JT reveals brutal truths from Forbes billionaires, the warning signs and red flags of a financial scam, plus his M&A rollup model turning $1M businesses into $14M exits with zero owner money. He reveals the custom AI infrastructure that will make or break companies in 2026, the 9-figure AI brains that turn disruption into massive revenue, and why most entrepreneurs will get left in the dust if they don't adapt now.
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Disclaimer: The discussion of Tai Lopez's alleged Ponzi scheme is based on publicly available SEC information and is for informational purposes only—not financial or legal advice. Conduct your own research. Official SEC litigation release: https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26413
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the elephant in the room. |
| 0:02.0 | Ty has been sued by the SEC for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme. |
| 0:07.4 | $150, 16 million of money has been lost. |
| 0:10.0 | People keep getting suckered into it. |
| 0:11.5 | Now, it turns out that Ty Lopez, CEO of running all these brands, |
| 0:15.6 | was his cousin who used to be a school teacher. |
| 0:18.6 | What? |
| 0:19.8 | Listeners, how can they determine whether someone's a |
| 0:23.6 | fraud or the real deal? Here's a red flag. I did eight hours recording and eight hours with a billionaire. |
| 0:29.7 | Four billionaires on Forbes, eight full hours. And it came up to the two things. Number one, |
| 0:35.9 | seven percent of businesses in the united states make over a |
| 0:39.8 | million dollars a year in revenue there's only 2,800 billionaires on this planet we got eight |
| 0:44.9 | billion people on instagram there's two million of them if you're an entrepreneur the money |
| 0:49.4 | is how we keep score at the game and when people say how much is enough more business is war And if you don't think it's war, then you know what? You haven't been screwed. Why don't we do this? Right? I don't know. I just don't have the time. My seal will kill me. She hears this. What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs. today in the studio, folks, real treat for you. J.T. Fox back. |
| 1:15.9 | Third time. For a third time. Third time. What's going down, J.T? |
| 1:19.8 | Oh, let's talk about the elephant in the room, which I was, I didn't care about the fight tonight, ringside Dana White and Marlow, my buddy, Bruce Buffer. |
| 1:28.4 | It was to come here today to say, I told you so. |
| 1:32.5 | What did you tell me? |
| 1:33.5 | Well, we did a show, I think it was like back in April. |
| 1:37.0 | And we talked about Tai Lopez. |
| 1:39.5 | I challenge you for your inability to actually call him out and ask him tough questions. And your thing was |
| 1:45.3 | like, I try to ask him and he deflected it. And I got a lot of hate I have to be on if you take a |
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