Charles Ponzi: Original Schemester
Lil Stinkers
Mike Rainey
4.8 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This Italian con-man had more names than he did tricks up his sleeve. He got his scheming start by promising investors a quick ROI by buying discounted postal reply coupons. Some real old shit.
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| 0:00.0 | there's so much fucked up shit to get into well Welcome back to Piss Pallas, baby. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Michael fucking Rainey, here with my homeboy, Cald Anjala. |
| 0:29.0 | The pisser. |
| 0:31.4 | Mr. Piss to you. |
| 0:32.7 | Jacob from Matera. |
| 0:35.2 | My beautiful wife, Jamie, here, taking over production duties. |
| 0:39.3 | Jeff was in a horrible helicopter accident. |
| 0:42.9 | And we told him, but he's insistent. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm a big, I'm a big Kobe Bryant fan and this that, and he had to do it. |
| 0:51.5 | It doesn't add up. |
| 0:53.6 | You'd think you'd not want to get a helicopter. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:55.7 | I know, but I think he's going to make a full recovery. |
| 1:00.1 | I hope so. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.6 | The only survivor. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.5 | In a solo wreck where he was trying to learn how to fly a helicopter. |
| 1:46.2 | Jake, how the heck are you, man? I'm feeling great, man. You look good. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'm feeling good. No, you're not, man. Tex is so good. My eye is about to fall out of my head. But I'm trying to sell it, all right? Yeah, the cats are going fucking ballistic from an allergen standpoint here. It's not their fault. They're beautiful creatures. I know, I know. The beautiful creatures. Come rubble all in my face. Let's get both my eyes to fall out. I don't care. It's nothing the cats did. It's what God did to curse us. Okay. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. We've been cursing. Can eyes really fall out of your head? |
| 1:47.0 | The allergies? |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah. |
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