Founding Fraudsters

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the people who helped build and shape American society were some of history’s most notorious swindlers. Many of these scams still exist today - in some form or another. Alzo sits down with Duke University Professor Edward Balleisen, author of “Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff”, to dig into the relationship between American business and fraud. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something that's...
0:07.0	Years before PT Barnum founded Barnum in Bailey Circus,
0:11.0	he had a different hustle.
0:13.0	The Great American Museum.
0:16.0	On New Year's Day of 1842,
0:19.0	PT Barnum stood in front of a five-story building
0:22.0	in Lower Manhattan.
0:24.0	Fine people of New York today.
0:26.0	You have an opportunity to see
0:28.0	some of the most exotic curiosities in the world.
0:31.0	They will excite to life and mystify.
0:35.0	People quickly began to clamor around Barnum.
0:39.0	It was the opening of his American Museum.
0:42.0	Step right up and see for yourself what lies just beyond that door.
0:47.0	It'll be the best 25th since you ever spent.
0:51.0	Barnum was a phenomenon in the mid-19th century.
0:54.0	He wrote books, hundreds of thousands of people bought them.
0:57.0	People flocked to his promotions.
0:59.0	They were fascinated by him.
1:01.0	Barnum seemed to have the ability to always find something new and different
1:05.0	to enthrall people.
1:06.0	He was constantly coming up with new ways to promote his games.
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