Gregor MacGregor

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–23 to find only an untouched jungle; more than half of them died. MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history.

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0:00.0	Tell me man, go full Aries build.
0:02.4	I've tried, but I'm still using the spike collar.
0:05.1	Oh, well, see, there's your issue.
0:06.4	You gotta use the blood-filled bile.
0:07.8	That's the way to go.
0:10.2	No, absolutely not.
0:11.9	No.
0:12.7	What?
0:13.6	Everyone knows Vice President Slash Manager
0:16.2	is a meeting light.
0:17.1	That's your light, no.
0:17.9	No, because then you get second draft pick
0:19.7	on alternate years.
0:20.8	Read the thing.
0:21.7	Damn it.
0:22.6	That's right.
0:23.4	Hey, guys, what are you yelling about here?
0:26.0	Oh, hey, no.
0:27.1	Hey, Cecil, it's this week's essay.
0:29.3	After learning about Gregor McGregor's titles,
0:31.8	we'll realize we never really worked out our roles
0:34.7	on the podcast.
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