High Daddies, Hot Tents, and Suckers: Circus Crimes

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Step right up! Witness the amazing circus con, promising a menagerie that will never appear! Be amazed by the daring moves of the corporate scoundrel, stealing from a non-profit show! Stare in awe as a low down fraudster tries to pull a fast one on a small town, only to have the tables magically turned! Behold! The ridiculous and criminal side of the big top!

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0:00.0	Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:03.3	Zarin.
0:04.0	Oh, Elizabeth.
0:04.8	Are you serving over there?
0:06.9	Don't get me started.
0:08.9	What I'm serving, I can't say over the hair.
0:11.1	I know.
0:11.7	I'm serving soft-served in my mind.
0:15.5	You know what's ridiculous?
0:17.1	Oh, brother, do I?
0:19.0	Spill it.
0:19.6	So in this 2000 book, year 2000, there was a book, not that's not, it wasn't called the 2000 book, but it was a book that came out in 2000 by authors Anthony Summers and Robin Swan.
0:30.9	R-O-B-B-B-B-N, Robin Swan.
0:33.7	Now, in that book, they described how close we once got to World War III and how, get this, Elizabeth, Henry Kissinger prevented a nuclear war.
0:45.4	Wait, what?
0:46.3	I know.
0:46.8	I was surprised, too.
0:47.9	That's a surprising turn of events.
0:48.9	But according to...
0:50.2	And you killed him.
0:51.3	I did, with my mind.
0:53.5	And so, according to George Carver, this is like Vietnam specialist, in 1969, the North Koreans, they shot down like a U-2 spy plane.
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