Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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Ah boy! Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about things falling apart and sometimes stuff that's less depressing than that.

This is going to be a mix of both of those things. I'm Robert Evans, my co-hosts for today are James Stout and Mia Wong.

How are we both? How's everybody feeling?

I'm anticipating eagerly the topic of today's episode, so I'm excited.

Like a kid at Christmas.

Yeah, so James, that answers my question for you.

But Mia, have you ever heard of Lord Miles Rutledge?

I have seen him on Twitter.

I cannot express how excited I am for this.

So we are talking about a real piece of shit today.

This is kind of relevant to our, I try to always justify, you know, our purview is broadly speaking collapse, you know, what we call the crumbles.

And Miles Rutledge is a perfect example of the kind of grifters and con men who sort of sort of seep in at the edges of war and disaster and calamity and have for forever, you know, in behind the bastards.

We've done a couple episodes on like different white people who tried at various points to like conquer Latin American nations and like the 17 and 1800s.

And I'm just kind of during these periods of there would be a bunch of rebellions going on.

And so like some group of mercenaries would be like, I bet we can like steal Nicaragua, right?

Let's get, let's wear the shot, you know, you get these kind of like these kind of people and Lord Miles Rutledge is sort of the lower body count into that.

But in some ways, a lot more frustrating because at least look, there's, there's something respectable about trying to violently conquer another country and then getting murdered yourself.

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