Ponzi She Betta! w/ Seth Morris

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, comedian Seth Morris joins the show to discuss Adelheid Spitzeder, a womanizing actress who became known not for her talent on the stage, but for conducting history’s first recorded Ponzi scheme. Stay Schemin’! This was recorded on January 9th 2024. Follow on Instagram:  Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod  Laci Mosley: @divalaci  Seth Morris: @sethismorris Sources: https://www.aier.org/article/adele-spitzeder-the-queen-of-confidence-tricksters/ “Foreign exchange rates 1804–1914” by Håkan Lobell https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/forskning/monetar-statistik/volym1/6.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=4ySERiKHkb4C&pg=PA291#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-did-lead-poisoning-bring-down-ancient-rome#:~:text=When%20in%20ancient%20Rome%2C%20don,and%20hastened%20the%20empire's%20fall. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/21/ancient-rome-tap-water-contaminated-lead-researchers#:~:text=Ancient%20Rome's%20tap%20water%20heavily%20contaminated%20with%20lead%2C%20researchers%20say,-This%20article%20is&text=Tap%20water%20in%20ancient%20Rome,local%20spring%20water%2C%20researchers%20say. https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/lead-toxicity-wine-history/

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0:00.0	Scams, hard, robbery, and fraud.
0:09.0	Scams, hard,
0:07.0	Robber, and fraud.
0:09.0	Scams, hard, God, Godin' Godin'
0:17.0	Godin' Godin' Godin' Congregation
0:20.0	G G G Gonna Gotta, back with another installment of the
0:24.4	podcast all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. Congregation, I'm very, yes, excited,
0:31.6	elated thrilled. Y'all know I am, after four years. If you don't know I'm excited, then I don't know what we're doing here, babes. I don't know what we're doing.
0:38.0	Today we have an amazing guest on the show. He's an actor, comedian, and writer. You've seen him in so many shows including
0:43.2	Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parks and Rec, Reno 91, and so much more. Like this man is an
0:47.6	icon. I was so happy with a scam him on the show. Check out his podcast
0:51.3	Collegetown with co-host Aaron Whitehead and full throttle
0:54.4	with Bob Duka only on comedy bang-bang world.
0:57.6	Congregation please welcome Seth Morris to the show hi Seth
1:01.4	Hello thanks for having me.
1:03.1	I'm so happy you're here.
1:04.4	I'm so happy that you were allowing yourself to be had.
1:07.2	Absolutely, yeah.
1:08.5	That means two things.
1:10.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:12.2	You gotta. And you just sign in which are like banking information and everything.
1:15.7	Yeah, it's good.
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