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🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The diamond hoax of 1872 was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false American diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in San Francisco and New York City. It also triggered a brief diamond prospecting craze in the western United States, in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.
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0:00.0 | Almost there dude stop shopping walk faster than and stop here |
0:05.7 | Okay, all right new policy Eli doesn't get to blindfold us no matter what |
0:12.1 | Like actually how is that not always the policy this seems a big oversight |
0:16.6 | Okay, what did you want to show us? You right great question |
0:20.0 | There |
0:22.2 | There in the in the Starbucks Noah sitting by himself. Yeah, that's right |
0:27.0 | But don't worry. He doesn't think he's gonna be alone for long |
0:30.3 | I've been writing to him for the last six months pretending to be Mr. Nintendo himself |
0:36.5 | And I told him I want to hire him for his great game ideas |
0:41.0 | Dude, that is so mean. I know but like it works for the episode, right? |
0:45.2 | I mean imagine his face when he learns all the time and money where a con he's gonna be so mad |
0:52.5 | Wait, he sent you money |
0:54.5 | Oh, no, no, I sent him money for the Japan phone |
0:58.7 | Sorry for the Japan phone as I said yeah, I guess it turns out that Noah can't get calls from Japan without a special plan |
1:06.0 | That's like 500 bucks a month plus he needed a new laptop that could take in the Japanese internet for the emails |
1:13.0 | I was gonna send him and the and the headphones that could hear it but his face man is gonna be worth it |
1:19.8 | Um Eli, I think I think maybe you didn't full Noah after all |
1:25.3 | What okay if I didn't fool him then why did he ask Mr. Nintendo himself to borrow all that money that I lent him |
1:32.8 | Okay, he's waving at us see it's just his arms moving from excitement because I pranked him so good |
1:58.4 | Hello and welcome citation needed podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on Wikipedia and 10 |
2:07.4 | Where experts because this is the internet and that's how works now I'm heath and I'll be hosting this shindig |
2:14.8 | Dig it's about mine. Yep. We're gonna talk about it |
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