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On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we go back in time and visit the Grandmother of all true crime cases: the story of Lizzie Borden. Most people know the dark nursery rhyme, “Lizzie Borden took and axe and gave her mother forty whacks…” However, the truth isn’t anywhere as clear cut as the rhyme. Did Lizzie kill her father and step-mother? If so, why? Was there poison involved, suggesting premeditation? We do our best to find answers. Borden was born to her father Andrew Borden and her mother Sarah, who died when she Lizzie young. Andrew was raised middle class but became wealthy by the time he had Lizzie and her sister, and eventually, he married a woman named Abby. They were a religious family who lived below their means, but it seemed that underneath it all, there was some darkness. Let’s start with the pigeons. Lizzie loved her some pigeons and went all Mike Tyson on them (meaning she built them a habitat like he did with his birds, not that she bit their ears off). However, Andrew Borden killed them all with a hatchet. Also, Lizzie and Abby were allegedly not on the best of terms. Ever. Then, Lizzie Borden’s dad did some strange things giving away property to his wife’s family, and there were even brief allegations that came up later about sexual abuse. Whatever it was, they all didn’t get along. In fact, a few weeks before the murders, Lizzie and her sister went on a so-called vacation after intense fighting had broken out in the household. They returned a week before the murders, but stayed in a rental for four of those days, only returning a few nights before the deaths. In that time, Lizzie allegedly tried to buy poison from a pharmacist, and the entire household fell ill with some sort of stomach ailment. And then Lizzie Borden’s uncle arrived and stayed in the guest room, where he may have been having an affair with Abby Borden. It gets all soap opera here. So, on the day of days, Abby and Andrew Borden were both killed with what the police assumed was an axe. Forensics indicted it came from a male taller than they were, but Lizzie’s odd behavior and responses to the cops made the newspapers pin the blame on her, and the court of public opinion can be a bear. So, why did Lizzie burn a dress the day after the murders? Why couldn’t the cops find any blood or evidence Lizzie did it? Who was the Portugese laborer, and why might he have done it? Was Lizzie Borden having a secret lesbian affair with their maid? Was there motive for Lizzie to kill her folks? What happened with the District Attorney threw the skull of Lizzie’s father on the table in the court room? Listen, laugh, learn. Trial Details: https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1437-home

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we get criminal and talk about the history, crimes, structure, and initiation ritual of one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet—the Chinese Triads. The Triads started as secret societies bent on overthrowing and reinstating particular Chinese emperors hundreds of years ago. They were patriotic at heart and weren’t criminal gangs by any typical standard. However, with the British taking over Hong Kong and ruling opium and prostitution illegal, they morphed into the seeds of the organized crime groups they are today. After the purges of Mao and World War II, the Triads emerged in a form similar to what we see today. At their height, there were as many as 60 triads in the city of Hong Kong alone. Now, they have spread through every country with a large Chinese population, including the US, UK, Australia, South Africa, and even Canada. The Triads are unlike other big organized crime groups like the Yakuza or the Italian Mob in that they don’t require the lower level members to get permission from higher ups to commit crimes. They also don’t kick a percentage of their earnings up, either. Instead, each Triad group is comprised of dozens of smaller criminal gangs but bonded by an oath to support each other, even at risk of death. This way, though there is no money swapping between members necessarily, they have each other’s back through gang wars and any other trouble that comes their way. Their members get very interesting titles like Dragon Head, Incense Master, and White Paper Fan, and they all have code numbers that line up with the numerology in the ancient I Ching. So what crimes do they commit? For one, counterfeiting. They are said to be among the best in the world, ranging from money to purses and shoes and even DVDs and software piracy. In fact, with the support of North Korea, their massive flooding of the banks with fake US $100 bills is what lead to the redesign of the currency a few years ago. They also are the masters of the world’s opium, human trafficking (both as sex slaves and slave labor). In fact, they claim 100,000 Chinese are smuggled into the US each year to pay off debts by working in sweatshops on the West Coast. What are the four major Triads in existence today, and where do they operate? How do these four go to war, and what do they each specialize in? What are the smuggling trips inside of shipping containers like for those who come to America through Triad channels? How many members of the Triads are there in the world? Why do they typically kill with knives and swords instead of guns? Listen, laugh, learn.  

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look to the skies (or at least to those who looked to the skies), and we explore the infamous Project Blue Book. From 1952 until 1969,  Project Blue Book was the US Air Force’s official investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects. In fact, that’s where we get the term UFO! It ranged from amazingly scientific and rigorous in its search for the truth all the way to a joke of government disinformation, depending on who was in charge of it. The main man in charge was named Captain Edward Ruppelt. He was decorated airman from WWII, and after the failures of previous USAF flying saucer investigations (Project Sign and Project Grudge), he was chosen to head this thing up. His task was basic on one level: discover if UFOs were a threat to national security. However, it got more tricky when dealing with levels of red tape, command structures, and a stigma for pilots not to talk about the strange things they saw in the skies. Ruppelt fixed this by getting Project Blue Book command over ride, so they had the authority to step out of the chain of command to complete their investigations. He also used a think tank to create the largest ever UFO database full of actionable statistical data. If someone on his team was to pro or too con, he’d fire them. He aimed to have Project Blue Book be as neutral, objective, scientific, and accurate as could be. However, all good things come to an end. Eventually, he took another temporary assignment and came back to find his beloved project gutted. After that a series of other jokers were given command of the project, and they ran it into the ground, blaming everhting on swamp gas and sighting of Jupiter and weather balloons So, what brought about the end of Project Blue Book? What was the Robertson Panel, and how did it impact the government, Air Force, and Blue Book? What was Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14, and what conclusions did it come to about UFOs and aliens? Of the over 12,000 cases they investigated, how many were valid mysteries? How does Walt Disney play into this, and what did he have to do with spreading UFO disinformation for the government? Listen, laugh, learn. FBI Document on Blue Book: https://vault.fbi.gov/Project%20Blue%20Book%20%28UFO%29%20 National Archives Statement on Blue Book and the Freedom of Information Act: https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos.html

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we bust an Alley-oop all over this mother and look at the life of the skating legend, Tony Hawk. Though many skating purists (and snobs) talk smack about Hawk, in his 17-year professional career, he won more than 70 contests, including multiple gold medals at the X Games. He parlayed twelve consecutive years of being the National Skateboard Association world champion into an massive skate line, a series of amazingly popular video games, and a fortune of $140 Million! But where did this legend start? Well, he started in his back alley, like all good skaters do. At the age of nine, Tony Hawk was given an old, beat up skate board from his brother. Three years later, he landed a sponsorship, and another two years after that, he became a professional skateboarder. He bought his own house with his royalty monies by the age of 17 and made people rethink what it meant to be a professional skater. Tony Hawk was smaller than a lot of skaters, so instead of busting power moves, he had to rely on technical skills with the board. It worked well, and many people rightly thought the young Hawk was a prodigy. However, with a huge slump in skate sales and skate culture in the early 1990s, he saw his wealth decline. Eventually, his wife had to take a job as a manicurist, just to afford gas for him to drive to new gigs (and eat his $5 a day taco bell budget). He ultimately sold his house to keep going and opened up his own skate company called Birdhouse Projects. His tenacity paid off. Right when most skaters were hanging it up to get day jobs, the winds of skating changed when the X-Games launched. This new televised sport made skating become mainstream more than ever, and Tony Hawk started killing it and winning gold. A few years later, the universe was on Tony’s side. He won more gold at the X-Games, launched his video game (Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater), and became the first person to land the otherwise impossible trick known as the 900 (a trick that supposedly only 11 people on earth have landed to this day). From there, he became a household name and now spends his time and money trying to spread skate culture through his foundation. So, what do the guys think of Tony Hawk? Is he the best that ever was or a sell out and a poser? Listen, laugh, learn. Tony Hawk at 50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zx7fFFfPis First Ever 900: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYTNkAdDD8  

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk a little true crime and discuss the murderous cannibal from Japan—Issei Sagawa. In short, Sagawa shot a woman, defiled her corpse, ate everything from her arms to her anus, and got of scott free, even becoming a celebrity in Japan for his trouble! Issei Sagawa was born to a wealthy corporate family, but he was premature to the point of it being life threatening. He never fully grew as a result, and ended up being only 4 foot 10 inches and a bit deformed and weak. Indeed, he even equated himself to a short, weak, ugly monkey. We’re not here to disagree. According to his own accounts, from as early as first grade, he saw the human body and wanted to eat it. From bestiality to wanting to eat his classmate’s thighs, he was a disturbed and disturbing child. As he grew up, he turned out to be fairly smart, getting admitted to some of the world’s most prestigious colleges. While at one such college at the age of 23, he fell for a German girl he met on the street and followed her home and snuck in through her window wearing a Frankenstein mask. Like you do. Once there, he planned to just grab some of her flesh and run for it. He didn’t want to kill anyone, just grab some takeout. He did what all prepared killers would do and came at her sleeping form with an umbrella. She whooped his butt and sent him running, where the police caught him and ultimately let him go. The real event happened when he was studying in France, and he met Renée Hartevelt, a 25 year old Norwegian. They started a causal relationship around his pretense of needing her to tutor him in foreign languages. All the while, he was having hookers come to his room every night and trying to kill them but backing out before he could shoot them. So, after some courtship and lots of tea, Issei Sagawa sniffed the seat that Renée sat in, recorded her talking, and then shot her in the neck and killed her. After he recovered from passing out, the true madness began. He started to ingest her to steal her beauty, intelligence, and strength. He ate her thighs, dug around in her fat. He had some fried, ate some raw, and went between raping her corpse and eating her corpse. This one’s bad. So, how did he get caught? What led the police back to him? What was his favorite body part? What happened when he tried to eat her anus raw, and how did cooking it affect his opinion? How come he got away with it and walked out of a mental institution back in Japan 18 months after he confessed the murder? Who ruled him “sane but evil”? How in the hell did he become a celebrity in Japan, and is his art work any good? Listen, laugh, learn. Interview of his life now: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1372752/poetic-justice Vice Article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bwvvx/whos-hungry-502-v16n1

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we take off to the great white north and discuss one of the most notorious manhunts in Canada’s history—the story of the Mad Trapper of Rat River. It is a story of fur trapping gone wrong, miraculous feats of manliness, dog sleds, gun fights, and dynamite. In 1932, this mystery man led the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a lot of native Americans on a month and a half long chase over 150 miles of the most wild tundra the Yukon has to offer. In 1931, a man calling himself Albert Johnson showed up in the small town of Fort McPherson. He was muscular, quiet, had a Scandinavian accent, and spread around a lot of cash. Also, he didn’t ever get a trapper’s license, which was odd since the only way to survive where he ended up building a cabin was to trap wild game. A few months after his arrival, members of a local tribe noticed their traps were being set off and put in trees, and they blamed the only new person in the region, Albert Johnson. On New Year’s eve, two Mounties made it to his remote cabin, and he refused to speak to them, forcing them to make the incredibly long trip back. They returned a week later with a few more men and a search warrant, and The Mad Trapper fired at them through the door, hitting one officer and forcing a retreat. Well, this lead to the Mounties coming back with 9 men and lots of dynamite, and they just sort of blew up the joint. The cabin became a smoldering wreck, but The Mad Trapper was still alive inside of it and held them at bay for a 15 hour gunfight in a -40 degree blizzard! The men retreated again and came back after the storm had passed only to find The Mad Trapper had vanished into the Yukon. But these are Mounties, damnit it, so they followed. Weeks passed, and they couldn’t catch The Mad Trapper. He was seemingly supernatural, making twice the miles per day that the Mounties did with their dogsleds. Eventually, they called in the only guy as awesome as the Mad Trapper, a Canadian hero named Wop May. Wop spotted tracks in the snow that lead to them cornering the Trapper. But this was after he scaled a 7000 foot mountain with no climbing gear in a blizzard, somehow survived for weeks without shooting any game or lighting any fires, ultimately out Mountied the Mounties. So, how did this guy pull it off? What made Wop such a folk hero in Canada? Who do they think the Mad Trapper of Rat River really was? What did they learn when they exhumed his body in 2007? How many times did they have to shoot him to kill him? How many Mounties did he shoot and kill? Listen, laugh, learn.

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we bust out our dice bags, make a saving throw, channel our inner geeks, and talk about the grandfather of role playing games, Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons is considered the first ever true character-driven RPG, and the notions such as experience points and leveling up a character that are so ubiquitous in all gaming these days came from this very game. In fact, most of it came from one man—Gary Gygax. Gygax, along with is co-creator David Arneson, modified a few older games (I’m looking at you Chainmail and Blackmoor) and created the first version of D&D. They printed it locally, off of borrowed money, and were lucky to sell 1000 copies. However, by 2004, the game had spawned feature films, a Saturday morning kid’s cartoon, countless video games, New York Times Best Seller books, and over a billion dollars in sales. But this growth of the game was not without its controversies. For example, David Arneson had to sue the company he and Gygax created (TSR) to keep control of the intellectual property. He was allowed to maintain a hold on anything called Dungeons and Dragons. And then, TSR split the property and focused on the new version of the same game Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, leaving Arneson a comfortable monthly payment but no real royalties. There was also the time Gygax had somehow gotten Orson Welles to agree to be in a Hollywood  produced D&D movie until he discovered that the CEO of TSR had made the company go broke buying too many company cars and trying to raise the wreck of an old pirate ship from the bottom of the sea (like you do…). But the ups and downs of the corporation itself couldn’t compare to the great Satanic Panic that came around in the 1980s, linking the game to murder, suicide, and mental health issues—not to mention Satan himself! Televangelists attacked Gygax, TSR, and the game, and Tom Hanks even starred in the espically bad Mazes and Monsters based on the true story of a 16 year old’s suicide at the University of Michigan. So, what do Brent and Brad think of the game, and would they be willing to play it? What happened the one time that Dave spoke with Gary Gygax on the phone? What is Dave’s favorite edition of the game? What is the truth about Dungeons and Dragons and suicide rates in teens? What actors and musicians praise the game and why? Listen, laugh, learn.

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look into the realm of antiquity and the supernatural (or the world of forgeries and lies) and explore the existence of the 13 infamous Crystal Skulls. These skulls were all allegedly unearthed in the mid to late 1800s and were said to be found in areas such as Mexico. Claims were that they came form Aztec, Toltec, and Mayan cultures, and they were sold to some of the most renowned antiquity dealers and museums in the world. Their method of manufacture was far beyond anything that was possible in the ancient world (and supposedly even beyond the world of the 1800s!). While they all differ in composition and design, most of them came from the same antique dealer, a man named Eugene Boban. These skulls are said to have special powers such as healing and visions of the future and even sounds and lights emanating from them. So, what exactly are these skulls, where did the come from, and what do modern archaeologists think of them? To answer this question, it’s best to focus on the most famous of them all, The Skull of Doom. This crystal skull was allegedly discovered by F. A. Mitchell-Hedges while on an expedition to the Mayan ruins of Lubaantum. They were there to find Atlantis. Why not? But his daughter Anna Mitchell-Hedges was there on the dig, and she found this crystal skull. The stories of the Skull of Doom were that it gave her the ability to see JFK’s assassination in advance, and that ancient Mayan priests could kill people by focusing the harmony of the skull with the harmony of the victim. This skull finally made its way to an art restorer and eventually the Hewlett Packard crystal labs for study. Interesting things were discovered about it: it was forged from a single block of crystal; it was made without metal tools; and was carved against the natural axis of the quarts, which is a very difficult thing to do without shattering an object, especially on something as intricate as the crystal skull. So, while many myths of the skull were put to rest by the HP study, many others were only enhanced. This piece and one in the Smithsonian underwent very stringent scientific analysis, and at the end of the day, the experts think these are not thousand of years old, but were carved in a city in Germany in the 1800s. To what end were they carved? Did the experts get it wrong? How did this person in Germany develop techniques that still baffle many people today? What is the explanation for how the crystal skull gives you visions? How many crystal skulls are for sale in the modern world? Listen, laugh, learn.

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we step away from our usual show pattern and give you a good old fashioned bonus episode. If you want a regular episode, skip this one and go one episode ahead or back. There, you’ll hear us research and topic and spit facts at you as well as horrible off topic jokes and conversational cul-de-sacs. On this one, however, we give you a bonus episode. No research. No plan, just the fellas shooting it over some whiskey. What do we talk about? All sorts of stuff. Great stuff! Crazy stuff! Stuff that is sure to delight and offend! Stuff that I can't really remember because it's late, I haven't slept, and I'm tired! Oh, and if you love this Bonus Episode or our regular episodes, do us two favors. First, go and support us on Patreon!

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the mass killings committed by (and the conspiracy theories about) the two people known as the Beltway Snipers in Washington DC. The year was 2002, and the nation was still reeling from the horrors of 9/11 when two men named John Muhammad (41) and Lee Malvo (17) started a reign of terror in the DC area, killing 17 people out of the back of their 1990 Chevrolet Caprice. Though many people think they were just serving up a bowl full of crazy, others think it was a false flag event, and you know what, even William Shatner gets involved! So, to get to the Beltway Sniper killings, it’s important to start with the killers themselves. John Muhamad (formerly John Williams) was an army veteran with high marksman skills. He’d been married a couple times and once out of the army, ended up getting a divorce. His wife filed a restraining order based on his threats, and he went a little nutso and kidnapped their shared children. He ran to Antiqua, like you do, and he met the young Lee Malvo. Malvo was born in Jamaica and spent some years in the Caribbean with various family members. Eventually, he came to the US illegally, and after getting detained and set free, he and his mom lived in a homeless shelter where Muhammed eventually moved as well. The two Beltway Snipers became fast friends, forming a father-son bond and training for what became their killing spree. Their killings didn’t start in DC, though. They started in Washington state and cut a path of death across the nation, from Arizona to Louisiana before they got to the DC area. Once there, they started to randomly kill people who were targets of opportunity, typically people coming in or out of a store or people at a gas station. The entire area was freaked out and didn’t even want to be on the streets (Dave included—he was there researching!). Eventually, they slipped up by taunting the cops on their tip line and gave them a clue that led to their identities being revealed. From there, it was a matter of time before the cops cornered them. But there is also where the conspiracy theorists take hold. When they were arrested, some people think there was a trigger word in a hypnotic suggestion to bring the two killers in. There are connections between the head investigator and Muhammad, and the ex-wife worked for the government. So, were the Beltway Snipers two sick puppies who got off on murder and wanted revenge for a wife who left, or were they part of a false flag event that led them across the nation killing people? Listen, laugh, learn.   Conspiracy Theory Break Down: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=27984 One Word--Shatner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pQ0ZR5Jkuc  

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we travel all the way back to Pyramid Times and explore the life, love, death, tomb, mummification, and conspiracy theory surrounding the one and only King Tut. He was born son of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who was a bit of a rogue leader. King Tut’s dad shut down the churches, moved the capitol, and stripped power from everyone who held any other than himself. He died (maybe?) when Tutankhamun was only 9 years old, so King Tut became a boy king. It was said that his power was controlled by the Vizier of Egypt and the head of the military until he was old enough to do so by himself. While in power, the young pharaoh restored Egypt to how it was before his father went all nutso everywhere, and he even negotiated peace with some of the neighboring nations. However, his life was not an easy one. He had several severe deformities from royal inbreeding, the vertebrae in his neck were fused solid, and he had a cleft foot and was ill with malaria several times. This all caught up with him (or maybe an assassin?), and he died at the ripe age of 19. Traditional history says they had to rush to get him mummified and collect his treasure within the 70 day god window, and this is why he was placed in a small, cramped tomb. Eventually, 3000 years later in 1915, George Herbert paid for Howard Carter to find this missing tomb from a most unremarkable pharaoh. After six years of failure, Carter succeeded and found the most intact tomb in all of archaeological history. Or did he? Why do some think this tomb was a fake that Carter put together? Why do others think it was the tomb or someone else entirely? Was it maybe a storehouse of items that tomb raiders piled there in Pyramid days? How did the tomb go unnoticed for all these centuries? Who would gain from faking the tomb? Was there really a curse around the tomb, and what do the statistics of dead Egyptologists prove out? Listen, laugh, learn. Video that shows the hoarder status of his tomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULofBtBAJn4

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we step away from our usual show pattern and give you a good old fashioned bonus episode. If you want a regular episode, skip this one and go one episode ahead or back. There, you’ll hear us research and topic and spit facts at you as well as horrible off topic jokes and conversational cul-de-sacs. On this one, however, we give you a bonus episode. No research. No plan, just the fellas shooting it over some whiskey. What do we talk about? Well, blindness might come into play, as well as the loss of other senses. We talk about eyesight and how it sucks when you get older. If you want a conversation about compass directions, google maps, bio hacking, VW busses, and all sorts of other shenanigans, this is the episode for you. If you want something else, go away. We don’t need you here. I don’t like you. My friend doesn’t like you either. Oh, and if you love this Bonus Episode or our regular episodes, do us two favors. First, go and support us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/sofakingpodcast Second, go and get some El Yucateco Hot Sauce and show the love!

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at quite literally the worst church ever, the Westboro Baptist Church. Made famous for their slogan “God hates fags” (sorry for how many times we end up saying that in this episode!!!), this group is far from a traditional church with large numbers as they would have America believe. Indeed, they are a small, incestuous family community of around 80 members at their largest. They are a small, evil cult founded by the one-time Baptist preacher named Fred Waldron Phelps. Phelps basically stole a church from another church group and started to run it as a hate-fueled base for his family to make money, and he did a pretty good job at it. He raised his children to become lawyers, police, and correctional officers in prisons, and he started to keep the small church afloat by winning lawsuits against, well, everyone. All the while, he started to turn his church into what he called a picketing ministry. You see, on Oct. 12, 1998, a gay student named Matthew Shepard was killed in a brutal hate crime because he was gay. The douche bags at Westborough Baptist Church protested his funeral with the famous sign “God hates fags,” and the rest was history. (They even wanted to build a granite memorial that said he was burning in hell, but they were denied…) From there, they started to protest everything and blame every single ill in the nation on homosexuality and how much God hates gay people. Murder? God hates gay people. Soldiers killed by road side bombs? God hates gay people. 9/11? God hates gay people? They Jews? God hates gay people? Justin Bieber? God hates gay people. Seriously, they are like a Pokemon who can only speak by saying their name, but their name is God hates gay people. From their horrible song parodies against Michael Jackson, to their endless battles in court that they always seem to win, this cult of arse holes keeps on going. They lie and claim they protested over 40,000 events, but they really just post about them on their website. So, what exactly is their belief system? What ended up happening to the founder to get him kicked out of the church? What happened with his funeral? Why are so many younger members of the family defecting? Why do even the KKK hate the jack holes at Westboro Baptist? Listen, laugh, learn. Great Article: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/westboro-baptist-church

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we travel back in time to the 1600s and look at the birth, rise, and crazy corruption and power of the British East India Company. Initially, it was a small corporation which was one of 200 that were granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth I to trade with the other countries in “The Orient.” It started as a small group of investors and led to them scoring a 500 ton shipment of pepper that made them rich and gave them bigger contracts. Almost immediately after that, they started to break the law and push the boundaries of what a corporation could (or should) get away with. The East India Company started to trade for tea in China, but there was a problem. China only accepted silver, and England used gold. So, how did they meet in the middle? Why, by illegally selling opium to buy the tea. This made them even more rich and allowed them start building a private army which eventually grew to an estimated 250,000 men—almost twice that of the British Empire’s army! With this army in place, the East India Company pretty much took control of India. After several bloody battles, this small corporation ended up being the legal body to collect taxes and govern most of India for well over a century. Meanwhile, they were also up to no good in the fledgling country of America. In fact, the infamous Tea Act of 1773 is the final straw that lead to the American Revolution. Through this law, the East India Company became the only company that could legally trade and sell tea in the Americas, and this was a problem because it was a monopoly that could fix prices against colonists, and it was the end of many prominent businessmen. So, people dressed like Indians and dumped all the tea in Boston Harbor. Like you do… How did the East India Company gain so much power unchecked? What types of atrocities did they commit against the Indian people? How many people ran this secretive cabal? What was their connection to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers? How did their actions lead to several wars? What finally brought them down? Listen, laugh, learn. Crazy Detailed History: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders

Just to be clear this is a bonus episode.