# Craziest Things the Rich Have Done

An episode of [Be Amazed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1687637469), 23 Dec 2025, 26 min.

Audio: https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/88e66606-e9db-4be1-a6a4-fd683515edb2/stream.mp3

From searching for the secrets of immortality to dumping 100 horses’ worth of poop on a giant Christmas tree, here are some of the craziest things the rich have ever done! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

## Transcript

[0:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What would you do if you won the lottery tomorrow and became absurdly rich?
[0:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Would you have one of your hands replaced with a chainsaw?
[0:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Build a room composed entirely of marshmallows?
[0:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: No, just me.
[0:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Ha, ha, ha.
[0:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, whatever crazy idea came into your head, it's likely that some rich guys somewhere has already done something just as crazy.
[0:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So from searching for the secrets of immortality to dumping 100 horses worth of poop on a giant Christmas tree, here's some of the craziest things the rich have ever done.
[0:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Flying economy can be rough, grant seats, and long flights are a recipe for frustration.
[0:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But most of us get by without some kind of major meltdown, where the obscenely rich however even first class treatment can be enough to warn a temper tantrum.
[1:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In 2014, the vice president of Korean Air Heather Cho was taking a flight back to South Korea from New York.
[1:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As a first class passenger, she was given some complimentary macadamia nuts before the plane took off.
[1:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Sounds lovely, right?
[1:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, show, didn't think so.
[1:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: See these nuts were provided to her in their original packaging, but she'd expect to
[1:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: furious she commanded the cabin crew chief, Park Chang-Jan, to beg for forgiveness on his knees.
[1:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Not content with just a meaning, she proceeded to repeatedly strike his knuckles with a tablet before firing the poor guy on the spot and kicking him off the plane.
[1:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Man, what a piece of work.
[1:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The kicker, the nuts were actually properly served in accordance with Korean air protocol.
[1:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: She was just being a diva.
[1:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Despite her attempts to cover up the fiasco, the so-called nut-ray-gencin and eventually went public and show was rightly lambasted for her behavior.
[2:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Park was reinstated in awarded $18,000 and show served five months in prison for violating aviation safety, coercion, and abuse of power.
[2:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh, nuts!
[2:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Everybody knows that the Saudi elite are very, very rich, and they love to show it.
[2:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So when Saudi Prince Fad Al-Sad finished his degree in 2013, he wanted to go big to celebrate.
[2:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Instead of holding a traditional party, he decided to drop over $16 million to book entire sections of Euro Disney and Paris for himself and 60 guests.
[2:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I didn't even know that was possible.
[2:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But money talks.
[2:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Taylor made events were set up for the Prince and his group in a fairly rare Disney characters made appearances for him.
[2:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I don't know what classifies as a rare Disney character but hell, for 16 million I bet you could use Pluto as a footstool.
[3:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That said, I did allow the general public to enter and meet some of these characters too, so I'm fair to have him on that front.
[3:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: astonishingly, that's pretty much all we know about the colossal shendag.
[3:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Turns out that staff at the park were under strict orders not to speak about the Prince, so your guess is as good as mine on what confidential Disney secrets he was privy to.
[3:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Maybe they even thought big walled out for a go on Thunder Mountain.
[3:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Picture an eccentric gray-haired old man obsessed with the idea of creating a theme park populated by dinosaurs.
[3:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now, get rid of that image of Jurassic Park's John Hammond.
[3:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I'm talking about real life Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer.
[3:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Our boy is an absolute oddball, responsible for pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into an as yet unfinished second Titanic, before he had to go at a prehistoric Wonderland as well.
[3:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, oh Clive set up a sprawling park filled with 160 animatronic dinos named.
[4:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Homer's orus.
[4:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Over and flated ego aside, it sounds like that would have made a fun day out if it hadn't sucked.
[4:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, far from the sprawling, dynabolist that was promised the park was tiny, over-brised and shoddily built.
[4:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The animatronics moved as sluggishly as well, slugs, and the place was severely understaffed.
[4:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Before long, people stopped visiting, and it was left around.
[4:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But Clive had a plan.
[4:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He contacted the scientist responsible for the first successful cloning of a mammal, dolly to sheep, and began discussing the idea of resurrecting real-life dinosaurs.
[4:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I'm dead serious.
[4:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Not like we've had several movies explaining why that's a terrible idea.
[4:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Besides, he couldn't even take care of the animatronic ones.
[4:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well in behold, these grand plans are a pomasaurus seem extinct for now, but Clyde is apparently planning a $100 million revamp of the attraction regardless.
[5:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I'm sorry, but just like Jurassic Bark, I can only see this ending in disaster.
[5:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard of Pablo Escobar.
[5:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You know, that notorious dangerous and incredibly rich Colombian crime kingpin?
[5:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He's not around anymore, but back when he was, he made a name for himself as the wealthiest criminal in history.
[5:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Just how rich is that, though?
[5:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, while on the run from the law in the early 90s, he casually offered to pay off all $10 billion of Colombian national debt and exchange for his freedom.
[5:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Guess you could say he had a money to burn, right?
[5:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, you'd be surprised.
[5:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: See, Escobar brought his family with him while he was on the run, on what must have been the worst vacation ever.
[5:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As they bounced between safe houses, their living conditions were sometimes dire.
[5:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In fact, one night it was so cold that his daughter became hypothermic.
[5:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Escobar's solution, he burned $2 million in cash to warm everybody up.
[6:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jeez.
[6:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's absolutely outrageous.
[6:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If I had that much money to literally burn, I'd be sleeping soundly if I was on the runner-not.
[6:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's fair to say that one of the only things money can't buy is time.
[6:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After all, nobody's immortal, but ultra-wealthy Russian billionaire Demetriyetskoth is looking to change that.
[6:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: No, seriously, in 2011,etskoth set up something he caused the 2045 initiative.
[6:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: a non-profit organization that aims to make eternal life a genuine possibility.
[6:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: How?
[6:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By downloading human consciousness into robot bodies, of course?
[6:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, it might sound like something out of a cheesy sci-fi movie, but it's totally true.
[6:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The plan is to transfer the human mind into an artificial brain connected to an android or holographic body.
[6:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That way, we won't be subject to aging and could theoretically blimpers long as the artificial body allows.
[6:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He's absolutely convinced that this will be a reality by 2045.
[7:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He might be...
[7:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: but it sounds absolutely bonkers to me.
[7:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I mean, how do you go about downloading a human consciousness?
[7:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Indeed, there's massive debate among the scientific community as to whether something like that could ever be possible.
[7:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Most scientists are firmly against the idea, though the eccentric billionaire Elon Musk reckons it'll happen sooner rather than later.
[7:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Do I trust his words over the majority of the scientific community?
[7:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Probably not, throughout history there have been a lot of crazy rich rulers that were also just playing crazy.
[7:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Chieve among them was arguably the Roman Emperor Caligula, who ran from 37 to 41 AD.
[7:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This guy was a real piece of work.
[7:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: For a start he legally changed his name to the god Jupiter and even dressed like him in an attempt to gain respect.
[7:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It didn't work, as Ego also led him to pass a law banning people from standing over him, just so they couldn't catch a glimpse of his bald spot.
[8:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Talk about insecurities.
[8:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh, Annie tried an aromantic relationship with the moon.
[8:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yes, the big one in the sky.
[8:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This, uh, also didn't work?
[8:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Side by side with his insanity was his obsession with wealth.
[8:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As well as bathing in gold coins, the emperor was also known to dissolve precious pearls and vinegar and drink them as a display of his riches.
[8:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But despite all this madness, the thing he became most well known for was his treatment of his racehorse, Incatatus, Caligula loved him.
[8:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The whole Incatatus was given a stable though it was more like a palace complete with servants that fed him oats cut with flakes of gold.
[8:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And whenever the Pambin horse was due to participate in a race, the entire neighborhood was commanded to remain silent for the whole day before so he could concentrate.
[8:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I don't care, sanity.
[8:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It couldn't get weirder than that though, right?
[9:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: While according to legend, Caligula went so far as to have his horse appointed a console of the Roman state, essentially making him one of the big wigs and charge of things.
[9:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And truth, Caligula was asked before this could happen, but the Emperor had wanted it
[9:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hmm, a horse for a politician.
[9:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I suppose it might have done a better job than what we've currently got.
[9:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We've all heard rumors of secret shendags held by the rich and powerful.
[9:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Elusive organizations like the Illuminati and the Free Masons are rumored to hold confidential get-togethers to influence our entire society.
[9:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Spooky!
[9:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But back in 1972, Baroness, Marie Helene, Daroth Child of the prominent French banking family, held an exclusive party so loud, so lavish, so downright insane, it put the free maisons to shame.
[9:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Ross Child's surrealist ball was a bizarre display of extravagance that was like one of those mythical Illuminati gatherings brought to life.
[10:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: With a seemingly endless budget, countless celebrity guests in an array of unsettling decorant costumes, and had it all.
[10:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And when I say unsettling, I mean it.
[10:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Satanic imagery and occult decorations adorn the expensive Shantou the ball is held in.
[10:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As for dinner, that was served on a creepy old mannequin.
[10:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And if guests weren't traumatized enough by that, the dining tables themselves were decorated with decaying baby dolls.
[10:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: taxidermized turtles and furry plates.
[10:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Gross.
[10:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I don't think I'd be able to enjoy my meal with that kind of decor.
[10:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What's wrong with burking?
[10:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hmm, were they making a tongue-and-cheek reference to the secret societies that supposedly had these parties or actually reveling in the reality?
[10:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I'm not sure, but what do you think?
[10:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If I could avoid flying commercial I would, the all experience can be totally solid destroying.
[10:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And that's without any not related incidents.
[11:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Point is flying should be fun.
[11:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Sultan of Brunei has sonoboca, agrees with me it seems.
[11:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: His private plane is so decked up that he could live in the thing.
[11:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Known as the floating palace, the gen has all the amenities that the soul might need.
[11:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A master bedroom with in-sweet bathrooms, a conference room, a formal dining room, you name it.
[11:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let that all sounds way too practical to me.
[11:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Luckily, Bocaia isn't just about practicality.
[11:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The decor is absolutely covered in solid and plated gold right down to the toilet bowl.
[11:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's right, everybody boops, only some of us do it in style.
[11:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But how much did all this cost?
[11:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, the base-bowing jet and all the crazy extras like Golden Bugs would have caused the Brunei official up to $520 million dollars.
[11:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh man, that's a whole lot of dough.
[11:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Then again, this is the same guy that once dropped over $24,000 on a haircut.
[12:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When you've got a beautiful shiny dome like me, you don't need a haircut.
[12:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I've had enough of this dude.
[12:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The luxurious, intercontinental train of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a seriously impressive ride, but at once belonged to his father Kim Jong-il.
[12:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He was petrified of lying, so he'd take the megatrain everywhere.
[12:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And his time, the spacious carriages, were filled with comfy furniture, bedrooms, bathrooms, and a heck of a lot of bodyguards.
[12:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And if Kim or his guests got packaged, they could order food or drink sourced from a huge selection of countries.
[12:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Though Kim had one ordered he was particularly fond of.
[12:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If you thought the train itself was crazy, listen to this.
[12:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Apparently the old North Korean leader was so keen on fresh lobster that he had it airlifted to the train by chopper every single day.
[12:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: No matter where he was in the world.
[12:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Geez, we can only guess the amount of money and effort required to pull off such a ridiculous task, but one thing's for sure.
[13:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The liver ru wouldn't have stood a chance.
[13:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: To this day, the train is still used by his son Kim Jong-un and it's more than just fancy.
[13:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The carriages are well approved to disappoint any potential assassins, stat by an army of female attendance and flanked by additional security trains filled with guards.
[13:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So it's not just a luxurious way to travel, it's also a mobile fortress.
[13:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Middle.
[13:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Nick Cage probably the most insane actor of our time.
[13:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But as it happens, the madness extends far beyond his on-screen performances.
[13:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This man's entire life is absurd.
[13:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He's been stalked by a mime, a woken to a naked guy in his bedroom wearing his jacket and eating a fudge sickle, and owns a crow that apparently cuses him out.
[13:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh, wacky stuff, but it gets even weirder.
[13:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The eccentric movie actor once set out on a quest to find the holy grail.
[14:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yeah, the legendary artifact that has eluded experts for hundreds of years.
[14:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Unsurprisingly, he failed to recover it, National Treasure was just a movie neck, yet can't go around raiding Princess artifacts from ancient tombs in a real life.
[14:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This fact clearly, Erks Nick, so he's doing his part to ensure there are more tombs to raid for future generations.
[14:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And by that, I mean, his own.
[14:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, cage purchases own pyramid tomb for $61,000 in preparation for the tragic day we lose this god-em-unman.
[14:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: No word on whether he's chosen a booby trap at just yet, but he definitely seems the type to haunt it.
[14:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I mean, back in 2007, he dropped an eyewatering 3.4 million dollars on a New Orleans mansion and purported to be one of the most haunted properties in America.
[14:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Built in the 1800s by a sadistic criminal called Madame la Loury, it's safe to say all kinds of unspeakable horrors happened inside.
[14:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So why did Cage buy it?
[14:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, he wanted to write the next great American Hor novel and figured it'd be the perfect
[15:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Only after dropping all that moolahi quickly gave up on writing the book when bankrupt and was forced to sell the place.
[15:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: only cage.
[15:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Bert Reynolds was a popular American actor in 1970's Celebrity Icon known for his extensive filmography, something that landed in millions of dollars in wealth.
[15:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But I'd argue there's something for crazier he should be known for.
[15:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let me set the scene.
[15:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Bertie Boy was fed up with the National Enquirer and newspaper that he said it had been running crap about him for years, so he sent out to get some well-deserved payback,
[15:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: See Reynolds owned a ranch, a helicopter, and no less than 100 horses.
[15:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And all those horses produced a hell of a lot of poop.
[15:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One night in December 2013, he had his helicopter pilot collect a huge amount of said poop into a net, then take off for the papers HQ.
[15:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Can you see where this is going?
[16:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The pilot reached his destination and positioned the chaper above a colossal Christmas tree outside the office building.
[16:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: one that they were super proud of showing off.
[16:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Then boom, he let the sticky payload lose.
[16:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: With a sickening, could splat the entire tree was utterly coated and stinking manure and the chopper flew off into the night.
[16:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Amazingly, nobody had any idea who was behind the attack.
[16:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That isn't until 2015 when Bird came clean and admitted how much better it had made him feel.
[16:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's unclear if he faced charges for giving the inquire some of its crap back, but I doubt he cared much either way.
[16:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There was a time in the early 2000s when Wesley Snipes is one of the most end-to-man actors in Hollywood.
[16:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He helped usher in the superhero movie craze with his starring turn in the Blade movies, but the fame and fortune would end up going to his head.
[16:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: While shooting 2004's Blade Trinity Snipes went full diva, and you never go full diva.
[16:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He refused to come on set for anything but his own close-ups and stayed in his trailer smoking most of the
[17:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Because of this behavior, he didn't exactly get along with the record David Eskoyer.
[17:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In fact, he refused to talk to him outside of post-it notes and would demand to be referred to only his blade.
[17:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Wow, talk about a man child.
[17:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And one faithful scene snipes refuse to open his eyes when Goyer directed him to, forcing the special effects aimed to edit them open and post.
[17:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And when from ridiculous to downright dangerous, when Snipes allegedly attempted to strangle Boyer.
[17:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yikes, that's a bad look.
[17:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Suffice to say snipes largely disappeared from film after word of his shenanigans gone out.
[17:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Turns out nobody wants to work with a actor that won't even open his eyes without a week's notice.
[17:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Howard Hughes was an American businessman, film producer and philanthropist born in 1905.
[17:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: With a net worth equating to a mind blowing $11 billion in today's money, he was comfortably one of the richest men of his time.
[18:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In his heyday, the guy was a
[18:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Only money can't buy a sanity, and the older Hughes got the less stable he became.
[18:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He was hyper-conjurect and gradually grew into a germaphob too.
[18:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It got so bad that he started wearing Kleenexboxes on his feet to protect himself.
[18:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As these bizarre behaviors got more intense, he became increasingly reclusive, choosing to spend days on end entirely alone.
[18:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: On top of this, he developed a bad case of obsessive compulsive disorder, and rather than a very diet, he was at the exact same thing for dinner every night.
[18:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A medium-rare steak would salad in peas, and he'd only ever eat the very smallest of those peas.
[18:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The others got pushed to the side.
[18:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At one point, he was holding himself up in a movie studio for four whole months, while there he sat in darkness alone and totally naked watching movies on loop.
[18:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He refused to eat anything but chocolate and chicken, drank only milk and surrounded himself with stacks of clean Xboxes that he repeatedly and incessantly rearranged.
[19:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Right.
[19:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Allegedly, he wouldn't even take bathroom breaks instead opting to pee in bottles.
[19:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Gross.
[19:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What the heck did he do if he needed to go number two?
[19:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By the time the strange vacation came to an end, Hughes was a shabby shadow of his former self, and all of his own volition.
[19:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It said, really, the man himself best summed it all up in his now infamous quote, I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire, God damn it, I'm a billionaire.
[19:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well said, Howie.
[19:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well said.
[19:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Some celebrities splurge on fleets of ships, others on businesses, they're ill-equipped to run, and others still on their terrible passion projects.
[19:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Looking at you, Battlefield Earth?
[19:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Can Basinger, however, of 80s Hollywood famed thought all of that was too predictable, so she bought an entire town.
[19:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's right, back in 1989, Basinger purchased the town of Braselton, Georgia for $20 million.
[20:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's $49 million today.
[20:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Or rather, she bought most of the land the town was built on.
[20:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It might seem like a ridiculous waste of money, but she had big plans for the place.
[20:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The actress intended for Brasal tend to become a major tourist attraction with various production and recording studios and even its own film festival.
[20:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Given that you've never heard of any such tourist spot in Georgia, you've probably already surmised that things didn't quite work out for Camstown.
[20:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In 1993, she backed out of a movie she'd been verbally contracted to and wound up paying a $3.8 million settlement to mainline studios, leading her to bankruptcy.
[20:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Because of this, she sold the town, but only got a measly $1 million.
[20:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Nowadays, had to be willing to bet its residents have absolutely no memory of the debacle.
[20:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And consequently, the rest of the world has no memory of Brasalten.
[20:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At my last birthday, my uncle Fernando and I played duck duck goose for two hours.
[21:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At professional boxer Floyd Mayweather's 43rd birthday in 2020, he had exotic dancers on tiny airplanes and a suit that probably caused more than my house.
[21:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yep, when the wealthy do birthday's, they don't bother with Pentatele on the doggy.
[21:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After earning an incredible $275 million from his previous fight, May weather decided to splash out on a colossal shendig attended by all his celebrity pals.
[21:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The boxer booked an entire Hollywood nightclub and even rained piles of cash down on his guests throughout the party.
[21:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Only the money was fake and featured May weather's face on it.
[21:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Krike.
[21:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Just in case anyone in attendance forgot whose party it was I suppose.
[21:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Given how extravagant the whole affair was, and the sportsman's massive ego, that wouldn't be surprised if may weather himself fired the custom cash out of a cannon.
[21:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Ah, maybe next year, Mama let me hold my party in McDonald's.
[21:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I'm gonna give you guys some free life advice.
[21:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Don't bother with plastic surgery.
[21:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You're all beautiful already.
[22:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Besides, you're on the risk of looking like jasslin wild
[22:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Wallenstein is a Swiss socialite who married a billionaire, Arts dealer in 1978, and subsequently became obsessed with updating her appearance.
[22:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After a messy divorce in 1999, she was awarded a whopping $2.5 billion settlement with an additional $100 million every year on one condition.
[22:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: She wasn't allowed to use any of the payout on her face.
[22:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now, I don't know whether she used that payout to her family's cash, but she certainly didn't stop having surgery.
[22:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In 2017, she said she might continue going under the knife well into her 90s, and Reckon Sheets been about $6 and a half million dollars on it already.
[22:44] \[UNKNOWN\]: Man.
[22:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You can probably see why she gained the nickname the Cat Woman.
[22:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The super excessive surgery is left here with an almost feline appearance.
[22:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If you ask me though, the result is a little less cat and a lot more cat-tastrophy.
[22:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Where does your dog sleep?
[23:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At the foot of your bed, the corner of the kitchen, out back in a cute little dog house?
[23:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, perfectly normal places.
[23:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But if your New York socialite pairs held you never except such squalic conditions for your furry friends.
[23:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In 2009, she dropped a mind-blowing 325,000 dollars on a miniature two-story mansion for her pet dogs.
[23:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's already mad, but keep in mind, back in 2009, the average U.S. house price was only about $185,000.
[23:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So Hilton's Dogga domain wasn't far off twice the price of a full human-sized house.
[23:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jeez.
[23:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The mansion itself spans 300 square feet as fully air conditioned and even houses expensive for leap-stark furniture.
[23:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's a big deal.
[23:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: These dogs have a fancier pad than me, and I'm willing to bet they don't have to pay any rent either.
[23:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In fact, they probably eat better than me too.
[23:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Damn!
[23:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The United Arab Emirates has had a real drop problem of light, and it's a hot place and water is becoming harder to come by, leaving some to devise creative solutions to the problem.
[24:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: An Emirati businessman named Abdullah Al-Shahay announced in 2017 that he has a plan.
[24:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He's going to have an entire iceberg transported from Antarctica to the Arabian Gulf.
[24:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Okay, and fairness, the logic behind the plan is somewhat sound.
[24:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Your average iceberg contains up to 20 billion gallons of fresh water, and go a long way to solving the water shortage.
[24:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And it is theoretically plausible that a group of ships could tether a nice Bergen drag it across the ocean.
[24:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Whether or not it will actually work, however, is another matter.
[24:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: For one, the vast 5,700 mile journey would take a year and around 30% of the iceberg's mass would melt along the way.
[24:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And what did make it back would still need to be maintained properly while it's harvested for water.
[24:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That would need one huge, super high-tech cooling system to pull off.
[25:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Never mind the immense cost of attempting such a feat.
[25:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There's been no word on the project since it was initially announced, so we'll just have to wait and see if the wild idea holds water.
[25:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And with that impeccable pun, I've had my fill of these rich crazies.
[25:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Which did you think was the looneyest story?
[25:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Are there any other rich nut dogs you want to see covered?
[25:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thanks for listening to the podcast, we'll see you again next time you'll want to be amazed.

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