John Victor Aspinall: Part 1 - Aristocracy Bizarre
5/17/202645 min
In this weeks episode of Aristocracy Bizarre, Titus and Rozie unpack the outrageous rise of John Aspinall - the expelled Oxford playboy who built a secret high stakes gambling empire for Britain’s aristocracy, bribed police, and helped change UK gambling laws forever.
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First 90 secondsTitus O'Reily· Host0:00
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Mick Molloy· Host0:21
[upbeat music] It's time to head back to the home of all things bizarre.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:26
Get the whiteboard out.
Mick Molloy· Host0:27
It's a wild ride.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:28
Don't panic, it's bonkers.
Mick Molloy· Host0:29
Where we shine a light on loopy, shonky, and plain outrageous behavior from around the globe.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:34
It's gonna alarm you how the world operates. All right, here we go. A lot of skullduggery.
Mick Molloy· Host0:38
It's Bizarre.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:39
Buckle up. We're gonna dive in. What could go wrong?
Mick Molloy· Host0:42
With Mick Molloy and Titus O'Reilly.
Titus O'Reily· Host0:44
Yes, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of Aristocracy Bizarre. Uh, we've got our crime, we've got our sport, we've got our animal, but of course, Aristocracy Bizarre might be the weirdest of them all, but also providing the last. And joining me today is the person who discovered this story, Adam Rosenbach. Welcome back.
Adam Rosenbach· Guest1:05
Thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to this one.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:07
You found this guy. He's aristocrat. There's a bit of Crime Bizarre in this.
Adam Rosenbach· Guest1:11
Yes.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:11
There's a bit of Animal Bizarre in this. It really does combine a lot of our interests of area.
Adam Rosenbach· Guest1:17
So I was reading Patrick, uh, Redden Keefe's new book, London Falling, which is absolutely incredible. I highly recommend it.
Titus O'Reily· Host1:23
So what's the book about?
Adam Rosenbach· Guest1:24
Uh, the book is about a, a death in London in 2019, and then just the web that it's,