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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1129: Russ Swain | The Good Mormon Who Made Bad Money

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

From postage stamps to diamond-dusted $20s: Former counterfeiter Russ Swain takes us inside the addictive world of artistic forgery and its moral reckoning.

Transcript

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Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:02.8

How can I think outside the box?

0:04.4

And I thought, okay, remember that postage stamp?

0:07.5

That was clever.

0:09.5

And it was thinking outside the box.

0:11.2

And I will say, being clever doesn't prevent you from doing things that are stupid.

0:15.8

It enables you to do more grandiose forms of stupidity.

0:25.3

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:27.8

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started. Today on the show, Russ Swain, he's a Mormon, a counterfeiter, and an art forger, and yes,

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