Ignorance has found its champion! Meet the man who failed so epically he succeeded in spite of his many missteps.

Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Newburyport, Massachusetts, to visit a mansion once owned by an idiot named Lord Timothy Dexter. An idiot, who no matter how many stupid business moves he made continued to fail upward, getting richer with each failure, which makes us wonder if maybe he wasn’t an idiot at all.

In 1802, Dexter published his memoir A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, a book that became legend, even though it did not use 1 bit of punctuation or structure.

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The Legend of Timothy Dexter - A New England Legends Podcast

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