A podcast about liars, frauds, thieves, and bullshitters. Subscribe to our bonus feed for two more episodes a month! patreon.com/liecheatandsteal
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Comedian Chris Tellez, AJ Henderson, and Ryan Cownie give guests a limited amount of time to convince them to care about anything.
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Fear is a podcast that descends into the darkest domains of the human experience. Guests discuss the true stories of their most harrowing moments and break down their personal accounts of fear itself. Hosted by Lawson Bennett Produced by Body Tape Intl. Logo by Joshua Helms http://joshuawhelms.com Music by Lawson Bennett
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Every human is a library, filled with adventures to share. “The Listening Room” is a live storytelling show and podcast hosted by comedian Joey Zimmerman and produced by Body Tape Intl. Join us for tales told by comedians, musicians, and special guests. There are no themes per chapter, so each episode provides a wide variety of stories. Some happy. Some crazy. Some sad. Some a mixture of all. “The Listening Room” is performed/recorded at Genuine Joe’s Coffeehouse in Austin, TX. Join us for a ...
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Ben explains philosophical concepts to Pat in an attempt to get him to learn something.
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Austin's Grossest Boys of Comedy (Andrew Clarkston, Danny Goodwin, & Enzo Priesnitz) slime off, post up, and culture jam the top pop.
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Casual film dining for the serious movie lover with Bret & Courtney!
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Extra Salty is a deep dive into the feelings behind holding onto and letting go of resentment. Created and hosted by comedians Jasmine Ellis and Ky Krebs.
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The Two Knights of SOS Fest gear up with interviews with the performers of SOS Fest.
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Wondering what a career in comedy looks like? We are too! We interview top comics in Austin and around the country, picking their brains about the process of becoming a professional stand up comic and the variety of forms that might take. Hosted by Arielle Norman.
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Christmas comes just once a year--unless you're Avery and Adam. They're throwing a year-round Christmas party with funny friends, holiday memories, jokes, crime, and some yuletide cheer. Jing-a-ling y'all.
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A lot has been going on in the scam world lately so we are back with another roundup! Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal.
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Why Should We Care #61 | Cat Swantner
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Susan Banks, Coty Craven and the Scandal in Accessible Gaming
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Kath tells Pat about a recent story involving a community of disability advocates working in video games, several of whom may not exist.
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Kath tells Pat about how a small school dedicated to training artists for the ad industry metastasized into one of San Francisco's largest landowners and bilked aspiring artists out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Why Should We Care #60 | Erik Sprague aka Lizardman
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August 2024 Scam Roundup
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Pat and Kath talk upcoming vacations, near death experiences, and a roundup of recent stories from the world of liars, frauds, thieves and bullshitters.
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Kaitlyn Braun, the Doula Deceiver
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Kath tells Pat about a Canadian woman who scammed dozens of doulas with a fake pregnancy sob story. Hear the full episode on our patreon at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!
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Kath tells Pat about the Mirai Botnet, supercharged form malware that caused such disastrous denial of service attacks that it managed to bring down internet service for the entire US eastern seaboard in 2016. Was this the work of a foreign actor, hoping to influence a crucial US election? The truth is even weirder.…
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Why Should We Care #59 | Leah Tiscione
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Chris & Ryan sit down with artist Leah Tiscione. www.comedyfrequency.com Sheath Underwear www.sheathunderwear.com 20% Code: ComedyFrequency Instagram @whyshouldwecarepod Leah Tiscione @secretcrayon Chris Tellez @hichristellez Ryan Cownie @ryamcownieDoor WSWC
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Kath tells Pat about airbnb scams, and we explore a former real estate broker's illegal airbnb empire in New York City that netted tens of millions of dollars before getting busted.
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Carl Rinsch and 'Conquest'
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Pat tells Kath about Carl Rinsch, a rookie director hired by netflix during the peak of the streaming wars to make a sci fi blockbuster series. What happened next is a wild ride involving cryptocurrency, vyvanse, Keanu Reeves, and 60 million dollars down the drain.
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We're back! Pat brings us the rise and fall of a proposed libertarian, bitcoin-run, agrarian utopia in Chile called Galt's Gulch.
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The Pigeon King's Ponzi Scheme
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Kath tells Pat the strange tale of Arlan Galbraith, a Canadian farmer and pigeon racer who enlisted the Amish and Mennonite communities in a pigeon breeding ponzi scheme that resulted not just in exorbitant sums of money, but also in tens of thousands of pigeons.
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Why Should We Care #58
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Kath tells Pat about Bill Benter, the man who used math to successfully bet on a game that was previously considered to be impossible to statistically predict: horse racing. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!
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Red Lobster and Venture Capital
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Pat tells Kath the frustrating saga of Red Lobster, the universally beloved seafood franchise restaurant that fell prey to venture capital and is suffering the consequences.
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PATREON PREVIEW: Counterfeiting
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Pat tells Kath about the world of counterfeit currency, and brings us a historical counterfeiting case that ensnared Sir Isaac Newton. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!
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Matthew Bergwall and Refunding Scams
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Pat and Kath discuss The Cut's recent article about Matthew Bergwall, a Miami college student who briefly became an incredibly prolific refund scammer - a brand new form of scamming enabled by internet retailers' lax return policies.
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Why Should We Care #57 | Dillon Thomson
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Kath tells Pat about the rise and fall of moviepass - a company that began with modest aims made an investment deal with the devil that eventually led to disaster - but not before we all got some free movie tickets out of it. To hear the rest of this episode as well as ad-free versions of our free episodes, check out our patreon at patreon.com/liec…
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Pat tells Kath about the history of Boeing's shady practices that led to the grounding of their 737 Max planes and the Alaska airlines incident earlier this year.
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Why Should We Care #56
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Kath tells Pat about a recent case of identity theft that spanned over 30 years, and in which law enforcement prosecuted the victim as the perpetrator. Listen to the full version of this episode, as well as 100+ other bonus episodes and ad free versions of our show on our patreon! www.patreon.com/liecheatandsteal…
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Secrets of the Carnival ft. 'The Lizardman' Erik Sprague
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Our special guest, professional freak and carnival performer Erik Sprague (aka The Lizardman), tells Pat and Kath all about the scams and tricks the carnival uses to take our money and keep us entertained, from an insider's point of view.
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While researching cash heists, Pat stumbles across the long legacy of lying, fraud, thievery and bullshit at GardaWorld, a company to which many American banks have outsourced their securities storage. Listen to the full version of this episode, as well as 100+ other bonus episodes and ad free versions of our show on our patreon! www.patreon.com/li…
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Kath tells Pat about the various scandals of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including its connections to art thieves and traffickers, and its history of displaying counterfeit artifacts.
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Kath tells Pat about social media self help superstar Jay Shetty, who's amazing life story took him from an ashram to the white house.... maybe.
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Kath tells Pat about Brian Molony, on whom the Philip Seymour Hoffman movie Owning Mahowny is based. Brian is a Canadian gambling addict who lost so much money he managed to get the biggest casino in Atlantic City shut down for a day.
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Pat tells Kath about how an auto mechanic with a checkered past capitalized on environmental tax incentives to perpetrate one of the biggest ponzi schemes in American history.
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Just For Lies: New Faces (Scam Roundup)
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Pat brings us another scam roundup, including updates on Chiefsaholic, George Santos, the Kia Boys, and a number of new up and coming scammers.
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Kath tells Pat about Jalisco New Generation, a Mexican drug cartel with a new line of revenue: scamming timeshare owners over the phone. For the full episode, check out our patreon at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!
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From the Archives: Shaun King
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This episode was originally recorded in summer of 2020 for our patreon feed (patreon.com/liecheatandsteal), but we thought we should repost it publicly since Shaun King is up to his old tricks again, this time in the name of Palestine rather than in the name of Black Lives Matter. This episode isn't updated with all of his recent antics, and the so…
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Why Should We Care #55 | Doug Mellard
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Why Should We Care? Podcast #54 | Dulce Mac
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The Ice King Charlie Morse
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Kath and Pat talk about sobriety (don't worry, we won't try to convert you) and then about Charlie Morse, a man who leveraged his Maine upbringing into a monopoly on a precious commodity in a pre-refrigeration world: ice.
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This is a preview of our patreon only episode this week, about a country that went from being one of the richest on earth per capita to one of the poorest. To access the rest of this episode as well as an advertising free feed, sign up at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal.
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Why Should We Care? Podcast #53 | Enrique Chacón
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Enrique Chacón from Kill Tony joins the guys on the podcast. www.comedyfrequency.com Sheath Underwear www.sheathunderwear.com 20% Code: ComedyFrequency Instagram @whyshouldwecarepod Enrique Chacón @enriquecomedy Chris Tellez @hichristellez Ryan Cownie @ryamcownieDoor WSWC
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Rodney Grubbs, Pickleball Scammer
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After some gambling talk, Pat tells Kath about an enterprising pickleball player who scammed his fellow enthusaists (don't worry, he also explains what pickleball is). Check out our patreon for two more episodes a month! www.patreon.com/liecheatandsteal
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At an episode recorded in person (!) in Austin, Kath tells Pat about Lord Gordon Gordon, a would-be Scottish noble who nearly caused an international incident between the US and Canada in the 1870s.
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Benny Binion ft. Zac Brooks
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Pat and Zac conclude our series on Texas gamblers with the tale of Benny Binion. Check out our youtube page to watch the dice game! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@liecheatstealpodcast
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Why Should We Care? #52 | Raul Sanchez & George Anthony
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Kath tells Pat about the extremely profitable world of animal smuggling. The judicial penalties are low, but don't try this at home - the criminal organizations involved in this industry might come after you for muscling in on their territory.
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Amarillo Slim ft. Zac Brooks
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Our pal Zac Brooks is back to tell us about the life and times of another legendary Texas outlaw gambler, Amarillo Slim.
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How To Win at Scratch Tickets
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Pat and Kath discuss how to win on "baited hook" scratch tickets, using an algorithmic disovery made in 2003 by Canadian statistician Mohan Srivastava, and possibly many others around North America. Much of the information in this episode comes from the 2011 Wired Article by Jonah Lehrer about Srivastava's discovery: https://www.wired.com/2011/01/c…
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Titanic Thompson ft. Zac Brooks
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Part 1 of our series on Outlaw Gambling legends with Zac Brooks kicks off with the tall tale of Titanic Thompson, unusually gifted in both athleticism and prop bets, using one skill to feed the other.
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: Pat takes Kath through a few scams that have hit the news lately, including a dime theft, a beloved tamale restaurant's dark underbelly, and a fake priest ring.Door Body Tape Intl.
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Paul Jordan-Smith and Disumbrationism
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Kath brings Pat another art scam from a man so disgusted by modern art he decided to invent an entire genre of it: Disumbrationism.Door Body Tape Intl.
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Why Should We Care? #50 | Hunter Duncan
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Dan Saunders and The Glitch
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Pat tells Kath about yet another Australian man who benefitted from an ATM glitch to the tune of over a million dollars - it's happened twice! And he would have gotten away with it if he weren't such a good guy.Door Body Tape Intl.
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