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A podcast about liars, fraudsters, thieves, and bullshitters.
Pat tells Kath about Lost Boy Larry, a hoax (maybe?) that spawned the most expensive search and rescue mission in New Mexico history.
Kath tells Pat the story of a French woman living in England who's tale of being catfished has some surprising twists and turns. The informa...
Pat tells Kath some stories involving enterprising individuals exploiting various loopholes - through gambling, insurance fraud, and even th...
We all know grocery prices are going up. But is it all just "inflation"? Or are mega-corporations dictating the price of our pepsis? Take a...
Kath tells Pat the story of a scam from the height of America's sweepstakes craze, featuring a cast of unusual characters and a cameo by Don...
Pat tells Kath about the real life inspiration for Tony and AJ Soprano, who's short-lived, mob-connected Connecticut hockey team has become...
Pat tells Kath about a wrongful death case in his beloved Myrtle Beach involving a complicated stand your ground law, corrupt cops, a child...
Kath returns to the main podcast feed with a story about celebrity impersonators running romance scams on older women, and the efforts being...
at talks to friends of the show Holly Hart and Katrina Walters about the emerging trend of social media influencers being influenced by dark...
Pat talks to friends of the show Zac Brooks and Nick Saverino about the questionable legal status and murky outcomes that occur when profess...
Kath tells Pat about a crypto criminal who's corruption caused (yet another) scandal in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Pat brings Kath a rundown of the year in scams, including some superlative awards for the finest scammers. This one was going to be a bonus...
This week, Pat tells Kath about a big name in the world of true crime that turned out to be a fraud himself.
Kath tells Pat about Pageturner Press and Media, one of many fraudulent "author services" companies based in the Philippines and targeting s...
Kath and Pat discuss "Chatfishing", the name The Guardian has coined for people who use Chat GPT to help with (deceive?) their matches on da...
Pat tells Kath about the pseudoscientific history of the IQ test, and how eugenicists used the idea of innate genius to justify their racist...
Kath tells Pat about a political corruption story from a simpler time: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich follows in a long line of Illinois...
Pat tells Kath about the strange life of Robert F. Kennedy Jr - chronicling his bizarre childhood, his years as a functioning drug addict pr...
Kath tells Pat about a embezzling sugar daddy who used his massive ill gotten gains to support a camgirl to the tune of millions of dollars...
Pat tells Kath about two Christian Nationalist billionaires using their fortunes to put their thumbs on the scale of Texas' politics.
Kath tells Pat about a theft that rocked the foundations of the close knit world of Star Wars collectors, where a single plastic Boba Fett c...
Pat tells Kath about Huey Long, the most influential politician in the history of Louisiana, for better and for worse. Is he a member of the...
Kath tells Pat about a mysterious caller who bewitched famous and powerful men throughout the 1980s, and her surprising true identity. Much...
In honor of our latest war-based-on-nothing, Pat tells Kath about some historical examples of leaders using trumped up or fully manufactured...
Kath tells Pat about a crypto scam that took a small town in Argentina by storm. For the full episode and over 110 additional patreon-only e...
Kath tells Pat about a local Brooklyn mystery, that when unraveled reveals a predatory real estate scheme run by a notorious slumlord. The i...
Pat tells Kath about the Shaun King of 1880s Scotland, Annie Gordon Baillie. To hear the rest of this episode, go to patreon.com/liecheatand...
Pat explains how our new "technofeudalist" economy, where increasingly, goods and services are rented rather than paid for outright (our pod...
Kath tells Pat about the King of Bougainville, Noah Musingku, who turned a ponzi scheme borne of an economic crisis into a would-be monarchy...
Kath tells Pat the story of Alan Todd May, who turned an engaging personality and a small inherited oil claim into a Ponzi scheme that had h...
Pat and Kath talk some topical scams, frauds, and thefts. We cover some pope-related shenanigans, Fyre Fest 2, a Looney Tunes-style break-in...
In this episode, recorded in person in Austin, Pat tells Kath about the reason behind the modern scourge of fake job listings, wasting appli...
Kath tells Pat about a would-be communication breakthrough for nonverbal and autistic people that maintains popularity, despite being labele...
Kath tells Pat credit repair agencies, an industry which take the scam that is the credit score an adds another scam on top of it. We talk a...
Pat tells Kath about Shawn Bolz, a Charismatic Christian who combines two classic forms of scamming: "psychic" cold reading and prophetic mi...
On this dual-subject episode, Pat tells Kath about the history of Deadwood, South Dakota, a town filled with liars, frauds, thieves and bull...
Kath tells Pat about a classic scammer archetype: the gambler who's convinced he has a system, and gets in over his head. Viktor Gjonaj was...
Kath tells Pat about Anthony William, The Medical Medium, a health guru who claims to have the ability to commune with the spirit world abou...
Pat and Kath talk about the many sorts of scams they've been victim of in the stand up comedy world, where it's easy for would-be bookers, s...
Have you ever talked to an o***f**s model? Well, we have some news for you: that was, to quote everyone in the media, "some guy in the Phili...
Pat tells Kath about an idea somewhere between a vanity project and a utopian vision from Akon, the rnb singer who's songs we love, but who'...
Do you want to become an alpha male? Pat runs through a list of fellow alphas who want to teach you how to be more masculine - for a price.
Pat and Kath discuss the Small Venue Operators' Grant, a well intentioned program meant for small performance venues (like the ones we perfo...
Kath tells Pat about a man who's rise as a South American drug kingpin was stunted by - but possibly also originated from - his childhood dr...
series exploring the industries that sell men on masculine identity. This first episode covers the phenomenon of oversized trucks that have...
Kath tells Pat about a Boston area woman who pulled a real life version of Billy Madison - posing as a high school student at public schools...
Kath tells Pat about Vlad Artamonov, the Harvard Business School graduate who used his prestigious alumni network to scam other high powered...
Since Rita Crundwell is back in the news after being pardoned by Joe Biden, we thought we'd rerelease this episode from way back in 2017 whe...
Since it's topical, we decided to drop this episode a day early. Pat dives into the sordid history of United Healthcare, which helps explain...
Our pal Jack Frazee comes by to offer a legal perspective on some of Texas History's wildest bribery scandals, and how they've shaped the st...