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Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A British Army major and his wife devise a plan to cheat the popular television game show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Prelude: Michael Larson's record-breaking performance on Press Your Luck. –––-–---------------------------------------- PATREON: Patreon.com/Swindled DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's meet our second player, Michael Larson.
0:03.4	How are you, Michael?
0:04.4	Now, Michael, what do you do for a minute?
0:08.6	Oh, I drive an ice cream truck in the summer.
0:11.4	I hope to win enough money here not to have to do that.
0:13.7	You have to win today?
0:15.5	Yeah, the ice cream truck, what do you do today?
0:17.0	No, I didn't.
0:18.1	We had all kinds of orders we were going to take.
0:20.0	What a day for it.
0:22.1	Michael Larson was 34 years old and unemployed in Lebanon, Ohio.
0:27.1	He drove a Mr. Softy ice cream truck part-time in the summer.
0:30.4	But after losing his full-time job as an air conditioner repairman,
0:34.1	he was getting by on his unemployment benefits
0:36.9	and his girlfriend Theresa's paychecks.
0:39.7	Michael wasn't lazy because he would go to great lengths
0:42.7	to obtain money.
0:44.1	He just did not enjoy working the traditional nine to five.
0:49.0	Michael was born to grift.
0:51.1	As a kid, he was in the candy bars in the school
0:53.3	to sell to his classmates for a profit.
0:56.1	As an adult, he took advantage of a local bank's promotion
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