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True Crime Obsessed

215: Fruitcake Fraud

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.235.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

AND BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN THINK IT, LET ME REMIND YOU THAT PATRICK IS THE QUEEN FRUITCAKE AROUND HERE...and as much as we want this to be about a band of gay fraudsters, it's not.

TIS THE SEASON TO BE SHADY! When the world's most beloved fruitcake company realizes that millions upon millions of dollars have been stolen from the CENTURY OLD FRUITCAKE FACTORY, the whole town is in an uproar. We've got socialites LITERALLY GOSSIPPING OVER POMEGRANATE MARTINIS AT 9AM, members of the centuries old cotillion book club who SIMPLY CAN'T BELIEVE IT, And the world's great accountant, a lady named Semetric, who figures it all out. THIS. ONE. IS. BANANAS.

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0:34.0

Mike in because I wanted to show him what I was watching this because I wanted to show

0:37.3

him something in the documentary and he goes, wait, that looks just like, hold on a second.

0:41.6

Runs out of the office, goes into the kitchen and brings a Colin Street bakery tin. He was

0:46.7

like, I just bought that fruit cake today. Wait, what? How do you know about this? He did

0:52.7

it and then I learned later that it's like the only fruit cake there is and it's not

0:56.3

that crazy. Hey, Mike, I'm a fruit cake right over here. I got your fruit cake ready

1:00.7

up, Ellie. Hi, Julia Betzavali. Hi, Patrick Hines. I tasted their fruit cake today. I will

1:15.3

get it to it when we get there, but I've been like eating their fruit cake today. Oh,

1:19.0

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