Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Oh yes, it's late, it is not.

Oh, what a night.

Why am I singing, ladies night?

Well, because it's ladies night for my wife, the lovely Mrs. Laura Horn, is having some friends

over in the living room, they're enjoying having their ladies night in their chat.

And children are being entertained by the digital nanny toy story three in the portable DVD

player for them.

So while everybody else is occupied, I figured that I would catch up here on recording podcasts

for the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn, and it's free for all Friday,

which means we get to talk about all kinds of interesting subjects, fascinating oddities from all over the world.

Today, what I want to talk about are the biggest fakers that are exposed.

I love when con men, scam artists get exposed and hoisted by their own petart.

I think it's a justified feeling of shot and Freud, as the Germans would say, the feeling of pleasure at another's misfortunes.

That's what I talk about here on the podcast today are the biggest fakers that get exposed.

So the first set that I want to talk about are fake kung fu masters.

So there are people who practice fake martial arts, people who claim that they're masters martial arts,

and they actually aren't.

And the best way to show that somebody is a fake martial arts expert is to get them in the ring with a real martial arts expert.

And they usually get crumpled pretty quickly.

But there's a subset of these fake martial arts experts, not just people who claim to have black belts, but don't really have black belts.

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