349 // Don't Pick Up the Phone w/ Javier Leiva

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🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna speak with a great friend in the true crime world, the hard-working Javier Leiva from the Pretend Podcast. The speak a bit about Javier's series on hoaxes and pranks that go well over the ethical and legal limits before digging in on Javier's work uncovering the disturbing details of the McDonald's "compliance" prank which was the focus of Netflix's 3 part docu-series, Don't Pick Up The Phone, which Javier was featured in. Also, are air guitarists pretenders as well? Go to https://pretendradio.org/ to stay up to date on all the cons, hoaxes, scams and more that Javier is working on. Listen to the Pretend podcast on: Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/pretend-a-true-crime-podcast-about-con-artists/id1245307962 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2vaCjR7UvlN9aTIzW6kNCo?si=ff54aa74c5804614 Follow Javier on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/PretendPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pretendpod/ Support Pretend Radio and Javier on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pretendradio Watch Netflix's Don't Pick Up The Phone 3 part docu-series: https://www.netflix.com/title/81576846 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	I'm
0:04.0	I'm
0:05.0	The Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?
0:33.1	I'm doing fantastic today per usual because I'm thrilled to be here.
0:37.7	Once again, we have the privilege to speak with another fantastic guest, and our listeners are going to really enjoy this one because he's experiencing a bit of celebrity right now with his appearance in a very popular Netflix documentary.
0:50.2	But first, I want people to experience how you're feeling, Tim.
0:53.2	How are you today, sir?
0:55.1	Well, thank you for asking, and I sure as heck didn't expect the sir.
0:59.0	I'm doing well today.
1:00.6	Thanks for asking.
1:01.8	And I'm really excited to speak with our guests today.
1:05.1	Javier Leva.
1:06.0	We had a fantastic conversation with him about his podcast, Pretend Radio, and you can find out everything
1:12.5	about that at PretendRadio.org. He's doing a new series on a cyberstalker. The story is just
1:19.9	bonkers. You definitely got to check that out. But also, Lance, as you mentioned, he was recently
1:25.5	in a Netflix series. It's called Don't Pick Up the
1:28.2	Phone. It is a fantastic series. I think it's three episodes from Netflix. And Javier
1:34.0	was a big part in bringing that story to a documentary. It's a fantastic series. And Javier
1:40.6	speaks on that. But he also speaks about the inner workings of his investigation and his coverage of this particular hoax, which is all about how people as a whole generally will comply with whatever they think someone in authority is telling them to do.
1:57.1	And it just escalates to this point of being so disturbing.
2:00.6	So if you haven't seen the documentary yet, just know that going into it.
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