407: Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The year was 2008. The indie pop band Tegan and Sara, made up of two queer twin sisters, were on the verge of music superstardom. The internet, a relatively new way for fans to find each other and connect, was helping to propel a rabid community around Tegan and Sarah and their music. But suddenly, things got dark. Tegan was the victim of an elaborate identity theft that upended her entire life, and a catfishing scheme that threatened to destroy everything everything they had worked for. In this documentary, Tegan and Sara are going public with their story--and their quest to find answers--for the first time.

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0:00.0	I mean, I love Tegan and Sarah so much.
0:01.6	I will never know how to spell their names.
0:03.1	I will never know how they spell them.
0:04.3	Really?
0:04.7	Yeah.
0:06.4	That's your big takeaway.
0:07.6	That's my big takeaway.
0:08.6	I left with more questions than I came in with and we're doing phonics at the top of this thing.
0:14.0	You're mystified?
0:15.3	I'm mystified on like a lot of counts.
0:24.6	Fantastic. A lot of counts. Fam, please do us a big favor and join the freaking Facebook group.
0:27.7	Oh my God.
0:28.2	The friggin, get over there in the Facebook group.
0:31.6	It's the TrueGrumbset podcast discussion group.
0:33.6	Go make friends.
0:34.6	Go find your people.
0:35.7	There's like 60,000 people in there.
0:37.1	It is so much fun.
0:38.0	Yeah, I love it.
0:38.8	Now, this is going to be like the Tegan and Sarah week when this episode comes out
0:41.8	because everyone's going to be posting.
0:43.2	I want to get it a little bit.
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