#565 – FFAF: Famous cheating scandals revealed

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this free-for-all-Friday Trent describes famous episodes of cheating in sports and games from the practice of point shaving to the illicit coughs that won over a million dollars.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Free For All Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:13.5	I'm your host, Cathergance's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horm.
0:17.0	And today we are talking about cheaters.
0:19.7	Cheaters never prosper, except when they do.
0:22.2	A lot of the cheaters we're going to talk about today are people who do not prosper because
0:25.8	they got caught, right?
0:26.8	Wouldn't be a cheating scandal unless somebody caught them and then did the autopsy on what
0:32.3	went wrong with their scheme.
0:34.8	That's actually my favorite part of analyzing cheating and scandals to see where the plan
0:40.7	falls apart.
0:41.7	So that's what we're going to talk about today.
0:43.7	Monday through Thursday we talk about apologetics, theology, we have debates, dialogues,
0:47.5	we're buttocks.
0:49.0	But Friday we just get to have a little bit of fun and talk about whatever I find to be
0:53.0	interesting.
0:54.6	And so the genesis for today's episode was I was watching a documentary on the ASU point
1:00.4	shaving, point shaving scandal.
1:03.5	So point shaving and I'll talk about this a little bit here in a second is related to fixing
1:07.9	games.
1:08.9	Not as familiar with the concept of fixing games like when an athlete purposely loses a
1:13.5	game in order to to rig the results.
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