Encore: There's Something about Martin | Part 2

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of this two-part rerun from last December, journalist Christie Smythe wants to dig deeper into the man who’s become the face of corporate greed. She begins following him everywhere, and she decides he’s not the villain the press has made him out to be. But when their relationship comes to light, the damage will already have been done.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers early and ad free on Amazon Music.
0:05.0	Download the app today.
0:07.0	This is part two of our two-part series.
0:09.0	There's something about Martin.
0:11.0	Even if you think you already know the Martin Scrilly story, you're
0:14.0	definitely going to want to listen to part one before diving into this one. Trust me,
0:17.8	it'll be worth it. Sarah, have you ever interviewed somebody and you have ended up like falling in love with them.
0:30.8	Not like, oh, I respect them or I like them, like, I'm in love with you.
0:35.8	Oh, absolutely not. I mean, you're interviewing someone and there's a very clear purpose for it.
0:40.9	You're trying to get as close to the truth as possible in a very made-up scenario.
0:45.0	Yeah, I mean, as you know, I interview a lot of youtubers and like content creators and influencers,
0:51.0	so I feel like it is chemically impossible for me to fall in love with any of them.
0:54.7	That seems fair, yeah.
0:57.4	These are fatal last words.
0:59.6	Well I have a barn burner for you this week.
1:02.6	It's about the greatest scam of all.
1:05.0	Love.
1:05.7	Oh brother.
1:06.1	In the spring of 2017,
1:10.9	Christy Smyth walks past a statue of Thomas Jefferson perched on the marble steps of
1:15.1	Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.
1:18.0	She's here for a prestigious fellowship where mid-career business journalists get to take courses
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