Ep 80 It Stings!

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Imperative Entertainment

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As long as criminals have been breaking the law, authorities have been coming up with clever ways to catch them. From dressing up in ridiculous disguises to developing sophisticated technology, there’s apparently nothing law enforcement won’t do to get their man. What’s even more incredible than the crazy sting operations conceived by police are the crooks that fall for them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow.
0:02.7	Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level.
0:05.4	It's going off now.
0:06.8	Yeah, whatever.
0:07.9	Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is.
0:11.0	What? How?
0:12.3	Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time.
0:15.0	Mom!
0:16.1	It's game over for late nights on school nights.
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0:29.3	This podcast is intended for mature audiences.
0:35.1	Listener discretion is advised. The Sting It's a classic term for a carefully planned con game designed to deceive.
1:12.4	Just using the word makes you feel like you're in the pages of a 1930s dime store novel.
1:18.4	Although, the term really only became popular after the 1973 movie, The Sting, featuring Robert
1:24.3	Redford and Paul Newman.
1:26.6	This Academy Award-winning film, featuring a classic
1:29.9	ragtime theme song, is about two small-time grifters who decide to con a mob boss out of a
1:34.8	significant sum in 1936 Chicago. In the movie, the Sting was that final critical moment in the
1:42.3	con, where the mark was fleeced and his money was taken.
1:46.6	Today, the term sting is generally used to describe operations run by law enforcement to unwittingly
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