Fakers, Fraudsters and Phonies: Everything's A Lie Now!
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this round-up of recent tales of fakers, fraudsters, and phonies, Zaron shares with Elizabeth a smorgasbord of stories of fake bears, phony medical emergencies on Mount Everest, and a fraudulent influencer abduction to get at the truth of why we can't trust anything any more. And get this: no AI was involved in this episode.
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| 0:36.8 | Elizabeth Staten. Dern Burnett. Oh, yeah. Yeah, what's up? Well, I was just sitting in here talking to the interns going, do you think she's going to show up today? And then all of a new breeze in, and everyone's all happy to see Elizabeth. Yeah, I go, you know what? It's a beautiful day. But it's not the heat. |
| 0:54.4 | It's the pepperoni. |
| 1:11.4 | That's what we like to say in the biz. I'm sorry I ate my pepperoni pizza in the studio. Get used to the smell in the air. It does smell like a 1980s roundtable in here. Yeah, right? It's kind of good. The red plastic cups are by my touch to make it feel authentico. It does. It does a pitcher of root beer, please. |
| 1:12.8 | So I got a question for you. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | Along with your pitcher of root beer, please. So I got a question for you. Yeah. Along with your pitcher of root beer, do you know what's ridiculous. I sure do. I sure do. This isn't ridiculous. Independent baseball leagues. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love them. Because they're not affiliated with MLB, which I'm not a fan of these days. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, because you're A's. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
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