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Chameleon

Hollywood Con Queen | 9.5. The Psychology of the Scam

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.58.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What makes con artists tick. In this special episode, we speak with author/journalist Maria Konnikova and psychoanalyst Alexander Stein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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Capside Media

0:06.0

Hello?

0:06.5

What is this?

0:07.5

What do you want to say?

0:08.5

Come on, here.

0:09.5

Oh, it's just a...

0:10.5

...comillion.

0:11.5

A million.

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Okay.

0:13.5

You're listening to the chameleon.

0:14.5

A production of Capside Media.

0:16.5

Oh.

0:19.5

Hey, this is Josh Dean.

0:20.5

And I'm Phinesis Grigoriatus.

0:22.5

And today, we're doing something a little different.

0:24.5

While everyone eats socially distance Thanksgiving,

0:27.5

we're taking a short detour from our story

0:29.5

to bring you into the process of reporting

0:31.5

on the infamous Hollywood Conquey.

0:33.5

We wanted to get a better understanding

0:35.5

of the mechanics behind different cons

0:37.5

and the psychological patterns both scammers and Marx exhibit.

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