ICYMI - The Untalented Mr. Ripley
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🗓️ 12 March 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Daniel Schroeder is joined by Vox’s Alex Abad-Santos to talk about the gay scammers that emerged at the end of the year. First we answer a listener’s question about some gay drama on Twitter, then we discuss the wild rise of Congressman George Santos. We also cover the darker side of gay scams both on Grindr and in real life.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better. |
| 0:08.0 | Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra ink, or building a playlist that will even get your |
| 0:14.8 | none up on the table or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max. Christmas better with Pepsi Max Christmas. |
| 0:23.0 | Better with Pepsi Max. |
| 0:37.0 | Please, these gaze, they're trying to murder me. Hi, I'm Daniel Schrader. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Alex Zaboz Santos, and you're listening to, I see Why Am I? |
| 0:46.1 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:47.1 | Slates Podcasts about Internet Culture. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello, listeners. |
| 0:51.6 | So happy to be here on Mike today. |
| 0:53.0 | Rachel is still enjoying her time off, |
| 0:55.0 | but don't worry, she will be back next week. |
| 0:58.0 | In the meantime, I'm thrilled to be joined by Box Senior Correspondent Alex Abod Santos. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi, Alex. Hi, Alex. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you so much for going on. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, let's hope that there's something for Rachel to come back to because I don't want to mess |
| 1:10.0 | this up for anyone. So Rachel is out but that means that I get a chance to ask and |
| 1:19.8 | answer a question that she poses to all of our guests. |
| 1:23.4 | Alex, do you think Jesus was canonically hot? |
| 1:26.8 | Yes. |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, I grew up Catholic and it was just like you right and it was I went to Catholic |
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