ICYMI - We’re All Trapped in the Scam-Industrial Complex
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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Allegra Frank to talk about two new pieces of scammer-tainment from Netflix: the documentary The Tinder Swindler, which chronicles a con man’s exploitation of the popular dating app, and the series Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner as faux-heiress Anna Delvey. Rachelle and Allegra discuss how the internet was essential to both these stories and why we’re all on the hunt to uncover the next online scam.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder.
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone here is running a game. |
| 0:05.1 | Everyone here needs to score. |
| 0:06.8 | Everyone here is hustling. |
| 0:08.3 | Everyone here wants something. |
| 0:12.8 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.9 | And I'm Allegra Frank, filling in for Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:18.7 | And you're listening to I seeC-Y-M-I. |
| 0:21.3 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome back, Allegra. |
| 0:27.3 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 0:29.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:30.4 | Of course. |
| 0:31.1 | Even though I feel like the last time you're on the show, I said, you can never come back. |
| 0:36.0 | Clearly, I was incorrect. |
| 0:39.1 | I feel like then I came back again, but it was with Madison. |
| 0:42.8 | So Madison let me come back. |
| 0:44.9 | She pardoned me. |
| 0:46.0 | The podcast gods decided that you were met to stay on the show. |
| 0:50.5 | Yeah, you were overruled. |
| 0:56.4 | You know who else was overruled by the internet at large? |
| 1:00.0 | Who? |
| 1:00.6 | I'm going to say his name is the guy who was against books and bars, which really rolls off the tongue, right? |
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