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The Tip Off

Introducing…Cheat!

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The Tip Off

News, News & Politics

4.7650 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Cheats: we love to hate them. But in this climate of fast news, short attention spans, 280 characters, do we ever get the full picture? Cheat!, a new podcast from Somethin’ Else, digs underneath the surface to tell the inside stories behind some of the biggest scandals in contemporary history and introduces you to the flawed protagonists at their heart: controversial and contentious figures from the world of pop culture, business, sport, politics and love. Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0

Hi there, Tip-off listeners. Something a little bit different for you today. I wanted to introduce

0:07.1

you to a new show that's just launched, which I think you'll love. It's called cheat, and it's a

0:12.8

podcast that digs underneath the surface to tell the inside stories behind some of the biggest

0:17.7

scandals in contemporary history. From the coughing major major who cheated his way to winning one million pounds,

0:24.8

the boxer who beat his opponent by coating his knuckles with cement,

0:29.0

and the high school teachers who gave their students correct exam answers.

0:33.6

These stories will introduce you to the controversial and contentious figures from the world of

0:39.0

pop culture, business, sport, politics and love, and fully investigate their rise and fall.

0:46.5

I'm about to play you a short clip from the series. So if you like what you hear, search cheat

0:51.4

on your favourite podcast platform.

0:56.0

It's a cold April morning in the suburbs of London, with the golden arches of glow in the

1:00.9

background and their breath visible in the cold air. Here they were. A strange ganglike group

1:07.1

huddled at a McDonald's parking lot. You have representatives from the FBI, you have prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department,

1:17.0

you have some British cops from Scotland Yard that are there to kind of help coordinate the

1:21.8

whole thing.

1:22.7

It's 6 o'clock in the morning, and, you know, at that point in time, they don't know what they're going to meet.

1:28.7

They're preparing for a sting of a high-target white-collar criminal,

1:32.6

imagining they'll pull up to an obnoxiously huge house,

1:35.6

multi-car garage, full of expensive cars that the owner probably never drives.

1:41.0

But what they found was not that at all.

1:44.1

They pull up outside a very standard... But what they found was not that at all.

1:55.0

They pull up outside a very standard, ordinary-looking, suburban, terraced home with a satellite dish and a plastic porch.

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