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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 144 minutes
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This week, Kate discusses our obsession with scams and scam documentaries, and does a spin-off of the popular Tiktok prompt of "what's something that is a scam but we've normalized it so much we no longer realize it's a scam?" from her personal list of grievances, e.g. The American Dream, bridesmaid dresses, student loans, only married couples receiving benefits, among other things, and also goes through crowd-sourced submissions of things people think have big scam energy. She also details her disdain for True Crime as entertainment and explores why she prefers this category. However, she begins by discussing the Supreme Court overturning the landmark case of Roe v. Wade announced Friday, while she was away from equipment and had already recorded this week's episode (so forgive her, this section was done very last minute), but she uses the first half-hour to address perhaps the biggest scam of all: that people believe restricting access to abortion care is pro-life when it is unequivocally anti-women and stands to put countless lives at risk by forgoing human rights and medical best practice in favor the intervention of dangerous political and religious ideologies.
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/URLs_Cited/OT2021/19-1392/19-1392-13.pdf
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0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
0:16.4 | It is Sunday, June 26, 2022. I recorded this episode last Tuesday, a lot has happened |
0:24.3 | since then. And it's kind of interesting because I did it while I was waiting, you know, |
0:29.4 | see if there were other field trip stories or commentary that came in to do that part |
0:32.7 | too. I was recording another episode that I've thought about doing for a little while that |
0:38.6 | was kind of about our obsession with true crime in the form of scams, scam culture, or |
0:46.6 | in the volume of media about scams that we've been consuming that is on, you know, streaming |
0:53.2 | networks. I mean, the ones we've covered on this podcast, having to do with well-known, |
0:58.2 | you know, scams like MLM, Zulu Rich, Urbalife, or scams turned cults like the vowel, the |
1:03.9 | Romantic scams look at Tinder, Swindler, Bad Vegan, to the very popular recent ones that |
1:12.8 | drop out on Hulu about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, inventing Anna, fictionalized version |
1:17.8 | of, you know, fake German, eras, Anna Delvis, story done by Shonda Rhymes on Netflix. And |
1:23.2 | I think a byproduct of that is kind of what I talked about on the episode where we discussed |
1:26.5 | revolvefest and how quickly, especially things that are influencer adjacent, as I think |
1:31.4 | of follow up to assumptions we developed during fire fest, there is a tendency for people |
1:38.8 | to, in a casual commentary sense, label things as scams that are scam me, but they're not |
1:44.0 | like full-blown scams that harm a lot of people in a meaningful way or preyed on vulnerable |
1:50.0 | people in a specific way. They're just, you know, poor business practices and or logistical |
1:55.3 | decisions that make something not operate smoothly, efficiently and in everyone's best interest, |
2:00.6 | but it doesn't mean it's like a larger criminal operation. And I spent time on this podcast |
2:04.9 | before discussing like that distinction, now I think it's important that like fire fest |
2:09.0 | is very different from, you know, revolvefest to kind of duped people into if you were a |
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