Never Forget, Never Forgive

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we look into an alarming scam trend: people who lie about where they were on 9/11. It’s a lie that ties together a volunteer firefighter seeking attention, an immigrant trying to fit in, a comedian looking for his big break, and even someone seeking the White House. They’re exploiting national tragedy for sympathy and clout. But with a lie so easy to disprove, what can they really hope to gain?

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to scam influencers early and ad free right now.
0:04.6	Join Woundry Plus in the Woundery App or Apple Podcasts.
0:08.0	A note to our listeners, this episode contains graphic descriptions of the events of 9-11.
0:13.0	Please listen with care.
0:14.3	Sarah, I know that you are a notorious liar,
0:20.0	Sarah, I know that you are a notorious liar, but have you ever told a whopper of a lie that you regretted?
0:26.7	Like, it just completely got away from you and you just kept telling it and you kept telling it.
0:31.6	Okay, first of all, I'm not a notorious liar.
0:34.4	Second of all, no, that's actually never happened to me.
0:37.8	Maybe when I was a kid,
0:38.8	but I feel like it is just so much work
0:41.5	to keep up a big lie.
0:43.0	Yeah, when I was little I told one of my friends I could see things through my eyelids
0:46.6	and I just really had to commit to the bit after that.
0:48.8	Well, that's a really easy one to disprove so your friend was kind of dumb.
0:52.0	That is true. Well today I ask because we have a special
0:56.4	episode Sarah unlike any we've done before. I'm going to tell you about a bunch of people who all
1:02.1	told the same kind of lie.
1:08.4	It's September 11th, 2011, and Jordan Lifflander is in a packed college football stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
1:15.0	Jordan is in his 50s and while his long mustache and pit bull physique might scream football coach,
1:21.0	he's not here for a game.
1:23.0	He's a volunteer firefighter and he's here to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
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