S1104: The Real Catch Me If You Can part 4

PRETEND

Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We've spent the last three episodes debunking the infamous Frank Abagnale myth. If he wasn't posing as a doctor, a lawyer, or a professor, then what the heck was Frank Abagnale up to? This is the story Abagnale never talks about. _______ Part 5 will be available soon on Patreon. https://pretendradio.org/donate/ _______ Fact-checking for this episode by Kate Gallagher. Special thanks to Alan Logan, author of The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/173619741X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_5EAWP7S0XC5J1WJQF2D5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	CREATIVE BABBL
0:07.0	Try to get across and slice it just wide on the post!
0:12.0	Have they done enough?
0:13.0	Can they pull it out the back?
0:15.0	Does the ref have a clue?
0:17.0	When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle!
0:22.0	There's no feeling like live TV.
0:26.0	However you watch, a TV license is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels.
0:31.0	And it also funds the BBC, such TV license.
0:43.0	Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here this morning.
0:45.0	I don't often talk about my life, but Google has asked me today to do something that different
0:50.0	and talk a little bit about my life.
0:52.0	So I will do that. I had a great movie director write a film about my life.
0:57.0	I had a great Broadway musical team make a Tony award-winning Broadway musical about my life.
1:02.0	Most of those very creative people have actually never met me personally.
1:06.0	But they've enjoyed telling my story from their point of view.
1:10.0	So I thought I would take a few minutes this morning and actually tell you the story from my point of view.
1:16.0	I, like you, was shocked to discover that Frank Abigail's story is greatly exaggerated.
1:22.0	If not, flat out completely made up.
1:25.0	But once I accepted that, I was left with this unsettling feeling.
1:30.0	A feeling that this guy's true life story is just plain creepy.
1:36.0	Remember Paula Parks, the flight attendant from episode two?
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