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S2 Ep21: The Contestant (Charles Ingram)

Swindled

Swindled

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A British Army major and his wife devise a plan to cheat the popular television game show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. 

Prelude: Michael Larson's record-breaking performance on Press Your Luck.

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0:00.0

Let's meet our second player, Michael Larson.

0:03.4

How are you, Michael?

0:04.4

Now, Michael, what do you do for a minute?

0:08.6

Oh, I drive an ice cream truck in the summer.

0:11.4

I hope to win enough money here not to have to do that.

0:13.7

You have to win today?

0:15.5

Yeah, the ice cream truck, what do you do today?

0:17.0

No, I didn't.

0:18.1

We had all kinds of orders we were going to take.

0:20.0

What a day for it.

0:22.1

Michael Larson was 34 years old and unemployed in Lebanon, Ohio.

0:27.1

He drove a Mr. Softy ice cream truck part-time in the summer.

0:30.4

But after losing his full-time job as an air conditioner repairman,

0:34.1

he was getting by on his unemployment benefits

0:36.9

and his girlfriend Theresa's paychecks.

0:39.7

Michael wasn't lazy because he would go to great lengths

0:42.7

to obtain money.

0:44.1

He just did not enjoy working the traditional nine to five.

0:49.0

Michael was born to grift.

0:51.1

As a kid, he was in the candy bars in the school

0:53.3

to sell to his classmates for a profit.

0:56.1

As an adult, he took advantage of a local bank's promotion

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