Structural Scammers

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Scammers are in the news again. From parents who buy their children's college admission to political media obsessed with white male candidates, we interrogate the long-running scams of wealth and power all around us.

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The real college admissions scam

Stacey Abrams doing the work

Andrew Gillum doing the work

Beto sucking up the press

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.0	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.5	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:06.0	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:07.4	There are so many scams we have not yet addressed on this show.
0:10.4	I feel like sometimes lumping the scams together
0:12.8	is what gives the perspective necessary.
0:15.0	For literally hundreds of years, wealthy people,
0:18.0	most of them why it have been scamming their way into elite institutions of higher learning.
0:22.5	Wow.
0:23.2	Thank you.
0:23.7	I, you know, I almost forgot this is what we're talking about today.
0:26.2	And I'm excited all over again.
0:28.2	But we're talking about other scams too, but like that is, that is a noteworthy one.
0:31.7	I'm not going to say it's not her fault.
0:49.7	Ready you just met somebody new.
0:55.7	Hey, Anne Friedman.
0:56.7	Hello.
0:57.7	Sorry, that was overcompensating.
0:59.7	I feel kind of low energy.
1:02.7	I, you mean jet bush low energy?
1:04.7	It's sort of like, you know when you're on the phone to make an appointment or do some kind of life admin
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