The Ashley Madison Affair

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the early 2000s a former attorney from Canada was online one day when he had an idea. There are a tonne of dating sites around for single people but what about people in relationships who wanted to cheat? And so Ashley Madison was born. – a website for men and women looking to have an affair. It was a huge success. And then one day employees at the company sit down at their computers and find a message popping up on their screens. If you don’t take down this website we will release the names and email addresses of all of your users. 40 million people – all cheats – about to have their deepest, darkest secrets exposed for the world to see. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something that's...
0:09.0	Rick's marriage was gone on 19 years.
0:11.0	And his wife hadn't taken a vacation in as long as he could remember.
0:15.0	Their whole focus was on raising their kids.
0:18.0	intimacy was pretty much gone.
0:21.0	Shortly after turning 56, he hit some midlife crisis.
0:26.0	He was stuck in the monotony of a corporate job
0:29.0	swimming with the sharks in the sea of cubicles.
0:32.0	His daily three hour commute was grinding him down.
0:36.0	So he decided to quit and took an early retirement.
0:40.0	He checked out for a couple of the midlife crisis boxes
0:43.0	and even got a Harley Davidson and got some tattoos.
0:47.0	But he still wasn't satisfied.
0:50.0	And then one night, he found something that would change his life forever.
0:54.0	A woman with a finger pressed up against her lips.
0:59.0	And the caption beneath it that said,
1:01.0	life is short, having a fair.
1:04.0	What Rick discovered that night was Ashley Madison,
1:07.0	a forbidden forest full of temptation,
1:10.0	a place for married people to step outside of their marriage and cheat.
1:16.0	So he signs up, enters his email and credit card details,
1:20.0	and spends a couple of weeks getting to know the site.
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