The Con

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This bonus episode is an interview with producer Patrick Lovell, who has been working on his new true crime docu-series "The Con" for the better part of the last decade.

"The Con" is centered around the 2007-2008 financial crisis, which happened as a result of widespread fraudulent activity and the collapse of the housing bubble. The story is told through the lens of Addie Polk, a 90-year-old woman from Akron, OH whose house was foreclosed upon, ultimately leading to Addie attempting to take her own life... but that's really just the start of this never-ending story.

In this interview, I chat with Patrick about how he got involved with the story, what avenues the docu-series explores, and how the recession of a decade ago might just be a taste of what's in our immediate future.

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0:21.7	Hey everyone, it's Michael.
0:25.1	Welcome to a very special bonus episode of Unresolved.
0:28.4	Earlier today, I had the opportunity to chat with Patrick Lovell, the producer of a new
0:33.0	financial crime docuseries, TheCon, which explores the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008
0:39.8	in all of its nuances.
0:41.4	Throughout 2007, mortgage companies and financial institutions began to go belly up due to the
0:47.3	entire housing bubble collapsing.
0:49.3	This led to a global recession the next year, which ended up impacting the entire world.
0:54.7	One can argue that we're still feeling the ramifications to this day, more than a decade
0:59.2	later.
1:00.2	Patrick's new docuseries explores what happened, why it happened, who it happened to,
1:05.2	who perpetrated it, and how we as a country have done very little to safeguard ourselves
1:09.4	from similar collapses in the future, making this entire saga in essence unresolved.
1:15.2	During my conversation with Patrick, you'll get a better idea of his story and what the
1:19.4	docuseries is about.
1:20.7	TheCon will be releasing digitally over the next couple of weeks, so be sure to be on
1:24.7	the lookout for that.
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