The Moth Radio Hour: Confidence Game

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hold on to your wallets, SSNs, and test papers. This episode is all about scams, schemes, and con artists. Student hijinx, famous grifts, monkey business, and the word of God. This episode is hosted by Jay Allison, producer of this radio show.

Storytellers:

Abigail Ladd runs a con in elementary school.

Tonya Camille and her sister use their physical similarities to their advantage.

Pete Goldfinger experiences a famous scandal firsthand.

Gayliene Omary has a run in with a scammer of the heart.

Maria Corrales confronts a con in the animal kingdom.

Chiwoza Bandawe receives the word of God, courtesy of a shady acquaintance.

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0:00.0	The moth is coming back to London at Union Chapel for our main stage.
0:05.0	Join us on Friday, September 27th for the quintessential moth two-act experience,
0:10.6	featuring a musical act and five unforgettable true stories told live as they're recorded for
0:16.2	episodes of the Moth Radio Hour and the Moth Podcast.
0:19.7	You can buy tickets now at the Moth.org slash London. We'll see you there. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host Jay Allison, producer of this show.
0:43.0	In this episode, stories of scams, hustles, and deception,
0:48.0	from the con artist themselves and from their unsuspecting victims.
0:52.0	I've been both in my life, mostly... and from their unsuspecting victims.
0:53.1	I've been both in my life, mostly running my cons as a teenager.
0:57.5	My mother still scolds me for the classified ad I wrote to sell my old junk car,
1:02.2	because before the phone number I signed it the Reverend
1:05.3	J Allison. Is that a con? I guess so. Sorry.
1:09.4	First up Abigail Ladd, who also started young. Abigail told this at one of our open mic
1:17.5	story slams in Denver where we partner with Public Radio Station K-U-N-C.
1:23.2	The theme of the night appropriately was bamboozled.
1:27.6	Here's Abigail Ladd.
1:28.6	I can't even remember my first calm. I was probably still in diapers but I remember from a really early age thinking
1:40.0	adults were really easy to trick
1:42.4	especially if you were cute and I was wicked. adults were really easy to trick,
1:42.8	especially if you were cute, and I was wicked, cute.
1:45.4	I had blonde curly hair, blue eyes, bubbly personality,
1:48.2	and all the lisp's you could imagine, rolled into one.
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