The Phisher King: Filippo Bernardini
Ridiculous Crime
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Filippo Bernardini felt like an outsider in the publishing world, so he decided to fix that. Did he dazzle executives with his intellect and insight? No. He stole his way into literary inner circles. And we know how those stories end.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous crime is a production of I-Heart Radio. Zarin. Elizabeth. What's up, dude? You know, I'm just chair-dance and waiting for you, as I do these days. I love it. I love a good chair dance. Listen. Yeah. You know what's ridiculous? I do. I've been Christmas shopping for you, and it's not easy. I told |
| 0:22.1 | So I was looking up, the James Garner's daughter was mentioning a cookbook I almost got for you. Then I was like, no, she won't want this. It's called the cop cookbook. The cop cookbook? Yeah. And so it's like it was about because, you know, he played the obviously Rockford Files, James Garner. |
| 0:39.1 | And then before that, he was also Philip Marlowe. |
| 0:41.5 | So he'd played some detectives. |
| 0:42.9 | Right. |
| 0:43.4 | And then they were like, yeah. |
| 0:44.3 | So James Garner, you know, other than taking on Raymond Chandler's memorable character, playing my favorite, Jim Rockford. |
| 0:59.5 | So they have this cake recipe that I was like, oh, it was like, |
| 1:02.5 | I was looking through it. I was like, what did they got in there? And so I wanted to tell about this cake recipe. It's called Marlowe's Low-Colesterol Lemon Cake. Okay. So in the description, |
| 1:10.4 | this is not like, this is an older recipe book. So it's not like you get an essay before you get the recipe. Oh, anytime they're talking about low cholesterol, it's going to be, yeah. You know, it's the 80s. Yeah, or the late 70s in this case. So they have just like one sentence or two sentences to describe the cake before you get to the recipe, which is like, oh, old recipe. |
| 1:28.3 | Oh, so wonderful. |
| 1:29.5 | So the sentences are these. |
| 1:31.9 | This is our family's favorite cake, which was given to us by our friend, Shauna Trabert. |
| 1:37.3 | It's made for every birthday and holiday, and it's always gone by morning, eaten by thieves in the night. |
| 1:44.1 | So my favorite part, though, this is where you get the low cholesterol. and it's always gone by morning, eaten by thieves in the night. |
| 1:48.1 | So my favorite part, though, this is where you get the low cholesterol. |
| 1:50.7 | The first ingredient is non-stick cooking spray. |
| 1:51.2 | Okay. |
| 1:53.2 | The second ingredient is all-purpose flour. |
| 1:56.3 | The third ingredient is one package of white cake mix. |
| 1:56.8 | Wait. |
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