The Sleepover Club: What Our Infatuation With Scammers Says About Us
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
2019 may have been the year of the scam, but its in 2022 in which we're seeing all of these infamous stories played out on our tv screens. From Anna Delvey's plight to open a members club and Elizabeth Holmes becoming the first female billionaire, to the rise and demise of WeWork being depicted by Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto - we can't get enough of a good con story. But what does our infatuation with these stories say about us?
Ione and Halima are discussing what makes us root for these scammers, and what leads us to despise them. As well as dissecting why some scam artists (ehem - Anna Delvey) find themselves more loved in the public domain than others (we're looking at you Elizabeth Holmes). Does the rise in these stories being girlbossified by streaming services represent a darker shift in our current culture? Or do we just love to see an underdog win? Tune in to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.2 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.3 | And hello to the lovely listeners. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Aioni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online in print and everywhere else. |
| 0:11.9 | And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Scene and the co-host of the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | We are back with a Sleepover Club episode this week where we have all the discussions you have |
| 0:22.7 | our sleepover with your best friends. Oh yeah and soon enough be back with an obsessive episode |
| 0:29.2 | or anything we admire but something that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:33.5 | So, Halima, before we get started, we should remind our gorgeous listeners to rate, review, subscribe to the podcast and also tell their friends about this podcast so everyone can hear our gorgeous voices in their ears. So please do that. It makes our podcast much easier to, like, be found on the platforms and helps us grow. |
| 0:55.4 | And we really, really appreciate it. |
| 0:57.3 | Halima, what are we talking about? |
| 0:59.7 | This week, we're talking about female scammers. |
| 1:03.6 | Female scammers. |
| 1:05.0 | Female scammers. |
| 1:05.9 | So, I feel like female scammers have been such a big thing for such a long time. |
| 1:16.7 | Like probably since the original Anna Delvey article came out. |
| 1:21.7 | But we're, so I would consider this to be like the second wave of interest. |
| 1:25.7 | Definitely. |
| 1:26.2 | In that like now all the TV shows are coming out about the people that popped off like a few years ago. |
| 1:32.0 | Definitely. |
| 1:33.0 | Because I was thinking, because when I was doing the research for this episode, one of the things I mentioned, |
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