The Wannabe Pilot: Fish Swim, Birds Fly, and Randy Lies

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.5 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

His friends, family and a string of partners all believed a version of the same thing. That Randy was a former marine who now flew commercial airliners. But as the people around him started to look more closely, their ideas about who this charming man was began to wobble. And if Randy has been taking such great liberties with the truth then what else isn’t true?

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0:00.0	Camp site media.
0:05.0	Hello?
0:06.0	What is this?
0:07.0	What do you want me to say?
0:08.0	Oh, it's just a...
0:10.0	Camelian.
0:11.0	Camelian Weekly.
0:13.0	Oh.
0:14.0	And now, your hosts, Mike Jerich and Juliet Huddy.
0:20.0	The one you're about to meet was a victim of identity theft, and the culprit turned out to be his own father.
0:27.2	You're listening to The Morning Show on WTTGG TV out of Washington, D.C.
0:32.1	This morning, the hosts, Mike and Juliet, are interviewing a man, Randy is his name,
0:55.2	who's explaining to them how his identity has been stolen. A little bit over $2.5 million in debt by the time I was 13. And it obviously wasn't you out there spending, you know, lying up... I wish it was. I really do, but it wasn't. It was my debt. Randolph Waldron discovered what his own father had apparently been doing in 1998 when he was applying to college.
0:59.3	I'm going to go to school. I'm going to start my life like all of my other friends. And, you know,
1:02.1	we send away for the college applications and fill out the financial aid paperwork.
1:10.2	The reply back was stamped denied on the basis that he owed the IRS a lot. Turns out Randy's dad had been using his social security number and had never
1:13.2	paid taxes since 1982. For 16 years, that's got to add up. Ouch. Here's something that surprised
1:24.3	me. According to the TV hosts, in 25 to 50% of identity theft cases,
1:29.9	at least at that time, the culprit was either a parent or other relative. I mean, you can see how
1:36.3	easy it would be. You're hardly suspecting your own family. And Randy's dad had the exact same name
1:42.1	minus the junior, which made things even easier for him.
1:46.1	I'm not sure why the banks were allowing a 13-year-old to take out loans.
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