Sara and Danny are back for the final time, to cover Willy's Chocolate Experience in Glasgow - an event organized by a company named House of Illuminati, that was giving more Fyre Fest than "Pure Imagination." Sara and Danny get into it all, from the AI generated, spelling error-riddled poster, to the off-brand character of The Unknown (a terrifying masked f ... Show More
Mar 2024
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Ft. Josh Gondelman
This week, Sara is joined by writer and comedian Josh Gondelman to cover a story from his hometown of Boston: the still-unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. In 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen walked into the museum in the middle of the night, and carried out the ... Show More
44m 58s
Mar 2024
Steve Comisar: Serial Scammer
Sara and Danny are back to cover the self-proclaimed "Jeffrey Dahmer of fraud,” Steve Comisar. But first, Sara shares a self-imposed scam of her own, with a recent Uber Pool trip that went off the rails. Then, they get into the extensive grifting resume of Beverly Hills conman St ... Show More
48m 48s
Feb 2024
How The Cut's Financial Advice Columnist Was Scammed Out Of $50K
This week, Sara and Danny cover the viral story from The Cut's own financial advice columnist, Charlotte Cowles, who was the unlikely victim of a scam that cost her $50,000. They get into Cowles' article, which details how over the course of just one day, the scammers - posing as ... Show More
44m 27s
Mar 2024
E371 Warnings About File Organizing and Smooth Coffee Shop Compliments
It's episode 371 and we're wishing you a happy belated Leap Day! We celebrate privately, not necessarily by leaping around, though. This week Em brings us a doozy of a creepy woo-woo cult in the Twin Flames Ascension School, as well as the background on soul mates and twin flames ... Show More
2h 47m
Sep 2022
255: Selena: The Murder of an Icon (From Reel Crime Story)
By age 23, Selena was an international icon. She'd won Grammys, was selling out stadiums, and recording chart topping albums in English and Spanish. Then on March 31, 1995, she was gunned down by her biggest fan and closest confidant. But why? What made her do it? And would it be ... Show More
51m 35s
Oct 2022
257: The Curse of the Von Dutch
Ahhh, the glory days of the early 2000s. Britney Spears was on the radio (remember THE RADIO?), "Friends" was in its glory days, and everyone was talking about "MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING???" But guess what? WE WERE ALSO ALL COVETTING THOSE VON DUTCH TRUCKER HATS! Von Dutch was THE ... Show More
50m 13s
Nov 2023
Blondie: Punk vs. Disco, Held Hostage by Phil Spector, and Riding with Ted Bundy
Blondie got their start as part of New York’s fertile punk scene in the late ‘70s, a time of great musical innovation. Also a time of great fear. Violent crime had the five boroughs in a stranglehold. Muggers, rapists, thieves, criminal deviants of all stripes ran wild in the str ... Show More
36m 2s
Aug 2023
“Loud American Whore” (w/ Greta Titelman)
RPKFs, Las Cultch favorite Greta Titelman returns to the pod and joins us from Scotland with Matt, who has gone through one of the most harrowing travel experiences in recent personal memory. All this as Bowen has a terrible fever? It’s giving I DON’T Think So, Honey. Find out wh ... Show More
1h 31m