September 26, 2022

EP. 157 — The Curious Case of Benja-Scam Button w/ Josh Brekhus 

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Josh Brekhus joins the show to discuss, Frédéric Bourdin a serial imposter who took on about 500 identities, convincing many that he was a school age runaway well into his adulthood. Plus, 19-year-old chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann is accused of cheating with vibrating anal beads. Stay Schemin’!

 

Sources:

https://slate.com/culture/2022/09/chess-cheating-scandal-magnus-carlsen-hans-moke-niemann-anal-beads.html

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/09/16/chess-grandmaster-denies-cheating-by-using-anal-beads

https://www.grunge.com/292562/how-a-fake-cia-agent-convinced-people-to-rob-banks/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann

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