RayGun & Olympic Games Grifts (w/ Kimia Behpoornia & Patrick McDonald)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It's the Scam Goddess Olympic Games Grifting special! Kimia Behpoornia (Abbott Elementary) & Patrick McDonald (Radio Margaritaville) join the Con-gregation to discuss over a century of Olympics fraud—from cheating runners in the first modern marathon to Australian viral breakdancer RayGun at the 2024 Paris Games. Did RayGun cheat her way to the Olympics? Or was she actually a victim of a scam smear campaign? Tune in to find out! Oh yeah, and stay schemin' fam! Pre-Order Laci’s book “Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes": https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laci-mosley/scam-goddess/9780762484652/?lens=running-press Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Kimia Behpoornia: @childclown Patrick McDonald: @patrickpatrickpatrickpatrick Research by Kaelyn Brandt. Want a free 3-month trial of the SiriusXM app? Go to: siriusxm.com/scam SOURCES: https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics-2021-scandals-spain-paralympics-2000-sydney-games-051520629.html https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/margaret-ives-abbott https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-first-american-woman-to-win-an-olympic-championship-didnt-even-know-it https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/sports/plus-paralympics-paralympic-group-orders-suspensions.html https://www.eonline.com/news/1406009/2024-olympics-australian-breakdancer-raygun-reacts-to-criticism-after-controversial-debut The Greatest Paralympic Scandal of All Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5F_ha7d-PI

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0:00.0	Scam! Cards. Robert Green and fraud.
0:09.0	Scam. Cards. Robbery. And fraud. Scam goddess.
0:19.3	What's pop in congregation? It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka
0:22.6	Scam Goddess, back with another episode that's all about robbery, fraud, and those who
0:27.0	practice it. Sometimes we love them. Sometimes we hate them. We don't know all the way
0:32.5	at the top, okay? We're going on a ride together. It's very parisocial, and y'all know what's
0:37.0	coming next.
0:38.2	I am very what?
0:39.7	Excited.
0:40.5	Because today I have a double dose of hilarious guests, y'all.
0:43.1	These are also people that I know very funny comedians.
0:46.0	Y'all kind of know how it goes.
0:47.3	We have very funny people on that I know.
0:49.9	So one is an actor and comedian who you probably saw playing school district rep, Emily Amad, on the latest season of Abbott Elementary.
0:57.8	Yes, winning.
0:59.8	My other guest co-hosts the Improft podcast, Artists on Artists, on Artists, on Artists.
1:06.9	And it's a part of the serious XM family, come on family.
1:10.5	And he's also a DJ for Radio Margaritaville, which I almost got stranded at a Margaritaville when I was on a cruise ship.
1:19.6	And I had to run back to the boat because my pop-all couldn't run fast enough.
1:23.6	And my mom was drunk.
1:25.0	So I love a Margaritaville.
1:26.8	Congregation, please welcome Kimmy Abapornia
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