Inside the Rapid Rise and Fall of a Squid Game Crypto Scam | Podcasts

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What do your favorite podcasters sound like? After falling down the audio rabbit hole of the excellent Three Bean Salad capsule catalog, I recently found myself listening to an episode in which a listener wrote theories about hosts’ facial features, ranging from Jimmy Carr to look like someone who joined Currys in sixth grade and is still there 20 years later with no chance of promotion. At that time, I realized that I, too, was quite incapable of choosing some of his presenters in a lineup.

For pod fans, your relationship with presenters is often all about their voice. And this week sees the start of a big podcasting presence, as rock star St Vincent debuts a new show chronicling the history of popular music with tones so mellifluous it has what would have been described as a voice. perfect radio. Fans of My Dad Wrote A Porno will also be delighted to hear from someone else who rarely communicates with their own voicemail Rocky Flintstone, the erotic writer and dad behind Belinda’s Tales. His new show features him for once reading his own work aloud.

Along with shows about a Squid Game-based scam and the history of the World Trade Center attacks, be prepared for many new hosts to quickly become familiar presences in your earphones, even if you have no idea of their appearance.

Alexi DugginsAssistant TV Editor

Pick of the weekSt. Vincent performs on stage at Usher Hall on June 28, 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photography: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns

Story Listen: RockAudible, weekly episodesSt Vincent is your soothing host for this beautiful music lesson, beginning in post-WWII America where jazz and blues fused in a spilled palace of booze and smoke stale. The characters of the era are fascinating subjects, especially Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton, who recorded an early version of Elvis Presleys Hound Dog and later collaborated with Muddy Waters. St Vincent shows how it was not just a man’s world. Hannah Verdier

The Squid Scam: Hunting the NFT Artists Audible, all episodes out now When Squid Game became a huge hit, it provided a handy hook for cryptocurrency peddlers to snag their imaginary coins. Tech journalist Janhoi McGregor recounts how scammers capitalized on the show without Netflix’s permission and convinced investors they were in for a great opportunity. A well-told cautionary tale of risk and fraud. excluding tax

Operation: TradebomWidely available, weekly episodesThe attack on the Twin Towers is etched in people’s memories, but this series shows that the World Trade Center was a target for years. He recalls how a bomb was planted in the garage under the north tower, killing six people and injuring thousands. How did global tensions prevent the FBI and NYPD from preventing another attack? excluding tax

Chameleon: Dr Dante Widely available, weekly episodes The new season of Chameleon focuses on Dr Ronald Dante, a hypnotist who has toured nightclubs and celebrity parties plying his trade in the back of the boomtown. mutual aid. Sam Mullins tells the alarming but entertaining story of how the tall, dark and handsome Vegas crook got rid of his rivals, hypnotized women with no money and opened a fake university. excluding tax

Rocky Flintstone Unleashed Widely Available, Daily Episodes This new series sees him read about saucy new Belinda-based shenanigans in daily 10-minute episodes. Alexis Duggins

There’s A Podcast For This Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton at the Los Angeles Premiere of Gone in 60 Seconds at the National Theater in Westwood, CA. Photography: Steve.Granitz/INACTIVE/WireImage

This week, Hannah Verdier picks five of the best outrageous podcasts about the rich and famous, from a high-society gossip show to a podcast breaking down Hollywood’s messiest breakups.

Just Enough FamilyFashion designer Liz Lange grew up in a family with a helicopter, a home in the Hamptons and a ski lodge in Aspen. But despite the Steinbergs’ lavish lifestyle and penchant for massive show-offs, the immediate family has fallen on hard times. Lange documents their rise and fall, from breathtaking displays of wealth to bankruptcy and the knocking of bailiffs at the door (you know you’re in trouble when you have to sell more than 50 of your old masters). If you’re a fan of financial schadenfreude, this is especially satisfying.

Even RichGossip queens Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams clearly love the questionable decisions the rich often make, and their podcast documents everything about Getty, Versace and Hilton. Some people think it’s tasteless to rake in royal gossip, but thankfully the hosts say a healthy hell yeah to practice and enjoy schooling listeners into the lives of Diana and Meghans. Tales of rags to royalty give more fuel to couples’ belief that the wealthy are just like us, with Charles and Diana’s horse riding, cheating and bickering providing a glorious source of scandal.

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Trashy Divorces Looking at other people’s failed relationships may not be nice, but it can provide hours of fun, as hosts Alicia and Stacie prove. Prolific podcasters (and married couples) not only cause celebrity divorces, but also breakups. The celebrities featured are, of course, rich enough to fill a good divorce lawyer’s bank account, but the hosts also show their human side. Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are all presented with just the right amount of gossip, fun and laughs.

Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress When reality TV producer Johnathan Walton met fun-loving Mair Smyth, she was just a glamorous heiress waiting for her inheritance. But the reality was far more outrageous. Would a greedy cousin really be able to relieve her of the promised money? Why was she fired from multiple jobs? Walton lost thousands to his shape-shifting neighbor, and as the red flags flew, he began to investigate further, discovering that she had impersonated Jennifer Aniston, made herself pass for a clairvoyant and had blackmailed married men. A juicy, but ultimately sad story for everyone involved.

American Scandal’s case of Patty Hearst has been well-documented over the years, thanks to its heady ingredients, namely a wealthy heiress and a goofy revolutionary gang. Kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army at age 19, the FBI struggled to find leads in Hearst’s disappearance until she was arrested for bank robbery. Was she brainwashed or did she just do what it took to survive? American Scandal examines the evidence in detail, with lightly theatrical dramatizations that put listeners right in the middle of the action.

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