Swindled

No other podcast like this! Truly amazing! Excellent research done in all its podcasts!

I want to love this podcast but I couldn’t even get through a full episode of the Fyre Festival without being bored to death. The content could be good but the monotone voice just wasn’t doing it for me.

Like so many other have said, the concept and content can be good, but it is brought down by host being your cookie-cutter Reddit personality. He just can’t stop himself from constantly needing signaling his virtue and remind you that he has the upvote-worthy-political opinions. Finding some way to tie nearly every fraud that has ever occurred to a Republican, or a Christian, etc. No matter how much of a reach, or how distant the connection, he will shoehorn it in to take potshots with. It gets tiresome enough to just stop listening. No idea why these types need to constantly bathe in public self-righteousness, but it ruined what could have been a decent podcast

Even for high-profile cases and subjects I have some knowledge of, I rarely if ever come away from an episode without feeling a strong mix of fascination, astonishment, dismay, and (sometimes) dark amusement. The only difficulty is trying to wrap my brain around the foolishness and callous greed at times— but I appreciate ACC for being able to distill these stories so effectively with excellent writing and editing. No word ever feels wasted nor embellished. Thanks for the program, and for documenting these stories.