In this round-up of recent tales of fakers, fraudsters, and phonies, Zaron shares with Elizabeth a smorgasbord of stories of fake bears, phony medical emergencies on Mount Everest, and a fraudulent influencer abduction to get at the truth of why we can't trust anything any more. And get this: no AI was involved in this episode.

Practice Should Have Made Perfect: The Great Brink's Robbery
53:34

I Got the Need, the Need for Weed: Randy Lanier
49:16

The Rise and Fall and Rise of John McAvoy
1:07:07