Episodes
10 years · 153 episodes
Topic
Format
Year
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16 Jan 2026
The Charizard Charade
Pokémon cards became a billion-dollar market—and then a massive fraud target. This episode follows the rise of ultra-rare…
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16 Sep 2025
Will the Real Velvet Sundown Please Stand Up?
The story of a hoax within a hoax within a hoax within an AI soft rock band. That…
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2 Aug 2025
The Escobar Phone and Imaginary Flamethrowers
We unpack how a Swedish entrepreneur used Pablo Escobar’s name to sell fake phones, flamethrowers, and crypto —…
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29 Jun 2025
The Texas Lottery Courier App Scandal
A London syndicate used a phone app to buy nearly every combination in the Texas Lottery—and walked away…
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16 May 2025
The Lorebook Cult
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of exploitation, self-harm, and abuse. Listener discretion is advised. A network called…
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2 May 2025
The 4chan Hack
We discuss a schism years in the making — the infamous imageboard 4chan gets hacked by its own…
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26 Apr 2025
Hotline Hacked Vol. 12
A tech worker stumbles upon mass fraud and brings receipts, a flag football prank goes very right, a…
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28 Mar 2025
Hotline Hacked Vol. 11
Hacked Discord accounts, zombie emergency alerts on TV, and a crime spree in Diablo 3—just another day. As…
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29 Jan 2025
Hotline Hacked Vol. 9
A bunch of great stories, including a prank between brothers with video evidence, a DOS frat war, and…
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1 Jan 2025
Throwback: The Phantom Orchestra
Happy holidays, everyone. We’re bringing you a hacked classic to tide you over while Scott and I take…
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28 Nov 2024
Hotline Hacked Vol. 7
A collection of calls, including an extremely wholesome story about a hacked internet contest and an electric guitar…
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15 Nov 2024
A Bot Made a Memecoin Worth Almost a Billion Dollars + McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Redux + Apple Bug Bounties
A chatty chat in which we discuss the Infinite Backrooms and the extremely profitable shock-meme-cult it spurred, a…