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Happy New Year everyone! This Most Notorious Encore episode revisits my conversation with Alan Logan, originally released on May 19, 2021. Most of us are familiar with the critically acclaimed film called Catch Me If You Can, based on the autobiography of legendary confidence man Frank Abagnale. It's the story of a brazen teenage imposter who through charm and intellect was able to pass as an attorney, a doctor, a pilot and a university professor in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My guest, Alan C. Logan, has done extensive research into Frank Abagnale's well-known and near-mythical narrative, found it riddled with holes, and lays out some of what he has discovered for us on this week's episode of Most Notorious. Alan Logan's book is called "The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can", and can be ordered in bookstores, online retailers, and through his website at: http://www.greatesthoax.com/ Visit https://strawberry.me/notorious for 20% off your first month's membership! Support the show and ditch overpriced wireless with Mint Mobile's deal and get 3 months of premium wireless service for 15 bucks a month! https://www.mintmobile.com/notorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Hanks chases Leonardo DiCaprio in one of the most fun cat-and-mouse chase thrillers of all time! And it's all “inspired” by a true story! As the tagline says, it's “a true story of a real fraud.” Okay. So how true is it? Well, we looked into it and……. Guys, what we found out is depressing. Frank Abagnale didn't do any of the things he claimed he did in his book. You know, the things that are interesting, the things you're here for. He didn't pretend to be a lawyer or a doctor, he didn't forge millions of dollars of checks, he didn't travel the world as a fake pilot. Indeed, when his book was published in 1980, reporters who bothered doing even the tiniest amount of due diligence were able to debunk his claims. Skeptical reporting has followed Abagnale his entire career. It hasn't mattered. His story is more fun. Does that affect the way we view the movie? You'll have to listen to find out. Watch this episode in full: https://youtu.be/zui8jgp2bqo Next week: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) with special guest Drewbie Doobie's Movies! Time stamps: 01:44 — Our personal histories with Catch Me If You Can and our big-picture thoughts on the movie 11:34 — History segment: The REAL Frank Abagnale, and how he never did any of the things his book (and Spielberg's movie) show him doing; how the movie nevertheless was developed and ended up the way it did 50:06 — In-depth movie discussion 1:48:25 — Final thoughts and star ratings Artwork by Laci Roth. Music by Rural Route Nine. Listen to their album The Joy of Averages on Spotify (https://bit.ly/48WBtUa), Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3Q6kOVC), or YouTube (https://bit.ly/3MbU6tC). Songs by Rural Route Nine in this episode: “Summer of Spielberg” - https://youtu.be/yglAqqLEaoI “Winston-Salem” - https://youtu.be/-acMutUf8IM “Snake Drama” - https://youtu.be/xrzz8_2Mqkg “The Bible Towers of Bluebonnet” - https://youtu.be/k7wlxTGGEIQ “Summer of Spielberg” theme song credits: Words and music written by Matt Stokes Performed by Wade Hymel (drums/guitar), Laci Roth (vocals), and Matt Stokes (vocals/guitar/bass) Produced by TJ Barends, Wade Hymel, and Matt Stokes Engineered and mixed by TJ Barends at Bare Sounds Studio in Ponchatoula, Louisiana Sources: The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can by Alan C. Logan - https://amzn.to/4fCIoVN “Did Steven Spielberg Get His Start by Sneaking Into an Empty Universal Studios Office?” by David Mikkelson | Snopes.com (2003) - https://bit.ly/3YVmTdh “This ‘Fabelman's' Tall Tale: When Steven Spielberg Stole A Universal Office” | Hollywood Outbreak (2022) - https://bit.ly/3AiILoz
It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.WE LOVE OUR LISTENERS!Thanks to a listener named Karen (EXcellent name...) we bring you today's episode that might even be more fun/heartbreaking to listen to if you listen to Episode #8 first. You can find that here: Frank and Dave: What happened? Listener Karen seemed to know that we, as hosts , rarely have our fingers of the pulse of recent happenings. So she clued us into the updates about Frank Abagnale Jr. of "Catch Me If You Can" fame.No Money Christmas!Whose side is Karen on?Flying Plane Guy!Hair dye allergies!Here are some links to help this episode make sense:Frank Abagnale on "To Tell The Truth"Alan C Logan's book that challenges Frank in every way: The Greatest Hoax On Earth: Catching Truth While We CanThe Alberta Podcast NetworkSCAMTIME is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally grown, community supported. This episode of SCAMTIME is sponsored by AlbertaBlue Cross and by Connect First Credit UnionSCAMTIME Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donaldhttps://paulmorgandonald.com/SCAMTIME Art: Stephanie WolfeFind us on Twitter @scamtimeFind us on Instagram @fraud.broadsemail us at @thebroadgap@gmail.com
In Episode 11, Bolton and Grace recap the 2002 film, Catch Me If You Can, and discuss the facts of the true crime story that the movie is based on. The movie was written by Jeff Nathanson and directed by Steven Spielberg and is based on the autobiography of the same name written by Frank Abagnale Jr. with Stan Redding . The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale Jr., a self-proclaimed con man who contends that he successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a doctor, and a prosecutor - all before his 19th birthday. Tom Hanks plays Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent who chases and eventually apprehends Frank Abagnale Jr. Christopher Walken plays Frank Abagnale Sr. and Nathalie Baye plays Frank Jr.'s mother. There are cameos from various other famous actors and actresses and viewers will enjoy seeing who pops up next. The film is fast-paced and entertaining, but after reading the book “The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth While We Still Can” by Alan C. Logan, viewers may be disappointed to compare investigative research to Frank Abagnale Jr. 's story. This is definitely our most meta episode yet!Also, be sure to check out Watching Netflix Without You and the Vaginance podcast wherever you get your podcasts!Sources: Catch Me If You Can (2002)Abagnale, Frank Jr. with Stan Redding. Catch Me If You Can. Grosset & Dunlap, 1980.*RECOMMEND: Logan, Alan C., et al. The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can. Alan C. Logan, 2020. *RECOMMEND - “Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale - Perpetrator of the Ultimate Hoax? w/ Alan C. Logan,” Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast, Blue Ewe Media, Released May 19, 2021. *RECOMMEND: Catch Me If You Can | Frank Abagnale | Talks at Google, posted on November 27, 2017. Lopez, Xavier. Could this famous con man be lying about his story? A new book suggests he is. “What We Believe”, The Pulse (podcast), WHYY, Released Apr 23, 2021.“Frank Abagnale | Scam Me If You Can,” The Jordan Harbinger Show (podcast), PodcastOne.com, Released on February 6, 2018. Malesevic, Dusica Sue. “New Book Claims Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale's Cons Are Fake.” Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, 28 May 2021. Johnston, Harriet. Was Catch Me If You Can Based on a Complete Lie?, Mailonline, May 11, 2021. "74th Academy Awards". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on December 25, 2008.REMAINING SOURCES AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE. Support the showSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/crimescenespod)
Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster film “Catch Me If You Can” brought the story of con man Frank W. Abagnale into widespread public awareness. But as award-winning author Alan C. Logan reveals, Abagnale's confessions of his own exploits are hoaxes themselves. Logan's new book, “The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching the Truth, While We Can,” is an exhaustively researched debunking of the myth crafted by the self-proclaimed “world's greatest con man.” Watching America host, Dr. Alan Campbell, notes that Abagnale has presented himself as a “benign cowboy of trickery.” Listen to this interview with Logan to hear about the more malignant aspects of Abagnale's frauds – and how they were kept undercover for so long.
Most of us are familiar with the critically acclaimed film called Catch Me If You Can, based on the autobiography of legendary confidence man Frank Abagnale. It's the story of a brazen teenage imposter who through charm and intellect was able to pass as an attorney, a doctor, a pilot and a university professor in the late 1960s and early 1970s.My guest, Alan C. Logan, has done extensive research into Frank Abagnale's well-known and near-mythical narrative, found it riddled with holes, and lays out some of what he has discovered for us on this week's episode of Most Notorious. Alan Logan's book is called "The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can", and can be ordered in bookstores, online retailers, and through his website at: http://www.greatesthoax.com/
In this episode, Brett sits down with his former podcast co-host of the Online FraudCast, Karisse Hendrick, to discuss the well-researched revelations of the new book, "The Greatest Hoax on Earth; Catching The Truth While We Can" by author Alan C. Logan. The subject of this book is the legendary Frank Abignale Jr. Most famously known for his life as a Con-Man in the late 60's and 70's, victimizing large companies such as TWA airlines in check fraud. Frank has gone on to write several books, speak for a large fee at conferences all over the world, and was the subject of the Steven Spielberg movie "Catch Me if You Can", in which Leonardo DiCaprio played a young Abagnale. In his book, Alan C. Logan fact-checks the most common threads of the stories that Abagnale has told for over 40 years, and debunks them. The truth of what Abagnale did during that time was a lot worse, yet less glamourous than the stories he's told. Because Brett Johnson is often referred to as "The Frank Abignale of Cybercrime", he is the best person fit to comment on these revelations and his reactions to them. The article mentioned in the episode can be found here: https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/ The book can be found on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hoax-Earth-Catching-Truth/dp/1735557226 Karisse's podcast, Fraudology can be found on most podcast platforms, as well as here: https://fraudologypodcast.libsyn.com If you enjoyed this episode, please rate & review the podcast where you can! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, Karisse sits down with her former podcast co-host of the Online FraudCast, former cybercriminal, Brett Johnson to discuss the well-researched revelations of the new book, "The Greatest Hoax on Earth; Catching The Truth While We Can" by author Alan C. Logan. The subject of this book is the legendary Frank Abignale Jr. Most famously known for his life as a Con-Man in the late 60's and 70's, victimizing large companies such as TWA airlines in check fraud. Frank has gone on to write several books, speak for a large fee at conferences all over the world, and was the subject of the Steven Spielberg movie "Catch Me if You Can", in which Leonardo DiCaprio played a young Abagnale. In his book, Alan C. Logan fact-checks the most common threads of the stories that Abagnale has told for over 40 years, and debunks them. The truth of what Abagnale did during that time was a lot worse, yet less glamourous than the stories he's told. Because Brett Johnson is often referred to as "The Frank Abignale of Cybercrime", he is the best person fit to comment on these revelations and his reactions to them. The article mentioned in the episode can be found here: https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/ The book can be found on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hoax-Earth-Catching-Truth/dp/1735557226 Brett's podcast, The Anglerphish podcast can be found on most podcast platforms, as well as here: https://www.anglerphish.com/podcasts If you enjoyed this episode, please rate & review the podcast where you can! This episode was edited and produced by the incredibly talented team at Journey Gurl Productions.
Doug and Alek are joined by no one (a tough booking, we assure you) to discuss the findings of science journalist Alan C. Logan who recently published a book about infamous con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. of "Catch Me If You Can" fame, claiming Abagnale, Jr. used Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio to sell us an even bigger bill of goods than previously thought.In his 1980 memoir that inspired the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Abagnale, Jr. claims to have cashed $2.5 million in bad checks over several years while impersonating a pilot for Pan American airlines, a doctor in Georgia, a lawyer for the attorney general’s office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a professor at Brigham Young University all while running from the FBI. Logan says Abagnale, Jr.'s tale is greatly exaggerated (surprise!) and almost completely made up. Doug and Alek also discuss other famous examples of tall tales presented as fact committed by the likes of reporter Stephen Glass, former New York Times journalist Jayson Blair, former Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke — who after winning the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for "a bogus story in The Post about an 8-year-old heroin addict named 'Jimmy'" admitted she made the entire thing up — and "A Million Little Pieces" author James Frey who "demonstrably fabricated" key parts of his bestselling, supposedly nonfiction memoir. Keep Your Voice Down’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is "Try so Hard" by Aves.
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