Only If You Get Caught

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The man who scammed the publishing world for love not money

Patrick Redford interviews Reeves Wiedeman about the bizarre case of Filippo Bernardini, the "Spine Collector" who stole thousands of unpublished books without ever leaki

Sep 29
36 min

The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

Patrick Redford interviews Jacob Silverman about the rise and fall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. Episode transcript HERE 🏷️: Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, FTX, FTX collapse,

Sep 15
31 min

Only If You Get Caught Season 2

We are BACK with a new season!

Sep 9
1 min

The Varsity Blues Scandal Was Actually Class Warfare

The Operation Varsity Blues scandal made more visible the extent to which higher education has become a pay-to-play game. In this episode, we speak with Kirsten Hextrum,

Jan 27
27 min

How Michigan’s Man on the Inside Got Caught

The Connor Stalions story is the perfect cheating scandal through which to understand college football, the most cheating-ass corrupt sport we have. Stalions is an insane

Jan 13
30 min

Baseball’s Steroid Era Was Actually A Labor Story

The simple story of the early-aughts baseball steroids scandal is that Congress caught a bunch of star players juicing. That’s mostly true, but that reading fails to prop

Dec 30 2025
36 min

Why WNBA Owners Cheated To Help Their Players

The Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty have both had scandals around their owners paying or otherwise providing benefits to players under the table in an attempt to

Dec 16 2025
36 min

Is It Even Possible to Cheat on The Bachelor?

What does cheating look like on a reality show where the goal is to find love? In this episode, Emma Gray and Claire Fallon from Love to See It join us to talk through th

Dec 2 2025
26 min

Lance Armstrong And The Myth Of The Natural Body

Lance Armstrong's rise and fall in the cycling world paved the way for a mythology about the "natural body" to proliferate in sports. Today, it's being used to argue for

Nov 18 2025
39 min

A Cheating Scandal That Explains The Online Chess Revolution

When chess exploded in popularity during the pandemic, it changed — and those changes brought about a new kind of player, and a very new kind of scandal. Joshua Robinson

Nov 4 2025
32 min

Did the NBA Really Fix a Playoff Game to Help the Lakers?

Sacramento Kings fans have long believed that the NBA fixed the 2002 Western Conference finals so the Lakers would win. Patrick is joined by Tommy Craggs to discuss wheth

Oct 21 2025
31 min

Only If You Get Caught Trailer

Only If You Get Caught launches Oct 21!

Oct 14 2025
1 min

Chart positions

Where Only If You Get Caught ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Oct 1, 2026).

#152 NEW History US

What listeners say

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I love that this show explains the system that is being cheated and looks not just at how the cheat/scandal happened but also what incentives exist to lead people to cheat. It makes it more than just a perpetrator/victim analysis, and I really enjoy that it’s makes it more human.

Frog Hunt · Feb 2026

Funny, illuminating, and politically important…perfect mix of news and ways to look at important sports scandals differently. It’s the perfect amount of time to listen and learn something every episode.

Clint Leastgood · Jan 2026

I loved the bonus episodes when Patrick would join Kelsey and Alex to talk about scandals in chess. And now we get to have whole episodes with Patrick, and even better, a visit with Alex in the intro. Very fun, even if I do get irritated with my partner for talking over Patrick at times--that's a problem with him, this is a perfect podcast.

Florence217 · Jan 2026

This podcast is perfect across the board. It’s lighthearted but still spicy. A great way to get a dose of true crime and controversy without feeling icky. Patrick’s affection for some of history’s maligned cheaters is really endearing. I sure hope they cover Pete Rose and the Louisville Cardinals/Rick Pitino scandal.

Weinshine · Jan 2026

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