#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
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The following is a conversation with Matthew Cox, a con man recently released from federal prison where he served 13 years for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, identity theft, passport fraud, and other charges. He has admitted guilt to all of it. He has written true crime stories of many of his fellow prisoners, and now he continues this work by interviewing criminals about their crimes on his YouTube channel that I recommend called Inside True Crime. Exploring the mind of a criminal is exploring human nature at the extremes, often in its most raw and illuminating form. And that is something I definitely want to do with this podcast, to understand the human mind and everything it is capable of. All right, this is Ads Batch 130 for Matthew Cox.
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I really do enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by, ooh, a new sponsor, Freud's Last Session. It's a movie, a new movie, and it's out in select theaters now. I'm really, really, really excited. First of all, I'm excited that Austin is showing it, and so I'm excited to go see it in the theaters this week. And I recommend you do, too, if it's showing in your particular city. Anyway, it's got Sigmund Freud debating C.S. Lewis, about the existence of God. And I'm sure a lot of other topics that are kind of embedded into that overarching big topic about meaning in life and all that kind of stuff. Sigmund Freud, by the way, is played by Anthony Hopkins. And if you go online and see reviews, apparently he knocked it out of the park.
I mean, he is kind of the perfect person to play Sigmund Freud. I love this. I love everything about this. In fact, the people that are making this film said just that, that this is like the perfect movie for Lex. Anyway, maybe you'll enjoy it too. Maybe this is just like a ad read for me directly. Maybe the whole purpose of this is for me to read this out loud so I remind myself to make sure I go see this amazing movie. Anyway, as far as I can tell, there's lots of philosophical explorations of human sexuality and the human condition. Friends, go see Freud's Last Session, only in theaters, playing in select cities. This episode is also brought to you by Babbel, an app and website that gets you speaking in a new language within weeks.
I've been using it for many languages, Russian to sharpen the sword, Spanish, I really don't know what the metaphor there is because my Spanish is terrible, but it's extremely useful, and it's increasingly being translated and overdubbed on the Spotify side of things incredibly well with mostly artificial intelligence. I'm just amazed at what they're able to do. And this is the future. They're going to break down walls. But that's in the content creation side. Really, in the physical space, when you interact with people, you can break down the walls of language by learning a new language. I also use it for French. I need to travel to France and Paris to talk to Dostoevsky translators. and also to experience France.
There's so many beautiful things about French. I've also dabbled in a bit of German, Italian, and Portuguese. Portuguese for the Brazilian jiu-jitsu stuff, and German and Italian because I want to travel to Germany and Italy many times throughout my life. Anyway, This is a good app to learn quickly conversational skills in another language.
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