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The Amy Poehler 'Good Hang' Podcast Booking Scam
from Melania’s Humanoid, Missing Scientists, & A Podcast Scam | The Tim Dillon Show #489 · #489
11 min
Tim recounts receiving a scam email pretending to book him on Amy Poehler's podcast, checking with industry friends and his manager who reveals it's a widespread scam targeting unemployed LA entertainers for their bank information, and imagines a family in Encino getting scammed and humiliated.
- Tim receives an email claiming Amy Poehler wants him on her podcast, which immediately seems suspicious.
- The Good Hang podcast pitches itself as featuring 'candid conversations' but mostly involves asking guests what time they go to sleep.
- Tim wonders why Amy Poehler would want him on the show when she books A-list talent and he might rant about Iran.
- The email mentions 'competitive compensation,' which Tim's manager immediately identifies as the tell-tale sign of a scam.
- Tim calls people in LA to verify if the booking is real, and they confirm it's 'very possibly' legitimate.
- His manager reveals the email is part of a widespread scam, with the next step being requests for bank account information.
- Out-of-work comedians in LA, desperate for income, have been falling for the scam and telling their families they booked Amy Poehler's show.
- Tim describes a family dinner in Encino where an actor tells his wife and kids that Amy Poehler booked him, to their celebration.
- Three days later, the same family discovers the booking email was fake and the father's bank account has been drained after he provided his information.
- Nothing is funnier, Tim concludes, than a guy having to explain to his wife that their frozen accounts resulted from falling for the Good Hang podcast scam.
Amy PoehlerThe Good HangLos Angelespodcast scamsAriana GrandeViola DavisJonathan GroffRussell PetersMeryl Streep