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This week, we covered two romantic entanglements that\u2019ll have you reaching for the puke bucket.\n
\n\nBurt Pugach was a wealthy, married lawyer when he met 21-year-old Linda Riss on a park bench in New York City. Linda wasn\u2019t particularly attracted to Burt, but he was pushy. They\u2019d been dating a while when Linda discovered that Burt was married. Burt had a million excuses, but Linda didn\u2019t buy any of them. She decided to move on with her life. But Burt made that impossible.\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells us a truly revolting catfishing tale. In 2005, Thomas Montgomery was living the life of a married suburban dad. But Tom was unfulfilled. So he got online. He quickly fell into conversation with an 18-year-old high school student who went by the screenname Talhotblond. She sent him pictures of herself. She was gorgeous, and she wanted to see pictures of him. What was a balding, 40-something man to do? Lie his ass off.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\nThe documentary \u201cTalhotblond\u201d\nAnd several unsuccessful google searches\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cCrazy Love\u201d Documentary\n\u201cIt\u2019s Me and Burt Against The World\u201d by Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post\n\u201cMeet the Pugachs\u201d by Marianne Macdonald, The Guardian\n\u201cLinda Riss Pugach, Whose Life Was Ripped From Headlines, Dies at 75\u201d by Margalit Fox, The New York Times