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WARNING: The audio in this episode is rough. What can we say? We were young(ish), dumb, and thought we\u2019d save a little money by sharing one microphone. Yeah. The audio quality improves drastically after episode 9.\xa0

Remember those \u2018Smiling Bob\u2019 commercials from the early 2000\u2019s? Of course you do. In this episode, Kristin talks about the man who brought us Enzyte, the \u201conce daily tablet for natural male enhancement.\u201d It\u2019s an insane story, full of fake clinical trials, phony customer satisfaction surveys, and a bunch of other fabrications. But oddly, none of those lies are what brought Steve Warshak down. It was the company\u2019s business practices that ultimately took him to prison.

Then Brandi talks about the heartbreaking story of two 12-year-old girls who lured their friend into the woods and stabbed her multiple times. They said they did it to please \u201cSlender Man,\u201d a creepy but 100% fictional internet meme. Thankfully, due to determination, grit, and a level of bad-assery we can only try to imagine, Payton Leutner dragged herself to safety and survived.

And 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.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\n\u201cThanks, Smilin\u2019 Bob,\u201d Slate.com
\n\n\u201cThe rise and fall of the Cincinnati boner king,\u201d GQ
\n\n\u201cSexual Performance Pill\u201d episode, American Greed
\n\n\u201cOhio supplement co. founder gets lower prison term\u201d
\n\n\u201cOrange is the new white-collar,\u201d Fortune
\n\n\u201cUpdating an email law from the last century,\u201d New York Times

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\n\u201cThe Girls Who Tried To Kill For Slender Man\u201d by Abigail Jones, Newsweek
\n\n\u201cSlender Man Stabbing Survivor\u2019s Parents: \u2018She\u2019s Meant to Do Something Special\u2019\u201d by Lauren Effron and Kelley Robinson, ABC News

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