Chameleon

Chameleon

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Chameleon episodes

  • The Journalist And The Voyeur: It’s Not So Easy When You’re The One Being Watched

    Gay Talese thought he’d landed a once-in-a-lifetime story every journalist dreams about: a motel owner who built a hidden viewing platform so he could watch guests in their most private moments and kept meticulous “research” notes for decades. But when Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi starts pulling at the threads, the story begins to unravel into something messy. A source who can’t stop exaggerating, and journalist who may have wanted to believe a little too much.

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    45 min
  • A Master's Puppet: Jeffrey Epstein's Money Man

    The unsettling story of Leslie Wexner—the Midwestern retail billionaire who built Victoria’s Secret, then gave Jeffrey Epstein extraordinary access to his money and credibility. But how much did he know?

    Listen to Vanessa and Justine’s podcast Fallen Angel

    Read Gabriel Sherman’s Vanity Fair article on Epstein and Wexner.

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    40 min
  • The Real Eddie: His Scamming Is Insaaaaane!

    The rise and spectacular fall of Eddie Antar, the electronics mogul behind the Crazy Eddie brand. Who scammed his way from the streets of Brooklyn to Wall Street and then vanished without a trace.

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    30 min
  • The Mesh Mill: How Scammers Took Advantage of Women's Pain

    Shortly after Christmas, Sharon gets a terrifying call. A stranger tells her the pelvic mesh inside her body has been recalled. It's a “ticking time bomb," and she needs emergency surgery to remove it. So Sharon flies to Florida. What she’s walking into is a scam embedded in America’s mass tort machine: stolen medical data, a call center, and huge profits powered by the pain of women like Sharon.

    To learn more about this story:

    • Book: The Pain Brokers, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Atria/One Signal, 2026
    • Article: How Profiteers Lure Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery, New York Times, 2018
    • Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck.

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      40 min
    • Harry And Rachel Part 2: When True Love Dies

      For 563 days, Harry believed the love of his life was dying of stage-four cancer. Then Rachel’s husband called, and everything Harry thought he knew collapsed. A pattern emerges, revealing a woman he no longer recognizes and a trail of emotional wreckage stretching back decades.

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      34 min
    • Harry And Rachel Part 1: When True Love Lies

      In 2001, Harry meets Rachel in Houston. And so begins a complicated and uncertain kind of love story. An on-again, off-again connection that would stretch across two decades of tragedies, lucky breaks, and relentless second chances. Sometimes the hardest lies to see are the ones you want to believe the most...

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      28 min
    • Extra Credit: The Rise and Fall of a Frat House Ponzi Scheme

      Syed Arbab looked like the next financial prodigy—a frat house day trader who turned beer-soaked bravado into a successful hedge fund. Except that wasn't exactly the whole truth. When the SEC came knocking, Syed doubled down, lied, and kept going.

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      36 min
    • Master Manipulator and Commander: Trust Your Gut

      She thought she'd met the real deal: a decorated Navy officer, stationed at the Pentagon, opening hospitals in war zones. But what begins as a whirlwind romance slowly unravels into a portrait of compulsive deception. In the aftermath, this seasoned journalist is determined to get to the bottom of not just how and why her partner lied, but why she believed him.

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      38 min
    • The Vampire Catfish: A Message Board And The Boy Who Believed

      Michael was 16, lonely, and stuck in a small Southern town when he met someone called Dennis on a vampire-themed online message board. What began as a thrilling, romantic connection soon spiraled into something darker. We follow Michael’s journey as he tries to make sense of the many layers of deception two decades later.

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      41 min
    • Goodfellas: The Country Bar Theme Scheme

      When an Arizona reporter starts looking into a flurry of closures at country music-themed restaurants, he thinks it’s just another boring business story. But he uncovers a collapsing franchise empire and millions in fraud, all linked to a mysterious character with mob connections living a double life.

      Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck.

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      34 min

    About Chameleon

    From the publisher's feed

    We are living in a golden age of deception. It feels like everyone has an angle and that, everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you. Chameleon is a new weekly show from veteran journalist Josh…