Growing up with a grifter for a father had its challenges…and maybe even some perks. Just ask comedian Gary Vider, whose new true-crime podcast, “#1 Dad” (new episodes released every Monday on the I Heart Radio app) chronicles his quest to reconnect with his con artist father, Manny Vider, whose schemes and antics span over four decades. Now a father and a husband himself, Gary reflects on the lies his father involved him in, which tore his family apart, including posing as a Sports Illustrated Kids reporter to get into Rangers and Knicks games for free and the morning U.S. Marshals raided his family’s home looking for his dad, prompting Gary and Manny’s 24-year estrangement.

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