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Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redford and produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin, each episode will dive into the history and methodologies behind cheating scandals to explore what bending or breaking the rules tells us about ourselves.
Created by Patrick Redford, Alex Sujong Laughlin, and Defector Media.
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S1E8 The Varsity Blues Scandal Was Actually Class Warfare
The Operation Varsity Blues scandal made more visible the extent to which higher education has become a pay-to-play game. In this episode, we speak with Kirsten Hextrum, an associate professor at…
S1E7 How Michigan’s Man on the Inside Got Caught
The Connor Stalions story is the perfect cheating scandal through which to understand college football, the most cheating-ass corrupt sport we have. Stalions is an insane character and the stuff he…
S1E6 Baseball’s Steroid Era Was Actually A Labor Story
The simple story of the early-aughts baseball steroids scandal is that Congress caught a bunch of star players juicing. That’s mostly true, but that reading fails to properly place the scandal in the…
S1E5 Why WNBA Owners Cheated To Help Their Players
The Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty have both had scandals around their owners paying or otherwise providing benefits to players under the table in an attempt to circumvent salary cap rules,…
Is It Even Possible to Cheat on The Bachelor?
What does cheating look like on a reality show where the goal is to find love? In this episode, Emma Gray and Claire Fallon from Love to See It join us to talk through the fiction of "for the right…
S1E4 Lance Armstrong And The Myth Of The Natural Body
Lance Armstrong's rise and fall in the cycling world paved the way for a mythology about the "natural body" to proliferate in sports. Today, it's being used to argue for bans of trans athletes. Reo…
S1E2 A Cheating Scandal That Explains The Online Chess Revolution
When chess exploded in popularity during the pandemic, it changed — and those changes brought about a new kind of player, and a very new kind of scandal. Joshua Robinson from the Wall Street Journal…
S1E1 Did the NBA Really Fix a Playoff Game to Help the Lakers?
Sacramento Kings fans have long believed that the NBA fixed the 2002 Western Conference finals so the Lakers would win. Patrick is joined by Tommy Craggs to discuss whether they think it actually…
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Only If You Get Caught has published 9 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in History, Society & Culture.
Only If You Get Caught is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 32m.
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