Episode #4
How VAR ruined soccer
Oct 26, 202626 minS2
Patrick Redford interviews Marcela Mora y Araujo about Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal in the 1986 world cup, and they discuss whether VAR has ruined sports. Episode transcript here...
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Only If You Get Caught
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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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What is Only If You Get Caught about?
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.
What has Only If You Get Caught covered recently?
Recent episodes include "How VAR ruined soccer" (26 October 2026, 26 minutes), "How Pablo Torre scooped ESPN on the Kawhi Leonard story" (12 October 2026, 30 minutes), and "How Pablo Torre scooped ESPN on the Kawhi Leonard story" (12 October 2026, 30 minutes).
How often does Only If You Get Caught publish?
Only If You Get Caught publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 14 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Only If You Get Caught?
Booking probability for Only If You Get Caught is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Only If You Get Caught requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Only If You Get Caught's contact route on record: verified email.
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Only If You Get Caught is a history podcast with 14 episodes published.
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- Oct 12, 202630 minS2
Patrick Redford interviews Pablo Torre about how he broke the Kawhi Leonard salary cap story. Episode transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19MoFfJFGcFjA1spW6599r0HF0XH14ERuhSuO0__Sb3E/edit?usp=sharing ️...
- Oct 12, 202630 minS2
<p>Patrick Redford interviews Pablo Torre about how he broke the Kawhi Leonard salary cap story. </p><p><br></p><p>Episode transcript here...
- Sep 29, 202636 minS2
Patrick Redford interviews Reeves Wiedeman about the bizarre case of Filippo Bernardini, the "Spine Collector" who stole thousands of unpublished books without ever leaking or selling them. With reporting from. Episode...
- Sep 29, 202636 minS2
<p>Patrick Redford interviews Reeves Wiedeman about the bizarre case of Filippo Bernardini, the "Spine Collector" who stole thousands of unpublished books without ever leaking or selling them. With reporting from...
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- Sep 15, 202632 minS2
<p>Patrick Redford interviews Jacob Silverman about the rise and fall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. </p><p><br></p><p>Episode transcript HERE</p><p><br></p><p>🏷️: Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, FTX, FTX collapse, FTX scandal...
- Sep 15, 202632 minS2
Patrick Redford interviews Jacob Silverman about the rise and fall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. Episode transcript HERE ️: Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, FTX, FTX collapse, FTX scandal, FTX fraud, cryptocurrency, crypto...
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Only If You Get Caught Season 2
Sep 9, 20261 minS0<p>We are BACK with a new season! </p>
- Jan 27, 202627 minS1
<p>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 Oregon State...
- Jan 13, 202631 minS1
<p>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 did was as blatant...
- Dec 30, 202536 minS1
<p>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 most relevant...
- Dec 16, 202536 minS1
<p>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, right as women’s...
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- Nov 18, 202539 minS1
<p>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 Eveleth of Tested...
- Nov 4, 202532 minS1
<p>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 joins us for this...
- Oct 21, 202531 minS1
<p>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 happened...
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