Meet the Twins Who Cheated on the Olympics (Podcast)

In 1984, twins Madeline and Margaret de Jesus pulled off one of many greatest (and funniest) cheats within the historical past of the Olympics. The complete story is on our newest “Shoot This Now” podcast, which it’s best to try on Apple or proper right here:

1984 was peak Los Angeles: Randy Newman had simply launched “I Love L.A.” Bret Easton Ellis was placing the ending touches on “Less Than Zero.” Pasadena’s Van Halen launched an album referred to as “1984.” Glam rock was taking maintain on the Sunset Strip. And the eyes of the world have been on the town of freeways because of the Summer Games.

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Brooklyn-born monitor star Madeline de Jesus got here to L.A. with goals of profitable Olympic gold for Puerto Rico. But one thing went fallacious: She was injured within the lengthy soar, and located herself unable to run within the 4×400 meter relay.

Fortunately, she had a secret weapon: Her an identical twin sister, Margaret, who was additionally a superb athlete. Do you see the place that is going?

On each episode of “Shoot This Now,” Deirdre McCarrick and I discuss true tales we expect must be made into TV exhibits and flicks. Then we discuss who we’d like to see in the primary roles, and who ought to direct. We additionally provide up some Hollywood pitch-meeting-style comps. This one is “Chariots of Fire” meets “Catch Me If You Can.”

The faculty admissions scandal and Jordan Peele’s “Us” have us serious about dishonest and duality, respectively. Madeline and Margaret de Jesus’ story has each.

Join us for this, our very particular 50th episode. We discuss Madeline and Margaret de Jesus and their duplicitous (however very humorous) ruse, but in addition about Lori Loughlin, Jordan Peele, Liam Neeson, and dystopian boy band Menudo.

If you get pleasure from this episode, try one among our sources, Yara Simon’s story concerning the de Jesus twins for Remezcla.