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I'm Gary Veder and I have a new limited

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series podcast called Number One Dad.

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It may have been the greatest scam for a

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sports fan, posing as a Sports

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Illustrated Kids reporter with your dad

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and getting into all the games, not to

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mention the locker rooms.

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In the nineties, my dad and I ran

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a khan for years where we snuck

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into the world's most prestigious arena, New

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York's Madison Square Garden. They would

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give you credentials. He's not yet to show up

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with credentials. Yeah. To him, just a

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fun con that he could do with his son. I

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love sports, he loved lying. Thanks

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to our scheme, I interviewed some of the biggest

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athletes and celebrities in the world, even

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Michael Jordan.

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Your dad is the type of person that likes an

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adventure and likes the possibility

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of opportunity.

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As I got older, I learned this wasn't

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the only scheme my dad was pulling.

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He wants me to act like my

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injury is even worse for if

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payout.

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He actually represented me. He's

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posing as my attorney. There

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were moments where Manny would assume

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the role of undercover police officer.

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My father's never ending string of lies

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ultimately broke apart my family, and

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at fifteen years old, I completely

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cut him out of my life. That

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was twenty four years ago, but

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I just had a son of my own, and it brought

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back tons of memories of my childhood, along

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with tons of questions I wanted answered.

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How did my father become this scheming mastermind?

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Was he like this with everyone? And is

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it possible after all these years

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he's actually changed. I have

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no idea where he lives or what he's up

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to, but my goal with this podcast

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is to track him down and get to the truth

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about who my father, Manny Veeder,

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really is. Courthouse.

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My father was involved in a case from the early nineties,

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and I'm just trying to get information.

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You better hope that your dad doesn't find out

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about this before you're ready to talk to him.

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I'm sorry you have reached a number

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that have been disconnected or it is no longer in service.

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This is Number one Dad. Listen

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to Number One Dad starting on June tenth

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on Will Farrell's Big Money Players Network

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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or wherever you get your podcasts.