Scam Goddess – "Norway's Crotch Enlarging Ski Jumping Scandal" w/ Jon Daly

Episode Date: February 24, 2026
Host: Laci Mosley
Guest: Jon Daly (Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer)

Episode Overview

This episode of Scam Goddess, hosted by Laci Mosley and featuring comedian and actor Jon Daly, dives into one of the wildest scandals in Olympic history: Norway’s ski jumping “crotch inflation” caper. The duo breaks down the absurd lengths athletes (and their coaches) will go to for a competitive edge—this time, by illegally enhancing their jumpsuits’ crotch area for aerodynamic advantage. True to the show’s spirit, the discussion blends sharp social commentary, wild personal stories, and relentless comedy.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

Scam Confessions: Restaurant Life & Side Hustles

[01:44 – 20:00]

• Jon’s Early Scam Life:
  • Childhood theft stories, including shoplifting DVDs and candy, which led to formative scoldings from authority figures (“She was teaching me a lesson. Yeah.” — Jon Daly, 03:43).
• Restaurant Scams:
  • Jon recalls learning the classic server scam: skimming cash payments by printing fake receipts. (“The scam was this: you give them a fake ticket… If someone paid with cash, you just keep it.” — Jon Daly, 07:01)
  • Both admit to being “personality hires” and describe the camaraderie and survival-oriented scamming among NYC service workers.
  • Laci reflects on her own cash hustle in high-end Hamptons restaurants, where staff also ran side gigs (like cocaine dealing): “We making like 800, 900, sometimes 2,000 a night... And y'all also selling cocaine on the side!” — Laci Mosley, 12:55
• Management Scams:
  • Anecdotes include a restaurant manager who turned out to be embezzling on a much bigger scale.

“Shoplifting as Civic Duty?”

[21:47 – 26:36]

• Jon shares a friend’s “Whole Foods scam”: buying some groceries and stealing high-end items at self-checkout, exploiting the store’s reluctance to confront rich-seeming customers.
  • “They don’t want to bother the rich people… their philosophy is, yeah, we kind of dial it into everything.” — Jon Daly, 22:56
• Both discuss the ethics (or lack thereof) around stealing necessities, and why corporate theft is seen differently than stealing from small businesses.

Historic Hoodwinks: The Norway Crotch Inflating Ski Jump Scandal

[27:11 – 57:22]

The Scheme Unveiled

• At the Nordic World Ski Championships, Norwegian coach Magnus Brevic and suit technician Adrian Litvin were caught on hidden camera sewing illegal stiffened material into ski jumpers’ crotches after passing inspection.
  • Purpose: Inflate the crotch area to create more surface area, enhance aerodynamics, and boost jump distance.
  • “Ski jumpers? Oh, so it must have some aerodynamics thing.” — Jon Daly, 27:19
• Hidden camera footage captured the sewing in a very un-stealthy way (“Y’all just got this suit checked for its integrity, and then you want to sew, but you’re not even gonna do a handheld stitch… you got a whole sewing machine!” — Laci, 32:00).

The Science of the Scam

• Slightly larger suits, especially in the crotch, can significantly increase jump length (adding about half an inch can gain 9 feet, per cited study).
  • “So, if y'all just had bigger penises, you would have been jumping bigger already. But they had to put in lots of material…” — Laci, 47:12

The Cover-Up (& Aftermath)

• Skiers Marius Lindvik (Olympic gold medalist) and teammate Johan Andre Forfang claimed ignorance but were suspended. Coaches and suit technicians received 18-month bans.
  • “The officials were inserting illegal non-elastic stitching… making them larger, smoother, and more aerodynamic.” — Laci, 41:50
• The sport’s culture around “goosing the suit”—everyone cheats a little—but this time it was caught in 4K, with the head coach involved.

The Rules (and Ridicule)

• Jokes fly about “dick chips” and microchips being inserted in suits to prevent tampering in the future.
  • “Now they got an MD… the best use of 3D I’ve heard recently, they’re using 3D measurements to measure dick.” — Jon Daly, 54:06
• Both hosts lampoon the regulatory overkill and the idea of medical professionals examining crotches for Olympic fairness.

Broader Themes:

• They mock the seriousness with which officials treat this obscure sport, contrasting it with rampant doping in other sports.
  • “These people should get paid for this because it’s the only thing that’s got me interested in this dumb sport.” — Jon Daly, 52:35
• Lampooning the shame brought to Norway—the home of ski jumping—due to such a ridiculous and very visible scandal.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If you can just expand your crotch and get that many more points, it’s not a real sport.” — Jon Daly, 32:24
• “It is doping, but with dicks instead of steroids.” — Jon Daly, 49:21
• “The study’s co-author… says the area stretched by the V position of the leg in the crotch area is the most noticeable and offers a great advantage. The crotch. The first time I’ve ever heard that the crotch offers a great advantage.” — Laci Mosley, 47:14
• “They should be given a gold medal just for bringing attention to this.” — Jon Daly, 52:35

Scammer of the Week: The Fake HGTV Couple

[57:49 – 70:57]

• Laci and Jon highlight the story of a Texas couple who scammed homeowners out of $5 million by presenting themselves as a budget version of Chip and Joanna Gaines.
• Victims received unfinished home renovations; fraudsters used the money for personal expenses and plastic surgery.
• Lively roast of HGTV aesthetics (“Clawfoot tubs are annoying as hell… People be all nostalgic, like ‘oh, I bathe outside with a bucket’… it’s such a flex. Girl, we going to the store.” — Laci Mosley, 65:20)
• Jon speculates about the scammers’ looks: “The guy’s got nine extra teeth… he seems like a rapist.” — Jon Daly, 64:49 (note: this is clearly a comedic exaggeration in context)
• The case ends with potential federal prison sentences for wire fraud.

Important Timestamps

• [04:00–08:00]: Restaurant scam confessions and how-to.
• [21:47–26:36]: Whole Foods shoplifting strategy.
• [27:11–54:35]: Deep dive into Norway’s crotchgate—scheme mechanics, video evidence, science, rules changes, and ridicule.
• [57:49–70:57]: “Scammer of the Week” – the fake Texas home improvement duo.

Tone & Language

• Signature irreverent, comedic banter.
• Frequent meta-commentary on scams as “just making life fair,” and playful analysis of crime, race, and class in scams.
• Lampooning both the “criminals” and the systems (corporate grocery stores, Olympic bureaucracies) they exploit.

Takeaways

• Scams, whether at the petty or Olympic level, are creatively executed responses to broken or rigged systems—sometimes deserving empathy, often deserving laughter.
• The Norway ski jump crotch inflation is a uniquely ridiculous entry in sports cheating history, notable for its creativity, absurdity, and the national shame it brought.
• Laci and Jon’s episode underscores that, in both sports and life, it often isn’t the cheating that’s remarkable—it’s the method and the cover-up.

Episode Closing

Both hosts plug current and upcoming projects, invite listeners to check Scam Goddess social feeds for visuals, and call on their “con-gregation” to stay “schemin'”—with a reminder that the funniest scammers are sometimes the ones shaping our style, TV trends, or even Olympic history.

“It’s a game of inches and feet!” — Laci Mosley, [57:22]

Stay schemin’, congregation.