WEBVTT - Le Embezzlement 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.320 Bo I needs a break. I don't know why I 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:03.400 sounded like the extors is there. 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.320 Yeah, Remember I was a. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:18.920 Smoker Camsy Media large. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.280 So Rory, what's the best way to embezzle money from 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:27.840 the government? 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.480 Why do you? Why do you ask? It? 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.520 Is though you think I'm some sort of hardened criminal 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.600 on this podcast, and that's what I bring to the show, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.920 is knowing how to embezzle money. Also, I want to 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.360 backtrack and say thank you for respecting me enough to 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:43.880 know what embezzle means. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.519 First thing that came to uh to. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.040 Mind, and this has made way off for some reason, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.280 my brain was like the horse races. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.480 Okay, so you're the So you work in a town 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:58.480 with the horse track. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.120 Okay, okay, well we all aspire to the greater heights 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.440 than mine is horse track racing in town? 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.280 Okay. Well, this was a tough one. I didn't expect 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.679 you have a embezzlement scheme in mind. Each of these 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.840 is a test, right If you answered right away, we 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:16.639 might be worried. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:17.880 That's a good point. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.840 But the answer I was looking for was establish a 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.760 successful psychic practice and bewitch a city official to lavish. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.039 You with gifts. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.880 Okay, This is going to sound crazy, but psychically that 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.200 was going to be my second thing. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.160 I was going to say, so believe that or not. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.480 This week we're going deep inside the wild world of 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:49.960 psychics slash mediums who pray on innocent mayors in France Dushane, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.919 which means I think, don't change the channel if Google 0:01:52.920 --> 0:02:07.960 can be believed. Welcome back to Crimeless, the podcast that 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.200 celebrates the amazing creativity of the. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.600 World's dumbest criminals. I'm Josh Dean and I am Rory Scovel. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:16.160 Okay, Rory. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.840 Today's story, as I said, takes place in France. Have 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:19.720 you ever been to France. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.560 I've been to France for my honeymoon. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.000 Was it as romantic as they say? 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:25.480 It was very romantic. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.679 We rented a car after being in Paris a little 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.840 bit and then drove to the south of France and 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.880 then over to Italy and it was great. I got 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.600 a flat tire immediately in a small town and my 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.560 wife had to go into a pub and speak a 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.600 little bit of French to see if anyone could help. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.240 Us with the tire. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.760 Did they they did? An old man showed up and 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.560 I thought we would need more than just changing a 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.440 tire type situation. But I found all the tools before 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.800 he got there, and I started to change the tire, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.760 and then he showed up and was like, oh, you Americans, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.760 don't you need someone else to change your tire for you? 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.320 And it's only because I didn't think we had the 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:07.840 tools all. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.239 Right, for all of our fans in the South of France, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.480 including old menufixed tires. This actually takes place in the 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.760 South of France. I think you went to the South 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:16.680 of France and took a left. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.639 This would have been if you'd taken a right. So yep. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.400 So our story involves a mayor, a psychic, and a 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.520 disembodied voice from the Great Beyond. Also a war between 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:26.600 nudists and swingers. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:34.320 Can't believe I haven't heard this already, So first. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.440 Let's meet the mayor who's the star of our story. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.960 His name is uh and pardon, I can't believe I 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.800 get to say this unironically, but pardon my French. His 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.320 name is Gille de Tour. He's a polished looking middle 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.720 aged guy with salt and pepper hair, looks snappy in 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.760 a dress shirt, and until things went sideways, he's just 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.640 another government suit unclear whether or not he wears a beret. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.880 God, I love that name. Jill Niciel. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.760 He was born the seaside town of Agde, a little 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.800 over an hour from the Spanish border, and his father 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.920 was the deputy mayor in the nineteen seventy so he's 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.360 a second generation politician. Of course. He started his career 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.400 as a secret service officer and a policeman and then 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.520 returned home to run for office, and as a hometown 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.480 boy with deep roots, he was very well liked by 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.239 the people. Jiel began his first term in two thousand 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.640 and one and was basically unstoppable. He won five elections 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:25.240 in a row. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.839 Have you ever run for anything outside of student government? 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:29.160 No? 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.159 Were you student body president? 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.600 No? No, I don't even know what imbezzel means. They 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.000 don't let you fair, fair, fair. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.760 So Jill was on track to make history as the 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.080 longest sitting mayor in the city's history. All around, just 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.000 the highly respected member of the community. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:46.480 Yep. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.000 Now this is a tourist town. It swells from around 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.080 thirty thousand people, so you know, decent sized town on 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.520 an average winter day, to almost three hundred thousand during summer. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:56.640 Why do you think that is. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.440 I mean, people are out and about, they're ready to 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.120 be and people want to be. In France, it gets 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.480 it all times bigger though. Yeah, well there. I mean, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.520 I couldn't tell you why, but I just assume, like 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.119 anywhere else, people are ready to party. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.360 Two hundred and eighty thousand people on their honeymoons. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.159 I think a lot of people get married right before 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.040 summer kicks in. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.760 All right, I'm sorry, that's incorrect. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.760 Oh okay, Now. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.920 Do you know what a naturist resort is is that 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.520 where they're like, hey, no clothes, just come in, Let's 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.719 just be Adam and Eve for his lung. Let's let's 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.960 be Adam and Eve before Apple's correct. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.080 Okay, that's correct. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.400 So this town has a nickname, Like New York, it's 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.280 sometimes called the Naked City, only in this case it's 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.520 because it's home to one of the world's most popular 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:42.479 nudist resorts. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:43.279 Oh my god. 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.920 So, but you're saying, just to clarify for our listeners, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.240 you're not saying the town is a nudist. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.920 It contains the largest nudist resort. But I think there's 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.840 a significant amount of spillover, got it. Okay, I think 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.440 the borders. I don't know, like what kind of walled 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.920 fences or walls we have around nudist resorts. It's a 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.320 it's a place of freedom. So I'm guessing, like, you know. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.880 Okay, thank you for that, because I wanted to continue 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.040 to picture something very fun and so I'm going to. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.920 Okay, great, and we're not just talking about nude beaches. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.599 And in Nature's resort, you grocery shop, you go to 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.680 the bank, you ride your vest bow with a baguette 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.159 under your arm, all in the nude. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:18.320 Oh. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.440 One of the local beaches was nicknamed the Bay of Pigs, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.880 and not because it had a connection to Cuba. It 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.760 was because of the amount of naked people who sun 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.520 themselves there, which does not paint the sexiest picture of 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:30.160 the clientele. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.359 I gotta say, yeah, it's definitely not complimenting your clientele 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:34.640 in any way whatsoever. 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.839 Get out there, you naked pigs, go soak. Come some 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.080 of that son, turn into bacon as fast as you can. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:42.960 It's a great French accent. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:43.680 Thank you. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.880 If I didn't pay all that money for voice lessons, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.680 I would be upset. But it's paying off anyway. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.000 All these naked folks running around has created a bit 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.400 of a problem. Can you guess what that problem might be? 0:06:55.320 --> 0:07:00.400 Um? No, No, can't. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.640 Agda has become a hot spot for swingers and sex parties. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.960 Okay, well, I mean I guess. I just thought that 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.279 was a part of the not part of the problem. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.440 I thought that was part of the solution. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.480 Well, it's created some tension in the community of nudists 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.640 because more traditional naturists are simply in this for the 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.760 freedom man. They think swingers have sullied the whole reputation 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.040 of this beautiful practice. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.240 Interesting, so things got. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.240 Weird and even dangerous. According to a two thousand and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.119 eight report in the Sunday Times, three separate sex clubs 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.000 were set on fire, and everyone suspected that radical naturists 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:36.640 were behind it. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:44.840 I said, naturists, naturists. I like both naturists. I'm a naturist. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.560 However, that's the story for another episode. This is just 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.840 providing some very important, full frontal context for the setting 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.080 where this takes place. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:58.720 So wow, that's a real tease right there, Josh. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.880 So, anyway, we're here to talk about the mayor of 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.160 this naked town. He's fully clothed for the purposes of 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:08.160 this episode. And in twenty twenty, he's celebrating his fifth 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.080 win when a colleague, a local cop, introduces him to someone. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.360 He was like, you got to meet this woman. She's 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.760 a healer in a medium. She's Toady magnifique. And you 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.960 should also know that the mayor's got some daddy issues. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.440 He's always felt like he lived in the shadows of 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.600 his father. He was an important debuty mayor when Jill 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 was a kid, but then his dad passed away, and 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.520 ever since then, Jill had been struggling to cope with it. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.640 He had even been getting in touch with the spiritual side, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.319 thinking about the meaning of everything, the afterlife, even considering 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.960 some fringe practices to try and stay in touch with 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:43.440 his dad. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:48.319 All very classic mayor activity, you know, total extracurricular activity. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.520 So when this cop says you should speak to my psychic, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.480 he takes some it seriously, right, He's like, maybe I 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.079 should think about this, And three months later he does. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.520 He makes an appointment with a woman named Sophia Martinez. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.520 Have you ever consulted a psychic? 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.560 I haven't, and part of me feels like they know 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.199 I'm probably never going to show up. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.000 How about your wife? 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:12.959 She goes to psychic. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.520 She's never gone to a psychic, but she is on 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.800 the verge of becoming a mayor, if you know what 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:24.040 I mean. This becomes slang for people who visit psychics. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.800 We got a real mayor over here, or nudists. We 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.319 had a real nude French. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:28.880 Mayor over here. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.120 So this woman, Sophia Martinez, was, in her own words quote, 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.120 a specialist in the cleansing of energy for people and places. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.360 She's in her forties. She lives in town with her 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:39.239 six kids. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.080 From three marriages. France Man yep. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.400 Her services include hypnosis, tarot card readings, even seances. A 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.240 few former clients have reported objects flying around the room 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.199 during sessions and that she often reveals details about their 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.280 lives that she could never have possibly known. And her 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.720 clientele includes intellectuals, architects, executives, even cops. So the mayor's 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.960 in good company. He's not like being crazy or extremely woo. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:04.520 By going to Sophia. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.560 Okay, got it, So let's not judge the mayor yet. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.040 So anyway, Sophia and Jiels have their first communication session. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.720 She tells him things she couldn't possibly have known about 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.160 his dad, like a nickname his dad had used for 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.920 his last partner, and Gill walks away from this meeting 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.720 convinced that the woman is the real deal. He's like 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.559 this this I trust this woman. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:24.559 Yeah. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.440 So they start having regular sessions, often by phone, and 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.040 according to the mayor, their relationship is amicable, although some 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.000 witnesses have heard him call her darling. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.800 And also our listeners should know, just because this is 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.280 all theater of the mind. These two people are fully 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.880 clothed during these sessions, but if you want a picture 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:44.880 that they're both naked. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.120 It does add a little spice to the story. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.680 It does, And to be honest, we didn't look that up. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.600 They could be. I mean, were assuming he was fully 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.600 clothed because the mayor generally wore clothes. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.719 But yeah, let's go there. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.360 Gill's a clothing guy. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.840 Run wild people, and so you know, he starts to 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.319 call her darling, and then a few sessions in things 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:04.880 take a turn. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.960 Uh oh, that's after the break. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.800 So one day, Shiel's talking with Sophia as he normally would. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.040 I imagine him giggling while twirling the cord of his landline, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:34.080 a very timely reference. People are like, what the fuck 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.240 are you talking about? When he hears another voice. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.760 On the line, you didn't see this coming, okay, it 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.680 was it was his dad. It was his dad. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.520 Damn it, Rory, you're too good at the show. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:46.640 There you go. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.160 You're too good. You're too good. You see, you are 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:49.960 a master criminal. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.520 This is what embezzling means. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.040 It is gonna it's all gonna come around. So, yes, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.199 this voice is deep masculine, definitely not Sofia and introduces 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:02.720 himself to Gille as Papa. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:04.520 Oh, here we go. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.800 The mayor believes that Papa is none other than I 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.440 was going to ask you to guest, but you already guest. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.560 Yeah, solved it his dad. Yeah, why wouldn't you believe that? 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.360 Of course he's on a phone, living in the afterlife. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.920 That's still a primary form of a communication. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.760 And you definitely would not suspect that someone else was 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:24.560 doing the voice, right, And. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:25.679 Of course it's dad, right. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.360 Of course, his dad was like, look, I could just 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.400 come visit you as a ghostly you know, being, and 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.640 we could cut out the middleman over here that you're 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:33.520 paying for. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.679 However, why would we do that. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.760 I mean, that's what mediums are for, I think, right, yeah, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:45.880 exactly right, Okay. So Jille is convinced by Sophia's power, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.800 of her ability to summon voices from the afterlife, she 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.360 was a conduit for spirits. And these conversations pick up 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.760 in frequency, often ten times a day. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.800 Okay, I don't talk to my wife in the same 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.880 house ten times a day. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:03.439 Fair point, nor do I. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.160 Jill's maybe a little vulnerable. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.720 I don't want to judge yet. Yeah. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.920 So they're having these discussions of incredible depth. The kindie 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.000 says he could never have had with the regular old 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:19.840 Sophia given her quote intellectual capabilities. Man man, so he 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.959 thinks Sophia is too dumb to be making this up. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:28.560 But I wonder who's the dumb one. Yeah, So the 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.160 mayor starts to see Papa as a spiritual mentor, asking 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.840 questions about life, death, the meaning of it all. I 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.199 can't even imagine what advice he could be giving. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:37.800 Back to the mayor. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.920 I'm I don't know. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.160 I'm just fascinated by the idea of someone just falling 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.600 from them. It feels like hypnosis, you know what I mean. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.120 I've never been hypnotized, but I live in a world 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.400 of skepticism about it. However, if someone's like, all hypnotize 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.400 you right now. I don't believe that it won't happen, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.559 So who knows. Maybe Jill is, like you said, wildly vulnerable. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.800 And at no point is he like are you sure 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.960 that you sure this ain't some other person? Like how 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.360 does this How does this papa sound like his papa? 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:10.959 This is the guy running the town. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:16.840 This is also the guy in charge. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.000 Of five consecutive elections. He's he's an unbeatable incumbent mayor 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:24.040 who just keeps winning. Yeah, you know the French, they're romantics. Well, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.560 now he has a connection to the afterlife and he 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.640 can tell all those ghosts, Hey, will you go scare 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.680 voters that we're going to vote for the other person 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:31.720 not to show up tomorrow. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:32.400 It's true. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.400 One of their favorite topics, One of Papa's favorite topics 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.200 on the call is Sophia. Yeah, he says, Sophia special. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.360 She's a saint. Jill was chosen to protect her and 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.520 her family. And there's one real blockbuster of a revelation. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.160 In a previous life, Jill was an Egyptian priestess who 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.640 had a child with Tutan common okay, and that child 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.240 was reincarnated in. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.840 Who my god, Sophia. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:06.440 Yeah, obviously, I mean you can tell there's a familial connection. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.080 I mean, yeah, she always there's in common. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.840 Love that someone says that to you and you don't 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:19.600 go what instead you go huh oh oh neat. I 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.880 haven't got to that part of our scrap book yet. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.280 I mean, really swinging for the fences with this reincarnated 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.920 like could have used like, you know, an old French guy. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.680 Nope, you know that these two con artists were just 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:34.600 talking like do. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.240 We throw the tutin common at him? Let's I think 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.720 he'd go for it. Let's just see. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.280 So like basically, at this point, he's convinced that he's 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.000 cosmically entwined with this one. Yeah, she's the reincarnated form 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.080 of his former daughter that he'd had as a woman 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.600 with tudin common yright. So yeah, naturally he's all in, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:57.320 can you see where this is going? 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:58.520 Yeah? 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.320 I can see where it's going, and I know that 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.360 the word mbezzlement is involved. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.000 So Gill starts paying for things her birthday parties and vacations. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.520 He hires a personal driver to take her kids to school. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.480 He gave a relative's cushy jobs at town hall he 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:18.400 funded her passion project, which was naturally a comic book yeah, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.120 titled Sophia From Darkness. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:21.760 To Light Yep. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.680 The mayor even helped plan and paid for her her 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.960 lavish third wedding in a castle part of Chateau, and 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.240 then walked her down the aisle. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.720 Yes, unclear if Papa was in attendance. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.880 It's also not one hundred percent clear at first where 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.480 the mayor was getting all this money. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.440 He's just a humble civil sermon. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.080 Yeah, you're starting to see it's you know, we look 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.480 at you look at someone like Sophia like this as 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.960 being a criminal, and yet at the same time you're like, 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.040 what's what's the criminal activity? 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:55.560 Right? 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.920 So far crime so far, wildly innocent and wildly respect 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.000 I like what I'm hearing, all right, good. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:11.560 Good, But people start to suspect that Jill may be raiding. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:12.400 The town's coffers. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:12.960 Yeah. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.480 For example, Papa told the mayor that Sophia needed a 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.879 new veranda to better serve her clients. So Gille hires 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.639 a contractor to redo the veranda. But the contractor is 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.480 a little bit nervous because he finds out that the 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.320 city is actually paying for it. So according to that contractor. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.000 Gille says they would fudge an invoice and borrow the 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.280 money from the city's sports club budget solved. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.360 I mean, look, this is why he's a five time champion. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.760 Really, I mean I got to imagine on some level, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.720 embezzlement is happening at every you know, like I mean, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.800 maybe you're not paying off the medium who's the reincarnated 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:45.240 form of. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:46.439 Your daughter with toot in common. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.040 Yeah, but like you know, you're giving someone a job 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.400 or moving somebody's resume at the top. That's not embezzlement. Okay, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.480 that's corruption. I guess corruption is what I'm saying. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:55.680 For me to believe that. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.399 Not every government official corrupt on some level, this is 0:17:58.440 --> 0:17:59.520 how skeptical I've become. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:00.280 Yeah. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.639 So anyway, this kind of creative accounting goes on for 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:10.399 three years, oh Gial not making the French cops seem 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.240 super sharp. Yeah, but you know we're not here to 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.439 judge them. Yeah, but not everyone was as entranced as Gille. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.439 And in October of twenty twenty three, the mayor ex wife, 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:21.960 you know, we haven't talked about her at all, but 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.680 there's Geraldine, his ex wife. She's had enough. She called 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.960 the cops. She alleged that Sophia has bewitched her ex 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:32.200 husband Shocker. She also suspected he was stealing money from 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.120 the city to fund the relationship. Yeah, police, I think 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.240 they call them gen Darmes there Lane John Darmes. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.960 It just let police. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.480 Yeah, let police sounds better than John's arms. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.359 Is that how easy French is? 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:55.359 Just love love love, okay, lo police. Somebody called the police. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:57.359 The police. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.679 I love that his ex wife's name is Geraldine. That 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.080 means at some point when they were together, people called 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:02.720 them Jair. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:07.720 Jeel and jer jeelan jer Jill and jer eh Jilla Jerier. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.080 The boss of le police is in the house. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.439 You sound like you were doing a like a morning 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.280 radio show hosted by two French people. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:21.800 Oh you're listening to low radio. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.520 Jee. I'm Jill, I'm Jill, and this is jer in 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:33.040 the morning. I was about to say that in French, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.440 but I don't know how to say in the morning either, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.399 do I I could, honestly, I could have riffed for 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.439 ten more minutes on that if I knew an ounce 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:38.919 of French. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.399 Well, I'm gonna go back to French. 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