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Speaker 1: Previously on Once Upon a Con.

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Speaker 2: Why would you do that to me?

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Speaker 1: When I thought we were friends?

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Speaker 3: We are friend.

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Speaker 1: I got scammed by a professional con artist who was

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Speaker 1: a neighbor of mine at the Villa Carlata, a really

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Speaker 1: high end building where I thought I was safe. This

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Speaker 1: is a place where people work in this industry and

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Speaker 1: you don't rely on their reputations to get jobs, whether

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Speaker 1: it's acting, consulting, video editing, what have you. And a

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Speaker 1: man I trusted with everything I had scammed us all.

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Speaker 1: Why would you say that shit to me? Why Sam

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Speaker 1: took some shit? I'm Caroline de Morey and this is

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Speaker 1: Once Upon a Con Episode two. If you live in Hope,

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Speaker 1: you die and shit.

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Speaker 4: And Bloom was there during lockdown No.

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Speaker 1: So he came probably like a year after I was there.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to my BFF Hammy about the first time

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Speaker 1: I ever met David Bloom at the Villa Carlotta. I

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Speaker 1: was there for like three years, so he came like

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Speaker 1: halfway through, towards the end of my stay. It was

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Speaker 1: April eighth, twenty twenty one. I'll never forget that day

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Speaker 1: as long as I live. I was hanging out by

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Speaker 1: the pool doing some work on my laptop. It was

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Speaker 1: a gorgeous sunny day, and all of a sudden I

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Speaker 1: noticed David Bloom on the other side of the pool.

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Speaker 1: Holding court was some of my neighbors. They're all laughing

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Speaker 1: with him and having a good time. He looked like

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Speaker 1: a guy in his early sixties, kind of short, maybe

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Speaker 1: like five five or five six, with a thick shock

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Speaker 1: of silver hair. He really seemed like the life of

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Speaker 1: the party. You hear him laughing from aross the pool, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking to everybody. Seems like he knows everybody.

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Speaker 1: He walks over to me had heard that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I had this company called Pizza Girl, and he had

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Speaker 1: gone and bought my sauce at the supermarket next door

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Speaker 1: and was so impressed with my company. You know. So,

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Speaker 1: Pizza Girl is the name of my organic pasta sauce

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Speaker 1: that I started selling back in twenty twenty. I'm Italian

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Speaker 1: and this sauce is a guarded family recipe and it

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Speaker 1: tastes amazing. Pizza Girl is also the nickname they called

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Speaker 1: me when I was a kid helping my dad deliver pizzas,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, it kind of stuck. I've been

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Speaker 1: pouring my blood sweat and tears into pizza girl ever since.

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Speaker 1: Little did I know that having my life story out

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Speaker 1: there on the Internet and in magazine articles and news reports, what.

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Speaker 2: Makes your sauce is unique? Well, it's all.

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Speaker 1: Locally sourced ingredients. It's literally like homemade in a would

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Speaker 1: come back to bite me in the ass. Enter David Bloom,

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Speaker 1: a mega rich, successful businessman who had just moved into

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Speaker 1: my building. He had had this story that he was

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Speaker 1: staying at the Villa Carlotta because he was going to

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Speaker 1: buy it. He had this house supposedly that was right

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Speaker 1: of how the chateau it's the only house where the

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Speaker 1: chateau has to deliver food. The chateau I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: here is the Chateau Marmont, a world famous hotel in

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Speaker 1: the foothills of West Hollywood, a super wealthy neighborhood where

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Speaker 1: stars like Johnny Depp and Katie Perry have homes. So

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Speaker 1: that's where David Bloom told me.

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Speaker 2: His house was.

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Speaker 1: I even saw pictures of it. I had no reason

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Speaker 1: not to believe him. After all, he just moved into

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Speaker 1: the Villa Carlotta and was hob nobbing with all my wealthy,

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Speaker 1: accomplished neighbors, some of whom were paying ten ran a

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Speaker 1: month to live there. I'm the one who actually felt

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Speaker 1: like an impostor, you know, because I was only paying

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Speaker 1: a little over two grand. Remember I got that COVID

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Speaker 1: rent special. David Blooms seemed like the real deal to me.

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Speaker 4: And he knew your boyfriend at the time, and he

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Speaker 4: knew everything and everybody, so it was like a perfect

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Speaker 1: He just had a big presence and everybody seemed to

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was on the hills, and you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of my personal life was already out there.

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Speaker 1: It was known that I went through a divorce. It

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Speaker 1: trying to get off the ground. And he, you know,

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Speaker 1: a heartbroken and we kind of bonded on that and

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Speaker 1: he was like my ex girlfriend, she broke my heart.

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Speaker 1: Now it just devastates me. I even remember one day

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Speaker 1: he cried actual tears to me about how sad, and

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Speaker 1: you know, lonely he was. I felt for this man,

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Speaker 1: and then he really showed interest in Pizza Girl. Being

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Speaker 1: meant a lot to me. I had to fight to

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Speaker 1: like be taken seriously as a CEO and as a businesswoman.

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Speaker 1: I really had to overcome all of that, you know,

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Speaker 1: that time in my life for sure. So to have

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Speaker 1: this business man, you know, respect my business side. He

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Speaker 1: never hit on me, which was refreshing.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: He really just seemed like he said, if you ever

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Speaker 1: need advice, I'll take meetings with you. I'll kind of

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Speaker 1: mentor you exactly. So we would start taking meetings down

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Speaker 1: by the pool. I was looking for funding, so I

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Speaker 1: showed him, you know my deck.

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Speaker 4: That was the sweet spot, was like treating you as

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Speaker 4: like a reputable business person. Yes, that's what was like,

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Speaker 4: That's what made your ears perk up with him.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, he really showed an interest in Pizza Girl,

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Speaker 1: in me as a businesswoman, and that felt fucking amazing.

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Speaker 1: And he definitely did his research on my industry because

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Speaker 1: you know, he had mentioned his close friendship with Ron

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Speaker 1: Burkele Ron Berkele is this billionaire supermarket titan. He's one

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Speaker 1: of the richest men in the world. And David Bloom

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Speaker 1: convinced me he was good friends with him.

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Speaker 4: And what's even weirder about the Ron Burkele of it

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Speaker 4: all is like we're all sort of like one degree

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Speaker 4: of separation away from Ron.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: I've been to his house for dinner and like it all,

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Speaker 4: it felt so close, and it felt like he actually

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Speaker 4: had this forged friendship with him, and like he just

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Speaker 1: I had met Ron years ago, the person that I

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Speaker 1: was kind of dating a little. He was best friends

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Speaker 1: with him. You know. I was even on his private

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Speaker 1: jet one time, million years ago, so I knew I

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Speaker 1: knew of him. And he was like, let me reach

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Speaker 1: out to him and see if there's any way he

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Speaker 1: holy shit, like wow, like I can't even believe it.

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Speaker 1: Even just a meeting would be incredible. Thank you so much, David.

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Speaker 2: He would show me text.

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Speaker 1: Messages from Ron and he'd be like, Oh, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to Ron right now. He's like, oh, he remembers you,

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Speaker 1: pizza girl. And then he'd be like, oh, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: send him this picture of you. Oh Ron's laughing. He says, Hi,

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Speaker 1: pizza girl, And I was like, oh, that's so cool.

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Speaker 1: I never thought twice like should I call my friend

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Speaker 1: who knows him and you know, and confirm. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: but no, that's bizarre or you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 1: I never thought of that at all. And for the record,

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Speaker 1: I googled David Bloom a bunch of times during our friendship,

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Speaker 1: and I found David Bloom, the journalist.

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Speaker 3: Wildfires are raging across the American West.

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Speaker 1: David Bloom, the economics professor, and it's projected to rise

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Speaker 1: to more than four hundred million by the year twenty fifty.

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Speaker 1: David Bloom, the artistic director of New York's Queer Urban Orchestra.

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Speaker 1: But I never found my neighbor David Bloom, the wealthy

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Speaker 4: I can relate to that name because my name Tom Hamilton.

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Speaker 4: It's like a John Smith. It's like a David Bloom.

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Speaker 4: Like there's a million Tom Hamilton's, there's only one Caroline

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Speaker 4: de Morey. So it's like a Google search into you,

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Speaker 4: and it's like an open book of your life, shows movies,

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Speaker 4: things you've done, whatever, your personal life, all of it.

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Speaker 4: But like when you have that sort of generic name,

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Speaker 4: like a David Bloom or David Grant or like, there's

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Speaker 4: so many different paths and outlets in a Google search

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Speaker 4: will just be so full of things from all around

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Speaker 4: the world, you know. And so that's I think he

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Speaker 1: And I was very upfront and honest about everything. I said, David,

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Speaker 1: how can when I Google you nothing shows up? And

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Speaker 1: he would say, well, people like Ron and I, the

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Speaker 1: He was like, we don't want anybody having our information.

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Speaker 4: Totally flying under the radar. This is how money people

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Speaker 1: And he had this story about his ex wife who

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Speaker 1: was in politics, who I was able to google, and

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Speaker 1: I did see photos of them together, and she's this

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Speaker 1: you know. And he said that she tried to wipe

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Speaker 1: him from the Internet, or to help help wipe him

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Speaker 1: a little bit from the Internet, because they were being

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Speaker 1: reached out all the time for investment and whatnot. So

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Speaker 1: all of that made sense to me. I really thought

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Speaker 1: someone who really looked at me like a you know,

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Speaker 1: a legit business woman. For the first time, I thought

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Speaker 1: David Bloom was an angel from heaven. He offered to

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Speaker 1: use his close connection with billionaire Ron Burkele to help

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Speaker 1: get my Pizza Girl pasta sauce on the shelves of

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Speaker 1: a giant supermarket chain. And I remember he said to

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Speaker 1: me he knew I was financially strapped. I was so

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Speaker 1: broke after my divorce. I was truly left with nothing.

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Speaker 1: And when I said that on the hills, I had

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Speaker 1: people being like, how dare you Like you're like this

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Speaker 1: like rich girl, Like your dad pays for this and that,

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Speaker 1: and that it's actually not trip okay, my dad can't

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Speaker 1: pay for this. In that, and I was loved with nothing.

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Speaker 1: I had a terrible divorce where I just finally gave

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Speaker 1: up and said take everything, and he did.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: I got no child support, no alimony, and had to

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Speaker 1: figure out how I was going to make money every month.

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Speaker 1: So when David came along, he said he was gonna

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Speaker 1: be my investor. He's gonna invest in Pizza Girl, He's

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Speaker 1: gonna hook me up with Ron Burkele. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: he was like, you need some fast cash. He goes,

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Speaker 1: I'm a really good investor and I have this IPO.

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Speaker 1: Just round up as much money as you can. It's

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Speaker 1: for the Soho House going public. And you can look

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Speaker 1: and see that the Soho House was about to IPO.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Soho House is a private social club that's popular with

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Speaker 1: rich people and celebrities. They have locations all over the

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Speaker 1: world and in mid twenty twenty one, they were gearing

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Speaker 1: up to go public. And since David's good friend, billionaire

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Speaker 1: Ron Berkele, who was part owner of Soho House, David

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Speaker 1: was offering to get me in on the ground floor

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Speaker 1: of their IPO. He was like, you know what, if

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Speaker 1: you can only put together one thousand dollars, you know,

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Speaker 1: that'll help you out. He was like, but if you

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Speaker 1: can put together more, it's gonna be worth twenty nine

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Speaker 1: or twenty eight times whatever you put in in a

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Speaker 1: couple months.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, that's it.

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Speaker 1: He's like, so let's get you this so that you

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Speaker 1: can survive until you know the investment and the deals

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Speaker 1: with Ron and everything come together. I took out money

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Speaker 6: Of course, we believed in Villa Carlotta was full of

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing. Beck and Aaron never liked David personally.

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Speaker 2: All around David. Everybody everyone was around David. David was

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Speaker 6: I started to get really suspicious when he would name

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Speaker 1: I had no idea that we were all quickly becoming

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Speaker 6: The we had many of those conversations. You're like, why

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Speaker 5: Like several times Caroline would say to me in tears

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Speaker 5: And it was heartbreaking to watch, And in my head,

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Speaker 3: The luckiest people are always the hardest workers. I've always

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Speaker 3: It's you know, that's the only thing we can control.

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Speaker 5: The rest is just you know, it might be luck,

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Speaker 1: Aaron's right David started dividing us, whispering things into my

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Speaker 1: that night at a fancy LA restaurant off Melrose called Craigs.

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Speaker 6: He had his weekly table at Craigs Right every Wednesday night,

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Speaker 2: It's the celebrity hangout. Oh yeah, the new him, the

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Speaker 6: And that was one of the things you told me.

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Speaker 6: You're like you, you know, when you had your doubts,

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Speaker 1: So we all meet at Craig's in the summer of

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Speaker 5: So at that dinner, I'm sitting there waiting for our

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Speaker 6: Remember he said to Karen, they are so in the wrong.

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Speaker 3: That was a turning point for me that dinner.

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Speaker 1: David was planting in me that you guys weren't substantial

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Speaker 6: But he sat back and let it happen. In sort

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, that was another end for him.

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Speaker 1: When you guys stormed out, he was like, see what

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Speaker 1: I told you? He was like, they can't They're not

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Speaker 3: This feels a lot more like therapy than a podcast.

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Speaker 1: I think it will be honestly at the end of it, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling stuff. It's pretty full on. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: At this point, no one had any idea who David

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Speaker 1: And we actually found this online. It was something you

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Speaker 1: I'm going to record this so that I can play

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Speaker 1: because this is such a big meeting.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: That recording I made that David consented to of me

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Speaker 1: talking to the CEO of Whole Foods Ac Gallow is

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Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on speaker phone an interest

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Speaker 2: Right, Hi, how are you.

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Speaker 3: Next?

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Speaker 2: Time?

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Speaker 1: On Once Upon a Con, David gets us all to

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Speaker 1: board a plane and fly to Texas for the opportunity

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Speaker 5: I've never been to a meeting in my whole career

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Speaker 3: From or by the person who set it up.

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Speaker 5: Is zero background other than Whole Foods are going to

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Speaker 1: My question is what but things end up going horribly wrong.

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