1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Previously on Once Upon a Con. 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 2: We're here to announce today that we are filing a 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 2: total of eighteen felony counts against David Bloom, nine counts 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: for fraud and nine counts for grand theft. 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: Con artist David Bloom is finally sitting in prison with 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: eighteen felony counts against him. 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: We're very pleased to say that after this tremendous amount 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: of work by the LAPD and then buy our prosecutors 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: who are bringing him charges that could spose him up 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 2: to fourteen years in prison. 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: It's now August of twenty twenty four and Bloom still has. 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 3: No trial scheduled. 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: It's been two years since he conned me, and I'm 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: still learning of new victims and more lives that he's ruined. 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 4: When that rug is pulled, you know, it's like you 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 4: feel like your whole world is crashing down, like nothing's 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 4: ever going to be okay, Like the world is a fraud. 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 5: Everything is just you know, nothing is real. 19 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 6: I talk some shit to you, you will notice what 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 6: you bully do us sawn that time, Julie Naysley. 21 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: I'm Caroline Damour and this is Once Upon a Con 22 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: Episode ten. I hope you find peace one day. Well, 23 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: can you give us a little background on you. I'm 24 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: talking to Sean Kushner. He reached out to me after 25 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: I posted on my Instagram out in Bloom as a 26 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: con man in the fall of twenty twenty two. 27 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 4: So I was a hardcore alcoholic drug addict and I 28 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 4: ended up getting sober out in LA and I've been 29 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 4: sober almost seventeen years. But I literally started working in 30 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 4: mental health, working at rehabs in between, you know, doing 31 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 4: a lot of other LA jobs when you're figuring your 32 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 4: life out with no education, et cetera. 33 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, congratulations on seventeen years. By the way, that's 34 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: a really welcome thank you. 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 5: So long story short. 36 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 4: I was at a high ho Burger eating a burger 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 4: with my wife and it was like one of the 38 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 4: first days we had gotten out after having a baby, 39 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 4: and one of the first nights out in a long time. 40 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 4: And up comes the guy cleaning tables and insert David 41 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 4: Bloom into our lives. 42 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Dan was working at the restaurant cleaning tables. 43 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 5: He was cleaning tables at Hio. 44 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: No way, and that's wild. 45 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 4: He started just chatting it up with us, and I 46 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 4: was like, all right, whatever this you know, this weird 47 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 4: old crazy guy cleaning tables is you know, he was 48 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 4: charging his phone outside and like going in and out, 49 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 4: and he was just you know, and started talking and 50 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 4: he was interesting. Like the guy definitely was an interesting person. 51 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 4: You know, I was talking about you know, we had 52 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 4: just left an art show and he knew a lot 53 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 4: about art. He starts talking about him, like, this guy 54 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 4: can't just be cleaning tables. I was like, I don't 55 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 4: even know what this guy's deal is. And by the 56 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 4: end of the dinner he had gotten them to bring 57 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 4: us free milkshakes, So I don't know what the fuck 58 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 4: this guy was doing. But by the end of the meal, 59 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 4: he had told us that he actually was one of 60 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 4: the owners of High Ho. 61 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 5: So I was like, oh, this makes sense. 62 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he was not only telling us that 63 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 4: he was, you know, an owner of High Ho, but 64 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 4: he also told us that he was owner part owner 65 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: of the entire chain, which is linked in with you know, 66 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 4: Sugarfish and the knew over the pasta place next door. 67 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 4: So even when as far as telling us that he 68 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 4: went to go get fish early in the morning with 69 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 4: Kazi Nore and like how he would check to make 70 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 4: sure the fish was good by looking at the eyeballs 71 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 4: and just going into detail with all this weird stuff 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 4: that you don't just like randomly just know or or 73 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 4: just randomly tell people that you've met it, you know, 74 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: dinner while eating a burger. But you know, he definitely 75 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 4: was super intelligent dude, like I mean, and very crafty 76 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 4: with how he delivered you know, his information and asked information. 77 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 4: And so you got my number and then immediately, you know, 78 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 4: exchange numbers. And the next day he starts hitting me 79 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 4: up and just kind of slow rolling his way into 80 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 4: our lives and. 81 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 5: Hey, so how's your wife feeling today? How's everything going? 82 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 4: Like super super like sweet and you know, loving, like 83 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 4: just checking on her a lot, and we had just 84 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 4: had a daughter, and somebody that you know, somebody that 85 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 4: does something and you know it makes you feel like, okay, 86 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 4: this is probably somebody to be that would be good 87 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 4: to stay in touch with for you know, whatever reason 88 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 4: down the road, whatever connections down the road, because that's 89 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 4: just you know, how ola goes. 90 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: So then he starts calling you guys, and did you 91 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: guys start hating out right away or what happened? 92 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 5: Now it wasn't. 93 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 4: It was like maybe a week or two later he 94 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 4: invited us out to. 95 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 5: What's that place called over off Melrow, Creig's. 96 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: Craigs, which I'm super proud that I've gotten him kicked 97 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: out since, by the way, he's no longer allowed in Craig. 98 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 4: Well, hopefully he's never allowed out period anywhere. But he 99 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 4: you know, he knows the host is you knows, you know, 100 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 4: it's Craig. I was like, all right, so another layer 101 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 4: of the onion peeled of, you know, the exec that 102 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 4: is David Bloom who's talking about all the stocks he 103 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 4: owns while at dinner, you know. 104 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 5: The Netflix, the all these different stocks, which I. 105 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,799 Speaker 4: Will add I follow a lot of you know stocks 106 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 4: and whatnot, and they were all doing extremely well. And 107 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 4: everything he talked about he's definitely researched. 108 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, like he won't bring up a stock if it's 109 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: not actually ipo ing, you know, like he he definitely 110 00:05:58,520 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. 111 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 4: So and then it just went like that daily check in, 112 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 4: hitting me up every morning, asking how the day was going, 113 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 4: never asked for anything, like, he never asked me for anything. 114 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 4: He never asked me for favors, never asked you know, 115 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: for me to introduce him to anybody. 116 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 5: He was just like, you. 117 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 4: Know, people like you deserve a leg up. People like you, 118 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 4: I want to help you. So it was a lot 119 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 4: of like how can I help you? How can I 120 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 4: make your day better? How can I check on you 121 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 4: to see how you two are doing, how's the baby? 122 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 4: Like a lot of that, which, you know, you don't 123 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 4: get a lot of that in, you know, in the 124 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 4: world unless it's like people that you know, well are 125 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 4: people that are just just super caring people. And I 126 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 4: was just like, who is this weird old guy? 127 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: Why is he? You know, why is he so nice? 128 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 4: And it catches you off cord because you're like, oh 129 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 4: what a what a breath of fresh air. And then 130 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 4: and then there was a part of me that, you know, 131 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 4: I could I could tell that he had a drinking problem. 132 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 4: So then there was a part of me that was like, Okay, 133 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 4: he seems like a lonely rich guy. 134 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 5: He probably needs some help. I'll help him out. 135 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he uh. 136 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: I remember he would drink very early in the morning, 137 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: an entire glass of like hard alcohol, like. 138 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And he was open about it. He fled 139 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,119 Speaker 4: out like he was super open. He's like I tried 140 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 4: the thing. I tried being sober, and I you know, 141 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 4: I tried that lifestyle, and you. 142 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 5: Know, it didn't work for me. You know, this works 143 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 5: for me. 144 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, whatever, Like the back of 145 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 4: my head, I'm like that's what everybody says. But you know, so, 146 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 4: you know, all entertaining. This guy's lonely or something, so whatever, 147 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 4: just be friendly with him and help him out and whatever. 148 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 4: And then slowly, but surely, he starts like inching his 149 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 4: way further in and further in, and then just things 150 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 4: started getting weirder and weirder, and you're just like, what 151 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 4: is something's off? 152 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 3: Can you give me an example? 153 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 5: Like so, so we were we were getting ready to move. 154 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 5: We we were in the house. 155 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 4: It was you know, like mar Vista, and we were 156 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 4: getting ready to move and look for a place because 157 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 4: you know, we just had the baby and the setup 158 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 4: was like horrible for a kid, and we were like, okay, 159 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 4: we've got to find something that makes more sense. And 160 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 4: I just let him know, like, yeah, we're getting ready 161 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 4: to like look for a place, and he's like, I 162 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 4: know this what's his name? I know this guy that 163 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 4: owns Miss La La And he's a real estate guy. 164 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 5: Let me find you a house. 165 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 4: I was like, I'm good, Brah, Like, you know, we 166 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,119 Speaker 4: just got Westside Reynolds and apartments dot com will find something. 167 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 4: And he's like, no, I'm going to find you something 168 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 4: you deserve, like somebody to help you out for once, 169 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 4: and I'm going to help you guys out. 170 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 5: And I was like okay, and you. 171 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 4: Know, he's like, I'm going to send you a list, 172 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 4: a couple of listenings every day for the next few days. 173 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 5: And he was like, send a couple of listenings like beautiful. 174 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 4: Houses, right, And I'm like, looking at my wife, I'm 175 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 4: like I'm like, okay, what is this And and I 176 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 4: was like, look, I was like these are probably out 177 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 4: of our our budgets. So I'm like we're good. Man like, 178 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 4: don't don't worry about us, Like we'll figure this out. 179 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 4: He's like, no, any place out of all these that 180 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 4: you see, I'm going to help you get into for 181 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 4: less than three thousand dollars a month, because you guys 182 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 4: deserve to put money away, and you deserve to be 183 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 4: in a place that your child can grow and and 184 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 4: you guys can be a happy family and all this 185 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 4: weird stuff. And I was like, I was like, okay, whatever, bro, 186 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 4: And I'm like this guy's insane. I was like, he 187 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 4: either is super rich and this is legit or he's 188 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 4: just a crazy old guy. And so my wife and 189 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 4: I were both like on the fence of we and 190 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 4: like a little bit like this can't be real. But 191 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 4: at the same time like like what if this is real? 192 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 4: What if this is real? Like are we finally going 193 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 4: to get a break in life? Like are we finally 194 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 4: gonna you know, it is like yeah, all our all 195 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 4: of our good deeds and and karma is finally coming back. 196 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 3: And this is what he does. 197 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: He dangles the carrot and that's so cool, right, like 198 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: just by being a good person. This good person wants 199 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: to help this good person and that's how you feel. 200 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: And he plays on your heartstrings with that, Like this is. 201 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 5: With you know, a new baby. 202 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 4: So we're dealing with like, you know, my wife's not working, 203 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 4: I'm working and covering both the household and all like 204 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 4: post COVID coming out of you know, everybody's tight with 205 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 4: money and everything's like falling apart and I'm like burning 206 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 4: through savings and I was just like, oh my god, 207 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 4: this is like this is you know, God is answering 208 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 4: our prayers. 209 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 5: So we like picked this place. So I let him know. 210 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 4: That we were moving and he had already David had 211 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 4: already like set this woman up to talk to me 212 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: and like telling me that like everything was being set 213 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 4: up and like the uh you know, phone and electricity 214 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 4: and like talking to this different stuff. And then the 215 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 4: client was liken a place over there, and I was like, look, 216 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not moving until I am one 217 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 4: hundred percent sure that this is legit and there's like 218 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 4: no weird stuff with this, and he didn't listen. He 219 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 4: went like lockdown a lease at this place. Then he 220 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 4: was like asking us for to set up this account 221 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 4: to send money to this lady. So it was gonna 222 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 4: be first lasting deposit for this house. And I was like, well, 223 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 4: I need to see paperwork, and I was like I 224 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 4: need to see everything. I want to have it like 225 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 4: checked out, because he was like it's going to be 226 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 4: in your name. We're going to put it in a 227 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 4: trust and we're gonna you know, this is going to 228 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 4: be a set up in a trust in your daughter's name. 229 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 5: The house is going to go to her down the road. 230 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 4: And all you're doing is paying three thousand hours a 231 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 4: month that goes into a savings account because I don't 232 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 4: need the money, and it's going to pay the mortgage 233 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 4: for the house so your daughter will own it down 234 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 4: the road. 235 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 5: And I'm just like, okay, this is just like too 236 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 5: good to be treated. 237 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: Sean Kushner is telling me about the scam David Bloom 238 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: pulled on him. At this point, Bloom is mid Khan 239 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: trying to lure Sean in with the promise of a 240 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: cheap house that would eventually be going to his daughter. 241 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: He just needs a first and last deposit to go 242 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,479 Speaker 1: to some unknown woman's account. 243 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 4: And then like it was like a week we were waiting, 244 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 4: and then another week we were waiting, and I was like, 245 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 4: this isn't going through a twenty while I was like, 246 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 4: this is not going through something off and like we 247 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 4: were a super anxious new baby. I was just like, 248 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 4: I was like, if this is not real, I'm gonna 249 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 4: kill this guy. So this was like right as we 250 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 4: started pushing more, I was like, look, I was like, 251 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 4: what's the deal with this. He's like it's okay, and 252 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 4: he's like and by the way, I'm gonna leave for 253 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 4: the summer. But I'm going to uh the south of France, 254 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 4: and before I leave, this will all be set up 255 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 4: and you guys are gonna come with me. I'm gonna 256 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 4: put you on a plane to come out and stay 257 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 4: with me, and I'll have a nanny there for your daughter. 258 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: Can I ask you, was it Hotel de Caap? Of 259 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: course it was, of course, yeah, yeah, wow. 260 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 4: So he was saying, you sent us a hotel to 261 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 4: cap and sending then he sent me a fake email 262 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 4: from them asking for our information, so it like it 263 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: looked like it was coming from them. 264 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 5: I was like, what the hell? 265 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 4: So and then I like I even said to my wife, 266 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 4: I was like, why is it to colors? I was 267 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 4: like this message like it looks like it's been edited, 268 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't I don't feel good. 269 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 4: I don't have a good feeling about this. But like 270 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 4: there's that part of you that still is just like 271 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 4: what if we are going to south of France and 272 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 4: we're gonna stay at a fifty thousand dollars for you know, 273 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 4: couple of weeks hotel and like our daughter will be 274 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 4: taken care of and we're gonna just you know, So 275 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 4: there's like that party. 276 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not even just like well, what if we 277 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: get this, It's also like nobody in their right mind 278 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: would ever go that far to do something so crazy. 279 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: That's where my mind kept going, whether it was like 280 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: this big amazing thing too, even though every time I 281 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: would question it and I'd be like, no, I'm being 282 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm the one being weird because no one would ever 283 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: do that. No one would ever spend that much time 284 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: like like lying to somebody. 285 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 3: It's just unheard of. 286 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 4: I'm an addict, alcoholic junkie, Like I was a not 287 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 4: a good person out there when I was like using 288 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 4: like I would scam anybody I could, and I would. 289 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 5: You know, whatever I had to do to like get 290 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 5: what I needed, I would do. And I didn't. 291 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 4: Think for a second this dude was doing anything like 292 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 4: what I was like capable of. He was that believable 293 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 4: to me, and like, no matter how much the Spidey 294 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 4: senses were going off, for how much it felt off 295 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 4: or how much we were just like my wife and 296 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 4: I were just like, man, this dude is not for real. 297 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 4: Like it wasn't until he knew that we were starting 298 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 4: to figure it out, and then he went as far 299 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 4: as saying like before we go there, like, I'm I 300 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 4: have to fly to San Francisco because I have to 301 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 4: meet with the president. Convinces he knew the president, and 302 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 4: I was just like, okay. 303 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 3: Bro, I was like, the President of the United States, Yeah. 304 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 4: President of the United States, and that he was going 305 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 4: to some fundraiser at uh at what's his name's house? 306 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 5: Uh nah? He told me. He told me he played 307 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 5: tennis with bron burkele On Ashton Kusher regularly. 308 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 4: Though you might over there too. I was just like, 309 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 4: so it started kind of narrowing in. And the craziest 310 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 4: part about all this is, uh so, like he convinces. 311 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 4: He was like, he's like, you guys should come and 312 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: meet him. I was like, yeah, okay, bro, I was like, 313 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 4: We'll come meet the president with you. 314 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: And at this point, at this point, though, what are 315 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: you saying to him? 316 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 3: Are you at this point? Do you are you have 317 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 3: you caught on? Did you realize it was not real anymore? 318 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 5: No? 319 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 4: Not at this point. So at this point I'm still like, 320 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 4: I'm like, holy shit. I was like, this is the 321 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 4: guy that's gonna, like, you know, for for fifteen years 322 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 4: of helping people. This is the guy that's going to 323 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 4: repay me and like this he's gonna like set my 324 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 4: family up, telling me he's going to like buy Navidia's 325 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 4: stock and put it in my daughter's name, as like 326 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 4: Navidia's doubling and tripling and like going, you know, skyrocketing. 327 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 5: I'm just like, holy shit, there's no way this can't 328 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 5: be real. 329 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 4: Told my dad, like I kept it a secret from 330 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 4: pretty much my family for like a month and a 331 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 4: half two months because I was just like. 332 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 5: They're gonna think I'm crazy. They're never gonna believe me. 333 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 4: Like when I finally told my dad, he's like that's bullshit. 334 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 4: He's like that's not real. He's like, there's no way 335 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 4: that's real. And I started kind of like, you know, 336 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 4: started to be like okay. I was like it wasn't 337 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 4: until he bailed on so we were supposed to meet him, 338 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 4: and then he like hold some weird stuff where he 339 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 4: like canceled us and and he can he said that 340 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 4: he was dating Jennifer Aniston. 341 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 5: Dad and my wife and I. 342 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 4: Looked at each other, We're like, this is not real. 343 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 5: It wasn't. 344 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 4: It wasn't the president, it wasn't the Hotel de cap 345 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 4: It wasn't the restaurants that he owned, It wasn't all 346 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 4: these famous people he talked about. It was when he 347 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 4: said he was dating Jennifer Aniston. My wife and I 348 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 4: looked at each other were like, fuck, we got played. 349 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 4: This guy's not real. Yeah, that's when we knew. 350 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 3: Wow, he's so good. He's so good. But that one, 351 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 3: nah one, look one. 352 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: Look at his teeth and you know he's not dating 353 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: Jennifer Aniston. 354 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 5: Oh my god. 355 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, God, I remember those teeth for the rest 356 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 4: of my life. 357 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: So the Jennifer Anison thing happens, you guys realize he's bullshit. 358 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 3: Did you call him on it? 359 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 5: No, we didn't call him on it yet. 360 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 4: It was uh so at this point, my wife's mom 361 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 4: was down visiting us and she's like, you guys, this 362 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 4: is not real. 363 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 5: I'm going to google his name. I'm going to find him. 364 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 4: I was like, we googled him, there's nothing about him 365 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 4: because he told us a different name. 366 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 3: Oh what was he told you guys? 367 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 4: He said Bloomberg And yeah, so he said David something 368 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 4: Bloomberg and there's nothing on on Bloomberg and her and 369 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 4: her mom started like looking people up and they found 370 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 4: him they found like the Instagram post and stuff. 371 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 3: Instagram post yeah, yeah, yeah, So. 372 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 5: I didn't say anything. 373 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 4: Still, I waited for him to text me, and then 374 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 4: I just like I wrote this like long, like really 375 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 4: like weird twisted text to kind of like reel him 376 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 4: in on some stuff, and then blasted him with all 377 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 4: this different stuff so he could like he would read 378 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 4: the whole thing and then like it sucked in so 379 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 4: he had to read the rest. 380 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 5: And then I just blasted him. 381 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 3: I was like, did you send him my Instagram post? 382 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 4: No, But I also had a message I sent him 383 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 4: which was it pretty much spoke about everything. 384 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 5: Wow. Then he disappeared. 385 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: After months of promising Sean he will change his life 386 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: by moving his entire family into a new home he 387 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: got them for a steel, a home that will eventually 388 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 1: become his daughters, flying him to the south of France, 389 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: and meeting the President of the United States, David bloom 390 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: Is gone like the wind through it all. Sean never 391 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: gives Bloom a cent, but the emotional carnage is brutal. 392 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 4: And then I had to like pick up the pieces 393 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 4: and reel back in like everything that it's screwed up 394 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 4: for me, because like the money would have been less damaging. 395 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 4: If I had just paid him that money, it would 396 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 4: have been way less damaging than the emotional stuff that 397 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 4: it did to was. 398 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: So can you explain that to me a little bit, 399 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: like how did he like, how did it like emotionally 400 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: kind of you know, I mean. 401 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 4: You think that you have You're a married couple in 402 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 4: LA coming out of COVID with a five or six 403 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 4: month old baby at this point, was it no? So yeah, 404 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 4: like five or six month old baby. So you're dealing 405 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 4: with like no sleep, You're dealing with all the stress 406 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 4: that comes to being a new parent, and then you 407 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 4: have this like guy that's like, you know, trying to 408 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 4: like band aid everything and make you feel like everything's 409 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 4: gonna be okay. 410 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 5: And then when that rug gets pulled, you know. 411 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 4: It's like you feel like your whole world is crashing down, 412 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 4: like nothing's ever going to be okay, and like the 413 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 4: world is a fraud. Everything is just you know, nothing 414 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 4: is real, and like why would if there's a god, 415 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 4: why would God allow something so horrible to happen to people? 416 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 4: And it was like a real test of faith. The 417 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 4: craziest part about it is like like nothing, nothing makes 418 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 4: more sense than the fact that his docket number in 419 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 4: jail starts with six sixty six. 420 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 3: Wow, I actually didn't even know that. 421 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well. 422 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he really is like some who gets, like 423 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: you said, gets off on taking really good people and 424 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 1: taking them on a ride thinking, you know, playing messing 425 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: with their hopes and dreams and family and innocent, kind, 426 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: loving people. And it's such a it's such a feeling 427 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: when you find out that truth and everybody and all 428 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: of us are kind of bonded in that feeling. 429 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 3: Of the lowest of the lows. 430 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: It's a combination of of rejection, humiliation, and just at 431 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: all of everything that you've been kind of planning has 432 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: prevented you from doing all of this other stuff. It's cruel, 433 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: cruel on so many levels. And this could happen to 434 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: anyone if it's happened to us, you know, not only. 435 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 4: That, but it's like a you know, don't if it's 436 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 4: something it's too good to be true, then you don't. 437 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 4: Don't don't like you know, doubt your spidey senses or 438 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 4: doubt your inner gut. 439 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 5: It's just like, you know. 440 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 4: There there are evil people in the world, and you know, 441 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 4: the universe can't protect everybody from everything, and evil will 442 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 4: lurk and evil will do evil things. 443 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 5: And that's like, you know, that's what this dude is 444 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 5: all about. 445 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 4: The fact that he can't stop doing it and kept 446 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 4: doing it and kept going to jail for it just 447 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 4: proves that. And he'll never stop. So I pray that 448 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 4: they like keep him locked away because he'll just do 449 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 4: it again. 450 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:44,239 Speaker 1: So, Sean, I've kind of always thought about what I 451 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: would say if I was ever face to face with him. 452 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: Do you ever think about that moment and like what 453 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: you would say to him. 454 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 4: I would probably start off by telling him I forgive 455 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 4: him for what he did, and that I understand that 456 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 4: he's sick, and you know what he does to people, 457 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 4: it's like it's it goes far beyond just like some 458 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 4: weird high that he gets. And I would say, look, 459 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 4: you know, you didn't rob me of any money, but 460 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 4: you rob me of emotional time with my family, You 461 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 4: rob me of my sanity it sometimes you rob me 462 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 4: of my peace of mind for months. You know what 463 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 4: you did us, like, no no amount of money could 464 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 4: ever repay what you did to my family in those 465 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 4: times of my daughter's early development. But I forgive you 466 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 4: at this point, and I hope you find peace one day. 467 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 3: Well, I actually just got the chills. 468 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: On a more positive note, how is your life now? Like, 469 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: how have you kind of you know, gotten past it? 470 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: And where are you at now? 471 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 5: Well? Got past it? 472 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 4: It lit some inside of me that was like, look like, 473 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 4: don't ever deny your faith. Don't ever deny like what 474 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 4: you believe in. And things are better than they've ever been. 475 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 5: You know. 476 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 4: I have another daughter that's due and like, you know, 477 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 4: a couple of months, you know, but thank you works 478 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 4: the best it's ever been. My wife is healthy and happy. 479 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 4: I'm healthy and happy, and my firstborn daughter is healthy 480 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 4: and happy, and that's. 481 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 5: Like number one. 482 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 4: And don't like I don't look at like some stuff 483 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 4: like a bougie house or a trip to to France 484 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 4: or any of these things that kind of like diverted 485 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 4: my attention before. I don't look at that stuff. Like 486 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 4: I realized like how unimportant that is. And but at 487 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 4: the time, I, you know, was super angry at the guy. 488 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 4: But now I just see him for what he is. 489 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 4: It is just a sick soul. And you know, there's 490 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 4: a lot of six souls out there, and can't help 491 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 4: them all and you know, happy to move forward. And 492 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 4: I hope the guy just learns his lesson and finds 493 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 4: some sort of happening at some point in his life 494 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 4: and stops doing this with people. 495 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a really evolved way to look at it. Sean, 496 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: You've definitely come a long way since since we talked last, 497 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: but that is really beautiful. All right, guys, thank you 498 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: so much for listening to this season of Once Upon 499 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: a Con Wall Street whiz Kid. If and only if 500 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: you enjoyed this season, pretty please rate us five stars 501 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: on Apple Podcast, leave a review and share it with others. 502 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 3: We really really appreciate you. 503 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: Once Upon a Con is a production of AYR Media 504 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: and thirty two Flavors, hosted by Me Caroline de Morey. 505 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: Executive producers Alisa Rosen for AYR Media, Alex Baskin for 506 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: thirty two Flavors, and Jonathan Walton for Jonathan Walton Productions. 507 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: Written by Eliza Rosen, producer Caroline de Morey, edited and 508 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: mixed by Justin Longerbeam. Engineering by Justin Longerbeam. Our theme song, 509 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: Freshly Served was written and performed by the incredibly talented 510 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: Mattie Noise and is available on her SoundCloud.