I have you trapped. The only way I will not do that is if you obey me and do exactly what I say.

Now I need you to send another picture doing this.

If you do not send it within 24 hours, I will release this blackmailed video, so that's how it works.

That's very common and most people that are trapped in that don't say a word.

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. This is episode 196 and I am grateful to be here with you, wherever you're coming from and however you're watching, whatever platform you're coming from, whether that's Spotify or Apple podcast or YouTube or any other platform I heart radio.

Thank you for being here. I answer your questions. You email me, GrangerSmithPodcast.gmail.com

and I walk through it and long podcast form. Sometimes maybe too long and sometimes maybe too short. I have nothing planned. I have no notes in front of me or no quotes or anything compiled and I also have not read these questions beforehand.

So we're going to walk through it. You're going to hear it as a listener the same time that I'm hearing it.

And then we'll give the best answer that we can. These questions could be about anything in life.

Really, I've seen it all over the place. You just email GrangerSmithPodcast.gmail.com. So let's go to the first one here. Subdicline says curious.

And the question says, hello, Granger. My name is Cindy. I live in Florida. I have a quick question for you. Do you respond to comments on your podcast that ask us to message you on a different platform?

I've received that on everything I've commented on. Thank you and God bless. Yeah. Cindy, thanks for emailing. I'm glad this is the first one that popped up.

The answer is never. I'd never ask you ever on social media or any platform to go and message me on another platform. Right. That's not me. That's a scam or probably from Nigeria.

I've actually did a podcast on this several years ago way back in the archives. But they're always scamming you. They're trying to scam you. Always look for the blue check. It's really important to look for that blue check.

And then just take a quick scan over at the page. It's not hard to see what a scammer page looks like. It doesn't have a lot of followers. And it doesn't. It could be cloned. They could have posted the same thing. But you could tell that there's a lot less activity and there's a lot less followers.

So look for the blue check and also don't follow any kind of blue checked artist or celebrity of any kind. Don't ever follow them on a mass direct message or a comment that says, hey, come to this other platform and message me there.

It's also important to never donate to anybody's charity that asks you straight from a, say, an Instagram comment and says, hey, donate here to this certain charity.

Also don't even follow my advice. If I'm asking you to donate from a charity, it might not be me. So be very careful. I'm never going to come to you. And I don't think anyone is ever going to come to you.

That's that you don't personally know in your family that's going to say, hey, I have some, I got into some financial trouble. Can you help me out here? Whatever Tom Cruz is not going to tell you that. So anyway, be very careful. Be very safe out there on, you know, we, we have learned in life how to be street smart and not walk down a dark alley.

You wouldn't do that. So we need to learn how to be web smart now and learn where those new dark alleys are. Don't go down them. It's a good question. I'm glad we started with this.

Next question. Subdiclines has exploited. Hey, Granger. I'd like to remain anonymous. I'm 15 years old. I'm a boy. I've made a huge mistake. I sent private videos to what I thought was a girl and ended up being a sex exploitation scheme.

I deleted everything and reported it all and nothing has come of it. I'm struggling with the shame and embarrassment that I fell into lust.

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