Welcome to other world. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This is the Black Widow Part 2. If you've

not heard Part 1, you'll definitely need to go back and listen to that first. Now, just to recap,

in Part 1, I come across this story in a bit of an unusual way. I meet somebody in real life,

I overhear them talking about a clairvoyant and end up interviewing her about her very unusual

story. Growing up, her dad had this sudden success and an influx of money. He ends up having this

kind of midlife crisis and starts disappearing to Vegas all the time. Hang out with strange people,

things are becoming odd, to say the least. And then he starts dating this series of gold diggers

for lack of a better word. These young women that are kind of transparently using him for his money

and taking advantage of him as a result, he gets divorced and then gets married again multiple times

and divorced multiple times. All that is happening in front of his children who are still young and

witnessing all this play out. Then he ends up with this woman, Amy, who's far worse than anyone

from before. The list of things that she does is honestly hard to recap. She starts racking up

astronomical bills on designer clothes. She's isolating the dad from his loved ones and manipulating

situations in a way that any criticism of her comes off as judgmental and kind of classist

towards her supposed humble beginnings and difficult background. And I think that part's

really important. She's legally not allowed to see her kids. No custody, no visitation rights,

which is very noteworthy because it's very unusual for that to happen to a mother.

She ends up getting the dad to hire a team of lawyers to get her custody back of these kids and

she ends up getting full custody. The kids show up to live with our storytellers' dad

and they're all very strange. Two of them are special needs and on top of that, all of them

clearly need therapy in general for the traumatic situations that they supposedly have been living

through. Amy was saying that the father of these kids is a psychopath, he's done all these horrible

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