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True Crime Campfire

False Profit: A Folk Hero's Fall from Grace

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Greed can come in many forms. It’s not always about money. Some of us get greedy for attention, or drama, or sweets, or sex. In fact, there are probably as many faces of greed as there are people. But because we tend to think of greed as an insatiable hunger for money, it can be easy for the other kinds to fly right under our radar. And that can make us vulnerable. In the story we’re about to tell you, we have two kinds of greed. There’s that traditional, wolfish desire for cash—especially somebody else’s. But then there’s a subtle, insidious greed—a single-minded, self-centered obsession with enlightenment. A quest for spiritual growth that would end up destroying scores of lives, and toppling a beloved folk hero. Sources:CNBC's "American Greed," Episode "Lights! Camera! Fraud!"https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/albany/press-releases/2013/conspirators-sentenced-to-84-months-and-55-months-in-fraud-conspiracy-regarding-the-birth-of-innocence-movie-projecthttps://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/is-mac-parker-the-hero-or-the-villain-in-his-film-financing-drama/Content?oid=2139947https://www.ramtha.com/Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfireFacebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

Hello, campers.

0:25.0

Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:28.0

We're your camp counselors.

0:29.0

I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:31.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:35.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

0:38.0

Criccion.

0:41.0

Greet. Greed can come in many forms. It's not always about money. Some of us get

0:49.0

greedy for attention or drama or sweets or sex. In fact, there are probably as many faces of greed as there are people.

0:56.0

But because we tend to think of greed as an insatiable hunger for money,

1:00.0

it can be easy for the other kinds to fly right under our radar and that can make us vulnerable.

1:05.1

In the story we're about to tell you we have two kinds of greed. There's that

1:09.5

traditional wolfish desire for cash especially somebody else, but then there's a subtle insidious greed,

1:15.9

a single-minded self-centered obsession with enlightenment, a quest for spiritual growth that would end up

1:21.9

destroying scores of lives and toppling a beloved folk hero.

1:25.6

This is False Prophet of Folk Heroes fall from grace. Oh, So, Camper's were in Vermont, late 1990s. Mac Parker was a local celebrity, a farmer and storyteller who performed for huge crowds.

1:56.2

One reporter described him as Vermont's Garrison Keeler, though I'd do him one better than that,

2:00.9

because in none of the recordings I've seen of him does he make the kind of homicide and do so? than that

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