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Gangster Capitalism S3: Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University | EP2: A Hostel Arrangement

Campus Files

Audacy

Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Giancarlo Granda, AKA “The Pool Boy” reveals the predatory nature of the Falwells. Exclusive audio reveals another side, and another character in the middle of this story. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every week on The Moth podcast, we share stories that are funny, strange, heartbreaking, and above all, true.

0:07.7

I myself have been married for 56 years.

0:13.9

Unfortunately to four different women.

0:17.6

You can work out a whole lot of shit in the hours of Target

0:21.0

follow and listen to the moth on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts

0:26.8

so let's go back to when I first met them.

0:43.9

I was 20 years old, working at the Final Blue Hotel, working my way through college.

0:50.8

This is John Carlo Grande.

0:53.5

He's speaking about the time in March of 2012

0:56.5

when he was working at one of South Beach's most luxurious hotels.

1:02.1

Granda was a pool attendant.

1:04.6

I'm talking to some guests, and I noticed this woman behind me staring at me,

1:09.4

and she was noticeably drunk.

1:11.7

Granda says the woman, who he described as a hot cougar, was snapping pictures of him while he

1:17.4

worked, and so they began to speak.

1:20.8

She was just flirting with me, and then we started flirting back and forth, and then towards

1:26.3

the end of my work shift, she's like, hey, would you want to go back to my

1:29.3

hotel room?

1:31.1

And as a single 20-year-old, I'm like, yeah, of course.

1:34.7

And she's like, but my husband wants to watch.

1:39.6

And immediately, I thought it was a bit strange, and I backed off.

1:43.3

He said, oh, no, but he's not going to do anything.

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