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podcast is difficult including sexual abuse of adults and children.

While the more graphic details will be left out, the specifics can be triggering.

Please take care when listening.

It's always the same thing.

Money, sex, and whatever else. And he wanted it all.

Man, it's crazy.

Think of a magic trick. Maybe it's David Copperfield walking through the Great Wall of China,

or David Blaine pulling Harrison Ford's Nine of Hearts out of a freshly peeled orange.

Or maybe it's just your uncle, David, grabbing a coin from behind your ear when you were little.

Whatever it is, illusions all have something in common.

They are well-honed tricks designed to manipulate you into believing

something that is not true. A great magician will make you doubt your own senses, and some who

are more performative will make it seem as though they've tapped into something beyond themselves,

something supernatural even.

But trickery, as we well know, is used for much more nefarious purposes than fun and entertainment.

There are some that use deception to harm, to get what they want, often with no regard for

anyone but themselves.

Con artists with practice personas who will lie to your face to gain your trust and then violate it,

caring nothing about the damage they leave in their wake.

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