The Irish Heiress: Ep. 1, The Best Friend
Queen of the Con
iHeartPodcasts and AYR Media
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When reality TV producer Johnathan Walton and his neighbors lose access to their resort-style swimming pool in their Downtown Los Angeles high-rise, they band together to push back against their landlord. At one of their protest parties, Johnathan meets Mair Smyth, a wealthy Irish heiress with a storied past who is battling some serious demons from her family back in Ireland. She dazzles the crowd, dropping in like an angel ready to solve everyone’s problems with the pool and beyond. But is Mair really the sweet savior she appears to be?
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Certain portions of what you're about to hear have been dramatized based on real-life events, eyewitness accounts and court records. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm a happily married gay man, but here I am, parked out front of this woman's place at 5 o'clock in the morning, just trying to catch a glimpse of her. |
| 0:57.0 | I need to know she's there. I haven't seen her in months, and as hard as I try, I just can't get her out of my mind. |
| 1:04.0 | Dude, this is crazy already, man. You've got to let her go. |
| 1:08.0 | My buddy Evan thinks I'm obsessed. |
| 1:10.0 | Hold on, Jonathan. Alright, whatever, dude. She's all you talk about. Like, this is not normal to be outside her place. Like, I'm worried about you. |
| 1:18.0 | You're letting her go your shine. I've been trying to hide it from Pablo too, you know. He sees me in the line and I pitch her pops up and it flies into a race. |
| 1:26.0 | She's like, you promise me this is over. Well, what are you going to do? You're going to wake up and go to bed every night thinking about fucking Mara Smith? |
| 1:40.0 | I just couldn't help it. This woman was now threatening my marriage, coming between me and my husband. |
| 1:46.0 | How the hell did I get here? How the hell did I let this happen? She seems so nice when we first met. So kind, so sweet. |
| 1:55.0 | But she's the devil. She's the fucking devil. I regret ever meeting her. We all do. |
| 2:13.0 | I'm Jonathan Walton and this is Queen of the Con. |
| 2:18.0 | Episode 1. The best friend. |
| 2:26.0 | I'm a reality TV producer. I've worked on 27 different series over the past 14 years. |
| 2:33.0 | But the most spectacular reality show I've ever been a part of had no cameras shooting it and no network airing it and no viewers watching it. |
| 2:43.0 | Just a devious con artist secretly playing her craft in the shadows and dozens of unsuspecting victims like myself quietly falling prey. |
| 2:56.0 | It started so innocently a few years ago. Vampires have to be invited in to exert their power over you. She was a vampire alright. |
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