The podcasts...

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we not only tell you a crazy con story but we analyze the specific brain hacks and mental tricks professional scammers use to get what they want. 

Sometimes it’s money. 

Sometimes it’s marriage. 

Sometimes it’s murder 

But whatever it is you can bet your life that when a professional con artist targets you, they will succeed… 

Unless you know what the tells are. 

the ground yields 5 million barrels of oil daily and fortunes are forged in the unforgiving Texas desert, a hidden world of desire and discretion thrives. While petroleum tycoons clock 100-hour workweeks chasing black gold, their affluent wives are left to their own devices—armed with endless time, money, and unmet needs. 

Enter Mickey, the enigmatic "Handyman of West Texas," whose house calls have been anything but routine for the past five years. Mickey isn't just fixing leaky faucets or hanging shutters; he's a generously endowed sex worker "laying hardwood" that's left hundreds of wealthy West Texas housewives breathless—and their marriages teetering on the edge of divorce court.

and pulls the trigger, he thinks all his problems will finally be over. But really, they were just getting started. After Erik miraculously survives his suicide attempt, he is mentally incapacitated, stricken with the mind of a 6 year-old boy. And during his recovery, a tall blonde con woman deftly insinuates herself into Erik's life, secretly marries him, and begins to rob him blind. This sophisticated scammer has sheriff's deputies, lawyers and judges all doing her bidding. But a childhood friend of Erik's figures out what's going on and moves heaven and earth to try to stop the scam.

Two days after his release from prison, TJ Dominguez opens up about a life where he ran the largest Lamborghini dealership in the world by day, then by night made $100m a month flying cocaine for Pablo Escobar.