Yeah

... um, pretty much th- he is presenting them information, saying, "Hey, look, you can invest, um, you know, $10,000, $20,000.

How much you got in the bank? How much is in your savings account? Come on, invest with me.

And, um, you know, I've turned, uh, you know, $10,000 into $30,000, and you can do it, too." Pretty much this whole scheme, this elaborate scheme to get women on board, and saying, you know, giving people fake screenshots of his bank accounts.

$30 million in his bank account, he said at, he, um, had at one point.

Um, and some of these women, Bryce, did it.

Some of these women, over the course of maybe three or four years, sent him in total $1.3 million he got.

Yeah.

traded.

So, yeah, in my investigation, I had to like debunk that Gucci is a private company.

They are a part of a conglomerate company, but they are not publicly traded as Gucci.

So you can't own a stake in Gucci or franchise it.

Anyway, he said he came up with this.

This lie to in my investigation is a forty nine page document.

And he came up with this lie where there's a trading Web site for beginners and there's an online engine where you can go and just like act like you're trading like a fake.

What you got for us with our girl Naomi Osaka?

Right

... and so that was the first red flag to me.

Um, just as a journalist who works with sheriffs and works with police departments every single day, um, there, there has to be some kind of investigation, and you just cannot just openly say, "There's no foul play." What do you mean there's no foul play? How did...

I- if he drowned, do you know how? Was he forcibly drowned? Uh, was it because of the boat? Did the boat stall? Did you investigate? You know, did you check the engine? Like, there's so many variables to this story, and the reason why I haven't covered it yet on my platforms is because there's so many pieces right now.

There's so much speculation.

There's so much going on, so many press conferences, and Ben Crump is doing press conferences, and the district attorney's doing one and promising a full and transparent investigation.

There's so much happening that I cannot ca- I cannot catch up.

... whoop, whoop, whoop.

Right

... and so that was the first red flag to me, um, just as a journalist who works with sheriffs and works with police departments every single day.

Um, there, there has to be some kind of investigation, and you just cannot just openly say, "There's no foul play." What do you mean there's no foul play? How did...

I- if he drowned, do you know how? Was he forcibly drowned? Uh, was it because of the boat? Did the boat stall? Did you investigate? You know, did you check the engine? Like, there's so many variables to this story, and the reason why I haven't covered it yet on my platforms is because there's so many pieces right now.

There's so much speculation.

There's so much going on.

So many press conferences, and Ben Crump is doing press conferences, and the district attorney's doing one, and promising a full and transparent investigation.

... whoop, whoop, whoop.

So how did your path lead you to work for Futures?

Yeah.

So I've, I've had a long, long journey in this work.

[chuckles] So I actually started this work when I was 19 years old, when I was looking for an internship just to see what it is that I wanted to do in the world.

Um, I started wanting to do focus on anxiety and depression.

And so I did that.

I was in a psycho- psychology major, and I actually had a cousin whose best friend was working at this organization called the Ohio Domestic Violence Network.

Do you find in this current era or moment in time that we're in, do you find it a challenge to your work or as an opportunity for your work?

Because again, I'm so proud of my friend, and, uh, I just would love for the posse to get to know you.

you.Yes, Bryce.

Yes.

Oh my gosh.

So, I'm a journalist.

Uh, you were there when I started college, Bryce, when I was like, "I think I wanna be a journalist.

I wanna do this." I went to the University of Pittsburgh.

Well, [laughs] however-

Well, [laughs] however-

I know, I know.

I know.

It's like where did you get this gun from? Why do you have this gun? Um, it, it put him in a bad position.

He should not have had this gun.

However, it does not justify, in my opinion, and I know in South Carolina the, w- the law is in South Carolina that if you own a store, if you're a business owner, you can go and follow people, and you can chase after people if you have cause to do it.

If you feel like some- if, if somebody stolen from you, um, if you suspect that they have shoplifted or have, you know, committed a crime, um, on your property, you can go after them.

Mm-hmm.

I

mean, literally, I think everyone was just like, if he's going to get voted out anyways, might as well give him the opportunity.

If he gets shot...

You get it or you don't.

And I feel like I didn't see season two of Beast Games, but they did do this in season one of like flipping the coin or whatever.

I think that also hit too.

I can't remember right now, but like it's just very interesting that like the 50-50 shot just helped Rick out so much more and doubled the prize pot, which is kind of insane to just hear that We now have $2 million for this one.

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