Svengali
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Sep 13, 2026
Bobby CapucciHOST
The case was already put on hold because Vallow was found incompetent to stand trial, Johnson noted.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Because she and Daybell are being tried separately, her team can point to Daybell as the Svengali who preyed on Valo, getting her to do what she would not have done without her mental illness and his influence.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Hey, look, I'm not saying that won't work as a strategy.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The question is, is Lori Vallow willing to throw he who suffers fuckface-itis, Chad Daybell, under the bus? Because as of now and up to now, that hasn't been the case.
Marian SeldesVOICE_ACTOR
Yes, Demarius.
Marian SeldesVOICE_ACTOR
The girl who could only sing while Svengali conducted.
Marian SeldesVOICE_ACTOR
I'm going to prove I'm a star without a Svengali.
Marian SeldesVOICE_ACTOR
Or die trying.
E.G. MarshallHOST
Our mystery drama, That Magic Touch, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by G. Frederick Lewis.
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Marian SeldesVOICE_ACTOR
Ronald, your adopted father has always tried to make me feel like a trilby.
Christopher TaboriVOICE_ACTOR
You mean that, Trilby? Yes.
Marian SeldesVOICE_ACTOR
The girl who could only sing while Svengali conducted.
Alan SandersHOST
The defense...
Alan SandersHOST
They're holding, again, and for all the people out there who are still on the husband did it or some kind of conspiracy theory or he somehow hypnotized her or he's got some kind of Svengali sway over her and gas lit her.
Alan SandersHOST
No, the defense always said, yes, she did it, but it was a postpartum psychosis.
Alan SandersHOST
The defense is, their strategy is, how can you be criminally responsible if you're in the middle of a postpartum psychosis? It's the prosecution that said, no, she planned it.
William D. CohanGUEST
I mean, he, he h- you know, he also helped him structure, uh, the purchase, uh, of his airplanes and his boats and, uh, his art, you know, buying and selling art collections in a tax efficient manner.
William D. CohanGUEST
So, uh, the guy, Jeffrey Epstein, uh, obviously was some sort of Svengali, uh, had a lot on a lot of people and surrounded himself with all these powerful people, and somehow they were attracted to him.
William D. CohanGUEST
I mean, that maybe we'll never understand how that happened.
William D. CohanGUEST
But he also, for some reason, was an autodidact and, uh, you know, didn't graduate, uh, college.
Ben MallerHOST
And there's a bunch of nervous owners, these aristocrats, watching from luxury suites, window shopping every time he's on NBC and every big game on Sunday night.
Ben MallerHOST
And Tomlin's just sitting there on the desk and he's got this Svengali effect going.
Ben MallerHOST
Not on the sidelines, you put on that TV makeup, you put on the IFB, and you get the little microphone thingamajig there, and suddenly everyone is hypnotized and mesmerized.
Ben MallerHOST
They forget all the bad stuff and all the teams that underachieved in the playoffs for Tomlin for so many years, and you overlook that.
Ben MallerHOST
And there's a bunch of nervous owners, these aristocrats, watching from luxury suites, window shopping every time he's on NBC and every big game on Sunday night.
Ben MallerHOST
And Tomlin's just sitting there on the desk and he's got this Svengali effect going.
Ben MallerHOST
He's Not on the sidelines, you put on that TV makeup, you put on the IFB and you get the little microphone thingamajig there and suddenly everyone is hypnotized and mesmerized.
Ben MallerHOST
They forget all the bad stuff and all the teams that underachieved in the playoffs for Tomlin for so many years and you overlook that.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
One of the best dancers ever.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
He especially impresses an unknown actress on set, Marie, who will become his Svengali and his first wife.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
They jump to 1960, and Jack is a star and a great dad, and Marie is a drunk and hates being a mom.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
She wants to be famous, damn it.
Karen BrooksGUEST
So yes, I have her sort of underpinnings, one of Oscar's most famous novels, putting the idea out there.
Karen BrooksGUEST
And certainly with George DeMoria, because he's very famous for the novel Trilby, which introduces the character of Svengali, the evil mesmerist.
Karen BrooksGUEST
Mesmerism was huge in those days.
Karen BrooksGUEST
Yeah, so I have her influencing those writers.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
And one day I get a mysterious, I get a phone call from Singali's ghost.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
This dude, Svengali, had disappeared out of Chicago.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
This dude had been gone from Chicago for like two or three years.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
He went to Masalan to do a DJ gig and then like disappeared.
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Jon NicholsonGUEST
Yeah.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
And very much into racking.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
Svengali was racking.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
My friend who is now teaching sculpture at School of the Art Institute, Chicago.
John WhelanGUEST
It's not as simple as it looks in the textbooks.
John WhelanGUEST
You know, you've got lots of Svengali characters, charismatic, particularly founder owners, generally speaking, um, tend to be narcissistic sociopaths, um, which you have to be in a startup.
John WhelanGUEST
But when you get into a scale up, those characteristics can start to cause problems.
John WhelanGUEST
Um, and indeed, that's what I got.
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