What's Going on With Gilbert Shekley?

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i was obsessed with gilbert s they din't even print his last name at the time, because he wasn't formally accused. i had seen this one article, and it was just like the idea of this woman passing a bag of over 300 thousand uros in cash in a bathroom. That detail basically, like, i thought about it all the time. And from a kind of like freelance reporter trying to tell stories, i just never really found a place where i could do it. I feel like the full story of his history is actually much richer than if i had done it at any point along the way. When he was prosecuted, that's when i started working on the story

Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, is host of the new podcast Persona: The French Deception.

“One of these big scams is like a story. And in the story, what they're doing is they're manipulating you to be a participant in the story, and they're getting you so hooked that you will not just do anything they say, but you will invest yourself in bringing the story to its conclusion. And like, isn't that what you're doing if you're trying to get someone to listen to eight episodes, spend that much of their life listening to your voice? … The idea that every story has this person pulling the strings... I like revisiting that in everything that I do."

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