Georgia Hardstark
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So tell me everything. It is here. It's worth getting to the part where Clark Rockefeller or Chris Chichester or Chip Smith or Chris Crow is my favorite because he when he was Chris Crow, he claimed to be a relative of Cameron Crowe. He does all these lies that are just small enough. They're big enough to impress you, but small enough to be believable. Right. And it is masterful.
And he's a really legitimately IQ style intelligent person. But he also doesn't really have any morals. So most of the time everything's fine because he's just trying to get money and like work for himself and get what he wants. But...
And he's a really legitimately IQ style intelligent person. But he also doesn't really have any morals. So most of the time everything's fine because he's just trying to get money and like work for himself and get what he wants. But...
For a little while. Yeah. I think the limit's two years that people are happy around this guy. Then he starts getting real irritating. And that's when he gets kicked out of houses, fired from jobs, what have you. But so this is basically how it goes. He grows up as an awkward teen in Germany. He has a group of friends and in the documentary, the friends get interviewed.
For a little while. Yeah. I think the limit's two years that people are happy around this guy. Then he starts getting real irritating. And that's when he gets kicked out of houses, fired from jobs, what have you. But so this is basically how it goes. He grows up as an awkward teen in Germany. He has a group of friends and in the documentary, the friends get interviewed.
And what I loved is one of the friends goes, I love that he tricked all those rich Americans. And that part made me go, oh, yeah, that's true. He really did get away with huge, huge lies for a really long time. Yeah. So here's basically how it went.
And what I loved is one of the friends goes, I love that he tricked all those rich Americans. And that part made me go, oh, yeah, that's true. He really did get away with huge, huge lies for a really long time. Yeah. So here's basically how it went.
Um, he also claimed to be, these are all the things he claimed to be an actor, a producer, a director, an art collector, a physicist, a ship's captain, a negotiator of international debt agreements, and an English aristocrat. He was, he did it all. So, um, when he was 17, he met an American couple who had pulled off and asked him for directions, um,
Um, he also claimed to be, these are all the things he claimed to be an actor, a producer, a director, an art collector, a physicist, a ship's captain, a negotiator of international debt agreements, and an English aristocrat. He was, he did it all. So, um, when he was 17, he met an American couple who had pulled off and asked him for directions, um,
on the side of the road, and he met them, got their names, and then when he wanted to go to America when he was 17, he used their names on the entrance documents to say that they had invited him there and that he was gonna go live with them. This was a one-off meeting on like the side of the road. And those people are also in this documentary. It's pretty awesome.
on the side of the road, and he met them, got their names, and then when he wanted to go to America when he was 17, he used their names on the entrance documents to say that they had invited him there and that he was gonna go live with them. This was a one-off meeting on like the side of the road. And those people are also in this documentary. It's pretty awesome.
So he comes to the United States and he goes to Meriden, Connecticut, and he finds the family of a backpacker he met once on a train in Germany.
So he comes to the United States and he goes to Meriden, Connecticut, and he finds the family of a backpacker he met once on a train in Germany.
I have a hard time talking to people I've known for 20 years.
I have a hard time talking to people I've known for 20 years.
OK, so he explains to them that he is from a very wealthy German family and that he is in America like he's a foreign exchange student. And can he stay with them because he's going to be going to the local high school?
OK, so he explains to them that he is from a very wealthy German family and that he is in America like he's a foreign exchange student. And can he stay with them because he's going to be going to the local high school?
basically he starts going to high school in connecticut and basically his whole thing is he wants to be american he wants to blend in he becomes obsessed with gilligan's island and he starts talking like thurston halberd oh that's cool and when he appears in this documentary that's who he's talking like and it wasn't until i was reading this article where they mentioned this specifically where i started laughing because they don't talk about in the documentary
basically he starts going to high school in connecticut and basically his whole thing is he wants to be american he wants to blend in he becomes obsessed with gilligan's island and he starts talking like thurston halberd oh that's cool and when he appears in this documentary that's who he's talking like and it wasn't until i was reading this article where they mentioned this specifically where i started laughing because they don't talk about in the documentary
He does talk about it, but they talk about it like it's an inside ego. The the guy who makes the documentary who was friends with him brings it up, but they don't like he the Clark Rockefeller like kind of brushes it off like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he totally sounds like him. But he's talking like this. Oh, my God. That's perfect. And he's basically saying it's the funniest.