Latest / Scam Goddess / The Hustlin’ Wig Snatchers Saga w/ Adam Rippon
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Scal Come froll, Scam, Come Rob's froll.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Goddess, what's popping Congregation, it's your girl. Lacey Mosley aka
- 0:22Speaker 2: scam God, is back with the new installment of the
- 0:25Speaker 2: podcast all about robbery, fraud and those who practice it.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Sometimes we love them, sometimes we hate them. We will
- 0:31Speaker 2: figure out on the way. As you guys know, I'm
- 0:33Speaker 2: always what very yes, excited, elated, astatic. I'm still in irony, y'all.
- 0:38Speaker 2: But I got one more week after this and I'll
- 0:40Speaker 2: be back in ghetto ass America. But I do miss it.
- 0:44Speaker 2: I do miss it. My guest today is an Olympic medalist,
- 0:47Speaker 2: a retired figure skater and Okay, I can. And I
- 0:51Speaker 2: know that because I've been at many events with him
- 0:54Speaker 2: and he's always serving and making me laugh. He is
- 0:56Speaker 2: a pioneering athlete who became the first openly gay US
- 0:59Speaker 2: apple to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. We
- 1:03Speaker 2: got an Olympic Winter Okay ponium podium. Period. He won
- 1:07Speaker 2: the twenty sixth season of Dancing with the Stars. He
- 1:09Speaker 2: can't stop winning, and has appeared on shows like Will
- 1:13Speaker 2: and Grace, Good Morning America, and most recently was cast
- 1:16Speaker 2: on Saint Dennis Medical season two and this just in
- 1:20Speaker 2: he is opening a medical spot, yes, a legal business. Okay, congregation,
- 1:26Speaker 2: please welcome the incredibly talented and first timer Adam rip
- 1:30Speaker 2: onto the show. I feel like this is way too long, Adam,
- 1:33Speaker 2: because I'm always running into you in the streets.
- 1:35Speaker 3: I know, I feel like this is way overdue. But Lacy,
- 1:37Speaker 3: I'm so glad to be talking to you from America.
- 1:41Speaker 3: We all say hello, we miss you. We can't wait
- 1:44Speaker 3: until you're back.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:45Speaker 3: We're holding down the fort though, so and we're making
- 1:48Speaker 3: sure all the scams are still alive and well before
- 1:51Speaker 3: you come back.
- 1:52Speaker 2: And I love it. I love it so, so so much.
- 1:55Speaker 4: You know, I think that you'd be a great skater.
- 1:57Speaker 2: By the way, No, I'm very clumsy.
- 1:59Speaker 3: No, No, I don't believe that. I think it's all
- 2:02Speaker 3: about like pizzazz and like showmanship, which you have.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Yeah. I could only skate on film, which I have
- 2:07Speaker 2: done on Scam got Is the TV show. And as
- 2:09Speaker 2: soon as we got the shot and I was out
- 2:11Speaker 2: of frame, I literally ran into a tree and fell.
- 2:14Speaker 2: So I've tested it, Okay. I was laid out there
- 2:21Speaker 2: on Miami and on the boardwalk on South beach like,
- 2:24Speaker 2: ah luen. I can only play graceful for like thirty
- 2:32Speaker 2: seconds at a time. But no, if they're watching full time, no.
- 2:35Speaker 4: No, no, no girl, Okay, your.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Girl's gonna fall. I actually have a baby girl injury
- 2:39Speaker 2: right now. I scraped my knee on something and then
- 2:42Speaker 2: I had to wear pantyhose to work the other day
- 2:45Speaker 2: and they were like, oh, your knee is scraped, And
- 2:47Speaker 2: it's such a childish injury to scrape your knee like it.
- 2:50Speaker 2: It's like if you burn. Like, we're adults. We're supposed
- 2:52Speaker 2: to be burning our hands, cooking, slicing ourselves a little bit,
- 2:56Speaker 2: chopping onions.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Yeah, any paper cut cast yeah, brace.
- 3:02Speaker 2: These are adult injuries, you know, paper cuts, things of
- 3:06Speaker 2: that nature. Maybe slamming your hand in a car door.
- 3:08Speaker 2: We'll let you have that one. But getting a knee scrape,
- 3:12Speaker 2: that's like for you, scrapping your knee was on the
- 3:17Speaker 2: monkey bars.
- 3:18Speaker 4: Wait, how did you scrape your knee?
- 3:20Speaker 3: By the way, good night everyone, I think I see it.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a seek, it's a I'll just say this
- 3:28Speaker 2: if y'all listen to the last episode. It was at
- 3:31Speaker 2: the Berlin airport. I know I was under distress. Don't
- 3:33Speaker 2: worry about it. We're not getting into a Jess. Don't worry.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Don't worry. Rich Oh the last I had an episode
- 3:41Speaker 2: with Jenny Slay recently. They're they're fabulous and I had
- 3:44Speaker 2: to get some shut off my chest because I went
- 3:46Speaker 2: to Berlin and I think I took like twenty five minutes.
- 3:48Speaker 2: But just is an amazing producer and so Rich is
- 3:50Speaker 2: a great like they're they're great. So I'm just like,
- 3:53Speaker 2: they'll figure out how to get those down because before
- 3:55Speaker 2: we got to the scam, it was literally twenty five
- 3:57Speaker 2: minutes of me being like and another thing. But yeah,
- 4:05Speaker 2: that's how I got my baby girl knee scrape. And
- 4:07Speaker 2: I was like, this is so childish and I really
- 4:09Speaker 2: need to grow up.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Like, no, that's so I've never thought of like that.
- 4:12Speaker 3: I've never thought of like an injury, being like a
- 4:15Speaker 3: baby injury, but it is because you know what. I
- 4:18Speaker 3: was just watching the Victoria Beckham like little docuseries on
- 4:21Speaker 3: Netflix and one of the models like fell off her
- 4:24Speaker 3: bike and scraped her knee and I did think. I
- 4:26Speaker 3: was like, I haven't heard of anyone over the age
- 4:29Speaker 3: of twelve like scraping their knees yes, I.
- 4:31Speaker 2: Want to tell people I scraped my knee doing my Texas. Yeah,
- 4:34Speaker 2: I scraped my knee on the way to the vote
- 4:38Speaker 2: in booth, my dunny, I got to come up with
- 4:44Speaker 2: some type of life because it's either a baby injury
- 4:46Speaker 2: or an elderly injury. You know where I like, I
- 4:49Speaker 2: followed you kick it up, brother, got slippery, you know, No.
- 4:54Speaker 3: No, one hundred percent an injury from Prop fifty. That's
- 4:57Speaker 3: what you got. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, And
- 5:00Speaker 3: I had to make sure it passed.
- 5:01Speaker 2: So I got up quickly, and I was running to
- 5:04Speaker 2: the polls because I left my adult job and the
- 5:06Speaker 2: polls were about to close as an adult, and so
- 5:09Speaker 2: I was running to the polls, and you know, a
- 5:12Speaker 2: baby tripped me. A baby tripped me, And that's how you.
- 5:16Speaker 4: Know exactly exactly the ballot box.
- 5:22Speaker 2: As I was your way down, I was also making
- 5:24Speaker 2: a car payment and my utilities, and I was making
- 5:29Speaker 2: a doctor's appointment for my physical check up. That's what happened.
- 5:36Speaker 4: That's what I would have thought would have happened.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Because it was very grown. It was very grown how
- 5:41Speaker 2: it happened. All right? What is your relationship with scams?
- 5:46Speaker 2: Do you love them, you hate them? Have you ever
- 5:47Speaker 2: been scammed? And you can talk about this past the
- 5:49Speaker 2: statute of limitations.
- 5:50Speaker 4: This is something that I currently think is a scam.
- 5:54Speaker 2: I need to know.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Okay, I think that this is going to be a
- 5:58Speaker 3: little controversial, but I think that I think organic things
- 6:03Speaker 3: are a scam.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Oh I just I don't have no poison on it.
- 6:06Speaker 4: Well, okay, listen, that's literally.
- 6:10Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna steal that. That's a joke. Lord
- 6:12Speaker 2: Shad made that. I said in Florida girls, I picked
- 6:14Speaker 2: up an avocado and we were so poor that I
- 6:16Speaker 2: was like, oh it's organic. That mean I ain't got
- 6:19Speaker 2: no poison on it, But go ahead. Organic as a scam.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Okay.
- 6:26Speaker 3: I think organic things are a scam because they still
- 6:29Speaker 3: use pesticides. Okay, so organic products still use pesticides, but
- 6:36Speaker 3: like non organic things use synthetic pesticides. But you know,
- 6:40Speaker 3: the synthetic pesticides are like they're man made.
- 6:43Speaker 2: The pesticide BBL.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Well yeah, yes, so then your organic products they use
- 6:50Speaker 3: like they use like organic pesticides, but they're not as
- 6:55Speaker 3: effective as synthetic ones. So it doesn't mean that they
- 6:58Speaker 3: don't use any They have to use more for it
- 7:01Speaker 3: to be as effective.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Now, are these pesticides don't they're like, oh, let's put
- 7:05Speaker 2: limon juice on it, or like let's have a guy
- 7:07Speaker 2: fight the bugs all day.
- 7:10Speaker 3: No, these pesticides are like full blown chemicals. But the
- 7:15Speaker 3: organic ones aren't like a guy or like lemon juice
- 7:19Speaker 3: and vinegar and bake. It's not like some like Buddy
- 7:21Speaker 3: going out there with baking soda. Like they're also chemicals.
- 7:25Speaker 3: Not all natural things are good, that's true, so I
- 7:29Speaker 3: believe I'm not like And also there's like no substantial
- 7:34Speaker 3: nutritional value. There's no like a nutritional difference in a
- 7:38Speaker 3: non organic or organic produce. It's basically a wash.
- 7:43Speaker 2: And maybe it was just one of those things to
- 7:45Speaker 2: move the goalpost because I remember, like I remember, I
- 7:49Speaker 2: was not alive. You aren't either, nobody really was. And
- 7:51Speaker 2: listen to this podcast.
- 7:52Speaker 4: I can't wait to see what you remember. We remember
- 7:58Speaker 4: The year was fifteen three. Literally, no, I literally was going.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Back that far because I'm talking about how, you know,
- 8:04Speaker 2: the spice trade happened and everyone wanted spices, and how
- 8:07Speaker 2: spices used to be this indication of wealth, and then
- 8:10Speaker 2: once spices became widely available to the general public, just
- 8:14Speaker 2: like the wealthy class always does. They're like, oh, we
- 8:16Speaker 2: don't do spices anymore. We actually want food with no
- 8:19Speaker 2: spice because it's such high quality that we don't need
- 8:21Speaker 2: to seizeon it. Like there's always a moving of the
- 8:23Speaker 2: goal post. And that's what organic does feel like to me,
- 8:26Speaker 2: is like we're shifting. It's like, oh, you pours, you
- 8:29Speaker 2: poors can afford avocado fruit.
- 8:32Speaker 4: It is not anymore.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Not anymore. Now we have organic avocados, we're gonna have
- 8:36Speaker 2: that poor poison on them.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Can you tell me again?
- 8:39Speaker 3: Is that why like white people eventually like went away
- 8:44Speaker 3: from any sort of spiced food. No, Oh my god,
- 8:51Speaker 3: that's insanity.
- 8:54Speaker 2: I mean it's a scam. They were like, how do
- 8:56Speaker 2: we stay fancy in this beat? I mean, this is
- 8:59Speaker 2: just the way that like, it's actually not the same
- 9:02Speaker 2: way in this way. But I always enjoy knowing that
- 9:06Speaker 2: lobster used to be prisoner food and Alcatraz type shit.
- 9:11Speaker 2: And then they were like they were like, oh, well,
- 9:13Speaker 2: you know what actually super expensive and making a delacy.
- 9:18Speaker 2: It's a bug in the Sea and I love it.
- 9:20Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite books.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is what I'm getting like annoyed with
- 9:24Speaker 3: like the organic stuff because they do a lot of
- 9:27Speaker 3: different things where it's like another thing is like with
- 9:29Speaker 3: chicken right where they go it's air chilled, and the
- 9:33Speaker 3: idea is that if it's air chills, they didn't put
- 9:35Speaker 3: it through like a chlorine bath. Okay, a chlorine bath
- 9:39Speaker 3: doesn't sound great, right, but it's to kill a bunch
- 9:42Speaker 3: of like bacteria and shit from like when they're cutting
- 9:45Speaker 3: the chicken up, or like raw milk. Oh, get over it,
- 9:48Speaker 3: the raw milk. I listen, stop, you're not going to
- 9:52Speaker 3: the teat of the cow and getting your raw.
- 9:56Speaker 4: That's sucking on cow titty.
- 9:58Speaker 3: That's the discuss cow titty way disgusting.
- 10:03Speaker 4: So what's stupid the raw melt.
- 10:05Speaker 2: It's just also I hate when people are like empowered
- 10:09Speaker 2: by not having information. They're like, well, they're not telling
- 10:13Speaker 2: you this yet, girl, because it's not something to be told.
- 10:15Speaker 2: You made this up. That's why they're not telling nobody that,
- 10:19Speaker 2: because it's not a thing that should be told. You
- 10:23Speaker 2: went on you went on the internet. I used to
- 10:25Speaker 2: when we grew up, we learned about sources. I swear
- 10:28Speaker 2: I'm like one of the last few like fully media
- 10:32Speaker 2: literacy educated children in America like like our generation.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Yeah, how old are you? If I may ask? Okay, yeah, yeah,
- 10:43Speaker 3: we're not far.
- 10:44Speaker 2: You look great.
- 10:45Speaker 4: You look great acting purposes.
- 10:48Speaker 2: I mean you can google me and figure it out,
- 10:49Speaker 2: but you shoot up for acting purposes. I'm still a baby girl. Okay,
- 10:51Speaker 2: I scraped my knee, baby, I got some malec on
- 10:54Speaker 2: my brand.
- 10:55Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 10:56Speaker 3: All you need to know is I can work adult hours.
- 10:58Speaker 3: That's it, right, that's it. That's all you need to know. Okay,
- 11:01Speaker 3: put me in a teen drama.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Okay, at the disposable black girl love interest and also
- 11:08Speaker 2: the support system to the white lady who says, you go,
- 11:10Speaker 2: white girl, I'll drive to the airport. So I need
- 11:14Speaker 2: those jobs. So yeah, Like they get on Reddit or
- 11:19Speaker 2: they get on Wikipedia, which I'm like, sweetheart. Wikipedia is
- 11:22Speaker 2: a site that anybody can edit. It's not a reliable source.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Reddit is a place where people are just talking online anonymously.
- 11:29Speaker 2: These are not sources. These are the places that can
- 11:31Speaker 2: be sued for putting out misinformation or like all of.
- 11:34Speaker 3: These experts, experts they come out and they're like the
- 11:38Speaker 3: mitochondria in your cell bank photosynthesis, and they go on
- 11:44Speaker 3: this thing where you're like, okay, I'm with you, and
- 11:46Speaker 3: then you dig a little deeper and they're like, all
- 11:48Speaker 3: you have to do is buy my supplements or my
- 11:52Speaker 3: book or okay, the medical medium. Okay, I fell for
- 11:57Speaker 3: this scam in the pandemic of drink the celery.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Okay, Selarus. I thought you were gonna say the Colonial silver,
- 12:03Speaker 2: and I was supposed to be like, and did you
- 12:05Speaker 2: turn blue? Okay?
- 12:06Speaker 3: I did buy like coloidal silver at one point because somebody,
- 12:10Speaker 3: because listen, I think all of this like RFK, like
- 12:13Speaker 3: Maha stuff was all supposed to just like live on Facebook,
- 12:16Speaker 3: and you were supposed to try it for three days
- 12:18Speaker 3: and then forget about it.
- 12:20Speaker 2: You were supposed to never try it. Now, I can't
- 12:22Speaker 2: even be this judgmental because I did on silver on
- 12:26Speaker 2: the con on ABC because we were talking about it
- 12:29Speaker 2: and I wanted to taste it.
- 12:32Speaker 4: I wanted to taste it.
- 12:33Speaker 2: This is not from a judgmental place.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Okay, you can't judge I like I should be like judged,
- 12:39Speaker 3: So please don't refrain.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Colonial silver is bumping me a little bit. But you
- 12:44Speaker 2: know what it was COVID. They had a murder air.
- 12:48Speaker 3: This COVID that I tried the silver Okay, that's better. Actually,
- 12:52Speaker 3: that's better. Yes, thank you, thank you starting to I
- 12:56Speaker 3: can't do that.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Okay, no pre COVID, drink.
- 12:59Speaker 4: All you want, right, no repercussions. It's just like just
- 13:05Speaker 4: that's that.
- 13:06Speaker 3: When I found out about the Blue Man, I was like,
- 13:08Speaker 3: I think, no, I think we're not onto something.
- 13:10Speaker 4: I think we're off of something. Scared God.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Organically, I'm going to transition into my favorite segment here,
- 13:23Speaker 2: Historic Hoodwings. This is where I am going to regale
- 13:25Speaker 2: Adam with a famous con kaper a group of criminals
- 13:28Speaker 2: will get his opinions all throughout. And I pick this
- 13:31Speaker 2: one because we've been on a lot of very fun
- 13:34Speaker 2: queer shows. And do you know we know about a
- 13:37Speaker 2: wee Okay, even if we're not wearing we we know
- 13:40Speaker 2: about a weight. So recent hair thieves may be shot
- 13:45Speaker 2: to learn. They follow on footsteps of a rich history
- 13:49Speaker 2: of literal wig snatchers going back three hundred years. So
- 13:54Speaker 2: we're taking it back again. And I remember all of this, remember.
- 13:56Speaker 4: Because I know I do right. This is your like,
- 13:59Speaker 4: your time to shine.
- 14:00Speaker 2: So wigs have always been expensive, at least good ones.
- 14:05Speaker 2: They're one of the only luxury goods you can buy
- 14:08Speaker 2: that it's made from another person's body, which I don't
- 14:11Speaker 2: like to think about.
- 14:11Speaker 4: It, Like I don't need either. I'm like suddenly disgusted
- 14:15Speaker 4: by the idea of it.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Why would they say it like that, I know leaves wigs.
- 14:22Speaker 2: I'm like, always one hundred percent human hair because I
- 14:23Speaker 2: got it like that. But then now they're telling me
- 14:25Speaker 2: I'm I'm wearing a ladybody or whoever donated the hair,
- 14:29Speaker 2: I'm wearing a body.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all about the phrasing of it too, because
- 14:34Speaker 3: if it's because in any other context you're like one
- 14:37Speaker 3: hundred percent human hair, You're like, this is it couldn't
- 14:40Speaker 3: get better. But as soon as you say the hair
- 14:43Speaker 3: is from human hair, oh, because it's.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Only hair, that you can be like, this is one
- 14:50Speaker 2: hundred percent human hair. Because I was like I got
- 14:52Speaker 2: my teeth fixed or someone, I was like, this is
- 14:53Speaker 2: one hundred percent human teeth.
- 14:56Speaker 3: No, you know what, that's crazy.
- 15:05Speaker 4: That is true.
- 15:06Speaker 3: You're right, you can't go into the dentist with like
- 15:08Speaker 3: a pocket full of teeth going.
- 15:10Speaker 4: But I've been collecting these.
- 15:12Speaker 2: They one hundred percent human. I want to sal today. No,
- 15:18Speaker 2: why does that change everything?
- 15:21Speaker 4: I know it does? Okay, okay, I'm still here.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Like my nail's done. That's one hundred percent human nail,
- 15:34Speaker 2: Like who's nail?
- 15:35Speaker 3: No, there's there's nothing. There's no other body part that
- 15:38Speaker 3: is true.
- 15:38Speaker 4: There is.
- 15:39Speaker 3: I don't know if is the hair a body part.
- 15:41Speaker 3: I think it's like a body things that comes out
- 15:44Speaker 3: of a body. It's not a like a parkey.
- 15:47Speaker 2: Dead, isn't it? Yes, yeah, somewhere dead people's or like
- 15:54Speaker 2: there's stuff is dead and they gave me the dad.
- 15:56Speaker 2: Oh oh, okay, I can't think about this. I'm a
- 15:59Speaker 2: black woman, Like you know how much fucking fake hair
- 16:01Speaker 2: I work. No, I'm putting it out of my mind.
- 16:03Speaker 4: No, yeah, don't worry about it.
- 16:05Speaker 2: I don't think no, no, no, no, no no. Luxury wigs
- 16:09Speaker 2: are a three billion dollar industry today and a third
- 16:12Speaker 2: of that business happens in North America. And I know
- 16:16Speaker 2: I said that I'm a black woman, which if y'all
- 16:18Speaker 2: haven't know, I just came out as black. Y'all already
- 16:20Speaker 2: know it was gay. But white women with every race
- 16:24Speaker 2: of woman, wears wigs. You may just not notice. Like
- 16:27Speaker 2: Sabrina Carpenter recently came out and said she came out
- 16:30Speaker 2: as a wig wearer mm hmm, and she was like,
- 16:32Speaker 2: these are weights, and they were like.
- 16:33Speaker 3: What the most unshocking reveal all the time. Yeah, but
- 16:39Speaker 3: still very cunty. But like, you know, everyone's wearing wigs.
- 16:42Speaker 3: So the most expensive wig available costs twelve thousand dollars
- 16:46Speaker 3: and it's made of pure Russian hair. Russian hair can't
- 16:50Speaker 3: be bought wholesale, and it's priced higher because it isn't
- 16:53Speaker 3: Chinese or Indian, which are more common. Excuse me, supremacy,
- 17:00Speaker 3: because Russia's what y'all be eating over potatoes and gelatins.
- 17:05Speaker 3: I can't.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Maybe gelatin is good for the hair.
- 17:09Speaker 3: I think it is, but I don't think it's any
- 17:11Speaker 3: better than Indian hair.
- 17:13Speaker 4: I mean no, it's.
- 17:14Speaker 2: Giving racism because the idiot hair. The Brazilian hair luscious, yeah,
- 17:19Speaker 2: so soft, thick, Yeah, usually a one be naturally. I'm
- 17:25Speaker 2: here for it, except for when they steal it, which
- 17:26Speaker 2: they do, be just stealing it, but I don't know
- 17:30Speaker 2: if they so like that's just great. You don't know
- 17:31Speaker 2: if you'll hear.
- 17:32Speaker 3: Guys, twelve thousand dollars feels cheap for a nice, nice wig, right.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm thinking of like a plucked lace front,
- 17:41Speaker 2: like two's on the set. Well, that's ten k easy,
- 17:45Speaker 2: like before we base like, that's not even plucked, that's
- 17:48Speaker 2: not even like, that's just like because they're installing the
- 17:51Speaker 2: wig if you've never had like a And I actually
- 17:53Speaker 2: wear a wing on the show that I'm on now,
- 17:54Speaker 2: and it's really really nice lace Sparta. They went and
- 17:57Speaker 2: redid the hairline for me. It's just tiny pieces of
- 18:00Speaker 2: lace and they're individually sewing each piece of hair through
- 18:04Speaker 2: the lace so that it looks natural and appears like
- 18:06Speaker 2: a scalp. They're very expensive and they're very time consuming.
- 18:09Speaker 2: So it's twelve thousand. I think the Russians were trying
- 18:12Speaker 2: to flex because baby, that's not a real wig.
- 18:14Speaker 3: Many over here I don't think so, no, And I
- 18:17Speaker 3: actually I find wigs so fascinating that I know a
- 18:20Speaker 3: lot about them because I just find them. So when
- 18:23Speaker 3: they're done, well, it's I mean, it's an art. That's
- 18:26Speaker 3: a true art making a wig, it is.
- 18:28Speaker 2: And like right now, because I'm wearing a wig, I
- 18:30Speaker 2: have to wear my hair in straight back braids, so
- 18:32Speaker 2: I look like Little Bill on the weekends. So what
- 18:38Speaker 2: I'm wearing now is a wig. And the thing I
- 18:41Speaker 2: have about this wig is so shiny and like real
- 18:45Speaker 2: human hair. It's really not this shiny all the time.
- 18:47Speaker 2: They treated it with something And the only reason I
- 18:49Speaker 2: know it's real is because my hairstyle sound set. He
- 18:52Speaker 2: burned some of it. That's how you can test. And
- 18:54Speaker 2: if it burns like real hair, it's real hair. If
- 18:56Speaker 2: it melts then it's oh fake, So it is really.
- 19:00Speaker 2: But like I thought this was gonna be a good
- 19:01Speaker 2: place because in Ireland they have some kind of this.
- 19:04Speaker 2: I love Irish people. Goddamn, if you're going through a
- 19:07Speaker 2: chemo treatment or something that makes you lose your hair,
- 19:09Speaker 2: you can get a stipend from the government for a wig.
- 19:13Speaker 4: That's amazing.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Isn't that amazing?
- 19:15Speaker 4: That is amazing, But only.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Certain places take it. But like they're pretty expensive, and
- 19:20Speaker 2: I thought to myself. I was like, well, if they
- 19:23Speaker 2: opened the cancer patients with the week, then when I
- 19:25Speaker 2: get this week and I was desperate, I needed a wig,
- 19:27Speaker 2: a sam. I couldn't be out here little billing it
- 19:29Speaker 2: like they braided my hair up day one. I was like,
- 19:31Speaker 2: I can't be here, so I ran. I ran after the.
- 19:35Speaker 4: Brain little villa is so fine.
- 19:37Speaker 3: I mean, I feel your pain because if they if
- 19:39Speaker 3: they had to do that to my hair, I'd be
- 19:41Speaker 3: out here looking like Cayu. So it just be the
- 19:44Speaker 3: two of us, little Bill and Kyu around Dublin. So
- 19:48Speaker 3: I get it. I understand what you're saying. In the urgency,
- 19:51Speaker 3: I had to.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Become a batty again asam. I went in there. This
- 19:55Speaker 2: week was super expensive. I'm not gonna say how much,
- 19:57Speaker 2: but I was like, it has to be good. And
- 19:59Speaker 2: then they cut some bag because I was like, I'm
- 20:00Speaker 2: not trying to do a leavey. I'm not trying to
- 20:02Speaker 2: fuck with lace on the weekends. Yeah, so I got it,
- 20:05Speaker 2: but it was so shiny, and then it's mused, be angrassware.
- 20:07Speaker 2: When I take her off, I wake up in the
- 20:09Speaker 2: morning and this hoe is drunk. I'm like, how did
- 20:11Speaker 2: you get tangled? I put you on a wig man
- 20:13Speaker 2: that cane?
- 20:14Speaker 4: What did you? What were you doing?
- 20:16Speaker 5: Like?
- 20:17Speaker 2: She's so frustrating, but I can't let her go because
- 20:19Speaker 2: of how much I pay for her. But I'm also like,
- 20:21Speaker 2: can I get her treated? I've taken her to several
- 20:23Speaker 2: hairstylists here to work on her. She's getting better. But yes,
- 20:28Speaker 2: wigs are a thing, and they could be a thing
- 20:30Speaker 2: for many different reasons. So we have a Forbes article
- 20:35Speaker 2: right here, and it's got Rihanna with Fency Beauty on it,
- 20:38Speaker 2: which is confusing to me because it says inside Hollywood's
- 20:41Speaker 2: luxury wig industry, Hollywood high fashion and hair loss, Hollywood
- 20:48Speaker 2: high fashion and hair loss, the three ages.
- 20:52Speaker 4: Yeah, trifecta.
- 20:56Speaker 2: So valued at approximately three billion, the rapidly rising luxury
- 21:02Speaker 2: wig industry encompasses celebrities, cancer patients which I just mentioned,
- 21:07Speaker 2: fashion brands, and more with human hair pieces eating or
- 21:12Speaker 2: like costing up to like twelve thousand dollars Forbes, y'all
- 21:15Speaker 2: ain't ever met a real wig, bitch, because it's not
- 21:17Speaker 2: in twelve k Forbes whoever wrote that she ain't never
- 21:21Speaker 2: had a bus down. He ain't never had a bus down.
- 21:24Speaker 2: But that was cute that y'all said that. But that's
- 21:25Speaker 2: not but Forbes reported that. But we know Forbes, like
- 21:29Speaker 2: they love criminals. How are people in they thirty and
- 21:31Speaker 2: or thirty to go to prison? You know, like, you know,
- 21:33Speaker 2: I love Forbes, shout out to y'all, but y'all got
- 21:36Speaker 2: that wrong.
- 21:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think I I just think twelve thousand
- 21:43Speaker 3: isn't enough. I can't imagine Beyonce putting. I think maybe
- 21:47Speaker 3: the back of her wig is a twelve thousand.
- 21:50Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because I mean I heard that it was
- 21:53Speaker 2: rumored that Kerrie Washington's wig on Scandal was like ten thousand,
- 21:57Speaker 2: but I think it was over that. But maybe they're
- 21:58Speaker 2: trying to say like raw material price versus like raw
- 22:03Speaker 2: material resale and labor.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Yeah, because wasn't there something about like the wig Cynthia
- 22:11Speaker 3: Reva War and Wicked was like twenty thousand dollars?
- 22:14Speaker 2: Yes, this One'm like because it was like Brady, it
- 22:17Speaker 2: looks good.
- 22:17Speaker 4: As hell, like, yeah, it looked really good.
- 22:20Speaker 2: If I was Cynthia the last day that we shot
- 22:22Speaker 2: the Wicked too, I would have left said real fast,
- 22:25Speaker 2: and I'm not green.
- 22:26Speaker 4: I would have left green.
- 22:27Speaker 2: I would have gotten the car and been like try
- 22:29Speaker 2: drive it kept.
- 22:30Speaker 3: I know, I was thinking that. I'm like, well, what
- 22:32Speaker 3: what can they do? They can't do anything with those
- 22:34Speaker 3: wigs anymore. She should just take them.
- 22:37Speaker 2: No, they can, because I'm trying to steal my way
- 22:39Speaker 2: from my job right now. And they talk about production,
- 22:42Speaker 2: go keep it for next season. Well that's not an announcement, y'all.
- 22:46Speaker 2: If there's when there's the next season because we have
- 22:47Speaker 2: to speak processivity. But they'll keep it and then whenever
- 22:53Speaker 2: the show finishes again, positivity.
- 22:55Speaker 4: Right.
- 22:56Speaker 2: The hair artists be trying to buy a wig up
- 22:58Speaker 2: off of them.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Okay, that's interesting.
- 23:01Speaker 2: I don't want to bought a wig, but the hairstylis
- 23:03Speaker 2: do fun wig. But I'm like, I think I might
- 23:06Speaker 2: have to get it from you, says.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Right this morning they bought it for you though, right,
- 23:11Speaker 3: and I watch it boot on every day. I know
- 23:13Speaker 3: how to do it right right exactly my life. No,
- 23:17Speaker 3: I think that you should we should talk to somebody.
- 23:19Speaker 2: Real hair situation. It's just very exhausting. And I love
- 23:24Speaker 2: my hair. I love my curl patter, I love my texture,
- 23:25Speaker 2: but it's just like getting ready every day, it adds
- 23:28Speaker 2: another thirty minutes.
- 23:29Speaker 3: Yes, like listen, I don't know the struggle, but I
- 23:34Speaker 3: have like like naturally like curly hair, like this is
- 23:38Speaker 3: like my hair. And for many years I would get
- 23:40Speaker 3: like Brazilian blowouts where it's this basic like a like
- 23:44Speaker 3: it'd be straight, and I couldn't tell you how life
- 23:47Speaker 3: changing it was because you just wake up and you're like,
- 23:50Speaker 3: I guess my hair is done.
- 23:53Speaker 4: It's it is crazy so much.
- 23:54Speaker 2: Time off your day. Yeah, and like honestly, like I
- 23:58Speaker 2: have to it's not even the straight thing is like
- 24:00Speaker 2: I love to wear it curly too, but like honestly straight, curly,
- 24:04Speaker 2: whatever it is. If it's my hair, it's more work
- 24:06Speaker 2: to really get it how I like it to look,
- 24:08Speaker 2: cause I'm very particular and I can't have that hair
- 24:10Speaker 2: that attracts like older, rich white men because I can't
- 24:13Speaker 2: do that. Although I might have to let this wig
- 24:15Speaker 2: struggle outside and go ahead and get my Irish husband
- 24:18Speaker 2: so I can hear some citizenship or my Irish wives, Okay,
- 24:23Speaker 2: but also I have to get into full drag and
- 24:25Speaker 2: shout out to y'all who may podcasts a fucking television
- 24:29Speaker 2: show now, because now I have to get into drag
- 24:31Speaker 2: every day when I record the podcast because the internet
- 24:33Speaker 2: is forever, so a week just makes life easier. But so, anyway,
- 24:39Speaker 2: we learned about the Russian twelve thousand dollars week. I
- 24:41Speaker 2: think that I don't know it's giving made up because
- 24:44Speaker 2: y'all't even know how much it should cost talking about
- 24:46Speaker 2: this exclusive and better, I don't know Petrov. So where
- 24:51Speaker 2: there's money, there's someone to steal it. We know, that
- 24:55Speaker 2: and that counts for human hair too. In nineteen sixty seven,
- 24:58Speaker 2: in brascill a gang of hair thieves consisting of a
- 25:02Speaker 2: fat man driving a small taxi white. How's the going
- 25:05Speaker 2: fat necessary?
- 25:08Speaker 3: That's in his description, a fat man driving a small
- 25:11Speaker 3: tax That's amazing.
- 25:13Speaker 2: A boy about fourteen and two women dressed as policewomen
- 25:18Speaker 2: were reported to have cut the hair off of ten
- 25:20Speaker 2: women near Saint Paulo. In twenty thirteen, a Venezuelan gang
- 25:25Speaker 2: of hair thieves known as the Piranhas operated in broad
- 25:29Speaker 2: daylight at a shopping mall in the city of Maracaalao.
- 25:35Speaker 2: The gang member, I love it there, I love it there,
- 25:38Speaker 2: I love Medcalao. Several of them female were known to
- 25:41Speaker 2: surround their victim and force them to pull their hair
- 25:44Speaker 2: back into a ponytail and cut it off. That is
- 25:47Speaker 2: so traumatic. Yeah, I do not agree with this at all.
- 25:51Speaker 2: I mean, there's a Chris Rock movie which I bet
- 25:55Speaker 2: you if I watch it now doesn't hold up, but
- 25:57Speaker 2: called good Hair. And they're talking about hair texture, about
- 26:02Speaker 2: black's hair, about weave wigs, or talking about hair trade
- 26:05Speaker 2: and sails, and they talk about how there's like a
- 26:08Speaker 2: temple or a few temples in India where people will
- 26:13Speaker 2: go to shape like girls and boys will go to
- 26:15Speaker 2: shave their head at a certain period of their life.
- 26:17Speaker 4: But it's like a scam.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Well, they're doing it for the right reasons for them,
- 26:23Speaker 2: but they don't know that somebody is sweeping that shit
- 26:27Speaker 2: up afterwards, taking it upstairs and sewing it on a
- 26:31Speaker 2: whift and mailing it to us. Yes, that to me
- 26:36Speaker 2: is more I mean, none of this is ethical, but
- 26:40Speaker 2: I'm gonna put them closer to ethical than running around
- 26:43Speaker 2: jack and people's ponytails.
- 26:44Speaker 3: That's crazy, right, You are right that it is more
- 26:48Speaker 3: ethical to like trick someone into believing something that they're
- 26:51Speaker 3: doing something like a religious ceremony than it is to like.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Pull your hair back now longer than we Yes, yeah.
- 26:58Speaker 2: So I think they really do believe that. And if
- 27:01Speaker 2: I walk away, that's what I define the scammers. If
- 27:03Speaker 2: I walk away and I feel good about what I did,
- 27:06Speaker 2: then that's not a scam to me. And I could
- 27:08Speaker 2: be giving somebody money that could be cutting off my hair.
- 27:10Speaker 2: In a simple like, I would think like, oh, as
- 27:12Speaker 2: long as I feel good and this feels like a
- 27:13Speaker 2: good experience, I'm cool with that. I wouldn't be thinking
- 27:17Speaker 2: about necessarily if they're sweeping up and making a lot
- 27:19Speaker 2: of money. But then when you think about people who
- 27:21Speaker 2: might do this and they're poor, if they had known,
- 27:23Speaker 2: maybe that they could have cut it off and sold it,
- 27:27Speaker 2: you know, but that would just be one bag for them.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Like it's hair takes time to grow.
- 27:33Speaker 4: For everybody, no matter how fast you can grow it.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's me not that bad, but robbing people
- 27:39Speaker 2: of their hair, which is some people's like identity, their
- 27:42Speaker 2: crowning glory. I mean, look how fast I fucking ran
- 27:44Speaker 2: to get this wig because I was like, I can't
- 27:48Speaker 2: look like a.
- 27:48Speaker 4: Milk dud everything.
- 27:51Speaker 2: I'm the brown. I don't have the haird for short hair.
- 27:56Speaker 2: I don't have the hair for straight backs. I looked
- 27:58Speaker 2: like I was on baddies. And then it was like
- 28:00Speaker 2: I need that, I need that, And then I'm fighting
- 28:02Speaker 2: Natalie Nune what what?
- 28:04Speaker 3: Why? Why? I'm with you, though. That's traumatizing to be
- 28:13Speaker 3: like surrounded and they cut your hair. That's so crazy.
- 28:17Speaker 3: That is wild, wild, wild crazy.
- 28:19Speaker 2: And I'm sure you could be imagining it might be
- 28:21Speaker 2: something worse. It's not like they're coming over like, hey,
- 28:23Speaker 2: we're here for your hair like they're surrounding you. Oh,
- 28:26Speaker 2: don't what they're here for, like.
- 28:28Speaker 3: Yanking them by the hair, pulling them and like hacking
- 28:32Speaker 3: it off.
- 28:32Speaker 2: They're like, I got a ponytail holder.
- 28:35Speaker 4: A pony slick it back.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Hair robbery is crazy, Like just take my wallet. I
- 28:41Speaker 2: know you keep that money back or you at least
- 28:44Speaker 2: canst my calls faster. My car is faster than I
- 28:48Speaker 2: could grow my hair bag Like this, you gonna ride
- 28:50Speaker 2: me for my hair?
- 28:51Speaker 3: Totally, No, that's so crazy. Wait, thinking about wigs, I
- 28:55Speaker 3: remember too, like wig controversies from like TikTok. Well one controversy, ooh.
- 29:00Speaker 2: I want to I want to see if you guess
- 29:02Speaker 2: one of the ones I was gonna talk about.
- 29:03Speaker 4: Go ahead the wigs by Shani have you do?
- 29:06Speaker 6: Okay?
- 29:06Speaker 3: This was like this was like a white woman. I
- 29:09Speaker 3: think she made them for like orthodox Jewish women, and
- 29:13Speaker 3: her wigs are very expense. I think they'd like start
- 29:16Speaker 3: at ten k. But then like black Twitter or black
- 29:20Speaker 3: TikTok started like seeing these videos and they were like
- 29:23Speaker 3: these thin wigs are ten thousand dollars because they're like
- 29:28Speaker 3: it's it looks very like this is my natural hair.
- 29:31Speaker 3: It looks like you'd need to put clippins ins.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Not the shananigus.
- 29:37Speaker 3: And so this was a big thing that I couldn't
- 29:39Speaker 3: stop seeing, like videos about wigs by Shanni. And then
- 29:42Speaker 3: the other thing that like is wig involved is like
- 29:45Speaker 3: every maybe once or twice a year, I see this
- 29:48Speaker 3: girl and she in the pandemic. I remember was collecting
- 29:53Speaker 3: the hair like out of a brush out of the
- 29:55Speaker 3: drain and she'd like tape it to the wall. And
- 29:58Speaker 3: I recently saw and she has like she could almost
- 30:01Speaker 3: do a full install out of whose brush?
- 30:05Speaker 4: Her own? This is her own hair that she's been taking.
- 30:08Speaker 4: It's kind of it's amazing. I love it.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Which I thought you thought shedding shedding we were using
- 30:19Speaker 2: recycle over here.
- 30:20Speaker 4: You should.
- 30:21Speaker 3: I'm shocked that you've never seen this before. Maybe this
- 30:24Speaker 3: is on TikTok.
- 30:26Speaker 2: Right after this, what I was gonna say was that
- 30:28Speaker 2: there was a woman who was working at a wig
- 30:31Speaker 2: factory who got on Twitter and was like, I can't
- 30:33Speaker 2: believe that we can't bring Stanley cups to work no more.
- 30:36Speaker 2: And everybody was like, Okay, why because what kind of
- 30:40Speaker 2: weird work policy is at And she was like one
- 30:43Speaker 2: of our employees was caught. She had been stealing wigs
- 30:46Speaker 2: in her Stanley cup. She to Stanley cups and each
- 30:51Speaker 2: day she was stuffed some wigs in it and I
- 30:58Speaker 2: was like, want to the fire. He put her on
- 31:00Speaker 2: Lost Prevention.
- 31:01Speaker 4: She's so talented, that's so genius.
- 31:06Speaker 2: And I know she was sipping on her wig cut
- 31:08Speaker 2: walking out like I shatrow delicious? What's that wan too?
- 31:15Speaker 4: Oh my god, that is so funny.
- 31:19Speaker 2: So people get created when it comes to hair b
- 31:22Speaker 2: bab Right, So we're talking about wig snatches in Atlanta,
- 31:29Speaker 2: which is one of the highest scammerings like per capita,
- 31:32Speaker 2: like yes, in the States. So one modern day wig
- 31:35Speaker 2: snatcher struck the store Yes I'm beautiful in Atlanta in
- 31:40Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Owners Shawanna Sampson Tooshana Sampson sound like
- 31:44Speaker 2: she takes built ass. I wouldn't steal from Zama Toronta
- 31:49Speaker 2: Sampson sound like she be intregious. I don't know about that.
- 31:54Speaker 2: I mean even her like business name is like kind
- 31:57Speaker 2: of confrontational. Yes, Comma, I'm beautiful and what about beach?
- 32:03Speaker 2: And what the fuck? I am beautiful? The fuck?
- 32:05Speaker 3: Now?
- 32:05Speaker 2: Get y'all asking here bot some beautiful ass hair beach right.
- 32:09Speaker 3: The comma makes it yeah, the comma makes it yes,
- 32:13Speaker 3: I am beautiful.
- 32:14Speaker 2: It is confrontational. It's very American coded. I learned in
- 32:18Speaker 2: Ireland that like, there's you know, the song for he's
- 32:21Speaker 2: a child a good fellow, for he's a child a
- 32:23Speaker 2: good fellowes. So we were singing this randomly as a joke,
- 32:27Speaker 2: and then we got to the end and the Irish people, wait,
- 32:33Speaker 2: I have to get it absolutely right.
- 32:35Speaker 3: I'm pretty excited to hear the difference because I have
- 32:38Speaker 3: a feeling it's gonna be like so like like passive.
- 32:42Speaker 2: So they say for he's a target fellow for his
- 32:45Speaker 2: dog to get fellow, so and so and so, and
- 32:47Speaker 2: then when they get to the end, they say and
- 32:50Speaker 2: so say all of us, and so say all of us.
- 32:54Speaker 2: And I was like, we got to the end and
- 32:57Speaker 2: I was like, watch, nobody can deny and everybody was
- 33:00Speaker 2: like what and we were like, it's nobody cans and
- 33:03Speaker 2: not what are y'all saying? I realized I was like,
- 33:06Speaker 2: oh way, I'm from the most aggressive country. Of course
- 33:08Speaker 2: we're trying to fight. At the end of the song,
- 33:10Speaker 2: we were like, but here's a guy a good fellow.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Don't he a fellow. Beautiful, right, Yes, I am beautiful.
- 33:22Speaker 2: Don't make me stab you now coming by my wares, like,
- 33:26Speaker 2: what is wrong with us?
- 33:27Speaker 4: It's not I know we're so sick.
- 33:30Speaker 2: So yes, I'm beautiful. Right In Atlanta, it's twenty twenty two,
- 33:32Speaker 2: we got Treshawna Sampson again. I told you I would
- 33:35Speaker 2: never play with her. No, she can fight, says she
- 33:37Speaker 2: lost thousands in a hair heist.
- 33:40Speaker 4: I believe it.
- 33:41Speaker 2: I believe it's eleven inches. So she was robbed during
- 33:50Speaker 2: business hours and playing sight? Why does sound like they
- 33:52Speaker 2: was robbing the louver? Why did it sound not him?
- 33:57Speaker 4: Is he who's soul? Is he who stole my god?
- 34:02Speaker 2: So in the video you can see a female thief
- 34:06Speaker 2: running off with two wigs and their mannequin heads. Now
- 34:10Speaker 2: she took the proper storage as well. She took a
- 34:12Speaker 2: fifty inch wig which cost twelve hundred dollars, and she
- 34:15Speaker 2: took a thirty four inch wig, which was more attainable
- 34:18Speaker 2: at eight seventy five. Trishawna offered a one thousand dollars
- 34:22Speaker 2: reward for information on the theft, along with a free wig,
- 34:25Speaker 2: but the theft is still at large. So the thief
- 34:29Speaker 2: took two thousand and seventy five dollars worth of hair,
- 34:33Speaker 2: and Trishawna offered one thousand dollars for tips and a
- 34:37Speaker 2: free wig. That's how I know t Sashawna Samson was
- 34:40Speaker 2: ready to beat ass because she was like, I'm gonna
- 34:42Speaker 2: take I'm gonna take another loss and make it three
- 34:44Speaker 2: thousand and seventy five because I want to be cho ass.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll put these books in the red I don't
- 34:50Speaker 3: give a shit.
- 34:52Speaker 2: Shanta the crash out, she was like, just drop a
- 34:57Speaker 2: skin exactly, drop a pin and shown up with three
- 35:02Speaker 2: of her cousins and it's allsidy. So we got wig
- 35:09Speaker 2: snatchers in Brooklyn, of course we do. We're going to
- 35:11Speaker 2: all the crime smechasmechas, mechas snatching mechas. So another recent
- 35:17Speaker 2: wig snatcher got away with thirty thousand, thirty thousand dollars
- 35:21Speaker 2: of hairware from a Brooklyn shop this past March of
- 35:24Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. So y'all about to have armed guards
- 35:26Speaker 2: in the hair store. And this is crazy.
- 35:28Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Thirty thousand. That's that's a lot of hair.
- 35:32Speaker 2: Yeah, And this this place is called this this wig
- 35:36Speaker 2: store it's called Hustle Week.
- 35:42Speaker 3: It's still somehow less confrontational than Yes, I am beautiful,
- 35:49Speaker 3: but hustle it.
- 35:50Speaker 2: Gives me like, oh, usually you Fina trying to wrap
- 35:52Speaker 2: a bank, come in and get so hustled. Oh you
- 35:55Speaker 2: spying on your baby daddy, Come in the hustle we
- 35:58Speaker 2: I see.
- 35:59Speaker 3: I take the for entrepreneurs, the hustling serial entrepreneurs exactly.
- 36:04Speaker 2: Yes, you're gonna set it off, hustle muscle whig. Okay,
- 36:09Speaker 2: Hustle wigs can be switched very quickly. You can go
- 36:11Speaker 2: from one wig to the next. You run it from
- 36:13Speaker 2: the cops. Hustlewig, have one in your prayers, switch it
- 36:16Speaker 2: and then you can walk down the street and not
- 36:17Speaker 2: gonna les you. I'm into it. So this is on
- 36:22Speaker 2: Dean Street and Crown Heights and it's run by high
- 36:25Speaker 2: school best friends slash business partners Ravicki Krasinski and Giddy Cohen.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Are you Jewish?
- 36:33Speaker 4: All right? Get it? Get it? Giddy Cohen?
- 36:36Speaker 2: Okay, and y'all named it Hustlewigs show.
- 36:40Speaker 4: I know it's not adding up all the.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Way, but they at Crown Heighs they standing on business.
- 36:45Speaker 2: You know what I'm not man they use real human
- 36:49Speaker 2: hair to make wigs for women who wear them for
- 36:51Speaker 2: religious reasons.
- 36:52Speaker 3: Yes, and those wigs are very like I said, they're
- 36:54Speaker 3: very expensive, those wigs.
- 36:57Speaker 2: Why are they hustling people who got religious stuff? And
- 37:01Speaker 2: also they make them for people who have people who
- 37:03Speaker 2: are going through chemo? So are y'all telling your customers
- 37:06Speaker 2: you're hustling?
- 37:06Speaker 3: Now?
- 37:07Speaker 4: I know what's going on.
- 37:09Speaker 2: I don't know, you know what it's because they're in
- 37:11Speaker 2: Crown Heights. They just had to blend in. They were like,
- 37:12Speaker 2: I don't know what's black.
- 37:14Speaker 4: Hustle hustle wigs.
- 37:16Speaker 2: Yeah, brick Cross just came out with that song, Everydillium Hustling.
- 37:19Speaker 2: We just had a week to it, every dum Hustle.
- 37:21Speaker 4: It was like the time to name it.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Yes, and of Crown Heights, I'm kind of not mad
- 37:26Speaker 2: at it. Y'all even trying to gentrify the place shop
- 37:28Speaker 2: lind it in. That's very cute. So early one Tuesday morning,
- 37:32Speaker 2: their shop was hit by a suspect riding a city bike.
- 37:36Speaker 2: Nine of the stolen hairpieces were valued around three three
- 37:40Speaker 2: hundred dollars each. Police caught a career criminal with nearly
- 37:44Speaker 2: sixty arrests. On his record named Darren Ware, like Darren
- 37:49Speaker 2: Ware clearly burglarizing the shop on surveillance cameras. Can we
- 37:53Speaker 2: get the photo of Darren waar up? Okay, darn yet?
- 37:58Speaker 3: Bald first, some for me, some for the streets.
- 38:05Speaker 2: I mean they say never tell a like, never let
- 38:07Speaker 2: a bald man tell you how to grow hair. But
- 38:10Speaker 2: can a bald man teach you how to steal weeks?
- 38:13Speaker 4: Apparently not on camera?
- 38:15Speaker 2: Yeah, he got caught. See this is when I say
- 38:17Speaker 2: never let it tell right, they never let a bald
- 38:21Speaker 2: man tell you about hair. He can't even steal hair.
- 38:26Speaker 2: That's how bald he is. He can't grow it and
- 38:30Speaker 2: he can't steal it.
- 38:31Speaker 3: And so I'm guessing he has a bucket and a flashlight,
- 38:35Speaker 3: which are kind of essential if you're going to be
- 38:38Speaker 3: stealing wigs and Stanley bag.
- 38:41Speaker 4: Right, he has a back on. He has a backpack
- 38:43Speaker 4: on as well.
- 38:44Speaker 2: Right, Oh, I don't know about this, ma'am.
- 38:49Speaker 4: So they recover what happens.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Well, he made two separate trips to the shop. He
- 38:54Speaker 2: took hair hats. As we can see, some hats are
- 38:56Speaker 2: missing a light up sign that says huss So now
- 39:00Speaker 2: you just wanted that for your house and a bag
- 39:02Speaker 2: of loose human hair that had just arrived in a shipment.
- 39:06Speaker 2: So you okay, First of all, sir, you didn't even
- 39:08Speaker 2: get the hair that's already on the weft. I know
- 39:10Speaker 2: your bald ass, so no hair to no wif Like,
- 39:12Speaker 2: what are you thinking, sir? He's just ran sacking the place.
- 39:15Speaker 2: So Guiney Cohen said. Recently, the price of hair and
- 39:19Speaker 2: wiggs has gone up significantly, so it makes sense that
- 39:21Speaker 2: somebody would know that hair and wigs are a high
- 39:23Speaker 2: cost item. Darren was caught and locked up on Rikers Island.
- 39:28Speaker 2: That's one of the worst prisons in the US. And
- 39:31Speaker 2: if I went there for stealing loose dead hair.
- 39:35Speaker 3: Loose hair, what are you in for, Lacy? I stole
- 39:40Speaker 3: loose hair off the ground of a Jewish girl's store.
- 39:44Speaker 5: And I'm your silly. I'm here for stabing. Just stabbing.
- 39:52Speaker 5: Sign the hustle sign, the bostle sign.
- 39:56Speaker 2: You want to be next to mister stabber and Rikers
- 39:59Speaker 2: for god knows how long because it's what they do
- 40:02Speaker 2: over there is not legal, and there have been so
- 40:03Speaker 2: many cases where they hold people without bail and they
- 40:06Speaker 2: die there. You're going to Rikers for loose hairs.
- 40:10Speaker 3: For loose hairs, I'm gonna guess he did not know
- 40:14Speaker 3: how to put them into a wig. So he was
- 40:16Speaker 3: really hoping that once he got out there, he's going
- 40:19Speaker 3: to find a maker.
- 40:20Speaker 2: I feel like he was going to try to take
- 40:22Speaker 2: it home to his mom or his girl and be like, man,
- 40:24Speaker 2: you know what to do. You always got that shit
- 40:26Speaker 2: in your head, like what do we do with this?
- 40:28Speaker 2: He's got a fist of the loose hair.
- 40:30Speaker 4: You're right, Oh my god, you're right.
- 40:33Speaker 2: A woman was about to be involved. So I'm glad.
- 40:35Speaker 2: I'm kind of glad they put you all the way
- 40:36Speaker 2: before the one just a new black So we got
- 40:39Speaker 2: wig Snatcher's funeral home. We're getting to the end of this.
- 40:44Speaker 2: Most recently, a Texas woman was arrested after taking the
- 40:46Speaker 2: wig off of a body at a funeral home. An
- 40:49Speaker 2: employee saw a woman named Tanya leaving the funeral home
- 40:52Speaker 2: with a reddish brown wig in her hand. The director
- 40:56Speaker 2: said they realized one was missing from a body the
- 40:59Speaker 2: next Tanya.
- 41:01Speaker 4: I kind of loved Tanya. I mean, they weren't. That
- 41:05Speaker 4: body was not gonna need the wig.
- 41:07Speaker 2: No, okay, more points to Tanya. If it was after
- 41:10Speaker 2: the service. If it was after the fume, yes, we're
- 41:13Speaker 2: closing that casket. We're never gonna see that person again,
- 41:16Speaker 2: so you know, I don't know. And Tanya's got a
- 41:19Speaker 2: receding hairline. I feel like she was about to rock that.
- 41:21Speaker 3: But and she's got like she was ready to wear
- 41:24Speaker 3: the wig because I do sees that she's got her
- 41:26Speaker 3: makeup done and.
- 41:28Speaker 2: She's giving face in her much shot, Like, can y'all
- 41:31Speaker 2: let me hold the wig for the much shot real quick?
- 41:33Speaker 4: At least at least.
- 41:37Speaker 2: The evidence locker, Like come on.
- 41:38Speaker 3: Yes, I mean it looks like they took the wig
- 41:41Speaker 3: fresh off her. She I think she's feeling quite good
- 41:44Speaker 3: about herself in her.
- 41:45Speaker 2: Reg Yeah, because she does. I can't tell if it's
- 41:48Speaker 2: gray hair or if that's like you know, when you
- 41:50Speaker 2: put on a lace front, you get that like if
- 41:53Speaker 2: you take it off, there's like glue line.
- 41:55Speaker 4: Yes, is that a glue line?
- 41:56Speaker 2: Because it goes all the way around. Did they snatch
- 41:58Speaker 2: the wig off of her before the pictures respectful? They
- 42:01Speaker 2: could have left the wig on her if.
- 42:02Speaker 4: That's I think it is a glue line.
- 42:04Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, why would y'all do that to her?
- 42:06Speaker 2: Let her have her photo.
- 42:07Speaker 3: Wait, that is really amazing, which also it is crazy
- 42:11Speaker 3: that from immediately from a dead body, she went, where's
- 42:14Speaker 3: the glue.
- 42:17Speaker 2: In the car? She held it up, She held it up.
- 42:22Speaker 3: To This got to be because she just got to
- 42:26Speaker 3: be on my head.
- 42:27Speaker 2: And be serious. Okay, we have to get to work immediately.
- 42:32Speaker 2: She has somewhere to go. She hasn't where to go.
- 42:34Speaker 2: What if she had a job interview with y'all. Y'all
- 42:36Speaker 2: don't know what she had going on.
- 42:38Speaker 3: Yeah, but that is absolutely because I can see what
- 42:42Speaker 3: hairline she was creating for herself.
- 42:44Speaker 2: Yes, and now I want to see the wig because
- 42:46Speaker 2: it was probably late. She really got the glue on there.
- 42:49Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's just freshly peeled.
- 42:53Speaker 2: She still give a main character energy in this photo.
- 42:55Speaker 2: She said, but I don't need this week for real,
- 42:57Speaker 2: but I want to see the wig on her. So
- 43:01Speaker 2: we have a Beyonce fan at the final stop on
- 43:03Speaker 2: the Beyonce Formation World toward New Jersey. One fan snatched
- 43:06Speaker 2: off her wig and handed it to her. Now, why
- 43:09Speaker 2: would you ever do this to BEESCEA She should have
- 43:10Speaker 2: whooped her as Julius should have jumped on you. Let's
- 43:13Speaker 2: see it, Beyonce singing all night long, gave the wig bag, yeah,
- 43:22Speaker 2: because that's what a queen does.
- 43:24Speaker 3: Well, she slammed, like body slams the wig back to
- 43:28Speaker 3: the ground.
- 43:28Speaker 2: Okay, so she might not have liked the wig. I
- 43:31Speaker 2: think trying to tell her, like, you ain't no de
- 43:33Speaker 2: bug get it plucked. She was trying to help her
- 43:37Speaker 2: mother was trying to help her. She was like, the
- 43:39Speaker 2: reason you snatched this wig off is because this wig
- 43:42Speaker 2: is low vibrational, right right, I'm singing to you, and
- 43:45Speaker 2: you knew the wig was not worthy of me singing
- 43:47Speaker 2: to you, and so you took a wig off.
- 43:49Speaker 4: I mean, I love I really do love this video
- 43:52Speaker 4: a lot.
- 43:53Speaker 2: And she didn't look there's not really a lot of emotions.
- 43:56Speaker 3: No, it was like choreography. It was like she planned
- 44:00Speaker 3: that long.
- 44:02Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 44:03Speaker 3: She I feel like she knew at like some like
- 44:05Speaker 3: somewhere in her body that she'd be holding someone else's
- 44:08Speaker 3: wig during that performance, and she just kind of let
- 44:11Speaker 3: it take over.
- 44:12Speaker 2: As she does metaphorically every performance. She all the time,
- 44:16Speaker 2: and she did so majestically. She's like her he goes
- 44:18Speaker 2: back like what.
- 44:20Speaker 4: This thick wig too? Looks like a Tina Turners.
- 44:24Speaker 2: But it's not giving me quality the way that it's flying,
- 44:29Speaker 2: baby girl. So catching. In history, all these thieves and
- 44:34Speaker 2: fans are unknowingly continuing a long tradition of stealing their
- 44:39Speaker 2: hair off someone else's hats. So now we're going back
- 44:41Speaker 2: to the seventeen hundreds. Wigs were really tall and full
- 44:44Speaker 2: of ribbons and extra accessories in the royal courts and
- 44:47Speaker 2: upper classes of Europe. Wasn't because I had something thanking
- 44:49Speaker 2: going on, and they had it something that was shower.
- 44:52Speaker 3: This is all pre they were still eating spice at
- 44:55Speaker 3: least at the time.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Now I'm learning, Yeah, it was getting stuff. So the
- 44:59Speaker 2: bigger and more complicated your wig was, the higher you
- 45:01Speaker 2: ranked socially, plus the easier it was to grab. M
- 45:06Speaker 2: I knew those big bobby ass wigs were easy to snatch. Okay,
- 45:09Speaker 2: this is kind of cunty though, Like this is drag Like, sir,
- 45:12Speaker 2: your wig is in the.
- 45:13Speaker 4: Sky and there's a tiny hat on it.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Which is so goofy and I love that. By the
- 45:19Speaker 2: mid eighteen hundreds, the fashion of having a conspicuously huge
- 45:22Speaker 2: hairdo had made human hair worth twice its weight in silver.
- 45:25Speaker 2: This led to a series of wig thefts. Surprisingly elaborate
- 45:28Speaker 2: and creative robberies involving animals, long poles, and young boys
- 45:33Speaker 2: hauled on the shoulders of tall men because you know
- 45:35Speaker 2: that wig is all the way up there. Wi these
- 45:38Speaker 2: they trained a monkey to snatch a wig.
- 45:40Speaker 3: That's crazy. And also the phrasing of long poles, young
- 45:45Speaker 3: boys and animals.
- 45:46Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, we got a reaction. It was
- 45:51Speaker 2: for wigsnashing. It was for wigs snatching purpose only. So
- 45:56Speaker 2: one successful tactic in England required a boy to ride
- 46:00Speaker 2: a butcher's tray carried on the shoulders of a tall man.
- 46:04Speaker 2: As the tall imposter butcher walked past a wig wearer
- 46:07Speaker 2: who didn't notice that he didn't have no meat on
- 46:09Speaker 2: his tray. But it was a little boy. Okay, so
- 46:14Speaker 2: it looked like a piece of meat because I guess
- 46:16Speaker 2: they covered him up in a blanket, and a little
- 46:18Speaker 2: boy looked like a like maybe like a pig laid f.
- 46:22Speaker 4: I think, so, yeah, I'm picturing it.
- 46:24Speaker 2: I'm trying to yeah, I'm trying to all these words
- 46:27Speaker 2: and not giving me butcher's stray.
- 46:30Speaker 4: Okay.
- 46:33Speaker 2: So the boy would then twist the wig off the
- 46:35Speaker 2: head of the victim. Then the butcher would take off
- 46:38Speaker 2: in the opposite direction, leaving the confused owner clutching at
- 46:42Speaker 2: his or his own or her own bald head. So
- 46:45Speaker 2: it was literally snatching bitches bald damn like little boys.
- 46:48Speaker 2: This is before like the pickpockets of today.
- 46:51Speaker 3: Yeah, this is before COVID even even it's crazy little place, right,
- 47:02Speaker 3: this is crazy. Wig thieves also employed dogs. You could
- 47:06Speaker 3: get fido and have them snatched with.
- 47:11Speaker 2: So one boy would harass a finely dressed but be
- 47:15Speaker 2: wigged gentlemen, and another would grab the hair and toss
- 47:18Speaker 2: it to a dog. All three would split up in
- 47:20Speaker 2: different alleys and meet up later to celebrate. The dog
- 47:23Speaker 2: would link up with the owners afterwards, like we hit
- 47:26Speaker 2: a link.
- 47:30Speaker 4: That's genius.
- 47:31Speaker 3: If you can teach a dog how to like, you
- 47:33Speaker 3: deserve the wig. At that point, I believe, Yeah, to
- 47:36Speaker 3: meet up with you later, that's insane work.
- 47:38Speaker 2: How much later.
- 47:40Speaker 4: I'm gonna see y'all next week.
- 47:44Speaker 2: The funck the dog wears the wig for a little bit,
- 47:45Speaker 2: and like, okay, y'all can have it. That's not my
- 47:48Speaker 2: bitch is already, so y'all can have it. And then
- 47:52Speaker 2: also the last one here we have is that traveling
- 47:55Speaker 2: back roads was risky as it is now right back
- 47:59Speaker 2: roads alleys.
- 48:00Speaker 4: Things never change, right, It's never changed.
- 48:02Speaker 2: A little narrow something. Although I used to think that,
- 48:06Speaker 2: and then I had to retrain my brain because I
- 48:09Speaker 2: was like, if I was like a robber, like a
- 48:12Speaker 2: creepy criminal, why would I be standing on a like
- 48:16Speaker 2: sparsely populated walkway waiting for a victim, Like I'm just
- 48:21Speaker 2: gonna be in the alley, like somebody will come down
- 48:22Speaker 2: here soon.
- 48:23Speaker 4: I just know it.
- 48:24Speaker 2: Right's kind of dark, but I got my phone flash light.
- 48:26Speaker 2: It's like, no, you're gonna get me on the street,
- 48:28Speaker 2: like you're gonna get me, you know, in the public,
- 48:31Speaker 2: like what Robber's like. Damn, nobody came out to the
- 48:33Speaker 2: alley today. All right, I'll come back tomorrow.
- 48:36Speaker 4: That's I'm feeling the same.
- 48:37Speaker 3: I think we'd like think the same where I just
- 48:40Speaker 3: I have also tried to retrain my brain because I'm like,
- 48:43Speaker 3: I do think that like it's gonna be they want
- 48:45Speaker 3: to get you where you'd least expect them.
- 48:48Speaker 4: I think in an.
- 48:49Speaker 3: Alleyway like that, people are like they have their guard up,
- 48:52Speaker 3: they're kind of looking around, they're making their checking their surroundings.
- 48:57Speaker 2: You're more likely to run into a shadier person in
- 49:00Speaker 2: an alley too, because like, why do you feel so
- 49:01Speaker 2: comfortable in an alley? Now, I'm not motivating out to
- 49:03Speaker 2: go down alley. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just like,
- 49:05Speaker 2: I don't think like somebody, Oh, you know a robber's
- 49:07Speaker 2: getting home today, boo, And it's like slow day in
- 49:09Speaker 2: the alley. Anyone goes on a dark alley no more,
- 49:12Speaker 2: it's a recession. They just want to walk in under
- 49:15Speaker 2: the street lights, Like, I don't know if that's happening. So,
- 49:20Speaker 2: you know, back alleys, like we were talking about thieves
- 49:23Speaker 2: known as shiving lace. Okay, these names are so jaunty.
- 49:29Speaker 2: I miss a jaunt name with lurk behind horse drawn
- 49:32Speaker 2: coaches which were forced to roll slowly down narrow and
- 49:36Speaker 2: poorly paved streets because they're not trying to fuck up
- 49:38Speaker 2: the car. And they would slice the back of the
- 49:41Speaker 2: carriage with a knife to snatch a wig from the
- 49:44Speaker 2: passenger's head. And we're gonna bring it back to present day.
- 49:49Speaker 2: To wrap up this episode, we have a video of
- 49:52Speaker 2: Queen Olu, a TikTok influencer, who had her wigs matched
- 49:56Speaker 2: in broad daylight just last year out of okay.
- 50:00Speaker 6: In life, they have come to steal my wig from
- 50:04Speaker 6: me in broad daylights?
- 50:06Speaker 2: Can you they seem?
- 50:07Speaker 6: That's irritating me is that they didn't even take the
- 50:09Speaker 6: entire week. This party is still be meaning, what are
- 50:12Speaker 6: you going to do with three quarters of a week?
- 50:15Speaker 6: Come on tell me, come on tell me. It's just
- 50:17Speaker 6: so mad to me because I've never ever heard of
- 50:19Speaker 6: anybody ever getting the week ripped off their head before,
- 50:23Speaker 6: unless they're in scie fight. But me, I don't fight
- 50:25Speaker 6: our shout, just on my own taking my pictures. And
- 50:29Speaker 6: they came to come, I ripped my wig off my head,
- 50:31Speaker 6: and if you live in Atlanta, please be careful because
- 50:36Speaker 6: I'm going together going around snatching weeks from people.
- 50:40Speaker 2: I shouldn't know. She had a Nageran accent, so I
- 50:44Speaker 2: thought that maybe she was see Nagilia, but of course
- 50:46Speaker 2: she's in Atlanta, and of course your wig must have
- 50:49Speaker 2: been laid and they were like, I need that.
- 50:51Speaker 4: It's crazy. That is so wild. I couldn't imagine that happening.
- 50:58Speaker 2: Like take my wallet, my wig, and then she had
- 51:01Speaker 2: to go home with her hair y'all see I'll put
- 51:03Speaker 2: on the Instagram, but her hair is like, break it down.
- 51:05Speaker 2: You can see the glue. This will help with the
- 51:07Speaker 2: comparison to our other wig queen, but she still has
- 51:10Speaker 2: part of the wig hanging off on one side. They
- 51:13Speaker 2: didn't stay to steal the whole thing.
- 51:15Speaker 4: No, she's right.
- 51:16Speaker 3: That would make me even more mad that I wouldn't
- 51:19Speaker 3: that they don't even have the whole thing.
- 51:22Speaker 2: So now you're just we all fucked up?
- 51:24Speaker 3: Right. That's crazy, but a beautiful way to end the episode.
- 51:27Speaker 2: I think you know y'all watch out, especially if you're in Atlanta.
- 51:31Speaker 2: I just like Tyler Perry. That's all means. But we
- 51:36Speaker 2: always ask them of this podcast, where would you like
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- 51:41Speaker 4: You can find me on Instagram.
- 51:43Speaker 3: My name is at at a Rip and I have
- 51:46Speaker 3: a podcast called Intrusive Thoughts that you can listen to
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- 51:51Speaker 2: Yes, and it's always. You can follow me at d
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- 52:26Speaker 3: Wiggan mm hmmm, stay wigging, stay wigging, stay wigging.
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