Latest / Scam Goddess / Fields of Deceit and Cons w/ Andy Richter
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Scaled, Come.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Rob frll scam, Come rob froll scam goddess.
- 0:19Speaker 3: What's popping, Congregation, it's your girl, Lacey Mosley aka scam Goddess,
- 0:23Speaker 3: and I'm back with another installment of the podcast all
- 0:26Speaker 3: about robbery, fraud and those who practice it. Remember, y'all,
- 0:29Speaker 3: this is still a comedy show, but the facts are real.
- 0:32Speaker 3: We don't want to get sued now. Y'all already knows
- 0:37Speaker 3: it's honestly like, is it repetitive?
- 0:38Speaker 1: Now it's been six years. It's been six years, but
- 0:41Speaker 1: you already know. I'm very yes, excited, thrilled, elated.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Okay, over the moon, Congregation, get ready because today we have.
- 0:51Speaker 1: An icon on the show.
- 0:52Speaker 3: He's an actor, voice actor, oh, a voice actor, writer,
- 0:57Speaker 3: game show host, and podcast.
- 1:00Speaker 1: He has been in over one thousand episodes of Conan.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Thirty one hundred and forty one episodes to be precise.
- 1:08Speaker 3: You might have heard him in American Dad, Big City, Greens, Madagascar,
- 1:13Speaker 3: and so much more. Congregation, please get up out of
- 1:16Speaker 3: your seats, Okay, get your.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Fans up with the Martin Luther King on one side,
- 1:19Speaker 1: in the funeral home on the other, stand up, wave
- 1:21Speaker 1: them in the air and welcome back legend Andy Richter
- 1:24Speaker 1: to the show.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Hi, Lacy, that's so nice.
- 1:27Speaker 1: It's so true.
- 1:28Speaker 4: It's very nice. You know. It's like, you know, when
- 1:33Speaker 4: I'm when I'm picking up dog shit, I don't feel
- 1:36Speaker 4: like an icon. Yeah, so it's nice to hear, but
- 1:41Speaker 4: it does feel like that doesn't really feel you know
- 1:43Speaker 4: what I mean?
- 1:44Speaker 1: Look at your dog? Is keeping you humble? Yes, well
- 1:47Speaker 1: of them, there's two of them, but you all go
- 1:50Speaker 1: pick up our poops, mister starmin.
- 1:51Speaker 4: That's right exactly.
- 1:54Speaker 1: You ain't at the set right now. You ain't at
- 1:56Speaker 1: the studio right now.
- 1:57Speaker 4: No nobody cares you with the.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Dog heart, I love them. Like now, you, Bobby, what
- 2:06Speaker 1: kind of dogs you have?
- 2:07Speaker 4: I have two? I have a one. I have a
- 2:09Speaker 4: very comically different ones, one hundred and twenty five pounds.
- 2:14Speaker 4: She's like great Pyrenees, Border Collie and German Shepherd. She's
- 2:19Speaker 4: a big, hairy guard dog. And then we have a
- 2:22Speaker 4: seven pound poodle mix who's hilarious and.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Really get a log together.
- 2:27Speaker 4: Oh, they love each other. They love each other and
- 2:31Speaker 4: like they're yeah, they're great. And the little one is
- 2:33Speaker 4: just so she's just joy, you know, she's just joy
- 2:37Speaker 4: and a dog and I and we fostered a few dogs,
- 2:41Speaker 4: some just to foster some as kind of like a
- 2:44Speaker 4: test run, which I highly recommend. Well, first of all,
- 2:48Speaker 4: don't buy a dog. Rescue a dog. There's too many
- 2:50Speaker 4: dogs in the world.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Yeah, in California, you can only you're only supposed to
- 2:53Speaker 1: I think, rescue dogs, right.
- 2:55Speaker 4: I don't. Well, I think you can buy one.
- 2:56Speaker 1: For you from a different stage.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Yeah, well no, but I think there's people here that
- 3:00Speaker 4: breed dogs.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
- 3:02Speaker 4: I think dogt stores it's just pet stores. Oh yeah,
- 3:05Speaker 4: you can't buy dogs in stores anymore because that's where
- 3:08Speaker 4: the pet the puppy mills were.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Oh they were to the.
- 3:13Speaker 4: Dogs, yeah, which you know, it's like it used to
- 3:16Speaker 4: be fun to go to the Beverly Center and see
- 3:18Speaker 4: the puppies in the pet store. But that's like I
- 3:20Speaker 4: can't do that anymore.
- 3:21Speaker 5: Now.
- 3:22Speaker 3: I go to large mot and I feel like they're
- 3:23Speaker 3: trying to scam me with those dogs, because like I'll
- 3:25Speaker 3: walk by and they'll like have a couple of them
- 3:27Speaker 3: out on a leash, and I know they know to run.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Up to you.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Oh you mean like the rescue Yeah.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Yeah, they looking all cute and undamaged. Yes, they're like they're.
- 3:37Speaker 4: Going under and charm training before they take them out
- 3:42Speaker 4: on the large mind.
- 3:43Speaker 3: And I learned from my friend who does a lot
- 3:46Speaker 3: of animal rescue, that a lot of shelters will actually
- 3:50Speaker 3: take like two years off the dog's actual age because
- 3:53Speaker 3: nobody wants like an old dog, so they'll like youthen
- 3:56Speaker 3: up the.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Dog a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I was like,
- 3:58Speaker 1: really that's why.
- 4:00Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not happening everywhere, but I know it's happening
- 4:02Speaker 3: someplaces for sure.
- 4:03Speaker 4: It's strange too, because there are people who want to
- 4:06Speaker 4: have seen your dogs like there. I'm known so many
- 4:09Speaker 4: people that are. They'll just go get like a seven
- 4:12Speaker 4: year old dog and you know, keep it, keep it
- 4:15Speaker 4: until it dies, and then go get another seven year
- 4:17Speaker 4: old dog.
- 4:18Speaker 1: In LA, there's a big commodity for young hot dogs.
- 4:22Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, that's right, because you never know if
- 4:25Speaker 4: one of them might turn into an influencer.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Oh listen, okay, people are making a lot of money
- 4:30Speaker 1: off their dogs. I can't believe it. If you don't
- 4:32Speaker 1: have an Instagram for your dog yet, your dog needs
- 4:34Speaker 1: to start earn a keep. It can't just free food.
- 4:38Speaker 4: It would be too humiliating, like I'm not making enough
- 4:41Speaker 4: money with showbiz that if my dog started to make
- 4:44Speaker 4: more than me.
- 4:45Speaker 1: You'd be jealous. It would be her.
- 4:47Speaker 4: I couldn't take it, you know, and then she'd probably
- 4:50Speaker 4: get emancipated and you know, and I wouldn't see dime one.
- 4:54Speaker 1: You come home and her DOGU bit is by the
- 4:56Speaker 1: door with all her toys.
- 4:58Speaker 4: Sorry but yeah yeah, and then like Keanu Reeves picks
- 5:01Speaker 4: her up on a motorcycle.
- 5:03Speaker 1: I'm a motorcyclist. Yea, yeah, she's a dog. But yeah,
- 5:09Speaker 1: oh but then you got to give your doctor to
- 5:10Speaker 1: Kenny Reeves, so he's great. Yeah that okay, it comes
- 5:13Speaker 1: to your door and.
- 5:14Speaker 4: I should have picked somebody else, like.
- 5:18Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we don't want him having your dog. But
- 5:21Speaker 3: mister john Wick, yeah you gotta give up. Yeah, but
- 5:24Speaker 3: hold on, let me get her collar and things. She
- 5:27Speaker 3: loves wet food. Can I visit her.
- 5:29Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about you avenging her, because
- 5:34Speaker 4: that's what you do, John Wick.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Andy, are you going to adventure?
- 5:38Speaker 4: No? I mean maybe if he kills her, I guess
- 5:42Speaker 4: that's sort of.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Kunta would never wow. I hope your dog doesn't hear
- 5:46Speaker 3: this podcast. But I also do stream this for your
- 5:48Speaker 3: dogs in the other room. Y'all really want those streams,
- 5:51Speaker 3: but we do already. We kind of got into a
- 5:53Speaker 3: scammy conversation talking about pet adoption a little bit. But
- 5:55Speaker 3: what is your relationship with scams right now? Have you
- 5:57Speaker 3: been scammed recently? Any scams have been run? Are there
- 6:00Speaker 3: any scams that are just like really catching your eye
- 6:02Speaker 3: and the zeitgey's it could literally be anything.
- 6:05Speaker 4: Well, I don't know why it is, and I'm not
- 6:09Speaker 4: and I'm not the only one, but somebody in the
- 6:12Speaker 4: Philippines really wants to rip me off through my easy Pass. Okay,
- 6:17Speaker 4: you know the.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Thing in those texts, you didn't pay a toll and
- 6:21Speaker 1: all you.
- 6:22Speaker 4: Gotta do is like look up the country code. It's
- 6:24Speaker 4: like the Philippines. I's say, I don't think we've.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Outsourced easy Pass to the Philippines.
- 6:30Speaker 3: You didn't know they text your right to get in
- 6:35Speaker 3: touch with that big warehouse of people just on smart Yeah.
- 6:38Speaker 4: I don't know if I told you this before, but
- 6:40Speaker 4: there was a I did almost get and I'm embarrassed
- 6:44Speaker 4: by it.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Don't be embarrassed as shame for.
- 6:46Speaker 4: You, I know, but but you know what I mean.
- 6:48Speaker 4: I mean, have you ever like gotten too far into
- 6:50Speaker 4: and you're like, wait a minute, I'm being scammed and
- 6:54Speaker 4: why the fuck did I not know that before?
- 6:56Speaker 1: Now?
- 6:57Speaker 4: Has that ever happened to you?
- 6:59Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, in specific ways, but it was kind
- 7:02Speaker 3: of like a different person was scamming me with a service,
- 7:05Speaker 3: so like headshots or something like that. Yeah, But like
- 7:07Speaker 3: when it comes to like a scam, I can usually
- 7:08Speaker 3: sense it out pretty early. My issue is that I
- 7:11Speaker 3: want to take it too far. But that's not to
- 7:14Speaker 3: say that I haven't seen some wild scams. Are gotten
- 7:16Speaker 3: pretty close to falling for something, but the clickable internet links. Honestly,
- 7:20Speaker 3: I'm getting a little fatigued with scamming right now, which
- 7:23Speaker 3: is crazy because I'm scam goddess. But I'm glad I
- 7:25Speaker 3: can tell you this andy that I am getting at
- 7:28Speaker 3: least ten phone calls a day from scammers. I'm getting voicemails,
- 7:34Speaker 3: I'm getting text messages, I'm getting emails flooded and like
- 7:37Speaker 3: my professional email, which I don't even put out publicly,
- 7:40Speaker 3: and it is getting to the point where I just
- 7:41Speaker 3: like they come at five am. That's when they start,
- 7:43Speaker 3: and I'm so pissed off. I've blocked so many numbers,
- 7:46Speaker 3: and I'm just like, all right, scammers, leave me to
- 7:47Speaker 3: fuck alone. Like at this point, we gotta fight, like
- 7:49Speaker 3: me me in the parking lot, like if you want
- 7:51Speaker 3: this money, I'm goa pop this trunk and get my
- 7:53Speaker 3: bat out and let's see who wins. Like it's wild.
- 7:56Speaker 3: But so you're getting the Manila situation. They're texting you
- 7:59Speaker 3: telling you about the Yeah, well no, there was there
- 8:01Speaker 3: was one thing something else, right.
- 8:02Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one point a few years ago. It
- 8:04Speaker 4: was actually it was during COVID because I was home
- 8:08Speaker 4: and I think they woke me up with a phone
- 8:11Speaker 4: call and it was something I don't remember. It had
- 8:15Speaker 4: a legit tie into like something that I was buying
- 8:19Speaker 4: or something, you know they always had. There's like that
- 8:20Speaker 4: little thing and this guy's talking to me and he's
- 8:23Speaker 4: like telling me they're gonna give me a refund for something.
- 8:29Speaker 4: And he's and he asked, like, you know, go to
- 8:32Speaker 4: log into this thing so that I can see your
- 8:35Speaker 4: hard drive to see where it is. And I was
- 8:37Speaker 4: like okay, and then looking and like two seconds after
- 8:41Speaker 4: I figured out and I was like, what the fuck?
- 8:43Speaker 4: What are you a grandpa? Like what is going on?
- 8:46Speaker 4: But I did, and he was looking at my computer
- 8:48Speaker 4: and he's like, okay, now we need to have well
- 8:51Speaker 4: they did something. They were like, oh no, we were
- 8:54Speaker 4: going to refund you two hundred and forty dollars, but
- 8:57Speaker 4: we put two zeros on, so it's twenty four thousand
- 9:00Speaker 4: dollars or something like that, right, And I was like,
- 9:03Speaker 4: uh what. And then they're like, we need to get
- 9:06Speaker 4: into you know, we need you to access your bank,
- 9:09Speaker 4: so so it's.
- 9:09Speaker 5: Like twenty three and I and by that point I
- 9:14Speaker 5: just was like all it took was I said, you
- 9:16Speaker 5: know what, I'm gonna need a number to call you back,
- 9:19Speaker 5: and I said, because I have to call some people first,
- 9:21Speaker 5: and he just went click and was done.
- 9:24Speaker 3: You know what's interesting is is that they were calling
- 9:26Speaker 3: you after a person like a purchase you had made recently,
- 9:29Speaker 3: which kind of like legitimized it a little bit more,
- 9:31Speaker 3: which is why I understand why you would go forward
- 9:33Speaker 3: like why I did just buy this and like okay,
- 9:35Speaker 3: if you know what I mean. And they're on the
- 9:36Speaker 3: phone with you, so there's a bigger sense of urgency,
- 9:39Speaker 3: like like when you read something, that's why the scammers
- 9:41Speaker 3: will send me the emails can't ever really get me
- 9:43Speaker 3: because like I can check for a grammar, I can
- 9:45Speaker 3: check the email address, you know what I mean, Like Amazon.
- 9:48Speaker 3: I never hit me up with Amazon with a zero
- 9:50Speaker 3: in the oh. Yeah, hot mail is not where the
- 9:53Speaker 3: irs will contact you.
- 9:55Speaker 4: Like.
- 9:55Speaker 3: So it's like when you're reading those you can find
- 9:57Speaker 3: a lot of spot When people call you, it's a
- 9:59Speaker 3: little differ. Tran's little large, right.
- 10:01Speaker 4: I just don't ever answer the phone unless I know
- 10:04Speaker 4: who it is. I just don't ever answer the phone.
- 10:06Speaker 3: You work so much on sets and stuff like do
- 10:08Speaker 3: you have like a burner number for production people or no?
- 10:11Speaker 1: Well, then like you do have to answer some numbers
- 10:13Speaker 1: you don't know sometimes, right, M Yeah, But.
- 10:16Speaker 4: I mean if if that does happen, somebody will leave
- 10:19Speaker 4: a message and I'll check, you know, I'll try smart
- 10:21Speaker 4: if there if I think there's something, you know, like
- 10:24Speaker 4: in the air like that I might be getting a
- 10:26Speaker 4: call about something, they might leave a message and then
- 10:29Speaker 4: I can, you know, immediately call them back.
- 10:31Speaker 1: That's smart.
- 10:32Speaker 3: I think we all got to just start sending things
- 10:34Speaker 3: to voicemail and then hoping that other person texts and
- 10:37Speaker 3: then we'll be like, oh, okay, it's you.
- 10:38Speaker 1: If you don't know the number.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Cause it's getting it's so predatory now and it's such
- 10:43Speaker 3: an onslaught that I can't imagine what it feels like
- 10:45Speaker 3: to be someone else. Like just like a person who
- 10:47Speaker 3: doesn't like think about scams and stuff like that, like
- 10:50Speaker 3: you're you could get got so easily. And also this
- 10:53Speaker 3: one was one of those give a little to get
- 10:54Speaker 3: a lot, like oh, we gave you too much money,
- 10:57Speaker 3: we need you to send some back. And also like
- 10:59Speaker 3: I have never seen a company want to give you
- 11:02Speaker 3: your money back. So anytime a company connects with me
- 11:05Speaker 3: and they're like, oh we have a refund for you
- 11:07Speaker 3: or oh you got.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Overcharged, I'm like, this isn't real.
- 11:09Speaker 3: Corporations will keep all my money and even if I
- 11:12Speaker 3: make an accidental purchase, they will keep it. And oh
- 11:14Speaker 3: you noticed that your money. Oh that's crazy. So you
- 11:17Speaker 3: want it back?
- 11:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna take six to eight business months. And
- 11:20Speaker 1: I'm like, I've paid you this month. I paid you
- 11:23Speaker 1: in thirty seconds.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to be the processing the ship, in
- 11:27Speaker 3: the handling, the handling of the shipping.
- 11:29Speaker 4: You get it.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 11:30Speaker 4: Yeah. A friend of mine, this is this is this
- 11:34Speaker 4: one is so so evil. Friend, of mine who's like
- 11:38Speaker 4: a struggling actor. You know, it's been an actor's whole life,
- 11:41Speaker 4: but it's you know, it's it's a struggler.
- 11:43Speaker 5: You know.
- 11:44Speaker 4: And so he was behind on his utility bill and
- 11:50Speaker 4: you know, he's like going to pay the bill. But
- 11:52Speaker 4: he gets a call one morning and it's DM whatever
- 11:57Speaker 4: you go DWP and they're like, you have to pay
- 12:03Speaker 4: this now. It's gone too far. You need to come
- 12:05Speaker 4: and you need to give us at you know, at
- 12:07Speaker 4: least half of it or something, or pay the full amount.
- 12:11Speaker 1: Since when the DF you talked about put some on it.
- 12:13Speaker 4: They were like, they like, you have to do this
- 12:15Speaker 4: now because we're you know, you have to come down
- 12:17Speaker 4: to this office. He's scared and he's in. First of all,
- 12:21Speaker 4: he's embarrassed that he's that far. You know, it's like
- 12:23Speaker 4: you feel like shit when you when you're behind on
- 12:25Speaker 4: your bills. They give him a number address. He goes down.
- 12:29Speaker 4: It has signage. It's like and there's like a day,
- 12:33Speaker 4: you know, he said, it seems seems kind of like
- 12:36Speaker 4: it's they just moved in, but it's still they have signage,
- 12:39Speaker 4: they have a receptionist, they have all this stuff. He
- 12:42Speaker 4: goes in get and it has given gives them a
- 12:44Speaker 4: cashier's check for I don't know, like fifteen hundred bucks.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Finds out that it's completely a scam. Oh no. And
- 12:53Speaker 4: the part that's really because he went to the police
- 12:56Speaker 4: about it, okay, and the police are like, yeah, this
- 12:59Speaker 4: has been half And he says they told him like
- 13:02Speaker 4: that place, that they'll be gone from there tomorrow, like
- 13:06Speaker 4: they're in a different place, but they actually have you
- 13:09Speaker 4: come down and physically give them a cashier's check. And
- 13:13Speaker 4: it's all people who are worried about losing their fucking electricity.
- 13:16Speaker 1: And you're preying on the like most vulnerable, and it's.
- 13:19Speaker 4: Got to be somebody at the power company going here's
- 13:22Speaker 4: a list of people are getting the pink bills, you know,
- 13:26Speaker 4: And and it's just I just think, like god damn.
- 13:29Speaker 3: And the police are just like, oh, yeah, this has
- 13:31Speaker 3: been happening, police sirs.
- 13:34Speaker 1: This is actually what we give you tax money.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Anytime the black people want to congregate for a peaceful rally,
- 13:41Speaker 3: all out here beating us with sticks and ship But
- 13:42Speaker 3: then as soon as we like, can you do some
- 13:44Speaker 3: police work? Oh yeah, we heard about that. Let us
- 13:46Speaker 3: know if you get.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Any black people are easy to find. They're right there.
- 13:51Speaker 1: They're right there.
- 13:52Speaker 4: Not so easy. Good luck finding that person at the
- 13:56Speaker 4: power company that's giving away people's names.
- 13:58Speaker 3: God forbid, you're just I'm real police. But it was like,
- 14:01Speaker 3: the black people are right outside.
- 14:02Speaker 4: I the windows, but the scammer.
- 14:04Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
- 14:06Speaker 4: You know, that's a lot more hours.
- 14:09Speaker 3: You want us to do stuff for the society. No,
- 14:12Speaker 3: we're here to beat the society. Ass I'm like, okay,
- 14:14Speaker 3: thank you so much, scarce.
- 14:20Speaker 2: God.
- 14:22Speaker 4: It's also really smart too that they're getting a cashier's check,
- 14:26Speaker 4: because you can't stop that.
- 14:28Speaker 1: You can't stop a cash.
- 14:30Speaker 4: Yeah, it's done and uh and that's.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Why if you lose one, it's really bad.
- 14:34Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, you can only put it back in
- 14:36Speaker 3: your bank if you have the cashiers check, because if.
- 14:38Speaker 4: You could, like if you paid your utilities with a
- 14:41Speaker 4: credit card, then you could, you know, if you could
- 14:45Speaker 4: scam from that, you can know. She get the miles.
- 14:49Speaker 4: I try and pay as much stuff as I can
- 14:52Speaker 4: with credit cards just to get miles. And yeah, it's
- 14:56Speaker 4: like it's it's like the one sort of silver lining
- 15:01Speaker 4: in the cloud of paying too much for everything. Everything.
- 15:04Speaker 3: No, you know, what I've also hated is like return
- 15:07Speaker 3: policies now, Like they'll give you a return policy at
- 15:10Speaker 3: a store and it'll be like, Okay, bring it back
- 15:12Speaker 3: in eleven days or you can't return it. It's like,
- 15:15Speaker 3: what is eleven days? Like they get very close to
- 15:17Speaker 3: two weeks, just close enough.
- 15:18Speaker 1: That you forget.
- 15:20Speaker 4: Yeah, I wonder what that is.
- 15:21Speaker 1: Yeah, twelve day return policies. I've seen that a lot
- 15:24Speaker 1: eight day.
- 15:24Speaker 4: Return There must be some sort of like it's like a.
- 15:27Speaker 3: Mental gymnastics of if you hear something that sounds close
- 15:29Speaker 3: to a week or close to two weeks, But that's
- 15:32Speaker 3: what it is. Yeah, I think people forget.
- 15:34Speaker 4: I was wondering if it's like based somehow on how
- 15:37Speaker 4: long it takes credit cards to post or something you know.
- 15:40Speaker 1: I don't know, No, I think I don't know.
- 15:43Speaker 3: Yeah, if you get a free trial on something on
- 15:45Speaker 3: any app or or buy something that you know you
- 15:48Speaker 3: know you might not use, definitely like ask for the
- 15:50Speaker 3: return policy and put the date like the day before
- 15:54Speaker 3: or two days before in your calendar. Is an alarm
- 15:56Speaker 3: so that you can cancel that service or return that
- 15:59Speaker 3: item beforehand.
- 16:00Speaker 4: I just I just did. I was in New York City.
- 16:02Speaker 4: For about twelve days working on something a guest spot
- 16:06Speaker 4: on a show. Had a number of days off sort
- 16:09Speaker 4: of sprinkled throughout, and I was using the city bikes
- 16:14Speaker 4: and I found like, you joined the City Bike Club
- 16:17Speaker 4: or whatever, and then you don't go. There's like this
- 16:20Speaker 4: four dollars charge every time you get a city bike
- 16:23Speaker 4: out and if you join, and it had a free
- 16:26Speaker 4: fifteen day wait period. So like, all right, sure, I'll
- 16:29Speaker 4: sign up for City Bike and then on the drive
- 16:33Speaker 4: to the airport, on my way home, I canceled it.
- 16:35Speaker 4: And I felt very clever, Yeah, because I saved you know,
- 16:38Speaker 4: it's probably by the time because I used to City City.
- 16:41Speaker 4: Do you ever use those city bikes in New York City?
- 16:44Speaker 1: Okay, so the last one I kind of stole by accident.
- 16:48Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it happened.
- 16:49Speaker 3: I mean I felt bad though, because I didn't know
- 16:51Speaker 3: the person who left the bike would get charged for
- 16:54Speaker 3: the bike. But it was pride and I just saw
- 16:56Speaker 3: a bike, and you know, it was time for me
- 16:59Speaker 3: to be gay and.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Do things like b gay do crime.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's when I learned that you can't For
- 17:07Speaker 3: the listeners out there, I don't have any duys, but
- 17:09Speaker 3: just know you can't get a dui on a bike.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I did not know that it has wheels, y'alls.
- 17:13Speaker 3: If you at a festival, don't try that. Don't try that. Okay,
- 17:17Speaker 3: we walk next to it, put it down.
- 17:19Speaker 4: That's on the person too. That just like left the
- 17:21Speaker 4: city bike sitting somewhere. You gotta expect it.
- 17:24Speaker 1: But for all I know, maybe they went to the bathroom.
- 17:26Speaker 3: But maybe they're trying to find a bathroom, or maybe
- 17:27Speaker 3: they're talking to their friends.
- 17:29Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not bad.
- 17:30Speaker 3: I didn't even know that. Like the city bike, if
- 17:35Speaker 3: I didn't know about that, yeah, but I've city biked before.
- 17:38Speaker 3: It feels very dangerous to me.
- 17:39Speaker 4: And I just really liked it, and especially because in
- 17:42Speaker 4: New York now they have the e bikes, which is like.
- 17:46Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, at this point, it's given cars, like yeah,
- 17:49Speaker 3: the road.
- 17:49Speaker 4: Like it's a little motorcycle.
- 17:51Speaker 1: It's easier, you know.
- 17:52Speaker 4: I was. They put me up in Brooklyn and and
- 17:57Speaker 4: just to get around Brooklyn, you know, instead of like
- 17:59Speaker 4: calling for a lift that would cost thirty dollars to
- 18:02Speaker 4: go from Greenpoint to Williamsburg to watch a movie. It's like,
- 18:07Speaker 4: get on an e bike. And we you know, and
- 18:11Speaker 4: just ride down the waterfront down. You know, it was
- 18:13Speaker 4: really and it was summertime and it was you know, sundown.
- 18:16Speaker 4: A couple of times it was really nice. I really
- 18:19Speaker 4: liked them.
- 18:20Speaker 3: I would do it if I had better balance. I
- 18:21Speaker 3: feel like you have good balance, then could you like
- 18:23Speaker 3: e bikes and city bikes and stuff. I feel like
- 18:26Speaker 3: I'm just gonna take one wrong lean and then I'm
- 18:28Speaker 3: a skid mark, right.
- 18:29Speaker 4: You know, it is nerve wracking. You do have to
- 18:31Speaker 4: like get over the hump of oh shit. Cars were
- 18:36Speaker 4: everywhere and they're going everywhere, and this bike lane seems
- 18:39Speaker 4: to be more of a suggestion than an actual lane
- 18:43Speaker 4: that's being respected by anybody but me. So okay. You know,
- 18:47Speaker 4: I hate that.
- 18:47Speaker 1: They had a subscription service for it.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Though if I was riding every day and I lived
- 18:50Speaker 3: in New York, maybe, but like, I'm starting to really hate.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Subscription services for things I shouldn't be subscriptions. I hate
- 18:56Speaker 1: clothing subscription services. I can't even say it, Like, why
- 18:58Speaker 1: am I close many? Many?
- 19:02Speaker 4: That's crazy.
- 19:03Speaker 1: I won't list them, but many, and it annoys me.
- 19:06Speaker 4: They're like, oh, they send you closed without Well.
- 19:09Speaker 3: You asked in the store, and I went into an
- 19:12Speaker 3: athletic store if you know, you know, and they had
- 19:15Speaker 3: like a steep, steep discount. So I was like, I'm
- 19:17Speaker 3: just gonna get a bunch of athletic clothes right now
- 19:19Speaker 3: and then cut off the service when I get home.
- 19:21Speaker 3: But they make it really difficult to do. You have
- 19:23Speaker 3: to go on their website, no, write the right pen,
- 19:25Speaker 3: a handwritten letter, like, send pictures of an obituary, like
- 19:28Speaker 3: gotta do all this stuff to get out of here.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Yeah, and some clothing brands have been sued for this.
- 19:33Speaker 3: But yeah, they were like, oh, this top and bottom
- 19:36Speaker 3: is one hundred dollars if you don't if you're not
- 19:40Speaker 3: a member, but if you're a member, it's half off
- 19:42Speaker 3: and it's only fifty or like even lower than that.
- 19:45Speaker 1: They'd be like two for twenty. But if you're not
- 19:47Speaker 1: a member, two for eighty. Yeah.
- 19:50Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So it's it's a nice little scam. But
- 19:52Speaker 3: I'm like, we don't need to subscribe to close.
- 19:54Speaker 4: Wow, And it's a fee that you have to pay
- 19:56Speaker 4: every month. Yeah, for the privilege of.
- 19:58Speaker 3: The privilege of having cheaper clothes because you're not gonna
- 20:00Speaker 3: need so many leggings your whole life that this makes sense.
- 20:04Speaker 4: Yeah, see, I don't. I don't buy enough clothes anymore.
- 20:07Speaker 3: I forget just figured out what side I'm talking about. No,
- 20:12Speaker 3: but I'm part of you Just realize you're part of one.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Just I realized that I forgot to skip this month
- 20:17Speaker 1: and they're gonna Charte.
- 20:18Speaker 4: No.
- 20:19Speaker 3: Our producer just just realized she's part of none of
- 20:21Speaker 3: those clothing those clothing traps, and she forgot to skip
- 20:25Speaker 3: the payment.
- 20:26Speaker 4: I I lately have been having. You know, I know
- 20:28Speaker 4: this is a different, a different kind of business, but
- 20:32Speaker 4: the membership that we have to the trampoline park in
- 20:35Speaker 4: Alhambra is impossible to cancel. And they get you too,
- 20:40Speaker 4: because you go in and it's like the first time
- 20:42Speaker 4: you go in, it's like it's thirty five dollars.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Maybe how much jumping were you planning to do?
- 20:46Speaker 4: I got a five year old. You go and you,
- 20:49Speaker 4: you know, tell down, yeah exactly. It's like a hamster
- 20:52Speaker 4: wheel for a human, you know. Okay, but the first
- 20:56Speaker 4: time you go, it's like it's thirty three dollars to
- 20:58Speaker 4: come in, but only thirty five to join, and then
- 21:00Speaker 4: you can come back as much as you want, you know,
- 21:03Speaker 4: on weekdays, not on weekend stuff. I'm like, okay, all right,
- 21:06Speaker 4: sure I'll do that. I'll do the thirty five. And
- 21:09Speaker 4: and even while I'm doing and I'm thinking, like because
- 21:11Speaker 4: they're just counting on people forgetting that they've they all
- 21:14Speaker 4: signed up for the trampoline park in Alhambra, and and
- 21:19Speaker 4: I have I got to go the fuck down there
- 21:24Speaker 4: and say take me off of you, because I've tried.
- 21:28Speaker 3: I've better get Joe jumps in. Better get Jo jumps in.
- 21:31Speaker 3: The Uh, it's a gang. They got to jump you out.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I don't even if.
- 21:35Speaker 4: It's not even for me, like I can, it's for
- 21:37Speaker 4: my daughter's you know, it's her. It's connected to her.
- 21:40Speaker 4: So I when I go, I can't even jump. I
- 21:43Speaker 4: have to would have to pay money to jump.
- 21:46Speaker 3: No, that's oh, that's wild. You can't for all the
- 21:49Speaker 3: jumps in the house.
- 21:49Speaker 4: You get a separate wrist band and that you know,
- 21:53Speaker 4: they're like, yeah, this is that's a non jumping rips
- 21:56Speaker 4: wrist band. You know.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I wonder if we can get your daughter to do
- 21:59Speaker 3: something so that y'all are banned. And then they have
- 22:02Speaker 3: to cut off the thing, right Like she just brings
- 22:05Speaker 3: like a milkshake and like jumps with it.
- 22:07Speaker 4: Yeah, our smokes. Just get on, get on the drug
- 22:12Speaker 4: drill cigarette.
- 22:17Speaker 3: Like you can't, ma'am, you cannot got buried anymore? Like great,
- 22:19Speaker 3: can you cancel ourr membiship?
- 22:20Speaker 1: Yeah. She immediately is like perfect, cancel, Andy Richter.
- 22:24Speaker 4: Other kids are like, I want to smoke too. That
- 22:27Speaker 4: looks cool.
- 22:28Speaker 1: That looks so fun, Mommy, can I have a cigarette?
- 22:33Speaker 3: Well, let's get into my favorite segment here, Andy, historic hoodwings.
- 22:36Speaker 3: This is where I will were kale, Andy with a
- 22:37Speaker 3: famous con caper group of criminals, will get his.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Opinions all throughout. Andy, this is the only safe space
- 22:44Speaker 1: to interrupt a woman. So really cherish it all right,
- 22:47Speaker 1: it will. So today we're going back a little bit
- 22:53Speaker 1: in time. Between nineteen ninety seven and two thousand and three,
- 22:57Speaker 1: the most successful tomato farmers on the Eastern Seaboards swindled
- 23:01Speaker 1: the government out of nine million before investors discovered that
- 23:05Speaker 1: the B in their BLT stood for bullshit, So so
- 23:12Speaker 1: tomato farmers cool. In the late nineties, R and V.
- 23:17Speaker 3: Warren Farms was the largest vine ripened tomato grower in
- 23:21Speaker 3: the Eastern US, employing about two hundred people. Okay, and
- 23:25Speaker 3: I wonder what those people look like.
- 23:28Speaker 1: So it's period period.
- 23:32Speaker 4: They probably look like uh, Mark, Mario and Luigi.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Right, so playing the tomato, I love that we make
- 23:39Speaker 1: of the tomato.
- 23:40Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
- 23:41Speaker 1: So it was run by.
- 23:42Speaker 3: Robert and Vicky Warren, a middle aged married couple who
- 23:45Speaker 3: seemed like typical down home farmers. At one point they
- 23:50Speaker 3: owned twenty six farms in three states, including North Carolina,
- 23:53Speaker 3: South Carolina, and Tennessee. Then in two thousand and three,
- 23:56Speaker 3: the basement of their modest In the basement of their
- 23:59Speaker 3: modest farm house, Department of Agriculture investigators found liquid eraser bottles,
- 24:04Speaker 3: copy machines, PVC pipes, and tens of thousands of forged documents.
- 24:12Speaker 4: What is it? All those things liquid eraser and PBC pipes. Yes,
- 24:18Speaker 4: are they making disappearing bombs?
- 24:20Speaker 1: Right?
- 24:20Speaker 3: At first I was like it's giving murder a little bit,
- 24:23Speaker 3: but now it's kind of actually giving Like maybe we're
- 24:26Speaker 3: like amy machines, PBC pipes, and but they have forged documents,
- 24:33Speaker 3: so maybe they're lifting the ink off.
- 24:35Speaker 4: Of yeahs, like liquid paper, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 24:40Speaker 3: I hope it doesn't mean liqui paper, because if y'all
- 24:41Speaker 3: were lifting it with liquid paper and baby like, how
- 24:43Speaker 3: are y'a getting away with this?
- 24:44Speaker 4: I love it. It's just it was down home. Yeah,
- 24:48Speaker 4: it's real down home kind of feel.
- 24:50Speaker 1: You're right. And copy machines.
- 24:51Speaker 3: So if it's the nineties and I put a little
- 24:53Speaker 3: of that paper white on and then I run in
- 24:56Speaker 3: through the copy machine, then we write on top of it,
- 25:00Speaker 3: there's dried properly the last it all. You know, I
- 25:02Speaker 3: get a little thick. I don't know these things, but okay,
- 25:07Speaker 3: I can see what's happening.
- 25:08Speaker 1: Yeah, So by liquid e racer bottle they mean white out,
- 25:11Speaker 1: we don't know.
- 25:14Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what that that. That seems to
- 25:16Speaker 4: be like you know, that's like they're trying to use
- 25:20Speaker 4: a non trademark.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Yeah, let's name yeah, because I would think it would
- 25:25Speaker 1: be white out.
- 25:25Speaker 4: It must be yeah, it must be liquid paper or
- 25:28Speaker 4: white out, which are the two brand names. And they
- 25:30Speaker 4: won't use that, you know.
- 25:32Speaker 1: No free ads in the press pretty much.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Yeah, they were manipulating paperwork.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Yeah, and then copying it, so you couldn't obviously it's
- 25:41Speaker 3: a nineties copyer machine. It's not going to be like
- 25:43Speaker 3: ours today, so you probably couldn't tell that it was
- 25:45Speaker 3: white it up. Oh, somebody had a very steady hand.
- 25:48Speaker 3: Got to keep that line, Yeah.
- 25:50Speaker 1: You got so.
- 25:52Speaker 3: For six years, Robert and Vicki had been running a
- 25:54Speaker 3: nine million dollar crop insurance scheme, the biggest farm fraud
- 25:58Speaker 3: in the history of the US.
- 25:59Speaker 4: Wow.
- 26:00Speaker 3: And this is nineties nine million. So that was the
- 26:02Speaker 3: nine million was nine million ing? Okay nowadays nine million.
- 26:06Speaker 3: I mean, it's still a lot of money, but it's
- 26:08Speaker 3: not what.
- 26:08Speaker 1: It was in the nineties.
- 26:09Speaker 4: Nothing million.
- 26:12Speaker 3: That's my walking around bunny. Now, please you renting when
- 26:16Speaker 3: you got nine million.
- 26:17Speaker 4: That's what my closing subscriptions cost.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Truly likely.
- 26:23Speaker 3: So in nineteen ninety six, before they embarked on a
- 26:26Speaker 3: life of crime, Robert and Vicki lived in a brick
- 26:29Speaker 3: ranch style home with a pickup truck in the driveway
- 26:32Speaker 3: in western North Carolina. Their buyers knew the Warren farms
- 26:36Speaker 3: produced big yields of high quality tomatoes. Everything was going great.
- 26:40Speaker 3: So they were living legit, they were working legit.
- 26:43Speaker 4: Right.
- 26:44Speaker 3: I don't know why it's important for us to know
- 26:45Speaker 3: they got a pickup truck in their driveway, but I
- 26:47Speaker 3: guess they're folksy.
- 26:48Speaker 4: I guess, yeah, I don't know.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Yeah, So in nineteen ninety seven, they bought crop insurance
- 26:54Speaker 1: and all of a sudden their tomato harvest started to
- 26:57Speaker 1: take a hit, or so they said.
- 27:02Speaker 3: So when they started getting that good insurance, they were like,
- 27:04Speaker 3: oh no, the past, all of our asides didn't work
- 27:08Speaker 3: on the pests.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Yeah, we have list tomatoes. I don't know. A bear
- 27:13Speaker 1: came and ain't all our shit aphids.
- 27:16Speaker 3: It's so many aphists, so many aphids, you wouldn't believe
- 27:20Speaker 3: it was a swe Yeah.
- 27:21Speaker 4: They came up from the border.
- 27:25Speaker 1: We need to deport the aphe.
- 27:27Speaker 4: We need to do something.
- 27:29Speaker 3: No, no, no, rab.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Run.
- 27:38Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety seven, Robert planted his farm in Spartanburg,
- 27:42Speaker 3: South Carolina.
- 27:44Speaker 1: He told the E. L.
- 27:45Speaker 3: Ross Insurance Company that he planted on April fifteenth, the
- 27:50Speaker 3: date allowed under his policy. In reality, he planted between
- 27:53Speaker 3: April fourth and April twelfth. Later, he filed acclaim for
- 27:57Speaker 3: cold weather damage in April and May and collected one
- 28:00Speaker 3: hundred and fifty seven, seven hundred and twelve thousand dollars
- 28:05Speaker 3: in crop insurance.
- 28:07Speaker 1: So he planted earlier than what he says.
- 28:09Speaker 3: So he got the crop popping and then harvested it
- 28:12Speaker 3: and was like, oh no, my crops they froze in April.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Cause it's so cold in South Is it cold in South.
- 28:20Speaker 4: Carolina in April in wintertime in the interior and in
- 28:23Speaker 4: the April winter, Yeah, yeah, I bet you still get
- 28:26Speaker 4: freezes which can kill a tomato plants.
- 28:28Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's true.
- 28:30Speaker 3: So they also reported remarkably minimal yields on several farms.
- 28:35Speaker 3: So they basically saying, we're not making no money on
- 28:36Speaker 3: some of these farms that we got.
- 28:37Speaker 1: These farms are broke.
- 28:39Speaker 3: So on the Spartanburg farm, they claimed a harvest of nine,
- 28:43Speaker 3: eight hundred and sixty two boxes of fresh tomatoes. The
- 28:46Speaker 3: actual harvest was seven. The actual harvest was seventy eight
- 28:50Speaker 3: thousand and six seventy boxes. Oh my god, they said
- 28:54Speaker 3: they did nine they did.
- 28:56Speaker 1: They basically did almost ten times the amount that they reported.
- 29:00Speaker 1: And they pocketed nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
- 29:03Speaker 4: That's just you're dumb, like you, yeah, pocket twenty five grand.
- 29:07Speaker 4: Don't make it so obvious, you know what I mean?
- 29:09Speaker 1: Or maybe don't file an insurance claim and the rare
- 29:12Speaker 1: ear there.
- 29:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's there's the don't do it, uh
- 29:17Speaker 4: school of.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Thought, like you got to do a little insurance frau
- 29:19Speaker 1: it as a tree.
- 29:19Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, lying by tenfold or eight ninefold, that's crazy.
- 29:25Speaker 3: No, So for their ten farms in nineteen ninety seven,
- 29:28Speaker 3: the warrants claimed losses on five. They received six hundred
- 29:32Speaker 3: and forty four thousand dollars in crop insurance or premium
- 29:36Speaker 3: credits for their scheme. So I know the crop insurance
- 29:38Speaker 3: company gotta be tired at this point because.
- 29:40Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's got to raise red.
- 29:42Speaker 3: Flags because insurance doesn't want to give your money anyway.
- 29:45Speaker 3: You can put your whole life and get sick on
- 29:47Speaker 3: you know, like in your eighties, and they'll be like, oh.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Actually we're going to cancel your policy.
- 29:51Speaker 4: It makes me. It makes me curious too, is they're like,
- 29:53Speaker 4: how does the crop insurance thing work? Like they just
- 29:57Speaker 4: take your word for it. I planted about of corn
- 30:00Speaker 4: and I don't know something killed it. Give me some money,
- 30:04Speaker 4: Like they're just like, oh, okay, I.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Would imagine there's a claims adjuster because they did lie
- 30:09Speaker 3: about when they plot, they you know, dropped the seeds
- 30:13Speaker 3: what are farmer words? When they planted, you know, they
- 30:16Speaker 3: lied about it. So they must have had the harvest
- 30:17Speaker 3: before then claims adjuster came. Yeah, and if they filed
- 30:21Speaker 3: on the fifteenth, then they harvest on the twelfth. That
- 30:22Speaker 3: gives them plenty of time to, like I guess, for
- 30:26Speaker 3: the adjuster to come. So they hadn't actually lost anything, right,
- 30:29Speaker 3: they were still producing the same tomatoes and selling them
- 30:32Speaker 3: out of the back door additional profit on top of
- 30:36Speaker 3: the insurance gambit. Right, So they ran the same scheme
- 30:39Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety eight, dramatically lowered overall harvest numbers, fudged
- 30:44Speaker 3: figures between fields, and netted one million dollars in insurance money.
- 30:48Speaker 3: Then they decided to go big because one million wasn't
- 30:50Speaker 3: big enough. Also, they're selling the surplus of tomatoes that
- 30:55Speaker 3: they didn't claim out the back door. What does a
- 30:58Speaker 3: backdoor tomato deal look like?
- 30:59Speaker 4: And it's at night? I don't know. How would I know?
- 31:08Speaker 3: I fuck, you've done a backdoor tomato tail once or twice?
- 31:12Speaker 4: Listen, I have never I would only I only buy
- 31:15Speaker 4: tomatoes from registered tomato vendors. Would never buy my tomatoes
- 31:21Speaker 4: on the street.
- 31:22Speaker 1: You don't know. They might have been black market tomatoes
- 31:24Speaker 1: that you were getting. Okay, you know, how are we.
- 31:26Speaker 4: Supposed to trace that yeah, there's no way to know, Okay.
- 31:29Speaker 3: I mean, look, there's some really nice stores out there,
- 31:32Speaker 3: and I think I'm sure they're getting them nice tomatoes
- 31:33Speaker 3: from somewhere. So by nineteen ninety nine, the Warrens had
- 31:38Speaker 3: twenty farms, and they claimed losses on eighteen of them
- 31:41Speaker 3: using foraged chemical receipts, sales figures, surveyor layer surveyor letters
- 31:48Speaker 3: at acreage reports, planting dates like fudging the plant in days,
- 31:51Speaker 3: which we already saw payroll records that were fudging that too.
- 31:54Speaker 3: These people ain't on the payroll, invoices, manifest and more
- 31:58Speaker 3: like literally any document you could fake, they were faking it.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Wow, Like some of these I'm like, did you even
- 32:02Speaker 1: really need to fake this?
- 32:04Speaker 4: Yeah? That it's almost like a point. It's like it's
- 32:07Speaker 4: a compulsive disorder or something. Yeah, you know what I mean.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Because it's like, especially too if they're like, where's this
- 32:14Speaker 4: money going? If they're living in this modest ranch house, right,
- 32:17Speaker 4: I mean, does the does the pickup truck turn into
- 32:20Speaker 4: a monster truck? Is that the tip off that they
- 32:23Speaker 4: get that's the grave digger, that's the famous monster thrug grave.
- 32:28Speaker 3: Yeah, and the license plate is like tomato yeah.
- 32:33Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, insurance fraud.
- 32:37Speaker 3: Oh that's sweitty letters. Okay, ma hard okay, yeah, I r.
- 32:43Speaker 4: B right, just make it BMT black market tomatoes.
- 32:48Speaker 1: Yes, oh is good. Yes.
- 32:51Speaker 3: So they claimed five hundred and twelve thousand tomato boxes
- 32:54Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety nine, so they I guess, so this
- 32:55Speaker 3: money was going into expansion because they did buy more farms.
- 32:59Speaker 1: They just claim that those farms weren't working very well.
- 33:01Speaker 4: Because that's a business thing. If you're not making money,
- 33:04Speaker 4: you buy more businesses that don't make money. That's they
- 33:08Speaker 4: teach that in business school. I learned it's really a
- 33:11Speaker 4: smart way to do it.
- 33:12Speaker 3: It is, especially if you want to do insurance fry,
- 33:15Speaker 3: which they also teach in business school.
- 33:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:17Speaker 3: I take the classes to be like, so, how if
- 33:19Speaker 3: I were to do this, how want to stop someone
- 33:22Speaker 3: from doing it?
- 33:24Speaker 4: I need to know?
- 33:25Speaker 1: Could you list everything that someone would do to do
- 33:27Speaker 1: insurance frous so I can keep an eye on Yeah?
- 33:28Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just what are the what are the markers?
- 33:31Speaker 1: Like?
- 33:32Speaker 3: You have to learn a lot of that if you
- 33:33Speaker 3: work in insurance. There's those skills on both sides of
- 33:36Speaker 3: the coin.
- 33:37Speaker 4: There's always that, you know, It's like Gambery casino. It's
- 33:39Speaker 4: like the people that they hire to stop the cheaters
- 33:42Speaker 4: are former cheaters. And I'm and I'm sure that the
- 33:45Speaker 4: I R. S has tax cheats.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the government does it all the time. Early
- 33:49Speaker 1: if you can tell them how you defrauded.
- 33:51Speaker 4: Or hackers, same thing, big hackers.
- 33:54Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know though, if I was a really
- 33:55Speaker 3: good hacker, I'm not working for well, I guess they
- 33:57Speaker 3: got you under a buying because they caught.
- 33:58Speaker 1: You, right, Yeah, that's true.
- 34:02Speaker 3: So their nineteen ninety nine hall was three point eight
- 34:06Speaker 3: million dollars in insurance money.
- 34:08Speaker 1: That was an insurance money. It's not even their hall for.
- 34:11Speaker 3: Like legitimate backdoor tomato in the alley at night in
- 34:15Speaker 3: a trench coat sales.
- 34:17Speaker 1: This is just insurance fraud.
- 34:18Speaker 3: So this all comes from private insurance companies and is
- 34:22Speaker 3: later reimbursed by the federal government. So the private insurance company,
- 34:25Speaker 3: I could see them not looking.
- 34:26Speaker 1: That hard because.
- 34:28Speaker 4: They're insurance scam So it.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Was like, look, uncle Sam gotto. So we didn't even
- 34:33Speaker 1: know what y'all say. No tomatoes this year from all
- 34:36Speaker 1: twenty farms. That's crazy. How much y'all need?
- 34:39Speaker 4: Twelve million?
- 34:43Speaker 1: No point? Nobody's like maybe I should get out of
- 34:44Speaker 1: this business. No insurance justor called and was like, hey,
- 34:48Speaker 1: hey guys.
- 34:49Speaker 3: Maybe corn, Hey the Warren family, Yeah, maybe corn corn.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Have you guys thought about grape?
- 34:54Speaker 4: Yeeah, I don't know, something sturdy like milkons.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Or maybe not farming. Maybe that's an option. They just
- 35:02Speaker 1: don't farm anymore.
- 35:03Speaker 3: They're like no, no, no, So in two thousand they
- 35:05Speaker 3: had twenty six farms and doubled down with the tomato
- 35:09Speaker 3: and strawberry fraud.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Now we've got strawberries in the mix.
- 35:11Speaker 4: Oh no, leave strawberries alone.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Strawberries are involved now miss shortcake Country days, you're going
- 35:18Speaker 1: to jail, babes.
- 35:19Speaker 4: I mean tomatoes. You know, tomatoes are very sort of
- 35:23Speaker 4: ethically challenged. They're just a very of all of the
- 35:27Speaker 4: fruits and vegetables. They are the scammiest schemingst Everyone knows that.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Yeah, because tomatoes be out here to be a vegetable
- 35:35Speaker 1: every day. It's like you're a fruit. Are you're already
- 35:37Speaker 1: lying in me?
- 35:38Speaker 4: Precisely?
- 35:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:39Speaker 4: But strawberries, they've done that, no harm to any one.
- 35:43Speaker 1: They didn't deserve this.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Yeah, So this payoff that they got in two thousand
- 35:47Speaker 3: from the twenty six farms was two million, two hundred
- 35:50Speaker 3: and fifty four thousand dollars Jesus and so on Independence
- 35:54Speaker 3: Day of two thousand and one was out out to
- 35:56Speaker 3: the fourth of Julci.
- 35:58Speaker 1: The Warrens pulled their biggest yet that year. They had
- 36:02Speaker 1: switched insurance companies to Fireman's Fund and added a new
- 36:06Speaker 1: farm in Cock County, Tennessee. So now, I don't know
- 36:10Speaker 1: why y'all switching insurance companies, because if it ain't broke,
- 36:13Speaker 1: keep scamming it. Yeah, but okay, as usual, they faked
- 36:18Speaker 1: production records for the property, pretended to have grown the tomatoes.
- 36:21Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you know what they probably did. I
- 36:24Speaker 4: bet you the premiums from the company that they were
- 36:28Speaker 4: already scamming. They're probably like, these premiums are too high,
- 36:32Speaker 4: Like they're charging us too much for ripping them off.
- 36:35Speaker 4: We need to find someone with that charges us less
- 36:38Speaker 4: for ripping them off.
- 36:39Speaker 3: I love that mentality, trying to save money on the
- 36:42Speaker 3: money they're stealing. Yeah yeah, yeah, they're like, how dare
- 36:44Speaker 3: you charge me to put them up there?
- 36:46Speaker 1: Right right?
- 36:46Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 36:47Speaker 1: There ain't no robbery tax.
- 36:48Speaker 4: And I've I've also been thinking like, hmm, I wonder
- 36:51Speaker 4: who they voted for there's that one. Oh yeah, and
- 36:55Speaker 4: then and then also too, I wonder how they feel
- 36:58Speaker 4: about peoplelong welfare. You know, that's there's so much that's
- 37:02Speaker 4: there's so much of that among the farm world, like
- 37:06Speaker 4: you know, these people soaking up all the benefits, like which.
- 37:10Speaker 3: As wild they were so hardcore And if my point
- 37:13Speaker 3: wasn't clear earlier, like farmers were really hardcore about voting
- 37:16Speaker 3: for that man and deportation, mass deportation. And now when
- 37:19Speaker 3: they realize that, like the people who they employ aren't
- 37:22Speaker 3: afraid to come to work, they're like, wait, wait, wait,
- 37:23Speaker 3: not like that, not like that.
- 37:25Speaker 1: Let me cat my employees.
- 37:26Speaker 3: But I don't know any other any of the browns
- 37:28Speaker 3: on the street, any brown, any race, a race.
- 37:32Speaker 1: But notod not my employees.
- 37:34Speaker 4: Somebody with a tan you.
- 37:36Speaker 3: Know, someone who just got back from the Bahamas, well
- 37:39Speaker 3: tanned person. Well, like no, it's so ridiculous and hypocritical.
- 37:43Speaker 3: And also like you know, like people who work on
- 37:45Speaker 3: farms provide a service that is so immeasurable. It's like
- 37:50Speaker 3: don't don't we all need food to live?
- 37:52Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's lots of there's lots of welfare for farming,
- 37:56Speaker 4: and like like a lot of subsidies for corn so
- 37:59Speaker 4: that they grow way too much corn than what is
- 38:02Speaker 4: necessary and.
- 38:03Speaker 1: Then destroy it.
- 38:04Speaker 4: And then they either destroy it or they like strong
- 38:08Speaker 4: armed people to make ethanol like corn fuel, you know,
- 38:11Speaker 4: and just things like that or corn syrup, you know.
- 38:15Speaker 3: Like it's it's wild when you learn like the food
- 38:17Speaker 3: pyramid was a scam that was just made by like
- 38:20Speaker 3: people in the agriculture industry or all those commercials that
- 38:22Speaker 3: used to be like Got Milk that were really trying
- 38:25Speaker 3: to get you to just buy milk and then.
- 38:27Speaker 1: Be like, oh milk so good for your bone, so good?
- 38:29Speaker 1: Do you want britle ass bones? But then you better
- 38:31Speaker 1: get get your brittle ass and get some milk.
- 38:33Speaker 3: And it's like that's not the only way to get
- 38:34Speaker 3: vitamin do you guys? Yeah, but it was a conspiracy.
- 38:37Speaker 3: But I thought they were trying to make me feel
- 38:39Speaker 3: more healthy. That's why you see something online and it's
- 38:41Speaker 3: like now we've learned that eating ten eggs a day
- 38:45Speaker 3: can improve your lifespan, and then like a month later
- 38:48Speaker 3: it'll be like eggs are bad for your heart, for
- 38:50Speaker 3: the cholesterol, and it's like there's someone propagating this whole
- 38:54Speaker 3: thing and I don't even think about it because those
- 38:56Speaker 3: are under the guise of health.
- 38:58Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's just the government trying to help
- 39:00Speaker 1: us be healthy. No, they're trying to offload shit on us.
- 39:03Speaker 4: Yes, And you don't need to worry about any of
- 39:05Speaker 4: that because the planet is ruined.
- 39:08Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, you see, come easy go.
- 39:11Speaker 3: You know, my uncle Jeffrey, he's from the South, and sometimes,
- 39:15Speaker 3: like my southern relatives may have like some difference of
- 39:17Speaker 3: opinions when it comes to like the environment and things
- 39:20Speaker 3: like that. So I kind of hold my breath if
- 39:21Speaker 3: we get to a more progressive conversation. And that's not
- 39:24Speaker 3: all of them, it's just a handful.
- 39:28Speaker 4: Let's just get out of this.
- 39:29Speaker 3: But it's just right, yeah, talking crazy. I'm not going
- 39:34Speaker 3: to get some bullshit and the figtre slide. But if
- 39:36Speaker 3: it's something where I'm like, neither of us is going
- 39:38Speaker 3: to fix this, I'm just gonna let that go. But
- 39:40Speaker 3: if you got hate in your heart, I might not
- 39:41Speaker 3: have to walk you down.
- 39:41Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 39:42Speaker 3: But so we were talking, we got on the subject
- 39:44Speaker 3: of climate change. I think cause our straws came and
- 39:46Speaker 3: they were just like the saddest paper straws and you
- 39:48Speaker 3: know how they just go limp in your.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Mouth after a while.
- 39:51Speaker 3: And I'm like, if we're gonna crack down on that,
- 39:52Speaker 3: can we also crack down on like I go, if
- 39:54Speaker 3: I buy anything from a luxury store, they send me
- 39:56Speaker 3: home with fifty reams of paper and six boxes. I mean,
- 39:59Speaker 3: I feel like I could just put the shoot in
- 40:00Speaker 3: the bag, Like anybody's gonna do their part If I
- 40:02Speaker 3: gotta suck on a limp straw, y'all don't have to
- 40:03Speaker 3: have all this paper.
- 40:05Speaker 1: But I digress.
- 40:06Speaker 3: So I was talking to him, and I was like, oh, yeah,
- 40:08Speaker 3: this paper straw is like, oh, that fucking turtle. I
- 40:10Speaker 3: still hate that turtle to this goddamn day. That's turtle
- 40:12Speaker 3: with the straw and his snout. And then after that
- 40:14Speaker 3: we're like, everybody has to have paper straws. But I
- 40:16Speaker 3: have beef with that turtle.
- 40:18Speaker 1: But you never saw the turtle.
- 40:19Speaker 4: No I did.
- 40:20Speaker 1: But your uncle saying this, I'm saying this, And then
- 40:26Speaker 1: the victim though, no, no heed, that turtle needs to
- 40:30Speaker 1: bitch asked to come outside.
- 40:32Speaker 4: Okay, turtle a hardcore punk show.
- 40:36Speaker 3: Was not pressed about that straw but fine, whatever, And
- 40:41Speaker 3: but I was like, but you know what, we got
- 40:42Speaker 3: to save the planet. We got to do right by
- 40:43Speaker 3: the planets. Almost stuck on this paper whatever. And he
- 40:47Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I mean climate change. To me, it's
- 40:51Speaker 3: just like and I was like holding like baited breath,
- 40:53Speaker 3: and he was like, climate change, it's just to me, Like, well,
- 40:56Speaker 3: I mean it's all gonna be over.
- 40:58Speaker 1: What are we fighting for? Like get like, let's just
- 41:01Speaker 1: party and have fun with the time that we got.
- 41:04Speaker 4: And I'm like, until we all get boiled alive.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Not the nihilists.
- 41:09Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna client change his fake. He
- 41:11Speaker 3: was like, no, very real, let's just turn up the
- 41:14Speaker 3: last league. He was like, Earth had a good run.
- 41:18Speaker 3: It was we were having the time. The Earth had
- 41:22Speaker 3: a good run?
- 41:22Speaker 1: Is crazy?
- 41:24Speaker 4: You giving up? You're giving up?
- 41:26Speaker 1: Okay, Okay. I'm like I'm still trying. I'm gonna suck
- 41:29Speaker 1: on the paper. But he was like, nah, let's just
- 41:31Speaker 1: give up. It was so funny.
- 41:33Speaker 4: I was dead.
- 41:34Speaker 1: But anyways, back to these people.
- 41:36Speaker 3: So they switched their insurance company, right they were like them, like,
- 41:39Speaker 3: I really think it's what you said, like the premium
- 41:42Speaker 3: lower premiums.
- 41:43Speaker 1: For our crime.
- 41:44Speaker 3: And so they switched companies and now they're with this
- 41:49Speaker 3: place yeah, fireman, fireman. Yeah, why is the fire why
- 41:53Speaker 3: is the fireman involved? The why are they in it?
- 41:56Speaker 1: Wait?
- 41:56Speaker 3: I want to find this Yeah, fireman's fun. I don't
- 41:58Speaker 3: understand why the fireman's is involved. But so, as usual,
- 42:01Speaker 3: they fake their everything, pretending to have grown tomatoes on
- 42:05Speaker 3: the ground. Since nineteen ninety one created a full decade
- 42:08Speaker 3: of forced documents with notarized lease agreements, false testimony from
- 42:11Speaker 3: a realtor.
- 42:12Speaker 1: Now we got a realtor involved.
- 42:15Speaker 3: Not realtors listen, realtors like, there are realtors who really
- 42:20Speaker 3: are talented at realty and like getting you a great
- 42:23Speaker 3: property or a home that you love. And then there's
- 42:25Speaker 3: realtors who were scamming and doing other shit and they
- 42:28Speaker 3: were like, what can I do next?
- 42:29Speaker 1: Get my real estate? Right right?
- 42:32Speaker 5: You know?
- 42:32Speaker 3: So you have those real some realtors in New York
- 42:34Speaker 3: when they're showing you apartments for rent, I'm like, bro,
- 42:37Speaker 3: you ain't no realtor, Like you are a dude that
- 42:39Speaker 3: they hired to just hang out at the building and
- 42:41Speaker 3: let us see it.
- 42:42Speaker 1: You don't know shit about this place.
- 42:44Speaker 4: The open doors.
- 42:45Speaker 1: Yeah literally, He's like, yeah, so you see here, you
- 42:47Speaker 1: got cabinets.
- 42:49Speaker 3: Yeah, over here we got, we got this. This is
- 42:51Speaker 3: one of the bedrooms. This is this the main bedroom.
- 42:54Speaker 1: It's one of them. It's yeah, like they don't know.
- 42:57Speaker 4: One of my favorite little, little real estately scams ever
- 43:00Speaker 4: happened was when my ex wife and I we moved
- 43:04Speaker 4: to New York and we were looking for an apartment.
- 43:07Speaker 4: A guy and like an agent shows us one and
- 43:10Speaker 4: as we're going up the stairs, this couple is coming
- 43:14Speaker 4: down the stairs and they're like, we really love it.
- 43:17Speaker 4: It's really great. And then he shows it to us
- 43:20Speaker 4: and it was, you know, okay or anything, but we
- 43:23Speaker 4: didn't pull the trigger on it. It was in our neighborhood,
- 43:27Speaker 4: and like a day later I was walking by there
- 43:31Speaker 4: that same couple was waiting. They were plants that like
- 43:36Speaker 4: walked out. They were like waiting, and I saw the
- 43:39Speaker 4: realtor coming up with another client and they're like, we
- 43:43Speaker 4: love it, you know, it's fantastic.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Yeah yeah for asking right.
- 43:48Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 43:49Speaker 6: No.
- 43:50Speaker 3: So they also had you know, their fake planting dates,
- 43:53Speaker 3: their fake spring records, bogus harvest records, false diagrams detailing
- 43:58Speaker 3: a fantasy ira garation system that they wanted to make
- 44:02Speaker 3: fantasy irrigation. In two thousand and one they stepped they
- 44:05Speaker 3: should up. Okay, they got on Microsoft paint and they said,
- 44:07Speaker 3: let's make up fish. Then you know what, they probably
- 44:09Speaker 3: got a power points, you know, and they made a
- 44:12Speaker 3: fantasy and they had hundreds of fake invoices. So once
- 44:16Speaker 3: they got crop insurance in place, the warrants planted two
- 44:19Speaker 3: hundred and fifty two acres of tomatoes but had actually
- 44:24Speaker 3: only planted five acres.
- 44:26Speaker 1: So what should mean?
- 44:27Speaker 3: So when they got their insurance in place, they planted
- 44:30Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty two acres of tomatoes but had
- 44:32Speaker 3: actually only planted five acres. I'm gonna let you guess
- 44:35Speaker 3: which acreage was accurate. So on July fourth, their brand
- 44:39Speaker 3: on the fourth of julacy, excuse me, their brand new
- 44:42Speaker 3: farm was devastated by a freak haale storm on a
- 44:45Speaker 3: day with clear blue skies. The farm employees purchased bags
- 44:49Speaker 3: of ice and mothballs from the grocery store through a
- 44:51Speaker 3: load of tomato plants, I'm sorry, through the loads around
- 44:55Speaker 3: the tomato plants, and snapped photos of the hailstones fallen
- 44:59Speaker 3: from the sky.
- 45:01Speaker 1: With a disposable camera. So you know how how hell be?
- 45:06Speaker 3: It looks like my boss, and it definitely happens on
- 45:08Speaker 3: the fourth of July, and so for July s excuse me,
- 45:13Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm so thank you for correcting me.
- 45:15Speaker 3: According to Bobby Chambers, who ran the farm in Tennessee,
- 45:19Speaker 3: do we have a photo of Barbie Bobby? Bobby said?
- 45:22Speaker 3: Bobba said. The way we did it, we was down
- 45:27Speaker 3: taking pictures out this row, and then we just stood
- 45:31Speaker 3: behind it and threw up through the ice up over top.
- 45:34Speaker 3: To me, it looked like a helstorm in broad daylight. Yeah,
- 45:38Speaker 3: and broad daylight, no rain in sight. And listen, we
- 45:41Speaker 3: don't got photoshopped that good right now, right now, it's
- 45:43Speaker 3: two thousand and one.
- 45:44Speaker 1: Everybody ain't got came, you know, came.
- 45:46Speaker 3: Forward taking No, there's a there's like, I mean, why
- 45:49Speaker 3: couldn't even have somebody throw the ice on Bobby?
- 45:51Speaker 4: And look at there's a driveway behind where there's there's
- 45:54Speaker 4: no there's.
- 45:54Speaker 1: No hell, there's no hell over put the fake hell everywhere.
- 45:58Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not destroying the hell, just stopping behind.
- 46:02Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like we ain't harvested yet. So the hal
- 46:05Speaker 1: did hit it. The hall didn't want that, Like, what.
- 46:08Speaker 4: Is just what got him caught? Please tell me that
- 46:10Speaker 4: this please.
- 46:14Speaker 1: So basically he's telling me everybody way.
- 46:17Speaker 3: Look, he said to me, it looked like a hailstorm
- 46:19Speaker 3: to me, it don't, Bobby, Bobbie, don't look like hailstorm
- 46:21Speaker 3: and me by the Chambers. Then they picked up wooden
- 46:24Speaker 3: tomato steaks and acted or attacked the plants.
- 46:29Speaker 1: So they picked up wooden tomato steaks and attacked the plant.
- 46:32Speaker 4: Right to simulate the damn the hal.
- 46:36Speaker 1: Because you know how Hell be attacking the planet.
- 46:39Speaker 3: Yes, in July in a clear sky eats tomatoes, yes,
- 46:43Speaker 3: and definitely doesn't look like I said that.
- 46:44Speaker 1: Bobby threw up in the air quick. He was like
- 46:46Speaker 1: taking picture on three on three And.
- 46:49Speaker 4: It's amazing how well hale can target tomatoes from the sky.
- 46:54Speaker 4: Doesn't really fall around the area, just right on the tomatoes.
- 46:58Speaker 3: And you know, when you you need to file an
- 47:01Speaker 3: insurance claim for Hell, it's important to go out in
- 47:03Speaker 3: the actual hell and take pictures with the hele and
- 47:07Speaker 3: on meat yep.
- 47:08Speaker 4: Retail is over. Every farm has tons of disposable cameras
- 47:12Speaker 4: just in case.
- 47:14Speaker 3: So oh no, I had I have to read this.
- 47:18Speaker 3: This is this is also Bibby Chambers. They had one
- 47:22Speaker 3: Mexican who did all the beaten. He beat sixteen thousand
- 47:27Speaker 3: of them. He just go through there and knock these
- 47:30Speaker 3: off of them.
- 47:31Speaker 4: Bobby said, yeah, that Mexican love beaten domat.
- 47:36Speaker 3: He's like, I don't need no help, I'll beat all
- 47:38Speaker 3: the tomato. Yeah, so to replant two hundred and fifty
- 47:42Speaker 3: two acres of tomatoes. The warrants got ninety eight thousand
- 47:45Speaker 3: dollars in two thousand and one for over seventeen farms
- 47:48Speaker 3: they received. For over the seventeen farms, they received one
- 47:51Speaker 3: million dollars from the Fireman's Fund and claimed they were
- 47:55Speaker 3: owed an additional three point eight million dollars. That's when
- 47:58Speaker 3: the US Department of agric Culture finally started an investigation.
- 48:01Speaker 3: That's when it wasn't the hail photos. It was that
- 48:05Speaker 3: they came back again and they were like, you know what,
- 48:06Speaker 3: actually this time we wont three point eight million. Like
- 48:09Speaker 3: you've already made so many millis greedy Before the three
- 48:12Speaker 3: point eight they were probably at around five point eight million.
- 48:15Speaker 4: Yeah, so why why, I don't know, just greedy maybe
- 48:19Speaker 4: or who knows, maybe they had like there's some gambling
- 48:22Speaker 4: thing going on, you know, sometimes that happens.
- 48:25Speaker 1: They want to clean up on a mothball. That's at
- 48:27Speaker 1: least a meal.
- 48:28Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, and life is you know, in rural western
- 48:32Speaker 4: North Carolina, life is very expensive.
- 48:35Speaker 1: Oh so expanse sales expansive as hal So the USDA
- 48:40Speaker 1: official estimate of about five percent of crop insurance payouts
- 48:44Speaker 1: each year go to phony claims. That's pretty low, even
- 48:47Speaker 1: in my opinion, about the same proportion found in other
- 48:51Speaker 1: types of insurance. The farmers buys an insurance policy that
- 48:54Speaker 1: provides partial coverage, usually fifty to sixty percent, for the
- 48:57Speaker 1: crop that he expects to raise. So that's what it is.
- 49:00Speaker 3: Started up in the crops that they wanted to raise,
- 49:02Speaker 3: because then they could also up the amount of insurance
- 49:04Speaker 3: money that they received even though they were lying and
- 49:07Speaker 3: forging about these crops. So the insurance agent tells him
- 49:11Speaker 3: the policy. The loss adjuster is Dishpats to inspect the
- 49:14Speaker 3: field if the farmer claims a disaster. If the disaster
- 49:17Speaker 3: is confirmed, the crop insurance comes right and you get
- 49:20Speaker 3: a check. And then the US Treasury, which guarantees the
- 49:23Speaker 3: risk farm insurance, often reimburses the insurance company. So the
- 49:27Speaker 3: warrants were still in the government's money. And we realized
- 49:29Speaker 3: that a long time ago, and you really can't steal
- 49:31Speaker 3: from the government. They can only steal from us. It's
- 49:33Speaker 3: a one way theft street, right right. You try to
- 49:36Speaker 3: take from Uncle Sam, he gonna get your ass and.
- 49:38Speaker 1: What we want you in prison?
- 49:41Speaker 4: Yeah, you need to know that.
- 49:42Speaker 1: So the insurance companies weren't dumb though. They were in
- 49:46Speaker 1: on it.
- 49:48Speaker 3: And we kind of had a hunch about that too
- 49:50Speaker 3: because we found out the government was running it back.
- 49:52Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, yeah, y'all got millions and acres and
- 49:55Speaker 3: we definitely gonna get y'all at billion.
- 49:57Speaker 4: Sure was too bad about your tomato?
- 49:59Speaker 1: Is everything looks real? Hellishop?
- 50:03Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sure, and they look pretty ruined over there.
- 50:07Speaker 1: The claims adjuster comes out, he gets in one of
- 50:09Speaker 1: the photos they throw us up on their looks like
- 50:12Speaker 1: hell man.
- 50:13Speaker 3: So insurance agent George Cassir coached the warrants in detail
- 50:18Speaker 3: about how to perpetuate the fraud. Oh, we were seeing
- 50:23Speaker 3: much insider knowledge. If you have it from the insurance company,
- 50:26Speaker 3: look at us geniuses. Then adjuster Thomas Jeffrey Marsh testified
- 50:32Speaker 3: that his supervisor at the insurance company instructed him to
- 50:35Speaker 3: lie on crop damage forms for the Warrens. It took
- 50:38Speaker 3: federal prosecutors three years to unravel the Warren's scheme. He
- 50:42Speaker 3: charged the Warrens, as well as two of their employees,
- 50:45Speaker 3: an insurance agent and an insurance adjuster, with participating an
- 50:49Speaker 3: extensive scheme to defraud the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. So
- 50:54Speaker 3: this is a federal prosecutor who charged them. Roberts, attorney said,
- 50:58Speaker 3: it's fine for the government to issue sentencing memoranda and
- 51:01Speaker 3: make Robert Warren appear to be the Saddam who's saying
- 51:04Speaker 3: of crop insurance. But he's not the Saddam who's saying
- 51:10Speaker 3: insurance is yeah, oh Sama been cropping?
- 51:15Speaker 4: Yeah, the Jeffrey Dahmer of tomatoes. Yeah, he's not that
- 51:20Speaker 4: at all.
- 51:22Speaker 1: Oh oh, it's two thousand and one. So remember like
- 51:26Speaker 1: a really popular name at the time.
- 51:28Speaker 4: Yeah he was hot.
- 51:29Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of babies named Saddam here. So Bobby
- 51:34Speaker 3: Chambers testified for the government and got two years probation.
- 51:37Speaker 3: And honestly, the way that Bobby Bobby Chambers speaks good
- 51:40Speaker 3: at me in probation.
- 51:42Speaker 1: He know it's not what he do. He was throwing
- 51:44Speaker 1: iceing air time. Look look at him. That's a simpleton.
- 51:47Speaker 1: If I've ever seen one.
- 51:48Speaker 4: It weren't my fault, right, He was like, all I.
- 51:51Speaker 1: Did is throw the ice in the airline.
- 51:52Speaker 4: That told I'm a good German.
- 51:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll throw the ice up in the earth, and
- 51:59Speaker 3: I picked some my Yes. Okay, Bobby, it's okay.
- 52:03Speaker 1: You can be free.
- 52:04Speaker 3: I hope you ain't your Mexican friend are both free.
- 52:07Speaker 3: I hope the Mexican man was not charged, seeing as
- 52:10Speaker 3: we don't have his name. I hope he was not
- 52:11Speaker 3: charged because he didn't do nothing but what he.
- 52:13Speaker 1: Was assigned to do with the job house.
- 52:15Speaker 3: Absolutely, if I go to the job house and they like,
- 52:18Speaker 3: whack on these plans, I'll be like, okay, anything else
- 52:20Speaker 3: is above my pack or ade.
- 52:22Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just a plant whack. That's what I do here.
- 52:25Speaker 3: So Bobby testified for the government, right, and Robert and
- 52:29Speaker 3: VICKI took a plea deal and agreed to forfeit seven
- 52:31Speaker 3: point three million dollars and pay nine point one five
- 52:34Speaker 3: million in restitution to the USDA. They both got six
- 52:38Speaker 3: years in prison, but that wasn't the end of their
- 52:39Speaker 3: criminal activity. Lord Jesus, I'm gonna wrap it up with
- 52:43Speaker 3: the rest of their crimes. But I do want to
- 52:44Speaker 3: stay here, Andy, I don't know that.
- 52:46Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Do you think that
- 52:48Speaker 1: the government should have put them in prison or should
- 52:50Speaker 1: the government have made them like actually repay them with
- 52:52Speaker 1: real crips?
- 52:53Speaker 3: No, put him in prison, okay, because I just think
- 52:55Speaker 3: like restitution, you always get like a huge restitution like
- 52:59Speaker 3: that where it never gets paid back.
- 53:01Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 53:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, let's make a pay it back and tomato, right.
- 53:04Speaker 4: But yeah, but no, but you gotta you hat, you know,
- 53:07Speaker 4: the whole idea is to deincentivize the crime. And if
- 53:13Speaker 4: you know, and if other scammy farmers were seeing like,
- 53:16Speaker 4: oh well they just made him grow tomatoes, legit, we
- 53:19Speaker 4: might as well try and fuck them, fuck over the
- 53:21Speaker 4: government and we might not get caught if we're not
- 53:24Speaker 4: as brazen as these people.
- 53:26Speaker 3: But I feel like a lot of people who do,
- 53:28Speaker 3: especially like farmers or anybody doing their passion, Like, I
- 53:31Speaker 3: feel like you only start scamming one if you're just
- 53:33Speaker 3: like that's in your nature. But I think I'm saying
- 53:37Speaker 3: maybe it's like sixty forty. I think that sixty percent
- 53:42Speaker 3: of people who get into scamming like they kind of
- 53:44Speaker 3: just like need the money, are fine. With the risks,
- 53:46Speaker 3: and then there's like a forty percent who are like,
- 53:48Speaker 3: I love crime and this is what I'm gonna do.
- 53:50Speaker 4: And I don't an associate path and I don't have
- 53:53Speaker 4: any Yeah, I don't. I don't really care about other people.
- 53:56Speaker 1: The normal seals from us all the time. The pentagon
- 53:59Speaker 1: I can't account for.
- 54:00Speaker 4: It's well, it's also messy to be as I'm sitting
- 54:03Speaker 4: here saying like, no, put him in prison. It's like
- 54:05Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, because it's like there's too
- 54:07Speaker 4: many goddamn people in prison as it is, but it isn't.
- 54:10Speaker 4: But I don't know what to do. How do you
- 54:12Speaker 4: stop people from tomato scams? You know, it's like incentivize
- 54:17Speaker 4: that kind of thing, and I don't. I don't know,
- 54:20Speaker 4: you know, I feel like.
- 54:21Speaker 3: An ankle monitor and having to work their own crops
- 54:24Speaker 3: and stuff for six years.
- 54:26Speaker 1: At least we're all getting food out of it.
- 54:28Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean when yeah, government work farms,
- 54:32Speaker 4: make them take it back.
- 54:35Speaker 3: I take it back yeause that would quickly turn into
- 54:37Speaker 3: more slavery for me.
- 54:38Speaker 1: We already have so much.
- 54:42Speaker 4: No, No, I will growing tomatoes.
- 54:45Speaker 3: No, then I'm gonna be like yeah, if you steal
- 54:47Speaker 3: a call, you gotta make license plates.
- 54:49Speaker 4: Oops.
- 54:49Speaker 1: They are already doing that in prison. No, no, no, no,
- 54:52Speaker 1: terrible idea. What happened to me?
- 54:53Speaker 3: What happened to Oh, my god, get out of me,
- 54:54Speaker 3: capitalists man. Oh no, wait, I gotta say ation in here.
- 54:58Speaker 4: Oh what was that?
- 55:00Speaker 3: The man got me for a second, said Uncle Sam
- 55:02Speaker 3: too many times, and he appeared like yeah, he came
- 55:06Speaker 3: on my shoulder. I said his name too many times,
- 55:08Speaker 3: and he said we want.
- 55:09Speaker 4: You, and I was like, okay, all right, Oh I
- 55:12Speaker 4: like to be wanted.
- 55:13Speaker 1: I do love to be wanted. So we're gonna just
- 55:15Speaker 1: run through some more of the crimes they did real quick.
- 55:18Speaker 3: So this is after, yes, after, Shortly after his release, Robert,
- 55:22Speaker 3: the husband in this scheme, embarked on a scheme to
- 55:24Speaker 3: evade currency reporting laws by making a series of cash
- 55:28Speaker 3: bank deposits of less than ten thousand dollars. Wow, so
- 55:31Speaker 3: he was avoiding them getting the text because the deposit
- 55:33Speaker 3: was less than ten And it started while he was
- 55:36Speaker 3: serving probation in a halfway house. Now you are in
- 55:38Speaker 3: the halfway house, you halfway out of jail. You already
- 55:41Speaker 3: got one foot back in, So.
- 55:43Speaker 4: That's two feet fish got a swim.
- 55:47Speaker 3: So he owed the government millions of dollars right and
- 55:49Speaker 3: forfeiture money. So he was attempting to hide the cash
- 55:51Speaker 3: that he did have because he didn't want to pay
- 55:53Speaker 3: the government back of course. So he deposited more than
- 55:55Speaker 3: two hundred thousand at RBC Bank after his release from
- 55:59Speaker 3: prison in November two twelve, and amounts small enough to
- 56:01Speaker 3: avoid having the transactions reported. Under the Bank Securities Act
- 56:05Speaker 3: or Bank Secrecy Act. Banks are required to file, you know,
- 56:08Speaker 3: to the internal new they have to tell the IRS like, oh,
- 56:11Speaker 3: they getting money, and then IRS is like, we're let's
- 56:15Speaker 3: call them yeah, and he was like, I'm not going
- 56:17Speaker 3: to tell the IRS. I don't want them to know
- 56:19Speaker 3: I'm getting money. So yes, And I do really hate
- 56:22Speaker 3: that about the IRS and the banks because they're like,
- 56:25Speaker 3: oh you got money, okay.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to tell somebody.
- 56:28Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 56:28Speaker 3: And if you ever used to like withdraw a large
- 56:30Speaker 3: amount of cash, who the bank will be like, no,
- 56:33Speaker 3: come back on Thursday. Oh no, thursdays we close at
- 56:36Speaker 3: nine am, Like they did not want to give you
- 56:39Speaker 3: your money.
- 56:40Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 56:41Speaker 3: So bank records show that Robert deposited two hundred and
- 56:43Speaker 3: eight thousand dollars over five months. Why not just live
- 56:45Speaker 3: your life cash.
- 56:47Speaker 1: There's so many like you can pay cash for your rent,
- 56:49Speaker 1: so many places you could like get a little one
- 56:52Speaker 1: of those like little debit cards and put cash on
- 56:54Speaker 1: it prepaid for online purchases. But why am I trying
- 56:57Speaker 1: to help you?
- 56:58Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't have the mind of a
- 57:01Speaker 4: tomato baron. I told you that tomato gangster.
- 57:07Speaker 3: So he had asked the teller how much he could
- 57:09Speaker 3: deposit without the bank having to follow report once, and
- 57:11Speaker 3: the tailor told him that's why everything he did was
- 57:14Speaker 3: didn't exceed nine thousand dollars.
- 57:16Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
- 57:16Speaker 1: It's nine grand now yea, yeah, yeah, so as long
- 57:18Speaker 1: as it's under ten k.
- 57:19Speaker 4: Yeah, eighty nine nine nine yeah every.
- 57:21Speaker 1: Timeine, But I love the teller being like not, like, well,
- 57:25Speaker 1: so what do you mean by that? The Tailor's like, yeah, no,
- 57:28Speaker 1: so under nine thousand you coachy? Yeah, you want some deposits,
- 57:32Speaker 1: and if they're coming on a Friday at the end
- 57:34Speaker 1: of the month, we ain't go check that shit till Monday,
- 57:36Speaker 1: so you could do a double drop if you want,
- 57:37Speaker 1: like right, And also.
- 57:39Speaker 4: They go look it up at the library because if
- 57:41Speaker 4: you're asking a teller that you're you're basically telling the teller,
- 57:46Speaker 4: Hey I want to scam, you know, Like, but the job, the.
- 57:50Speaker 1: Teller's job is telling. I think she's just telling to
- 57:53Speaker 1: the customers. I don't know if she's telling the government.
- 57:54Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah no. But I mean, if I if
- 57:56Speaker 4: that was a question I wanted to know because I
- 57:58Speaker 4: wanted to high mad money, I would I would find
- 58:02Speaker 4: out then, just like watching the Yeah yeah, hello, I
- 58:06Speaker 4: was wondering if I was going to do something nefarious,
- 58:09Speaker 4: what the cash level would I have to stay under?
- 58:12Speaker 4: Oh sorry, please, I'm not going to do that.
- 58:15Speaker 3: Of take that pin with the chain and just write
- 58:17Speaker 3: down the nefariousness just right, and they're slipping under the glass.
- 58:21Speaker 4: Eighty nine nine perfect.
- 58:23Speaker 1: Oh say tomorrow, see you tomorrow. That this is great.
- 58:26Speaker 3: Yes, come in and do your crime, sir, you have
- 58:28Speaker 3: a great day. Thank you for banking with us, Thank
- 58:30Speaker 3: you for doing crime with us.
- 58:31Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Oh please do come again, crime again. Okay.
- 58:37Speaker 3: So wrapping this up, a bank manager told an IRS
- 58:40Speaker 3: investigator that she witnessed Warren. This is Robert making deposits
- 58:45Speaker 3: of older twenty dollars bills that were rubber banded, wrapped
- 58:49Speaker 3: in aluminum foil and freezing cold. No, the bank manager
- 58:54Speaker 3: the tailor told it was like, what is money?
- 58:57Speaker 1: So ice call. I would be like, my ass were
- 59:00Speaker 1: frozen and now they tholl.
- 59:02Speaker 4: So dummy ding dong take them out of the freeze
- 59:06Speaker 4: or the night before Jesus Christ, like, you can't be
- 59:12Speaker 4: bothered to unwrap the foil.
- 59:13Speaker 1: It looks like you made counterfeit money and you give
- 59:15Speaker 1: it to people hot off the press.
- 59:16Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, smell right, it's smashed.
- 59:21Speaker 3: A little bit when I hailed it. No, no, no, no, no, no,
- 59:23Speaker 3: that's from the good Yeah. It was in my back pocket,
- 59:24Speaker 3: right out of the oven. I keep all my money
- 59:26Speaker 3: in my crotch area, so that's all. It was just
- 59:29Speaker 3: cratch dollars.
- 59:30Speaker 4: It's just moist.
- 59:31Speaker 1: Oh no, moist.
- 59:34Speaker 3: Yeah, he was tripping and older twenty dollars bills don't
- 59:37Speaker 3: keep going to the same bank branch then, mm hmm,
- 59:40Speaker 3: because yeah, there are there's so many newer twenties in
- 59:42Speaker 3: circulation that that might catch somebody's eye. So sometimes the
- 59:46Speaker 3: cash he cash worn deposited smelled stale and musty was.
- 59:52Speaker 1: Bringing in the spanking ass cash. Yeah, you would have
- 59:54Speaker 1: for breezed that cash before you bring it in.
- 59:56Speaker 3: That's why the tilers got tired of Yeah, yeah.
- 59:58Speaker 1: They were getting hot wet spank. He asked cash, right.
- 1:00:01Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like he was hiding like while they
- 1:00:05Speaker 4: were stealing the government money before they got caught, they
- 1:00:08Speaker 4: were hiding money, obviously hiding it in the freezer. But
- 1:00:11Speaker 4: the musty I wonder if that's like I don't know
- 1:00:13Speaker 4: if there was buried money, if it was in a mattress.
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: You so keep you're hitting money like pristine and in
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: like a chest.
- 1:00:21Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this sounds like.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: It was given freezer.
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: But then like the cocaine you know down in Colombia,
- 1:00:28Speaker 4: they would like bail palettes of money and then bury
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: it and it would come you know, like they'd wrap
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: it in plastic enough it was.
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: Literally dirty money. Yeah yeah, oh but it was clean because.
- 1:00:39Speaker 4: Completely wrapped in plastic. Yeah, you see footage of it.
- 1:00:41Speaker 4: It's like unbelievable how much money that they well, they
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: just had to get rid of so much cash.
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: Where is his saran wrap?
- 1:00:49Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: It was us an aluminum foil.
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: This is such a husband thing to do of Like
- 1:00:55Speaker 3: you definitely grew up as a young boy and never.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: Did any chores.
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: Don't know how to do your own launch, like have
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: no cooking skills. If your wife tell you to put
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: away to spaghetti, you put the whole pot it was
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: cooked in in the fridge.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: It's giving that activity.
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: If you well. But also to be fair too, saran
- 1:01:11Speaker 4: wrap does not hold up well in the freezer, not
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: as well as foil.
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: That's I guess true. I think, yeah, yeah, I mean
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: maybe not a freezer if it's gonna have stuff in
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: it and have mildew, or turn the freezer off. I
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you, but I definitely know
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: that now these bank tellers would have let you live
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: if you had this sketchy ass to deposits going on.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: But the money wasn't stinking rusty.
- 1:01:34Speaker 4: We yeah, no.
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: If I'm a bank teller and I gotta come in
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: every day and count the money, and it's my hands
- 1:01:40Speaker 3: are touching money all the time.
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: Money's already dirty enough. You got nasty.
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: Booty money, like no, just for breeze it, yeah, for
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: breeze the money or lights all the money that kills
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: the germs, and the germs killed the older. We're trying
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: to help you so when the USCA investigation started in
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: two thousand and one, Robert began bearing stacks of twenty
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: dollars bills wrapped in aluminum foil well.
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: Then cloth bags, then stuffed in PBC pipes.
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: This is where the PVC came in, which made them
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: invisible to metal detectors. That's why he started depositing. When
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: he got out of prison, a judge rule of the
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: crime was a violation of his release on the previous conviction,
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: and he was sentenced to twenty nine more months in prison.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: PBC pipes is so smart. You couldn't have been smarter
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: with the aluminum situation. You put this in the ground.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: The ground is wet.
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: Now, Well, if you see all a PVC pipe, it's
- 1:02:31Speaker 4: not going to get in there if you put it,
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: you know, if you end cap it and and glue it. Yeah, pipes,
- 1:02:40Speaker 4: so they're water tight. You know, they run through your
- 1:02:43Speaker 4: house and they don't leak. So yeah, so that's good.
- 1:02:46Speaker 4: It's good to know. It's I think all your listeners
- 1:02:49Speaker 4: should like file that away for if they ever need
- 1:02:51Speaker 4: to hide something. Bury PVC pipes.
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: Well, regardless, he did successfully hide the money until he
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: started bringing out with money places.
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, oh goodness, Robert and your wife? What
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: was her name?
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: Because Robert, it seems like you were doing most of
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: the crime. I'm glad you got a lesser sentence here
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: because you're surely out here.
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: Name.
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: Sure, let's call her Shirley. No, her name was Vicky.
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: Her name's Vicky. But I'm glad that Vicky doesn't seem
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: to be involved in those specific shenanigans.
- 1:03:24Speaker 4: Convicty come.
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: That was beautiful. And on that note, yes, we have
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: reached the end of the podcast. Oh well, thank you
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: for having me, Thank you for being here. You're fantastic.
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