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The Marijuana Manipulator w/ James Mastraieni (Fraud Friday) · Scam Goddess

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  Speaker 1: What's poppin congregation? Is your girl? Lacey Mosley aka Scam Goddess.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release
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  Speaker 1: and as always, stay scheming scarce.
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  Speaker 2: God, Rub and run scam, Come, Rub and froll Goddess. Hi,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Scam Goddess. As you've heard, I'm here with
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  Speaker 2: James Mastriani. Yes, Oh my gosh, I've known James for
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  Speaker 2: a few years now.
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  Speaker 3: Like are you, oh, longer than that.
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  Speaker 1: That's as long as I've been in La, So as
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  Speaker 1: long as we could have known each other.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, wow, I thought for sure. It seems
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  Speaker 3: like long ago. I guess I know it really does.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I just know you well enough that it just
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  Speaker 3: it seems like we've been friends for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something a scammer would say too. Guys, I've
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  Speaker 1: known you since childhood.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've known each other so long.
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  Speaker 1: Believe that now what I'm saying about the social Yeah, well, James,
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  Speaker 1: you have to tell me, like, what's your relationship with scams?
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  Speaker 1: Have you been in any scams?
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  Speaker 3: Have you You know, I am as an adult, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not really I'm not really a scam type of person.
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  Speaker 1: I damn shade you call right, I'm a child.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm saying you're an adult with with loose moral
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  Speaker 3: uh fiber.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, my my parents have been the victims
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  Speaker 3: of scams because my parents are like older, and I
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  Speaker 3: feel like a lot of scams target older people for sure,
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  Speaker 3: for sure, but you know, honestly, I just don't think
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  Speaker 3: that I would be very good at it, like just
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  Speaker 3: in general scamming.
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  Speaker 1: Why not, Like, do you have an experience where you.
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  Speaker 3: Tried I do, Actually yeah, I had so. But this
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  Speaker 3: is like a uh so, this this is a scam
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  Speaker 3: I tried to pull when I was in high school.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, and I was seventeen, and so just a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of backstory. Uh So, first of all, I
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  Speaker 3: should say, audience, we're just getting color.
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  Speaker 1: Audience, the congregation, Okay, the congregation.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I would just like to say, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: we don't know each other, and this story makes me
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  Speaker 3: sound not great, Okay, So I would say, give me
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of the benefit of the doubts.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're seventeen, I'm seventeen years old with a booming
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  Speaker 1: deep voice.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, with a booming deep voice. And so a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of backstory. My uh so, growing up, my mom
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  Speaker 3: was disabled. Ryan, She was in a wheelchair, and so
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  Speaker 3: if you know, for a lot of people that are
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  Speaker 3: in wheelchairs, you have to have like very specific types
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  Speaker 3: of vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and handicap pass So you got to park in
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  Speaker 1: the front of.
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  Speaker 3: Everything everything front front line at every amusement park, which, oh,
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  Speaker 3: here's a minor scam we used to do because my
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  Speaker 3: mom couldn't go on rides, but we would use her
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  Speaker 3: to get to the front of the line at an
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  Speaker 3: and then lever and then just like sort of let
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  Speaker 3: her sit there. I think.
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  Speaker 1: Now of your mom happy to sit there while you're
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  Speaker 1: on Splash Mountain is hilarious and maybe a little sad,
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  Speaker 1: But I think your mom probably was also proud that
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  Speaker 1: she loved it help her kids.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, it helped make her, you know, it felt
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  Speaker 3: to her like made her feel needed, I guess. But
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  Speaker 3: so when my mom's insurance improved approved of a new
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  Speaker 3: disabled van, I got my mom's old van, which was
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  Speaker 3: a nineteen eighty eight Dodge conversion van with a wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: lift out this side right.
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  Speaker 1: For a kid, this must have been a dream.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was a dream. And at this point, like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big stoner, and so I turned it into
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  Speaker 3: this big exactly, I turned it into this big smoking van.
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  Speaker 3: Like I took the seats out and replaced them with
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  Speaker 3: bean bag chairs, put up like beads and black lights
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  Speaker 3: and all this stuff. And uh, this this story is
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  Speaker 3: also just seeping with white privilege, because there's no like
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  Speaker 3: I should have been arrested multiple times for all of this.
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  Speaker 3: But so one night, we're in my basement. My parents
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  Speaker 3: used to go to bed very early, and I used
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  Speaker 3: to have friends over to come and hang in my
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  Speaker 3: in my basement and smoking.
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  Speaker 1: You were that friend who like hosts things and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, oh man, my parents are asleep at you know,
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  Speaker 3: eight eight thirty. Come on over, we'll get higher, we'll chill.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of sleep is this? They don't hear shit?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean like maybe I fucking crack my ass upstairs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh I was a petty sleeper.
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  Speaker 3: That's really funny. Now, my parents the deep, deep sleepers
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  Speaker 3: and Uh, well, we'll get we'll get to that part
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  Speaker 3: of the story. So we were all smoking weed, but
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  Speaker 3: we decided like and so I'm all high and shit,
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  Speaker 3: and we're like, oh man, you know, we're only seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: We're like, I want to get some booze right level exactly,
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  Speaker 3: let's take this part of the next level. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, how we're trying to come up with an idea, Like,
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  Speaker 3: how do we get some booze? Right? We're not twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: None of us have fakes right when the scam comes in.
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  Speaker 3: This is where the scam comes in. So I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I think I have an idea. And so my mom
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  Speaker 3: had two different wheelchairs. She had a regular wheelchair and
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  Speaker 3: then she had a really dope like a like a scooter.
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  Speaker 1: Wheel yeah, electric one.
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  Speaker 3: An electric one, yeah, and which she used to keep
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  Speaker 3: charged in her bedroom. So I tell my friend, like,
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  Speaker 3: pull my van around front and lower the ramp and
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  Speaker 3: I'll be right back. And I went upstairs and I
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  Speaker 3: went into my parents' bedroom while they were sleeping, and
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  Speaker 3: I unplugged her electric wheelchair and I slowly start scooting it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, out of the bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: So you're like doing it with like it's like exactly, like.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent, Like I would go back a little
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  Speaker 3: bit and then they would start and I would just
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  Speaker 3: freeze because I'm also like, if my parents wake up
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  Speaker 3: right now and they see me in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: their bedroom in the dark, highest shit, sitting in my
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  Speaker 3: mom's wheelchair one, if I'm there at them, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: is it like, is he here to kill us? Like?
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  Speaker 3: What is what the fuck is going on? Exactly? It's
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  Speaker 3: so freaky. And so you know, I'm doing this thing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm slowly backing it out and I'm going backwards too,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm trying to back my way out in the dark.
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  Speaker 3: And so I finally get it out and I grab
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  Speaker 3: a blanket because in this mid in the in in
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  Speaker 3: my head, this is going to help make it better.
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  Speaker 3: So I pull it into into the van. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, here's what we're gonna do. Pull up to
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  Speaker 3: the liquor store, right, make sure that the owner sees
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  Speaker 3: you lower the wheelchair ramp or the yeah, the wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: ramp out the side. I put this play it on
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  Speaker 3: my lap because I thought it made me look more disabled,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, there's no way that they're going
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  Speaker 3: to ask me for ID if they think that, like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm disabled, right, and I'll just go in, I'll grab
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  Speaker 3: a couple of bottles and uh, it'll be it'll be great. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So this youthful teenage boy is now has a blanket
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  Speaker 1: over him in an electric wheelchair. I do have to say, James,
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  Speaker 1: that you are a scammer because the confidence level of
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  Speaker 1: saying I'm gonna go unplug an electric mobile vehic card
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  Speaker 1: right then I'm going to back it up in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also high, so I'm a little impaired and all
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  Speaker 1: this so that my parents don't realize that I'm doing it, Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's an extreme amount of confidence. Yeah, And so now
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  Speaker 1: you're also the one who's the most confident enough to
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  Speaker 1: roll into this convenience store and play the sympathy card
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  Speaker 1: to buy alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, yeah, I guess that's true. Maybe I am
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  Speaker 3: a scammer. And so I go in and immediately and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why this makes me laugh, but I
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  Speaker 3: guess it's it's just that age of like the kind
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  Speaker 3: of alcohol you drink. But I picked up a bottle
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  Speaker 3: of Captain Morgan's and a bottle of ninety nine bananas oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's like the two that I got for for us faded.
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  Speaker 1: Ye.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, nine bananas ninety nine berries was really bad. But
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  Speaker 3: I used to do the same ship. And so I take,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I take the wheelchair up to the counter
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  Speaker 3: and I put the and and so I'm like pretending
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  Speaker 3: to be like kind of frail and I put put
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  Speaker 3: the Oh it gets worse, it gets worse, congregation, it
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  Speaker 3: gets worse, And I'm so sorry for this. And so
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  Speaker 3: I put the bottles on on the the thing. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, I'm the only person in the liquor store.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, nobody distractions.
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  Speaker 3: No distractions, which I wish there would have been. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like if it would have been busier, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been easier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like if you had some other friends had come
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  Speaker 1: in and maybe bought snacks or something. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I go in and I put the bottles down,
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  Speaker 3: and the guy's like, hey, I gotta see some id
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  Speaker 3: And in my head I was like fuck immediately this
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  Speaker 3: is what he asked me. So I'm like, okay, pretend
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  Speaker 3: you didn't hear them.
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  Speaker 1: So are you trying to make yourself daft? Dude?
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  Speaker 3: Oh it gets worse, it gets worse. So I pretend
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  Speaker 3: not to hear them, and I just pushed the bottles
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  Speaker 3: further towards him, and I put some cash on the thing,
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  Speaker 3: and he goes, hey, man, I'm sorry, but I got
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  Speaker 3: to see some id I got to make sure you're
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  Speaker 3: over twenty one and so this at this point, I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I have to double down. So I then put on
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  Speaker 3: an affectation no that I am mentally disabled. No, j
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  Speaker 3: I still remember the exact thing that I said. Oh God,
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  Speaker 3: and so cong gation, please stick with me here, and this.
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  Speaker 1: Is we all we all stray, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we all stray. I was seventeen, this.
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  Speaker 1: Is not twenty fourteen, and nobody was wok he.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody was woke. Nobody's woke. Believe me. I feel
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  Speaker 3: terrible about this. Uh. And I looked at him and
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  Speaker 3: I said, please, no, I was so much pain, just like.
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  Speaker 1: That JAP was all horrible. But I do have to say,
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  Speaker 1: the dedications are not just bailing on this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know, because I think I would have just reversed.
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  Speaker 1: That joint and been like we're here atly out of
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  Speaker 1: the store.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And so he looks at me for a moment
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  Speaker 3: and he goes, I know who you are. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: and this is like an old, middle aged white guy,
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  Speaker 3: and there was this restaurant next door called Frishes. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen your I've seen your van, I've seen you
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  Speaker 3: and your friend smoking weed outside the restaurant all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're not in a wheelchair, and i know
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  Speaker 3: you're not old enough to be in here, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna give you two seconds to get the fuck out
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  Speaker 3: of my store otherwise I'm calling the police.
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  Speaker 1: As fucking exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The whole fucking time he knew. He was just like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna let this dumb fucking kid. I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 3: this dumb kid just do this whole bit. I'm maneuvering
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  Speaker 3: my way through these narrow ass liquor aisles in this wheelchair.
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  Speaker 3: And I immediately fess up and I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: so sorry. I shouldn't have done this. I just my
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  Speaker 3: friends and I were just trying to have a good time,
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  Speaker 3: and he was like, get the fuck out, and but
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  Speaker 3: the funny thing is I was like, yes, absolutely, and
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  Speaker 3: I started I started moving the wheelchair and I got
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  Speaker 3: it stuck in the door on the way to the exit.
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  Speaker 3: Like trying to leave, and I couldn't maneuver it, and
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  Speaker 3: I had to get up out of the wheelchair and
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  Speaker 3: try to like drag it through this narrow door, all
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  Speaker 3: while this dude is staring daggers straight through me, and
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  Speaker 3: I just sheepishly like pulled back into, you know, back
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  Speaker 3: into the van.
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  Speaker 1: James, when the jig was up, why didn't you just
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  Speaker 1: get out of the wheelchair and push it out of
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  Speaker 1: the store.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's heavy as fuck, Like it's this big motorized wheelchair,
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  Speaker 3: Like you can't really push it and you have to
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  Speaker 3: like use the handle and then because when it got stuck,
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  Speaker 3: I had like use the handle and then like maneuver
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  Speaker 3: it through the door because it was like a wide wheelchair.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I appreciate this man's petty for letting you do
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  Speaker 1: all of this before he told you. He even lets
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  Speaker 1: you do another He let you dig yourself into a
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  Speaker 1: deep asshole before he finally was like, I know who
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  Speaker 1: you are, James. I think that this scam would have
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  Speaker 1: worked if you had gone somewhere that wasn't a place
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  Speaker 1: that you go all of the time. You can't go
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  Speaker 1: to your loco, You hang out in front of this place.
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  Speaker 3: Jay, Literally, the liquor store was next to the restaurant
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  Speaker 3: where like four of my friends worked. Oh and so
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  Speaker 3: we would just go get free food there and get
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  Speaker 3: high around back, you know, almost every day. So for some.
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  Speaker 1: Reason, so you insulted that man's intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I insulted a lot of people's intelligence. I insulted
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  Speaker 3: my own intelligence. I insulted my mother, who you know,
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  Speaker 3: has to endure the suffering of being disabled, and I
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  Speaker 3: exploited that to try to get ninety nine bananas for
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  Speaker 3: me and my friends. She also has never heard this story.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so you put the chair back. She never noticed.
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  Speaker 3: She's never noticed I took the chair home. I took
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  Speaker 3: it back. I put it right back where it was.
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  Speaker 3: Plug that shit back in.
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  Speaker 1: I think you got enough punishment from the liquor store man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I think I would love to hear his
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  Speaker 3: version of that story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he loves that story because he godd you on.
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  Speaker 1: Like he probably saw from a second that you came
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  Speaker 1: in and knew exactly what you were doing, saw you
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  Speaker 1: pick up the liquor bottles, all you driving around the store.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, okay, please, I know he knew, Like
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  Speaker 3: he probably saw the van and immediately was like, what
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  Speaker 3: are these fucking idiots trying to do? And because he
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  Speaker 3: probably my van was so recognizable. The outside was completely graffitied,
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  Speaker 3: like it was just tagged up. So there's no way
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  Speaker 3: you wouldn't know what this van was.
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  Speaker 4: Yo.
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  Speaker 1: All you needed was some You needed a consultant. You
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  Speaker 1: had look, you had confidence, you had co gumption. You
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  Speaker 1: just needed somebody to get you with the logistics. Like
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  Speaker 1: your friends, none of them were thinking they were all
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  Speaker 1: just along for the ride. You one friend Tod be like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but we got to park the van across the street.
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  Speaker 1: And also we can't go to.
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  Speaker 3: The place that we always I know, I know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think without those two major factors, you would have gotten
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  Speaker 1: your lips around some ninety nine bananas.
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  Speaker 3: Probably. Yeah, I needed some scam goddess smartness.
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  Speaker 1: But we knew each other back then, James, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. We've known each other that long, scar God.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: So this is our segment what's hot in fraud? Guys.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want you to get scammed, at least not
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  Speaker 1: by other people. Okay, Now, if I call you and
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  Speaker 1: I need you to spin in a cup or give
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: me a lock of your child's hair. You mail that
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  Speaker 1: to me, okay, because it's for a good cost. But
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: if anybody else is trying to run game on you,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: we just can't allow it. So this is a segment
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  Speaker 1: where we'll talk a little bit about a fraud, a scam,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: a hoodwink that's really popular right now. So today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about romance fraud. Guys, we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: romance fraud before, but the reason that I want to
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  Speaker 1: bring this up is because we actually got some legit
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: numbers on romance fraud. James, do you know that romance
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  Speaker 1: fraud makes up about one hundred and forty three million
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  Speaker 1: dollars domestically in losses?
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  Speaker 3: What? Okay? So first of all, what is romance fraud?
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  Speaker 1: So romance fraud, which I already told you guys, love
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  Speaker 1: is a scam, stay woke. Look it's one we all participated.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a fucking scam. But romance fraud is where
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  Speaker 1: people talk on things like bumble Tender, Christian mingle grinder,
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  Speaker 1: and they talk to people who are looking for love
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  Speaker 1: and commitment as a means to defraud them out of
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  Speaker 1: small or large amounts of money.
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  Speaker 3: Interest.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So in twenty eighteen, romance scams were the most
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  Speaker 1: expensive type of fraud scam and that's where we got
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  Speaker 1: that one hundred and forty three million dollars. And this
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  Speaker 1: actually comes from the Federal Trade Commission because you can report.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: If you, guys get scammed, you can report it to
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Trade Commission. Will you get your money back?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not, but maybe you're gonna save somebody else, Like
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  Speaker 1: come on, guys, that's that's good, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So some of the biggest scams are often military men
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  Speaker 1: on tender, which I think is a good one cause
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  Speaker 1: it's like men who are saying they're deployed fighting for
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  Speaker 1: their country overseas.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's fucked.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's like, how can you really say who's
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  Speaker 1: in the mill terry or not?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people in the military.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: And like that feels like it could easily appeal to
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: like any sort of like maga type of person on tender,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: you know, like like an uber patriotic type of if.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: You're scamming mega people shout out to you, ye keep
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: doing that shit.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Ye.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I will never discourage it and I will never report you.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: But I want to read one of the reports is
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: somebody who actually got scammed by this? All okay, So
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I'm on the Federal Trade Commission website and they actually
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: have consumer information because this is so popular, people getting
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: scammed by online lovers or whatever. So their advice is one,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: never send money or gifts to a sweetheart you haven't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: met in person.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: It seems obvious, right, That seems super obvious.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Take it slowly, ask questions and look for inconsistent answers.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Check the person's photo using a search engine like Search
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: by image Google. If the same picture shows up with
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: a different name, that's a red flag.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that makes sense.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Talk to someone about this new love entrance and take attention.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: And friends and family are concerned.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: That seems impractical, right Maybe I don't know. I feel
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: like if well, no, I guess it. Yeah. I'm trying
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: to think of like if I were talking to something
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: like I'm talking to somebody on hinge or whatever.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna tell people that you matched with someone
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: on him?
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: How would they know if they're How would somebody else
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: know if they're a scammer?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I think because what they're saying is like, maybe you
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: don't realize this shit is weird. But if you say
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it out loud to somebody else, You're like, oh, yeah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to this new man. His name is John Doe.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: He in the military. He said he needed six thousand
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: dollars for his medical bills. I said, let's FaceTime before
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I send the money. He said, I ain't got no
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: FaceTime out here in Bagdad. And I was like, are
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: we still in bag Dad? He was like, I guess
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: we are. We definitely are, for sure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: That's really funny. That makes sense. Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: He said they're trying to get garbage to tear down
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that wall. And I was like, Okay, I'm here in Hanoi, Vietnam,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and I've been station here for forty years.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they never brought all of us back.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: They never brought us back.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: They didn't tell you. But we're still fighting in the vita.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So y'all remember Norman Dy you were, Yeah, he's still
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: at Norman Dy So I wired him six thousand dollars. Yeah,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: so maybe your friend will be like, hey, girl, that
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: war has been over for a long time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Let's open up the history books, shall we.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And then the last one is if you suspect a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: romance scam, cut off contact right away. Then report the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: scam to FTC which is FTC dot gov slash complaint
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and notify the dating site where you met the scammer too. So, guys,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: if this has happened to you, you don't have to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: tell us, but also you should tell us email scam
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Goddess pod because we'd love to hear about it. But yeah,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: it's it's crazy. So the website went further. They made
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: an instructional safety video for people who are online dating.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And it's right behind you, James.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: And your lot shit.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Looking for love and all the right places like popular
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: dating sites, mobile apps, and social networking sites. Ron seems
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: like a perfect match for you. He's thoughtful and says
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: he can't live without you.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Ron looks like a serial killer.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: He says he's from the US but works out of
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: the country. He says he wants to visit, but says
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: he can't afford it. He asks you to send him money.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Last month it was medical bills for a sick ant
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: need to fix his car. Next month, Ron wants your money,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: don't send it. The person pretending to be Ron is
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: a scammer. He'll tell you anything to get you to
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: wire cash right away. He'll never run out of excuses.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: If an online love interest asks you for money, walk away,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: no matter how compelling the story, reports at FTC dot
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: com slash imposters, it's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: So funny to me, and maybe that says a lot
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: about uh my own personal relationship to my family. But
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: like a sick aunt is not going to get me
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: to give you money, Like why an aunt too far away? Yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: it's like thinking about all my aunt like all my
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: aunts like I can't I mean, you know, I don't
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: want them to be sick. But also like so.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't even help your own sick aunt, is what
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you're saying. They could be like your sister's life.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't have the money first of all
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: to help a sick aunt. Second of all, I haven't
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: talked to aunts in years. Yeah, so because of your own.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Close or not close personal relationship with aunts, you will
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: be giving no money for somebody.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Who's like I have a sick aunt. I'd be like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: huh yeah, maybe a sick mom. Like why why do
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: you choose an aunt? Why not?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Because I think aunts, like you said, aren't people that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you have to materialize. If it's the mom, it's like
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you should know where your mom is. But if it's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: your sick aunt, you can be like, oh, she's like
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: in Albuquerque. I don't have any picture.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It's just far enough removed to I see what you're saying.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: That was a college excuse. I remember like in college,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: if I couldn't get a paper done in time, you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: kill off an ant kill you like, I'm so sorry, professor,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: but my aunt died and so I can't turn in
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: this paper.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and see if I were your professor, I'd be
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: like lazy. I think I've talked to my aunts once
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: in the last ten years. So you still got to
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: do the paper and it's not good enough.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Oh listen, I've been killing off the same aunt for
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: so many And when when your mama do the funeral programs?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: So he's a photoshop on that sunset day. You know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I'd be like sunrise, like birthday in this sunset whenever
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I need it too.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: It's so funny.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: But I also what struck me about this video is
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: that one it's a woman who they're warning about these scams,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, so are they not including men in
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: romance scams? Because is that just like culturally normative for
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: women to like scam men out of money pretending that
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: they love them. Oh interesting, because like it's about a woman,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about it, and I'm like, I know
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: so many women who are out here is just getting
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: shoes and bags and boob jobs and range rovers from dudes,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and no one calls that a scam.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You know what, Maybe it's because the woman's not getting
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: anything in return, because everybody knows that dick.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Is trash, right, Dick is trash. I do think, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I wonder if it's you know, maybe it's not the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: word scam in that situation, but it's more the idea
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: of like some people enter into a more transactional relationship
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: as opposed to a relationship of like mutuality. Right, yeah,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you're right, some like rich old dudes or just be
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: like hey, like you said, love can be a scam
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: where it's this thing of like, you know, it's a
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: transactional relationship, I'll pay for your apartment or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: you're right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And then I think for the most part, the women
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: are actually like materializing, like they're showing up. They're not
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: just like using I guess a fake photo. Like Okay,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that makes sense.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Because I was actually gonna say, I think I almost
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: was the victim of this really of a romance scam. Maybe,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Like so, I very briefly used Tinder a few years ago,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: and this instance is what got me off of Tinder.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I haven't used it since. I had a woman like
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: match with me on tender and we started talking, and
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: from the beginning I was skeptical because like she was
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: just way too enthusiastic, and like, you know, I'm thirty five,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I pretty I know my place in the world. I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: know I'm not I know I'm not attractive enough to
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: have a woman over the internet be that enthusiastic. Like
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I'm almost six foot. Maybe if I was six three,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: maybe that would be a thing where but it's not.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not tall enough, I'm not handsome enough. I'm bald.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I know, I know my place.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And she was not gonna agree with any of.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: This, And she was being really enthusiastic, and she was like,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: what did.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: She do that was like showing you, like over enthusiasm.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: She wanted to meet that night, she wanted to come
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: see my place. She wanted to and I was like,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if I feel comfortable, like
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I was like, maybe we can meet at a bar
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: for a drink or something like that, and I was like,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not really big into like having somebody come straight
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: over to my place anything like that. And then I
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: changed the subject and I was like, so, what do
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you do for a living? And her response was that's
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: what I want to talk to you about? And I
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: was like, what, we don't huh, what do you mean
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: we don't know each other? What do you want to
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: talk to me about? And then she was just like
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: started talking about her living situation and started talking about
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: her She she was like a preschool teacher and you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: she'd just gotten laid off and like, and I was like,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: where the fuck is this heading? And I kind of
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: got freaked out and I just deleted the app right
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: there because I didn't ask any more questions. I was like,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know what kind like is it possible.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: To come to your house immediately.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: And talk to me about her works?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe she was homeless and she was like, oh, this
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: is out, Like I'll just get on Dinder and I'll
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: find somebody and I'll go to their house that night,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and then i'll but their house and I'll live there.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, which is a different, oh, different kind of scam.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I guess. I don't know.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It has to work because I'm sure there's some people
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: on tender who are just like I just really need
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the company. Was you cute?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, if that was her, you know what I mean?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know about that in the beginning.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if it was her. I don't know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: like she was cute, but I don't know if Like
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming that that was not her. I didn't do
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: the Google image.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Image search like FTC told you got to do that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I know now I wish I knew then.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Well, James, that's so that's that's our hot and fraud
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: right now. Guys, if you're on dating apps, any dating apps,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it put Christian Mingle on here as a warning, like
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: all the dating apps, oh man, just beware, Like if
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: people are trying to get money from you and you've
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: never met them, yeah, not a good look. Also, if
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: anything is happening with anybody's aunt, never believe that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Don't believe them.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody's aunt has ever had anything bad happen to them.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: And unless your aunt raised you, then just not good enough.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I'm not good enough.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Too far away from me from the tree, says James
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: b Run. Alright, guys, we're gonna get into the biggest segment,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the craziest segment of the show, historic hoodwinks. All Right,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: So I kind of picked this one with you and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: mind because James runs a very dope podcast and also
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: it's a live show called I'm Too Effing High, which
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: decent these sigmatize weed. And it also is a very
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: fun show where comedians get high and do comedic challenges.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I've done it. It's super fun. It's also very fun
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to listen to wild high.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: That's great. Got to have you for a live.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Show, yes, oh my gosh, even though when I'm at
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a high live show, it's just me like holding onto
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the chair for a dear life.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: You're so funny, You're so fun you kill it every time.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Just putting the mic in my bosom and are you
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: talking me? I need to talk now, all right, guys.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But so there's a new scam out right now, which
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is Instagram weed fraud. So people are doing fraudulent Instagram
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: drug deals. Okay, So basically how this works is the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: one that we're going to talk about in like more detail.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Is this guy named Niagio Blum. He's a writer and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a comedian and a resident connoisseur on the Netflix show
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Cooking on High. He's been a recent victim of a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: fraudulent Instagram drug deal scam. So basically, a friend sent
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: this guy a screenshot of an Instagram program. So basically,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: this whole this could happen to you, James. Yeah, because
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: this guy's whole business is kind of like surrounded around
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: weed or being a connoisseur, being like, you know, one
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of the first movers in entertainment in weed, and someone
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: made a fake Instagram profile of him and some one
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of his friends screenshot it, but it had been up
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: for a minute because the account had twelve images on
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: it that were stolen from Baum's real account, and the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: bio offered pot for sale with shipping available to any location.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Wait can you say that again?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Pot for sale was shipping available to any locations. So
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it's like, you go on his Instagram, you see photos
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of the guy and it says we sell weed. We'll
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: send it anywhere in the country. Yeah, it says any location.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: So I guess that means, like Papa New Guinea means
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you can get your weed wherever yeah, so BAM obviously
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: had a friend who noticed this, and so he notifies
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Instagram and he posts screenshot on his own profile and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: says like, please don't follow this guy and please report
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this guy, et cetera, et cetera. But this was happening
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: for at least six months because the impostor had multiple
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: direct messages from people who had wired him money for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: weed that they'd never received no way, so he had
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: been running this, which is weird because it's like, if
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you know this guy's on TV, why do you think
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: that he had Okay, he had twenty six hundred followers, though,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: why do you think that this guy wouldn't have more
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: followers than that?
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Way more followers and then all, so yeah, like why
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: would he Well, I guess I could see him getting
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: in the business of, I guess distributing, but that's it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's so there's one god.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I could see myself falling for this. This is terrifying.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: This is terrifying.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: The show is terrified.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So there was one scam victor in particular who contacted
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this guy after sending an imposter over three thousand dollars
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: for two pounds of weed that never arrived. And this
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: guy was getting an average of three to five messages
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a week, so he was doing this.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, So first of all, two grand for two pounds
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: of weed? Is that what you said?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Three grand?
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Three grand for two pounds of weed is like an
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: amazing deal that already is like yeah, yeah, I mean
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: most of the time a pound of weed is like
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: three to four grand.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: You hear that guy's yeah, just so you know how
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: much a pound of weed gots?
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I don't. That's crazy.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I guess people were probably that's why they're like, oh,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I'll pay for this deal.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Of course, to be true, if somebody was like two
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: pounds a week for three grand, yeah, that is an
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: amazing deal. Yeah, especially if it's good shit. Right.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: That's like how anytime you click on a news article,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: because the online news is fucking struggling, there's always like
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: ads for shit on the side. It's like Louis wa
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Tom back thirty dollars. That's what almost gets me. I'm
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: like third at all that Louis is not real. Yeah,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: but yeah, so he pays this much for it and
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: never gets any money. Also, I think wire transfers are
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: just a weird method for paying for shit. I've never
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: had to pay for anything with a wire transfer. I've
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: only received the wire transfer once in my life and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: it was from my parents when I was in London.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, I don't think they're real, Like I.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Would do you do it at a bank?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I've never done doing it like Western Union, which is
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: like Shanius money place.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Ever, it almost see like, is this is me being
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: an ignorantcause I don't know. Is Western Union also a
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: payday loan type of Yeah? It is.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It's just like where you can go do Isn't it?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Am I wrong talk about it? I feel like it's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: just a shady scam organization. The cops should just loiter
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: around Western Union and just randomly like pick people up.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: But so Instagram got contacted about this story, and an
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Instagram spokesperson noted, and an Instagram spokesperson noted claiming to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: be another person violates the platform of community guidelines, and
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Instagram says we care deeply about the quality content on
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Instagram and we take spam and inauthentic and other abusive
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: behavior very seriously. Being verified is a great new way
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to know if the person is legitimately that person but
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: not everybody can be verified, which is true, right, Like
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you have to have like full a certain amount of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: qualifications to be verified. And this guy was on TV
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and I have fifty seven thousand followers and wasn't verified,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: So people were taking advantage of that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Crazy Why wasn't he verified fifty seven thousand followers?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Because it doesn't have anything to do with how many
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: followers you have. You have to like I guess, apply
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: or have a PR agency apply for you, or have
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: enough credits and things online that Instagram starts to get
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: curious about if you are really the person.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, got.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: So there's one person on Reddit because there's a whole
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: subreddit about this guy who tells his story of buying
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: weed through Instagram. So some of you out there might
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: be familiar with popular social networking app called Instagram. In
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the past few months, there have been accounts popping up
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: on Instagram that claim that they will ship weed to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you out of places like Washington, California, etc. These profiles
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: may look very convincing with pictures of large amounts of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: weed uploaded or orders getting shipped out. How it works
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: is this person will leave their phone number or kick
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Messenger id if you got to get on kick for anything,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you already need to know it's not on the up
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and up on the profile, and you can contact them
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and ask them to place an order. Prices are usually
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: advertised as fairly low and reasonable. Like you said, that
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: was really cheap for those two pounds of weed. Now,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: there may be some profiles out there that are actually
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: genuine and will ship you the product. I've had weed
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: shipped to me before, no issue, so I know it's
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: done every day. Most are just playing scammers looking to
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: get your money and leave you with nothing. Here's how
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: my experience went. I kicked a dealer asking for one
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of his best indicus. He said the price was one
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: eighty ounce and that I only owed him half up
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: front to ship it. He claimed that after the payment
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: was shipped, I would get a tracking number and his
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: phone number to keep contact and track my package. The
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: next morning, I Western unioned him Western Union ninety dollars
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and two hours later saw that Western Union Tracking had
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: picked up the payment. I texted him asking him for
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a tracking number. No response. I waited two hours, texted again. Nothing.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: After that, I started calling him. Then an hour later
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I realized he had blocked me from his Instagram page,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: blocked me on kick and somehow blocked my number from
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: contacting his phone. That's like the easiest one to do. Now,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I know what you're all thinking, Wow, you're such an
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: idiot to give this guy your money and expect him
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to sendy weed. Yes, that was a naive mistake on
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: my part. But I've had success and transactions in the past.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: But guys, please don't do this. You will get screwed
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: over and you will feel like an idiot.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Oh man, Yeah, absolutely, And that's a good deal too,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: one for an ounce. That's yeah, that's a really good
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: isn't that?
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Like? I feel like that small potatoes though, to be like, here,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: send me half of this amount. So you're just getting
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: ninety dollars from everybody you scam, Is that enough? I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: guess it depends on how many people you scam in
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: a day.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if you can if you scam ten.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: People, ten people a week, that's not dollars a week.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: That's nine hundred bucks a week. Yeah, that's yeah. Maybe
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: that's pretty good. And I wonder too, if the strategy is, like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: if I scam ninety bucks out of people, they're gonna
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: be looking for me with less urgency, right than if
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I scam like three thousand, three thousand.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, and then that
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just becomes your job, I'm sure. Just every day, I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: gotta set up a new Instagram profile, got to create
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: more hotmail email addresses.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: You're a blue collar scammerl collar.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I'm a middle class scammer.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a middle class scammer. Right. Yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: They probably survived the longest because I feel like when
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you start getting into bigger deals, that's when people started
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: getting their eyes on you. And when you scam rich people,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: they be mad.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No, one's.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: More mad about getting scammed than someone who has a
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: lot of money for some reason, which makes zero sense
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have so many more resources to lose.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And they're still more mad, and they also have more time.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like, if I'm a rich person, I have
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: more time to hire someone to look for you and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: get angry with you.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm into it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Isn't that insane?
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: But I mean I don't know, I think buying anything online,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: although I do have a friend who buys like acid
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: on the dark web and they've never had a problem.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've bought drugs on the dark web as well.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: How do you get to the dark web is like
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: ww dot dark Web. I've never known how you actually
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: get to the dark Web.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to go, I should say, I don't
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: know if this is the dark web or not? Where
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I go? Is this a legal website where I can
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: purchase different types of drugs? And I use bitcoin to
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: get it? And so I go to a bitcoin ATM
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: machine which is down the street from me, and I
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: get some bitcoin and then I buy, you know, the drugs.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And the one time I thought I was getting scammed,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: and I kept emailing them and being like, hey, where
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: where is the product? Where's my stuff? There's where's the product? Yeah?
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I get caught up. Where's the product? Where the things
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: that I ordered?
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: I had been watching the movie Blow all weekend and
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Johnny Depp and no I and and they never got
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: back to me, and I was like, fuck, I got scammed.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: And then one day in the mail they were there
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, Okay, I guess they just
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: have terrible customer service. But it worked.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Look, we don't pride ourselves in customer service. Okay, you'll
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: get your things. When you get your things.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just relaxed, we're not going to respond.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very like, that's interesting to me because like
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I remember when I was in Brooklyn and is we
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: legal in New York yet?
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: No? Right?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: No, So when I was in Brooklyn years ago, it
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: was probab extra even more illegal. But I had a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: weed delivery, like a courier service that would like come
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to my house and it was always like some guys
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: or a girl on.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: A bike and a bike.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I've heard of this, yeah, And like one time it
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: was like during Pride, I think, and it was like
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: so busy and so I like ordered and they couldn't
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: get to me and I was like, what is this.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I've been ordering from you guys for years. Yeah, and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, man, We're so sorry. We're
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: gonna give you thirty percent off of your next birthday.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: And I was like, this is illegal drug company that
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: is running themselves like.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: A good customer service.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, actually customer service. I didn't have to email the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: dark Web a bunch of times like hey it's me again.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You know who?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wait, what's.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Your alias on there? Because I know you don't go
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: by James.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think you have to have.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: An alias or is it just like you you just
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: don't communicate.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: With any Everything is through like it's all through bitcoin,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: like it's you don't use a name, like it's just
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: my address. There's no like name.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Is pitcoin even like becoming like a successful formal currency.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Is it just a good currency to do like sketchy
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: stuff with.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I think it's that. I think it's like people are
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: hoping that it becomes a thing, but I just don't
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: think it will. I think it's like right now, I
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: think it's just a way to get shit anonymously because
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: it's untraceable. That's the that's the thing about it is
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: like you can't trace it. So I don't know. Yeah,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I know some people got rich real fast from it
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: when it when it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, they bought it and then it like exploded
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: and now it's like normal again.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: But that feels like a scam maybe, oh hell yeah? Yeah.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Online e currency is definitely a scam, Like where did
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it come from?
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And we just all gave you money for it and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: then you told us how much it was worth.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. What even even capitalism in general feels like it's
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: just constantly walking the line of scam. Rightly, everybody's just
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: toning that line of like how close can I get
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: to fucking people over?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's why we had to have like antitrust
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: laws and things like that, because otherwise, like people, I mean,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: we're still Amazon's gonna own all of us pretty soon.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And it's fine. I willingly give Facebook all of my
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: information now, I'm like, you have it anyway, here were
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: my retina. Hold on, let me open.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: My eye up, ship, let me open my eye.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: You need me take my contact out? Fuck all right,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: damn it, Mark Zuckerberg, I just want to send I
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: just want to post about my comedy show tonight.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'll give them whatever they want. Bootyholet now,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I have no use for it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Let me open my booty hole up.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I need these likes. This week, our scameray
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: goes out to a mystery person. We actually do not
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: know who this person is, but there is a weed
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: grower at the Capitol Building of Vermont who has planted
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: thirty four cannabis plants in counting that have been found
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: growing in the flower beds of the Vermont Capitol.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, and we actually, oh I had so much media.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: We have another video. We'll describe it to you guys.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: So this is a weed plant.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like it really is hidden in a garden.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: And it looks like they're growing very well.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Weed is hard to grow.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Right, doesn't it need like a lot of water, a.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Ton of sunlight, a ton of care. Yeah.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: And these are like on the main street in front
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: of the capitol, so the plants are too immature to
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: test them to see if they're like THHD plans, right.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: And they also have confirmed that the plants are not
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: in the state's horticultural plant.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: But I don't think an they asked just some random
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: police officer.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Who had no information. Yeah, he was like, I don't
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: think they meant to plant these. So there's all these
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: weed plants.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I love that. That's like that that's a great
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: scam that hurts nobody, right, Like it's like, let's go
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: plant and you know, if you're for legalization, I guess
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: it's it's kind of like a message. But I like that.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: That's right, oh right, because it's it's at the Capitol building.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: So this is like being like, hey, guys, you're already
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: there's so much weed out here, just let us grow it. Yeah,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and also like it's kind of like it won't bother you.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Look at how much weed we have growing right next
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: to you, and it's never bothered and you.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Have no idea it's even there.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe it is like an
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: artistic statement too. But how is the plant growing so well?
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know, that's a really good question.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Because they need a lot of water, right, Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: They need a ton they like well, I guess it
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: depends on if they're trying to grow it to some
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: sort of like to actually have the flower be good.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: That's when you have to put in a lot of work.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: But it is a weed, so it'll just grow. But
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: if you want like good bud with like you know,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: good THC and high quality, you got to put in
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: so much work.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, So maybe it's someone who's like planted it and
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: then they're like, we'll just use the capital's water. I'm
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: sure they water those. Those plants looked so healthy, it
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: looked great, it looked refreshed. So I'm sure that they're
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: watering them so so much.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: It's they're they're like the the green I guess the
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: plant version of Banksy.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: It feels like, wait, explain that to me.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: So Banksy is, uh, you know, the anonymous person that
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: that goes around graffeiting all these different sort of like
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: social justice which.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Ones like that, that obey guy. No I should know
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: who banks is? Such uncultured swine right now?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he has yeah, he
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: has very very He's British, but he's anonymous. Nobody knows
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: who he is.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: So no one's caught Banksy painting ship. I find that
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: hard to believe.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Some people think that Banksy is more than one more
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: than one people. More than one person is a group.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: It's an artist band.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: But he also famously, oh he had a great scam
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: what where he tried to uh somebody tried to sell
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: a Banksy original at a at an auction and when
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: it sold and they tried to bring it off the wall,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: it ripped in shreds and like that was the whole
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: purpose of it. But the funny thing is it actually
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: upped the value of it. Yeah, it was like an
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: original Banksy.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: So it was really an original.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh here we go. Yeah, watch this it's it's
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: pretty interesting and it got.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Art connoisseurs could only watch in horror as an expensive
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: piece was shredded before their eyes. No sooner did the
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: gavel come down to mark the sale of Banksy's Girl
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: with Balloon for our record one point four million dollars,
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: did the picture start to slip out of its frame
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: into shreds below. The anonymous artist claims to be behind
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: the stunt. On Instagram, he posted a photo of his
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: prank with the caption.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Going, Going Gone.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: In a later post, he explained how.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: He did it. A few years ago. I secretly built
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a shredder into a painting.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bruh, yeah pretty Uh that.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Is rude as fun.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: If I pay a million dollars or something, Banksy, you
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: can you ask. That's when the scene became a brawl.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Like this story would have went completely differently, like no,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: you need to go go paint it again.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I would love it if it was Lacy that unveiled
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Banksy because of this, like nobody knows who Banksy is.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Lacey gets sucked over, gets you can't scam the scam goddess. No,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: she will unveil you.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I would ruin his whole mistake. I would spend the
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: rest of my days trying to figure out who the
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: fuck he was, where he lived, so I could air
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: his ass out on Instagram.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Line Yep, that's really funny, Like he's.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Going live with Banksy right now, that's correct. Crazy, And
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: of course some art buyer was like, oh, this is
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: even better because now chrosthetical.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Of course, yeah, I'm sure it raised the value.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but also if you're an art collector, that's already
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: a flex of like I'm about to spend a ridiculous
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: amount of money on Yes, yes, art has value. I
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: make art. It has so much value. I want to
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: be paid a million dollars to come perform somewhere please.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: But we all know it's a flex to be like
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I'm spending a million dollars on a piece of paper.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, such a flex.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: So I think it is probably even more of a
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: flex if you're non phased by ripping apart.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you whoever bought that is like, that's such
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: a conversation piece. Everybody that comes over there like, oh
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: this is the Banksy I purchased, he shredded it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you see the millions of views on YouTube?
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Absolutely the one very angry black woman who beat him down.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Yea.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Also, did souther of Bees know this was going to happen?
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Oh that's a good question.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Were they in on the scam?
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. If I remember crooking, I don't
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: think so.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I would have loved if souther Be's was in on
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the scam, because these feels like a scam organization, Like
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: they have to be involved in like so much crime,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure, but like the sexiest kind of like white
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: collar crime that you want to make movies.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, money laundering and like all that shit.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's money dry cleaning, you know what I mean,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: it's a different level.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not actually touching the money with all hands.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: No, we don't touch money.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I haven't touched money in fifteen years.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, Like money to them is just electronic, right,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: It's just that they have enough of it. It just exists, right.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But art is also a beautiful game
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: of fraud. So I'll take it. I'll take it. But yeah,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: this guy is planning these weed plans. Shout out to
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: this mysterious weed grower because I will probably never know
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: who you are. I mean, I would first, probably look
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: at the gardeners. But again, like if I was someone
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: who was gardening the Vermont White, I wouldn't waste my seed.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Weed on that. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably a protester or
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: somebody that's trying to send a message. I feel like, yeah, yeah.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I think you're right about that, like being artistic.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wish that I had a garden that
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: they could toss some weed seeds, and I'd be I'd
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: be very appreciative.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: But I don't know where do you get weed seeds.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: You can get them online. You can get them online.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: You can you know, some dispensary cell seeds, some dispensary
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: cell clones as well, which is like sort of a
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: little baby plant that they've cloned off of another plant.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: So you're already starting with something and you sort of
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: like transferred over. Yeah. I've tried to grow up a
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: clone one time. Really it didn't go well.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: It didn't go well. I don't think I could do
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: it either. Like I killed a succubis so and that's
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: really hard to do.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: You killed a succubus orculate occubus. A succubust is like
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: an old timey word for like a woman who is
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: promiscuous and like, uh uh seduces men is like a
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: sec Oh wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I killed the suck you limb.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am a.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, well James, this is so amazing to
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: have you.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Man, this show is great. I love thank you for
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: having me. This is I feel like, honestly, just being
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: on this show and hearing about all of these things,
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: I'm like, holy shit, scams are fucking everywhere. Yeah.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: No, Scamming is a job. It's a profession. It's one
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: of the oldest professions, and it needs more respect.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: It needs Yeah, it really does. Because now I'm thinking
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: of like, oh wait, is government a scam?
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, government is one of the biggest scams. I mean,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: think about taxes. They literally are like, hey, we know
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: you made money, give us some and you better give
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: us the right amount otherwise we're gonna put you in jail.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: But also, we're not going to tell you how.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Much you need to give us, and we're not going
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: to tell you what we're going to use it on.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: We'll pretend like we're going to use it on this.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: We're actually never going to tell you exactly where your
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: tax dollars are going yeah, like so no worry, but
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: hand them over.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: It's crazy because and then they start taking a lot
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: of money from you, Like but then I think that
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: they should take more money from the people who have
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: an insane amount of money. We all think this, but like, yeah,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: but I will say that, Like, as a black person,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I was always wondering, like, well, if the police aren't
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: going to keep killing us, could we stop our money stopped?
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Going?
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Like can I get a refund for the police specifically,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, here's your money from just the police taxes,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: because we know that they are harming you.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's completely fair.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: They're protecting and serving everyone else but you, So here's
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: your money.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I also feel like, you know, we sell,
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: we spend all this tax money for them to create
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: like all of these big weapons of war to sell
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: to other countries, and we don't get any of that
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: money back. You just sold all these airplanes and tanks
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: and shit. I don't get any of that.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Where is my cut of the ar fifteen.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Cents I invested to have those war machines made? Where's
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: my investment?
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Any return on that.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: You sold that shit to? You know, Saudi Arabia and
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: I don't get any of it.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I don't get anything on getting oil. I get a
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: discount on gas. Gas is very expensive, very expensive. I
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: guess sometimes they do discount as on gas, like the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: price went down.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Here you go, yeah, opec I'll throw us a little yeah,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: a little something and keeps us quiet for a month.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: That's like, that's how our gas rises to get lower,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: its open, keep us keeping us quiet. Oh my goodness. Well, James,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: where can people find you?
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, people can find me. So please check out
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: imto fing High. It's uh, you know, on Instagram and
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: and Twitter at imtofing High. We do a live show
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: at the Upright Citisens Brigade every month. And you know
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: we're a podcast as well. And check out Florida Girls
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: on pop TV and you can. I'm on all platforms
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Jmas eleven eleven.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and guys, as always, you can find us. That's
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: scam got uspot at gmail dot com. Tell us about
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: how you've been scammed or if you tried to run
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: a scam like James. And also guys, I'm on every
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: platform A DIVA A C, D I V A L
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: A C I and yes, please watch Florida Girls on
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Pop TV. James was on Florida Girls. I'm on Florida Girls.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Very fun show. Yes, all right, guys, we'll see you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: next week.