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The L. Ron Ex-Con with Cody Ziglar (Fraud Friday) · Scam Goddess

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  Speaker 1: Goddess what's poppin congregation we're back for another installment of
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  Speaker 1: scam goddess the podcast is all about scams robberies and
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  Speaker 1: fraud and also comedy that's the scam i'm a comedian
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  Speaker 1: um guys i'm so what say it yes excited very
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  Speaker 1: excited for today's guest and like honestly like Even more
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  Speaker 1: excited than normal because this man helped me start this show.
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  Speaker 2: He is a producer. He is a writer.
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  Speaker 1: He is behind some of the things that you love
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  Speaker 1: so much. Robot Chicken, She-Hulk, which is about to pop.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all see in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all gonna see. Rick and Morty, honey.
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  Speaker 1: I got another Rick and Morty genius on the pod, honey.
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  Speaker 1: And this man literally introduced me to all the Black
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  Speaker 1: people in LA that I know and love. I love
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  Speaker 1: him so much. He is a dear friend and a genius. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we have Cody Ziegler.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks for having me. It's, it's, you know, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's so surreal being like five years ago, we were
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  Speaker 3: meeting in the fucking basement of UCB sunset. We're being like, Hey, you're,
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  Speaker 3: you're a Negro. I'm a Negro. What other Negroes do
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  Speaker 3: you know that do comedy? Can we introduce each other together?
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  Speaker 2: Can we all be Negroes together?
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  Speaker 1: It was very, and that's the thing with black folks
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  Speaker 1: in any white space, we're always like, Oh, what's up, King?
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  Speaker 2: They treat me right.
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  Speaker 3: Like we all kind of like do.
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  Speaker 2: The nod to each other. And you're like, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on iCarly now and there's so many black people
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  Speaker 1: who work behind the camera.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no shit. That's dope.
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  Speaker 2: Camera ops. The first AD is black. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of black folks.
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  Speaker 1: And one of our directors that we love so much,
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  Speaker 1: Phil Lewis, he's black. And so sometimes like when they
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  Speaker 1: come around, we'd be.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you good?
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  Speaker 3: You good? They treat you good? They treat us all good.
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  Speaker 3: So we'd be like, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I love to hear that. That's so dope. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Oh my God, you're not, you're not Eggo
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  Speaker 3: or you're not Kirby. There's a new black lady in town.
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  Speaker 3: Let's kick it. Let's link up.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, one time I was at a performance at UCB
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  Speaker 1: and I had a show after this show, but I
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  Speaker 1: came a little early because I wanted to watch and
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  Speaker 1: Ego was performing. And then I went backstage and I
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  Speaker 1: won't say the comedian because I don't want the I
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  Speaker 1: don't want y'all to be mean to them.
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't it was, I guess, innocent enough. But a big.
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  Speaker 1: Comedian came up to me and was like it was
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  Speaker 1: a white woman. She was like, oh, my God, you
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  Speaker 1: just killed it out there. And Ego was in the room.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I didn't just go on.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: That happened to me once, like one of my first
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  Speaker 3: years there, like somebody was like, oh my God, you
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  Speaker 3: were so great last night. So funny. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, like, I don't even like to perform.
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  Speaker 3: So I know you ain't talking about me. And then
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  Speaker 3: like throughout the conversation, I sussed out that they were
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  Speaker 3: talking about Lou Wilson. I was like, I can't. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, what?
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into what's hot and fraud and your
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  Speaker 1: relationship with scams, Cody, I do have to tell you
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  Speaker 1: guys about something that happened to me last night.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy.
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  Speaker 1: Where I think that someone tried to run a scam
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  Speaker 1: on me. Okay, so, I, y'all know I'm bi. I
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  Speaker 1: was dating this girl. She turned out to be real crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even dating. We hung out like two times,
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  Speaker 1: so let's be clear. But then she was sub-tweeting me
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter, and then when I talked to her about it,
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  Speaker 1: she sent me this Saweetie take care meme and was
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  Speaker 1: going off on me.
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  Speaker 2: For ignoring two texts of hers. It was a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get back out there and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. So I got on Hinge and I,
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  Speaker 1: this is not an ad.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy was super cute. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: fuck it.
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  Speaker 1: So we started talking and at five o'clock we started talking.
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  Speaker 2: And then at like 738, he was like, Oh, what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing tonight? And I was like, am I
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  Speaker 2: about to meet a stranger? Stranger danger.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, yes, I'm about to get with
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  Speaker 1: this stranger. So I had already made backup plans to
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  Speaker 1: meet up with Sydney Washington, who I love.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to that podcast. It's amazing. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: So I knew I was going to meet up with
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  Speaker 1: them later. So I was just like, oh, I'll just
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  Speaker 1: pop in. And he said he was meeting with friends
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  Speaker 1: at the place. So I was like, whatever. And it
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  Speaker 1: was outdoors. So I, I go and it's a popping
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  Speaker 1: ass place. So there's no parking, but I have like
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  Speaker 1: parking aggression where I'm like, I will not walk like bitch.
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  Speaker 1: I will circle this block 30 times.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to leave one.
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  Speaker 2: I pray to my parking gods. That's Priscilla. She has
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  Speaker 2: that parking juju. So I'm like, Priscilla, put it in
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  Speaker 2: my body and my car.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm driving down the street and I see
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  Speaker 1: a spot, but it's on the opposite side of the street.
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  Speaker 1: So I look both ways because I know I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to do something illegal, which I love to do. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm about to flip a bitch. So
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  Speaker 1: I flip a bitch and I get it, right? I'm
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  Speaker 1: waiting on the car to pull out. Someone pulls up
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  Speaker 1: behind me and puts on their blinkers. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one spot. And like, do you know that?
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  Speaker 2: Was they holding it for you? Like my head is
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  Speaker 2: racing because I'm like, this is my parking spot. So
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  Speaker 2: I pull in. And then I'm getting ready to get out.
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  Speaker 2: Cause I'm like, I don't know what this person's doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're still there.
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  Speaker 1: They walk up to my window and knock on my window,
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  Speaker 1: this woman.
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  Speaker 2: And when I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: She was fully unhinged, her wig looked highly flammable. It
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  Speaker 1: was like insane. So I rolled out my window and
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  Speaker 1: she was a black woman. I rolled out my window
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, do you know you almost just killed me?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, what are you talking about? And
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  Speaker 1: she was like, I was behind you. And if I
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  Speaker 1: had hit you, I would have died.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, girl, Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, when you turned, I was driving normally.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I put on my blinkers so
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  Speaker 1: I could breathe.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you do be driving wild as hell, though.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: Which is why I was very insecure about it. So
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so sorry. I'm so sorry I didn't see you. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I looked because I really looked because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing illegal shit.
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  Speaker 2: Like, let me look. It's just like I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I truly like I thought that I looked really
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  Speaker 1: well and that I was just trying to grab this
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  Speaker 1: parking spot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. And she was like, well, I don't
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  Speaker 2: need stories. You just need to drive careful because that
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  Speaker 2: was blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm thinking she's just like a black lady
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  Speaker 1: wants to give me some black lady wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's coming in hot.
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  Speaker 2: For her road rage. So I was like, yes, queen. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Then she's like, you know, we almost collided. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay, but we didn't. She was like, but
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  Speaker 1: the damage. She was like, the damage. Like when I
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  Speaker 1: stopped so hard, like my car crunched up and it
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  Speaker 1: like didn't want to work. She had a little old car. Congregation,
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  Speaker 1: remind me when I post this episode, I will post something.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you in a second. So, I was like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm sorry your car crunched up.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't hit each other. You didn't hit me.
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  Speaker 1: So, then she proceeds to walk away. She's behind me
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  Speaker 1: talking to some random person on the street pointing at
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  Speaker 1: my car and shit. So, now I'm like, let me
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  Speaker 1: just sit in my car and so this bitch leave.
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  Speaker 1: Because now I'm like, she might key my shit or something.
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  Speaker 1: And I was shook.
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  Speaker 2: So, I'm sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: And then she comes up behind my car and starts
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  Speaker 1: taking pictures of my license plate.
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  Speaker 3: No way.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, bro, we didn't have an accident.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't have an accident.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm thinking like, yo, because she kept saying
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  Speaker 1: like the damage, the damage.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, the what damage, bitch? Like, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't hit me. What are we talking about?
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  Speaker 1: So when she took a picture of my license plate,
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  Speaker 1: my scammer brain was like, uh-oh, this bitch is going
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  Speaker 1: to try to take a bet to the front of
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  Speaker 1: her car and say I did a hit and run.
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  Speaker 1: So I got out and I took a picture of
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  Speaker 1: her and her license plate in the front.
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  Speaker 2: Of her car. And I will post that on Insta.
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  Speaker 2: Just remind me and I will.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no bro she tried to scam me that was
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  Speaker 4: like well you could that was what because you can
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  Speaker 4: see the build-up to the grift like she's like i
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  Speaker 4: was like it's just like one step away from like
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  Speaker 4: oh my neck be hurting.
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  Speaker 3: Because like i had to stop so fast right she
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  Speaker 3: might have had to brace in the car too like
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  Speaker 3: you're lucky you got it on fork.
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  Speaker 1: In 4k bruh like i that's why i got out
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  Speaker 1: and took a picture because i was like ah this
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  Speaker 1: feels like someone's about to try to.
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  Speaker 2: Scam me let me take a photo I was so shook.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also a bad driver, so I was very
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  Speaker 1: insecure about that. I was like, I probably did almost
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  Speaker 1: kill you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. She didn't know that you had a weakness,
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  Speaker 3: and that was just driving wild.
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  Speaker 2: She got it.
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  Speaker 3: She got me.
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  Speaker 2: I was the right one for that. See, that's the
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  Speaker 2: thing about scams.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you get the right one, and that's how they
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  Speaker 1: pop off. And I was the right one for that scam.
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  Speaker 1: She picked on an insecurity that I have. But I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hit her, and she was like, you didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: the sound?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, girl.
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  Speaker 2: In LA, people honk or something.
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  Speaker 3: You did.
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  Speaker 2: There was no honk. There was no sound. What are
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  Speaker 2: you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: So what, she just dip out or she like... No,
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  Speaker 3: she waited after.
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  Speaker 1: And then after I took the picture, she got in
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  Speaker 1: her car and she still lingered. And I just sat
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  Speaker 1: in my car and waited for her to leave because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want this bitch to keep
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  Speaker 1: my car. And I drive a Mercedes. It's not, like,
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  Speaker 1: the nicest Mercedes. It's, like, a mid-class, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a mid-class Mercedes. You know how it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a G-Wagon, which I want.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, so I'm, like, it's not giving $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Like, girl, why do you think you're about to get
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: some coins off of me?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what's happening? So, yeah, I had to tell you
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  Speaker 2: about that, Cody, because I know you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I love some good gossip. I
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  Speaker 3: love a good lacy beef. I haven't had one in
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: a while. I haven't had a lacy beef in a while. So, like,
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  Speaker 3: just to get a taste of it. That's all I need.
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  Speaker 3: I saw you popping off there today on Twitter. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh my God, this is about to be
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  Speaker 3: a Lacey. Who did I pop off on? I think
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  Speaker 3: you were subtweeting someone. I texted to Edgar, just let
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  Speaker 3: him know, keep his hairs up in case a Lacey
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  Speaker 3: beef does pop off. But I don't think it's going off.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know what you're talking about. That's how he knew,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: because he texted me.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 3: Look, we're watching your back, queen. We got you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. So, Cody, what is your relationship with scams?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I am a sweet boy. I would never
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  Speaker 3: scam anyone. I'm a sweet Southern gentleman. I will say
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: I did for a time after college work at like
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  Speaker 3: a call center, not a telemarketing center, but If you're
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  Speaker 3: like one of those people that like happen to fuck
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  Speaker 3: up and fill out a survey or call those numbers
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  Speaker 3: that you get like at the end of receipt when
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  Speaker 3: you buy like a- I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're trying to rebrand.
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  Speaker 3: No, Queen, no. Not a telemarketing center, a call.
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  Speaker 1: Center where we still do unsolicited calls that you don't want,
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  Speaker 1: but like it's better.
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  Speaker 3: No see i'm about the same thing no i'm about
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  Speaker 3: to turn it on today just just stick it with
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  Speaker 3: me right just just just hear me out so i
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: work at those places if you like bought like a
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  Speaker 3: microwave or some shit from like best buy and you
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  Speaker 3: felt like the little number that's like go to like
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  Speaker 3: www.bestbuy.com and felt the survey we were the people that
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  Speaker 3: would call you to see how like that service was
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  Speaker 3: like that was the whole thing job sucked ass but
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  Speaker 3: i needed money so like The basic premise is you
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  Speaker 3: come in, you have to work there four days a week.
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  Speaker 3: And one of those days have to be on a weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And like, you know, ain't nobody. Yeah. You know, nobody
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  Speaker 3: wants to talk to a fucking telemarketer.
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  Speaker 2: We're living for the weekend. What's that song?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Yeah. Ain't nobody trying to talk to you on
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: a Sunday at three o'clock. So like my whole thing
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  Speaker 3: was like, I found out pretty early on. This is
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: a temp job. So like, I really didn't give a fuck,
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: but like, I found out like two weeks in that, like,
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: if you had your keyboard set up a certain way,
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: like if you had like, The caps lock, the number lock,
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: and whatever the other lock is, like, it makes, like, three, like,
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  Speaker 3: flashing buttons. If you hit those on, you could see when, like, your, like,
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  Speaker 3: supervisor was listening to your call. So, like, we had
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: to hit, like, a certain quota. You had to hit, like,
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  Speaker 3: 10 a day or whatever. But if you, you could
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  Speaker 3: dick around in between those times. So, like, basically what
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  Speaker 3: I would do is, like, I set up my keyboard
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: to see, like, when someone would be listening in. And
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: whenever they listened in, I started doing work. So, like,
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: I spend most of the day, like, drawing, like, little doodles,
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  Speaker 3: drawing Spider-Man and shit. Like, looking up stuff on Instagram. Like,
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  Speaker 3: just chillin'. And whenever they pop over, I would call.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is I wasn't scamming. I was scamming
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  Speaker 3: the scammers. So in a way, I was woke. I
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: was taking them down from the inside for those $ 9
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  Speaker 3: an hour.
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  Speaker 2: You were. You were a revolutionary.
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: You were an activist. I was doing it. I was
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: doing my thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because people don't want to be called at dinner. And
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: now they call all times of the motherfucking day.
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  Speaker 2: And I am on.
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  Speaker 1: Some student loan hotline, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: And now these niggas are blowing me up.
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  Speaker 1: And when I tell you it's from every direction, I
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: keep blocking the numbers when they call.
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  Speaker 2: And then they call from a different number.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they do that fuck shit where they call from, like,
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: a number that looks like it's from somewhere where you
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: grew up. Like, it'll have the same area code. And
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: maybe the first three digits of, like, what you would be.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of 214s.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of 214s calling me.
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  Speaker 3: And then, like, the last four numbers are just, like, random.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, no one has this number where I'm from. So, like,
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you're going to answer. Like, you just
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  Speaker 3: got to block it. Yo.
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  Speaker 2: Yo.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great scam. Because, like, I told you guys,
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: we're also anti-capitalist here. Like, if you work at a job,
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  Speaker 1: and we were talking about this on Twitter, if you
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: work at a job that you hate, and it's a
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: big company, if you're ready to quit, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to give them fucking notice. Would they give you notice
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: if they fired you?
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Just quit that bitch. Leave that bitch. I've done that.
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: I've quit mid-shift.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, bye.
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  Speaker 2: Like.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: I was working at a restaurant and they didn't want
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: to let me off. I was working like full time.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: They tricked me into working full time. They just kept
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: giving me shifts and I'm an idiot and I just
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: kept taking them. And my grandpa was having his 80th
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: birthday party.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: My mom threw it. It was ridiculous.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: There was like a valet. There was servers. It was
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: at our home, which I was like, mom, so extra.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: There was an ice sculpture.
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: And it had a luge on it. And so we
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: were like taking shots from the ice sculpture at my
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: grandpa's 80th. It was fucking lit.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: That's just lit. No longer with me.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: So I'm so glad that I left that job to
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: go see my family because at the end of the day,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: I wish that we could get ourselves like Europeans, like,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: you know, people in France and shit. We're like, work
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: is not the way to live. Life is about connections.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: It's about family. It's about experiences. And work is just
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: what you do so you can eat and have a
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: roof over your motherfucking head.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be your life.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Exactly. Like, no one, like, for me, like, I'm
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: lucky now that, like, I've been lucky enough to, like,
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: love the jobs that I have been doing for the
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: past couple of years. But, like, even then, like, you know,
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to work 40-hour weeks to see my
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: loved ones for 24, for 48 over the weekend or whatever, 24,
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: whatever it is over the weekend. Like, that's just not, like,
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not here to do that. Like, that's not what
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to do. And, like, the only job I've
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: ever quit, like, just on the spot mid-shift, too, was, like,
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: I was working at this place called Foodline. It was, like,
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: a grocery store in North Carolina.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Like, you know, you get, like, the MVP cards or whatever.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: You can swipe people through and, like, get them credits
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: and shit or off the stores.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know nothing about that, but I want to.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. It's like, you know, it's basically like a
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: Kroger card. Like, you get, like, discounts or whatever off, like,
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: you get $ 3 off of your fucking ground beef or whatever.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Right, because they're tracking your spending behaviors so that they
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: can collect data on the store and what to order
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: and shit.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I actually use the store card on every store because
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I'm petty and I don't want them to know.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: But I still get the discount.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: I was the dude that was swiping the card for you.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, cool. We were all in college.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: You ain't got no money. Let me go ahead and
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: swipe this. The company don't care. They're giving these out
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: for free. I swiped, and my supervisor just saw that,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: and she started yelling at me in front of this customer,
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: being like, why are you doing this? I told you
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: not to do this. Why are you swiping this card?
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: it got so bad that the customer was like yo
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: why are you yelling at this guy like he's i
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: asked him to do it like i didn't bring my
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: car and she was like you hold up i'm talking
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: to him like she was just great just tearing my
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: asshole out in front of this dude what.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: A hater and that's not a hater job like girl
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: did you lose money from the store that you don't
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: own like.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah you from the talking about you from the food
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: line family why do you care like i just like
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: look at her.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Undercover boss bitch like yeah like why are you mr
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: food line like what's happening.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Like why are you tripping over two 17? And I
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: was just like, yo, I'm like, I just, I'm graduating
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: in two months. I don't need this shit. And I
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: just quit and walked out. But like, I, anyone listening
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: to this, it has a bullshit jazz job that you
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: don't want to work. And someone's giving you grief. quit
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: that bullshit ass job because they will fire you in
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: a heartbeat they ain't giving.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: You two weeks and also if you hate your bullshit
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: ass job just know there's plenty of bullshit ass jobs
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: that you can go.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: To and you know like get tired.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Of them too you can go to a billion jobs
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: like you don't gotta don't stay if you if you're
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: tired okay And also, it's such a powerful moment when
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: you have, like, asshole managers who are bootlickers for the company.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: To just leave them high and dry.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Like, seeing someone scramble to call someone else to cover
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: your shift is the best feeling in the world.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Because I threatened to quit once at my horrible job,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: which I just went to a reunion for all of
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the servers at this restaurant. Because it was, like, they picked, like, hot,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: cool people to, like, slave them, basically.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was a sushi hoochie. And it was intense. Like,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I would get chits.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And, like, chits are basically, like, a little piece of
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: paper that says, like, this guest is really important, and
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: this is what they like, and this is what they want.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: And so I would get that, and then it'd be like, oh,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I have to set up their chopsticks with this thing
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: on the table. Or, oh, they want Yamazaki 18 on
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the table before they arrive. Like, all this extra ass shit, right?
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: And my manager was just, like, a horrible person who
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: would nag you even if you weren't doing shit. Like,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: he would call up to me like, hey, Lacey, I
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: noticed that your Wagyu beef sales are down.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I'm like, bitch, I'm an actor. I'm just trying to
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: get some points. I don't give a fuck if my
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Wagyu sales are down.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I'll kill you. I ate the beef plug? What are
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you talking about?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: You don't sell the beef, bitch.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Like, what? Like, get the cut. Right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Exactly. He was getting a cut.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And then when I told you I already threatened to quit.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: So then when my grandpa's 80th came up, I was like, look,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: if I can't go, I'm going to have to quit.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: And they were like, you threatened to quit once and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: we accommodated you. So they thought I was bluffing.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, bye.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: No, no, wait, wait, wait. I was joking.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I'm like, when I say I'm going to quit, I'm
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: going to quit. It's not a threat.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: You did what I wanted, so I didn't quit. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: if you don't, when I say I'm going to quit,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to quit.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, I ain't got nothing to lose. You don't
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: give a damn. I don't give a fuck. I'm out.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I'm a scammer. I scammed my mom yesterday.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I needed a new phone, and I'm still on my parents'
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: plan because generational wealth.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And I'm not an authorized purchaser.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So when I went to AT & T, which, oh,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: my God, AT & T customer service, you raggedy bitch.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Inside the store, amazing.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: When you call, hell. Yeah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I couldn't get authorized. So after a while I was like,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: fuck it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Cause like my dad tried to help me, but he
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: was golfing and we thought it was done and it wasn't.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: And my dad was like, I'm trying to finish a
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: golf round. Hurry the fuck up. He was like cussing
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: at the guy. I was like, Oh, this is a lot.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: And so finally I just got on the phone with them.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I was in the store and I was like, hi,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: this is Lori Bishop.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Oh boy. Oh no, you did not.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: And my mom texted me and was like, hey, I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: just got off my work thing. I'm going to authorize
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you now. And I was like, nah, mama, I already
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: scammed it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I just said I was you. It's cool, right? It's cool.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was for a good cause. I respect it. Right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: It was not like it wasn't with their consent. Like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: they were going to do it. So let's get into
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: our first segment because we're 18 minutes in.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: This is what happens when my friends are on the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: show is that it is a nightmare.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I got to be my producer brain on. We got it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: We got it. We all right. We got to focus.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I got you, Queenie.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. So let's get into our first segment.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: What's hot in fraud?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: This is where we warn listeners about scams that are
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: popping in the streets or more often than not, we
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: get a listener.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Letter and we expose you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And your friends and family. So guys, if you want
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to snitch on your friends and family, scam got a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: spot at gmail.com. All I ask is that you make
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: sure the scam is retired. We don't want to fuck
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: up your bag. And also if there's a statute of limitations,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: maybe wait or tell me to delete the email when
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I get it, you know?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Okay. Some of y'all do that. So I'm like, you know, Cody,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: give me a fake name for this person.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: We don't care about gender on this show.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: It's a construct.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Billy Longsworth.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Billy Longsworth.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Good improv name. Wow. It is.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It truly is.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So, Billy says, I am what? Excited to be sending
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you this email. Ha!
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: This is funny!
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Okay. And there's like some.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I'll read this. I never read the nice stuff, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I'll read it. I just don't like to be reading
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: nice stuff.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Hey, you need it. You earned it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: But it says, I know you won't read this part,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: but I'm a big fan of the show and just
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: heard that you're going to be on iCarly Iconic.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I read it, okay?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe I read it so you guys know that I'm
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: on iCarly. Okay, so let's get to it. A few
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: years back, I was looking for a job as a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: nanny using Care.com, which is a popular website where people
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: can apply for babysitting and nanny jobs. I love that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you are, you know, we know what Care.com is, but
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I love the clarification.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got it. You explained it. I love it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: A thorough.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: King or queen.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Or royalty non-binary. Yeah, you know what?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, Billy.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So after creating my nanny profile. I got a weird
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: text message. You know how scams kind of have their
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: own scammy language.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. That's a new language, scam. Because it
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: is a language, okay? And I'm fluent.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I couldn't just tell if it was fishy from the beginning.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: She's saying I could tell it was fishy from the beginning.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Rather.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Basically, the person texting me said that they were helping
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: their sister who was about to move to town find
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a nanny. They offered to pay some exorbitant amount of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: money per week that was what most families.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Would offer in a month.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Okay. First red flag.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: If you were lucky. So I knew it was fishy,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: so I ignored it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: But continued to get texts from different numbers that were
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: almost identical.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Being curious. Ooh, you love scams. And I love you, Billy. Okay.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I decided to play along with it for a little
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: while to see what the scam could possibly be. After
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: responding with interest in quotes, the scammers said that they
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: would send a big check for me to get groceries
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and household essentials for the family moving into town. After
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: doing some research and learning that this is a very
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: popular scam, it seems that the scammer would ask the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: scammy to pay back some of the money, which of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: course was from a fake check, meaning you would end
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: up paying them out of your own pocket. I think
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: there are a few variations of the scam out there.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Look out.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So we've talked about the scam a billion times. And
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: we talked about it in the workplace where someone will
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: email you and pretend to be your boss. We talked
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: about it in, you know, artistry spaces like Etsy. When
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I told you guys that my sister literally fell for
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: this scam where her friend was like, somebody wants to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: buy my art, but I don't want my parents to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: know it's in my bank account. Will you deposit it?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: And I'll give you some of the money. Like, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: my sister doesn't need money. But like, so I've seen
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: this happen a billion times and like, I picked this
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: letter because, yeah, we've already talked about the scam a bunch,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: but I just want you guys to know that any medium,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: any medium where it's like Indeed, Monster.com, Craigslist, Care.com, any
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: medium where you see someone who's trying to pay you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: an exorbitant amount of money, but they want to do
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: it in.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: A check, especially an e-check, right?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah like don't do it especially if they're like here's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the kicker if they're like give me some of the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: money back because like a check is something you can
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: write for the exact amount so why are you sending
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: me more money than what i need.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah it's one of those things that's too good to
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: be true then also you're like desperate for money like
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: like that's the kind of gig where like you need
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: like you need a paycheck a paycheck needle a paycheck
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: to pay to get some shit done And.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: They know that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And that's what disgusts me about this scam because I'm
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: all for scamming rich people.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I'm all for scamming capitalists.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: But when you're going on a website where someone is
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: trying to get sitter jobs or something like that, a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: lot of times those jobs are something that holds you over.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: If you're an au pair and a professional nanny or whatever...
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That's different. That's your profession. But if you're just doing
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: it to get some coins to get where you're trying
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to go, those sites like are ripe for scammers. So
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: anytime you're working in any kind of like side hustle job,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you have to be fully aware that someone may try
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to scam you because it is happening more and more.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll get you, especially now that everyone's logged on
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: and they have to be like checking emails and doing
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: work through online shit.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: With the Zoom age, which Zoom came up in the pandemic.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: They got their coin.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I feel bad. You know what it is?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Zoom feels like, to me, what happened with Netflix and Blockbuster.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Blockbuster was where.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: The girls went on the weekends and they got their
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: chocolate-covered raisins and their love in basketball, DVDs, or tapes,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: depending on how old you are. And then Blockbuster didn't
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: realize the world was changing and them bitches did never evolve.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: They never came back.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Then Netflix was like, Okay, so we're going to start
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: as Blockbuster, but then we're going to be Blockbuster the app.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: And it's like, well, that's the best. We're going to
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: flex so hard that we're going to have a documentary
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: that we make about how we put Blockbuster out of business.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: That's what Zoom's about to do to Skype. You thought
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: y'all was doing something.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Zoom got their foot on Skype's neck, honey. Like, it's
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: over for Skype. Skype where?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Skype where?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Like, we don't Skype. I don't even know how to
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: get on there.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Ain't nobody got that app no more.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: No.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: And I don't even have a Zoom account. I just
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: scam and use other people's. I'm like, let's do a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Zoom meeting.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get that SiriusXM Zoom going.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Literally.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: But all right, guys, we're going to take a quick
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: break for some non-scam advertisements, and we'll be right back
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: with Historic Hoodwinks. and we are back and it's time
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: for historic hoodwinks honey this is my favorite part of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the show i will regale cody with a famous story
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: about a charlatan or a group of criminals or whatever
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you know and we don't know if we like them
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: we don't know if we like them we'll decide at
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the end and i just have to say that many
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: quotes from this research shout out to sharilyn vera are
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: from an interview in a Vice article by Jamie Tate.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And that's spelled J-A-M-I-E-T-A-E-T-E.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, we like to give credits here. We're not going
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: to scam the writers, okay?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, get the credit.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: It's not all from Jamie, but Jamie girl, God bless you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So. A 33-year-old man has legally changed his name from
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Justin Allen Craig to Lafayette Ron Hubbard.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Already a scam. Already a scam. It's already off the rails.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: When you changing your name.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Lafayette what?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: You're a scammer.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Like, anybody who changes their name other than getting married
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to someone and changing the last name, like, you are
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a scammer.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: If you change your first name, we know you're doing crime.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Lafayette's a swing, too. Like, that has, like, character
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: to it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Lafayette?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Lafayette?
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Child i'm already i'm already i cannot wait to see
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: what this goes so he.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Changed it to lafayette ron hubbard basically making him l
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: ron hubbard you know.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Oh wait are we oh i'm in let's go.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Baby let's go so the official church of scientology isn't
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: buying this story Okay, so how we're going to refer
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to this is like the new, still alive L. Ron Hubbard,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the Lafayette Ron Hubbard, we're going to call him Lafayette.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And the deceased one who started Scientology, we will call
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: him L.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Ron Hubbard.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Gotcha, okay.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So that everyone can follow the story. We got it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: So this Lafayette is obviously not the L.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Ron Hubbard who wrote the sci-fi novels and founded the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Church of Scientology because.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: He died in 1986, right?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd been dead.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Ultimate scammer. He... Honestly, L. Ron Hubbard made me feel like, oh, God,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm saying this. My mom's going to
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: kill me.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Was Jesus a scam? Because L. Ron Hubbard basically did
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: what Jesus did. He's dead and all his stuff is
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: living on.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, he was the archetype. He was like, yo,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: we're going to have a Navy. Got it. We're going
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: to have buildings in every city. Got it. We're going
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: to be posted up in Florida. Scam capital of the U.S.,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: by the way, Florida. Oh, yeah. Oh, you know what
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: he was doing? You know what he was doing?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I love Florida simply because of the fact that they
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are lawless. Florida's like, we're doing what we want. Like,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: pandemic where? Like, Florida was the first state to open up,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if they ever closed.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they closed. They just had a curfew.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: They didn't close. They were like, what? We ready to die.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Y'all got to leave at 8, but you can come
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: back at 7 tomorrow. It's all good. We go see you.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Florida was like, we got a competition at the bar tonight.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Who can take the most spit in their mouth from strangers? Like,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: they were like, we don't give a fuck about the pandemic.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Bruh, Florida's wild.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: The only reason we haven't cut them bitches off of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: America is because the beaches are hot and the women
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: are beautiful.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you need it. They've earned their keep, you know?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Miami is holding Florida down.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Because otherwise, we.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Would have just shipped that penis-shaped excrement off of the U.S.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: It's just carrying Florida on its shoulders. Right.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: But I will also say this.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Anytime you see, like, a Florida man's story or anything online,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: just know that Florida has different laws about privacy when
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: it comes to doing crime and stuff.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: So they can.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to publicize anything you do with your mugshot in that state.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And so that's why we see so many Florida man
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: did this, Florida man did that. Because some other states
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have more restrictive laws about like Aaron niggas out.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: But honestly- Florida don't give a fuck.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Honestly, Florida should do that because they're so fucking ratchet. Like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you've got to put everybody on notice about some shit.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: If somebody's eating.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Someone's face, you've got to be like, hey, y'all, don't
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: go down Miami Dade Street.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just let y'all know, we do things a little
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: bit different down here. We build different.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It's a base-eating man on the block.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Like, you know, they've got to warn the community, which
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: is fair. So, this Lafayette is 33 years old, same
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: age as Jesus.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Jesus, it's time to get it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Lives in a small town in Washington State and claims
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to be the other L. Ron Hubbard, but in a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: new body.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit. Oh, a picture just popped up. Oh, my God.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: And, like, city girls, like, what they say, you fuck
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the old body, this the new body, okay?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And Lafayette was like, this the new body.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: This man could not look like more of a scammer.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: He could not look like more of a scammer.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: He's definitely a scammer. Is that a hand tattoo?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to see what it says.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Can we zoom in on the hand tattoo? I'm confused. Okay,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: we can't read it, but it's got some like... It looks.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: It makes me.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying those are characters it's either Japanese characters
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: or Chinese characters I.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Couldn't tell if it was a racist hand tattoo or
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: not because he looks like he could be racist but
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: he could also be a woke king. I don't know.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He could literally storm the Capitol or he could be
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: like giving a speech to the white people at the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: BLM rally.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't know. He's got on this button down
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: and these glasses. It's elusive. He doesn't look anything like L.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Ron Hubbard. And why is L. Ron Hubbard over here
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: writing with a quill?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why he got a quill?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: He got a quill, bro.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: He got to write them lies in ink so you
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: know it's real.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Yo, Marina, screenshot this because I'm going to post this
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to Instagram so y'all can see because I am confusion
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: about this quill, okay?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: He's got some characters on his hand. White people and
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: also just.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Anybody who's non-Asian. And we all know there's been a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: fuck ton of shit happening to our Asian American brothers
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and sisters, you know. And I'm always with you guys.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I was at the rallies. I'm going to be at
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the rallies.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: But.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: It's so funny to me when.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: People who are not someone who is from the ethnicity
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: or speaks the language gets, like, a Japanese tattoo with
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the Japanese characters or, like, a Chinese tattoo with the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Japanese characters.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: It's such a big swing because, like, there's, like, maybe
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the asterisk next to that would be, like, if you, like,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: studied this and, like, you were really in that culture,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: that's one thing. But, like. I'd say that's very few
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: and far between. It's usually like some white dudes and
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: like our black brothers and sisters. Like we got to
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: stop getting those tattoos too. Like, come on now. You can't,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: you don't need to appropriate.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And it's not, yeah, it's appropriation, but it's also like,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you don't speak that language. So how do you know
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: your tattoo artist isn't a scammer? Because remember when Ariana
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Grande basically got barbecue tattooed on her?
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: It's like, why would you submit yourself to that? If
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: you don't speak Sanskrit... Like, why the fuck are you
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: putting it on your body?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: To try to have a hot boy summer.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, I.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Love little hot girl tattoos. So I'm like, yeah, get
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: those little hot girl tattoos.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: They're cute. You know, boys and girls.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I love it for you. So I'm not saying stop.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying maybe, I don't know.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, get a different aesthetic. You can see something that
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: matches with it. You can still be hot, but not
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: get like a character that you can't read.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Right, because there's like Harigana, Katana, Kanji, Shi. There's a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: lot of characters, even just in Japanese language. So it's like, bruh,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: are you sure what you got on you says what you.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Think it does?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I don't be trusting that Google Translate.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: No, you can't trust Google Translate because I speak Spanish
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and sometimes I'll like forget a word because I don't
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: get to speak it often enough and I'll Google it
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and sometimes it'll give me some shit.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: That I'm like, that ain't it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: They have you out here talking crazy. I'm like, no, no, no.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I don't remember that. Right.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like, can I have some more bread?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And then I Google Translate it and it's like, esto
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: es la biblioteca.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, that means I'm.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: At the library.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: What are we doing? It's paying, right? Let me get
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: that paying. Come on. I got that one.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: What are we doing?
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So, in a Skype call with a reporter, Lafayette talked
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: about his tattoos. He says, I have a cross of
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Scientology here pointing at his right arm and gesturing to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: his left.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: So, we saw him. He has tattoos.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got him.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: He said, I have the infinity symbol on my forehead,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: which is a cover-up of something else I got in prison.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: You got a prison tat?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You know that was a swastika. I'm telling you. I
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: don't know this cat.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: It absolutely was.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: It absolutely was a swastika. I'm telling you.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Because he's saying that he got.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: uh what did he get over the tattoo in prison
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: he's saying that he got a infinity yeah so like
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: what's the affinity it's like.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: That eight kind of thing yeah it's like a sideways
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: eight yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: So hmm could that have covered up a swastika trying
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to think i.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Think i mean i can't also i can't imagine that
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the handmanship of a prison tattooist is like right anyways
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: it's probably shaky.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Poke yeah yeah and maybe it was small and it
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: was like a swastika and then he just put an
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: infinity over it yeah but when you go to prison
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: like Even if you weren't a problematic white person, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: got to.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Join the Aryan gang.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: What else are you going to do? You got to
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: get radicalized. You either, if you're black, you become Muslim.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: If you're white, you become an Aryan. That's just how
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: When you go to prison, you got to be like,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: they will not replace us.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, blood and soil, right? Yeah, that's me.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus. So in Scientology, there's a belief that our
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: souls are infinite.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Lafayette said, Let's just say I was a member of
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a certain prison gang at one time.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: He would not specify which.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, Aaron. I think we know which one, yeah. We know.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: We got you, King.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Listen, you was white.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I love that you're embarrassed so you won't say it,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: but you was white in prison. Prison is a bad,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: stupid place that people have created to validate doing slavery still.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: They're like, we'll just.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Enslave everybody, but we'll mostly incarcerate black and brown people.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But then they'll make license plates for 10 cents a day.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: We'll pay you 7 cents a day. At least he's embarrassed.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: At least he knows that he should be embarrassed about
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: being in a Nazi gang.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I love that about him.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So, but also prison is survival. Like if I had
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to go to prison and for some reason, the white
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Nazi girls were like, Hey, we'll protect you. I'd be like, well,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you know, hell Satan, hell Satan.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I got you. Look, I'm trying to survive. I can't
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: do time. I ain't got no bodies on me. I
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: got to do what I got to do. I feel you.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I respect it. Right.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I would fully be Clayton Bixby.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I hate black people.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: What do I got to do? I just want to live.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: So I get it.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: So a brief history of scams in Scientology. We're going
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to give you a quick rundown. The Church of Scientology
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: says the most Scientologists remember past lives.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Okay. So Lafayette ain't wrong. L.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Ron Hubbard himself claimed to have lived previous existences as
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: a British imperialist and as a mogul Cecil Rhodes and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a tax collector in an ancient Rome setting. Right.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: And an alien race car driver in a distant Gallic.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: That's my dude.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: He's talking that talk.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: A distant galactic civilization.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: So in the 60s, like in 1960s, so like the 60s,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: his followers were convinced by his tales of past lives.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: He was allegedly able to lead an expedition to dig
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: up treasure he buried during a previous life.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: No treasure was found.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit. Yeah, that's a lie. You can't be. You
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: got to commit.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Yo, Elrond is a fucking amazing scammer. He was like,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: come on, y'all. We're going to find this treasure that
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: he knew wasn't there.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: No, for real, though. It's like 300 more feet. It's
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: 300 more feet.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Right it's 300 more feet or he was like damn
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: somebody dig my shit.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Up from my past life damn you know what happened
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: someone must have remembered my other past memory and they
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: got here first damn I hate to even do.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: That to you he was like I did a time
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: capsule for y'all but somebody dug our shit up god
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: damn like I love this for everyone. So there are
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: at least two mansions in California that are maintained and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: staffed and stocked with food in the event of L.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Ron Hubbard's return.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit. Wow.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Talk about power. You are dead dead. And people are
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: still like, well, when you come back, we got the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: loaves and fishes.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: He got staff. They're like, they're niggas like rubbing down
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: the silverware right now because he might be popping back in.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I need that. I need that power.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Right, I need that too. That power. I want that
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: founding fathers power because.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I fucking hate anytime I'm on Twitter or anywhere in
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the news when people are like.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Well, the founding fathers wanted us to have. I'm like,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Them niggas are dead.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: They've been dead for 300 plus years.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: They were racists, bigots, slavers, pedophiles with wooden teeth.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Why do you give a fuck about what George Washington
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: wants you to have in America?
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: He is dead, he dead, dead.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: That nigga, he didn't even have iPhone. Like, he didn't
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: have electricity. Like, we don't need to know what he
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: looks like and planted.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: How you gonna give us advice he didn't even have lights?
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on now.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: He didn't even have Netflix. What are you talking about?
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Right. He didn't know about USB cords. He definitely didn't
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: know about the cloud. Like, why are you listening to him?
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: He never sold 90 Day Fiancé. What are you talking about?
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: We don't need that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: And you know what, though?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: They were good scammers because they put the elasticity clause
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: in the Constitution, which was basically like, well, if shit changes,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: y'all can freshen this shit up.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: So everyone's like, oh, my God, the elasticity class.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: This is smart.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: We can freshen shit up. They're such geniuses.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: It's like, bitch, they just knew that they were in
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the olden times and didn't have shit. And they probably
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: saw the wheel get invented and were like, oh, new technology.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Like, we got to prepare for that.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we could use that to exploit some brown people.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and put that in there.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: The pedophiles are just tech bros and pedophiles.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Like, come on now.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: We don't need to do this.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: So.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: L Ron Hubbard was under investigation, multiple in like multiple
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: countries and often lived on a ship to evade anyone's jurisdiction.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: So you brought up the ship before. And I, it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: so funny. I've watched going clear. I've watched all these
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: documentaries and I thought I really understood Scientology, but this
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: is a very key part for me that I didn't know,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: which is that this nigga was on international waters so
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that he couldn't get arrested.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Like he had like, I can't remember what they were called.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Like they had like the, it's like, They had, like,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: a whole marine-time, like, section, like the Aquanauts or some
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: shit of, like... Sea Org. The Sea Org, yeah. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: niggas would just, like... He would just spend, like, months
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: trying to find ports for him to do shit in
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: because he was out there at the International Waters. He
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: could do what he wanted to do. And they just
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: had niggas working on this shit for free.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: One of the best scammers who ever did it. He
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, y'all gonna try to jail me on land? Okay,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a bitch is about to be out to sea.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't shoot them specific, baby. We see you.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. The cop's gonna pull up to the ocean?
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You got a cop boat, sir? I don't think so.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I know some Uber drivers have looked like they were
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: in the ocean, but y'all can drive here.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Catch me in the Seuss Canal.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I love this for him. So Scientology has a detailed
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and costly courses, basically. And we know that. I haven't
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: done a Scientology app. This is not the Scientology app.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: This is specific, but I will do one on the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: religion because. honey a scam a scam if you don't
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: have money they're like free labor if you have money
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: they're like we'll have all of your money yeah or
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: we'll flame you and harass you they're fantastic scammers So
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Scientology has detailed and costly courses, and it's called The
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Bridge to Total Freedom. Scientology teaches that reaching to the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: top of the bridge means that you're able to use
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the mind to do powerful things, like move things or
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: cure cancer for yourself, according to Leah Remini. And I
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: watch Leah Remini's doc, and I fuck with Leah Remini.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she came out hard. She's like, enough of this shit. Right.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And, like, she's the only one who's ever done something
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that big against Scientology, and she could only do it
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: because she was a celebrity. Because otherwise, they have people
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: following you when you leave. They have people harassing you.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: It's very scary. Like, that lady who walked up to
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: my car, I had a full panic attack after that.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that was every day in Scientology when
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I left. Like, niggas coming up like, you forgot about Xenom?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Imagine finding like someone rent like that organization rented a
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: house next to you so they could spy on you
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: that's some wild.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Shit and that's they had the money to do it
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: that's why look I don't want to campaign for organized
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: religion not being tax exempt because, like, honestly, I want
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to be tax exempt. But y'all don't be giving back
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: enough for the tax exemption. Joel Osteen don't be giving
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: back enough for the tax exemption. When Houston had the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: floods and the hurricanes, he closed the.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Doors of his church.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: And it was like, bruh, a church's whole point is
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: to take in the needy.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: And help them you can't close your church you bitch.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Oh so he needed some he needed some y'all y'all
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: needed some coin that's what he was saying to get your.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Bank up so required courses cost about 650 each and
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: a course could require that its members study from 9
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a.m to 10 p.m seven days a week and i'm
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: just going to take a quick pause to tell you
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: guys 9 a.m to 10 p.m is 11 hours right
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and It is enough time to start a brainwashing period.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: If you do anything as a human being long enough,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: your brain will start to conform to it. There's this
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: thing that's like, oh, if you make a habit and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: you do it for 21 days, your brain will do
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: it for the rest of your life.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: So if you're 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Every day studying, they will brainwash you and indoctrinate you
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: into their cult.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: That's just your will, too. All your friends are going
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: to be from that organization. All your friends. Oh, you're like,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: you're probably your, your like loved one, your spouse or
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: your spouse. Yeah. Yep.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: I have a lot.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people in Scientology and like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: your spouse, the people you live with, like everything becomes
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: about it. And then Scientology threatens that if you leave,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you won't have these friends anymore because you'll be excommunicated.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: You won't have this life.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: And so basically they're like, if you leave, we'll take
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: away the life that you've known. Yeah. And that's a
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: big threat for people. More than violence, because at the
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: end of the day, like we were talking about earlier
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: with work and companies, people just want to live full
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: lives where they're with the people that they love.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, big scam.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Reaching the top of the bridge, in quotes, doesn't mean
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you're free and clear of further courses and costs. Scientology
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: allegedly spends thousands of dollars to purchase every book written
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: by Hubbard. Leah Remini has shown off a large bookcase
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: in her home filled with Hubbard's texts. She says there
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: are 12 basic books in Scientology and that the package.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Costs about $ 4, 000.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And a member will often have to buy the books
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: multiple times whenever Scientology says they've been updated. So they'll change,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: they'll move some commas and some periods and change the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: cover and be like, okay, so we got a new.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Book, y'all.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: We got the fourth edition. Yo, that moving goalpost is
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: so perfect for like a scam organization because it's never done.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Like you're never going to be done.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: And that's what they want.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: And it's amazing. You're absolutely right. So in addition to courses,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Scientologists must attend auditing, essentially the church's term for therapy,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: which allegedly costs.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: $ 800 an hour.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Every meeting is recorded and videotaped to use against members
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: if they decide to speak out. So, and a lot,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I think that's why a lot of people, especially famous
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: people stay in Scientology because they probably said something in
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: auditing that they don't want to go public.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. What do they call it? A collateral? Is that
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: what they, that's what they call it? Yeah.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: And, It's like this sense, I have a lot of
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: info about this because I know a lot of Scientologists.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: But they bring you into this room. Sometimes your auditor
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: is like a child. Sometimes the person is like, yeah,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: like they're like 14.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: It's like crazy.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: And they ask you all these questions and like really dig, dig, dig, dig,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: keep you in there for a long time until you
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: reveal something that is real.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Collateral for them and then.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah so and you have to do these several times
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: so that's how they keep you so Lafayette's relationship with
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Scientology Lafayette says that he was first introduced to Scientology
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: while in prison 10 years ago after another inmate gave
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: him a copy of Dianetics one of the foundational texts
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of Scientology.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: He said, I spent like 12 straight hours reading that.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I went to sleep, got up, read the next day,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: and then ended up reading about it eight more times.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Lafayette was in jail for auto theft, shoplifting, attempted carjacking, battery,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: threatening a public official, and resisting arrest.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: So he's a scammer.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: He's a real one, all right. Lafayette's a real one.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I'll just be the next L.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Ron.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Like, what are you talking about?
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: So if Lafayette's claim of reincarnation is true, these acts
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: would be the continuation of a crime.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Spree started by L.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Ron Hubbard, who was charged with theft and fraud and
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: dabbled in bigamy. And if you don't know what bigamy is,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: it's marrying someone while still legally being married to someone else.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: And while named as an unindicted co-conspirator in one of
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the largest ever infiltrations of the U.S., So L. Ron
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Hubbard obviously was a scammer. We know that Scientology is
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: a scam. But so Lafayette was like, well.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I'm a scammer, too.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And we got these past lives, you know, like
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I'm doing it. I'm around, too. I'm the second one.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: It's like my past life. I was Abraham Lincoln. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: was like slaves. Yeah. Get it popping in these streets.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: That first L. Ron was just a mixtape. I'm the
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: full album. Come through.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I was like slaves. Quarantine is over.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Like what?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: So, at the end of Lafayette's prison sentence, he tried
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: to enroll in courses at the Church of Scientology in Inglewood,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: but left when they tried to limit the services that
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: they would perform for him because of his criminal background. So, basically,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: they were like, you doing crime, crime. You can be
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: in Scientology, but you can't be, like, rising amongst the ranks.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I didn't know they had centers in Inglewood. I didn't
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: know niggas was out there like that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, are you kidding me? Oh, my God.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: So.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: For real? I didn't know that.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: What are they called? The Nation of Islam, right?
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Scientology targeted the Nation of Islam.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, word.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: And got them involved in Scientology.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: No shit. Yes.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Come on, diversity.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: It's a thing. That's crazy.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a thing.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: So he got involved in the black churches, which is
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: so funny because he's definitely a white man. Yeah, he
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: definitely is. And they may have not been the black ones,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: but it was in Inglewood. So we know the population
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: in Inglewood.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: It's mostly us. Yeah.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: So, hmm.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Curious. That's wild.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: So over the next 18 months, he said he started
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: remembering things from his previous existence.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: So when they said that.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: He couldn't be the next, you know, Scientology it girl,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: he was like, hold on.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on. He turned into Raven-Symoné and he
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: was like.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm having a vision right now. Hold on. I'm
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: seeing something.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing something.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: So believers and non-believers... When a reporter reached out to
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: the Church of Scientology spokesperson, they wrote back, I have
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: never heard of Mr. Justin Allen Craig. The claims are
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: unhinged and ludicrous. You could not be serious about running
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: this story. Which, okay, maybe they hadn't heard of him.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe he is a scammer, and obviously he definitely is. However,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the Church of Scientology is a scam, and they be
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: lying all the time, so neither of y'all niggas are credible.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on now. Yeah.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Pot meat kettle. Like, what?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: So there are people who believe that the teachings of Scientology,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: but for various reasons, like, don't associate with the organization.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: So there's some people who are like, yeah, we like L. Ron,
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: but we don't fuck with him.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we ain't with that.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: They're called independent Scientologists. And this is where Lafayette has
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: found some of his support.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Scientologypedia.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Oh, no.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: A Scientology resource website aimed at the independent Scientologists posted
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: an interview with Lafayette to its YouTube channel. Steve Watkins,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: an independent Scientologist who lives in the UK, said he
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: also turned away the main church after becoming frustrated with
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the amount of money that they expected from him. So
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: they're like, Elrond, we fuck with the vibes, but we
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: don't fuck with the coins.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: In a way, that seems like the ultimate scam because
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to better myself. You're teaching me, but I
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: ain't trying to pay you no money. So I got
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: what I need to get. I ain't going to get
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: got by the organization. That seems smart to me. Like,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: I'm with that.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: And that's the thing about organized religion.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm Christian, and I believe in Sky Daddy mostly
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: because when I die, if Sky Daddy's up there, I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: don't want to lose. Look, I do well in the casino,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: so I'm betting on everything.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Jesus, God, everybody. I'm like, I worship everybody.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Buddha, I saw you.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: I see you, King.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Like come through.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Right. So, but also I believe in like the good
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: natured stuff that's in the Bible, but there's a lot
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: of bad shit in the Bible.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Like your dad can sell you if you're his daughter
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: and like, you know, gays are bad. There's like a
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: lot of shit that's like unhinged and stupid and weird.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: And also the Bible is full of fairy tales, a
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: burning bush.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Like all this shit. And we try to act like
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: that's not folklore.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: It's like taking the ultimate control. Like I get to
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: pick and choose the best things about this to better
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: my life without having to subscribe to like the shit
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: that I don't agree with.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: And why after, you know, A.D.? Why after A.D. no
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: bushes ain't burning no more? Why is Jesus not pulling
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: up in his chanclas right now?
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Because shit is bad. Like, what's happening? So I'm like,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: you know, I still have my confusions.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: So Steve said that the story of Lafayette being the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: reincarnation of L.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Ron Hubbard doesn't seem false at all.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: He said his second date of birth, his mannerisms, all
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: of this tie in. But like there were so many
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: videos of Elrond because Elrond loved the video.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: He loved a movie moment. Yeah, he did. So like
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: you could just watch that shit and copy his mannerisms.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: But OK. Camera scam. So this is true.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Lafayette was born a year and a half after L.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Ron Hubbard died.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: What does that mean? A year and a half? That's
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: not the same day.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: That's not significant. Yeah, we do one year or two years.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: The.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: 5 don't mean nothing. I don't even think we do
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: a year.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Like, bruh, were you born on the day he died? Like,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: what are you trying to say? Okay. He was like,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I was born 3.5 years after L. Ron Hubbard died,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: so I'm him. What that mean?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, I guess that makes sense to connect those dots.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I can't even do that in numerology.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Shout out to left eye. So Steve has been working
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: with Lafayette over Skype.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, Skype.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Wow. Oh, R.I.P. Rest in peace, King.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: That's a scammer app now, apparently doing auditing sessions, a.k.a.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: The counseling that's central to Scientology, right?
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Since the Church of Scientology charges hundreds of dollars an
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: hour for auditing, Lafayette has been providing his services from
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a range from free to $ 50. So basically, I feel
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: like Lafayette was like, oh, y'all not going to let
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: me be the king of Scientology?
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Great. Okay, I'm going to go do great value Scientology.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: I got that discount.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go do Kirkland Scientology, okay? Where the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: girls can get it for the cheap.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking it back to the people here.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: OK, I'm not mad at it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: One customer said he hasn't got much money out of me.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: If it's a scam, I don't see the angle. I
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: don't know what he would be going for, which because
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: he ain't, you know, gouging the girls like Scientology. So
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: according to Lafayette, his process is different from the church
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: because it's able to grant people their wishes in like
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: two to three days.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: That's a quick turnaround for four billion years, two or
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: three days. I'm going with it. I love this dude already.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I love this new L.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Ron.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: I'm fucking with Lafayette.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: They say y'all want to go clear, but y'all don't
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: want to spend y'all life doing it.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I got the two to three days. You're going to
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: be clear as fuck. You're going to be see-through, bitch.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, we got it.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Scientology got going clear. We got going see-through.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got it. We going to be transparent.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: We got going cellophane.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: All right. I'm not mad.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: So, in a recent YouTube video from 2020 titled Scientology
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: is Dead, Lafayette claims that he is calling this new
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: era of Scientology Esperianism.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: He has purchased.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Trademarks and people can pay for Experian processing materials.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, I love this man. Wow.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: So, that's his whole scam. And how do you feel?
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I might fuck with him.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: I think I'm with him because, one, like we've been
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: talking about, like organized religion, like I'm not really with it,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: but like Sort of like turning the scam back on
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: the ultimate scammer is like the best move. Like he's like,
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: he's doing what I think, I mean, what I assume
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: the religion should be doing as far as like, we're
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: charging you nothing to 50 bucks to like come in
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: here and like get your salvation or whatever. Like, I
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: guess grant you wishes. I'd bring a hundred bucks to
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: get my wishes granted.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I think Scientology is all about narcissism and confidence, which
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: is why they have been able to easily target celebrities.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Because celebrities have a lot of attention and that has
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: two effects. One is like, it's like, oh, wow, people
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: think I'm amazing. I'm living an amazing life. I'm a
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: special person. But the other half is people tearing you
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: down and you being like, oh, well, everything has to
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: be special that I do. And my confidence is getting low.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: And what Scientology is doing is giving you an outlet
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: for both of those things. And they string you along
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: with it. so that they can get your money and
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: your time and your work. And even if you're not famous,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: you feel like, oh, wow, I can still be involved.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: I just have to give up my life and do
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: hard labor and all my friends and family are Scientology people.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and also, they're not afraid to cut a check. Like,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: I saw that new center they built on, what was
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: it on, like, Virgil, not Virgil, whatever, Vermont or whatever, like,
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: that new, like, media center they built over there.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for their propaganda.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're like, I know so many actors who
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: have done Scientology movies.
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, they're not afraid to cut a check and
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: uplift people, like, within their own, like, sphere or whatever. Like,
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: everyone's a blue checkmark at this Scientology Center, and they're
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: not afraid to make an echo chamber.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Right. And so I think that scam really.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: appeals to a lot of people who are lost because
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with being lost we're human beings we
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: don't know what happens when we die nobody comes back
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: and tells us like you know nobody's.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Like oh i died and then girl let me tell you.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: What was on the other side like nobody ever tells
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: us so we just assume like we hope that it's
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: like some heavenly thing or something interesting because that makes
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: it worth living. And then if you have a religion
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: that teaches you to be kind and wonderful to people,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: then like, it's kind of like, what's the harm? But
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: with Scientology, they're teasing that shit out.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: He was like, I'm going to be Jesus 2.0, L.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Ron Hubbard.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: And was like, I'm going to give y'all some good wisdom,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: but I'm also going to make y'all pay all my
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: bills and build my empire.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: Let me hit you with that Venmo link. Yeah, I
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: think that's what makes it so like sad and like
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: insidious is that like, moving to LA is already fucking
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: stressful enough. Like, it's just where like, this is where
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: it thrives, right? Like, you don't really have any friends.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: You're just trying to fit in to do your thing
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: and chase your dream, whatever it is. And like, you
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: see this organization that's like, Hey, come in. Like what
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: can welcome you? Like we can network you with people
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: and like, you can give you purpose while you achieve
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: your goals. Yeah, exactly. Like, and like the thing that's
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: really fucking scary is that like, like you said, like
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: that goalpost keeps moving every like, Oh, I'll take these
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: three classes. And like, then I can do the thing like, well,
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: now you got to buy these three books. And now
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: we have three more editions of this book. So you
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: got to buy more. And now you got to do audits.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: You got to give us all this compromising information about yourself.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: It's like, And then you're stuck because it's like, oh,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: if I leave, they're going to snitch on me. Like
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: in that documentary that I watched, I watched a couple
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: about Scientology. There was one where a woman was like,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: I got in a trunk after shooting a Scientology movie.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I got in someone's trunk so I could leave Scientology.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, fuck.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's how desperate she felt.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's sad.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: She couldn't just.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Walk off the premises and leave like, you know, a
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: normal human being could. That cult had her like, I'm
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: going to have to hop in this trunk.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: I got to get out.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: And she didn't even ask the person who was driving.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, she just hopped in?
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was like, this shit is unlocked. Oh, this
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: is my trunk.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: I hope you go into K-Town because that's where I live.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: Let's go. Right.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: So, guys, we're going to.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Take a quick break and we'll be back for the
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: saddest part of the show, which is the end of
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Scammer of the Week.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: Robbery!
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: And we're back. Guys, it's time for Scammer of the Week.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: This is where we highlight a charlatan that's worthy of
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: our praise.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Or maybe not.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: You know, I've given up on making them honorable.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: You know, we'll see at the end.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: But Scammer of the Week this week is a 19-year-old
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Atlanta-area teen who's been accused of stealing $ 1 million from
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: a Kroger grocery store.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: So far, I'm in.
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: A million?
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: A million? From the Kroger?
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: Ew. So... Even though.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: He's over 18, we're going to change his name to
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: John because he's still pretty young. We don't want to,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: like I say, we don't want to fuck up the
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: bag for the babies.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: So John spent two weeks creating over 40 fake returns
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: to obtain over $ 980, 000 while he was employed at Kroger
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: between December and January.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: December and January?
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Yes. He's a little bit too ambitious. He should spread
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: that out over like a year.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: You don't do a million a month.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: What's happening? That's too much, King.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: He got greedy.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: And we talk about that on this podcast. You can't
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: get greedy with just scams. Let it be passive income.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: You got to think of your scams as like you're
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: a landlord and you just get rent every month. You
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: can't be out here just trying to get the whole bag.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you should get some fun play money. You can't
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: be securing everything.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: So the returns ranged from $ 75 to over $ 87, 000 for
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: non-existent items and were placed on several credit cards, detectives said.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Corporate employees noticed the transactions and contacted the police. Further
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: investigation showed that John appears to have used the money
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: to buy clothes, shoes, and two cars.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm with you. He got the drip. He went
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: and got the drip.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not mad at getting the drip. Like, yes. So
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: prior to his arrest, police said that John totaled one
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: of his cars. Oh, damn, John.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: He's young.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: I can't drive. I can't drive either. We talked about
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: it at the beginning.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: So I feel you, John. I've totaled a car. I've
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: totaled two cars. Oh my God, I've totaled two cars.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got bodies, Lacey.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Good thing I didn't harm nobody in the process because
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: that's my biggest thing is like, I don't want to
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: hurt nobody with my terrible driving, but you know. So
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: prior to his arrest, police said that John totaled one
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: of his cars, right? A large sum of money was
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: returned after John's arrest, but the amount is unknown.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: What? So.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: john has been charged with theft so john basically was
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: like oh y'all want y'all money back okay i'll give
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: y'all girls like a lot of it y'all good.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: But we keeping some that's smart i'll fuck with john something.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: For when he get out because he know he gonna
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: do a bid Yeah. He has to do a bid
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: in jail. But he's like, when I get out, first
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: day out, take Lizzie.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: Let's go. I mean, the company's gonna be all right.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: That's the good thing, too. It's like no one gives
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: a shit like this multi-billion dollar company. Just take it.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: There need to be more Johns out there.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Kroger is fine.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: They'll be fine, okay? John was just trying to get
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: the bag. And that's the thing about capitalism is when
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: you're doing this shit, which our country is built off of,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and I know you guys know after the pandemic and
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: seeing how your government.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Fucked you. Fucked you, yeah.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Even though all you do is pay to daddy government.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Every check you get, daddy government gets a slice.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: So the whole point of.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Daddy government was like, when daddy needs to step in,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: daddy going to take care of everybody. And then when
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: everybody was in need, daddy was like, actually, I'm in Mexico.
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you did. I got you some straps.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Pull yourself up with them.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Remember that bootstraps we talked about? Go ahead and start
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: pulling yourself up. Because daddy government ain't got it. Look,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: we got $ 900 million to invent a triangle wheel for
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: a tank, but we don't got money for y'all.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: What you didn't know is that there was a wedding
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: going on, right, in Syria that needed to be bombed, right?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: So there were some innocent people there. No, not a wedding.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Yo, America's trash. We're literally the bullies. We're the white man.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Of the world. We are.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Which is why when Barack.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Obama was president, a lot of people would be like, well,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: he didn't do that much for black people and blah, blah, blah.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, he became president of the white man
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: of the world. What did you expect? He's not completely
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: in control. It's the white man of the world. What
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: is he supposed to do?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: He got to put his foot on people's necks because
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: that's what's required.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just part of it. Right.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: We do horrible things in this country.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: We are horrible.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because we have such great branding, which
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: is a scam, which is like, oh, we got the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: bad guy or oh, we stormed Saddam's cave and all
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: this shit.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: And we're like, oh, that's so wonderful. But they're not
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: talking about all the drone strikes where they kill innocent people.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: And it's like.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Imagine us in our homes right now and then just
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: a drone flies and drops down and kills us.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: That's what's happening. Imagine looking forward to cloudy days because
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: that's when the drones can't come through your hood. That's
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: what kids are living through right now.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: We're the bad place.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: It's bad.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: And I knew after Sandy Hook, when all those little
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: children got murdered by gun violence, and we say by
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: gun violence, it was by an angry white man. And
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: there was no gun control after. I said, oh, shit,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: we ain't never going to get no gun control. And, like,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: what's crazy, too, is that people are like, well, we
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: can't get gun control, so I'll just buy a gun. Okay,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: so you're going to turn into Tomb Raider when the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: shots start firing? Like, when the motherfucking shit pops off,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: you're going to show up and you're going to be
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Lara Croft? You're going to be motherfucking Keanu Reeves and,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: you know, fight everybody hand to hand. You're going to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: be Liam Neeson and start neck chopping. No, you're fucking not.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: You're going to run.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: And that's what happened in that Vegas shooting at the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: country concert.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: A lot of those country artists had guns and they ran.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: So I was like, bro, you got, I thought, I
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: thought that's why you had a gun.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: You were supposed to start spraying. Yeah, I mean, that's
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: what happened in that Florida school, the Parkland thing too.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: Like the, those safety resource officers like Deb, he's like,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: I ain't trying to get that smoke.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Right, because at the end of the day, even if
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: you work in protection and security, you're not trying to
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: die for that shit.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Fuck no. I was a bouncer. Like, I wasn't trying
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: to get stabbed for a fucking... Hell no. Seeing you
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: were frogs around the fucking place I was working at. Right.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: I got dreams, too.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm trying to live. I ain't trying to die
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: for the cause. Who the fuck do you think I am?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: That's why when I found out that Jared and Ivanka Trump,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: when that man was president, were.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Having their security use.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: The bathroom, like, down the street or, like, in some
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: little garage or something.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: They didn't let them use their personal bathroom.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: So I was like, y'all are stupid as fuck because
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: these niggas probably don't want to jump in front of
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: a bullet for your bitch asses right now. And now
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: you're making them poop across the street. They definitely ain't
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: going to jump in front of a bullet for you. Yeah.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: No guards doing no shuffles with their pants around their
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: ankle to get.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: To they're gonna be like damn that's crazy damn.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: That's crazy I hate to see it king I'm gonna
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: send up a GoFundMe.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: For you right we're gonna get the GoFundMe popping yes
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: right it's so real but this is the end of
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: our show and Cody we always ask on the show
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: and you know cause you produced the show with me
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: you are like the reason that I started the show
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: this is so special to me i'm so sorry i
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: said i would get you out in an hour but
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: you're my friend and honestly.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: I just got nothing going on today yeah oh.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: I love you so much where do you want to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: be found.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: No if you need to find me find me at
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: yay for zig across all social media platforms i want
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: you know my notifications are set up to where like
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: i only get pinged when someone i know comments or
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: follows so like if i don't answer back don't take
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: it to heart it just makes it life A lot
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: easier for me. I ain't trying to be no discourse
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: in the year 2021. King shit.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: King shit.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: I ain't trying to be no discourse.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: Other than that, if you're into nerd shit, comic books,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: any of that stuff, I have a podcast called The
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: Dark Weeb with my boy, Brody Reed. We just talk
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: about nerd shit with other black and brown people. It's
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: really great. And I got a comic book.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: The Dark Weeb.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: The Dark Weeb.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Right, with the B.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. W-E-E-B. That's the podcast. The Dark Weeb, yeah. I
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: got a comic book coming out called Siege Society No.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: 1 for Marvel Comics, May 26th. Oh, my God, yes!
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: Please keep it.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: I saw you talking about this on Twitter. I was
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: so excited for you.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm stoked. Please check it out, folks. I'm very
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: excited to.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: And Cody is a comic book king, so you will
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: not be disappointed because he is the one. I saw
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: a tweet where someone said you took a comic book
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: out of your backpack in a writer's.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Room to school the girls.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Look, it wasn't my proudest moment, but there was a
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: time in She-Hulk where we were talking about a character,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: and they wouldn't comprehend it when I was spitting, right, Queen?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: So I just had to educate them. So I just
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: happened to have that comic book in my backpack, and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: I pulled it out. I had to spread some knowledge.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: Not the comic book. I had to kick a little
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: bit of knowledge in that room. But, you know, we
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: got through it. I love this.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: I love this for you. I love this for me.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Guys, as always, you can find us at Scam Goddess
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Pod on all platforms. If you want to see the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: picture of the woman who tried to scam me with
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: her car scam, I'll put it up. Please remind me, congregation.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: There's some certain people in the congregation who are very thorough. Asa,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: you know, y'all know who y'all are. Y'all will remind me.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: And also, follow me at D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I-D Valacey on all platforms.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: And guys, a Black Lady Sketch Show, April 23rd.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: I will scan myself back onto television. And I don't
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: have any dates for iCarly, but I'll give those to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: you when I have them. And guys, you're tagging me
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: in merch ideas after I posted and asked you guys
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: for merch ideas. The merch ideas that you guys had
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: and the ones that I had really linked up a lot.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you guys some fucking fashionable merch.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: So it's coming. Don't worry, honey. Podswag.com slash Scam Goddess
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: is about to be lit.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: Congregation, stay scheming.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: This has been an Earwolf production in association with Team Coco.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Scam Goddess is starring me, duh.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: Scam Goddess, a.k.a. Lacey Mosley.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Scam Goddess is produced by Judith Carbo and engineered by
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: Marina Baez with research by Sherilyn Vera.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Stay scamming!