Latest / Scam Goddess / The Hospice Hustlers w/ Matt Apodaca (Fraud Friday)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's poppin Congregation? Is your girl. Lacey Mosley aka Scam Goddess.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release
- 0:09Speaker 2: older episodes from the Scam Goddess bault. That's right, Fraud
- 0:13Speaker 2: Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from
- 0:16Speaker 2: behind the paywall. Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall
- 0:20Speaker 2: and as always, stay scheming, scat.
- 0:27Speaker 3: Rob fro.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Scam come.
- 0:36Speaker 3: Right from Goddess.
- 0:42Speaker 1: What's popping Congregation? It's a no year right, no year,
- 0:47Speaker 1: no me, no we I'm playing. We're gonna do the
- 0:51Speaker 1: same damn thing. Y'all.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Welcome to Scam Goddess podcast, the podcast all about fraud
- 0:54Speaker 3: robbery those who practice it. Maybe we love him, maybe
- 0:57Speaker 3: we hate him. Let's hop on this Friday sea together
- 0:59Speaker 3: and all of you who have been with me through
- 1:02Speaker 3: thick and thin over the years, you know I'm very
- 1:04Speaker 3: yes excited. We have a friend on the show, which
- 1:06Speaker 3: y'all know tends to get messy. Friend friend on the show. Today,
- 1:12Speaker 3: we have the amazing writer and comedian. He's a UCB
- 1:16Speaker 3: alum along with yours. Truly, we actually were on some
- 1:19Speaker 3: teams at the Cult together. His hosts and produces the
- 1:22Speaker 3: podcast Get Played Congregation, Please welcome Matt Appadaca to the show.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Hello.
- 1:27Speaker 4: Wow, can I just say I just love your whole thing.
- 1:32Speaker 1: I love your whole thing. I love it.
- 1:34Speaker 3: You've been in the podcast game much longer than I have.
- 1:36Speaker 3: You were just saying before we sat down that.
- 1:38Speaker 1: We've been doing this for a long time, and now
- 1:40Speaker 1: we're here.
- 1:41Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right. I think it is safe to say
- 1:44Speaker 4: we met in the year twenty fifteen, would you.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Yes, it's when I moved to Los Angeles.
- 1:48Speaker 4: That's right. Yeah, we met shortly after you got here.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Yeah, very shortly.
- 1:52Speaker 4: I remember with us being placed on a mess hall team.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, no one's gonna know what that is, man,
- 1:58Speaker 1: why would we even say this? So I was so emboxed.
- 2:01Speaker 4: So yeah, Like every time it's ever been like depicted
- 2:04Speaker 4: in like TV or movies and stuff, I'm always like
- 2:06Speaker 4: why they make it so embarrassing? And then it's like, oh,
- 2:07Speaker 4: it's because it's like the worst fucking thing you could do.
- 2:10Speaker 1: And writers always hate it.
- 2:11Speaker 3: If you ever say anything aboutmpromits always I remember there's
- 2:13Speaker 3: like a family guy joke that it was like the
- 2:14Speaker 3: only person who loses an improv is the audience.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, it's like it's just so bad. But
- 2:19Speaker 4: it's like what we did and you know, I mean.
- 2:21Speaker 1: We still do it.
- 2:22Speaker 3: I love how we're saying it in past tense because
- 2:23Speaker 3: we just don't want you guys to know we're like
- 2:25Speaker 3: a trash, like why would anybody do that? Also, can
- 2:28Speaker 3: I get a word?
- 2:29Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's it's I would say at
- 2:31Speaker 4: this point for me, uh with uh, it seems like
- 2:34Speaker 4: it's in the past tense based on shows they're asking
- 2:37Speaker 4: me to do.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Uh, grown adults with kids doing make.
- 2:40Speaker 4: A mode exactly, I know, but practicing in somebody's living room.
- 2:44Speaker 4: We're all in our thirties.
- 2:45Speaker 3: We at least we don't do the living room no
- 2:47Speaker 3: more because it was like this is just down bad.
- 2:49Speaker 3: We cannot be running around a coffee table.
- 2:51Speaker 4: I can't. I can't have your significant other coming into
- 2:55Speaker 4: the room and being like, are you guys done it?
- 2:58Speaker 1: That was always the worst. Yeah.
- 2:59Speaker 3: I had a roommate who like we hated each other
- 3:02Speaker 3: and we met. It was like circumstance, you know. That
- 3:04Speaker 3: was my first I don't know if you ever practiced
- 3:06Speaker 3: at my place, but one time a couple of times
- 3:08Speaker 3: we had to practice there and she would come in
- 3:10Speaker 3: all mad.
- 3:10Speaker 1: It's just slamming all.
- 3:11Speaker 3: The fucking cabinets and ship and staring down the improv team.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Just like, I've never seen somebody work so hard to
- 3:17Speaker 3: make people uncomfortable.
- 3:19Speaker 1: What a bitch, and I was doing it.
- 3:21Speaker 3: I asked to practice, and it wasn't all the time.
- 3:23Speaker 3: It was only when we couldn't find somebody else's living room.
- 3:25Speaker 4: Do you think it's because she had like banger initiations
- 3:29Speaker 4: that she couldn't do, and then she's like, I'm not
- 3:31Speaker 4: even on this team, but like I could, I have
- 3:33Speaker 4: a perfect tag for this.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Honestly, there's a fine art to be in a bitch,
- 3:36Speaker 3: and she really perfected it. I never seen anybody just
- 3:39Speaker 3: being such a much so hard.
- 3:41Speaker 1: I do agree with that, you can't even with tactics.
- 3:43Speaker 4: Sometimes when you see it happening, it is just sort
- 3:46Speaker 4: of like wow, like, actually, no notes, that was fantastic.
- 3:50Speaker 1: You are evil, Yeah.
- 3:52Speaker 4: Wow, you're capital b bitch congratulating somebody got to be opening,
- 3:55Speaker 4: you know, and we're great costumes to be in the
- 3:57Speaker 4: Marvel universe, but just in real life, yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 4:00Speaker 4: I think it is very much just Look, it is
- 4:01Speaker 4: a skill because like you have to sort of really
- 4:03Speaker 4: like put everything else behind you and be like, I
- 4:05Speaker 4: don't actually care how I seem. Yeah, this is directly
- 4:08Speaker 4: getting in in the way of what I want, and
- 4:11Speaker 4: I don't like that.
- 4:12Speaker 1: When I come in the room and everything falls quiet
- 4:14Speaker 1: because they're talking about me, I'm like, I don't care.
- 4:16Speaker 4: Yeah more exactly. Oh I love that.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Where people see me out in public and I see
- 4:22Speaker 1: them hid behind a shell.
- 4:24Speaker 4: There's so many shelves in public that they're just people
- 4:28Speaker 4: like hiding region. There's not enough room behind this one.
- 4:32Speaker 4: I got hide.
- 4:33Speaker 3: We walk into a publics or something, Everyone's like, is
- 4:36Speaker 3: there an attack happening? Why is everyone like jumping and
- 4:38Speaker 3: dodging behind the Oh no, that's just me. Everybody hates me.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Don't worry. There's no active event happening. It's just me.
- 4:45Speaker 4: But if I ever found out, if I ever found
- 4:48Speaker 4: out anybody hated me, oh boy, would ruin my life.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Oh man, ruin my life.
- 4:52Speaker 3: I'm somewhere on the bitchkinsy scale because I know there's
- 4:54Speaker 3: people out there who hate me. I can't help every
- 4:56Speaker 3: now and then I just got cussing motherfucker out and
- 4:58Speaker 3: so were going on bad term and that's that's the
- 5:01Speaker 3: cancer and areas in me.
- 5:02Speaker 4: I'm so sorry you got Yeah, it's gotta happen.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm gonna tell you where to go and how
- 5:05Speaker 1: to get there.
- 5:06Speaker 3: I'm trying not to do it as often anymore, but
- 5:09Speaker 3: sometimes one time I used to be because somebody I
- 5:11Speaker 3: haven't got to stand in the ovation from a valley
- 5:13Speaker 3: line that I didn't realize. I've been listening to every word,
- 5:15Speaker 3: so you know, sometimes eggs that'd be happening.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Everywhere she goes. Lady's got a captive audience. We love
- 5:23Speaker 4: we love it, but stop looking at her.
- 5:26Speaker 3: Oh god no, hopefully not that I'm trying to be
- 5:28Speaker 3: in cog Negro, just the most invisible Negro. Okay, Uh,
- 5:32Speaker 3: if I ever go missing, I want to be like
- 5:34Speaker 3: she had a nothing that lit up any room.
- 5:37Speaker 1: We never knew she was there.
- 5:39Speaker 4: Last scene wearing a cancel Me Daddy hat.
- 5:42Speaker 3: Lady was like a cool breeze. You felt it, but
- 5:45Speaker 3: you never really knew.
- 5:47Speaker 4: That's exactly what everyone would say. No one would ever
- 5:50Speaker 4: say she had the command of every room she walked in.
- 5:53Speaker 1: She's like we felt like she was here. Yeah, like
- 5:56Speaker 1: Lady yeah, I guess it. That is she loved.
- 5:59Speaker 3: Eating chips, so we know she was in a touch
- 6:00Speaker 3: and she loved chips to rito dust everywhere she went. Man,
- 6:05Speaker 3: we always love to ask on the show, what's your
- 6:06Speaker 3: relationship with scams? Have you ever been scammed?
- 6:08Speaker 1: Do you love them? Do you hate them? It could
- 6:10Speaker 1: be anything.
- 6:10Speaker 4: I don't know if I love them or hate them.
- 6:12Speaker 4: I do like hearing about them, so like, like hearing
- 6:15Speaker 4: about them from you is like fun and the like
- 6:17Speaker 4: I've always known that that to be like your thing,
- 6:19Speaker 4: and I would always be like, oh, Lacy's got the mess,
- 6:21Speaker 4: let's go. I want to hear more about this.
- 6:22Speaker 3: So you're more of a voyeur, like if there was
- 6:24Speaker 3: a scam sex party, like, you're gonna be the one
- 6:26Speaker 3: like walking past the rooms like which I don't want to.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm past all the rooms. I'm gonna be there
- 6:30Speaker 4: for sure.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Parties have hell a pizza, yeah, like oh.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Yeah, wait, there's fucking cold ones here.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Food.
- 6:38Speaker 3: To me, I haven't personally been someone I'm very curious,
- 6:41Speaker 3: but my friends who like go to sex party, like
- 6:42Speaker 3: there's always for somebody's Like a lot of them have pizza.
- 6:44Speaker 4: I can guarantee you I'll probably live the rest of
- 6:47Speaker 4: my life never being invited to one and probably never
- 6:49Speaker 4: being at one.
- 6:50Speaker 1: I give a sex party vibe, I'm not giving that.
- 6:52Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm always just like, wait, this starts when.
- 6:58Speaker 1: A sex party at noon?
- 7:00Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, people are at work. Should I take
- 7:05Speaker 4: the day off from work to they have a dentist appointment?
- 7:08Speaker 1: Matt? Where all those whips? Yeah?
- 7:12Speaker 4: You know, I got a crazy dentist. But my relationship.
- 7:15Speaker 4: The scams. I've been scammed.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Oh I remember, I have to when did you get scammed?
- 7:21Speaker 4: I've been scammed. I've been almost scammed very recently. But
- 7:24Speaker 4: I remember a particular instance. I was at the gas
- 7:27Speaker 4: station a lot of the I was filling up my
- 7:30Speaker 4: tank and filling up I was putting like twenty dollars in.
- 7:33Speaker 4: I was like a broke college student.
- 7:35Speaker 1: So you were moving that needle leg Yeah.
- 7:37Speaker 4: I was like, okay, I gotta get a quarter tank.
- 7:40Speaker 4: I gotta go two places before then I could ride
- 7:43Speaker 4: e again. I gotta go somewhere.
- 7:45Speaker 3: I don't want to rail you by drugs. Remember when
- 7:47Speaker 3: I ran out of gas? So you saw me on
- 7:48Speaker 3: the road.
- 7:54Speaker 4: On the middle of what are you doing?
- 7:58Speaker 1: Oh?
- 8:00Speaker 4: Asses on?
- 8:01Speaker 1: It was very much like I know my car and
- 8:03Speaker 1: then I forgot it.
- 8:04Speaker 4: But it was also just sort of like I would
- 8:06Speaker 4: at that time, I would sort of put knowing how
- 8:10Speaker 4: much gases in your car at like the bottom of
- 8:12Speaker 4: your list.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very low priority.
- 8:14Speaker 4: Like I look, it's it's either in there it's not.
- 8:16Speaker 4: I got things to do.
- 8:18Speaker 3: So I feel like I never get scamed at the
- 8:19Speaker 3: gas station because you see on a tow truck or
- 8:21Speaker 3: I'm never there. They're like, okay, we're not scamming her.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Her car is literally being towed over here for gas.
- 8:27Speaker 4: There's got a red cat gets put in by somebody
- 8:29Speaker 4: who drove to you to put it in. You got
- 8:32Speaker 4: you get a boutique gas delivery.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Triple a gas okay, which is not cheap.
- 8:38Speaker 3: But the whole red can theory that shit don't work
- 8:40Speaker 3: on every car because I tried that. I was like,
- 8:41Speaker 3: let me get a red pad like they do in
- 8:42Speaker 3: the movies, and that shit was not going in.
- 8:44Speaker 4: I can guarantee you if I try to do that,
- 8:47Speaker 4: I'm bursting into flames afterward. There's no way I'm doing it.
- 8:50Speaker 1: I just come up with three empty Gatoray bottles to
- 8:52Speaker 1: the pump, like Okay.
- 8:53Speaker 4: Well, this is La Sye, this is mango extremo, this
- 8:56Speaker 4: is not gas. This is Kiwi strawberry.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Forty ounces of gas will give me enough because I
- 9:02Speaker 3: got my own.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Yeah you go. You filled up a.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Fucking yeah he full of gas, like I got a funnel.
- 9:13Speaker 3: But okay, so you're at the gas station where a
- 9:15Speaker 3: lot of skims happen, and what happened.
- 9:16Speaker 4: And like, I probably have forty dollars on me period,
- 9:19Speaker 4: and I'm using twenty to put in the gas tank.
- 9:22Speaker 4: I'm also not using a card. I was like, I'm
- 9:24Speaker 4: paying in cash at the time. I feel like now,
- 9:28Speaker 4: I just I can't remember the last time I had
- 9:29Speaker 4: cash on me. You just don't do it anymore, kind
- 9:31Speaker 4: of they told you not too, I guess during the pandemic,
- 9:33Speaker 4: like don't touch money.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Wow, cashould have been full of cocaine and its stripper
- 9:38Speaker 3: booty hall over forever.
- 9:39Speaker 1: And now they're like, there's a pandemic. Yeah, hey, don't
- 9:42Speaker 1: touch money.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Look, Fauci said it. Okay, I don't take it from me.
- 9:46Speaker 4: It was freaking Fauci.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Oh and the CDC, which just turned into vibes there.
- 9:51Speaker 4: Oh, it's all vibes. But I'm at the gas station
- 9:54Speaker 4: and this guy comes up to me. He's like, hey,
- 9:56Speaker 4: like your headlights they're pretty dirty and I could like
- 9:59Speaker 4: clean those up for you pretty good. And I was
- 10:01Speaker 4: sort of like, oh, you know, I'm like in a rush,
- 10:04Speaker 4: which is like not true, but I'm like I don't
- 10:06Speaker 4: want to.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Talk away from that man.
- 10:08Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and this is I'll keep it. I'll tell
- 10:10Speaker 4: you this broad daylight is so how.
- 10:11Speaker 1: Can he even tell how dirty your headlights are?
- 10:13Speaker 4: Because they were like I was driving a jeep Cherokee lore.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Off thrown in like a TV commercial.
- 10:18Speaker 4: They were sort of like foggy, kind of like not
- 10:19Speaker 4: like dirty dirty, but like sort of like the the
- 10:22Speaker 4: glass had fogged up in such a way that like
- 10:25Speaker 4: it was oh pick kind of like it wasn't like
- 10:27Speaker 4: very clear.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So when you were driving at night where your headlight's
- 10:29Speaker 1: giving like lo.
- 10:30Speaker 4: Fi, yeah, I was sort of giving like it follows
- 10:32Speaker 4: when I was driving like sort of like a twenty
- 10:35Speaker 4: four lighting uh on the Yeah, we.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Don't want we don't want mood lights on the road.
- 10:38Speaker 3: Man.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Okay. Maybe my boy had a point.
- 10:40Speaker 4: And so he was like I could just let me
- 10:41Speaker 4: just show you one. Can I just show you one.
- 10:43Speaker 4: I'll clean one up and if you like it, you
- 10:45Speaker 4: can pay me. And I was like, okay, if you're
- 10:48Speaker 4: just gonna do one, do it, I guess, which was like.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Very nineties My big problematic crack had in a movie.
- 10:55Speaker 3: I would say he was giving Friday. I can't remember
- 10:58Speaker 3: like what kind of man he was, but he was
- 11:00Speaker 3: like he seemed like a like a normal man. Like
- 11:02Speaker 3: that's why I was sort of like, I guess, willing
- 11:05Speaker 3: to go the one step further with this.
- 11:07Speaker 1: He's like, there's one light, let me touch on one lee.
- 11:09Speaker 4: It was like just a tip because he was sort
- 11:11Speaker 4: of I think he was giving. He was giving sort
- 11:13Speaker 4: of Billy May's kind of where I was sort of like, oh,
- 11:16Speaker 4: h wow, I thought so I thought I was gonna
- 11:18Speaker 4: get sham wow.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Okay, and okay, So what happened?
- 11:22Speaker 4: So he he cleans one off and I was like, oh, yeah,
- 11:25Speaker 4: that's cool. He's like, Okay, it's gonna be sixty dollars
- 11:27Speaker 4: if I do the other one. I was like, okay,
- 11:29Speaker 4: well I'm not gonna do that.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Okay, have one good.
- 11:32Speaker 4: I was like okay, no, thanks, that's that's a little
- 11:34Speaker 4: too much. And he was trying to get me down
- 11:36Speaker 4: to the price and he was like, Okay, my daughter's
- 11:38Speaker 4: in the van over there and she's sick and she
- 11:41Speaker 4: wants food. And I was like, okay, I know this
- 11:45Speaker 4: isn't true, like in my head, but I also know
- 11:47Speaker 4: that this man is not going to leave me alone.
- 11:49Speaker 1: That's why you got to hop in the car like
- 11:51Speaker 1: some Scooby Doo shit mad to my wallet and gave
- 11:53Speaker 1: him twenty dollars. Oh you had was forty, I know,
- 11:56Speaker 1: and I used twenty of it. I'm gased I had
- 11:58Speaker 1: no money. I went home.
- 12:00Speaker 3: Wow, wow, See why do you want to hit him back?
- 12:03Speaker 3: Like this is the only twenty that I got?
- 12:04Speaker 4: Mister sir cut to me coming home, Matt, why is
- 12:08Speaker 4: one of your headlights spotless? I gotta tell everybody, like, Matt,
- 12:11Speaker 4: you got scammed.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Okay, So he didn't even give you the other headlight
- 12:13Speaker 1: after you gave him the one. See that's okay. Okay.
- 12:17Speaker 3: In the future, guys, when y'all need to get away
- 12:18Speaker 3: from people, just make an excuse.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Man, if you a.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Guy in your car and be like, oh, you know what,
- 12:22Speaker 3: let me get some more cash, get in your car,
- 12:23Speaker 3: lock the doors, and then.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Just like drive away.
- 12:27Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I absolutely should have done that.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Because he might have gotten hostile. So you're right, so like.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Like here's but also I was like, I guess you
- 12:34Speaker 4: could have taken my whole wallet if you wanted. But
- 12:36Speaker 4: it was like there, it was during a day like
- 12:37Speaker 4: I was, and it was at like a gas station
- 12:39Speaker 4: in a big parking lot, like where there's a grocery
- 12:40Speaker 4: store and a bunch of cameras and stuff. So it
- 12:42Speaker 4: was just sort of like I felt safe to give
- 12:45Speaker 4: the last money that I had.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Well, your other option, miss scam, is just start hollering, Yeah,
- 12:51Speaker 3: what is it? I think that's like the most jarring
- 12:53Speaker 3: thing you can do. Something the rag No, my daughter's
- 12:55Speaker 3: sticking the car. She needs sixty and already clean.
- 12:57Speaker 4: One go full permit to start throwing my arms in
- 13:03Speaker 4: the air.
- 13:04Speaker 3: Just started flailing his scream until they go away? Like what, oh,
- 13:07Speaker 3: what's the response to that? Does anyone humanly respond to
- 13:10Speaker 3: someone who just starts shrewking?
- 13:11Speaker 4: Oh, shoot, this guy's going crazy. I better get out
- 13:14Speaker 4: of here.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Like go fool talladay, good nights.
- 13:17Speaker 4: Gruels like actually, sir, you said you're gonna give you
- 13:21Speaker 4: that twenty dollars though, like no one's gonna be like
- 13:23Speaker 4: following up with.
- 13:23Speaker 1: This man, but no, just start screaming and flailing.
- 13:27Speaker 4: But then when I was in Italy recently, these people
- 13:30Speaker 4: they come. I was prepared for this too. I was
- 13:32Speaker 4: told I've never been in Europe before.
- 13:33Speaker 3: Oh, the europe girlies are going to rob you. They
- 13:35Speaker 3: can tell who the out of towners are and they're coming.
- 13:37Speaker 4: They were, so I was prepped. My my girlfriend's dad
- 13:40Speaker 4: is English and they've been to Europe a lot, and
- 13:42Speaker 4: I'd never been out of the country before, and so
- 13:44Speaker 4: they both prepped me. Hey, there's gonna be people. They're
- 13:46Speaker 4: gonna come up to you. They're going to put a
- 13:48Speaker 4: bracelet on your wrist.
- 13:49Speaker 1: Don't you I've heard of this one.
- 13:51Speaker 4: And I was like, okay. I get there. First day,
- 13:54Speaker 4: some guy in like a like the square, like in
- 13:57Speaker 4: front of a church. Hey, big man. I was like,
- 13:59Speaker 4: what's up, man, No, I start talking to this dude.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Let me get it scam you because he called you
- 14:05Speaker 1: big man.
- 14:06Speaker 4: He almost did he had to bracelet on my wrist?
- 14:08Speaker 1: Was it height flattery?
- 14:09Speaker 3: Mat?
- 14:10Speaker 4: It was well? And then later on that same day,
- 14:13Speaker 4: a different guy.
- 14:13Speaker 1: He said big man, me my big ass.
- 14:16Speaker 4: I got called big man and playboy in the same day.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Oh shit, okay, I got this and mister sexys.
- 14:21Speaker 4: And me I was walking on cloud and nine. I
- 14:24Speaker 4: was like, these Europeans, then, did you get scammed?
- 14:27Speaker 1: Because it sounds like they made you feel good?
- 14:29Speaker 4: No, I had the thing. I was like, hey, they
- 14:31Speaker 4: gave me a compliment. What's the worst that can happen.
- 14:34Speaker 4: But my girlfriend came over and was like, no, no, no, no,
- 14:37Speaker 4: he doesn't want this and took the bracelet off my
- 14:39Speaker 4: wrist and gave it back to him because we saw
- 14:41Speaker 4: it happening to other people too, and we were just like,
- 14:43Speaker 4: oh wow. And so we started reading about these sort
- 14:45Speaker 4: of like tourism scams that you can run into, and
- 14:48Speaker 4: so I was prepared for some other ones along the
- 14:50Speaker 4: way that I didn't participate it.
- 14:52Speaker 3: But it's almost like like you know, when the Dare
- 14:54Speaker 3: Dog was being like say no to drugs, and we
- 14:56Speaker 3: was like, hey, ill no, fuck them drugs.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Try to give me drugs. I'm stabling. Yeah, And then
- 15:00Speaker 1: you know, somebody offer you some drugs.
- 15:02Speaker 4: Like y'all do like I have a fun you guys
- 15:04Speaker 4: are having, like the chilli is nicest time.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Let me just have a taste of the drugs.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, this is just gonna like make me want
- 15:10Speaker 4: to like I don't know, dance, dance or like laugh
- 15:13Speaker 4: a lot with my friends.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Right, what is this one? Weed?
- 15:16Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, wait, I can go to sleep right now,
- 15:18Speaker 4: give me that.
- 15:20Speaker 1: And the dareline was just like fuck man, like I
- 15:22Speaker 1: prepared y'allfered this.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Yeah, in the moment, sometimes things are different, especially when
- 15:26Speaker 1: someone's in your face space.
- 15:27Speaker 4: They got to change that whole program to be like, hey,
- 15:29Speaker 4: you know which ones we're talking about.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Right, like come on, like let's be for real, like
- 15:33Speaker 1: weed is a gate, come on now.
- 15:36Speaker 4: Nothing, do what you're gonna do, but you know the
- 15:39Speaker 4: ones we're saying, yeah crap, yeah, come on?
- 15:41Speaker 1: Has that ever even sounded good?
- 15:42Speaker 3: Like, hey, y'all come over, we got so much crack,
- 15:44Speaker 3: Like you know if you be like, oh, we got
- 15:46Speaker 3: bottles and be like oh.
- 15:47Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's pop them.
- 15:48Speaker 1: But you know, oh yeah, y'all come over, we got
- 15:49Speaker 1: all the needles. No, that doesn't sound as good.
- 15:51Speaker 4: If you can find it in a gutter like a
- 15:54Speaker 4: p like no one's dropping their like their one hitter,
- 15:57Speaker 4: or like they're like the long in a like leaving
- 16:00Speaker 4: that discarded somewhere if you've seen this on the streets somewhere,
- 16:03Speaker 4: you don't want to Yeah, that's the.
- 16:04Speaker 3: Ones you don't want to try, because like a while,
- 16:06Speaker 3: people doing them in the streets and not at home.
- 16:08Speaker 4: The urgency to you know, but I've seen nas canisters
- 16:11Speaker 4: in the streets. To me, that's not a fair judgment.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, that's very true.
- 16:15Speaker 3: But yeah, so at least you're prepared for the European scams.
- 16:17Speaker 3: And I'm glad that you had an advocate there who
- 16:19Speaker 3: can help you. If not the screaming technique, I'm telling
- 16:22Speaker 3: you try it, right.
- 16:23Speaker 4: I think I want to hear I want to hear
- 16:25Speaker 4: about people doing this. I want to hear about people
- 16:27Speaker 4: being like and I just started screaming.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Yes, I think. I think it's a tactic that works.
- 16:32Speaker 3: Scarce God and we are back and it's time for
- 16:39Speaker 3: What's Hot and fraud. This is where we warn our
- 16:41Speaker 3: listeners about popping scams on the street, or more of
- 16:43Speaker 3: than not. These days, we get a letter from you guys.
- 16:45Speaker 3: It's always snitched on your friends and family at scam
- 16:46Speaker 3: got uspot at gmail dot com. Just make sure the
- 16:48Speaker 3: scam is retired, because we don't want know what yes,
- 16:50Speaker 3: fuck up, yo, bag So, I just need a fake
- 16:52Speaker 3: name for this person.
- 16:53Speaker 1: We don't care about gender on the show. Could be anything.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Oh how about Sandy Sandy.
- 16:58Speaker 3: I think that's a perfect name for this person. So
- 17:00Speaker 3: Sandy says that this is their grocery store scam. So
- 17:04Speaker 3: one of the big grocery chains loves to do pilot
- 17:07Speaker 3: programs at my local store, probably because it's a newer
- 17:10Speaker 3: location in a wealthy white area. Damned, and I guess
- 17:13Speaker 3: they trust white people when no one should question mark.
- 17:16Speaker 1: This was Sandy's.
- 17:20Speaker 3: So this new program, says that they created was called
- 17:23Speaker 3: scan bag Go. You take a little handheld scanner from
- 17:27Speaker 3: a kiosk by the door and scan items before putting
- 17:30Speaker 3: them straight into your bag. At the end of your
- 17:31Speaker 3: shopping excursion, you would scan a barcode a self checkout
- 17:34Speaker 3: where it would populate a list of items you scanned.
- 17:37Speaker 3: Then you'd pay and leave, hence scan bag go. So
- 17:41Speaker 3: I imagine this is going to turn into scam bag
- 17:43Speaker 3: go a little fast or bag go.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Miss a step the scanning gonna. Oh you got a
- 17:51Speaker 1: scamp for you?
- 17:52Speaker 4: Bad O. I didn't.
- 17:53Speaker 1: Oh I read that sign was obscured.
- 17:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I just read bad go so I put it,
- 17:58Speaker 3: think of my bag, and I love like, go ahead,
- 18:00Speaker 3: want to?
- 18:00Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 18:01Speaker 3: Also I love the grocery stores continue to try to
- 18:04Speaker 3: scam us as consumers by making us employees when we
- 18:07Speaker 3: keep to the motherfucking grocery store.
- 18:09Speaker 4: Hey, I know you're shopping here, but you work here.
- 18:11Speaker 4: Now you want a.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Job like no, I don't, Well guess what you have one, bitch? Yeah,
- 18:18Speaker 1: you want this, you want this hammer and all.
- 18:20Speaker 4: It's also like they're trying this out in a white
- 18:24Speaker 4: like at a white store.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Assuming that white people don't steal when they're.
- 18:28Speaker 4: Not gonna be the number one doing it. They're gonna
- 18:30Speaker 4: be the number one people doing this. You'll never catch
- 18:32Speaker 4: a person of color doing it because I guess.
- 18:34Speaker 1: We're stealing people.
- 18:35Speaker 3: White people steal ideas white people. That's that's a corner
- 18:39Speaker 3: store of their culture. Honestly, just like how you know,
- 18:42Speaker 3: indigenous people don't want people wearing their garb, you know,
- 18:45Speaker 3: and the Halloween.
- 18:46Speaker 1: You know, we also should not be robbers because that's
- 18:48Speaker 1: white culture. Yeah yeah, yeah, we actually shouldn't be doing that.
- 18:51Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:52Speaker 4: You know people say white people don't have culture, it
- 18:53Speaker 4: is actually stealing.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Yeah, it's they have what do you call museums that's
- 18:57Speaker 1: where they put out a loop. Yeah, yeah, that we stot.
- 19:01Speaker 4: But like, I also just feel like I work. I
- 19:03Speaker 4: mean I worked at a grocery store and lost prevention.
- 19:06Speaker 4: Let me tell you something is never looking at white
- 19:08Speaker 4: people so they can get away with it scott free.
- 19:10Speaker 4: They don't need this program.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Right, which is wild. They could really go in and
- 19:13Speaker 1: just bag and go like they're like like la la la.
- 19:15Speaker 1: They're doing it at every store.
- 19:17Speaker 4: What I'm saying is you got to try this in
- 19:18Speaker 4: a different neighborhood and then see the program will be
- 19:21Speaker 4: a success.
- 19:21Speaker 3: If you're white, considered more theft, I mean, you might
- 19:23Speaker 3: as well use your privilege.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, maybe don't get some to a
- 19:27Speaker 1: food bank, you don't really eaven it out in the world.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Yeah, we should really be encouraging white people to really
- 19:32Speaker 4: be stepping what is roberhood.
- 19:34Speaker 1: That's lore.
- 19:36Speaker 4: It's lore that Fox was white.
- 19:38Speaker 1: We know it.
- 19:40Speaker 3: So obviously they're not looking at the Caucasian girlies when
- 19:43Speaker 3: they're coming into the store. So when this program was
- 19:46Speaker 3: going on, I was broken. Shit, I could barely afford
- 19:48Speaker 3: to exist. Working at a nonprofit is also a scam.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Yes, I know that, Sandy.
- 19:52Speaker 3: So Santa says, I'll walk to the grocery store. So
- 19:54Speaker 3: I use a hand cart with wheels to carry my
- 19:56Speaker 3: groceries back home. I regularly use self checkout because back
- 20:00Speaker 3: don't know how to pack my bag correctly without giving
- 20:02Speaker 3: me a bajillia extra. Okay, listen, Santa, go to the
- 20:04Speaker 3: grocery store. She said, I have particular as.
- 20:06Speaker 4: I have a particular set of skills.
- 20:08Speaker 3: Yes, she said, the eggs on the bottom, and the
- 20:11Speaker 3: braid on top of the eggs, and stop fucking with me.
- 20:13Speaker 4: And eggs on the bottom. That's it. Yeah, like I'm
- 20:17Speaker 4: not you think there's a can going in the baggs.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Santa is constantly fighting at to check out.
- 20:26Speaker 4: You wanted to put that there? Guess what I speaking
- 20:29Speaker 4: to your manager? Baby.
- 20:30Speaker 1: You put my cold milk next to my hot rotissary chicken.
- 20:33Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I bet you. This ice
- 20:36Speaker 4: cream is going by the rotary chicken. I didn't have
- 20:39Speaker 4: a new one. It's like the hottest thing you get there.
- 20:40Speaker 3: It's like the hottest thing you're gonna get in the
- 20:42Speaker 3: grocery store. What else is coming out? Smoking hat and
- 20:44Speaker 3: a grocery tenders aren't nah, oh no.
- 20:47Speaker 1: Never that.
- 20:48Speaker 3: So I like the Scan Bag Go program because I
- 20:51Speaker 3: could pack my bag once I had shopped, and I
- 20:53Speaker 3: didn't have to take ages at the self checkout. So
- 20:56Speaker 3: I figured out, since no one had checked you, if
- 20:58Speaker 3: you scanned everything in your bag, I could just scan
- 21:00Speaker 3: a few items and then put them in my hand
- 21:02Speaker 3: cart and ignore the rest. On average, I would skip
- 21:05Speaker 3: roughly fifty to sixty percent.
- 21:06Speaker 1: Of my groceries. That's not some, that's not that most.
- 21:09Speaker 1: That's most, Sandy, Sandy, the math is not mad thing.
- 21:15Speaker 4: I just do some much, do so much, almost all
- 21:17Speaker 4: of it.
- 21:19Speaker 1: I just do a.
- 21:20Speaker 3: Little bit, just like whatever I could carry, you know,
- 21:22Speaker 3: just a little taste. That's all, Sandy.
- 21:24Speaker 1: I love you.
- 21:25Speaker 3: I love the presentation of this. You're a scammer, even
- 21:28Speaker 3: how you wrote this, Oh, Sandy said, did she said?
- 21:30Speaker 3: Sometimes seventy five percent?
- 21:32Speaker 4: Okay, that's a where I'm from, that's a B minus.
- 21:37Speaker 4: That's almost all of it.
- 21:38Speaker 3: And also Sandy, okay, but Sandy says, that always the
- 21:41Speaker 3: expensive items, and I'd walk out without anyone stopping me.
- 21:44Speaker 3: So if you can make your volume stuff the stuff
- 21:46Speaker 3: you pay for, and then the expensive.
- 21:50Speaker 4: Seff leaders get taken yeah, the Rochester Chicken not getting scammed,
- 21:54Speaker 4: cause it's like.
- 21:54Speaker 3: Did y'all see Sandy walked out of here, She paid
- 21:56Speaker 3: eight ninety nine and she had a full cart.
- 21:59Speaker 1: I think it's a turkey in there, a whole turkey.
- 22:01Speaker 3: I know, a turkey on his own this morning. Yeah,
- 22:04Speaker 3: I mean, let me look, Sandy was white, so we
- 22:06Speaker 3: will be asking no question. Yeah, no, heys, listen, truly
- 22:11Speaker 3: didn't see a damn thing.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Didn't see a thing.
- 22:13Speaker 3: So some expensive items like protein powder have a metallic
- 22:16Speaker 3: barcode sticker to trigger an alarm. To get around this,
- 22:19Speaker 3: I pretend I was really considering the items while I
- 22:22Speaker 3: peeled off the bar code and stuck it to the show.
- 22:24Speaker 4: So this is going a step further than not scanning it.
- 22:27Speaker 4: This was a premeditated thing. Okay, I'm gonna steal this.
- 22:36Speaker 3: We're gonna appropriate this because Sandy, you wanted some shit. Also,
- 22:40Speaker 3: I love that she was standing in the store like
- 22:42Speaker 3: hmm way metabolic way creotine and she slowly peels off
- 22:49Speaker 3: the label. Let me read more close she pulling out
- 22:51Speaker 3: her glasses.
- 22:51Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, getting her readers out.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Readers out.
- 22:54Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Sandy got some fold up upper bull readers.
- 22:58Speaker 3: She pulling out like what isn't it oh interesting? Like
- 23:02Speaker 3: Sandy really cares about her Hell, she'd be reading all
- 23:04Speaker 3: the labels.
- 23:04Speaker 4: Yeah, she I love them.
- 23:06Speaker 3: So they discontinued the program after a little over a year,
- 23:08Speaker 3: probably because people were stealing so much and a little
- 23:11Speaker 3: over people.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Sandy, I think you guilty.
- 23:13Speaker 4: Program.
- 23:15Speaker 3: I think it was you because you just told us
- 23:17Speaker 3: that you was stealing seventy five percent of what you.
- 23:20Speaker 1: Seventy five percent might as well.
- 23:22Speaker 4: It's so much what stopped you from going to eighty.
- 23:26Speaker 3: Truly, Sandy, at this point, why don't you just start?
- 23:28Speaker 3: You know, some of the shells got wheels, just rolled
- 23:30Speaker 3: home out.
- 23:31Speaker 4: Well, I guess the programs just continued. I was gonna say,
- 23:34Speaker 4: one last score, go for one hundred percent. I think
- 23:36Speaker 4: you can do it. If you can do seventy five percent,
- 23:37Speaker 4: you can do all of it.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Sandy.
- 23:39Speaker 3: I know that you just got the vibe of like
- 23:42Speaker 3: an elegant white lady like you said you work at
- 23:45Speaker 3: nonprofit Wanona.
- 23:48Speaker 1: And she had nothing wrong, by the way, No, she
- 23:50Speaker 1: did it.
- 23:50Speaker 3: She was having fun. And Wenona has been working since
- 23:52Speaker 3: she was a child. She deserves to steal from high
- 23:54Speaker 3: end stores y'all should have give Panona that stuffy.
- 23:56Speaker 4: I can hear the face of the campaign after that,
- 23:58Speaker 4: and I'm so.
- 23:59Speaker 3: Sad for Banana because she that whole happened. The whole
- 24:01Speaker 3: thing happened during a tabloid time where people were so
- 24:03Speaker 3: bored that like it was a story for months and
- 24:05Speaker 3: months and months. If we noa win, it hit up
- 24:07Speaker 3: sacks right now and rolled out with a car to
- 24:09Speaker 3: Loue Batons.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Nobody would care. The new cycle is so fast.
- 24:13Speaker 3: We're not gonna get back into game right now. Get
- 24:15Speaker 3: back in the game. No, no, no, no, get out
- 24:17Speaker 3: in these streets. Okay, start saying no.
- 24:19Speaker 4: To purchasing again and say yes, yes right, say yes.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Yes, we'll support you. I'll be at the march on
- 24:26Speaker 1: mixed signs.
- 24:26Speaker 4: I can't pay your bill because I bet you would
- 24:28Speaker 4: be really expensive for a second offense, but I will
- 24:32Speaker 4: contribute to the go fund.
- 24:33Speaker 3: Yes, I will contribute to the person who needed the least.
- 24:37Speaker 4: Yeah, we will give it to you.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Just be a thrill.
- 24:40Speaker 4: Well, put me in the dock.
- 24:42Speaker 3: So they dis continued the program. Yeah, after you discontinue,
- 24:45Speaker 3: its handy, But I love that for you. Probably because
- 24:47Speaker 3: people were stealing so much, probably and a little over
- 24:49Speaker 3: a year. I think I stile close to four thousand
- 24:51Speaker 3: dollars worth of groceries, including kitchen gadgets, a twenty five
- 24:54Speaker 3: piece rubber Maids set, and ADU toaster.
- 24:57Speaker 4: That's this is this has gone.
- 25:00Speaker 3: She got a toaster, she said, I got six neutral bullets.
- 25:06Speaker 1: A twenty five piece rubber maid Listen, people, first of all, tupper,
- 25:13Speaker 1: we should be free.
- 25:14Speaker 3: The way we all steal it and use it, it's
- 25:16Speaker 3: just like a communicable resource.
- 25:17Speaker 1: It's just like a road, you know.
- 25:19Speaker 3: We all take it from other people and we all
- 25:21Speaker 3: give it away and never see it again.
- 25:22Speaker 4: The only place doing this Thai restaurants. They're giving you
- 25:26Speaker 4: pretty solid, durable they they know. They're like, hey, you're
- 25:30Speaker 4: gonna use this again.
- 25:31Speaker 3: Wash it, just wash it, bab okay, because they's gonna
- 25:34Speaker 3: get that color stain on it.
- 25:36Speaker 4: It's gonna shrink a little bit. Yeah, it's not gonna
- 25:38Speaker 4: quite seal. And I could keep it as fresh.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Hand wash it. We got you with the TI spot.
- 25:43Speaker 4: Throw away and you're not gonna know this exactly.
- 25:45Speaker 1: That's why I get all my rubber mads the time.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Two place.
- 25:47Speaker 3: So now the grocery store has cameras above the self
- 25:50Speaker 3: checkout that look at your bag to see if you're
- 25:52Speaker 3: stealing a hater move if I've ever seen one, Can
- 25:54Speaker 3: I just say, Sandy, I ain't never seen nobody case
- 25:56Speaker 3: some mother fucking grocery store like you you done found
- 25:58Speaker 3: out about the barco before you walk out the door or.
- 26:00Speaker 1: You know that and put in new cameras.
- 26:02Speaker 4: Is this what are the characters from Good Girls?
- 26:06Speaker 3: It's giving Good Girl like I feel like saying it
- 26:09Speaker 3: gonna be like update, I robbed the grocery store.
- 26:11Speaker 4: Yeah wait, is this Emily the criminal writing?
- 26:16Speaker 1: Literally?
- 26:17Speaker 3: So this says grocery stores have a built in budget
- 26:18Speaker 3: for theft and this is a mega corpse ide absolutely
- 26:20Speaker 3: zero gift guilt doing it.
- 26:22Speaker 1: And frankly I do it again.
- 26:24Speaker 3: Pay your employees more and stop putting baby formula behind
- 26:26Speaker 3: lock and key.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Fuck the man is stay scheming now.
- 26:30Speaker 3: You made absolute points now now, one of the points
- 26:33Speaker 3: not being to stop putting a baby formula behind like
- 26:36Speaker 3: because you go steal.
- 26:37Speaker 4: It, yeah, and not because you have a baby you
- 26:40Speaker 4: want it? Yeah right, Just I've tied everything else in
- 26:44Speaker 4: the store to make some of.
- 26:45Speaker 1: This up, just to got him some fun.
- 26:47Speaker 3: It's supermarket sweet at this point, just like, let me
- 26:49Speaker 3: get the dogs right. I don't even got a dog,
- 26:53Speaker 3: but I just want to take the most explicive sit
- 26:54Speaker 3: you'all got for high end cheeses, like I'm lactose in tolerant.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Yeah, I want the wheel of breed back there.
- 27:02Speaker 3: But I will say formula shouldn't be under like and key.
- 27:05Speaker 3: If people need to steal formula, let them steal it.
- 27:06Speaker 3: They're stealing it for an unemployed baby, Like, what the
- 27:09Speaker 3: fuck a mess? Rabb run and we're back and it's
- 27:17Speaker 3: time for historic hoodwings. This is where I will regale
- 27:20Speaker 3: Matt with a famous con caper a group of criminals. Well,
- 27:23Speaker 3: maybe we'd like them, maybe we hate them. We'll see
- 27:25Speaker 3: along the way. But y'all know that this show is
- 27:27Speaker 3: not a scam, so we're always going to give props.
- 27:29Speaker 3: In our footnotes, you can click the links to any
- 27:31Speaker 3: research that kaylen Brand, our amazing researcher, pulls up. But
- 27:34Speaker 3: also we love to shout out when a good bit
- 27:35Speaker 3: comes from one place. When you know, I don't know
- 27:38Speaker 3: a little bit like seventy five percent comes from one place.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Shout out Sandy.
- 27:43Speaker 4: Also, by the way, I feel like we were roasting
- 27:46Speaker 4: Sandy pretty hard.
- 27:47Speaker 3: We love no Sandy. We're in on it, and you
- 27:50Speaker 3: know what, you know what you did, and we love
- 27:52Speaker 3: what you did. So much of this research comes from
- 27:56Speaker 3: the story Ava Kaufman's New Yorker investigation, which was titled
- 28:01Speaker 3: How Hospice Became a for profit Hustle. And obviously, like
- 28:04Speaker 3: hospice is, we're talking about people getting end of life care.
- 28:08Speaker 3: So this is a sensitive subject. But when we get
- 28:10Speaker 3: into this, y'all, what this lady was doing, you'll see
- 28:13Speaker 3: how hilarious this is.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Poor So we're gonna laugh. We are gonna laugh.
- 28:18Speaker 3: We are gonna laugh in the face of din which
- 28:20Speaker 3: is what we do every day living in America.
- 28:23Speaker 4: Thanks you very much. It's a joke to be alive, truly.
- 28:27Speaker 1: I laugh.
- 28:27Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, I made it another day. Who they tried,
- 28:30Speaker 3: as Miley Cyrus once said, they tried to carry your
- 28:32Speaker 3: favorite bitch ook gay and they try every day.
- 28:35Speaker 1: So.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Since the opening of the first American hospice facility in
- 28:38Speaker 3: Connecticut in nineteen seventy four, hospice care has grown from
- 28:41Speaker 3: a series of charities to a twenty two billion dollar industry,
- 28:44Speaker 3: funded almost entirely by taxpayer money. But with such massive
- 28:48Speaker 3: profits has come massive fraud. The Yeah, with only a
- 28:52Speaker 3: handful of whistleblowers that stand against it, because you're scamming
- 28:56Speaker 3: the government, and the government is a scam.
- 28:58Speaker 4: Yeah. And I feel like like societally, the last people
- 29:03Speaker 4: that people care about are like old people unfortunately, right,
- 29:05Speaker 4: you know, are.
- 29:06Speaker 3: People who are in their last days being comfortable. I
- 29:08Speaker 3: just feel like it's hard to get people ramped up
- 29:10Speaker 3: to be like they over there doing fraud people. Well,
- 29:13Speaker 3: it's like nobody's gonna yeah, we're not walking That's like
- 29:16Speaker 3: walking into Saint Jude's and being like, well.
- 29:18Speaker 1: I don't wait, kids, we got fraud to detail.
- 29:19Speaker 4: It's like that with the you know, whatever.
- 29:22Speaker 1: They're doing over there. As long as people being taken
- 29:23Speaker 1: care of, weird, it's nothing about the business.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Take care only. That's all I want to hear about.
- 29:28Speaker 4: Great style.
- 29:29Speaker 1: So Sarah cares what we're talking about today.
- 29:33Speaker 3: So Marsha Farmer entered the hospice care business in two
- 29:36Speaker 3: thousand and two as a community educator in parentheses who
- 29:39Speaker 3: taught and marketed to potential patients about the benefits of
- 29:42Speaker 3: end of life care. Within a year, she became an
- 29:44Speaker 3: executive director of her local office of hospice in South
- 29:47Speaker 3: mon Roeville, Alabama.
- 29:48Speaker 1: However, what might have become.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Is a virtuous calling changed in two thousand and four, Wow,
- 29:53Speaker 3: only two years.
- 29:55Speaker 4: She said she saw that she was leaving money on
- 29:57Speaker 4: the table probably way.
- 29:59Speaker 3: The damn man I can have this right, Well, I'm
- 30:01Speaker 3: leaving out his old money over here just because we
- 30:03Speaker 3: don't need it. So when Hospice South was bought by
- 30:06Speaker 3: Beverly Enterprises, Beverly Enterprise doesn't sound like a place is
- 30:09Speaker 3: doing anything right for the world.
- 30:11Speaker 4: That's like a fake. It's like I could have made
- 30:12Speaker 4: that up. It's not real.
- 30:14Speaker 1: When rich money bags purchased.
- 30:18Speaker 3: Acquired Hospice South, yeah, we know what's about to happen.
- 30:20Speaker 1: Beverly Enterprises. That don't sound godly at all.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Right, oh bitch your cabinets, ass, bitch ass, we know
- 30:28Speaker 3: what's happening. So the second largest nursing home chain in
- 30:31Speaker 3: the country, and soon after we sold it to a
- 30:34Speaker 3: private equity firm.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Whow we were right on it. Not the pe edited
- 30:38Speaker 1: out my shocked noise take it back.
- 30:42Speaker 3: So it was rebranded as a Sarah Care. Almost immediately
- 30:46Speaker 3: after the takeover, Marsha's bosses increased the goals for the
- 30:49Speaker 3: number of new patients that they had to sign up,
- 30:51Speaker 3: because of course, they're like, we got to get in
- 30:52Speaker 3: the black. Okay, we need to get the six in here. Yeah, okay,
- 30:56Speaker 3: I'm not seeing enough six. These are empty beds. Why
- 30:58Speaker 3: is no one coding right now? We get the money? Yeah,
- 31:01Speaker 3: we need we need more sick people here.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Yeah, so important note.
- 31:05Speaker 3: Normally eligible hospice pations qualify by being certified by two
- 31:08Speaker 3: doctors that they have less than six months to live
- 31:10Speaker 3: and agree to forour go curative care. So Medicare reimburse
- 31:14Speaker 3: them not for the amount of care expended, but per patient.
- 31:18Speaker 3: So basically they're saying, like, you have to have two
- 31:20Speaker 3: notes that say that you are approaching the end of life,
- 31:23Speaker 3: and then they will and that you're no longer pursuing
- 31:27Speaker 3: like medical treatment, and then they'll just.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Pay you out man. Two notes, Yeah, not just one.
- 31:33Speaker 1: You gotta be one doctors.
- 31:34Speaker 4: Yeah that's crazy.
- 31:35Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because Medicare is not trying to give
- 31:37Speaker 3: out the.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Coins, so they're going to force you to get a
- 31:40Speaker 1: second opinion.
- 31:41Speaker 3: So if you ever thought you needed a second opinion,
- 31:43Speaker 3: Medicare is telling you right now, like go to what
- 31:45Speaker 3: I get?
- 31:46Speaker 1: I get second, I don't want to hear it.
- 31:47Speaker 4: If you only got one, which is.
- 31:49Speaker 1: A mess, you could be like, m this ain't enough.
- 31:51Speaker 4: Oh you're dying somebody else?
- 31:53Speaker 1: Are you sure?
- 31:54Speaker 3: It's not giving? It's not giving, cass, so go ass.
- 31:58Speaker 3: It's like medicas so disgusting. So that meant that an
- 32:03Speaker 3: increased number of patients didn't massively affect their overhead, as
- 32:07Speaker 3: most hospice care took place at home between visiting nurses
- 32:09Speaker 3: and unpaid family, so employees who met quotas received cash,
- 32:13Speaker 3: bonuses and perks such as popcorn machines and massage chairs.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Imagine getting a popcorn machine.
- 32:21Speaker 4: How people.
- 32:27Speaker 1: And the popcorn machines. Yeah, yeah, that's what it.
- 32:29Speaker 3: Should be going to look at some point we all
- 32:32Speaker 3: gonna have to meet, you know, Uh Scott, Daddy.
- 32:38Speaker 4: Can't get me, I can't get me find out see
- 32:42Speaker 4: what happens? You think I'm gonna die? Nice?
- 32:45Speaker 3: Try so those but you know it's like we want
- 32:47Speaker 3: to do it in a comfortable way or whatever.
- 32:49Speaker 4: We're lucky, Yeah, in like respect and absolutely and care,
- 32:53Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
- 32:54Speaker 3: So Marsha remembers feeling so frustrated and pressured about meeting
- 32:58Speaker 3: numbers that she calculated how many people in her region
- 33:01Speaker 3: might be expected.
- 33:02Speaker 1: To die that year. Because what happened was if you
- 33:05Speaker 1: didn't need the quotas, you were fired.
- 33:07Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 33:09Speaker 1: If you didn't find the terminy terminally ill.
- 33:11Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah doing it? Like uh hey, so like how
- 33:13Speaker 4: are your niees?
- 33:14Speaker 3: So now she's starting to look at the CDC number
- 33:16Speaker 3: positions like okay, how manute?
- 33:18Speaker 1: Where are they dying?
- 33:19Speaker 4: I get a copy of the censor over sixty five?
- 33:22Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean.
- 33:24Speaker 3: So, not only were there not enough people dying in
- 33:27Speaker 3: her territory, they weren't dying fast enough.
- 33:30Speaker 4: Did she become like an eco terrorist or something? She's like,
- 33:32Speaker 4: I'm putting stuff in the water, like.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Sandy's just pulling up with a dump truck of just
- 33:37Speaker 3: all the chemicals to all the Chinese lead pash up,
- 33:41Speaker 3: Like we got what fluoride? We put straight lead in
- 33:45Speaker 3: the water. Okay, no, we gotta get these girls dead.
- 33:49Speaker 3: What is this people live in?
- 33:50Speaker 1: I saw people at the park yesterday looking like healthy
- 33:52Speaker 1: as fuck.
- 33:53Speaker 4: This is the Hey, gladys, I got you a special water.
- 33:56Speaker 4: Why do you keep.
- 33:57Speaker 3: Dropping off special water? And it tastes like very rapid. Yeah,
- 34:01Speaker 3: I'm shaking it in the car. She said it was
- 34:03Speaker 3: just a sony flavor.
- 34:05Speaker 4: But I was like, I sneeze blood and only tastes metal,
- 34:07Speaker 4: So I don't know what's going on.
- 34:09Speaker 1: But dosny do taste like rapos, so I'm a drink.
- 34:11Speaker 4: So actually she didn't have to even do anything. She
- 34:13Speaker 4: just gave him. That was her response.
- 34:18Speaker 1: Love. Just designing is delicious, y'all. Y'all really should put
- 34:20Speaker 1: it in your mouth.
- 34:21Speaker 4: It gets colder than the other water.
- 34:23Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and just so much flavor. Yeah, I had
- 34:27Speaker 3: never tasted earth before, Like when you taste.
- 34:28Speaker 4: Designing, one sip of desagny in the desert and it's
- 34:31Speaker 4: all I needed.
- 34:32Speaker 1: For a month, extra hydration. So we love you, Coca Cola.
- 34:38Speaker 3: So if a patient might not actually die within the
- 34:40Speaker 3: six month window, Medicare can demand a repayment from facilities
- 34:43Speaker 3: where the average patient stays is like long is longer
- 34:46Speaker 3: than six months. So now you have this weird ased
- 34:49Speaker 3: thing with Medicare where they're calling like, hey, y'all, we
- 34:51Speaker 3: just want to check on.
- 34:51Speaker 1: His gladdies because we heard she was alive.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Somebody got a birthday coil and We was like, how
- 34:55Speaker 3: she senting that from.
- 34:57Speaker 4: You said you were dying? You doing here?
- 35:01Speaker 1: What are you doing?
- 35:03Speaker 4: On her?
- 35:03Speaker 1: It's still what are you doing here?
- 35:05Speaker 4: Are?
- 35:06Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 35:06Speaker 1: You told us she was leaving?
- 35:07Speaker 4: Hey, I saw that hole over there as fucking empty hell.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Less from signat you picked up. That's the problem. That's
- 35:13Speaker 3: essentially the problem.
- 35:15Speaker 4: To say, why the fuck do you answer?
- 35:18Speaker 1: What the fuck?
- 35:20Speaker 3: Yo?
- 35:21Speaker 1: Our homes of its fun?
- 35:22Speaker 4: It's so bad, so bad.
- 35:24Speaker 3: So recruiting. Marsha found her own solution was a murdered people,
- 35:28Speaker 3: and what is your own solution to get more damn people?
- 35:31Speaker 3: So and, along with her colleagues, began recruiting patients, regardless
- 35:34Speaker 3: of whether they were near death or not. In the
- 35:36Speaker 3: Deep South, they often targeted impoverished communities with low rates
- 35:39Speaker 3: of education. Wow, so now you're coming for people who
- 35:43Speaker 3: likely you know, don't have money, don't have a lot
- 35:45Speaker 3: of options, perhaps are people of color.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Like, we know what you're doing.
- 35:49Speaker 3: So Marcia would cruise around looking for run down homes
- 35:52Speaker 3: with wheelchair ramps, or keep a church prayer list around,
- 35:56Speaker 3: so look for families with ill members. Oh my god,
- 36:00Speaker 3: Marsha not the sickest shutting list. Marshall was going to
- 36:03Speaker 3: church services and this I'm Baptist, so we have the
- 36:05Speaker 3: sickest shutting where you you pray for these people or
- 36:08Speaker 3: you visit their homes or you bring them food.
- 36:10Speaker 1: She going to every church and like, let me get
- 36:12Speaker 1: a program. Is this up to date? Is this all
- 36:14Speaker 1: the six and the shut t.
- 36:15Speaker 4: You're not doing a repeatd last week's, are you?
- 36:18Speaker 1: Because because I don't know?
- 36:19Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, because look, people who owned this list was
- 36:22Speaker 3: on here last week and it just seemed like I
- 36:24Speaker 3: don't know how sick was shutting in?
- 36:25Speaker 1: They are?
- 36:25Speaker 4: You got a Google doc or like a Google sheet
- 36:27Speaker 4: or something. Here's a business card?
- 36:29Speaker 1: Who does the submissions? Cause I get copied it on
- 36:31Speaker 1: the shut in list?
- 36:31Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, let me just get in with with the announcements.
- 36:34Speaker 3: Praise him, Yeah, no, pray I will take them Martin
- 36:36Speaker 3: Luther king face, Yes, thank you so much.
- 36:41Speaker 4: Here's a hard cake I brought.
- 36:42Speaker 3: For the hard cake, oh p cake from from the
- 36:46Speaker 3: grocery store that I definitely did not steal, Okay, I
- 36:49Speaker 3: just I scanned it and left. So she'd show up
- 36:54Speaker 3: to especially run down houses and knock on the door
- 36:56Speaker 3: in scrubs despite not having any medical background. That she
- 37:00Speaker 3: weren't costumes, as she says in quotes, I would automatically
- 37:03Speaker 3: be seen as help. You're looking for uneducated people, if
- 37:06Speaker 3: you will, because you're able to provide something to them
- 37:08Speaker 3: and meet a need. So she's looking for the desperation meter.
- 37:11Speaker 3: We talk about out here, people who really need this
- 37:13Speaker 3: kind of stuff.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Because I nobody.
- 37:14Speaker 3: Like if somebody showed up in my house and some
- 37:15Speaker 3: damn scrubs looking like a fake ass, girls and Nadamy
- 37:17Speaker 3: Extra talk about something you want to go to hospitals,
- 37:19Speaker 3: I'd be like, but if you don't get off my.
- 37:20Speaker 4: Damn doors stow today, you're not gonna get me. What
- 37:24Speaker 4: are you even doing here?
- 37:25Speaker 1: Babe, babe? I'm full of life.
- 37:29Speaker 4: Yeah, don't you see? I do a backflip right now.
- 37:32Speaker 1: I can do a flip.
- 37:34Speaker 3: This is our We don't have good measurements for what
- 37:36Speaker 3: full of life means, which because you know, who could.
- 37:38Speaker 4: Say, who could say, who could say? On their last
- 37:40Speaker 4: day could do the most clip I've ever.
- 37:43Speaker 1: Seen, and it happened.
- 37:45Speaker 4: Language for it.
- 37:46Speaker 1: But we're you know, each day is a blessing.
- 37:49Speaker 3: So we're trying to keep it light y'all because this
- 37:51Speaker 3: is fun, but also saying so, and then she would
- 37:55Speaker 3: describe comparatively luxurious government benefits before finishing her pitch to
- 38:00Speaker 3: make them sing like it was like a quick decision.
- 38:02Speaker 1: So she's described just like, hey, do you want.
- 38:04Speaker 3: Free room and board and games and entertainment and a
- 38:09Speaker 3: chef that cooks for you twenty four to seven and
- 38:12Speaker 3: television and the best beds and around the care, medical supervision.
- 38:18Speaker 1: And single there all the drugs.
- 38:22Speaker 4: Yeah, they're giving them the straight out of high school,
- 38:25Speaker 4: go army treatment but for dying.
- 38:27Speaker 1: And at the end it's like, okay, but it's a
- 38:28Speaker 1: hospitality and you got five minutes to sign up. Now
- 38:30Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get in my car and drive away.
- 38:31Speaker 4: So what do you say?
- 38:32Speaker 1: So, yeah, unless you want your life to be miserable,
- 38:35Speaker 1: you better sign.
- 38:35Speaker 3: This bright because we going to see your neighbor next door,
- 38:37Speaker 3: and we know you'll never gonna take this deal.
- 38:39Speaker 1: So we only got one bed, So do you want it?
- 38:42Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 38:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:43Speaker 3: So, once Martia had them on the hook, she'd send
- 38:45Speaker 3: a nurse out to assess whether the potential patient had
- 38:48Speaker 3: any symptoms that could look like a terminal illness.
- 38:50Speaker 1: She'd often use the reputation.
- 38:51Speaker 3: Of the black belt region of the Deep South that
- 38:54Speaker 3: has some of the highest rates of heart to see
- 38:55Speaker 3: it's diabetes and infysima in the country. So she was
- 38:58Speaker 3: going after the growth. Like I mean, she got the show.
- 39:02Speaker 3: So you know, even though even though people live with
- 39:06Speaker 3: diabetes every single day, but you know, she's targeting things
- 39:10Speaker 3: that she can kind of like us.
- 39:12Speaker 4: Up a little bit like this is this could be something.
- 39:15Speaker 1: Like did y'all notice Marka came to my house and
- 39:16Speaker 1: now all my trilicity is gone?
- 39:18Speaker 4: Yeah, what happened to it?
- 39:20Speaker 3: No?
- 39:20Speaker 1: I think she stole it. And then she had somebody
- 39:23Speaker 1: come over and and do the prick called me to
- 39:26Speaker 1: check my levels.
- 39:28Speaker 4: But but then she came and tried to do it herself.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Know what's going on. I got pricked twice one day.
- 39:33Speaker 3: Yeah, and then she said that she found all of
- 39:35Speaker 3: my usblate her purse and gave it back to me
- 39:36Speaker 3: after I got preted.
- 39:37Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. So yeah, she's bad.
- 39:40Speaker 3: So in order to get the necessary doctor approval, some
- 39:42Speaker 3: hospice firms would even bribe doctors to bring them new
- 39:45Speaker 3: patients by offering all expense paid trips to Las Vegas nightclubs,
- 39:49Speaker 3: complete with bottle service and private security detail.
- 39:53Speaker 4: So she's this is good.
- 39:55Speaker 3: I mean, why not just give them money. I feel
- 39:57Speaker 3: like money is the bribe that I like. But they
- 39:59Speaker 3: were like, do you want to live like a rock
- 40:00Speaker 3: star millionaire, We'll fly you out private to Vegas.
- 40:03Speaker 4: I can have a red bull in my hand in
- 40:05Speaker 4: two hours.
- 40:07Speaker 1: And just the loudest music you've ever heard.
- 40:10Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh yeah, I'm ill. That's where I want to
- 40:12Speaker 4: be a doctor. Oh the doctors. The doctors, Yeah, well
- 40:17Speaker 4: they started right, but so they're like, well, treat you
- 40:21Speaker 4: like you want to live a day in the life
- 40:23Speaker 4: of Tiger. Yeah yeah, Oh I can be like a
- 40:25Speaker 4: cool I could be a cool doctor.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Yeah, the coolest of doctors.
- 40:29Speaker 3: So they're flying them out to Vegas and you know,
- 40:31Speaker 3: letting them ball out and live the celebrity lifestyle. In
- 40:33Speaker 3: the case of the doctor politicians such as doctor Francisco Penna,
- 40:36Speaker 3: former mayor of Rio Bravo, Texas, they could receive actual kickbacks.
- 40:40Speaker 3: Yeah look at this man, it's giving I take bribes.
- 40:43Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've never seen a more bribable face and neck. No,
- 40:48Speaker 3: that necho, that neck moves and says yes to bribe.
- 40:51Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's that fucking little bird taking
- 40:53Speaker 4: a drink out of the look.
- 40:55Speaker 1: At that saying hard, saying yes, the bribes, it's whole life.
- 40:58Speaker 4: He looks like we're looking at a picture, so that's
- 41:01Speaker 4: why we're saying.
- 41:01Speaker 2: Man.
- 41:02Speaker 4: He looks like he's about to say no, but he don't.
- 41:05Speaker 1: He's gonna be like just kidding.
- 41:06Speaker 3: Yes, you go wink though, yes, Like look I work
- 41:08Speaker 3: at politicians. I can't just move my neck.
- 41:10Speaker 4: Yeah. The only thing he's saying no too is that
- 41:12Speaker 4: he doesn't not do that. He's like, I do do it.
- 41:15Speaker 3: And look at him, hold in his glasses like he
- 41:16Speaker 3: about to say something smart. Yeah, that's the criminal right here.
- 41:18Speaker 3: Ther He says, love that for him, and he got
- 41:20Speaker 3: his white coat behind him, like, don't forget, don't like
- 41:23Speaker 3: these scrubs for you.
- 41:24Speaker 1: I am doctor ring, I'm over the girl.
- 41:25Speaker 4: He walks out with it over his shoulder. He's kind
- 41:28Speaker 4: of like a cool doctor.
- 41:30Speaker 1: This is a city council meeting.
- 41:31Speaker 3: Why are you wearing full scrubs and in the stethoscope
- 41:34Speaker 3: saying stat in between the motions. So other firms would
- 41:37Speaker 3: also attempt or excuse me. Other firms would tempt at
- 41:40Speaker 3: it with the prospect of free painkillers, trick people into
- 41:42Speaker 3: believing the program was free home healthcare, or even steal
- 41:46Speaker 3: personal information to enroll patients without their knowledge.
- 41:48Speaker 4: Google behavior, If I've ever heard it, that's.
- 41:51Speaker 1: So thick as shit.
- 41:52Speaker 3: Can you imagine somebody comes over standing they're doing the census,
- 41:54Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, somebody just randomly showing up
- 41:56Speaker 3: to your house every week.
- 41:58Speaker 4: Not even that, just be like, hey, like, look, I
- 42:00Speaker 4: noticed that you have like some sort of like, you know, addiction.
- 42:03Speaker 3: So I.
- 42:06Speaker 1: Exploit That's crazy, I mean, Hill, Yeah, yeah.
- 42:08Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't mean to imply that I was doing
- 42:10Speaker 4: something tool.
- 42:11Speaker 1: But we gonna exploit the addiction by helping you win it.
- 42:14Speaker 1: That's what we exploit.
- 42:15Speaker 4: And you know that's like a vulnerable class as well.
- 42:17Speaker 1: Yeah, it's extremely vulnerable, and it's a disease.
- 42:20Speaker 3: So it's just not it's not cool to take advantage
- 42:22Speaker 3: of people, whether they have diseases or not, but especially
- 42:24Speaker 3: if they're in a vulnerable position. So this is just Marshall,
- 42:26Speaker 3: you are real. You are a corporate criminal.
- 42:29Speaker 1: But maybe she turns it around. We don't know. She
- 42:31Speaker 1: has a euro arc about it.
- 42:34Speaker 3: So because the stipulation of the hospice care is that
- 42:36Speaker 3: patients do not receive curative care. Patients who are signed
- 42:39Speaker 3: up for hospice against their knowledge could suddenly be denied
- 42:42Speaker 3: life saving procedures and medications. So this is really fucked
- 42:47Speaker 3: up because like if you need to call the ambulance
- 42:50Speaker 3: and they're like hello for where, Oh no, we can't
- 42:52Speaker 3: pick you up, you know, yeah, you on our blackout list,
- 42:56Speaker 3: can't We can't drop over there?
- 42:57Speaker 1: Like what And you don't even know.
- 43:00Speaker 4: Because like you think if this person's coming up to
- 43:02Speaker 4: you and you're being in there, like you think you're
- 43:04Speaker 4: taking that face value that what they're saying is true,
- 43:07Speaker 4: and then you're like, okay, like well this would be good.
- 43:08Speaker 4: This is going to in the event that I have
- 43:09Speaker 4: some sort of issue, I'll be taken care of.
- 43:11Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's exact opposite. Yeah, yeah, Marcia, you gotta
- 43:15Speaker 3: go to jail, Joe. But also we got to throw
- 43:17Speaker 3: rocks at you in the town square, like on your
- 43:19Speaker 3: way there, like we do have a little shame bell
- 43:22Speaker 3: and just the tiniest rocks that we all should be
- 43:24Speaker 3: able to throw at you, one big one, one big one,
- 43:27Speaker 3: but the rest just so small.
- 43:28Speaker 4: And it's it's like in the eye of the beholder too,
- 43:31Speaker 4: Like that knows how how big is.
- 43:35Speaker 1: A mountain? That's a big rock. We throw a mountain
- 43:39Speaker 1: at you.
- 43:39Speaker 4: That's kind of the thing you really people don't really
- 43:41Speaker 4: say about mountains, Like and I think we're it's good
- 43:44Speaker 4: that we're getting this out there. That's actually a rock.
- 43:46Speaker 3: It's a big ass rock, and we should be afraid
- 43:48Speaker 3: of that rock because why is it so big?
- 43:50Speaker 4: And how did you get there?
- 43:51Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 43:51Speaker 3: How many other rocks did destroyed? We had the pebbles
- 43:53Speaker 3: become pebbles. This is deeper than we thought. This is
- 43:55Speaker 3: my new Uh, you can read about this is my book.
- 44:00Speaker 3: There's a lot of info here.
- 44:01Speaker 1: So we're gonna keep.
- 44:02Speaker 4: I'm printing it myself and you can buy it off.
- 44:06Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 44:07Speaker 3: So the second part of the problem was that once
- 44:09Speaker 3: they had them, they also missed the patients. Once they
- 44:12Speaker 3: tricked them, they also had to get rid of them
- 44:14Speaker 3: if they weren't dying quickly enough, which was common for
- 44:16Speaker 3: many ineligible patients because they're not dying. So one tactic
- 44:20Speaker 3: that Sarah Carer used was simply to discharge patients with
- 44:24Speaker 3: overly long stays from hospice, often losing any sort of
- 44:27Speaker 3: medication aids and care that they had.
- 44:29Speaker 1: So one day you just wake up and there they
- 44:31Speaker 1: rolling you out.
- 44:32Speaker 4: The door and you're sick, and you're like hey, They're like, hey,
- 44:35Speaker 4: you're sick. Yeah, that's so good.
- 44:39Speaker 1: It's so disgusting.
- 44:40Speaker 3: So one tactic of sarah Care used was simply to
- 44:42Speaker 3: discharge patients over the long stays. In two thousand and seven,
- 44:45Speaker 3: seventy percent of Marsha's patients left hospice alive.
- 44:48Speaker 1: Others turned too much.
- 44:49Speaker 3: Worse, and there's at least one example of a hospice
- 44:52Speaker 3: owner instructing a staff.
- 44:53Speaker 1: To, oh, no, overdose, they're overstayingho. So now we're doing murder.
- 44:59Speaker 3: Okay, So I will put a content warning at the
- 45:01Speaker 3: top of this because I didn't know that this was
- 45:02Speaker 3: gonna be doing murder.
- 45:04Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this has turned from I knew.
- 45:07Speaker 3: I had a feeling it was gonna get murdery because
- 45:09Speaker 3: she's like, they're not dying fast enough.
- 45:11Speaker 4: And then like at first I was I was sort
- 45:13Speaker 4: of like, is this just like I care a.
- 45:15Speaker 3: Lot, Yeah, which was you know, was bad, which was bad,
- 45:18Speaker 3: but yeah, no, we're going beyond that. She said, hold
- 45:20Speaker 3: my beer. So the owner was sentenced to more than
- 45:22Speaker 3: thirteen years in prison for fraud and in a plea
- 45:24Speaker 3: deal that made no allegations about patient's death, despite texting
- 45:27Speaker 3: a nurse about one patient saying in quotes, he better
- 45:31Speaker 3: not make it tomorrow or I will blame you.
- 45:34Speaker 1: How do you not go thirteen years?
- 45:37Speaker 3: They gave Turtleneck Lizzie, and she did harm people when
- 45:40Speaker 3: she wasn't actually giving them real blood results. But she
- 45:42Speaker 3: wasn't actively murdering anyone. Yeah, and like she got eleven
- 45:45Speaker 3: thirteen years.
- 45:46Speaker 4: Only two more, that's maybe double.
- 45:50Speaker 3: It feel like you shouldn't see the sun again, Like
- 45:52Speaker 3: your hospice is now, Joe, And I'm even I don't
- 45:55Speaker 3: like the carcial system, but I'm sorry, Like.
- 45:57Speaker 1: You need to stay in there.
- 45:59Speaker 4: You're going to the jail because you're morel compassed. Is good.
- 46:01Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't need you out here on the streets.
- 46:03Speaker 1: Your brain is dangerous.
- 46:04Speaker 4: It's like that's like that is murder, like you like
- 46:08Speaker 4: you're sort of like, hey, like you and it's not
- 46:09Speaker 4: even well, it's not murder, it's uh, it's well, what
- 46:12Speaker 4: is it manslaughter? Because you're sort of telling.
- 46:14Speaker 3: Somebody's pre meditated Yeah, yeah, like hey, yeah, that's a murder.
- 46:18Speaker 1: It's a premeditative murder.
- 46:19Speaker 3: And also we know that you must have done this
- 46:22Speaker 3: a lot, because if you get to the point where
- 46:23Speaker 3: you're so casual about murder that you're sending text messages
- 46:26Speaker 3: about it, then you've been doing so many murders that's
- 46:28Speaker 3: not even a big.
- 46:28Speaker 1: Deal to you.
- 46:29Speaker 3: Ant sort of could you imagine text somebody, Hey, make
- 46:31Speaker 3: sure you do that murder tomorrow by six?
- 46:33Speaker 1: What on text?
- 46:34Speaker 4: It's sort of you know, I feel like it's a
- 46:36Speaker 4: phone call a dark alley, like Sandy taking just a
- 46:39Speaker 4: little bit going full seventy five to going full appliances. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 46:43Speaker 4: but these are but this is human life. So this
- 46:45Speaker 4: is just disgusting. So I'm gonna get through this because
- 46:47Speaker 4: we try to keep it light over here.
- 46:49Speaker 3: So for Marcia, both the pressure and the links that
- 46:51Speaker 3: she and her colleagues went in order to maintain proper
- 46:53Speaker 3: numbers of dieing patients wore on her. Okay, finally, dummy,
- 46:57Speaker 3: and she began to question the work that she did.
- 46:59Speaker 3: Oh wow, you begin to question it now, like it's
- 47:01Speaker 3: a little late, sist.
- 47:02Speaker 4: Hey, I sent a text the other day and I
- 47:03Speaker 4: didn't feel good about it.
- 47:05Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a little scheve.
- 47:07Speaker 3: So her coworker, Don Richardson, was also and she didn't
- 47:09Speaker 3: send the text. I was someone else, but still. Don
- 47:12Speaker 3: Richardson was also a mother with a family, but felt similarly,
- 47:14Speaker 3: and in two thousand and nine the pair discovered a
- 47:16Speaker 3: way out.
- 47:17Speaker 1: So the way out.
- 47:18Speaker 3: The two other nurses at another Southern hospice company had
- 47:21Speaker 3: accused their employer, Southern Care, of stealing taxpayer dollars by
- 47:24Speaker 3: enrolling in eligible patients in hospice. The company admitted to
- 47:27Speaker 3: no wrongdoing but settled with the Justice Department for nearly
- 47:30Speaker 3: twenty five million dollars. The two nurses, being whistleblowers, received
- 47:33Speaker 3: four point nine million dollars of that sum. Okay, what
- 47:35Speaker 3: I'm not hearing is of the people who were tricked
- 47:38Speaker 3: into being hospice were paid, And why is the government
- 47:40Speaker 3: getting twenty five MILLI like, give that to the people
- 47:42Speaker 3: that were damages. Yeah, this is still a great I
- 47:46Speaker 3: hope there's a late night commercial happening where you know,
- 47:48Speaker 3: somebody's like if you loved one was tricked and like
- 47:51Speaker 3: cause like yeah, yeah, saw where are you at? They
- 47:55Speaker 3: too contacted James Berger, a lawyer who had represented one
- 47:58Speaker 3: of the Southern Care nurses, so in March of two
- 48:00Speaker 3: thousand and nine, he helped them file a whistleblower complaint
- 48:03Speaker 3: against the Sarah Kare and its parent company, accusing the
- 48:06Speaker 3: company of Medicare for raud. For the following two years,
- 48:09Speaker 3: Don and Marshall were kept anonymous and the investigation, continuing
- 48:11Speaker 3: to work at a Sarah Care while passing barger documents
- 48:14Speaker 3: and conducting their own investigations into ineligible patients. Their evidence, now,
- 48:19Speaker 3: how are you gonna do? This is giving?
- 48:20Speaker 1: Like the police.
- 48:21Speaker 3: We investigated ourselves and we found we did nothing wrong,
- 48:24Speaker 3: because how the fuck you you know what they're doing?
- 48:26Speaker 3: You started it? Yeah, yeah, you don't get to be
- 48:29Speaker 3: a hero here. Like I hope that you still have
- 48:31Speaker 3: to do time because it's giving, like an anonymity and
- 48:34Speaker 3: like you started this ship Marshall.
- 48:36Speaker 1: I know I was doing this, but I didn't know
- 48:38Speaker 1: what I was doing.
- 48:39Speaker 3: I'm just a baby, right your own ambitition. I'm I'm
- 48:42Speaker 3: just a little baby, y'all at a little murderer. Baby, no, no, no,
- 48:46Speaker 3: no no. So their evidence supported the claims they and
- 48:49Speaker 3: others had made, including lack of focus on patient care
- 48:51Speaker 3: and little discussion of eligibility and regular patient certification meetings.
- 48:55Speaker 3: They're so beyond not even you know, enrolling the right people.
- 48:59Speaker 3: They're not getting them the proper care. Now that really
- 49:01Speaker 3: pisses me off because at least, if you're going to
- 49:02Speaker 3: trick people into going to the hospice, it should at
- 49:04Speaker 3: least be nice.
- 49:05Speaker 4: You get your bag, like, hey, well this will be
- 49:07Speaker 4: a trick, but also it'll be the worst thing they've
- 49:09Speaker 4: ever done.
- 49:09Speaker 1: At least it's gonna be a trick. Let it be
- 49:11Speaker 1: a tree.
- 49:11Speaker 4: Because like those situations too. I know that though a
- 49:14Speaker 4: lot of times the goal in hospice care is to
- 49:16Speaker 4: make sure that people are comfortable and like, but I
- 49:19Speaker 4: feel like more often than I hear the people like
- 49:21Speaker 4: didn't enjoy that experience. But also because it's it's just
- 49:23Speaker 4: hard on everybody.
- 49:24Speaker 3: Exactly, which is fucked up. Yeah, so kindical saft. We're
- 49:27Speaker 3: also found to be under trained with a high potential
- 49:30Speaker 3: for care delivery failures. So now they're just also hiring
- 49:32Speaker 3: anybody that they can in this bitch Like, yeah, you
- 49:35Speaker 3: get to your interview, right, you get It's like Craigslist,
- 49:40Speaker 3: like great doors, great hours. All you need is scrubs apply,
- 49:44Speaker 3: and by apply, we mean to show up and you
- 49:46Speaker 3: have the job?
- 49:47Speaker 1: Can you be present? Like? Those are the requirements?
- 49:50Speaker 4: Can you yeah? Do you uh care? Can you just
- 49:52Speaker 4: be here?
- 49:53Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 49:53Speaker 4: You get here?
- 49:54Speaker 3: You can start today right any bus lines close to
- 49:56Speaker 3: where we at, or you got a car like then
- 49:59Speaker 3: to this very this job that needs a lot of skills,
- 50:02Speaker 3: I'll come get you. We got we got a shuttle. Yeah, okay,
- 50:05Speaker 3: y'all just pull up. We got scrubs. Actually, don't even
- 50:07Speaker 3: worry about that. So in twenty eleven, Marshall was found
- 50:10Speaker 3: out and put on paid leaf before leaving the company.
- 50:12Speaker 3: Hey leave this woman. Everything is coming over roses right now.
- 50:15Speaker 3: But by that point, she and her team had a
- 50:17Speaker 3: massed enough evidence that the Justice Department had conducted their
- 50:20Speaker 3: own investigation into the complaint. The Justice Department proceeded to
- 50:23Speaker 3: seek two hundred million dollars in fines and damages, and
- 50:26Speaker 3: most expected a Sarah Carre to settle, as fighting it
- 50:29Speaker 3: could mean bankruptcy. But in twenty fourteen, Sarah Kare created
- 50:33Speaker 3: history by fighting the complaints.
- 50:36Speaker 1: Now this is just.
- 50:37Speaker 3: Wild to me, because again the Justice Department, where y'all
- 50:39Speaker 3: putting two hundred million dollars? Because it doesn't sound like
- 50:41Speaker 3: it's going to go back to the people. And also
- 50:44Speaker 3: like Sarah was like, bump that we fighting because Marsha
- 50:47Speaker 3: bitch as the one who started this year.
- 50:48Speaker 1: She told us to do it.
- 50:49Speaker 3: We had no idea and Marshall was recruiting people and
- 50:52Speaker 3: being evil.
- 50:53Speaker 4: Let me just I think I left my phone the
- 50:55Speaker 4: other room real quick, get that quick.
- 50:57Speaker 1: Real quick. I'll be back. Sarah Kare just started screaming.
- 51:00Speaker 1: The Justice Department was like, we're storm. I don't know.
- 51:06Speaker 1: They just screamed on the phone. You might work, it
- 51:08Speaker 1: might work.
- 51:09Speaker 3: So the United States versus A Sarah Karer a trial
- 51:11Speaker 3: began August tenth, twenty fifteen, in Birmingham, Alabama, and marked
- 51:15Speaker 3: one of the most bizarreyet notable trials in the history
- 51:17Speaker 3: of hospice care.
- 51:18Speaker 1: From the start.
- 51:19Speaker 3: Prior to the beginning of the trial, the firm handling
- 51:21Speaker 3: of Sarah Kare's defense had just hired.
- 51:22Speaker 1: The judge's son as a summer associate. That's above board, Like,
- 51:27Speaker 1: do you want to enter mister judge's son.
- 51:29Speaker 3: No, I mean we think you're the most qualified as
- 51:32Speaker 3: the judges son.
- 51:33Speaker 1: I gotta stop saying, judge your son just work.
- 51:35Speaker 4: With can't wear your dad's robe to work.
- 51:39Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and like, yeah, we're gonna call you not judge,
- 51:43Speaker 3: you'r son when you come here.
- 51:44Speaker 4: Okay, what are we gonna do? Your name is judge
- 51:48Speaker 4: Judge's son.
- 51:48Speaker 1: Damn it? Why was she name with son? Judge's son?
- 51:52Speaker 1: So almost immediately, Judge Karen Bowdary showed unprecedented favoritism towards
- 51:56Speaker 1: the as Sarah Kare defense team.
- 51:58Speaker 3: Dang Karen, how you going? Karen knows herd how you
- 52:02Speaker 3: live up to the name.
- 52:03Speaker 1: Says, I didn't want to say it.
- 52:05Speaker 3: She was like, and also for an internship, you will
- 52:08Speaker 3: haul of Judge Carrey. You can't nipple your kids somewhere else.
- 52:11Speaker 3: You gotta nipple him here.
- 52:12Speaker 4: And you couldn't go outside for like a little bit.
- 52:15Speaker 3: Yeah, look you Karen. Karen literally sleeps in a coffin. Okay,
- 52:24Speaker 3: she loves she loves hospice, frid.
- 52:27Speaker 4: I think her lips are red because that's where her
- 52:31Speaker 4: blood is.
- 52:33Speaker 3: That's because that's what she thrives on to survive. She's
- 52:36Speaker 3: just sucking on oh negative every day. It's not lipstick. Yeah,
- 52:40Speaker 3: So she's nice, she's not given nice. So Judge Karen
- 52:44Speaker 3: made unprecedented and restricted decisions as to what evidence was
- 52:47Speaker 3: allowed to be brought in and how the case would
- 52:49Speaker 3: be divided. Despite these obstacles, two months later, the jury
- 52:53Speaker 3: found eighty six percent of the patient samples ineligible for
- 52:56Speaker 3: some period of hospice care, which would make the other
- 52:58Speaker 3: part of the.
- 52:58Speaker 1: Trial much easier. So just a few days after, Judge
- 53:01Speaker 1: Karen announced that she had made a major mistake and
- 53:04Speaker 1: she was overturning the jury's findings and granting A. Sarah
- 53:07Speaker 1: Krre's requests for a new trial.
- 53:09Speaker 3: She said, I made a major mistake because y'all not
- 53:12Speaker 3: doing what I had said when I coerced the job,
- 53:16Speaker 3: I was.
- 53:16Speaker 1: Doing coercion, and nobody seems to really be coerced. So
- 53:19Speaker 1: can we start over? Run it back? Running back.
- 53:22Speaker 3: This is like when you're playing like monopoly with like
- 53:24Speaker 3: your kid cousin who wants to change the rules and
- 53:26Speaker 3: when they start losing. Oh yeah, wait a minute, y'all
- 53:33Speaker 3: making fun of me. We got new terms of service.
- 53:35Speaker 3: You don't making fun of me. For the public safety
- 53:37Speaker 3: of everybody.
- 53:38Speaker 4: You can't no posts, no posts.
- 53:40Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of tweeting happened on Twitter, and
- 53:42Speaker 1: we got to stop that.
- 53:43Speaker 3: You see me somewhere. You actually didn't though, Yeah, no,
- 53:47Speaker 3: that's doc sing. If you see me somewhere, you say
- 53:50Speaker 3: where I am. Yeah, I don't care if I was
- 53:52Speaker 3: on TV. You can't tell nobody about that. So five
- 53:55Speaker 3: months later, Judge Karen awarded judgment to a Sarah Kaer
- 53:59Speaker 3: without completing the trial.
- 54:00Speaker 1: So she was like, you know, let's just wrap this up.
- 54:02Speaker 1: It's taken too long.
- 54:03Speaker 4: I'm bored of this.
- 54:04Speaker 1: I'm done with this. I'm done with this. Okay, I'm
- 54:07Speaker 1: not even that person anymore. Yeah, I'm actually gonna go
- 54:10Speaker 1: into the sun.
- 54:11Speaker 3: So yeah, so it wasn't until twenty how it hurts
- 54:17Speaker 3: doing it, And listen, if you're out there, you are
- 54:20Speaker 3: a pale girly.
- 54:21Speaker 1: I love a pale girly. Okay, she's just evil, Okay.
- 54:24Speaker 4: I stand behind my goth queen.
- 54:26Speaker 1: Yes.
- 54:27Speaker 3: So it wasn't until twenty nineteen that a retrial occurred,
- 54:30Speaker 3: which resulted in a settlement for one million dollars paid
- 54:33Speaker 3: by Sarah Care. The original claim had been for two
- 54:36Speaker 3: hundred millions, so they got off scott bucking free. Because
- 54:39Speaker 3: Judge Karen was out here griming all for her Sun's internship,
- 54:43Speaker 3: she must have been getting paid behind closed.
- 54:46Speaker 4: Doors a judge, Lacey, you can't just say something like
- 54:51Speaker 4: that's never happened before, You're.
- 54:53Speaker 1: Right, she's a woman of the cloth. Okay, she takes
- 54:56Speaker 1: that fabord seriously.
- 54:58Speaker 3: So in twenty twenty, company was bought for two hundred
- 55:02Speaker 3: and thirty five million dollars by a Medicis, a company
- 55:07Speaker 3: facing its own similar charges.
- 55:09Speaker 1: So now the crime companies are absorbing. We saw you
- 55:11Speaker 1: were doing that, and we do it too. So you
- 55:13Speaker 1: can buy you, y'all get away wet rod in the government.
- 55:18Speaker 3: We'll buy you so because we also would too, like
- 55:20Speaker 3: where y'all got Judge Carroll number and her judge a son.
- 55:23Speaker 1: You guys don't have receipts?
- 55:24Speaker 4: Right?
- 55:24Speaker 1: Good?
- 55:24Speaker 4: Okay, good, great.
- 55:26Speaker 3: So now, in twenty twenty two, a moratorium has been
- 55:30Speaker 3: placed on hospices in California due to an investigation that
- 55:32Speaker 3: was uncovered. It's uncovered thousands of for profit facilities with
- 55:36Speaker 3: fictional patients and staff. So now they were just like,
- 55:38Speaker 3: you know what, fuck it instead of harming real life
- 55:41Speaker 3: human beings, let's make them up.
- 55:42Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, okay, oh now and now we're back to
- 55:44Speaker 4: improv aren't It's a bit and you know what.
- 55:47Speaker 3: I like this bit better because at least we're not
- 55:48Speaker 3: harming real people. And I would think it was hilarious
- 55:51Speaker 3: if like they the government starts visiting these for profit
- 55:54Speaker 3: hospice centers and they're like, why are all the bands empty?
- 55:56Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, it was a bad day. Everyone died.
- 56:00Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, else this was bad.
- 56:01Speaker 1: Yeah, you should see them work.
- 56:03Speaker 4: They're like running around with a bunch of disguises and
- 56:05Speaker 4: be like, I'm this one.
- 56:06Speaker 1: They're hiring people off gregs. It's like just lay in
- 56:08Speaker 1: the bed.
- 56:09Speaker 4: Yeahst cough a little bit.
- 56:11Speaker 1: Yeah, some of y'all put out some owls. Yeah, a
- 56:13Speaker 1: few hours when the government comes.
- 56:15Speaker 4: We had the casting sheets for the extras on house.
- 56:21Speaker 1: You know, as actors. I would I would do even
- 56:25Speaker 1: I was just.
- 56:25Speaker 4: At a tape for something recently where there are a
- 56:27Speaker 4: bunch of actors like in the audience for taping who's like,
- 56:31Speaker 4: y'all'll do anything.
- 56:33Speaker 1: Listen, And I love that for them. So they found
- 56:37Speaker 1: out that they're doing all this fried.
- 56:38Speaker 3: There are few regulations or requirements to opening a hospice
- 56:41Speaker 3: in most states, which has led to instances such as
- 56:43Speaker 3: single addresses and Los Angeles being listed as having one
- 56:46Speaker 3: hundred and twenty nine hospices owned by a professional landlord.
- 56:50Speaker 1: So now these empty buildings in la they call them hospices.
- 56:53Speaker 4: Oh great.
- 56:54Speaker 3: So despite this, each business is valued at six figures
- 56:57Speaker 3: and are constantly being bought in souls.
- 56:58Speaker 1: This is full crime.
- 56:59Speaker 3: Between two twenty eleven and twenty nineteen, research shows that
- 57:01Speaker 3: a number of hospices owed by private equity firms tripled
- 57:04Speaker 3: and the quality of care has decreased in pe guys,
- 57:07Speaker 3: so fucking bad. In twenty eighteen, the Office of Inspector
- 57:11Speaker 3: General at the Department of Health and Human Services estimated
- 57:14Speaker 3: that inappropriate billing by hospice providers it had cost taxpayers
- 57:17Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars. It's expensive to die in America,
- 57:20Speaker 3: it's expensive to live in America. And a Sarah Caire
- 57:23Speaker 3: set the President that the companies are allowed to manipulate
- 57:25Speaker 3: the process of passing away to meet their financial goals.
- 57:28Speaker 3: There's no fucking way in hell that this should be
- 57:30Speaker 3: on the stock market, that there should be investors and
- 57:33Speaker 3: shareholders like this is a public service that we pay
- 57:35Speaker 3: taxes for, and private equity again swoops in and does
- 57:38Speaker 3: what capitalism does and puts a price tag on it
- 57:41Speaker 3: and just makes it the sickest shit in the fucking world.
- 57:43Speaker 4: We're gonna soon be paying monthly. I mean, I guess
- 57:46Speaker 4: we do kind of rent and stuff, but like we're
- 57:50Speaker 4: gonna have a subscription service for life, Like, okay, you
- 57:53Speaker 4: want to live, it's ninety nine dollars aready.
- 57:57Speaker 3: Life is basically a streaming platform. Cancel, nope, and you
- 58:01Speaker 3: need to have all of them.
- 58:02Speaker 1: It's like, okay, look, if you want a piece of food,
- 58:04Speaker 1: you need Hulu Plus.
- 58:05Speaker 4: Okay.
- 58:06Speaker 3: Now, if you want good foods, you gotta subscribe to
- 58:08Speaker 3: no ad. Yes, all right, you want medical care, but
- 58:10Speaker 3: you better get your Netflix.
- 58:11Speaker 4: And like ads when you eat bad food is like
- 58:14Speaker 4: stuff that's like not good free.
- 58:15Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nitrates and it's like chemicals. It's like if
- 58:19Speaker 3: you want chemical free, you got an upgrade. Yeah, you
- 58:22Speaker 3: gotta pay a little. Oh you don't want GMOs? Yeah,
- 58:24Speaker 3: oh you don't want pesticides. Laurdchen Ones wrote an amazing
- 58:27Speaker 3: joke in Florida Girls that was like, we go to
- 58:29Speaker 3: a rich person's house and I touched their avocados and
- 58:32Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I avocados and these are organic? That
- 58:35Speaker 3: mean you ain't got no poison on them.
- 58:40Speaker 1: That's literally what it is. You have to pay to
- 58:42Speaker 1: not have poison. Yeah, that's an upgrade, no poison.
- 58:45Speaker 4: Oh okay, you talk to poison.
- 58:48Speaker 1: You got money. M King always ass is such ass.
- 58:54Speaker 1: But if Sarah fuck y'all.
- 58:55Speaker 3: Y'all are terrible, and I can't believe that you got
- 58:57Speaker 3: away with this, Judge Karen and Judge's son, y'all are
- 59:00Speaker 3: terrible people.
- 59:01Speaker 1: And I really do hope that every time you go out.
- 59:03Speaker 3: In the sun, it's like a micro like a magnified
- 59:05Speaker 3: class to it, just sizzling. Yeah, okay, because that's what
- 59:08Speaker 3: you deserve. All Right, We're gonna move on to the
- 59:11Speaker 3: saddest part of the show, which it actually isn't today,
- 59:14Speaker 3: because the samest part of this shit is these motherfuckers,
- 59:17Speaker 3: like what pieces of goddamn just repugnant shep.
- 59:21Speaker 1: Yeah, you should be able to honestly worse.
- 59:23Speaker 3: Than shit, because at least escremat has a purpose, you know,
- 59:25Speaker 3: that can madure, it can grow grass, and shit like
- 59:27Speaker 3: y'all are.
- 59:28Speaker 1: Worse than that.
- 59:29Speaker 4: You should at the very least, at the end of
- 59:30Speaker 4: your life be guaranteed like dignity and yeah, and care
- 59:36Speaker 4: at least and for these.
- 59:39Speaker 1: People, I wish that they would have to go to
- 59:41Speaker 1: a hospice, a bad one.
- 59:42Speaker 3: And when they pinch on you every day and don't
- 59:44Speaker 3: change your bedpant, you know, just little pinches on it
- 59:47Speaker 3: all get pinched.
- 59:48Speaker 1: I'm gonna get pinched just so much and just tormented.
- 59:51Speaker 4: Calendar. Every day is Saint Patrick's Day.
- 59:54Speaker 1: And I'm not wearing any green.
- 59:55Speaker 4: Yep.
- 59:55Speaker 3: The only channel y'all you allowed to watch is uh
- 59:58Speaker 3: whatever that TV guide is hotels. Just Mario Lopez, but
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: the rest of your life. But he's describing all the
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: shows beautifully and he looks gorgeous, but you never get.
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: To watch any of them. Yeah, you know he's entertaining. Yeah,
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: that's my.
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: I'm gonna deserve his dimples, you know what, just a
- 1:00:15Speaker 3: fuzzy scream, like you go to a different input.
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: It's Mario Lopez still, but you can't really see the
- 1:00:21Speaker 4: definition of the dimple.
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because then that leaves them wanting Yeah, like
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: I know he has it, yep, but you can't. Well
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: never let you see a bitch. Yes, you don't deserve it. Yes,
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: So that brings us to the end of the show.
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: But before we go, scammer of the week. This is
- 1:00:35Speaker 3: where we highlighted Honorary charlottean that's worthy of our praise.
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: Are maybe not like Marsha's bitch ass who got away
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: to Scott Free for my liking and Judge Karen's old
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: raggedy ass. But today we're talking about a former officer
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Kansas. He's had
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: his police license revoked after he was caught trying to
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: scam a store out of nearly four hundred dollars worth
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: of Pokemon card.
- 1:01:00Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Okay, so actually he did nothing wrong.
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: I this is a very rare one for me.
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: We don't we don't stand up for cops, but it's
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: I can't we.
- 1:01:10Speaker 4: All host the video game podcast. I love Pokemon. This guy,
- 1:01:14Speaker 4: I'm turning the other way.
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: I mean, I had a Charie ard once that I
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: got randomly out of a cereal box and now was
- 1:01:19Speaker 3: in charsars were worth like a lot of money, and
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: I like sold just to somebody who really was into
- 1:01:22Speaker 3: the pokes and made a coin in school, you know
- 1:01:24Speaker 3: what I mean?
- 1:01:25Speaker 4: And this is this is this is really just hard
- 1:01:27Speaker 4: for me as like a guy that like hates cops yeah,
- 1:01:29Speaker 4: it's just and loves Pokemon.
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: This is really I mean, I wish more coch when
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: they say gott to catch them all. Yeah, if y'all
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: wouldn't mean black people, y'all, more of a would do
- 1:01:38Speaker 3: a Pokemon than trial.
- 1:01:39Speaker 4: But you know what, maybe they sort of took the
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: lessons of Pokemon and applied it to the Carsonals system
- 1:01:45Speaker 4: and that is sort of like, you know, that's they
- 1:01:48Speaker 4: maybe they got the wrong thing from it. Yeah, so
- 1:01:50Speaker 4: I have to actually do boo this man, and I can't.
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: Yeah, we we were tomato, Tomato tomato.
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: So.
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: William Knight, thirty two years old, quite young, had been
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: a full time cop with a depart meant since March
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: of twenty nineteen. He was in uniform buying groceries and
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: a large number of Pokemon cars. When he was a round, well,
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: he excusing when he aroused suspicion. I thought, I said
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: he was aroused at first, I said.
- 1:02:11Speaker 4: I just he's getting worse. This guy's fucking.
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: Hard putting holes. No. So, I mean some people say
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: that some of them are sexy. Okay, look that's a
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: conversation for another day.
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: Okay, some buck Mounts is bad bitches, Okay, so he
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: aroused suspicion of an in store asset protection investigator.
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: I love a cop getting taken down by a store cop.
- 1:02:37Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, like the audiacity they used to Like when
- 1:02:40Speaker 4: I worked at the store, they would just like chase
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: you through the store kind of and then once you
- 1:02:44Speaker 4: get out the door, they're like, well that's where that goes.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: Yeah, where I came. You chased him to the edge
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: of the earth.
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: They won't let me leave.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: Is a strong word, I mean followed it a little bit. Yeah,
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: like a high paced walk because you know they can't
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: run good.
- 1:02:57Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no.
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: Also, it's interesting to me, like does an instat copy
- 1:03:01Speaker 3: have cuffs? Does he have to be like, hey, let
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: me borrow your cuffs.
- 1:03:04Speaker 4: No, it's more of like you come here with me
- 1:03:05Speaker 4: situation and again to the back do it. Yeah.
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: I feel like I just had to be like, no,
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: have you ever.
- 1:03:10Speaker 4: Been caught at a grocery store in a loss prevention
- 1:03:13Speaker 4: situation and you went with them?
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: Yeah, don't go with them. I just feel like walk
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: the other way, or maybe run start hollering yeah you know,
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: or maybe put the thing back and be like, oh
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: my bad.
- 1:03:24Speaker 4: This is mine. Try that.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: Yeah. I came with this. I came with this.
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: Yeah you still got a bar code under it in
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: a sister, But I came because I actually need to get.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: It taken off.
- 1:03:34Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I bought this before. I didn't bring the receipt,
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: the sticker it was stuck on it.
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: I just bought an air fire from targeting and it
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: had that little alarm sounding thing on it. I bought it,
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: threw the self check out, and actually paid for it.
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: I'm sure Sandy got hell of airfires for the free
- 1:03:47Speaker 3: ninety nine shout out to you, queen, but I paid
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: for it. And then when I got out and I
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: like cut the little censer off at home and it
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: started making an.
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: Alarm and I was like, this is I'm at home. Yeah,
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna give them no tips, y'all take
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: the mare for everybody.
- 1:04:01Speaker 4: Ghost kitchen in her house with a bunch of air friers.
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: Year, and I love that for her.
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: So the you know, the protection asked and investigators like, huh,
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: mischief is afoot. So initially he tried to leave, saying
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: he had to respond.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: To a call. He was like, oh, I got a
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: two nine a cop cop thing happening.
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: But Eventually, he admitted that he had swapped out the
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: barcodes on the boxes for cheaper items.
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: Wow, the cop told the truth.
- 1:04:27Speaker 4: So wait, is that the first time that's ever happened?
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: Might be might be on record.
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: So Night was reportedly arrested and booked into the Johnson
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: County Adult Attention Center on May thirteen, twenty twenty two,
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: before he posted bond of twenty five hundred dollars. Twenty
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: five hundred dollars for Pokemon cards is a lot, but
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: a cop going to jail.
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: Yeah, about what he could have pulled. He could have
- 1:04:47Speaker 4: pulled something big and then you know, one card could
- 1:04:49Speaker 4: have got him out free. Who knows.
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: So he has since escaped criminal charges duh, though he's
- 1:04:55Speaker 3: no longer employed as a police officer in Jefferson County
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: or anywhere else. So I will say this, you must
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: be like really unlikable to the police officers. Maybe they
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: didn't like a bitch ass. Maybe it was he not
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: fishing the microwave every lunch, like you were doing something
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: to get on the police officer's nurse.
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: Because they let murderers wholly come back.
- 1:05:09Speaker 3: They let people who do murderers like murders on video,
- 1:05:11Speaker 3: get paid, leave it, come on back to the Christmas
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: party as shit.
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: But you got fired for Pokemon cars. Oh they didn't
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: like you. Was you fighting a lot? You ate a
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: lot of bees? He was thinking up the meat in.
- 1:05:20Speaker 4: A fucking dork. We can't have them work here, not
- 1:05:22Speaker 4: even that.
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: A lot of cops are dorks, most cops.
- 1:05:25Speaker 4: Yeah, the ways a cad.
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: All cops are dorks. So if you got fired from
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: the police, that means they really just you have bad vibes.
- 1:05:34Speaker 4: Oh you like rules, you fucking dork.
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: Right, Like, I'm confused. How do you get fired from
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: the police?
- 1:05:39Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's we should send this to them the
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: stories like, see, you can fire them, Yeah, they can
- 1:05:45Speaker 4: be fired.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: So maybe let's start firing them for the murders and
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: for the harassment, because you fire somebody for Pokemon cards, bro, Like, yeah,
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: they didn't like his vibes. In a statement from his lawyer,
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: it sayn't quotes. Unfortunately, in a time of severe stress
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: and anxiety, he exercised poor judgment, leading to his arrest
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: and charge. You know, the cop girlies loved to come at.
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: Us with a I was afraid, I have anxiety. I
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: was afraid I wasn't gonna catch them all.
- 1:06:15Speaker 4: What were you trying to fucking get like like that's
- 1:06:17Speaker 4: like they're not that expensive. No, actually were binding him
- 1:06:21Speaker 4: in bulk. He's stole four hundred dollars worth four thousand
- 1:06:23Speaker 4: dollars worth, four hundred, four hundred.
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: That's that's quite a bit. That's a lot of that's
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: a lot of anxiety A boosters.
- 1:06:31Speaker 3: Listen if this honestly inspires me though, like this is
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: the story that we need to start waiving these police
- 1:06:36Speaker 3: department spaces, because why are we letting cops literally get
- 1:06:39Speaker 3: away with murder but they can't get away with pokemon.
- 1:06:41Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a success story. Kind It was like you
- 1:06:43Speaker 4: can actually fire them, Yeah you should didn't know, they
- 1:06:46Speaker 4: just didn't know before, Like you get and we're actually
- 1:06:49Speaker 4: we could be helping him the.
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: Least thing I ever want to do. But all right,
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: you know that brings us to the end of the show.
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: And as we always ask on the show, Matt, where
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