Latest / Scam Goddess / The E-Book Evil Twins w/ Mano Agapion & Oscar Montoya
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Scal Come.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Froll scam, come rob that's frolla.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Goddess, what is pop? And Congregation to your girl. Lacy
- 0:21Speaker 1: Mostly aka.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Scam God is back with the comedy podcast all about robbery,
- 0:25Speaker 3: fraud and those who practice it. Sometimes we love them,
- 0:28Speaker 3: sometimes we hate them. We will see along the way,
- 0:30Speaker 3: all of us together. And today we have not one,
- 0:34Speaker 3: but two of the besties of the show on the show.
- 0:39Speaker 3: You've seen them and you've certainly heard them. One is
- 0:42Speaker 3: a TV writer, comedian and actor.
- 0:44Speaker 1: The other is as well.
- 0:45Speaker 3: They're saying, okay, come on, besties, except for the twist
- 0:48Speaker 3: of also being a hip hop dancer.
- 0:50Speaker 4: Yes.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Together, they host a hilarious and fun podcast, drag Her,
- 0:54Speaker 3: a podcast that breaks down episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race
- 0:57Speaker 3: as our drag Race her story.
- 1:00Speaker 1: And they really do know their ship.
- 1:01Speaker 4: It's crazy.
- 1:02Speaker 3: You've seen their work on The Chicken Sisters, Pretty Smart, Minx,
- 1:06Speaker 3: Dimension twenty Wizards, Beyond Waverley Place, and so much more. Congregation,
- 1:12Speaker 3: please welcome back Mono. And I'm about to buck up
- 1:15Speaker 3: your last name And I don't know why, No, no.
- 1:18Speaker 4: I don't care. Just go for it. Yeah that's correct,
- 1:22Speaker 4: I got.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Insecured there's too many and it even is phonetically here
- 1:27Speaker 3: and I didn't trusted.
- 1:32Speaker 4: And that's how you say that was a great intro.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Thank you?
- 1:35Speaker 1: That would Yeah.
- 1:36Speaker 5: I want to clip that intro and then use it
- 1:37Speaker 5: for everything everything that we host more.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I love a good intro because I feel like it's
- 1:42Speaker 3: like we get to hear our own eulogies, and that's
- 1:45Speaker 3: really true.
- 1:46Speaker 4: And we should be present at this.
- 1:48Speaker 1: We should.
- 1:49Speaker 4: I'm going to do a funeral party one pretty yeah, because.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Funeral for the living just doesn't seem fair. I want
- 1:54Speaker 1: to be there. I want to see y'all say it.
- 1:55Speaker 5: I want to see I know right, you're sitting on
- 1:58Speaker 5: a giant like throne watching everyone just cry.
- 2:01Speaker 1: That might have to be my next scam. It's just
- 2:03Speaker 1: fake my own death.
- 2:04Speaker 4: That's actually real.
- 2:06Speaker 1: I gotta know how people really come in.
- 2:08Speaker 4: That's true. That's the ultimate scam. You faking your own dad.
- 2:13Speaker 4: Who would come?
- 2:13Speaker 1: It's trying to steal my my ass?
- 2:16Speaker 4: You know, who would come and be like, guess what,
- 2:18Speaker 4: I'm glad she's gone, and then like and then you
- 2:22Speaker 4: get at them in the face and be like, guess what,
- 2:26Speaker 4: no one would do that.
- 2:27Speaker 5: You slide down from the chandelider surprise.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to do it, like, have a plant
- 2:32Speaker 3: person there to do that, just so my entrance can
- 2:34Speaker 3: be that more dramatic.
- 2:37Speaker 1: What you're saying about me?
- 2:38Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 2:42Speaker 3: Oh well, you know we always ask on this podcast,
- 2:44Speaker 3: what is your relationship with scams? I haven't had you
- 2:46Speaker 3: guys in a why so? I mean I feel like
- 2:49Speaker 3: the scams have just gotten bigger and bigger, and people
- 2:51Speaker 3: are getting more and more innovative.
- 2:53Speaker 1: So yeah, what's your relationship? Now?
- 2:55Speaker 3: Have you seen any run any any that you particularly
- 2:58Speaker 3: admired or hated anything?
- 3:00Speaker 4: Well, we both just recently on our podcast on the Patron,
- 3:06Speaker 4: we gave a lot of shoplifting tips to our well, yes, yes,
- 3:12Speaker 4: well yes I got caught shoplifting. I didn't know if
- 3:14Speaker 4: she was an outer.
- 3:15Speaker 5: Well I'm gonna do it. Hey, listen, I don't shot
- 3:18Speaker 5: the target. I steal from target. Yes, I stole from target.
- 3:22Speaker 1: That's the place where you should steal.
- 3:24Speaker 5: You should a place where everyone's listen. I'm not like
- 3:27Speaker 5: ground it's not groundbreaking news, you know what I mean. Well, now,
- 3:31Speaker 5: I didn't know that until the.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Recently, like the Handmaid chips.
- 3:37Speaker 4: Literally, oh my god, it's his.
- 3:42Speaker 5: Bulls then ready for me. So I went in there
- 3:46Speaker 5: and I was like, I was like, oh, I need
- 3:48Speaker 5: some vitamins. I just recently moved and the only thing
- 3:51Speaker 5: nearby was a target, and I was like, I'm gonna
- 3:54Speaker 5: go in there. I'm just gonna steal some vitamins.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Like it's not a big great it's a great steal
- 3:58Speaker 4: because it's expensive and small.
- 3:59Speaker 5: It's so expensive and it's super tiny and I and
- 4:02Speaker 5: I brought a little bag. I'm like, it's gonna be fine.
- 4:04Speaker 5: I walk in there and I run into an old
- 4:06Speaker 5: student of mine and we're like talking, and that's that's
- 4:11Speaker 5: the problem. I'm literally chatting away with him.
- 4:16Speaker 4: And you know, you know, because I also think teaching
- 4:19Speaker 4: improv makes you rich, Like clearly they have money, UC
- 4:28Speaker 4: that's the scam. And so you know, I I I
- 4:32Speaker 4: had the vitamins in my bag.
- 4:33Speaker 5: I was like talking to my old student and I'm like, okay,
- 4:38Speaker 5: all right, bye, I gotta go. And I walk out
- 4:40Speaker 5: the door and this manager steps right in front of me.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Did this of course, well, of course everyone, so I
- 4:48Speaker 4: didn't know that part of the story.
- 4:49Speaker 5: Yeah, she was like stop and I said what and
- 4:54Speaker 5: I need immediately it was like a fucking hell. And
- 4:56Speaker 5: I was like I'm sorry what And then I tried
- 4:59Speaker 5: to leave, being like all confused. And then because you
- 5:01Speaker 5: put your headphones on, yes, at first you were like
- 5:04Speaker 5: what yeah.
- 5:04Speaker 4: I was like this can't be but I know, what
- 5:06Speaker 4: hell you?
- 5:07Speaker 5: And then two cops show up or security officers whatever,
- 5:12Speaker 5: and they're like, come with us, and I said, me,
- 5:17Speaker 5: I get to see the back of the store. I
- 5:20Speaker 5: would be a little curious, like an eleven year old
- 5:23Speaker 5: child that did a naughty thing. I said, Okay, this
- 5:26Speaker 5: is gonna be fun. So I walked because I'm like,
- 5:28Speaker 5: I stole a. I stole like forty dollars with a
- 5:31Speaker 5: it's not a big deal.
- 5:31Speaker 4: So I walk back.
- 5:35Speaker 5: I'm like I feel my student's eyes on me as
- 5:37Speaker 5: I walked towards the back and I was like, this
- 5:39Speaker 5: is so embarrassing. I go to the back and then
- 5:42Speaker 5: they're like show shows your bag and I was like,
- 5:44Speaker 5: what what do you mean. They're like, shows your bag,
- 5:46Speaker 5: shows your bag. And then one of the security guards
- 5:48Speaker 5: just grabs my bag and opens it up, and I
- 5:50Speaker 5: was like I don't think that's a lot. Yeah, and
- 5:52Speaker 5: he takes the vitamins and I was like, oh, my gosh,
- 5:55Speaker 5: did I put the I'm sorry, I'll pay for them.
- 5:58Speaker 5: It's okay, I don't worry. And they were like it's
- 6:00Speaker 5: too late. And I can tell the manager was feeling
- 6:03Speaker 5: a little zesty with that. She really was like crop
- 6:07Speaker 5: in the store.
- 6:08Speaker 4: She was having a blast with me.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Accidentally put something.
- 6:12Speaker 3: I don't know it was not your attention, but it's like,
- 6:14Speaker 3: you haven't been there before, you haven't stolen from this
- 6:16Speaker 3: place before.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Likes to build a case. Well, actually I have okay,
- 6:20Speaker 1: Well then they might have been building the case.
- 6:22Speaker 4: They were building a case.
- 6:26Speaker 3: If you get away up a little bit switch store
- 6:28Speaker 3: and that's the actual switch stores.
- 6:31Speaker 5: But no, there's like a it's a whole database. It's
- 6:35Speaker 5: a whole database. So listen, you hit seven fifty.
- 6:39Speaker 4: Then they cast yeah.
- 6:42Speaker 5: And so they were like, oh yeah, blah blah blah,
- 6:46Speaker 5: you sold these vitamins. And then she got really like,
- 6:48Speaker 5: what are you going to do these vitamins? Were you
- 6:50Speaker 5: selling them? Were you trying to sell them? Were you
- 6:51Speaker 5: selling them illegally? You were going to sell them illegally?
- 6:54Speaker 5: And I was like, vitamins, what are you talking? How
- 6:58Speaker 5: is doing that about American health care?
- 7:00Speaker 1: Is that I understand what she said, literally, how.
- 7:05Speaker 4: Much do you think B twelve is worth on the strikes?
- 7:08Speaker 4: That seriously vitality.
- 7:17Speaker 5: So yeah, they were scrilling me. I was like, I
- 7:20Speaker 5: didn't know this was happening, Like I don't know, I
- 7:22Speaker 5: could make up. I said maybe actually, but I was
- 7:25Speaker 5: like no, no, no, and then she's like she made
- 7:28Speaker 5: me sign all this paperwork and then they took pictures
- 7:30Speaker 5: of me. They took six pictures of me from all angles,
- 7:33Speaker 5: and I said, oh my gosh.
- 7:35Speaker 1: And then she was like private prison.
- 7:43Speaker 5: And then they said they were like, you're banned from targets,
- 7:46Speaker 5: all targets for a year. And I was like I
- 7:48Speaker 5: chuckled because I was like a year and I and
- 7:51Speaker 5: my my whole attitude.
- 7:52Speaker 4: Was like this is so silly. I was like, okay, fine, whatever, like,
- 7:57Speaker 4: but she was not happy. Thought. She wanted me stressed.
- 8:02Speaker 4: She wanted me just shaking. She wanted me pleading.
- 8:08Speaker 5: You know, I could arrest you right now if I
- 8:09Speaker 5: wanted to. And I was like, no, you can't, and
- 8:12Speaker 5: she's like, yes, I can. So mad that I wasn't
- 8:16Speaker 5: like pleading for my life. I was like, okay, girl, whatever,
- 8:22Speaker 5: and then she just let me go and I walked.
- 8:23Speaker 4: Out and I was like, lord, literally, being a county
- 8:27Speaker 4: little thief is really funny. I think county. I was
- 8:33Speaker 4: just like, okay, you caught me, girl, but can I
- 8:35Speaker 4: go now?
- 8:35Speaker 1: I want to go, and you want me to be
- 8:38Speaker 1: in physical toss about literally.
- 8:41Speaker 4: Also like come back in the year is so funny
- 8:42Speaker 4: of like, okay, so we're still doing capitalism. It's like
- 8:45Speaker 4: we want your mind exactly in three hundred and sixty
- 8:48Speaker 4: five days.
- 8:49Speaker 5: You could a bad thing. Yeah, time out for a year, yeah,
- 8:51Speaker 5: but then come back to come back, come back with money.
- 8:55Speaker 4: Yeah. I hate that. And I was saying you, it's
- 8:58Speaker 4: targets great and easy to steal because when you go
- 9:01Speaker 4: to the self checkout, you can like you like, boop
- 9:05Speaker 4: your card and then after you boop your card, it's like, oh,
- 9:09Speaker 4: do you want to do check or cash or do
- 9:12Speaker 4: you want a bag? Like they make you do these
- 9:14Speaker 4: other steps after they you've already booped your card. So
- 9:17Speaker 4: I tell everyone, if you're going to steal from Target,
- 9:20Speaker 4: go boop your card and hit it, because then the
- 9:23Speaker 4: sale doesn't finish because you've done it's worth yes before
- 9:27Speaker 4: and it's plausible deniability. You can be like I booped
- 9:30Speaker 4: my card. I heard the card go boop. I didn't know.
- 9:33Speaker 4: It didn't charge me, and it works the boo it
- 9:36Speaker 4: all the boot page and Target. If you're hearing this,
- 9:38Speaker 4: fuck you you Target, fuck you sponsored by Target.
- 9:43Speaker 3: No, I am not, but it is kind of like
- 9:47Speaker 3: a class thing too, of like if you're paying with
- 9:49Speaker 3: cash and you don't got boop in on your phone,
- 9:51Speaker 3: then like you're kind of like left out of that.
- 9:53Speaker 3: That's why I don't like places that are only card
- 9:55Speaker 3: because I'm like, that's really classes because what if I
- 9:57Speaker 3: only have cash? Like what if I don't have the
- 10:00Speaker 3: boop situation? I don't you know, I can't boop a flip?
- 10:04Speaker 4: You want me to boot my sidekick, I'm gonna just
- 10:09Speaker 4: do the boot myself.
- 10:10Speaker 1: I have keep walking.
- 10:13Speaker 4: What's my LG artist?
- 10:15Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 10:16Speaker 4: What was my LG called? That had the chocolate? It
- 10:20Speaker 4: was not a chocolate. It wasn't the sidekick? How did it? Okay?
- 10:24Speaker 4: So this is the phone, So it was vertical on
- 10:26Speaker 4: this and then when you opened it there was a
- 10:29Speaker 4: physical keyboard that went sideways. It's not the sidekick. I
- 10:32Speaker 4: don't think sidekicks. That's no Kia. Okay, on the phone,
- 10:35Speaker 4: it looked vertical here. Yeah, you're the phone. Okay, boo
- 10:38Speaker 4: boo boop. Oh, I got a call. Oh no, not
- 10:41Speaker 4: right now, Mom, I'll text you then you go. And
- 10:44Speaker 4: the keyboards here like this.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Okay, what kind of mobile situation is.
- 10:50Speaker 5: I was?
- 10:51Speaker 4: I was in college in the before time. I didn't
- 10:54Speaker 4: When I was in college, there were no iPhones. Oh
- 10:57Speaker 4: my god, isn't that fuck? Wow? Oh she's ancient. I'm ancient.
- 11:01Speaker 4: There was no grinder. Oh my god, Oh wow, isn't
- 11:05Speaker 4: that crazy. I don't know how I got sick, but
- 11:08Speaker 4: I found.
- 11:08Speaker 3: It was like like Pokemon going in or like you
- 11:11Speaker 3: just gotta can't use a masterball. Y'all had to get
- 11:15Speaker 3: on missconnections and be like I saw.
- 11:16Speaker 4: You by the water and had to go to the
- 11:19Speaker 4: gay club and you had to be using that fishing
- 11:23Speaker 4: line like you had to go for it.
- 11:24Speaker 5: Were you around in LA when Circus of Books was
- 11:27Speaker 5: a thing, because that was a cruisy spot.
- 11:29Speaker 1: I didn't do that, Okay, I was it a library.
- 11:33Speaker 4: Circus of Books is like a video and like bookstore
- 11:37Speaker 4: that's known to be a gay institution because it's like
- 11:40Speaker 4: a cruising hot spot for yes, all the way going
- 11:44Speaker 4: back to the sixties. Mm hmm. Wow. But now it
- 11:47Speaker 4: doesn't it doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe
- 11:49Speaker 4: by the time I moved there were no circus of books.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Like Grinder killed circus of books.
- 11:54Speaker 4: Yeah, Grinder killed a lot of things did, including romance.
- 11:57Speaker 4: It's dead.
- 11:58Speaker 1: That's dead. But scammed.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Okay, I just got scammed. Oh no, this is the
- 12:07Speaker 4: you'll see this is this is a light scam. It's
- 12:09Speaker 4: not a real scam. It's a light scam. I was
- 12:11Speaker 4: in Seattle, and which is so insane. I accidentally booked
- 12:15Speaker 4: a part playing the gay the gay in a Christmas
- 12:19Speaker 4: rom com.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Okay, you accidentally.
- 12:20Speaker 4: I'm not even joking with you. I did a table
- 12:23Speaker 4: past somewhere and we're like, you're gay this movie Christmas.
- 12:29Speaker 1: You look like a old tide gay.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I did. I did my friend's table read for her movie,
- 12:39Speaker 4: and they were just like, I don't know, you are funny.
- 12:41Speaker 4: You should do it period. That's called talented. Yes, yeah,
- 12:44Speaker 4: that's true. That's true. That's true. I accidentally killed it.
- 12:47Speaker 4: But so I went to Seattle to film this movie
- 12:49Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, cool, I'm in Seattle. I'm
- 12:51Speaker 4: gonna go be adventuress and meet the gays, and I
- 12:54Speaker 4: went to one insane gay night at the Eagle called Gyznasium.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Okay, we're getting to the point, you know what's happening.
- 13:02Speaker 4: Where you have to take your clothes off and you
- 13:06Speaker 4: kit caddy, kit caddye what's that? So?
- 13:08Speaker 3: Kit cat clubs were like you go in and like
- 13:10Speaker 3: there's like a lady like with the titties out and
- 13:13Speaker 3: she's like get yours out, just.
- 13:16Speaker 5: Like you're the woman in front of the door with
- 13:18Speaker 5: her titties are being like, how's your chick?
- 13:21Speaker 4: Now you do it?
- 13:22Speaker 1: I was like, okay, how goot? I give you out
- 13:25Speaker 1: my shirt. It was like yeah, I we'll take your shirt.
- 13:34Speaker 4: What was going on?
- 13:35Speaker 1: I was in Berlin. I wanted to know what was
- 13:37Speaker 1: going on? Was closed at night?
- 13:39Speaker 4: You I was doing?
- 13:40Speaker 1: I was like, you're saying what was going on?
- 13:42Speaker 4: Wait? Like, so were you mugged? Get take it off it.
- 13:47Speaker 4: You're like, okay, I'll give you my top. She's like okay,
- 13:49Speaker 4: well she.
- 13:49Speaker 1: First of my jackets because it was cold.
- 13:52Speaker 3: I was like, oh yeah, cold check. And then as
- 13:54Speaker 3: I was trying to keep going, she was like that too,
- 13:56Speaker 3: and where you want my purse? King, I can't cash
- 14:04Speaker 3: on me. So I was just like I tipped her
- 14:05Speaker 3: a little extra. Was like, hey, make sure done that
- 14:07Speaker 3: that happened to my stuff.
- 14:08Speaker 1: And she was like, I got you. I got you.
- 14:12Speaker 6: But so you go.
- 14:13Speaker 4: Okay, So we go to because I've been saying yes
- 14:15Speaker 4: to life. I'm like, I'm like, I wasn't really totally myself,
- 14:19Speaker 4: if you know. I mean when you go to a
- 14:20Speaker 4: city and you're like, I'm not really myself here. I'm
- 14:22Speaker 4: an experiment and try some choices. So I go to
- 14:25Speaker 4: gymnasium and I wear a towel and I meet some
- 14:29Speaker 4: new friends.
- 14:30Speaker 5: Wait, just a towel, nothing underneath, nothing underneath.
- 14:32Speaker 4: It's fun, it's flirty, hahaha, Cuka cue. And I meet
- 14:36Speaker 4: some very nice, goofy friends. They're sweet, they're nice, they're intelligent.
- 14:41Speaker 4: They're Seattle gays, right, they like, they're cerebral, they're funny.
- 14:45Speaker 3: I was like, well, you guys are turn events in
- 14:48Speaker 3: the nude yeh okay, okay.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Grace Seattle, that's Seattle. That's just Seattle girl. So whatever.
- 14:56Speaker 4: I'm having a great time with them. And they're like,
- 14:58Speaker 4: come to this rave tomorrow now.
- 15:00Speaker 1: And I'm like, hey, second location.
- 15:02Speaker 4: Okay, They're like, don't worry, We're gonna have like a
- 15:04Speaker 4: pre party before. Come to the pre party before. Okay,
- 15:07Speaker 4: I go to the pre party. Point is, these educated, sweet,
- 15:11Speaker 4: fun nice men that I met the night before, I
- 15:14Speaker 4: now realize are the stinkiest people I've ever met.
- 15:19Speaker 5: And these men you're gonna get in trouble with Seattle.
- 15:21Speaker 4: I don't give a shit. Oh these men smell like
- 15:23Speaker 4: barnyard animals. Because there's like a moment happening in the
- 15:28Speaker 4: queer community where some people are really into musk, really
- 15:32Speaker 4: into musk and body older and letting it ride. And
- 15:38Speaker 4: I'm not saying I'm not saying one or two days
- 15:40Speaker 4: post shower. I'm saying a week or more no shower
- 15:44Speaker 4: or no armpit rehab.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Why.
- 15:47Speaker 4: And I felt scammed.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Just the way they smelled normal when you met them.
- 15:52Speaker 4: I guess they were all the clothes were off or
- 15:55Speaker 4: maybe just nasium smelled. But it's about I didn't realize it.
- 15:58Speaker 3: I'm like, doesn't the body make this, well, not the clothes,
- 16:00Speaker 3: And the clothes can't make the smell. But if the
- 16:02Speaker 3: body smelling, then the body don't know.
- 16:03Speaker 4: The clothes is like a barrier for the soul like
- 16:06Speaker 4: prevents a lot of smell also of the spell.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Know what happened Gymnasium, So I don't know. I know
- 16:14Speaker 3: what you're gonna be people with their children.
- 16:18Speaker 4: Yeah, you know where it.
- 16:19Speaker 1: We're explicit. I just don't want to say it.
- 16:22Speaker 4: Beeps are funny though, to be.
- 16:24Speaker 3: Fair, gym smell bad though, so maybe they were trying
- 16:27Speaker 3: to be like we this is a place of funk.
- 16:32Speaker 4: I don't know, but I felt scanned because I was like,
- 16:34Speaker 4: oh man, I thought we were going to be friends.
- 16:37Speaker 4: Now I can't. I can't stand. I can't stand the
- 16:39Speaker 4: way you spell people.
- 16:41Speaker 1: You associate sophistication with smell.
- 16:44Speaker 4: I colonized, that's your prejudice. No, that's your prejudice, asked mine.
- 16:48Speaker 1: I'm the same way.
- 16:49Speaker 4: I'm sorry to colonize.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Your brain smells deeply connected to memory, and if you
- 16:53Speaker 3: smell bad, I wouldn't. There are some people that I
- 16:55Speaker 3: really enjoy and the comedy community, people that I really
- 16:58Speaker 3: like that are geniuses and I've worked with afterwards. I'm
- 17:00Speaker 3: not gonna say because they've been on this podcast, but
- 17:03Speaker 3: I'll never forget going into a green room for a
- 17:05Speaker 3: show and this press and I know they were depressed.
- 17:07Speaker 1: But this person smells so bad, so bad that I
- 17:10Speaker 1: remember it.
- 17:10Speaker 4: This was five years ago depression coming out of memory.
- 17:14Speaker 1: For you memory. What I'm saying, like, I understand where
- 17:17Speaker 1: you're coming from. You were scammed.
- 17:18Speaker 3: There was your fun, sophisticated friends, and then they hit
- 17:22Speaker 3: your nose like that, and.
- 17:23Speaker 4: The queer community if for listening. I feel scammed by
- 17:26Speaker 4: y'all who are like, we're doing this now because you're
- 17:30Speaker 4: taking up you're taking up too much space. What the
- 17:32Speaker 4: hell you silencing voices? Now?
- 17:36Speaker 1: Are we doing this now?
- 17:38Speaker 3: And you definitely aren't taking up too much space because
- 17:39Speaker 3: the odor does take up space.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Now you're not just to yourself.
- 17:46Speaker 4: Your choice is taking up is taking away my freedom
- 17:49Speaker 4: to not smell you. Yeah, what do you think about
- 17:51Speaker 4: musty gays? I don't care. You don't care. I mean
- 17:55Speaker 4: it's bad, Like if you smell bad, back off. But
- 17:58Speaker 4: I'm not going to those spaces. Do you know what
- 18:00Speaker 4: I mean?
- 18:01Speaker 1: You can have a safe stinky space.
- 18:02Speaker 4: I just I just need to know I was encroaching
- 18:06Speaker 4: on their safe space.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Scammed yourself.
- 18:11Speaker 4: You wanted to get scared. Some people want to get scared.
- 18:14Speaker 1: You said, you're being a different person in a different city,
- 18:16Speaker 1: and there you were.
- 18:18Speaker 4: I was trying to be a stink boy and I'm
- 18:20Speaker 4: not scarce.
- 18:25Speaker 5: God, I thought you were going to talk about the
- 18:28Speaker 5: pup story that too.
- 18:29Speaker 4: Because that's when you were truly scammed. Here's another scam.
- 18:33Speaker 4: So I'm at this rave it's the same rave ravecause
- 18:36Speaker 4: goddamn same rave whatever, and I'm like, I meet someone
- 18:39Speaker 4: who does not smell and they're funny and cool. I'm like, oh,
- 18:42Speaker 4: you took a shower.
- 18:44Speaker 1: I'm not shutting so much during a damn right.
- 18:48Speaker 4: That's actually also the music here was hell just c.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Yeah, do y'all have this?
- 18:58Speaker 4: I'm not even kidding. This was the song playing during
- 19:00Speaker 4: the ray for twenty minutes, The chemicals, the chemicals, the chemicals, chemicals,
- 19:09Speaker 4: And I was like, y'all are crazy. So I find
- 19:11Speaker 4: one guy. I'm like, oh, like, he's just like a nice,
- 19:13Speaker 4: good time friendly having a nice time talking about finally. Yeah.
- 19:18Speaker 4: I was just like finally engaging. Also, a lot of
- 19:21Speaker 4: people were on the drugs, themicals, the chemicals. I wasn't
- 19:25Speaker 4: on the chemicals, and I was like, Okay, this guy's
- 19:27Speaker 4: like here right now, you know what I mean. So
- 19:29Speaker 4: I was like, I can talk to him. We're having
- 19:30Speaker 4: a nice time. And then in the middle of our
- 19:34Speaker 4: nice conversation, I think he smells good. I think he's
- 19:36Speaker 4: one of he's he's one of us. Now one of us.
- 19:39Speaker 4: He pulls out a mask from his back pocket chemicals.
- 19:43Speaker 4: It's a pop mask. I don't know if you know
- 19:45Speaker 4: what this is. It's a pop mask. And he says
- 19:48Speaker 4: to me, now I'm Grunger. And that's when I said, okay,
- 19:56Speaker 4: I have to go to Taco back. I've been scammed.
- 19:58Speaker 1: I have been scammed.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Now that when you were, you were scared. He presented
- 20:04Speaker 3: like he was just literally right, y'all, was talking over
- 20:07Speaker 3: the gem and it was I was having a great time.
- 20:10Speaker 3: And then now he's like, no, you can't just whip that.
- 20:12Speaker 5: I wanted to be to me a totally different person
- 20:15Speaker 5: to Grunker.
- 20:16Speaker 4: I was like, no, bitch, you're a nice white man
- 20:18Speaker 4: named Tyler. You're not Grunker.
- 20:20Speaker 1: And also Grunker feels like you grugger. What do you
- 20:24Speaker 1: need to be Grunker? He don't know, and be like
- 20:28Speaker 1: this is something I like, why you gotta be Grunker?
- 20:32Speaker 6: What do you do?
- 20:33Speaker 1: In the assaulter ego?
- 20:34Speaker 4: No, what do you do? And here's here's my one
- 20:39Speaker 4: one more canceled opinion. I have gaze. I think we
- 20:43Speaker 4: got to hold off on the pumps. I think once
- 20:46Speaker 4: we have more rights, you can bring out the pop masks.
- 20:49Speaker 4: But right now we go we gotta get our rights.
- 20:51Speaker 4: And you're pulling up the pup mask and you're scaring them.
- 20:55Speaker 4: You're scaring the bad people who already don't want to
- 20:57Speaker 4: give us stuff. You gotta butt away the pup mask.
- 21:00Speaker 3: But they did it at the place with the chemicals,
- 21:02Speaker 3: so like it was kind of like safe right. It
- 21:04Speaker 3: was like they were at targeting the via of the story.
- 21:08Speaker 1: I could see your points.
- 21:10Speaker 4: I could see your points.
- 21:10Speaker 3: You were definitely duped to the second time. I'm gonna
- 21:13Speaker 3: give it to the people, but the second round I'm
- 21:18Speaker 3: gonna give to you. Yeah, you didn't know that Grugger
- 21:20Speaker 3: was coming until so you were like saying.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Showed up. That wasn't right, that wasn't right.
- 21:29Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Well, let's move out of this messy acid. It's my
- 21:36Speaker 1: favorite part of the show.
- 21:37Speaker 3: I don't know today this isled you. No, y'all really
- 21:42Speaker 3: came in with things y'all already, so I feel a
- 21:45Speaker 3: little dragged, you know. The podcast like, so, I'm gonna
- 21:50Speaker 3: have the chemicals stuck in my head all day. But
- 21:53Speaker 3: let's get to historic hoodwings. This is where I were,
- 21:55Speaker 3: Gail Mana and Oscar with the famous Concaper criminals.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Maybe we love them, maybe we hate them. Maybe there's
- 22:00Speaker 1: Delia as hell. We'll see.
- 22:01Speaker 6: So.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Amazon is full of useless ebooks and audio books that
- 22:07Speaker 3: were clearly generated by chat GPT and have no reason
- 22:11Speaker 3: to exist.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Not my book, y'all, go pick up my book. Scam God,
- 22:13Speaker 1: this is.
- 22:14Speaker 4: Very real, every fine, fine literature.
- 22:17Speaker 3: The reason they exist is because of the Michaelson Twins,
- 22:21Speaker 3: who literally wrote the book on publishing scams.
- 22:25Speaker 4: Michaelson Twins.
- 22:26Speaker 3: I've never heard of these and so ebooks and audiobooks.
- 22:29Speaker 3: I've never heard of them either, But now we know
- 22:31Speaker 3: about them.
- 22:32Speaker 4: I hope they address a lots who talk in.
- 22:40Speaker 3: Love it so ebooks and audiobooks. There's a huge underground
- 22:44Speaker 3: world dedicated to producing and distributing very cheap, very low
- 22:48Speaker 3: quality e books on Amazon, from nonfiction to romance books.
- 22:52Speaker 3: Like when the three attacks.
- 22:56Speaker 4: The three three, I.
- 22:58Speaker 3: Don't know, but three is a scary no. I feel
- 23:01Speaker 3: like if three, like if the two attack, I'm not.
- 23:04Speaker 4: Three the four.
- 23:05Speaker 3: I know there's some interpersonal fighting between y'all each other. Yeah,
- 23:10Speaker 3: three the three feels very evil and like, y'all, y'all
- 23:13Speaker 3: are witches.
- 23:14Speaker 4: It's like the Powerpuff Girls. You don't want to fight
- 23:16Speaker 4: all three of them.
- 23:16Speaker 1: No, they was beating Mojo jojo ass.
- 23:20Speaker 4: He would be down on the ground bleeding.
- 23:22Speaker 3: And there's already already, y'all. So other books like Apricot,
- 23:32Speaker 3: barcode architecture, that's English. That's so many things that don't
- 23:36Speaker 3: mean anything, but it does get the people going, like,
- 23:41Speaker 3: I'm alert.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Apricot sounds fancy, barcode architecture.
- 23:46Speaker 4: Like look at this?
- 23:49Speaker 1: Wait, if you love me? Whoa, And it's a picture
- 23:53Speaker 1: of a dove looking at me.
- 23:54Speaker 4: But also maybe that's a seagull. Oh, lazy Oscar is
- 24:01Speaker 4: a bird expert. I excuse me.
- 24:07Speaker 5: Once wartime is over, Lacey's releasing a seagull to symbolize
- 24:11Speaker 5: that war is over.
- 24:14Speaker 1: It's immediately packing me today.
- 24:17Speaker 4: But yeah, wait, wait you love me?
- 24:20Speaker 1: That's the title of the book. And then it's a
- 24:22Speaker 1: seagull looking at us. Sam, I hate love.
- 24:26Speaker 4: I hate birds.
- 24:27Speaker 1: I don't know if it's about birds.
- 24:28Speaker 3: I don't know if it's about I don't know, rehabilitation
- 24:31Speaker 3: of their image.
- 24:33Speaker 4: I think it's about a seagull who falls in love
- 24:35Speaker 4: with the human, and the human falls in love back.
- 24:37Speaker 1: And the author of this book is.
- 24:41Speaker 4: Nope, Nope, it's unpron It seems like I would guess
- 24:47Speaker 4: it was quinn T is my guess, but I'm not
- 24:50Speaker 4: an expert on pronunciation. Quina quin t m queen Vietnamese name.
- 24:58Speaker 1: Maybe I don't want to make fun of nobody name.
- 25:02Speaker 4: I name.
- 25:03Speaker 3: So they're not real books written by real authors. They're
- 25:06Speaker 3: made up nonsense, using trending keywords to try to get
- 25:09Speaker 3: real readers to click on and buy a fake or
- 25:11Speaker 3: really really bad book by mistake. I don't know if
- 25:15Speaker 3: weight you love me would a segull is gonna get me?
- 25:19Speaker 4: You aren't entranced by the cover and the font of
- 25:21Speaker 4: the letters. No, No, Do you think it's for people?
- 25:27Speaker 4: Because you know, sometimes people fall in love with objects.
- 25:29Speaker 4: Have you heard of this? People like it's called objective sexuality.
- 25:32Speaker 1: Yeah, Like people like falling in love like a pillow, yeah, or.
- 25:35Speaker 4: The Eiffel Tower, and then they go and like try
- 25:38Speaker 4: to marry it. There's a documentary called Like I Love
- 25:42Speaker 4: You Eiffel Tower, or I married the Eiffel Tower, Statues, fences, bridges,
- 25:48Speaker 4: I know this is what I'm saying. Guys, put away
- 25:50Speaker 4: the pup masks, put no bounds. No, wow, crazy, I'm sorry.
- 25:56Speaker 1: I'm falling in love with no building.
- 26:00Speaker 4: Build and you see the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, and you have.
- 26:04Speaker 3: It.
- 26:04Speaker 4: Yeah, cover your ears. Building can't make you nut, cover
- 26:10Speaker 4: your cover your hairs. Whoever listening, building can't make you
- 26:13Speaker 4: cover your ears.
- 26:14Speaker 5: To immediately say, no time to cover any ears at all,
- 26:22Speaker 5: scamp nothing cover yours building.
- 26:25Speaker 3: So so many of these books include misinformation or repackage
- 26:31Speaker 3: basic facts from Wicky. How some of them steal the
- 26:34Speaker 3: names from well established existing authors and pretend to be
- 26:37Speaker 3: new releases from those writers.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Now I made no scamp gout is too okay, So
- 26:42Speaker 1: you see scam gots to elect your Bookloo, that ain't me.
- 26:45Speaker 4: That ain't me.
- 26:46Speaker 1: That's chat.
- 26:48Speaker 4: That is not a very gordy property.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Okay.
- 26:53Speaker 3: So with generative AI, anyone can create cover, images, outlines,
- 26:57Speaker 3: and even the text of a really bad book with
- 27:00Speaker 3: almost no time and effort and sell it for ninety
- 27:02Speaker 3: nine cents. But even before AI, fake ebooks were a
- 27:06Speaker 3: thriving scam area. Now I will say like ninety nine
- 27:09Speaker 3: cents for like a horrible garbage AI book.
- 27:12Speaker 1: I might be curious a little bit going on, you.
- 27:15Speaker 5: Said, And I was like, but what nine sense is
- 27:17Speaker 5: not that expensive? See what kind of garbage this AI
- 27:20Speaker 5: slop is?
- 27:21Speaker 4: Do the sentences sentence right? That's the thing.
- 27:24Speaker 5: Are the Are they just letters put together? Are they
- 27:26Speaker 5: actual sentences?
- 27:27Speaker 1: Because I love a good hate watch, I think I
- 27:29Speaker 1: would love a good hate read.
- 27:30Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't encourage you, so we cannot encourage a
- 27:33Speaker 3: it's literally killing people in Memphis.
- 27:35Speaker 2: You can.
- 27:37Speaker 4: There's already bad books you can hate read, like Jessica
- 27:39Speaker 4: Simpson's autobiography. Oh you had that, Jessica Simpson. I'm coming
- 27:48Speaker 4: from it as if it was written by a toddler.
- 27:51Speaker 4: It's like me got scared, me get married, like it
- 27:56Speaker 4: made shoes, and then I recommend the audiobook because she
- 27:59Speaker 4: could barely read her own audio book.
- 28:03Speaker 1: I love that her shoes were good. Okay, oh they
- 28:06Speaker 1: were good.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, you wouldn't have got caught up in target
- 28:09Speaker 3: if you had on because iride from the cops.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Many a time. Sturdy as fun. I'm not playing. Okay,
- 28:18Speaker 1: you're still making the responsors shoes and you could wear
- 28:22Speaker 1: a sheel all night at the curb. It was basically
- 28:24Speaker 1: a pleaser.
- 28:25Speaker 4: But I love pleas, you know what I mean?
- 28:28Speaker 3: Not a bit, just want to have a high ass
- 28:29Speaker 3: pitch within, asked little fashion. He I'm like, where's not
- 28:31Speaker 3: going I take a picture on the carpet or where whatever,
- 28:34Speaker 3: ben I'm at? And then I thought, I I throw
- 28:37Speaker 3: them in my person flats on butch are you kidding me?
- 28:39Speaker 6: No?
- 28:41Speaker 1: No, I'm an adult. You're not doing that.
- 28:45Speaker 3: But just got a book locked and loaded for you guys.
- 28:48Speaker 3: If you don't want to spend money on it. Sorry,
- 28:50Speaker 3: it's a fact. So in the early twenty tens lots
- 28:53Speaker 3: of people wrote real blogs about how to quickly and
- 28:56Speaker 3: easily publish a nonsense book to Amazon's e book platform.
- 29:00Speaker 3: They distinguished between schemes that were white hat, where you
- 29:03Speaker 3: technically followed Amazon's rules, and black hat, where you actually
- 29:07Speaker 3: violated Amazon's term of service but it still worked. I
- 29:10Speaker 3: don't like this white hat black hat, And I know
- 29:15Speaker 3: that you used to say the white hat on Scandal
- 29:16Speaker 3: and Olivia Pope like, I wear a.
- 29:18Speaker 4: White hat, what does it mean?
- 29:19Speaker 3: I've never heard that it's like you're supposed to be
- 29:21Speaker 3: like good, like you're a symbol for good. So you
- 29:24Speaker 3: can like wear the white hat and quotes here. Yeah,
- 29:27Speaker 3: it's propaganda. You can wear a white hat or a negro.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Hat and do the bad things. We all know. White
- 29:33Speaker 4: hat is the worst hat that's ever been made, right
- 29:37Speaker 4: behind red hat.
- 29:37Speaker 1: You're gonna come in some crimes, full faced white hat.
- 29:40Speaker 4: Do you know what I'm saying? That's what I when
- 29:42Speaker 4: I hear white hat, that's what I hear.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Yeah, so this one more like a cowboyish type hat,
- 29:47Speaker 3: but it's the same hat. Oh yeah, But basically you're
- 29:50Speaker 3: massaging the rules versus completely just violating them. And one
- 29:54Speaker 3: of the most infamous teachers was a man who went
- 29:56Speaker 3: by Luca Destephanie or Big Luca.
- 30:01Speaker 4: Not actually my big book Luca. See it's a shame
- 30:05Speaker 4: his name is hotter than his face. Oh why did
- 30:07Speaker 4: I just say that?
- 30:09Speaker 1: The viewers will see this?
- 30:11Speaker 4: But why did I just that? Just came? Okay? And
- 30:14Speaker 4: then today.
- 30:17Speaker 3: So he claimed to hold the world record for making
- 30:20Speaker 3: the most money using kindle publishing, like money, the most
- 30:24Speaker 3: money using kindle publishing in one single day? What said
- 30:28Speaker 3: Big Luca's method apart was that he gave his students
- 30:30Speaker 3: access to a secret Facebook group where self publishers organized
- 30:34Speaker 3: and they would do like review swaps and buys. So
- 30:37Speaker 3: Big Luca basically set up a book on crime ring.
- 30:41Speaker 5: But he's okay, So he's a teacher. I mean, students
- 30:46Speaker 5: call him Big Luca.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Yeah, you call himself Big Luca, and I think everybody
- 30:49Speaker 1: else just had to join.
- 30:50Speaker 3: He was like, you can't join the Facebook group unless
- 30:52Speaker 3: you know the password, which is Big Luca.
- 30:57Speaker 4: Y'all will call me this. That's CULTI that's okay, And
- 31:00Speaker 4: it's kind of smart.
- 31:01Speaker 3: Because it's like, okay, we're all making these fake books
- 31:04Speaker 3: and in order to boost all of our books because
- 31:06Speaker 3: people do do this on Amazon, they'll do fake reviews,
- 31:08Speaker 3: or they'll mail you a fake package that you didn't order. Like,
- 31:11Speaker 3: there's all types of ways to make your sales go
- 31:13Speaker 3: up and your reviews look more inflated, and then the
- 31:16Speaker 3: website automatically puts you higher up in the algorithm. So
- 31:19Speaker 3: if I were to look up romance book, this ship
- 31:22Speaker 3: uh slide you wait, you like me?
- 31:31Speaker 4: You love me? Also, this should have punctuation. I'm sorry,
- 31:34Speaker 4: grammar police. They should be way creativity, you decide what
- 31:38Speaker 4: these Wait wait you love me, Wait you love me?
- 31:43Speaker 1: Wait, you love me?
- 31:45Speaker 4: But it's love me. Yeah, come ongin. I didn't. I forgot.
- 31:54Speaker 4: I was in the company of a cours.
- 31:58Speaker 1: No, we need it now. We need it now because
- 32:00Speaker 1: I need to know what it's about.
- 32:03Speaker 3: So review swaps were the key rights making the self
- 32:06Speaker 3: publishing scam actually profitable when it first began, the more
- 32:09Speaker 3: five star reviews you have, just like I said, it's
- 32:10Speaker 3: more likely that Amazon algorithm is gonna push it forward
- 32:13Speaker 3: to the readers. If you're mostly publishing bad books, you're
- 32:16Speaker 3: not gonna get a ton of five star reviews organically.
- 32:18Speaker 3: But Big Lucas Facebook group gave people running the scam
- 32:22Speaker 3: a place to offer swaps, right, and they were selling
- 32:25Speaker 3: these five star reviews for ninety nine cents each.
- 32:27Speaker 5: I'm just looking at Big Luca's face and I'm like,
- 32:30Speaker 5: this man is a homosexual.
- 32:32Speaker 4: Oh, there's no.
- 32:35Speaker 5: Houses eyebrows for one, it's not it's the it's the
- 32:40Speaker 5: it's the mouth shape.
- 32:41Speaker 4: It's the it's the eyebrows.
- 32:44Speaker 1: There for me, core like you got a feather plant
- 32:48Speaker 1: back there.
- 32:49Speaker 4: It's giving homosexuals where you are. Big Lucas truly. How
- 32:56Speaker 4: do you go by Big Luca and not be gay? Yeah,
- 32:59Speaker 4: and cluture you're He has a glory whole setup for sure.
- 33:02Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you can beat me as much as
- 33:04Speaker 4: you want.
- 33:05Speaker 1: No, I mean.
- 33:09Speaker 4: He has one pleasures, pleasures, pleasures the front door, baby,
- 33:18Speaker 4: tell you to be stopped.
- 33:19Speaker 1: I saw by.
- 33:21Speaker 4: I forgot this. This is a popular, huge but we
- 33:26Speaker 4: have a small audience, so we don't know what it's
- 33:28Speaker 4: like like. We don't know how to behave I don't
- 33:30Speaker 4: know how to okay, sorry, sorry, Oh my god.
- 33:35Speaker 3: So big Local Big Luca was on top of the
- 33:37Speaker 3: world right, selling his scheme as the self publishing revolution.
- 33:41Speaker 3: Then in twenty sixteen, a man named Christian Michaelson enrolled
- 33:45Speaker 3: in Big Lucas course, and the world of scam publishing
- 33:48Speaker 3: would never be the same.
- 33:50Speaker 4: He looks like mister beast he does. This is a
- 33:54Speaker 4: This is not a real man, is it?
- 33:55Speaker 3: And just so y'all know in the future it's Christian Michelson,
- 33:58Speaker 3: like Philon. We got the twins, the Michelson twins.
- 34:02Speaker 4: Look at them now, huh they look fake?
- 34:08Speaker 3: What I thought like like a romance novel man would
- 34:11Speaker 3: look like Drawn from memory, that part like if.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Memory that part.
- 34:18Speaker 4: It's like when the beast becomes man and then he
- 34:21Speaker 4: had a gay twin.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's accurate.
- 34:26Speaker 4: Y'all.
- 34:26Speaker 1: See we're not wrong.
- 34:27Speaker 4: We're not wrong.
- 34:29Speaker 5: There's something about like one of them is poor, one
- 34:32Speaker 5: of them is rich. They switch places, one of them
- 34:34Speaker 5: gets a hair.
- 34:35Speaker 1: I feel like they should both have long hair, like
- 34:37Speaker 1: the other guy's making a mistake.
- 34:38Speaker 4: I like the short hair one. Oh no, I think
- 34:41Speaker 4: long hair. I like short. They're both gonna hurt us,
- 34:44Speaker 4: like they're both gonna kill it.
- 34:46Speaker 1: They look like murderers, murderers or models. They got long necks.
- 34:51Speaker 4: They could do some modeling. I hate to say that
- 34:53Speaker 4: I would, but I would. I love this game. Murders.
- 35:01Speaker 1: Damn got his murderers were model.
- 35:03Speaker 3: So the Micheles and twins who are named Christian and Rasmus, No, no, ma'am.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Why somebody get Christian? Another one get around.
- 35:13Speaker 4: He's a long haired one has.
- 35:19Speaker 3: But they might as well be interchangeable and are terrifyingly
- 35:22Speaker 3: well groomed white men from Denmark. Okay, Christian fround Big
- 35:26Speaker 3: Lucas course by googling how to make money online. He
- 35:30Speaker 3: used the method to publish his first e book called
- 35:33Speaker 3: how to be a four point zero student in college
- 35:36Speaker 3: like me? Okay, okay, okay, models not murderers, now, opinions.
- 35:43Speaker 4: This is a true question because they're both. It is
- 35:48Speaker 4: both right now for me. Damn, it's giving talented mister Ripley.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you can be in the middle dance all night.
- 35:54Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sick though. I have a thing for like
- 35:57Speaker 4: when boys look like ken dolls like that, They're like, yeah,
- 36:00Speaker 4: that's scarce program that brain, I know, but the brain
- 36:03Speaker 4: is colonized. I'm sorry.
- 36:05Speaker 3: So this book that he has that's like how to
- 36:07Speaker 3: be a four point oh student in college, just like me.
- 36:10Speaker 3: It was twenty four pages long. And the secret in
- 36:13Speaker 3: his case was that he was taking an associate's degree
- 36:15Speaker 3: course in exercise science at County College of Morris in Randolph,
- 36:20Speaker 3: New Jersey.
- 36:20Speaker 1: So I wasn't a huge accomplice.
- 36:23Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Was that AI? Was that sentence that you read?
- 36:26Speaker 1: AI?
- 36:27Speaker 4: Because that was crazy.
- 36:29Speaker 1: Exercise science that they do.
- 36:31Speaker 4: But it does make me laugh because it's like in
- 36:33Speaker 4: New Jersey.
- 36:34Speaker 3: It's like a famous Louisiana football player who plays for
- 36:36Speaker 3: the Eagles, who has an exercise science degree and he'd
- 36:38Speaker 3: been putting.
- 36:38Speaker 1: It to use.
- 36:39Speaker 6: What is that?
- 36:40Speaker 4: What is that?
- 36:40Speaker 6: Is that?
- 36:41Speaker 4: Like to be a pe teacher? What Like it's like
- 36:44Speaker 4: your body's physiology.
- 36:46Speaker 3: Yeah, and working out and like if you bruised, like
- 36:49Speaker 3: you know, you shouldn't probably use a thorough gun on
- 36:52Speaker 3: that because you're making the brains drainage.
- 36:54Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you're not a doctor, but you know
- 36:58Speaker 1: you you personal trainer.
- 37:03Speaker 4: As an exercise, I want.
- 37:07Speaker 3: To disrespect the exercise scientists out there, okay, because they
- 37:11Speaker 3: disrespected and that's not me. I just want you to know,
- 37:14Speaker 3: separate me from that.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Remember many different Yeah, come fucking DM me.
- 37:18Speaker 4: But he's saying about science, run more, sweat more. What's
- 37:22Speaker 4: the science?
- 37:23Speaker 1: Sam?
- 37:24Speaker 3: So I'm also saying here that like his whole tip
- 37:27Speaker 3: was just go to a very easy school and you'll
- 37:29Speaker 3: be a four point of student like me.
- 37:30Speaker 6: He he he he.
- 37:31Speaker 1: You already bought the book ra.
- 37:40Speaker 4: Run So.
- 37:42Speaker 3: Christian brought Rasmus, his brother into the business, and he
- 37:46Speaker 3: published a cross training manual. Together they published all kinds
- 37:50Speaker 3: of ebooks, guides, ta keto and sex and crystals, picking
- 37:55Speaker 3: the topics and titles based on trending keywords. So we
- 37:59Speaker 3: have two beautiful men from Denmark. They got sex books.
- 38:03Speaker 5: They got and they wrote this together. They wrote the
- 38:05Speaker 5: sex book together.
- 38:07Speaker 4: That is crazy, right, the six book with your brother,
- 38:10Speaker 4: with your twin brother.
- 38:11Speaker 3: That they didn't maybe they submitted chapters, like they took
- 38:15Speaker 3: turns every page.
- 38:18Speaker 1: So so go faster. They hired ghost writers.
- 38:21Speaker 3: Yeah, And once their combined earnings grew to around three
- 38:24Speaker 3: thousand a month, they quit school and moved to Thailand
- 38:26Speaker 3: in September of twenty seventeen, where the internet was fast
- 38:30Speaker 3: and the cost of living was nearly zero, so they
- 38:33Speaker 3: could work no technically illegally because you're working out of
- 38:36Speaker 3: the country and you're not probably paying Thailand's taxes. And
- 38:39Speaker 3: I know a lot of people during twenty twenty had
- 38:42Speaker 3: moved to Thailand and were like, hey, y'all, if you
- 38:43Speaker 3: work from home, just move on over the time I.
- 38:46Speaker 4: Go to Buquet, like because you could there's a tax
- 38:49Speaker 4: loophole of some kind.
- 38:50Speaker 1: I don't think it is.
- 38:51Speaker 3: I think that they were just doing it illegally and
- 38:53Speaker 3: like the cost of living is so cheap. They were
- 38:55Speaker 3: living like in these palatial houses, but like working.
- 38:58Speaker 4: Online, right, they're criminals.
- 39:01Speaker 3: The Thailand government did starting window it because the thing
- 39:04Speaker 3: is is like y'all can't get keep no more. Every
- 39:05Speaker 3: time y'all find something good, I have to ask on
- 39:07Speaker 3: TikTok for some motherfucking lights. And now y'all can't be
- 39:10Speaker 3: over it to fraud and Thailand's government no more. We
- 39:13Speaker 3: could have all been to fraud in the government.
- 39:14Speaker 1: I have to do this.
- 39:15Speaker 3: Hitch your group chat. We can keep spreading it alone.
- 39:17Speaker 3: This is why we eat chain mail back. Okay, we
- 39:21Speaker 3: need to start threatening that you're gonna die in sixty
- 39:23Speaker 3: days if you don't send this mail it to ten
- 39:25Speaker 3: of your friends.
- 39:27Speaker 4: Call you met medieval kind.
- 39:30Speaker 3: Why I want to hear this is okay that mass
- 39:34Speaker 3: really did something. So you're in the club that traumatize you.
- 39:37Speaker 4: I'm telling you I'm putting on my chain mail right now.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Now I'm.
- 39:43Speaker 4: Scam Gottess is gone.
- 39:46Speaker 1: PTSD.
- 39:48Speaker 4: Oh my god, where are the deodorants? Okay?
- 39:51Speaker 3: They ran their manuscripts through Google Translate and started selling
- 39:54Speaker 3: foreign language editions, which bumped their income up to six figures.
- 39:57Speaker 3: Now I know how good Google Translate is, and by
- 39:59Speaker 3: good I mean bad. So who knows what they were
- 40:03Speaker 3: reading because Scammer's still trying to use this in the
- 40:04Speaker 3: emails that they send the fish right now, that's one
- 40:06Speaker 3: of the usiest indicators that it's not from Amazon, you know,
- 40:10Speaker 3: with a oh, it's from Amazon with a zero. Is
- 40:12Speaker 3: that there's tons of misspellings and the etiquette isn't correct.
- 40:15Speaker 3: They'll be like, have a blessed days Amazon, I never
- 40:18Speaker 3: told me have no blessing.
- 40:20Speaker 4: That's true, that's true. It's so funny when you also
- 40:23Speaker 4: look at the email or like because it says Amazon,
- 40:26Speaker 4: but then if you click on what is the email address,
- 40:28Speaker 4: it's always like love twenty eight tb okay.
- 40:32Speaker 3: So shortly after that, right, Amazon blocked their publishing account
- 40:36Speaker 3: and that could have been the end for the Twins,
- 40:39Speaker 3: but they no, no, no, they doubled down. So Amazon said, yeah,
- 40:43Speaker 3: here faking a funk out, y'all plan on our names
- 40:45Speaker 3: and we're going to block your accounts so.
- 40:48Speaker 4: Those who can't do show.
- 40:50Speaker 3: They started a YouTube channel so that they can teach
- 40:53Speaker 3: the business of self publishing to anyone who wanted to learn,
- 40:56Speaker 3: with a new focus on audio books.
- 41:01Speaker 4: Your books, I want to hear what they sound.
- 41:03Speaker 3: Three seven hour sessions to record my audio books. So
- 41:05Speaker 3: I'm like, how are y'all doing this business? So after
- 41:10Speaker 3: posting a new I feel like you just got to
- 41:11Speaker 3: make up the audiobook as you go and just be
- 41:13Speaker 3: talking on the mic like.
- 41:16Speaker 4: Like they don't let you do. That's right, because aren't
- 41:19Speaker 4: they like your words have to be as close as possible.
- 41:22Speaker 3: To publishing something that's like being published legitimately. But if
- 41:26Speaker 3: you're doing self published, no, you can get.
- 41:28Speaker 4: It into what you want. Yeah, that makes sense.
- 41:30Speaker 3: So after posting a new YouTube video every other day
- 41:34Speaker 3: for about six months, feed that algorithm, they had a
- 41:37Speaker 3: thousand subscribers and they launched their first paywalld online course.
- 41:40Speaker 3: They sold it at a fifty percent discount for five
- 41:44Speaker 3: hundred dollars. The day it launched, they made forty eight
- 41:48Speaker 3: thousand dollars.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Who people want to make money online?
- 41:54Speaker 4: Oh my god? And people people were so convinced that
- 41:58Speaker 4: this would make money. Yeah, I mean they have to
- 42:01Speaker 4: a video now.
- 42:01Speaker 1: And we're seeing a little clip of the education.
- 42:04Speaker 4: Right that says like fifty five minutes. But we're not
- 42:06Speaker 4: gonna watch out that we see.
- 42:09Speaker 6: Official introduction to publishing video. This is going to be
- 42:14Speaker 6: an all in one crash course to publishing your first book.
- 42:18Speaker 6: So if you're looking to publish one or two books
- 42:20Speaker 6: and make a few extra hundred dollars per month. This
- 42:23Speaker 6: video will be your Holy Bible or not the business
- 42:29Speaker 6: and replace your full time income. Be able to quit
- 42:31Speaker 6: your job and just live off of your publishing business.
- 42:34Speaker 6: This video is a great start and I recommend watching
- 42:37Speaker 6: the entire video to the end.
- 42:39Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm looking at the back of the and
- 42:42Speaker 1: it's not giving making thank you.
- 42:44Speaker 5: Extre gave him money despite the background looking like uh huh,
- 42:50Speaker 5: people want to be scammed.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Yeah, because he got people. It's not giving. It's not
- 42:56Speaker 1: giving success.
- 42:57Speaker 4: Is that I can smell him through the through the
- 43:00Speaker 4: video and what he's smelling like.
- 43:02Speaker 1: We know what Mon was like.
- 43:10Speaker 4: It's giving ger. Maybe he is grunger. That was that
- 43:13Speaker 4: was gronger.
- 43:14Speaker 3: So first, of course, was called audio Book Impact Academy.
- 43:19Speaker 3: I'm gonna say that again, Audiobook Impact Academy. He didn't
- 43:23Speaker 3: put a lot of words in there. That sounds impact
- 43:26Speaker 3: and academy. It sounds like a place where you're gonna
- 43:28Speaker 3: learn stuff. Then you changed it to publishing life. Now
- 43:31Speaker 3: that sounds like a posic scheme. Yes, given her life,
- 43:35Speaker 3: publishing life, because what do you mean publishing life, promise
- 43:38Speaker 3: for life. Everybody said they got you got one good
- 43:40Speaker 3: booking here. Everybody got one good book in them. I
- 43:42Speaker 3: don't know if we got a lifetime of publishing in this,
- 43:45Speaker 3: otherwise you might be living like Monois.
- 43:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 43:50Speaker 3: Then he changed it to AI Publishing Academy, but the
- 43:54Speaker 3: overall structure stayed the same.
- 43:55Speaker 1: So now we're just shifting the goalpost.
- 43:57Speaker 3: And I can't imagine being someone who was like, Okay,
- 43:59Speaker 3: I'm going to join Audio Impact Academy and then always
- 44:02Speaker 3: got a new one AI Publishing Academy and I signed
- 44:04Speaker 3: up for video.
- 44:06Speaker 4: Nothing wrong there. Oh there's a new name every month.
- 44:09Speaker 4: Oh that's yeah, that's fine. Yeah, how do you do
- 44:11Speaker 4: your well, I guess you do you do your tax
- 44:14Speaker 4: If you have a new name every month, how do
- 44:15Speaker 4: you do your taxes? You simply can't. That's yeah, I
- 44:18Speaker 4: answered my question.
- 44:19Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 44:21Speaker 3: Also, just like the Shell company could still be the same.
- 44:25Speaker 3: Let's say they do try to be legit. They just
- 44:27Speaker 3: put a different name online, and that's just to get
- 44:29Speaker 3: the algorithm going. It's like, Okay, people getting tired to
- 44:32Speaker 3: click it on this, We're going to give them something
- 44:34Speaker 3: new to click on. So today it costs two thousand
- 44:37Speaker 3: dollars to take this course and It starts with a
- 44:39Speaker 3: mandatory two hour webinar, which is just Christian sitting in
- 44:43Speaker 3: a dark room, drinking from a water bottle as he
- 44:46Speaker 3: shows you screen caps of his students royalty checks and
- 44:49Speaker 3: says over and over again that he's already rich. He
- 44:52Speaker 3: doesn't need more money. But you the viewer, do now, Christian,
- 44:56Speaker 3: you did something smart here. You're sitting in a dark room,
- 44:58Speaker 3: so we can't see you dirty no more.
- 45:01Speaker 1: So trust me.
- 45:02Speaker 4: I'm very rich.
- 45:03Speaker 1: I can only see the whites of his eyes and
- 45:05Speaker 1: his teeth.
- 45:06Speaker 4: Trust me.
- 45:07Speaker 1: Behind me right now is my pool.
- 45:09Speaker 4: And anyone who's like, why do you want to teach
- 45:13Speaker 4: me this? Right? If you're making thousands a month, why
- 45:16Speaker 4: do you want me to have a piece of your market? Yeah?
- 45:19Speaker 3: And I also don't trust people who say I don't
- 45:20Speaker 3: need money, babe? Why you taking my money if you
- 45:22Speaker 3: don't need the money?
- 45:23Speaker 4: I think ultimately people just want to be scammed. I
- 45:28Speaker 4: don't know.
- 45:29Speaker 5: If I'm clicking, paying so much money and watching a
- 45:31Speaker 5: video of someone in the dark telling me that he
- 45:34Speaker 5: doesn't need the money you do, I would be like,
- 45:37Speaker 5: something's not right here.
- 45:39Speaker 3: This is giving cult a personality to me. Of course,
- 45:42Speaker 3: like I think people are liking Christians vibes somehow and rassmus.
- 45:48Speaker 1: Rest and so they're like just hanging out with these people.
- 45:51Speaker 3: They're paying two thousand dollars to feel like they're doing
- 45:54Speaker 3: something with their life and even though they're not really,
- 45:57Speaker 3: and they get.
- 45:57Speaker 1: To also hang out with this bro who seems cooler
- 46:00Speaker 1: than them.
- 46:01Speaker 4: It also does give me, like, man, what people are
- 46:04Speaker 4: willing to believe when a tall white guy says it,
- 46:07Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know what I mean, It's like, we
- 46:09Speaker 4: look at it. He's successful.
- 46:11Speaker 1: Look at how tall and white he is.
- 46:13Speaker 4: So I can be tall and white if I do
- 46:15Speaker 4: keep working hard, if I publish.
- 46:20Speaker 3: White. I don't know if I haven't noticed. As soon
- 46:22Speaker 3: as I published that first book, I got I got whider,
- 46:25Speaker 3: I definitely got taller.
- 46:26Speaker 4: And you notice I'm well on my way.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Okay, I got to get out.
- 46:40Speaker 3: Well, we don't do that malarkey over here. So you know,
- 46:52Speaker 3: he keeps you in the dark for two hours. Then
- 46:54Speaker 3: he promises to show you how to produce a book
- 46:56Speaker 3: without having to write it.
- 46:58Speaker 1: A I will write your outline for you.
- 47:00Speaker 3: The twins will pick your topic for you, giving you
- 47:03Speaker 3: access to keywords keyword scrapers. That have pulled trending topics
- 47:09Speaker 3: from Kindle and Audible. So basically they're saying, we're gonna
- 47:11Speaker 3: help you make your AI book, Like you write that
- 47:15Speaker 3: AI outline, then the twins we're gonna pick just any
- 47:18Speaker 3: topic for you, and then we're gonna put it into
- 47:21Speaker 3: the thing of a jig that's killing all the black
- 47:23Speaker 3: people in Memphis, and.
- 47:26Speaker 1: We're gonna pull some trading topics.
- 47:28Speaker 3: Then you send your AI outline to a ghost writer
- 47:30Speaker 3: to turn it into a book for just five hundred dollars,
- 47:34Speaker 3: so for thirty thousand words of book, right, so that
- 47:39Speaker 3: works out to a fee of like point zero one
- 47:42Speaker 3: six six six six seven cents per word, which is
- 47:46Speaker 3: very cheap. Yes, I remember Sex in the City when
- 47:49Speaker 3: Carrie would be like, I'm at folks and they're giving
- 47:52Speaker 3: us four dollars per word, and I was like, I
- 47:54Speaker 3: don't know what this means, but she can have seven
- 47:57Speaker 3: hundred dollars shoes every other day for that.
- 48:00Speaker 4: Charles Dickens, they're giving me six tuppens for what That's
- 48:06Speaker 4: why I'm wearing these lubat Do you like my t tube?
- 48:12Speaker 3: So after that, you like the Michaelson's work with a
- 48:16Speaker 3: ghostwriting company. They're called the Urban Writers and they were
- 48:20Speaker 3: developed by two former students. Their ghost writers get hired
- 48:23Speaker 3: on a freelance basis and they're kept anonymous so they're
- 48:26Speaker 3: not going to go down with this, so they don't
- 48:28Speaker 3: even look like a real lady.
- 48:29Speaker 4: Now. It's like.
- 48:31Speaker 1: And they're like, we write you win, fast track your
- 48:34Speaker 1: best seller success. Okay.
- 48:37Speaker 5: And they got people with glasses on, so you know,
- 48:39Speaker 5: they're like, oh, clearly they're for sure.
- 48:42Speaker 3: Yeah, And look, the website has a little bit of
- 48:44Speaker 3: design to it, like they look at them circles behind
- 48:47Speaker 3: the nerd with the computer.
- 48:48Speaker 1: He got a computer in the photo. He's like, I'm
- 48:50Speaker 1: typing right now.
- 48:51Speaker 4: We got some people type.
- 48:52Speaker 5: That's writers type with their with their freaking laptop on
- 48:56Speaker 5: in their hands.
- 48:57Speaker 4: It sounds too good to be true, which means it
- 48:59Speaker 4: is we write you win. Okay. I just can't. It's
- 49:04Speaker 4: too much. But they got it.
- 49:05Speaker 1: The website looks legit.
- 49:06Speaker 4: It does. It does.
- 49:08Speaker 3: So let's say you wanted to do this right, it did,
- 49:10Speaker 3: and you have your manuscript done. The Twins will show
- 49:13Speaker 3: you how to hire an audiobook narrator for a flat
- 49:16Speaker 3: twenty dollars fee by haggling their prices down. They introduce
- 49:20Speaker 3: you to a network of people who are generous with
- 49:22Speaker 3: their five star ratings, and they'll push your book up
- 49:24Speaker 3: the Amazon rankings for you. All you have to do
- 49:27Speaker 3: is sit back and collect your royalty checks. Says you
- 49:29Speaker 3: rake in month after month of passive income and it's
- 49:32Speaker 3: all technically allowed. It just floods the ebook marketplace with garbage,
- 49:36Speaker 3: because that's what AI does.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Let's flood our lives with garbage. Yes, they were like, y'all.
- 49:40Speaker 4: Want to live sadder lives a I wait, you love me? Way,
- 49:47Speaker 4: wait you love me? Wait, you love me? Wait, you
- 49:51Speaker 4: love me?
- 49:52Speaker 1: It's a song now, Mono's made it a song you
- 49:55Speaker 1: love me?
- 49:55Speaker 4: That chemicals that think I saw the seagull at the
- 50:01Speaker 4: Rays definitely.
- 50:03Speaker 1: At the Rave before bronze man at the Ray.
- 50:08Speaker 3: Okay, So what makes the Michaelson Twins special is that
- 50:11Speaker 3: they're operating on several levels of grifting. Here they're selling
- 50:15Speaker 3: their scam method to other scammers, but also scamming them.
- 50:20Speaker 3: And to get that free topic for your book, you
- 50:22Speaker 3: have to pay for access to the software that analyzes
- 50:26Speaker 3: Amazon keywords to tell you what's trending right, So to
- 50:30Speaker 3: create the perfect outline. You have to pay for access
- 50:33Speaker 3: to the AI outlines and draft, and that drafts your
- 50:35Speaker 3: book for you.
- 50:36Speaker 4: Right, how do you make money? Don't worry where the
- 50:41Speaker 4: money are? Where's the money? Hard?
- 50:43Speaker 3: You have to pay for the cover design and for
- 50:45Speaker 3: the reviewers. The two thousand dollars fee to the Michaelson's
- 50:48Speaker 3: for the course. Right, it's supposed to it's supposed to
- 50:50Speaker 3: guarante me that you frequent one on one calls with
- 50:53Speaker 3: a publishing coach. But the coach and calls were mostly
- 50:56Speaker 3: about upselling the free to get the pre seventy eight
- 51:01Speaker 3: dollars course. So you get you get these courses with
- 51:04Speaker 3: the two thousand dollars and they're like, get on this course,
- 51:06Speaker 3: and they're like, you know, it would be great if
- 51:07Speaker 3: you bought an other course, because then that's really really
- 51:10Speaker 3: gonna start making the books like this.
- 51:12Speaker 1: You know, have you heard of John Grisham, Yeah, we
- 51:14Speaker 1: worked with him.
- 51:20Speaker 4: You heard a Dann Brown? Yeah, the Da Vinci Code.
- 51:26Speaker 1: We think he came up for all that stuff. Definitely,
- 51:28Speaker 1: AI nobody reading books like that about history.
- 51:33Speaker 4: No more.
- 51:35Speaker 3: Twilight that was also I remember remember I had said
- 51:39Speaker 3: Sparkly and Vampire and then and then that's.
- 51:42Speaker 5: What we got, said Spider and Monkey. Uh huh, where
- 51:46Speaker 5: you've been Loca, that's us.
- 51:48Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 51:51Speaker 3: So with that much investment, the ninety nine cent e
- 51:54Speaker 3: book publishing scheme is probably not gonna make you any money, yeah,
- 51:58Speaker 3: because your passive income is ninety nine and sins a book.
- 52:02Speaker 6: No.
- 52:03Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, the twins bought the domain publishing dot com,
- 52:08Speaker 3: which is where the scam still lives, offering a course.
- 52:11Speaker 3: They say it can help students make a lifetime of
- 52:13Speaker 3: easy cash off of revenue from books they don't even
- 52:16Speaker 3: have to bother to write themselves.
- 52:18Speaker 4: But what they've done is not illegal yet.
- 52:22Speaker 3: It's an ethical yes, but technically they're giving a product.
- 52:27Speaker 3: It's the reason why MLMs can exist and aren't prosecuted
- 52:30Speaker 3: as Ponzi schemes because even though in their structure and
- 52:33Speaker 3: design they are a Ponzi scheme, because they technically do
- 52:36Speaker 3: have a product that they're giving you. Whether it be
- 52:38Speaker 3: moldy leggings that you can't sell that you mortgage your
- 52:41Speaker 3: house for, or it be classes where there's a man
- 52:45Speaker 3: from Denmark in the dark telling you he's rich and
- 52:47Speaker 3: upselling you, they still provided.
- 52:49Speaker 1: The product.
- 52:53Speaker 2: Wow.
- 52:53Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's how you can a war because think
- 52:55Speaker 3: about it, there's so many products. If we were to
- 52:56Speaker 3: say like, oh, this product is a scam, then the
- 52:59Speaker 3: nuance of that legally becomes really difficult to navigate. Because
- 53:02Speaker 3: what if I sell like a friendship bracelet that cost
- 53:05Speaker 3: me thirty cents to make, but I sell it for
- 53:07Speaker 3: thirty thousand dollars.
- 53:08Speaker 1: Isn't that a scam?
- 53:09Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 53:09Speaker 1: Yeah, but technically somebody's willing to purchase that shitty hass bracelet.
- 53:12Speaker 1: It's not.
- 53:13Speaker 4: And you got the bracelet, Yeah, it's worth whatever the
- 53:16Speaker 4: consumer is willing to pay for it, which is bad. Also,
- 53:20Speaker 4: twins are bad.
- 53:22Speaker 5: I'm saying, like, where are where's the other twin in this?
- 53:25Speaker 5: I feel like one twin is doing a lot of
- 53:27Speaker 5: the work and the other twin is where.
- 53:30Speaker 1: The computer a lot.
- 53:33Speaker 5: So that's crazy to be identical twins, and for one
- 53:36Speaker 5: of them to be the face of the scam, I
- 53:39Speaker 5: would feel, well, I think that's a personality thing.
- 53:42Speaker 3: It's like one of them got got that gift a
- 53:44Speaker 3: gap and the other one's like all right and for
- 53:46Speaker 3: the aas stuff, and then the other one is Rasmus.
- 53:51Speaker 1: Yeah, got to stay in the dark corner.
- 53:54Speaker 4: Yeah, don't know how you look up to.
- 53:56Speaker 5: Rasp rassless is in the dark. Yeah, behind the sunkin.
- 54:04Speaker 5: He's got to eat his fish heads.
- 54:09Speaker 1: That's all you do. Get on the laptop, do the AI,
- 54:12Speaker 1: and you know they throw some fish hands at.
- 54:18Speaker 3: Like. Have you ever seen those gourmet dog tiktoks where
- 54:21Speaker 3: the person makes the like dogs like.
- 54:24Speaker 1: A Chacodi board. No, no, you have like the bases
- 54:28Speaker 1: like rabbit fur that's been like dehydrated.
- 54:30Speaker 3: Then they do like chicken necks and goose snacks and
- 54:33Speaker 3: liver and it's like all raw, like salmon and fruits
- 54:37Speaker 3: and vegetables and stuff. And then they'll be like eat
- 54:39Speaker 3: and then the dog will just start tearing it up,
- 54:41Speaker 3: bones and all. And I feel like that's what Rasmuss is.
- 54:45Speaker 3: I'll put a reference.
- 54:47Speaker 4: How is that how the algorithm found you? Yeah? I
- 54:50Speaker 4: don't think you have Do you have an animal?
- 54:52Speaker 6: No?
- 54:53Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just peaceful to watch the dog eat it.
- 54:56Speaker 1: And he gets like a nice story.
- 54:58Speaker 5: Describe it, he said, tear into the something tasteful about that.
- 55:04Speaker 1: I can't explain it.
- 55:06Speaker 3: So their revenue went from around this is the Twins
- 55:10Speaker 3: went from around three hundred thousand dollars in twenty nineteen
- 55:13Speaker 3: to just shy a fifty million in twenty twenty two.
- 55:17Speaker 4: Eaz tifty. The power will we give these people? Jealous him?
- 55:25Speaker 1: Jealous too.
- 55:25Speaker 3: That was my first thought too, was jealousy. It's let's
- 55:30Speaker 3: all start a scam together. Okay, yeah, we can do.
- 55:34Speaker 4: This, can a shark tank thing?
- 55:36Speaker 3: Maybe the COVID lockdown helped turbocharge the sales, so from
- 55:41Speaker 3: about twenty thousand dollars a month to blips of five
- 55:44Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars a month, since a lot of people
- 55:46Speaker 3: were stuck at home and we're also googling how to
- 55:48Speaker 3: make money online.
- 55:51Speaker 4: The timing, the timing, I mean the big boom.
- 55:56Speaker 1: You're in a dirty room at home, in the dark
- 56:01Speaker 1: and always hair.
- 56:05Speaker 6: Did they?
- 56:06Speaker 4: Did anyone make money? Did well?
- 56:09Speaker 3: The twins say that they earned their first million dollars
- 56:11Speaker 3: at age twenty five. Their second million came four days later. Today,
- 56:15Speaker 3: they project a luxury lifestyle by always posting to Instagram
- 56:19Speaker 3: from private pools and or exotic beaches.
- 56:23Speaker 4: The freedom shortcut.
- 56:26Speaker 1: There are no shortcuts in life, y'all. Well, you know
- 56:28Speaker 1: what be white? Is that what the looks say?
- 56:31Speaker 4: I meant a great shortcut because.
- 56:34Speaker 3: Like, look, if you're pouring white or if you know
- 56:36Speaker 3: you're dealing with health problems that you're white, it's still bad.
- 56:39Speaker 1: But but but you might have a little bit of
- 56:43Speaker 1: a h sorry at least but you'll go fund me.
- 56:45Speaker 4: Yeah, you at least get a shoot. You know, in
- 56:47Speaker 4: terms of shoots and ladders, you get a shoot.
- 56:50Speaker 1: Yeah, not a ladder, No, we get automatic ladders. Yeah.
- 56:54Speaker 3: I came out the woman and it was like, gave
- 56:56Speaker 3: me the rungs ladder, get the climbing baby boom.
- 57:04Speaker 4: Oh.
- 57:05Speaker 3: So yeah, they're trying to keep up their Instagram influence,
- 57:09Speaker 3: which I think is they're doing.
- 57:10Speaker 1: A pretty good job of it. Like look at look
- 57:13Speaker 1: at either that has to be Christian. Christian.
- 57:17Speaker 4: What do you mean with his girl? Oh yeah, if
- 57:21Speaker 4: that's the first.
- 57:22Speaker 1: Thirty under thirty, then you already know where they're going
- 57:24Speaker 1: to jail.
- 57:25Speaker 4: You know, people gone to jail. That's amazing. I didn't
- 57:30Speaker 4: know that. That's amazing. It's people to pipe like system
- 57:34Speaker 4: mis Sarah, Sarah, what's her name? Elizabeth was probably on
- 57:39Speaker 4: that list, right, she might have been the tiny thing.
- 57:41Speaker 4: She was definitely on Forbes with the tiny thing.
- 57:42Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm study under thirty though, but
- 57:44Speaker 3: just look up Forbes thirty under thirty prison You'll see
- 57:48Speaker 3: what I'm talking. So one of the first few results
- 57:53Speaker 3: of googling the the Mickelson Twins scam leads to a
- 57:57Speaker 3: post on publishing dot com itself where they trot people
- 58:00Speaker 3: who are looking for information about their scammery into listening
- 58:04Speaker 3: to their pitch again. So if you look up Nicholson
- 58:09Speaker 3: Twin scam, it takes you right to publish a dot
- 58:12Speaker 3: com like Hey's.
- 58:16Speaker 1: And look, they even make it look like they're reviewing themselves.
- 58:20Speaker 4: Absolutely legit because look at that post.
- 58:23Speaker 3: That YouTube posts like this is always how you see
- 58:25Speaker 3: a post come up when you have a blogger who's
- 58:27Speaker 3: about to like ruin some social media stars life with
- 58:30Speaker 3: a bunch of tea that they.
- 58:31Speaker 1: Have on this it always looks like that.
- 58:34Speaker 4: That's like a title card.
- 58:35Speaker 1: Yeah, they put that title card for them to put
- 58:37Speaker 1: out their own propaganda. That's smart, genius.
- 58:41Speaker 4: Honestly, no no presses, bad press.
- 58:44Speaker 3: I mean, y'all us we might as well get involved.
- 58:47Speaker 3: So Big Luca check it. Don't forget Big Luca was around?
- 58:50Speaker 1: What about I.
- 58:52Speaker 4: Forgot about Luca forgot about Big Luca.
- 58:56Speaker 5: Yeah, I forgot about's glory holeam not so first.
- 59:03Speaker 4: Baby, it's after I'm saying it.
- 59:06Speaker 5: After he's that massive glorial career.
- 59:12Speaker 3: So at first a Big Luca threatened to take the
- 59:15Speaker 3: Michelsense to court for stealing his grift. Now, I don't know,
- 59:18Speaker 3: you stole my crime and I'm taking you to court.
- 59:21Speaker 4: But that's a video online when someone's like calls the
- 59:26Speaker 4: cops being like they took my math. You know what
- 59:27Speaker 4: I mean, Like they stole my math.
- 59:30Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, there's no honor amongst these Yeah, it's
- 59:35Speaker 3: like I get to the bank to rob is somebody
- 59:37Speaker 3: there before me?
- 59:39Speaker 1: I'm taking the court.
- 59:45Speaker 3: So eventually, right he just he by saying this, he's
- 59:48Speaker 3: proving that his own brand is a grift because he's like,
- 59:51Speaker 3: you stole my ship. So now he runs Big Luca internationally,
- 59:55Speaker 3: or more informally, school for the Rich. This is a
- 59:58Speaker 3: self described school as the world leading company in online
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: marketing training. It's supposed to teach you how to monetize
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: any online business. The self publishing black tricks used for
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: every other industry on the Internet. So on their website
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: it says the world's best company in monetization and online
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: marketing is ready to help you scale your business or
- 1:00:21Speaker 3: create a new one from zero. I'm sorry when I
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: see the best, I'm instantly trigger to that orange man
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: the best company?
- 1:00:31Speaker 4: Did know who?
- 1:00:32Speaker 3: I know?
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: It's it's yeah.
- 1:00:35Speaker 5: I can't take a company called Big Luca International series,
- 1:00:39Speaker 5: there's no and what makes you international?
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: Because it's not giving that.
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: You are well he went to Mexico City one time,
- 1:00:46Speaker 5: a technically international.
- 1:00:49Speaker 4: Technically yes.
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: So now the AI is around, it's easier than ever
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: to flood the whole digital ecosystem with trash and the
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: pursuit of passive income, which we know to be true.
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: And it's such a bummer that AI is destroying everything
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: that we love because it's like it's not helping. I know,
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: people are like, oh, I have an AI assistant and
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: it helps me. I'm like, no, you're poisoning the planet.
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: Just go hire a real person.
- 1:01:11Speaker 5: Having AI assistance or AI therapist or it's all really scary.
- 1:01:18Speaker 4: It's so I just had this account follow me that
- 1:01:21Speaker 4: was like twenty five different AI pictures of like a
- 1:01:25Speaker 4: ten year old, Like and the ten year old was
- 1:01:29Speaker 4: just you know, being a dorky kid. But I was
- 1:01:31Speaker 4: like gross, like what that? What the hell is this?
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: What the hell is the purpose? The kid doesn't exist,
- 1:01:38Speaker 4: the kid does not exist. But it was just like
- 1:01:39Speaker 4: twenty five pictures of a an Ai kid being a kid,
- 1:01:43Speaker 4: and I was like, fucking ew, excuse my language, but like,
- 1:01:47Speaker 4: what is this? What is this for?
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: No, it's still sing.
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: They're doing it to everything and everyone, Like Timberland even
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: had that fake Ai Asian woman who was putting on
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: a black scent and doing music with Timbaland.
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: For so many egregious things here. I don't know what
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: that artist's name was.
- 1:02:08Speaker 4: What was her name?
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: Yes, it was something crazy, I know.
- 1:02:12Speaker 4: I know, Timberland, Please, we stuck with you when.
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: We just thought you were unproblematic and chilling. We didn't
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: know how you're when you were making fun of people
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: piano simblin Ai artists.
- 1:02:22Speaker 4: Because I can't think he called Doctor Dre a piano man.
- 1:02:25Speaker 4: Timbland was like saying, like, I'm the better producer and
- 1:02:28Speaker 4: you're just a piano man.
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: Because I'm thinking, I don't know, I want to Elton John.
- 1:02:35Speaker 4: John Yeah, and Billy Joe.
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: Joe it was.
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: Billy.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: Her name is Tata, yes, Tata. She got pink hair, realize,
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: red jacket, What do you mean realized? What does that mean?
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: But her name Tata M and she read just like
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: you think she would. Yeah, so that's the world we
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: live in now. But what do you guys think of
- 1:03:04Speaker 3: the scam? Do you like these scammers?
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: Do you dislike them?
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: I don't like this scam. This is not a fun crime.
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think with the AI involved it makes
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: it less fun. Other than that, I find it to
- 1:03:15Speaker 3: be deeply unseerious. And I don't feel as much sympathy
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: for the victims here because maybe in twenty twenty I'll
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: feel a little more sympathy because everybody's trying to get
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: a job from home, and your job house was shutting down.
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: I can understand the simple that's a little bit more there.
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: But before and after that, I'm like, A.
- 1:03:30Speaker 4: You're saying their hustle is fair.
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: No, okay, okay, I'm saying the victims I take pity
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: on them during twenty twenty, But after that, when we
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: started learning about AI and how harmful, it was like, yeah,
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: I don't pity y'all. Like, if you want to pay
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: two thousand dollars to let a long necked Denmark man
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: talk to you from the dark of his home, then
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: you deserve to get rob That's the thing.
- 1:03:57Speaker 5: It's like the red flags were everywhere, red flags asunder.
- 1:04:02Speaker 5: I don't know why people were like falling into this
- 1:04:06Speaker 5: scam when there were so many signs to turn back.
- 1:04:09Speaker 5: The dark room, the bed in the background, all of those.
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: It's like, let's look a big look.
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: I had a clean background when he was telling people
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: about on exactly.
- 1:04:18Speaker 4: Okay, wait what is this? Okay, well this is another
- 1:04:21Speaker 4: scammy video of them on YouTube.
- 1:04:22Speaker 5: Okay, see they look ai to me. It's like I
- 1:04:26Speaker 5: can't trust anything anymore.
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: And they got now they got techbro haircuts. Like, yeah,
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: it's so gross.
- 1:04:33Speaker 4: One's eating a banana. Rude. That's Rasmus trying to beat
- 1:04:38Speaker 4: the fishead rumors. He's like bananas that note.
- 1:04:47Speaker 3: We always ask them this podcast, where would you like
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: to be found? Anything you want to plug?
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: Social Media's anything coming out? All that good stuff?
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: Yes? Oh well, listen to our podcast, drag Her Podcast.
- 1:04:59Speaker 4: It's a available anywhere you find podcasts. It's a fun,
- 1:05:02Speaker 4: dumb time. We're on Patreon as well because for the
- 1:05:05Speaker 4: diehard drag Race fans. But a reminder. The podcast is
- 1:05:08Speaker 4: for everybody. It's for anyone who just likes to hear friends.
- 1:05:12Speaker 5: I recently had a conversation with someone who has never
- 1:05:14Speaker 5: watched Drag Race. Listens to our podcast.
- 1:05:17Speaker 4: We have so much fun together and we fight like saiblings.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: We do.
- 1:05:22Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great time. Go listen to that.
- 1:05:24Speaker 5: And you can follow Mono at Mono Gappion on Yeah Instagram.
- 1:05:28Speaker 5: You can follow me at Osimo Ozzymo on Instagram. Is well,
- 1:05:32Speaker 5: patreon dot com Slash Dragger podcast for the Patreon.
- 1:05:36Speaker 4: That's it. I also want to shout out to Tyler Banks. Yes,
- 1:05:39Speaker 4: we can we plug our drag show instead of Tyra Banks. No,
- 1:05:44Speaker 4: and we are. We do.
- 1:05:47Speaker 5: We do a show called Bad Drag Race where we
- 1:05:49Speaker 5: take Drag Race and we condense it to a three
- 1:05:53Speaker 5: month run at the Dynasty Typewriter. That's right with comedians
- 1:05:57Speaker 5: who are trying drag for the first time. It's really
- 1:05:59Speaker 5: fun to really do we drag and it's very crunchy,
- 1:06:02Speaker 5: very station for that. Tyra and Tyra, I mean, you
- 1:06:06Speaker 5: know Santa Smize right, yeah, oh my.
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: Goodness, which I mean she got her attention. I know
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: about her hot ice cream.
- 1:06:12Speaker 5: Listen and the thing that I have to say, it's like,
- 1:06:14Speaker 5: you know, we talked about Timbaland's like AI generated an artist,
- 1:06:18Speaker 5: but Santa Smize should have been Ai.
- 1:06:21Speaker 4: But Tyra said, no, I'm gonna that's an alter ego
- 1:06:25Speaker 4: that I have.
- 1:06:26Speaker 5: I'm gonna wear a piss ye cover yours piss yellow
- 1:06:30Speaker 5: wig and a Santa hat and I'm a completely different person.
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: I'm gonna be sweaty and I'm gonna be doing stand
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: up that makes no sense everyone. I'm comfortable and it's
- 1:06:38Speaker 3: gonna be amazing, And honestly, I love it because people
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: do forget o g Tyra. Tyra used to have her
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: own television show and she would like walk out and
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: like have guests on, and she would trick them and
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: put like foam in her mouth.
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: She was having rap.
- 1:06:51Speaker 4: Guys, never been serious.
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: Y'all just forgot at this point.
- 1:06:55Speaker 4: I got the documentaries out, the ANTM documentary right out now.
- 1:06:59Speaker 5: Yes, and then the trailer it's like, yeah, you know,
- 1:07:02Speaker 5: I'm ready to talk now. And then she blames us
- 1:07:05Speaker 5: for her being so extra on the show. Yeah, She's like,
- 1:07:08Speaker 5: you guys wanted more. It's your fault that I became
- 1:07:11Speaker 5: this way. We love girls to switch races. Exactly why
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: did you hit you up and.
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: Said put that Asian lady in black. We did not
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: tell you to do that.
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: No one told you to scream at Tiffany the way
- 1:07:24Speaker 4: you screamed at Tiffany.
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: I mean, it is iconic.
- 1:07:27Speaker 4: It's iconic.
- 1:07:28Speaker 3: At the moment we were like yell at her, we
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: were like cut that girl hair off in it.
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: Sit her home immediately. We didn't tell you to do that, Tira.
- 1:07:38Speaker 3: But as always, because you can find me a D
- 1:07:40Speaker 3: I V A L A C I DMA lasy on
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: all platforms, y'all, come see me live April ninth, Irving,
- 1:07:46Speaker 3: Texas at the Punchline Comedy Theater. I'll be in New
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: York April eighteenth at the Grand Mercy Theater, and April thirtieth,
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: I'll be in San Francisco reprising our Cops comedy moment.
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: Y'all know we had a good time out there.
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: So y'all can come pull up on me live and
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: boy my special guests and the scams that were.
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: Going through and I can't wait to see y'all.
- 1:08:04Speaker 4: Y'all.
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: You can pick up my book anywhere.
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: You get books or sold scam Goddess and you can
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: find me a D I V A L A C
- 1:08:10Speaker 3: I D Blacy on all platforms. If you want to
- 1:08:12Speaker 3: see the pictures of these creemy scamming twins, go ahead
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: and get on Scam.
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: Goddess Pod and get on the Scam Goddess TikTok.
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: It's new and we've got some little videos and reprises
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: up there for y'all who want.
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: To see some people and some faces.
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: So yeah, and I'll put the link to the Scam
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: Box TikTok and the Bio Congregation.
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: I want you how to get out there and wait
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: you love it?
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: Tell me. I was like, I can't wait to say
- 1:08:42Speaker 4: incredible lazy.
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: Scam Goddess.
- 1:08:48Speaker 3: Scam Gottess stars and it's hosted by me Lacy Mostley
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: aka Scam Goddess.
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: Our producer is Jessicasis Neros, and our audio.
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: Engineer is Rich Garcia. Research for the show is conducted
- 1:08:59Speaker 3: by Kate Doyle Stay Scheming