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The Dark Knight of Brentwood w/ Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, & Max Silvestri · Scam Goddess

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  Speaker 1: Scam come from Scam, Come.
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  Speaker 2: Rob that's fro Scam Goddess. What's popping, Congregation, it's your girl,
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  Speaker 2: Lacy Mosley aka Scam Goddess, back with another installment of
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  Speaker 2: the podcast Scam Goddess. It's all about robbery, fraud, and
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  Speaker 2: those were practices. Sometimes we love them, sometimes we hate them. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna see along the way, and y'all already know
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  Speaker 2: I'm very wet, yes, excited, thrilled, elated, above the moon.
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  Speaker 2: And also I'm in Ireland. But the first thing I
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  Speaker 2: want to say is that Irish people are the nicest
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  Speaker 2: white people that I've ever met in my life, and
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  Speaker 2: they have lulled me into a false sense of security.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot how it was black. They were so nice
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  Speaker 2: to me that I forgot I was a black queer
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  Speaker 2: woman in the world. But y'all know, I'm excited, right,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thri I'm lated. My guests today are three multi
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  Speaker 2: talented comedians who hosts the podcast I Need You Guys,
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  Speaker 2: the show about their friendship over two decades. This is
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  Speaker 2: their group chat made public where they catch up, spill
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  Speaker 2: their guts, and they welcome new and old friends to
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  Speaker 2: every single episode. You may have seen the incredibly talented
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  Speaker 2: gal in the group on Parks and reg as Mona
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  Speaker 2: Lisa Sa Pristine. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, Jenny, I got
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  Speaker 2: that one right, you right too? Like Jenny, please know
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  Speaker 2: I know your lawyer, like I plot Yo Tea, I
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  Speaker 2: know Yo Tea Sweet or you might have heard her
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  Speaker 2: in shows like Big Mouth, That's what I'm talking about, Clock,
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  Speaker 2: The Great North, and so so, so, so much more.
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  Speaker 2: Jenny say is hilarious and beautiful and honestly, like God
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  Speaker 2: really spilled and I think he was like, oops, I
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  Speaker 2: guess we'll just let this one go. But he gave
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  Speaker 2: her too much talent and beauty and it was like,
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  Speaker 2: nobody shouldn't really have this much, like but she does,
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  Speaker 2: because what do you know?
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  Speaker 3: What do I do?
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to God? And our next guest is known
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  Speaker 2: for Killing It not just an entertainment but like the
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  Speaker 2: TV series Killing It as an producer, and his quarter
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  Speaker 2: hour stand up special is out now on Netflix, so
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  Speaker 2: you can see quarter Hour on Netflix period. And our
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  Speaker 2: third guess is known for shows like Pin fifteen, which
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  Speaker 2: I fucking love. Pe me come cute you fours, never
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  Speaker 2: have I ever Brooklyn nine nine yangs love these shows
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  Speaker 2: and so much more. Congregation wherever you are right now,
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  Speaker 2: make some noise. Get up out of your seat if
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  Speaker 2: you want your car pull over. I don't know, stand up,
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  Speaker 2: why you got your foot the guess. Okay for the
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  Speaker 2: three funny people Jenny Slate, so Bestreet and Gabe lead men.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what an intro. Wow in Jesus for real, let's
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  Speaker 4: take ten.
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  Speaker 5: As.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like stand up comedians that have been introduced many times,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think any of us have ever gotten a
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  Speaker 6: shout out to God themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Like that.
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  Speaker 3: Now every other intro I get.
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  Speaker 6: Is just going to sound like a total queef compared
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  Speaker 6: to what that was.
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  Speaker 2: Like.
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  Speaker 3: That made me feel so good and I really needed
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  Speaker 3: it today. I needed it. That was great. Hi, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I love y'all for real. I love your work so much,
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm not even joking, like I really love your
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  Speaker 2: work so much. I'm such a comedy nerd and so
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  Speaker 2: I was so thrilled to have you guys here. I
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  Speaker 2: am in Ireland and working my black ass off, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, I got I got my
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  Speaker 2: I got my call time, and they were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: five am, we picked your ass up. Because I don't
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  Speaker 2: drive here. I'm a terrible driver. You do not want
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  Speaker 2: to see me on the road.
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  Speaker 4: The roads backwards there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: They have our drivers. They don't let me try it.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, man, we know you gonna kill everybody, so
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  Speaker 2: it's easier.
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  Speaker 4: After a few drinks, I've given it a shot. You
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  Speaker 4: can you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: So then I was like, okay, but cool. They sent
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  Speaker 2: me a text and this is what they do, like
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  Speaker 2: they send your text and they're like, hey, we're picking
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  Speaker 2: you up at five am. And I was like, oh God,
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  Speaker 2: And I knew I was going to be with y'all.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, I got to meet my hero.
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  Speaker 4: Have you already taken the melotah?
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to go down during this?
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm not going to go.
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  Speaker 4: Perfectly.
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  Speaker 6: First of all, when I take melatonin, there is something
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  Speaker 6: in my body that maybe like there's just something deep
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  Speaker 6: in me, like self sabotage is like she just won't sleep.
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  Speaker 3: We're just not gonna let hear it.
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  Speaker 6: But the melatonin, if I take it at the right time,
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  Speaker 6: I swear to god, it kicks in at like eleven
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  Speaker 6: am the next day.
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  Speaker 3: It never it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: No, Yeah, and the other thing drowsy. Oh yeah, place
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  Speaker 2: to be is like you're awake, but you a little
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  Speaker 2: bit asleep.
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  Speaker 3: It's the worst.
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  Speaker 5: It's dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: I hate it. Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And also, as these guys know, I'm such a bad
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  Speaker 6: driver that I don't ever drive when I'm at work
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  Speaker 6: because I'm bad and I think that maybe I'll crash
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  Speaker 6: and then the whole thing will get ruined. So I respect,
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  Speaker 6: I respect your decision and their decision to pick you up.
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  Speaker 2: Twin, where have you been? I am the.
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  Speaker 3: Exact I shouldn't drive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: And also I'm a magnet for chaos. I used to
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  Speaker 2: do it for the plot. I thought I was doing
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  Speaker 2: it for the plot. I really thought that's what was
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  Speaker 2: going on. My mother, she's a witch. She's very smart
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  Speaker 2: and it has spoken so much life into me. But
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  Speaker 2: sometimes things that I was like, are you cursing me?
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  Speaker 6: This is a spell.
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  Speaker 2: She told me that when I went to college, I
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  Speaker 2: went to college on scholarship. I'm saying that again for you.
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  Speaker 2: You you don't you know who you are? On Twitter?
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  Speaker 2: My mom was like, You're gonna have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: friends who can party and bullshit and do all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff and then still make straight a's you are not
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  Speaker 2: that person. You have to study, you have to go home.
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  Speaker 2: And then she also told me everything that is bad
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  Speaker 2: will happen to you, which.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus, yeah, that's a big one.
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  Speaker 5: Actually list it should.
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  Speaker 6: Put that on one of those driftwood signs that they
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  Speaker 6: sell at home goods, you know, yeah, yeah, what can
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  Speaker 6: happen will happen to you.
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  Speaker 2: She was like, if you feel unsafe, like get out
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  Speaker 2: of that situation because the bad thing will happen to you.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, so so I told you.
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  Speaker 2: The Irish people, super nice, super wonderful, loved me into
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  Speaker 2: a fallse and security. I decided to take my dumbass
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  Speaker 2: of Berlin because I heard about kit cat clubs on TikTok.
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  Speaker 5: We what's a kit cat club?
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  Speaker 3: At club?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to tell you.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I learned about this on TikTok and there were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of videos that were like, oh, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I'm going to be accepted into this kit cat club.
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  Speaker 2: They wore different outfits. They tell you, they tell you
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  Speaker 2: to wear all black and to not wear any labels,
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  Speaker 2: no designer, don't be super American. Know a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of German and kind of just like, it's a vibe
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  Speaker 2: check to get into the club, and for some reason
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  Speaker 2: I took that at a challenge. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: a vibe check. I think I could pass vib check.
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  Speaker 2: So I had a few days off of work, so
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  Speaker 2: I went and I'm in Germany. I got to this club.
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  Speaker 2: I was influenced from TikTok. Got to this club and
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  Speaker 2: they let me in by past. But then immediately when
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  Speaker 2: I get in, there was this naked lady and she
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  Speaker 2: was very naked, and she was like, hey, can I
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  Speaker 2: have your phone and your coat? And I was like, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 2: here's my phone on my coat. And then she was
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  Speaker 2: like and then she was like, also, can I have
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  Speaker 2: your shirt? And I was like and I was like, what, okay,
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  Speaker 2: here's my shirt, but I'm not giving you my my
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  Speaker 2: bra because I don't want to be titty naked up
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  Speaker 2: in here.
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  Speaker 4: Going on.
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  Speaker 2: It was they was doing sex to each other and there.
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  Speaker 3: It was did you not expect that?
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  Speaker 4: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: What it is? It's so okay? I feel like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what was?
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  Speaker 5: People?
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  Speaker 4: All people?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm so like I saw a really beautiful young
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  Speaker 2: man in the corner and he was smoking a cigarette
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  Speaker 2: and I went up to him because I was like,
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  Speaker 2: gay bestie. Oh my god, I gotta get the safety
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  Speaker 2: gay bestie. Gay bestie. So then I sit next to him.
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  Speaker 2: He gives me a cigarette. I don't even spoke, but
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I got it, blendy and cool. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I try to.
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  Speaker 3: Get it.
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  Speaker 2: He was like the sweetie. I think I need to
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  Speaker 2: get you out of here. And I thought he was
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  Speaker 2: gay bestie. Next thing I know, that man was kissing
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  Speaker 2: on me and I was like, wait, I thought you
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  Speaker 2: was gay and he was like a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: think that, but I'm not. And I was like okay,
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  Speaker 2: cool and it wasn't weird. I was like okay. And
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  Speaker 2: then I was like, well, I want to dance a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. So he took me to the dance floor.
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  Speaker 2: He did not like let me go. He was was
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  Speaker 2: the dance floor. It was like you can dance for
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, but then you have to leave because
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  Speaker 2: you can't be up in here. And I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: here's romania. He was the fools.
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  Speaker 7: Fuck.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, well, it was.
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  Speaker 7: Just picking up on your general innocence. I guess what
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  Speaker 7: was a yeah, good question?
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  Speaker 5: Shirt?
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  Speaker 3: Did you have a shirt? O?
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  Speaker 2: No? They took his shirt from him. When we get
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  Speaker 2: his shirt back to what they're taking everybody's shirts. That's crazy,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's too many shirts going around that are black
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  Speaker 2: and you're gonna lose it anyways, chav. So all of
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  Speaker 2: that happened when I was leaving Germany. I missed three flights. No,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many. The first one er Lingis was like
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  Speaker 2: they sent me like a message on Thursday. I was
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  Speaker 2: leaving on Saturday, and the message was like, oh hey,
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  Speaker 2: we have a cybersecurity breach, like you need to check
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  Speaker 2: in for your flight. My dumb ass type B travel
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  Speaker 2: and asked was like, whoa, I wanted to check it
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday for Saturday flight. I'll just wait a little bit, dumb.
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  Speaker 2: So I checked in on the way there.
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  Speaker 3: That's what everybody does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess not in this situation. Not I
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  Speaker 2: love Irish people, but you'll play in my face. They
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  Speaker 2: were like, well, you can't check in online. Then I
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  Speaker 2: got there and they didn't have anybody at any counters.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have a counter did so I could not
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  Speaker 2: get into the airport by another flight.
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  Speaker 4: But they haven't even bothered to change their name from
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  Speaker 4: air Lingis, which I can't believe we're all just.
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  Speaker 6: I'm hearing air lingis and it's making me feel really
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  Speaker 6: like welcoming, Like I'm just like I would love to
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  Speaker 6: fly with you.
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  Speaker 4: Get up front together and fly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, full flight.
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  Speaker 2: You guys like I'm in your group chat right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys feel bad and this is feeling
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  Speaker 2: like I'm in your third chat. So thank you. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, missed that flight. Bought another flight. Now, gotta
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  Speaker 2: get on Ryanair because Ryan is a different deal because
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  Speaker 2: the work. Oh that's spirits spirit. Yeah, you're a very
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  Speaker 2: right European spirit.
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  Speaker 3: I got like an interesting weird sandwich sometimes on it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever have that?
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  Speaker 4: I make that flight either named after like a guy
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  Speaker 4: you dated in your twenties who definitely didn't have a
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  Speaker 4: job like Ryan's Ryan, Yeah right, yelling at you that
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  Speaker 4: you were weird at the party or whatever like Ryan.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, matt.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what Ryan be doing.
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  Speaker 5: Ryan does.
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  Speaker 6: It would either be Ryan Yeah, Ryanair, Oh god, Ryan Air. Anyways,
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  Speaker 6: so you get a Ryanair.
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  Speaker 2: Always say every Matthew is a scam, and I believe
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  Speaker 2: that Matthew. I think we gotta add Ryan.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Ryan is dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: And Ryan's more dangerous because he's cute. Ryan's are cute. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're cute.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many cute Ryans.
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  Speaker 2: And they'd be smiling at you, and they got braces,
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  Speaker 2: their parents got them, bracest Bryan always has some braces. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and whoa, he's smiling and he's cute.
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  Speaker 7: But if he was honest, if he was honest and trustworthy,
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  Speaker 7: he'd be Brian.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Brian, You're right Ryan, Brian is too
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  Speaker 6: good for his own good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, this is the Greg Craig divide to one
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  Speaker 7: of them. Craig, don't Craig, you.
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  Speaker 3: Are crazy, Greg.
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  Speaker 5: I don't really about.
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  Speaker 7: A very good therapist named Craig. I don't know why
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  Speaker 7: I'm saying this.
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  Speaker 6: Scarce God.
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  Speaker 2: Ending here, so miss that Ryan air flight too, because
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  Speaker 2: I have four people in the airport. How do I
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  Speaker 2: get to my gate? And apparently in Germany you have
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  Speaker 2: to go through customs before you leave. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to get the fuck asat, so I
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  Speaker 2: tried to Like, I pulled out a bunch of cash
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, here, sir, I'll give you one
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  Speaker 2: hundred euro to please just take me to my gate.
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  Speaker 2: And he was one of those drivers who takes you
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  Speaker 2: to yeah typically for mostly used for like disabled people
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  Speaker 2: or older people, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, can you just please take me
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  Speaker 2: to my gate? He started doing the same bullshit because
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Max, I'm sorry gay, but men are just unreliable,
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  Speaker 2: withered man y'all really just don't be doing y'all jobs.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, fuck, I'm kind of screwed. This
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  Speaker 2: is what I thought to do, which is crazy. Jenny thought,
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  Speaker 2: I need you guys, I need you guys, please let
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  Speaker 2: me know your thoughts. I was like, well, I can't
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  Speaker 2: get help, right, I can't get anyone to help me
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  Speaker 2: do anything. At this point, I was like, well maybe
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  Speaker 2: I can just become a liability. So I've never done
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  Speaker 2: this in my life and I will never do this again.
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  Speaker 2: But I fake fainted.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, it's wake up in Ireland.
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  Speaker 6: Look, it's not like if someone else had fainted at
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  Speaker 6: the same time, they would have also not been helped. Like,
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  Speaker 6: you didn't take anything from anyone else, and you weren't
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  Speaker 6: getting any help.
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  Speaker 3: And it was the end of a long trial.
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah it's a big swing, but you like you took
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  Speaker 7: the control. But in this really passively. You literally fell
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  Speaker 7: down and they had no choice but to come to
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  Speaker 7: your assistance.
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  Speaker 5: Did they help?
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  Speaker 2: Two women showed up after I fake fatou they and
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  Speaker 2: then took me to customs. They waited for me on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of customs, and they also walked me
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  Speaker 2: to my gate and made sure that I got all
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  Speaker 2: my plans.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, two women are always better than one man.
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  Speaker 6: That is that is exact math, and the other thing
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  Speaker 6: is my Google search history. Also, Yeah, when you when
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: you need some relief AKA and you're looking at Saint
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: when I really want to faint, I definitely look for
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  Speaker 6: something with two women and one man. But anyway, I
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  Speaker 6: I yeah, No, it's like, isn't that how you felt emotionally?
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  Speaker 6: Like you just kind of expressed it, and let's say
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: it was like almost performance art, Like you're just like
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: you're all making me feel like you want me to
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: fall down on the floor because you're not helping me.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm gonna fall down on the floor and change
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  Speaker 6: my reality through this action of falling down on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: And then you did. I don't have a problem at all, No, ye,
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  Speaker 3: you have your bad It's just honestly not that big. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't. It's I don't think it's bad.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you're looking for that validation.
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  Speaker 4: But that's what chat often, what a group chat is
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  Speaker 4: for is just to have you share a horrible thing
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  Speaker 4: that you did.
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  Speaker 5: It no crazy, it was choice, it was your only choice.
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  Speaker 3: That is like actually a bit of what our podcast is.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, what you just the story that you just brought,
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  Speaker 6: don't you guys feel like that's what we're.
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  Speaker 4: Doing where somehow the story ends with like, so, yeah,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I like in the middle of the night, like threw
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: fifteen pumpkins through my neighbor's window so that they move
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  Speaker 4: or whatever, and that the other two are like, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting out here. That's terrorism what they're doing.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: They had a conversation more pumpkin.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did them a solid. We sell the house.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna ask you all, and either any of
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you can start, what is your relationship with scams?
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I have been scammed, okay, and my my my wife
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: and I have both been scammed separately, and I kind
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: of forgot about mine. So my we jokingly my wife
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: is very bad at computers and friends, we like we
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: call her the cyber minister like that she's the one
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: in charge of the inner. She's not. She's not great
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: at computers. But one day there was like this month
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: where like every night she'd read.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: On this girl she does have to be good at computer.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: She's regular bad computers. But her kindle, she would be
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: reading it and it would just reboot like every two pages,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: and her thing would just be like, yeah, so it
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: just takes longer to read because I have to. And
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I just was like, you need to fix this. This
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: is making me nuts. I was the one who was like,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: just Google, like, go to Amazon Support, We'll send you
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: a new one. Something's broken. She's like, all right, I'm
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: actually going to do it today. I'm going to fix
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: my kindle because you told me it's bad. So I'm
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: in the other room and I hear her go, oh
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: my god, I was hacked. My kindle was hacked. And
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I was like, what like that. I didn't how could
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: you hack a kindle? Can't go into like the bedroom,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And she's got back in a flip phone exactly like
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: a gage. Yeah, throws our shoes at you or whatever.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: So I go in and she's like got the like
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: black and white like terminal typing window open on her computer,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: and I was like, what, why are you hacking? What's
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: going on? And she's like no, I called I'm on
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: with Kindle support right now, and they had me install
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: a tool that scans my computer and the Kindle in
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: it's and if they've they've proven that there's hacking, I'm like,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: they're in, you're installing a tool. So she had just
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: googled Kindle broken and a fake website came up that
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: had the like the ur l like Amazon Broken problem
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: dot com, but without clicking it, it gave you a
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: little preview and it was like customer support number is
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: one eight eight whatever. So she just called this random
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: number off a search results and they were like, yeah, hey,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: we're We're Amazon for sure. We just need to install
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: some soft zero.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Literally, my god. So I immediately like put our router
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: in the like you know, sync and turned off the
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: water because I was just like, oh, we have to
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: like there in network full class. Yeah, and that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Is so surprising.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Sorry, go ahead, no, and then and then but I
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: gave her a hard time for it. But I was
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: scammed when I was like twenty four by a Craigslist
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: scammer who wanted me to wire money to them. Yeah,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: I was looking for a roommate and they were like, hello,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: I'm cute Dutch girl looking to pre pay six months
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: of rent and come be an artist. This sounds great.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I have too much money. I have a big grant check.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: And I was like, you seem amazing.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: My name is Fania.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Literally, I found the email from two thousand and nine.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Hair This is just one part of a long, broken
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: English email, but it says hair blonde straight long. Why
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: would you, oh no, why would you put your whole
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: your whole description of your haircut? It works?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: It worked.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: So I had to pay my white lady exactly. I'm
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: small and I'm an artist. I'm looking to be a sexual.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So much money and ex okay, yeah, yeah, so I
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: fell for that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: So I'm not immune to falling for scams and Max.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Honestly two things. One, I'm gonna hold your hand with
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: your wife. She got it. There's a certain type of
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: scam where you get bombarded with a lot of information
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: very quickly, and so then you just start acting because
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you're in a situation where you're like, okay, well I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: just need to move quickly, and so you don't think
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: about the details. She got bombarded with that type of scam.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Your scam was different than your scam was that this
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: lady was basically being like, I'm safe. I'm blonde, white,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: long hair, Yes, yeah, let me live with you. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: this is a living situation, so you're looking for a
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: safe roommate, so she kind of stuck in on some
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: like I'm a safe person type shite. And also she
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: was doing something that I do innocently, which is like,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: remember I said I found the nice gay man and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I was like, gay, Bessie. I was innocent in that situation,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: and he immediately took care of me, and I think, Max,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: is what you did. But in this situation, that lady
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: was trying to rob you.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah. She basically ended up sending me like a cashiers
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: check for like six months rent, like posted overseas, and
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: she was like, you deposit and give me the difference
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: because I damn yeah. And then I started googling the
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: text from the email and found like this is a
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: total copy pasted scam and all I ended up losing
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: was I didn't like it was too late to find
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: a new roommate for that month, so I lost like
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: twelve yeah, twelve fifty could have been worse, could have
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: been worse. She was looking for me to send her
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: like five grand, you know, and she was going to.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Say, oh, I oversent you the money and the.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Gest she said, So what happens is you deposit it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: It takes seven days to go through, but you've already
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: wired her the difference and she disappears.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, smart, I got to.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Get into that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I know that one real. Well, well you're you've.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Survived Max smarter for both, Okay.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah. My relationship with scams, like I think I'm just
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: such an easy victim that people the bar is so low,
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Like I'm the person who like falls asleep with the
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: keys in my front door on the outside, Like there's
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: no there's people don't really have to scam me. I
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: spent like the first eighteen years of my life just
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: being mugged like weekly. Like I just am just like
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: like a walking kind of open softy book. And it's
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: just sort of like I don't think people have to
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: like work hard to scam me. So I don't nothing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: I've never been like caught in a trap like Max's
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: nothing complicated.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: There's people will be like, hey, can I have five
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: dollars on Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Here's ten, yeah, totally.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: It was like growing up it was like my brother.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: I remember, like my brother got mugged for his bike
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: and like he fought back and got beat up.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: So much.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: We were like fat white people in downtown Philly in
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: the eighties. Yeah, and like uh yeah, and I remember
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: he fought back and like got beat up, and my
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: parents were like, just don't fight back, like you'll, we'll
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: figure out the bike. It's not worth it. So it
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: was just like I just sort of like that was
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: like how I learned. It was just like if someone
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: asked me for something, it's like yeah, here you go,
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: and you just kind of like walk away. And then
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: it's like so no one really I've never had to
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: be tricked.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: I had a friend who's like dad fell for so
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: many scamn, I know, I don't you know this one.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: He felt for so many basically Nigerian print scams on
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: email that his family like he lost his family's money
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: and they had to like conspire to keep changing his
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: past his email password. It was like three or four
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: of them in a row, and it was like tens
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: and tens of thousands.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: So that's someone else's story not mine, but interesting.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I with you, Gabe on the point of it's not
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: worth your life. Yeah, I I will if I if
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in a dangerous situation, I'll be like, yeah,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you can have the things.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, come back. Like, but I guess that's not a scam.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: That's just sort of like.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Existing you're you're you were a soft target.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: And just like a soft target and also very forgetful
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: and lazy, so like yeah, like people like literally just
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: forget to lock the door and shit.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: So I'm just like, if anyone wants to.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're a type traveler, yeah, I'm a type traveler.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Big Yeah, I mean losing ship all the time. Yeah, definitely,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: we're on the same page. And I'm like, you can
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: rab me, don't kill me though, I want my life.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I like my life more.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: Don't carry your phone in your pocket. I'm like, I
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: don't care have it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to buy a money belt whatever.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, I'm just gonna kind of like stumble through
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: life and be fine.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Ultimately, Jimmy, I participated in a very small, very small,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: family oriented scam.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: It just was it was like a trick.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Really, I don't think it was a like, does a
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: skim means like it's kind of like part of a
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: system that happens over and over again, or like could
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: it be kind of like an or like something that
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: was kind of you know, orchestrated by a group and
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: we just did it like one time.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know if frequency comes into play. Yeah, we
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: talk about scams. I think if you run a skim,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: even if it's one time, I do like I do
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: love the reframing though, like, well we only did.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: It one time, right, Like is it racketeer.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: If you do it?
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Well, what I was going to say, I have a
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: relative who is now dead who was formally like traditionally
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: made off by made off.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: He was made off.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah off his money.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Made off made off.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: To me.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah I know, And it's like whoa, but okay, So
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: there was this one time when my dad, who's like
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: a really really really bad driver, was driving really bad.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: What's that I got, Yeah, yeah, hereditary. So I so
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: he did something wrong. I forget what he did in driving,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: and we got pulled over and it was the wintertime
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: and I was in the backseat with my sisters.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: My mom was in the front.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: And the officer starts to like come up to our car,
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: and my mom goes Jenny get out of the car
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: and pretend to throw up, and I was like what,
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: And then she was like do it, do it?
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Get out, and like my sisters both start crying, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Like, and then I got out of the car and
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: there was a snow drift and I loudly pretended to vomit,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: and then my and my mom got out too, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: was like rubbing my back and she was like whisper
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: in my ear, and she was.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Like, keep going.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: He can't get another ticket, you can't keep.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Going to it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: And I'm like and because he had so many tickets,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: and and are you the oldest, Jenny.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I'm clearly the middle. I have have every need in
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the world. I'm the middle.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: So I'm like.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: The actress.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Oh of course, neither one of my sisters would have
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: ever done that, nor would she have ever ever.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, She's also like neither one of.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: My other daughters will like eat ship right now, Like
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Jenny's the only idiot, Like, let's get her out of here.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: So I'm like, whoa. And my dad just like looks
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: up at the police officer and is like she's feeling ill,
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: and the police officers like, okay, like wait, you can't
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: do like whatever you did, and my dad's like, obviously
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: I know that, and then like.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: You can't go a hundred through red left.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Drive through people's houses. Yeah, my middle child is throwing up.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean and again, like you know anyway, like
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: this story is like it's not.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Very relatable.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Beautiful, and you you really rose to the occasion.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: You were like, I did it.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: I got out of the car, and I didn't actually
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: throw it, but I just made all the noises and
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: I did my body how you know it happens when
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: you do it. And and then my mom, my mom
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: took a handful of snow and wiped it on my face,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: pretending that she was wiping barf off my face.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: This is my mom has done this kind of thing.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: She does it like many times where she's like, I'm
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: going to actually make sure there are no no.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Like holes in this story.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: And so she like rubbed snow on my face and
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: I'm like and then like we get in the car,
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: we get we are.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Just rubbed your face. It seems like an extra humiliation.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: She was like high off it. She loved it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I think she was maybe doing it for the plot.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, she just going to get rid.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Full production.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she's like, she's like, we need what we need
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: wet snow, like to get the car off off or whatever.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Then we we get back into the car, get your mouth,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: get back in the car.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: So she's like, and I get back in the car
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: and we're all we were silent for like ten seconds,
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: and then everyone in the car.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Was like, whoa, whoa.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I can't believe we did that. It was like really exciting.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: And then like for the rest of the car ride,
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: I was like looking out the back of the car,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: being like, they know we were lying. They're gonna you know,
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: like they're gonna get my dad, but in fact they
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: did not, And it was like and none of that
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: ever needed to happen, but I did participate in it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, your instincts kicked in very fast. Very smart
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: of you, but honestly genius. Right, what a beautiful segue
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: into historic could wings?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: So today we're talking about an ex hotel executive, Steve Farzum.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: He's been pretending to be a police officer, oh a
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: FED and other law enforcement personnel since the nineteen nineties
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: and he got caught again pretending to be a firefighter
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: in the five La Fires.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: No, don't do that, so this is state My god,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: but Steve, what are you doing?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: He does look like a firefighter. He got firefighter.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, he's got.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: A firefighter haircut.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: His shirt says nine one one.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: You know what you're real? Yes, I know it's real.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: You can just put that shirt.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: He was like, I'm a cop. I just got not
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: one on my shirt. That's how I'll know he's verified.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: What does that mean at this point?
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Anything?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: You can just buy it. At this point, it doesn't
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: mean anything.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I don't I have Twitter anymore or whatever.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: So he was a former luxury hotel executive in Santa Monica.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: He was born in nineteen seventy eight and he grew
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: up in Brentwood with three brothers and a sister. Honestly,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: too many brothers, Like YA don't know if you can't tell, Okay,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: you need more sisters. But he had one. So his father,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: ci Rose, was an immigrant from Iran who purchased CD
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Santa Monica motels before property values in the area skyrocketed.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: So so Steve went to Palisades High School, where the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: movie Carrie was filmed, and it burned down in real
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: life in the La Fires this year. In his youth,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: he had run ins with the law and was named
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a suspect in a string of burglaries, extortion attempts, and
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: acts of vandalism, but seemed he seemed committed to being
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: a cop. And I'm like, well that exists.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: You're already in there.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, American police are criminals.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm committed.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Spy versus spies, the gang Robin the gang, Like, none
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: of this is surprising.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, I love having a
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: gun and telling people what to do. So maybe the
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: other police don't agree, but it's who I am. It's
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: in my blood.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The law, that's what I make it. It's how
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I feel today, is the law.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: It's illegal to deny my truth. Actually, and I've a
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: gun saying it's.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Okay about how it's worked.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: None of.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So. After high school, he moved to Santa Barbara and
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: joined the city police cadet program, but he didn't graduate.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Was Edie Murphy in one of.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Those movies Hills Cop?
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, Santa Barbara Cop?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But he didn't graduate.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Right, because it's just very academically rigorous.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Yea, it was more of a police accatmy where he
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: was making the noises of the gunman.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: So many flash cards.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: Studied really hard.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: It's just the tests were difficult.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: So why didn't he make it? Are you guys wondering?
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Why he didn't make it through school?
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: Please?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: We don't know. Okay, okay, okay, all right.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting that that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well we know what he did next.
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I love to think and I was going, O, no,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: we don't.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Know, no, shade, but the bar for graduating police Academy
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: is a trip wire. It is load to the ground. Yeah.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Santa Barbara is a really rough community, so they really
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: need the best on the streets.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Yep, serious students, Yes, America, and listen, that's not the
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: wrong with being a C student. I don't think that
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: every type of education works for everybody. I don't think
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: that grades are indicative of how you how much intelligence
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you have as a human being. I don't think that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: So I'm not saying it, but I am also saying like, oh, now,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: like you can get through this, okay. So in March
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: of nineteen ninety eight, Steve contacted Santa Barbara police about
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: a drunk driver and tailed the suspect in his own car.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Now he's doing no, don't.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: Do that, stolen valor shit.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Well, also like keeping the wall in doctrinated into this
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: type of activity. This is a scam that has happened
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: and been perpetuated through media and movies. How many movies
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: have you all seen where the cop is like, the
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: police chief is like, you're off this case, you're too
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: close to it, and then they chaw on their own.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the rules because their own principles are more.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: It's like they're a good guy.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, Yeah, this is rural.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: No we should not. If your boss says situal ass down,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you should go sitch your ass down. They say, give
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: you yeah at work, Yeah, my god. But they're like
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: for justice, I gotta go for justice and murder a
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: lot of people and fuck up a lot of property
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: for justice.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not taking a through modification. You can't make me what.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: So, after the driver caused a coalition, Steve detained him
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: until the cops showed up. He won public praise for
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: his efforts, including letters of commendation from the local police
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety nine, a firefighter told the Santa Barbara
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Police that a young guy had shown up at an
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: emergency scene and directed traffic like it was his job.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: That turned out to be okay.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I hate him. You're doing so bossy, fucking dork nark.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Get out of my business. Yeah, bossy nark.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: This is why you can't get costumes with good badges
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: at the Halloween store. The guys like this, they made
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: the balance different. Yeah, he wanted.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: To be a hero so bad. He was like, I'm
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: gonna be a hero, like okay, Hercules, Hercules, goddamn. He
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: was spotted pretending to be a public safety officer several
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: other times, including on his twenty first birthday, ish birthday birthday.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: But that's what you're doing for your first day.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: Just turning twenty one. This makes it so much worse.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, dukie Howser, asked scamster. Just absolutely precocious.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Dukie Howser.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: More like he's like, yeah, this birthday, directing traffic. I'm
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: drinking traffic.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, but I need you guys again.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Do we think like he was persevering because he couldn't
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: become a cop, and so instead of quitting on becoming
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: a cop. He he he, he just decided he was
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: going to do it on his own.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: No, I think he's becoming the most dangerous criminals.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: Yeahthology creepy, it's a pathology.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: It's annoying and it's not okay.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I always like, like, this is not me libeling or whatever,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: but I do always think there's like a core trauma
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: at the heart of these things, like that he was
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: like five years old and walked into his parents' bedroom
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: while they're having sex, and his dad was like, I
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: don't love my son. I love cops or whatever. There's
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: some something burned in where it's like he'll never outrun
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: this thing, like, well, daddy's love cops and I'm a cop,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: so daddy loves me or whatever.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: For you know, woof, Okay, is this.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: On his it was incident on his? Should we add it?
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Honestly? It might be we're getting there, but cha y'all,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: y'all have informed me, so okay, we we We won't
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: say that he might be trying to be a good
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: guy because we really don't know. So all right, he
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: drove a nineteen ninety six Crown Vic, which we know
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: is a cop car.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: It had taxi zimp plates and he got it by
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: telling the d m V that he was a probation officer,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: which he was not. Like car had red flashing lights
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: but no police decals, and he would pull people over
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: saying that he worked for the State of California Metro
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Private Enforcement, a company that was registered in his name. Oh,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: he carried a badge.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: And how many people let this man go further? Like
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: the d m V, that's crazy to not check that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: Whoever let him like start this company like that means
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: they gave him like a tax ID number, they gave
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: him like paperwork.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: This is like the Amazon scam my wife. Like his
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: company was called Police with a zero or whatever. He's like, yeah,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: so basically I work for police.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: I'm the police.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Looking it written down quickly, it's obviously insane.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Real take a paperback now, Gabe. We cannot blame the
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: d MV for not catching this. You know that the
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: DMV is here to create everybody's worst day, and they left.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: They don't work car a big job doing that.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they let Jenny and her dad have a license.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: They don't care. They're not locked in.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: They're letting us have it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: It's just crazy that. I mean, so I can just
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: walk down the street to the g MV down the
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: block and say like I am I work for the
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: un and and that means I can park anywhere and
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: they're not going to attack.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Is I just I was just throwing up a bunch.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: That's why snow all over my face. No, just let
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: me park.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Producer just just said he was trying to be Batman.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah so bad. Yeah, yeah, so bad.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: He was trying to be well Batman at least had
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: the good sense to have generational wealth to start it,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: you know, like true society changing wealth. You know, it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: not just like a guy who you know, can incorporate
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: something for four hundred dollars exactly.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: And he like invented his own car.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so he was an artist.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you're right. You're right, Jenny, you're right.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: He did invent the batmobile, So we're gonna give him bed.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: He's like doing a lot of that.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he had his own scissors, making a little bat
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: shaped thro stars like that's that's innovation.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: And also we need to talk about the fact that
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: the Batman he wasn't really like shooting people are doing
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: American violence like that, Like he really put in the
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: time and the work to beat.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Everybody, kind of hang them by their feet media.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, also started beating them up before he interrogated them.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: He'd like, you know, but he'll also be like, like
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: beat them up after he just started beating them up immediately.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: That takes a lot of energy. And it alsoism.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Direct traffic, like he didn't direct traffic. That is so annoying. Yeah,
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: that is so annoying.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of low brow. I don't know
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: why this man did it. But at this point, this
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: man starts to get recognized. So the cops issue a
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: warrant for Steve's arrest. In nineteen ninety nine, he pled
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: guilty to misdemeanors and was sentenced to three years of
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: probation and community service. I don't think that's long enough.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: What are we talking about.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: He can let himself off the hook, that's right. Yeah,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: And he's.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: Already doing community service by directing Trafficeah, he's.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Like, I just gave myself a weeknd.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: He violated that probation a few months later. When you
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: tell the woman that he was a cop now investigating
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: a crime, that her boyfriend had committed when the truth
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: was that he had a personal beak with the boyfriend
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: and I probably wanted to date her instead.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: Yo, the way old woman's heart is to arrest her and.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Her boyfriend.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: To arrest her boyfriend and in the least, yeah, right.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Got to get him out of the picture.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, aiming a gun at her from her front
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: lawn at too in the morning. It's always the.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Way, Listen. I did not agree with this man's methods,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: but I do understand that he is choosing the most
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: aggressive way to get through life.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Like we can give it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: At the airport and he was like, oh, I like
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: this lady, I'm a rest her boyfriend.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: That guy's gone. Who's next.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: That's terrible, That's fucking terrible. Like, are you weird? Yeah,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: you're weirdest. It is insane. Why would you do that?
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: What'd you do on your twenty first birthday? Oh? You
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: directed traffic to traffic?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: It was crazy?
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: Got it.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I was like, you go, now, you go, now you stop.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I'm smarter than the lights, literally.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: The traffic cone. Really, I am the traffic comb like
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: the fun but I'm orange and I'm white. I'm the
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: traffic com like what are you doing?
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Like your birthday one of the biggest, one of your
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: last big birthdays for a while. Enjoy Like that's when
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: you turn.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: The age where you can legally drink. You don't want
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: to go to the bar and have yourself a little
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: sip of beer, hang out with your friends, Like here
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: looks the traffic.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: In the bar.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Fucking weirdo.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Okay carting.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Steve was charged again and sentenced to a small amount
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: of jail time, which made it even more unlikely that
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: he would ever be able to be a real cop.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't like that. It says unlikely. Yeah, unlike, yeah,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: very likely that you're not a cop at this point.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: So many jails.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, the windows closing, it's not closed, but it is closing.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: If you do this one more time, it is going
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: to be extremely unlikely.
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: Also because you failed the test ten years ago and dry.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: It is not looking good for you, young man. It
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: is not looking good.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: You don't have to move out of the dorms at
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: the police Academy yet, by you need to. You need
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: to write this ship.
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: We're all right, and we're disappointed.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: And we're disappointed. That's all. Just disappointed. Two thousands, Steve
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: finished three training courses in firearms use, including one that
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: was hosted by the n RA, and one is tactical. Yeah,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: you know, they're all right, the best guys ever, so
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: cool and like we love them and pay all of
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: our politicians and that's fine.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: And they love kids. Yeah, they love school.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: They look and they love school.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Course, I'll give him that.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: So there was like a tactical baton instruction that he
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: also passed, and then one in like Officers Survival in
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: low like conditions. He passed that. Two years later he
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: completed the course at.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: The river Side.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how you need to know. You need
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: to know how to fight at dark.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: It's actually even darker at dusk than at night time
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: because your eyes are adjusted yet in those dangerous times
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: to be twirling a baton tactics.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: And also, if you're going to be a racist cop,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: you need to know how to see black people because
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: at night I'm just eyeballs and teeth. Like, you really
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: need to have your dusk training up so you can
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: see me, right, not gonna catch me that, Like if
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I close my eyes all over my mouth, you're not
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: gonna see me. So he needed to be his dust training,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: so you can really, you know, shoot black people.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: As the sun disappears over the mountain.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: He also failed out of two paramedic internship programs, and
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: the d m B rejected his application for ambulance driver's
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: certificates twice. He's also trying to drive the ambulance.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: He was trying to trying a cop job, bouncing around
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: first responder stuff.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: What does he want to do? First responding so much,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: she's he's nosy.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: No, you can't even do that. You didn't pass the
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: hose course.
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: Can I put the dalmatian?
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: No, you can't touch the dog. We told you that.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Don't touch him.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Other people can be Sario, back off and don't touch
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: the courses. In krap Magah, he could get hand to
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: hand combat so he could pass himself off as a
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: cop again. On the first anniversary of September eleven, he
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: was spotted posing as a firefighter in Los Angeles. The
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: LAPD arrested him and he pled guilty, resulting in a
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: jail sentence.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: What sir, okay, what the l AfD did on nine
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: to eleven was obviously unbelievably brave.
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely, and we will never forget. Yeah, we're in
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: LA and the thing happened three thousand.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: New York. The way this guy signs up for courses
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: and then just absolutely each ship every time they just
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: sockey team and you can't skate, just just fiffing it
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: over and.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: Overy time.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Your money.
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: Then came the juggling, and that's how he lost his
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: left hand right now.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: But there's nothing to first respond with juggles. Don't need
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: somebody to see about. He's not doing that. In two
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: thousand and four, he started teaching EMT courses at East
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles College. A female student pointed out in class
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: that he said something different from what the textbook said.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: They started harassing her and she got a restraining order.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: In two thousand and six, Steve failed to disclose his
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: criminal record for an application for like an EMT permit,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: and it was denied. He did the same thing two
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: years later because he's not going to stop. He's the
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Tyra Banks.
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: Okay, well, who knew, No, we're in you're going to
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: say that.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: He was featured on the Tyra Banks Show, which must
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: not have vetted their guests, because this is Tybank. I
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: love that lady. She could just be doing anything. It's fine.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: She taught me how to smile. I learned how to
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: do makeup in a saphora in New York on the
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: way to an audition. Like, you know, she was problematic,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: but she taught us a lot. She was right for
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: the time. So yeah, they didn't vet their guests. Oh
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: and this is a blurry tape of the segment posted
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: on YouTube by a user by him, Yeah, by him.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: He posted he was there to tell people what to
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: include an emergency preparedness kits, and he recommends you include
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: granulated sugar. That is not correct. Let's see what he
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: got to say real quick, because we were rapping this SHP.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: We're very close to the end. I can't believe an
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: emergency medical technician who has some life saving tips about
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: emergency sur bible kits and accidents safety.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm saluting what did he get on this show?
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: This is a crazy kit which my mom is huge
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: on and she guys telling me I should have this
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: and I don't, so what what in a home survival kit? Home?
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: You have to have some basic essentials. The first of
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: the flashlight battery.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: He looks like a firefight. Yea foods, a good light.
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: You have to have sugar.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Sugar, sugar, sugar.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: You're gonna want to solo cup for shaving your.
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: Beer when you're down low on sugar, that's what keeps
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: you going, like granual sugar.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: Okay, sugar sugar.
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: He says, he's like falling off the chair. First of all,
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: it's like, get on the chair. I'm saying this to
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: my daughter all the time. Get your get your whole
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: button in the chair, hunt, sweetie, get your booty on
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: the chair.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, when you're eating sugar, you don't want to fall
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: up your chair.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: You need a flashlight and sugar.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, coffee is going to be really bitter. The coffee
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: you're going to be having during the apocalypse is gonna
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: be really better because they're gonna leave it too long,
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: so they're gonna want sugar to make it go uneasily.
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: Aarony, the energy what what his face while she was
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: introducing him, like was like I can't.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Believe that this actually has worked on this show.
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: How how out of all the people, it's crazy that
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: he scammed his way onto that show.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: I mean it makes sense because the tire banks was
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: just doing anything. So if you're saving your way onto
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: a TV show, it's definitely with that lady.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Five days is a lot of days a week to film.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: I read Model Land like I'm an og Tyra Banks
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: like indoctrinated baby. So that lady was just doing anything
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: and I was like, yes, man, I don't know what
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: you're doing.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: But she's not booking the guests. It's not Tyre's fault,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: you know, like like somebody else.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: Was like but not going on and telling a long
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: story on the tire bank, like you know the level
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: of guests you need when you're like film at one
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: pm and yeah, just walk in.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Are we talking to today? Yeah? Sure very much.
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: Gave the d m B.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: It's like, so are we talking to today? Okay, listen
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  Speaker 2: I Jenny when I tell you I have d m
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: V stories like I didn't get registered in California with
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: my license until the lady that I was working with,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: miss Gertrude, she retired before I got my license registered
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: in l A. I came back and I was like,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: I'm here for miss Gertrude. At that point, we had
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: a vibe, we had a situation and they were like, oh,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: she is retired.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Lady I was working with.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you should be working with somebody the D. Yeah.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: She was like a bit of a back and forth.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you kind of seemed like this guy, Lacey. That's like,
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: you know you're you're failing the Class D motorcycle license
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: test twice a year.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Determination, Okay, I had perseverance.
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  Speaker 7: I had bought the sidecar and I was gonna get
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: the rest of the motorcycle.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: So I believe I'm a commercial long haul truck driver,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: so I shall be. With the help of Miss Gertrude, I.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Started with just the side guard, yes, and I worked
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: my way up to the motorcycle.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: And that's what.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Goals, goals goals. So Christopher dan Cell, we're we're wrapping
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: up here. But Steve, he met Christopher dan Cell while
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: they were both working security at a church carnival.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Was man, this is so narmy.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Steve chose to carry a gun and became partners in
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: fake crime fighting.
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: Sir.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: He just man needed to play video games because you
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: get these fantasies out what's happening. They traveled to New
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Mexico together for a five day training course. He's trained again, Max.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: He needs to learn about revolutionary war re enactment stuff
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: like there is out redo the Battle of getty Burg
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: over and over twice a year.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: So Steve and his new homie went to New Mexico
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: together for a five day trading course and it was
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: entitled Prevention Response to Suicide Bombing Incident. Oh when Steve
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: got them into by pretending to be an EMT, because
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: what you'd be doing. When Chris got married and had
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: a child with British porn star named Mackenzie Lee. Wow,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Chris and Steve lost touch for a while.
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: Okay, sure, relationships busy time, Yeah, I mean.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Look, Steve was busy getting fired for teaching emergency response
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: classes without proper credentials, so he was busy with that.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: And Steve was acting in one of Mackenzie's Mattress action
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: acting movie I see, yeah, and it was on it
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: was on dog Far Network.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: Wait, that's what our podcast is.
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: You just gave it like a lot of information that's
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: really really, really shocking. Okay, so you're saying Steve, who
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: was not even married, this is his friend's wife was
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: in one of the films, and then dog Part Yeah,
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: Chris's wife. Steve was in Chris's wife's movie, and then
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: Dogt was his wife.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Chriss Chris he.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: In his wife's okay, okay, oh god, Jenny, I'm gonna
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: throw something else at you. Doctor it was it was
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: called a cuck hold session.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris, get up.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah makes Chris wore an l a p D uniform
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: and watched the several men had sex with his wife
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: on the roof of a car in his zoom a car,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: roof of a car, not the hook, Yeah, roof.
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: Windows.
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe they were taking firefighters. He's a ladder or something. Yeah,
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: got it.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: And then they.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: Grew apart, but eventually they get back together. Later they
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: were busy, Yeah, over here doing crime, Chrystal.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Doing Stephens grew apart.
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: Steve tried to get certified network and did not pass, but.
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: He couldn't climb the car, get on the check final
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: test for you climate car started ahead.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: And not step appear to leave fake law enforcement behind
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: and return to the family business. He worked as the
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: chief operating officer like officer of one of his dad's properties,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: the Short Hotel. All right, he's a baby forgot them.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Why is he trying to be a cop? So it's
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: right next to the Santa Monica Pier where he went
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: to work for his family. He accepted awards for environmental
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: studorship and social responsibility. I don't know when he was
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: doing that, but okay, they give him award. But he
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: also filled out incident reports on suspicious people he saw
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: on his family's properties. At least one he conducted like
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: a citizen's arrest. I don't know, I believe. What are
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: you doing, Jevon Martin.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't do it arrests. Don't do that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: You're just a weirdo who wants to do violence to people.
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: So, on the back of his black office chair it
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: had the words commandered and cheap embroidered in red. He
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: kept a Maretta handgun, a shotgun, and a rifle on
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: site as hotel. The hotel said he hasn't worked there
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: for five years. Whatever. Anyway, there's a raid. So in
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, due to his former friend Chris, who was
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: in the porn Yeah yeah, acting as an FBI informent,
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: law enforcement was finally able to raid Steve's Brentwood mansion.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: It was a collaboration between the California DOJ, the Department
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: of Motor Vehicles, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms, the FBI,
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Santa Monica Police department all.
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: The fly well, stepping up, yeah, alphabet thing.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, can you imagine you're getting arrested and they're like,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: like we get here. They found sixteen firearms, twelve emergency radios. Okay,
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: that man was listening to all the emergency radios. Much sugar,
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: so much granulated sugar, so much. Three forged law enforcement
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: badges in a fully marked California Highway Patrol cruiser outfitted
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: in lights, so he had the police car that you're
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: not supposed to have if you're not.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: This is what seals have, yeah, to trick people to
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: getting into their car. This.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the probably the biggest triggering fact for
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: me because so many women have been pulled over and
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: assaulted by men and a fake coph It is not
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: It's the reason why if I'm on the highway and
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: I'm getting pulled over, because I'm a bad driver, I
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: know I'm gonna get pulled over. Sometimes I always will
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: like put on my hazards and drive to a well
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: lit gas station, to a well lit place with cameras.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get pulled over on the side of
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: the road where nobody can see what's going on because
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if you're a cop for real.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Oh like wow, And I recommend this y'all please, And
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if we're all in danger. Woman, man,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: they them all of y'all. If you get pulled over
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: and it's dark and there's no cameras, take your ass
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: to a gas station, put your hazards on so they
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: know you're not running from them, and take your ass
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: to a gas station where there are cameras.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: That's why when I get in the back of the cab,
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: I always check to see if the lock is sharpened
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: to a point like in The Collector.
• 59:56
  Speaker 7: I was thinking about that movie. That's the grossest thing.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: I'm never going to let myself get bone the person
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: when they go to leave the car, or they cut
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: their finger because the locks a little bit sharp into
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: like a nice soak growth and then they get boil.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: He's posing as a cab driver, right, yes.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: Yes, but it's a similar trusting of you know, collective
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: the worst made up unlike this because we know cab
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: drivers and uber drivers have never done anything bad, so
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: that's right.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's another thing is like be careful in ubers'
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: all because there is something that you sign when you
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: sign up for Uber, that does not allow you to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: do public litigation. It's all arbitration. So a lot of
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: things that happen in ubers that have happened to people
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: you will never know about because even if they decide
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: to pay you and settle the case or whatever, they
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: make you sign this situation where you can't.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: That's the agreement. Yes, whoa, I've never read one of those.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, So the state of California brought seventy seven
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: charges against Steve, including seventy three felonies. In twenty fifteen.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: He was sentenced to one hundred and eighty two days
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: behind bars, not enough, of which he served ninety not
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: enough awaiting sentencing. He also got five years probation. His
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: defends said that he had a hero complex addiction. No,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: it's giving alfluenza, yes, hero complex addiction.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: No, no find heroine, sir.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: How about your complex too? That's isn't it complex enough?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: Isn't it complex?
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: Enough?
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: Isn't it redundant?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: He has a hero complex?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Being in everybody's business was my crack?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense when you don't think about it.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 7: You were at my birthday party.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: You guys know, what I'm like, Yeah, I'm like a chocoholic,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: but for using my badge that's fake to threaten women.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Christ So yeah, the judge told Steve you violated probation.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: The consequences be very serious. Do we understand each other?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: Steve said yes, and he was released from custody custody
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: and continued to work as the COO of his you
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: know Nepo Baby Hotel. We're wrapping up right now. Steve
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: was arrested again because you know, you gotta get arrested more.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: I got that hc A.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: In July for pointing a laser pointer at an aircraft,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: including news helicopters. The helicopters got the license plate on
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: the car that was lasering them and saw that it
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: was registered at the state to Another raid on his
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Brentwood home was found. He had another raid. How you
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: have a multiple raids line?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: This one's not helpful though, This like there's no world
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: where it's like I'm pretending to be a cop who's
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: shining a laser pointer.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: Maybe he's trying to direct them.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: How big if you have that laser pointer? Like, how
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: big is like is it like one of the ones
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: that a cat chases, but it somehow just reaches a
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: plane or is it like a big things as big
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: as a water water.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: It's really big, crazy blue light.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: You should do something cooler.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, wow, it looks like the bat signals sir, what
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: are you doing and why? So this is his second
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: rate on the Brentwood home. I think we are going
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: in circles. So they came to his home rated it
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: and they found that a car as well as a
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: fully functioning fire truck registered fire department that doesn't exist,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: was at his home. We have a video of the truck.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: Where did he get this truck? Where did he get
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: this truck?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: This fire the net boat baby sees seemingly has a
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: fake registration to the Santomore Fire Department.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: LA Fire officials trying to determine if this is the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: same unauthorized truck reported entering the Palisades fire zone last January.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Wow, Santae like saint of death.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: What does he do to family?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: What is he doing? What is he doing?
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: He was arrested without bail for impersonating first responders and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: he had firearms violations and the government gave him some
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: FRA charges in relation to his fraud that he did
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: with the Palisades fire because he was pretending to be
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: ap and uh fireman and uh.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: Distract planes and distracting planes.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: That are presumably dumping water in this I hate this guy, yeah,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: right until the end.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really a tough menace to society. But hey,
• 1:04:57
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• 1:05:02
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• 1:05:03
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• 1:05:03
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• 1:05:08
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