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Tee Time Scams at the LA Country Club with Zach Noe Towers · Scam Goddess

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  Speaker 1: Goddess what's poppin congregation it's your girl Lacey Mosley aka
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  Speaker 1: scam goddess back with another installment of the comedy podcast
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  Speaker 1: all about robbery fraud and those who practice it sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we love them sometimes we hate them but one thing's
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  Speaker 1: for sure we'll usually laugh at them but never at
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  Speaker 1: the victims And I have the pleasure to be hosting
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  Speaker 1: with Zach today. He is an L.A.-based comedian, actor, and
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  Speaker 1: writer you may have seen on Netflix's Dear White People,
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  Speaker 1: or is one of the hosts of E! Nightly Pop
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  Speaker 1: and Dating, hashtag no filter. Zach has opened for Fortune
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  Speaker 1: Femster and Taylor Tomlinson, and he can be heard weekly
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  Speaker 1: as a regular guest on Jeff Lewis Live! Listen to
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  Speaker 1: his sex podcast, Good Sod Pod, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, Zach. Hi.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: That was so lovely to get the intro locking eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like an audience of one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it freaks me out if I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving it locking eyes because I'm like, is it like
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  Speaker 1: if you're having a funeral and somebody just sitting up
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  Speaker 1: in a casket like.
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  Speaker 1: You better read it good. And? And what else did
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  Speaker 1: I do? And who else did I open for? And
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  Speaker 1: what's my pod call? Yeah, exactly. Good side pod, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Too funny. All right, now I can rest. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we should be able to monitor a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of our funerals. Yeah. Like, when we get
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  Speaker 1: real out, if we're lucky, you know, like, there should be.
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  Speaker 2: Like a practice one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, there should be, like, some kind of pre-funeral, like.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make my funeral really silly. Like, even, like,
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  Speaker 2: a scavenger hunt for my body. Like, I'm dead.
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  Speaker 1: Find me. In the cemetery? Yeah. Like, walk pit steps
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  Speaker 1: to the right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Pass the 18th century baby who died.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I want it to be fun. Like, obviously, funerals are sad,
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  Speaker 2: but it's, like, I don't know. Maybe it's the comic
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  Speaker 2: in me. I'm like, don't be sad too long.
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  Speaker 1: But they're for the living. Yeah. So it's like, I
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  Speaker 1: want it to be lit. I want everybody to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of want to be there for a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit of it.
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  Speaker 2: Put Molly in the water.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Molly water. Turn up. I want everybody dancing in the
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  Speaker 1: cemetery just lit, okay? That wouldn't be weird for L.A.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we love to throw a party in a cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: Do you go to Cinespia? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's my favorite L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Thing to do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You go to Hollywood Forever Cemetery. You sit on the
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  Speaker 2: corpses of dead people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you watch a classic movie in the cemetery. It's, like,
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  Speaker 2: so fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you bring a picnic blanket.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You bring, like, snacks. Yes. And, like, yeah, I remember
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  Speaker 1: the rosé. There was a Mean Girls one that was
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  Speaker 1: so fun. We all wore pink and we had rosé.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm kind of wondering, like, Do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: that is scammy at all? That, like, these people are
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  Speaker 1: being laid to rest here and they have no clue?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea how they've allowed it. I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea how they got permission from everyone in that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they don't ask the people there. Can we do this? But, like,
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  Speaker 1: do you.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 1: Are you good with it? We're going to set our
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  Speaker 1: blanket up right here.
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  Speaker 2: But like, it's like, but could you, the loved ones
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  Speaker 2: that are still living of the people buried there, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, we're going to have like a
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  Speaker 2: little dance party every Saturday night on your loved one's grave.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand like how, what the deal is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Dancing on the grave used to be an insult.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're like monetized dancing on the grave.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Introduced by Gabrielle Union.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: She introduced Bring It On when I went to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes! Isn't that so fire? To come out and be like, hello! Alive!
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  Speaker 1: And dead! We out here. We out here.
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  Speaker 2: You in there.
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  Speaker 1: You in there. We out outside. So we out inside.
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  Speaker 1: The ground.
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  Speaker 4: Like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it works, though.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hope that the revenue hopefully assuages some, like,
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  Speaker 1: upkeep costs.
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  Speaker 2: I was just saying, maybe the deal is, like, they keep, like,
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  Speaker 2: the grounds really nice, and they, like, I don't know, like,
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  Speaker 2: power wash the headstones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know you definitely have to have someone, like,
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  Speaker 1: pay for some sort of maintenance in certain cemeteries and things,
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  Speaker 1: which makes no sense to me, because it's like, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm dead, why am I still paying? Like, what do
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  Speaker 1: you mean I got death rent? Like... What do you mean? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we put you in a studio in the ground. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you still got to pay property taxes, though. 3% up
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  Speaker 1: a year.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to be in one piece, buried or cremated?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be chopped up. The way you
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  Speaker 1: said that.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, that would be chic. Little coffins with, like, different
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  Speaker 2: parts in it.
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  Speaker 1: No, everyone carries the one. Yes. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I got his ass.
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  Speaker 1: That's a heavy one. Okay. Thank you. I'm hoping that's
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  Speaker 1: the heaviest box. Thank you. It is. It is. Okay. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. Yeah. I don't know. Part of me is like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, big. I mean, funerals themselves are a scam. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's so expensive. Oh, my God. And what are you
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  Speaker 1: going to do?
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  Speaker 2: And where are you going to go? Well, Costco.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Costco does have very cheap coffins.
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  Speaker 2: Honey, bury me in the pizza.
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  Speaker 1: And you could get it wrapped. I saw on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: there's a girl who wraps coffins like cars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's hilarious. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then it's like you got your cute little moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I heard?
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  Speaker 2: You can be turned into a record with like audio
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: I would do that if the audio was like me talking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, boo, bitch.
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  Speaker 1: If you playing this, I'm dead. Me and your granny
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  Speaker 1: talking shit about you.
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  Speaker 2: Would that be cool to have, like, your family and, like,
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  Speaker 2: records all over the wall?
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  Speaker 1: That creeps me out. That creeps me out.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I said that, I was like, that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: You have your family and records on the wall. Look
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  Speaker 1: at Nana. Right? But, I mean, they are doing the
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  Speaker 1: diamond thing, which part of me feels like it's scammy because, like,
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  Speaker 1: how are you guaranteeing that, like, it's all just my
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  Speaker 1: ashes that you compressed into a diamond that people are
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  Speaker 1: wearing now? I don't think there's a chance. But, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: mix me with a couple dogs. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I'd be honored to be part dog,
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  Speaker 2: part diamond.
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  Speaker 1: No, I feel like I need to be, I need
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  Speaker 1: everything to be cleaned out before, if I was going
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  Speaker 1: to get incinerated. It's just got to be me in there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I do like the idea of, like, being available
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  Speaker 2: on QVC. Like, as I.
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  Speaker 1: You only mass produce. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. Usually there's, like, one little pin did for me.
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  Speaker 1: But you're like, no, I want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: sell it to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Little ones scattered about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Zach, that brings me to a little one scattered about.
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  Speaker 1: Brings me to all of our congregations scattered around the world. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to get a listener letter from a
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  Speaker 1: member of the congregation. As always, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: stitch on your friends, family, and your enemies, scamgoddesspod at gmail.com.
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  Speaker 1: Just make sure the scam is what? Retired. Because we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to fuck up your bag. Amen. Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: this person is actually going to be, this is the
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  Speaker 1: first time we've ever had this happen.
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  Speaker 4: You're kidding.
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  Speaker 1: I have a listener audio letter. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: play it. This is the first time ever? Yes. I've
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  Speaker 1: never had audio. Like, I'll read them sometimes. But, like,
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  Speaker 1: this person sent me an audio, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Okay, this is kind of cute.
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  Speaker 2: I think audio is a very good way to get, like,
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  Speaker 2: the congregation involved.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Like, have them send in, like, their little.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can send a little voicemail now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: narrate it. We can get your information. Okay, y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: go overboard now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep it simple.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it cute, okay? Two-minute remarks or less, just like church. Amen. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear what this person has to say.
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  Speaker 6: This message is for scam goddess. My name is Aerie,
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  Speaker 6: and I almost got scammed today. I was working from home,
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  Speaker 6: and I got a call from a no-caller ID.
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  Speaker 4: That was the first red flag I should have already known.
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  Speaker 4: But I answered it, and this guy, talking super fast,
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  Speaker 4: didn't see any of the signs.
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  Speaker 1: He was so chill.
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  Speaker 4: He said that I failed the show for jury duty.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay. I actually just moved to Colorado
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  Speaker 4: about eight months ago, so.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way.
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  Speaker 4: I've already been called for jury duty.
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  Speaker 6: It was a federal jury duty against, like, some kind
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  Speaker 6: of child minor situation.
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  Speaker 1: Really, really odd to bring that up.
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  Speaker 6: But he ended up sending me a link to reschedule
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  Speaker 6: my jury duty.
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  Speaker 4: The link wasn't working. He sent me the link, like,
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  Speaker 4: three times.
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  Speaker 1: I clicked on it every time. My dumb ass.
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  Speaker 4: And then I also copied and pasted the link in
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  Speaker 4: the browser box.
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  Speaker 2: Now that I'm doing this memo.
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  Speaker 4: I really, I should have seen the signs.
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  Speaker 6: And after that didn't work, he sent me another email
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  Speaker 6: with an alleged arrest warrant, two citations, one for failure
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  Speaker 6: to appear for $ 3, 500. And the other one was contempt
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  Speaker 6: of court for $ 3, 500.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was like, Hey buddy, I only have
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  Speaker 1: $ 200 in my account right now.
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  Speaker 4: There's no way. I'm going to be able to pay
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  Speaker 4: that much money.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry. Barking up the wrong tree. You can pay $ 1, 500.
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  Speaker 4: I said, okay, I don't have that. He said, well,
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  Speaker 4: is there a third party that you can get the
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  Speaker 4: money from right now? I was like, not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Let me call someone.
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  Speaker 6: I called my mother-in-law, her sweet baby angel self. And
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  Speaker 6: she said, Aerie, that is a scam. They are not
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  Speaker 6: going to call you and ask you for money. They're
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  Speaker 6: just going to pick you up and put you in
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  Speaker 6: the back of the cruiser.
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  Speaker 4: And at that point, I understood.
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  Speaker 6: And so I got back on the line with the
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  Speaker 6: guy and I said, my lawyers have been notified.
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  Speaker 4: And he immediately hung up. No questions asked. Am I
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  Speaker 4: still freaked out about it a little bit?
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  Speaker 6: Am I still kind of scared that I might be
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  Speaker 6: arrested for failure?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: But that is one of the scams that I didn't
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  Speaker 6: even think that they would ever do. And the fact
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  Speaker 6: that they're getting so creative now in that I can't even.
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  Speaker 4: Tell is getting really, really scary.
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  Speaker 6: So everybody that's listening, please beware that that is a scam.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Do you love that it was the grandma that was like, bitch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the grandma is the baby.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Like normally it's you wanting your grandma. To send money, yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: don't send money, right. But this was the opposite where
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  Speaker 1: Nana was like, baby, no.
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong to like, I assume kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give a fake name for this person.
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  Speaker 2: Pencil?
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  Speaker 1: Pencil, okay. So Pencil, it works for me.
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  Speaker 2: I never said I was good at improv. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why you booked me.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Look, is there a pencil behind me
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  Speaker 1: that you grabbed that from? No, that was good. That
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  Speaker 1: came off the dome. Okay, pencil. So Pencil's grandma put
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  Speaker 1: her on game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What is concerning to me is that, okay, Pencil, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to judge you because, again, we want everybody
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  Speaker 1: to share information and share their stories. But, Pencil, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like you was hell-bent on clicking this link.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, and then I copy and pasted it.
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  Speaker 1: God tried to protect you. You clicked on the link
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  Speaker 1: three times. And it said no. And then you were like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Let me copy and paste it. What
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  Speaker 1: if I put it into the Google browser instead of Safari?
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  Speaker 2: She calls Geek Squad at bus by. She's like, I
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  Speaker 2: got to get this link to work.
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  Speaker 1: I got to pay this fee. So, yes. Oh, oh. Also,
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  Speaker 1: something that struck me was in the beginning, Pencil was
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  Speaker 1: saying that... I love the name, honestly, Zach. Love the name.
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  Speaker 1: Pencil was saying, like, oh, the guy got on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: He was super chill, but he was also talking super fast.
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  Speaker 1: And to juxtapose those two things, I'm like, how do
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  Speaker 1: you talk... You talk like this and you're super chill,
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  Speaker 1: but you're also talking super fast. You're just, like, really cool,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm super chill, but I'm talking really fast. I
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  Speaker 1: need my name to go through real quick. Like, is
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  Speaker 1: that super... Is that still chill? I completely agree. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this man was a little frenetic, Pencil.
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  Speaker 1: And you were really helping on giving him your info.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that it didn't succeed. I'm glad that you
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  Speaker 1: realized and heeded that this was a scam. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you miss jury duty, they're not going to call you. No.
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  Speaker 1: And they most certainly aren't going to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you need to send us money for this no appearance.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Also, like, with jury duty, like, we're all
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  Speaker 1: just throwing it away, right? I mean... I tell people,
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  Speaker 1: especially people of color, we have to go to jury
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  Speaker 1: duty because otherwise it's just wannabe cops and it's not
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  Speaker 1: a jury of our peers.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's harder in entertainment because our jobs aren't the kinds
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  Speaker 1: of jobs where... We get time off. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And like, oh, I can't fly to Minnesota this this week.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Like I get time off in my career, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not unless I black out the dates. It's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily up to me when that time comes. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: not like, oh, the family's going on vacation. I'm take
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  Speaker 1: some PTO or whatever. It's like if I'm on a
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  Speaker 1: job that I'm contractually obligated to give them my body
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  Speaker 1: for as much time as I've signed for.
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  Speaker 2: Give them your body.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You go to a doctor. They're like, is the
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  Speaker 1: body good enough? Hollywood doctor says yes. Okay. Then they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: sign this. Tell us you won't. One time I was
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  Speaker 1: like on set. I was working. I got a phone
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  Speaker 1: call from like, I guess like the HR or whatever network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say which. But they were like, hey, Lacey,
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  Speaker 1: we saw that you clicked the boxes that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be skydiving and motorcycle driving and all this dangerous shit.
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  Speaker 1: It says you own a speedboat. And I was like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: I meant to click no on that box. They were like, oh, OK,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to send you the form again just to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you click that no.
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  Speaker 2: Like we can't insure your ass.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Exactly. So it is like that. So jury duty
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  Speaker 1: is harder for us. Damn.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they're not gonna call you guys and they're definitely
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  Speaker 1: not gonna tell you what the case is about like
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  Speaker 1: that was another flag in this as pencil said that
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  Speaker 1: the the guy calling was like yeah you missed a
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  Speaker 1: case like we needed you because it was a child
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  Speaker 1: uh pedo and uh he actually around the corner from
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  Speaker 1: you it was a real juicy one it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on court tv like what are you talking.
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  Speaker 2: About and i also live in the same breath he's
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  Speaker 2: like you also are you owe us seven thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: and let's settle up now like if If anything, an
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  Speaker 2: entity is loving that you owe money because they're going
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  Speaker 2: to add fees. It's going to get bigger and bigger
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  Speaker 2: the more you ignore it. So like there's just no
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  Speaker 2: sense where this person would be after your money right there.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. But I understand how because debt collectors used to call.
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  Speaker 1: Have debt collectors stopped calling or do I just not
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: have like debt? Okay, Fleck. No, I try to keep
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: a few things in collections. Just for the thrill of it.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Just to keep things interesting. Just to keep shit interesting.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Be like, I did buy that canoe, huh?
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Well, because if it's purchased, so when something goes to collections,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: it means that someone else has purchased the debt in
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: hopes to collect it and get the little fee money
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: on top. So that's their hustle. But if they don't
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: collect the debt within a certain time frame, it just
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: drops off.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: That's lovely.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: And so sometimes, like, I'll get, like, a little random, like,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: you know how you go to the doctor's office and
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: then you'll pay your co-pay or whatever? You know, healthcare. Oh,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: and then they send another bill. It's really hard in America. Yeah,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: and then wherever they send labs to, yeah, they'll send
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: a bill from that company. They own you also $ 1, 100.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, I don't think I do.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Well, see, sometimes these bills be petty. It be like
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: 15 here, 25 here. And sometimes I just be like,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: it's so much hassle to just send y'all that $ 1, 000.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to let it go. I mean, I would
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: do this now because I'm an adult. But like six
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: years ago, you know, a little 25 used to do
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: more than a 25 do today. And so I'm like,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep my little 25. I'm not buying
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: a house in the next seven years.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: And you're being petty to ask me for $ 20, if
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: I'm being honest. We're friends, aren't we, Doc?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Are you broke?
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Flip it on them.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Healthcare industry is billions of dollars a year and you
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: need 25?
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sick over the healthcare industry.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Literally.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Like, literally. As our most. It's such a bummer. It
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: really is. It's never quite the highlight. It is one
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: of our biggest scams. Huge. Yeah, I would say Pencil,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: thank God for your grandma because it seems as though
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: you would have kept it. Does a scammer have a
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: hot voice? Because you really kept chatting. Oh my God.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: We're talking several phone calls. We're talking about you found
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: out it was a scam, and then you called Bay back,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and we're like, hello? Hey. I'm going to call my
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: lawyer on you. Like, was this, like, was it getting hot?
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: As you see, a charismatic man who, like, compliments me
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: on the phone, like, I might.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Be in danger.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I might be pulling up my Venmo and being like, okay,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I can send you $ 100 now. If his voice sounds
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: nice and, like, you know. Because I feel like we've
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: been losing. I don't hear men with deep voices that
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: often anymore. Oh, yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I can't even do it. I just sound like a
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: lesbian when I do it.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: No, it was working for me. Hey, hey, hey. You know,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like if somebody got my phone, like, hey,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: you know, you miss jury duty, right? Hey, girl. Yeah.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: A kid died because of you. Yeah, because of you.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So we just going to need like a little quick $ 1, 500. Yeah,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Walmart gift cards. I might be in these trying times.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, getting somebody on the phone
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: who can string that many sentences together.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: But in regards to your do debt collectors call anymore,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I put my phone on that like forward all unknown
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: contacts to voicemail thing. And it's the best thing I've
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: ever done in my life. Like, I've missed some, like,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: important calls from people who are not stored in my phone. But, like,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: my phone doesn't, like, I don't notice that scammers are
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: calling anymore.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Which is nice.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I only get the ones that are scamming with the, like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: we saw you own a home in a place that
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I don't own a home. They're like, it's worth this much.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: They're like, you qualify for this loan. It's like, babes.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know in what world that you think you
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: can advertise loans to people because loans are not something
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that people just like want to take out.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't like ask someone, do you want a loan? Like, hey,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I was wondering, I woke up this morning, I was like,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I feel like Lacey wants a loan.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like you could use a loan. Yeah, what
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: about a little 5% interest, something real high. Six, 12.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: And I love that delete and report spam button.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Like honestly, I've reported a lot of probably regular people
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: as spam and I'm.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Not sorry about it. Anybody can be a spam.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It's nebulous.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: It's more of a vibe.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a vibe. If someone has a spammy vibe,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: then yeah, we reported you to the FTC. Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Also, if that guy called me, I'd be like, how
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: about you just send me this information in the mail
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and I'll look over it when I have time.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Also, the guy changing his tactic from being like, oh,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you missed jury duty. There's a fine. And then the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: pencil's like, well, I ain't got that much money. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: they're like, well, how much do you have? I've never
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: seen the court.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: The court is never going to be like.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: What you got on you? Because the justice system can
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: use whatever you got. Any jewelry, any inheritance. The justice
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: system can use that. That's why we got the scale.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: You thought that was for fairness? No, no, that's how
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: we waste it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: For diamonds.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, bring it over. The valuation of gold is
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: going up right now.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Pencil, yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Pencil.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Pencil, just, like, don't answer the phone anymore.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Pencil, the phone's a dangerous one for you. Because then,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: after that, the guy pivots for a second and is like, oh,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you also have a warrant for your arrest.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: That's the crazy part. We're missing jury duty. I'm like,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: get a life, honestly.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Like, what are you talking about? Please be serious, sir.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And now, expeditiously. Oh, well, Pencil, I'm glad that you
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: didn't get scammed. And thank you for sharing that with us. Yes,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: if you missed jury duty, which is a very common
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: thing that a lot of people do, we should be going.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's like the smart people should be
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: going to the jury duty because people's lives might be
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: in your hands, but you also might get like a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: really boring case.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well, can I say, I was on jury duty once.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I was an alternate. And so I had to be
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: there for the entire case, but I was just listening
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: for the most part. And I would sub in if
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: someone couldn't go.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Did you want to? Did you want to like Tanya
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Harding someone and get in there?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: No, not really. Like I was. like kind of annoyed
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that I'd be there because I was quite poor at
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the time and I had a serving job. I had
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: to give up all my shifts. And I remember there
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: are the two lawyers. There was like The person being
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: sued and then the person, you know, defending them. And
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I knew that the person was guilty of the case,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but I hated the other lawyer so much that I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: was like, well, I'm not voting against the criminal because
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I don't like you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Damn. See, prosecution has to really work on their vibes.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Because, I mean, they have such strong narc energy already.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So it's like you really got to, like, calm that down.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Be like, hey, we've all smoked a little weed here.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Who and when? Dates? Everyone empty your pockets. Like, you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: gotta give us a little personality. Yeah. Okay, because we
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: already hate you because you're a narc for the man, okay? Totally, totally. Yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: we get it. You gotta keep bad guys off the street. But, like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: come on, make it a little entertaining for us. Or
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: at least make it feel like it's to our benefit.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of prosecutors come off, like,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: you can tell in their head they're trying to, like,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: win a case or, like, get a certain amount of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: wins or get pressed.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you smell bullshit.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it's like, this is not about the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: people involved. You don't care about justice. You're trying to, like,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: either up your status or... Or like, you know, run
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: for some higher position. It's like we can see all
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: your bullshit. You're being competitive.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Like you're just trying to win.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: With people's lives.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I also think that jury duty members should be
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: paid as if they're federal employees for that week.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think you get like $ 15 a day or something.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: A day?
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: It's like and it's for lunch, I think. It's like
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to reimburse you for lunch. You do not get paid
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to do jury duty.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That's wild.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Isn't it?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It's asking so much of people, especially if you are
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: barely making ends meet.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: So then you're only going to get a certain type
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of person, which is what we usually see, which is
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: people who want to be cops.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: People probably have barely any control in their life finally
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: getting to exert some over somebody else's life, which makes
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: for the worst jury box. Yeah. It's like, oh, it's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: my time to be judge, jury, and executioner. Yeah. Like, no. Yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you got to throw some coin at the citizens. I think. Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And then I want to get involved.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Honestly, maybe they could make it like an entry level position.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: So like people, it would be incentivized to do jury
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: duty because you could make money while you're doing it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, somebody get on TikTok and be like,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: do you want to make money from court?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Do you want to judge people and get your bag?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Right. At the same time. Do you love true crime?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Are you ready to monetize it?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Monetize.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Right. The Los Angeles Courthouse is hosting auditions today for
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you to be on a jury. Of your peers. Of
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: your peers. It's all influencers then. Right, it's all influencers.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: A nightmare. I'd be like, honestly, just execute me.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't need this. Spend 12 hours with
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: some of the coolest people in your city. Watching content,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: then making content. Wait, I think we've done it. I think, yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly. Just pay me $ 15. 99 and I can
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: put you in touch with the Los Angeles Registrar and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you can get your jury.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: It's just to sign up for jury summons.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It's just to sign up for jury summons. That's crazy.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: It's justus.org. Like just and then dash us. Just us
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: doing just us. That's good.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Just us. Yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That's kind of cutsy. Now I want to do it. Scams! cons!
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well, that brings us into my favorite
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: segment of the show, Historic Hoodwinks. This is where I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: will regale Zach with a famous con caper group of criminals.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: We're just photo.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you. We're going to get Mr. Tower's opinion all throughout. Yay.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I love that you sent your intro over with no
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: last name as if, like, we were going to have
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Zach Noel Towers.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't send anything over.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Well, that was very scammery of your people, and I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: kind of love it. They were like, Zach, like, Just
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: any Zach. That's crazy. Just any Zach. Sorry. No.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Zach Noe Towers.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Hi. Zach Noe Towers. So, Zach, I am going to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: regale you with a famous con caper group of criminals.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: We'll get your opinion all throughout. Today in Historic Hoodwinks,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about Something had been going
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: on for years. Shadowy golf brokers snatched up all the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: tee times at public golf courses in Los Angeles and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: resold them at higher prices on the black market until
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a crew of golf influencers and local players teamed up
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to take them down.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. So, are you like a... And this is like
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the LA.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: A golfer?
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: No.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: No. No.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Wait, but that's so interesting. So they bought up all
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the tea times, like all the reservations, and then they
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: sold them?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So right now we're looking at the L.A. Country Club,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: which was founded in 1897. And at the time it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: didn't admit women, black people, Jewish people, or entertainers. Now,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the entertainers being in quotes is fun for me because
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: are we talking about entertainments of the night? Yes. No
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: sex workers, no background actors. Union only?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: 1897, first of all, didn't know golf was even that old.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a stick and a ball, so it
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: seems pretty archaic.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Now that you put it that way, I can picture
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: cavemen doing it. But yeah, entertainers. I'm sure this is
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: when like it was like vaudeville and like entertainers were
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: like clowns.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes sense. So like the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Ringling Brothers. Yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: No, not you guys.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: No carnies. Yeah. Is that what that means? That's what
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it's giving. It's giving no carnies.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: No carnies is so funny.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: These are nice golf courses. Obviously, the L.A. County Golf
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Course was our country club. Excuse me. The L.A. Country
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Club was shady from jump. You know, they have a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: very what doesn't have a racist past in America. Right. Yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: No, for sure.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: You know, golfing is still one of those kind of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: like sports that has like a financial barrier to entry.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Prohibitively expensive. Yeah. And also like a geographical barrier to entry.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So you have, cause like golf courses tend to be
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: in more suburban areas or areas where there's like a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: lot more land. And then like, if you're, you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: living in a- If.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: You can afford to have acres of land and then
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: you can afford, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And then you also have to afford the clubs,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: which are expensive.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Country club membership. That can be extremely expensive.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: It's also like a long game, I feel like.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: You have to block off like an entire afternoon. Yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And people typically like to play during the week. Like,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a great place for men to get
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: drunk outdoors with one another.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And sexually harass young attendants.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, little car girls.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Or maybe they, off by the, you know, seventh hole,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: they see, like, a wooded area and they go there
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: for a little bit, you know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: A gay sex?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: They cruise on the golf course.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: And the outfit, yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Somebody sharks it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I got a hole for you.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they find another hole, you know, off the green.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Off the green. Yeah, so there's a lot going on
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in these places. I come from a very large golf culture.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: My dad's a very avid golfer. Yeah. Do you golf? No.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I kind of want to try my hand at it again.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I got my first set of Pings when I was eight,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and they had, like, these cute pink, like, grippies. Did
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: you call them Pings? Yeah. P-I-G, whatever.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of that before.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Like clubs?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the golf club.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: They're called Pings?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Well, not all of them, but this is a brand.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Pings is like a very famous brand. There's like Callaway.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: There's like some very famous golf brands. Yeah, which is fair. No, no. Yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: so I was more interested in like, if it's a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: super nice course, they won't have carts. They won't have
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: golf carts. Like you have to have a caddy or
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: like carry-on clubs because they don't want to fuck up
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the grass. But if it's like, you know, like one
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that's made in the middle of a suburban neighborhood or whatever,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: like a lot of those have golf court cards so
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I just like driving the car yeah I was really
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: into the like four I.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Don't understand like also like how do you get good
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: enough to like be on the course because I feel
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: like I'd hit the first ball and it'd go into
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: like a highway traffic or something like that like I'd
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: be nowhere near the green or whatever like how I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: just don't understand how you get good at it I guess.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's probably like maybe like a I'd
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: say maybe like 46% to 50% of people who are
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: like actually pretty good golfers and you like have a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: good low hand cap and all that stuff. And then
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of drunk people out there
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: just hitting the ball. Swanging. Swanging. And they get in
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the golf cart and as soon as they get close
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to something else, they just get another ball out the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: cart and they just like drop it on the green.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I love that. There's no way in hell everybody is like. Four. Oh, yeah.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It's a good one. Okay. It's a 19-foot puck, guys.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Come on, Chet. Let's talk about how we're going to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: ruin the world with AI. Even on the bourbon sweet cheeks. Slap. Yeah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like I could fit in just fine there
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: being awful. But, yeah, so the golf brokers are now
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: taking up these public tee times. And if someone was
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: at a book a tee time, like, it can be
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: very competitive. Like, especially like Saturday morning. There's certain days
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that are like. Like pickleball. Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: People will be looking, refreshing their phone, like getting those
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: court times.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: And I like pickleball.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I haven't done it yet, but I know I'll be
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: very good at.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It when I start. You will be. I felt like
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Serena Williams, but with just way less effort. I just
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: found out it's like a wiffle ball. I didn't know that. Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. And then the paddle. And it's like a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: bigger ball, too. So if you ain't got good eyesight,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you ain't missing out. Okay. It's not green like the court,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: like tennis trying to play with my mind. Okay. We're
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: talking about cataract eyes. Okay. We need a yellow ball.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Cloudy eyes.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: It's a small court, too. Big paddle, big ball, different colors.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Like, honestly, a part of the game is like move
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: as little as possible. Wow. Or like, you know. you
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: want to hit the ball in the kitchen real soft,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: so they got to, like, try to run up and
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: get it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It's more of a stratagem game. But back
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to golf, our stratagem game today. So golf in L.A.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: has like a shady origin story, right? So the city
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: of L.A. operates a busy, sprawling golf, like public golf
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: course system and is home to some of the oldest
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and most exclusive private country clubs in the country. We're
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: talking historic levels of racism. Like, you know what I mean? Like,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: this isn't like new money. The cream of the crop racism.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: This ain't new money racism. Yeah, this is that old.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: This is original recipe racism.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: This is when you get called slurs. They were like,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: a boogery draw. And I'd be like, what the fuck
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: is a boogery draw? That's what we used to call
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: y'all back in the day.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: At Harvard, we called you that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Wow. That's when they had slurs for, like,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: specific ethnicities, okay? The Icelanders got one. You know, like,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: everybody got one. Nordic.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Oddly respectful in that way.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Yes. Oh, you mean that ice looching fucker? Yeah, like,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: everybody's getting one. Everybody. This is old racism, okay? You
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: gotta be real, real white to hold up and light. So, um...
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: So the L.A. Country Club itself was founded in 1897.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That's the one that we're talking about that we saw
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: that was like no, you know, nobody.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Entertainers, Jewish people, women, or black people.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. The people that we don't want anywhere. And
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: here we are. Hi. Don't say it too loud. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: didn't tell nobody we were. Oh, yeah, they don't know.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: They don't know. It's our secret. So, yeah. They relocated
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: their current location from the founding position in 1897 to
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Beverly Hills in 1911. And from the start, the LACC,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the L.A. Country Club, it didn't admit the women, the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: black people, the Jewish people, or the clowns. So they
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: only begrudgingly let in their first black member in 1991. Oh,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: my God.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: That is.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nauseating. Which was extremely late compared to other clubs.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: That's wild. I was I was alive. Do you know
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I want to be
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the first black person. Like I would be the first
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: black person to win something because I could go home.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: You know, and then be black at home and be like,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I did this. So black. So me.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So safe. So safe. I'm like the first black person
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: where I have to keep coming to the place every
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: time I go.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And be the only black person.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: And everyone's like, there they go.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Sipping their champagne or having their lobster thermidor. What's old
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: people rich food? Cherish Jubilee. Oh my gosh, okay.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Waldorf salad. I don't know why that came to mind.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Banana spostum.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Oh God, okay, yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: They having that looking like, there he is again. Bet
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: you the locker room's going to smell like black now.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Honestly, exciting for them. The bigots probably
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: needed a thrill. Okay, yeah. So true. I want to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: know who this first black person is because if it's 91,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to think, wasn't OJ.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Around being not black but being OJ?
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And or who was his lawyer? Was it Johnny Cochran? Yeah.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Couldn't have been him.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: High profile.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, high profile. It's got to be an athlete. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: would think. We got to look this up.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I could also see like an Eddie Murphy type.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Sorry, go on. Oh, yeah, I could definitely see like
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: an Eddie Murphy type as well. What about a Danny Glover?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Did all those Beverly Hills types. Oh my gosh. They
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: would love him then. Yeah. So, but yeah, so they
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: made the progressive choice in 1991 to let in a black. So.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Reluctant.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Reluctant. Progressive.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Begrudgingly.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Begrudgingly.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: When you said progressive, I was like, that's not the word. Like,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: but it's not progressive.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: No, I meant begrudgingly.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: In 91, it's not progressive.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: It's the opposite. Quite the opposite, actually. They were very
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: angry about it. So that makes the public golf course
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: run by the city all more important for golfers in
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles who aren't rich white Christian men. So because
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of the exclusivity and the begrudgingly letting in the one
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: black man in 91 and all this stuff, like public
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: golf courses are extremely important because then it's like you
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: can go golf and enjoy this very gatekept sport without the,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you know, bitumen in them.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Doing racism to you.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: What a novel concept.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: How wild. Yeah, you want to go somewhere and, like,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: not have racism done to you so you can, like,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: enjoy life? We have the place for you. It's public, though. So,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: according to LA's golf division, the city's public courses host
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: more than one million rounds of golf per year. And
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I imagine with tourism and, like, also avid golfers. My
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: dad golfs every week. Really? Yeah.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, I wonder how many games
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: can be going at one time.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Like, how many people can, like, tee off. Yeah, like
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: staggered or whatever.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: They go in groups.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Still, a million sounds so high.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, I'm sure if they're staggered off enough, then
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you can probably get a lot of people through there
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in a week. Courses are huge, too, especially if you've
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: got a full course, 18 holes.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So, such exciting stuff, guys. We love golf. It's so fun.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Love to turn on that golf and yell at the TV.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I want to go to a driving range, though. I
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: think that'd be a good, like, date. You know?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people do that all the time. Do they? Yeah,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: they do the driving range or like they'll do putt.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Mini golf is cute.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Mini golf is cute.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I am quite good at mini golf.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they're two separate things, but that is
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: at least putting.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give that to you. Thank you. The
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: public courses offer, like, lower tea time rates than private ones, obviously.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: The tea time is where you would check off from
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the first tea. So that's when you meet up with
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: your partner or if you're paired with people or whatever. Yeah,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: that's number hole one. Hole one. And then you tee off.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Number one hole was my nickname in college.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, no. Well, at least you were number one hole, okay?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: If you were number two hole, I'd be very disappointed, Zach. No.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: If you're not first or last, especially in that category.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: So I'm proud of you. Thank you. So they had
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: cheaper times, right? And the Trump National Golf Course in
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Palos Verdes charges like upwards of $ 1, 000 for a tee
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: time during prime time on weekends. So let's say you
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: want a 9 a.m. on a Saturday. It's $ 1, 000 and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: up for you to have that round of golf because
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: it's like a really popular time. And the most popular
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: time slot at Wilson and Harding, which is the public
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: golf course in Griffith Park, is $ 55.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: And that's the most expensive time slot for a public park.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And we live in L.A., so you know Griffith is
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: right around the corner.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know there was a golf course there.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: So you can pay $ 55 to play 18 holes of
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: golf at most at a public one, or you can
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: go to Trump's weird-ass place and start at $ 1, 000 for
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: coveted time slots.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, that just shows the wealth disparity, too, where
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: it's like, I mean, like, obviously you have to have
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: so much money if you're tossing $ 1, 000 at your stupid
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: little Saturday morning sport.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Especially if you're doing it regularly. So that's just, like,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: an expense you have. Ugh. And, like, it's also not
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: like the grass is greener. Some courses are.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Much, much better.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: But, like, it's not like the experience is that vastly
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: different to warrant it being $ 1, 000 and up for you
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to tee off. But that's, like, how you put up, again,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: a barrier to entry.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: So that we can keep people out.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Because rich people only feel rich because nothing is real.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: So.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: You only feel rich, really, if someone is excluded from
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: something that you have. Because otherwise there's no way to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: tangibly feel it. The jewelry that we wear. Oh, yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: The expensive rock or expensive metal. It means nothing. It's
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: only worth as much value as we put on it.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: The only way for rich people to feel good is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to feel like they have something.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: That other people don't. Yeah. So scary. And I think
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: about that stuff more and more where it's just like, oh,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: these people are paying to be away from other people.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Because that's the only way to have some
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: type of class semblance in your day-to-day life. You can't.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I can't. There's a bouncer here. He lets me through.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: He closes the door on you.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Not you, poor. Yeah, it's got to, yeah, it has
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to be that. And then as soon as people start
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to get access to things, that's why we saw labels
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: kind of disappear. We used to have labels all over
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: their body, and they became quiet luxury as the middle
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: class or upper middle class could at least afford one
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: piece of that. Maybe you have 20, you know, iconic
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Chanel bags, but they can at least afford one, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the second you can afford one, they're like, Oh.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I'm that.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: She is me. Me is she.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like the poolers? Yeah. Find me something, like, you
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, I want a bald eagle
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: bag from Hermes.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I was going to say a baby whale loofah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Right. I wash myself with whale. Very that. So, obviously,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: there's a price disparity here. High demand and short supply
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: are a recipe for a black market. So there's a
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: new problem. The city's public golf course in Los Angeles,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the reservation system is managed by NBC Sports next for golf.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: You can book a tee time online by phone or
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: in person at a course for an annual fee of
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. The L.A. City player card gives you
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: early access to tee times. It's supposed to allow holders
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to book tee times up to nine days in advance
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: compared to the seven seven day advance offer. bookings for
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: non-card holders so even the public part is like.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Hey we can make this a little exclusive for you
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: i okay this is have you ever done an episode
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: about the fast track highways do you know how there's
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: highways where you can pay more.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah to use them i don't understand how they exist
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: because it's like i thought roads were like paid for
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: by like government facilities. But then it's like, oh, if
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: you don't want traffic, we've built this other road for you.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah. And that's the thing
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: about things like like conveniences you know what i mean
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: like i like i just got my car registered i
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: was riding dirty for a little while um yeah and
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: like i was very stressed out when i got in
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: my car and i couldn't realize where the tenseness was
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: coming from and i was like oh my god it's
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: because i'm hyper aware of the police every time i
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: get in my car of course and then one day
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the boys was out I was driving through Beverly Hills.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: They will definitely pull you over and run your place
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: no matter what.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: And, like, I see four cars, like, in rapid succession
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and pulled over. Blue and red lights. These aren't accidents.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: These are people. I was like, damn, the boys is out.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: It must be time to get their, like, quota or
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: something today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm driving the
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: speed limit, but I have a sticker that is very
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: much the wrong color on my car. It's a loud
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: wrong color. Like, you could have blue or you could
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: have red. Yeah. Mine is yellow.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Yellow.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Yellow. I'm going on a year and a half riding dirty.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I did a class of 24.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I should say, beware the pandemic.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: 2020.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I ain't gave no money.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: So I ended up like getting to Hollywood and be like, phew, okay,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: they don't really check place over here. They got more
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: crime to work on. I see other people, two more
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: cars getting pulled over. And I was like, oh. So
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: then I just took a turn because there was a
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: cop like behind me, but very far. But I was like,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: they pull up to me at a light. They're going
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: to see this loud ass yellow. I took a right
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and I just drove down all the alleyways all the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: way home. Yeah. Which was like miles of alleyways. Not
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a life. Not for you. Yeah. So it's like, but
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: my point is, is that instead of having to go
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: to the DMV and get everything taken care of with
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: my suspended registration and stuff, I found a private place
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and I went there, paid a little extra. They called
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the DMV. Got it all straightened out. I was there
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: for all of 10 minutes. And I didn't have to
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: get a sticker in the mail. He had the sticker.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: He pulled one out, came up to my car and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: was like, ba-dow.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's crazy.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: So, like, to your point of, like, having the more
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: expensive part of the highway, which they do have those
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: in Texas, those eight-lane highways, where it's like, you can
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: pay more and you can avoid all the people and
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the traffic. Yeah. It is scammy, but people have found
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: a way to make a coin. That's so.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: And I thought the DMV was one of those last
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: standing places where, like, They don't care if you are Zendaya. Like,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: you have to go to the DMV.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: No.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: But I guess not anymore.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: No, you can go to a guy who knows the DMV.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: They'll call the DMV for you.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I got a DMV guy.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: They take his picture instead of hers. Yeah, right. So
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: he has a guy that's like me.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, like seeing things like, oh,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: we have these public parks where you can, public golf
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: courses where it's more accessible. And then to hear that, oh,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: we got a $ 25 cheat where you can skip the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: line in front of the other public. That's scammy. That's so,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I hate that. Once people, paying for convenience has become
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: such a thing in America that we charge for air. Okay.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I just think it's crazy that it's coming into play
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: with like government funded spaces.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, yeah. All the time.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Also TSA.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Where it's like, oh, but also you could get checked
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: here and then you don't have to take your shoes
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: off ever again.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Or like if you go like if you fly
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Delta one, the TSA is literally like one little box.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden it's not a big deal. And
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you just walk up and it's just you and a lady.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, you can keep your shoes on. Throw
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that in there. And it's just you and a lady. Yeah.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: You can get by anything in the guy. If anything
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: we've learned from this administration is that all it takes
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: is some money to get past. Everything in the government.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I don't even know why we were listening to the government. Laws,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: mere suggestions. You do you.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: And everyone's just like, he can't keep getting away with
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: this every day. I'm like, girl, clearly he can't. Yeah. Yes.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know where you've been at. So now we're
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: seeing the scamminess come into the public reservation of these
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: tea times, which is a bummer because this was supposed
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: to make it more accessible. But here we are. So
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: for years, golfers found themselves consistently locked out of prime
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: playing times, even if they had the player card, the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: LACD player with that $ 25. So at city courses, slots
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: opened up at 6 a.m. for golfing nine days ahead.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: And every morning, in a matter of seconds, the reservations
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: disappeared on the city's online booking platform. Brokers were snatching
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: up prime time tee times at Los Angeles public golf
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: courses and reselling them. Like Ticketmaster. Mm-hmm. I like StockX. Wow.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Just like now if there's a high demand, middlemen get involved.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: There's nothing I hate more. It's a middleman. Same.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: The lowest of the low.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Like we do not need you. No.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like Europe has much better laws about this.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Everywhere does. We're in the law of the crimes and
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the scams. Why do you think we can't just file
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: our taxes directly to the government? Oh yeah, that's crazy.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Because Inuit and Turbo and all of them have lobbied
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: so hard to make sure that taxes are so complicated
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that they are a necessity.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: And I've been throwing money at that problem for years.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: My tax person. I'm like, yeah, same.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: So we got to go get a guy. And the
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: whole thing is just a made up industry. And that's
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: what kills me about businesses is like at that scale,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: instead of just like coming up with a product that
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: people actually need. They're like, we need to keep people
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: needed this product. Of course.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: And make it, keep it, keep it confusing. Keep it bad.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: That's like during the civil rights movement when they were like, okay,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: we're no longer going to have colored and white water fountains.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Like the water fountain guy being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I think we should add another.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: We should keep the racism up. And what if we
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: have a non-binary fountain?
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: A girl fountain, a boy fountain, and a they fountain.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Girl, yeah. She, they, him fountain. Then we have she white.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: She black.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: She white. Episode title, she white.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: She white, right. Scams. Cards. We have colored only she.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Like there's always going to be some idea.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Let's make it harder and worse.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we can get a cut of something that's
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: so unnecessary for you to get a cut of.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: It also, this is kind of the same, but like
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: how iPhones are getting worse.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They're getting worse.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I had my 13 for a long
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: time and then I went to the 17 and it
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: dies twice as fast. And I'm like, give me my
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: 13 back. I'd rather have the 13.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: It kind of makes me scared to upgrade things. Like,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know when I'm going to upgrade my car
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: because now they're talking about subscription services to turn the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: heat on in your leather seats and stuff. I'm like,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think I need the computer that much in
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: my car. That's crazy.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: I kind of want to go back to roll down windows.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Just the energy of a.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: You know what? Make you work for a little bit.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: This will keep us safe from scams, too. Because if
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: somebody comes up to my window and it takes this
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: much effort for me to unroll that bitch, I'm not
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: unrolling it. I'm like, what? Like, this has made it
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: too easy for us. We're like, what do you need? No,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: you're right. I would evaluate my choices of who I
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: interacted with via car window. If I had this, if
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I had to turn butter to open it up. What
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: have we been doing? You're right. This little. You know.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: That's made us too accessible. Too easy. And they expect
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: it fast too. Yeah.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: And they'll be like, give me a second.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Like, hold on.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I got to stretch.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Before I turn my butter.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Do I want to, do I, what does I want?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Do I look sketchy? I have plenty of time to think.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Three, three, three of these gives it like this much.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: What? What? We need to bring it back. Honestly, I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: think it's a safety measure we need. So here we
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: have these brokers, right, snatching up all of the best
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: tee times. So golfers said that without using a broker,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: they got tee times primarily through last-minute cancellations or a
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: wait list, where they had to stand by in person
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: from five minutes to several hours, and sometimes the list
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: didn't get tapped at all. Now, I want to feel
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: bad for y'all because... This is your hobby. This is
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: your passion. I know that it's read as very elitist
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and pretentious kind of, like, moneyed sport. But, you know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: that's their Saturday. Oh, yeah. And they have to wait
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: from five minutes to hours to maybe not even get
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: on the course. Yeah, that's horrible. Like, Mom and Daddy
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: would never let this happen. Oh, please.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: This... I keep oscillating on this episode from being, like,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: so happy to so sad.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's what we do here. Welcome.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, I want.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: I want a Mamdani so bad.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: We all do. Unfortunately, in L.A., we have a mayor,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: but then we also have a city council of 15
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: people that make mayor's job impossible. So we would need
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: 16 Mamdanis.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Which I'm open to.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I'm open to.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: If we can get 16.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Never too many Mamdanis.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Throw in some Ossoffs. Throw in some El Sayeds. Abdul
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: El Sayed. Throw in all them black men in Detroit
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: whose names I should definitely know. But the mayor of Detroit,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: they're doing big things up there, too. Yeah.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: We need, yeah, but we need 16 of them. We
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: might need to do a casting call. Who wants to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: act like they care about the city of Los Angeles?
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Central casting.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Central casting. Boy, do we have an opportunity for you.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Do you want to pretend? Acting is slow. Would you
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: like to pretend like you care about the city and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: its people?
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: You could make great money, plenty of events, hair and makeup. Yes.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Honestly, if acting has not panned out for you up
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: until now- Time for a pivot.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: And also, that is what politics is.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Like, the best politicians are great actors.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, they're faking. Like, that's their whole job is to
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: be like, we're mad about this.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: They're the PR consultant for the government. They're supposed to
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: come out and be like, we're mad about this, right?
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: That other guy, we hate.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: That guy right.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: Come to the polls right and then yeah Abdul and
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: like who's the hottie John Ossoff Ossoff like now it's
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: like attractiveness is coming into play.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Like, in my head, politicians are mainly trolls.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Well, they call D.C. Hollywood for ugly people. Now, never
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: say this to someone from D.C. because I didn't. They
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: got really mad.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I don't mean you. I mean, like,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: the people who are famous there, they don't have to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: be hot. Yeah. That's what I mean.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Not you.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: You're hot. There's hot people running around D.C. everywhere. But
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I just meant, like, the people in politics, like.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Well, it's just that thing of, too, when you go to, like, D.C.,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: it's like billboards, like, we need policy reform for climate
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: change now. And you come here, and it's like, Minions
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: 4 out this summer. And it's just like, we value
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: different things.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, no, but we also have signs that are like, syphilis,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: it's back. Oh, yeah.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: And it's like two old people kissing.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: And you're like, what? Yeah, apparently the nursing home is
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: going to be overly freaked out. They're bumping. Yeah, you know,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: next time you go by to see Granny, you know,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: bring her that watercolor paint your two-year-old made, but also
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: maybe bring her a box of Magnums. okay just saying
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: granny and i get cracked oh so you know when
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: did cracked come in i don't know it's a funny
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: way to say it to.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Me it's kind of violent like yeah i don't want
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: to be cracked like you know made that up yeah
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: yeah i don't say it ever it's.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Like a genuine thing i love.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: When you said especially granny i'm like yeah her hip
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: is destroyed.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to my girls like yeah i'm
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: She cracked last night. No, it's not. There's no warm,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: fuzzy feeling in the words cracked.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, they want to destroy everything. They do.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, bro, you're not. Get away from me
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: with that organ. So back to what we were talking about.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: You see how all of that it went into it.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: So, you know, every morning, a matter of seconds, all
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: these reservations are gone. They either have to use a
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: broker or they have to wait. And sometimes they're not
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: even getting paid. So in October 2023, members of SoCal
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Dream Team Golf Club, a club for Asian and Korean golfers,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: wrote to L.A. City's golf supervisor, Rick Reinschmidt, to alert
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: him of the brokers. So SoCal Dream Golf Club president
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Joseph Lee felt that the city was not doing enough
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: to deal with these brokers. So this is Joseph Lee. Yeah.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: He looks pissed.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, he does.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, look, he said, when do we want tee-offs? When
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: do we want them now?
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: And last Saturday when I waited four hours.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Right, he's leading the social justice movement here. And look,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: he's got his finger pointing down. He's like, this is
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: an abomination. You know what? I'm with you, Mr.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Lee.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: You get that tee, okay? It's annoying.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Like, I almost wish like any like the brokerage should
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: be able to be that should be blocked or something.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Or it should be like if you booked with a broker,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: your reservation is void.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Or I feel like you
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to get more than one reservation. Right.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Because you're one VPN or whatever. Yeah.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Per week. Sure. So at least then, like... Yeah, move
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: it about.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Move it about.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Or at least slow the people down who are using
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: bots and stuff so that other real people who might
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: be waiting up at 6 a.m. at the same time
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: would have an advantage. Yeah. In March of 2024, long-haired
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: golf teaching pro and native Angeleno, Dave Fink. This is
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Dave Fink.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: I love how long-haired got in there.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I think it's necessary. He's probably one of the few
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: guys on the course with the long hair. With luscious locks. Yeah,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: he's giving like, what's that show that just came out
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: on Netflix?
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: The Hawk?
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: The Hawk, yeah. Yeah, The Hawk. It's giving The Hawk.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: So David posted a- Oh, and Ping.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I've never seen that before.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: That's right. Leonardo DiCaprio moment. You're like, and then.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Right. There it is. The thing. Yes. So he so
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: David Fink, he posted a viral video exposing the shadow
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: broker scheme. He's a golf influencer with more than 200,000 followers.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't know golf people had influencers, but okay. Everything does.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I guess you're probably showing off clubs and balls. Yeah, definitely. Courses.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: But, like, there's, like, hot dog influencers. Do you know
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Everything. I recently had one on the show. Yeah,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: that's true.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: I just had my first Korean corn dog.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Is that alone with all the cheese?
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Well, it can be. But I had original recipe, just, like,
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: crispy coating and then, like, a spicy mayo on top.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: How was it? You're making me want one.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, do you like a corn dog?
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I love hot dogs.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're so.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I know it's bad, but I don't care. Something's going
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: to kill me. Listen. If it's a glizzy, that'll be
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: the way, okay? You got me. Sorry for y'all with misophonia.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I know that probably just made you jump out of
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: your skin. So in this viral video, David Fink is
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: going to reveal a broker's menu listing prices per tea time.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: which during peak hours could go up to $ 40 per slot. Now, remember,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: it used to be the most expensive that the golf
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: course was. Yeah, it was $ 55. He's just doing this
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: off the strength. So this could be any time. It
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be like the most peak time. So
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: it might just be what's left. He's like, you want
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to golf or not? You trying to get away from
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: your family or what? It's your only time. After this,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: you got to go to your sister-in-law's baby shower. So
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: what you want to do? You want to take it
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: or no? You know they're going to take it. So
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: he used the hashtag free the teeth. Good hashtag.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: See, this is why when white people talk about social justice,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, y'all know how to organize. Please don't
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: say that y'all need black people outside.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Because we got free to tea for the golf clubs.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: And then please stop forgetting about y'all. Y'all used to
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: have the clam rallies. Y'all still doing that shit. Y'all
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: very organized when it comes to destroying black joy.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: We have phone trees for sure.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, we got everybody out
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: to the KKK rally, but now y'all talking about y'all
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: don't know how to organize a rally up against the government.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Ain't that why y'all wanted the right to bear arms anyway?
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Get out there and bear them. Fine. The whole point
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: was to fight the government with the arms.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, we're a conundrum.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Right. Y'all trying to shoot up restaurants. I thought y'all
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: wanted to fight the government. Shoot up. Oh, no. I know.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: We got you. We got you. Don't worry about that, sweetheart.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, damn. So Patrick McFarlane, a member of
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: the city's golf advisory committee, said it'd be like if
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: someone took over a public swimming pool. We just bought
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: a pool and said that there would be surge pricing.
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, it's high noon. Oh, y'all trying to get wet. Oh,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: it's going to cost a little more.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Y'all trying to get wet. It's so funny.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, no. They got tier pricing.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Or, yeah, it's like, oh, do you want air conditioning
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: in your movie theater? It's very, like, a menu.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Right. Something that always existed, and now they're like, let's
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: monetize it.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: It's sick.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: It really is. It's like, oh, you want to sit down? Okay,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: for how long? Put the quarters in for the sitting.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, like that plane thing. pitch where there
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: are people standing like standing room on planes have you
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: seen that I.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Have seen that which obviously would be illegal because FAA
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: rules like you can't everyone.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Has to have a seatbelt oh is that like just
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: like an AI meme that I've been falling for great awesome.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: It's okay some have been getting me too it's harder
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: and harder to spot some are really terrible and I
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: love that but some like I do have to read
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: the comments and see if like yes I.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Do I do read the comments but also you know
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: what's been nice is like it has taught me discernment
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: And that, like, when I see something, no matter what
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: it is, I'm like, is this real? Like, I ask
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: myself that.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? And it forces me
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: to do some research. And I wish that that was
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: what people were taking from it.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, but it's not.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Because everyone else is like, big font letters and a photo?
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Must be news. Mitch McConnell's head fell off? Must be news. Yes, exactly.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell's alive? If I don't see that corpse... If
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: he don't get it, I want a wave. I want
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: a TikTok dance. I want something.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: No, he's dead. I've never been more convinced that someone
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: is dead.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like we, as a people, have the right
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: to run up on his house and just, like, kick
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: the door in and, like, go run through, like, the
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Tomb Raider.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's not happened.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You work for us, bitch.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, show me him or fire his ass.
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: These days, if you want time off work, if you're like, oh,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: I got into a car accident, you got to have
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: a couple photos of the car or the flat tire.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: You know what's so funny is I had a friend
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: who used that excuse that he was in a car
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: accident a couple times, and the, like, last time he
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: did it, the manager was like, send me pictures. My
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: friend took a baseball bat to his car to send
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: pictures of, like, the accident.
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: He.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: He didn't want to lose his job.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: He dated the job that bad.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: That he went full Beyonce on his own car.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Eliminated his own whip. So he can keep his job.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: You know what? That's dedication. That's dedication to the bit.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Your friend is my kind of scammer. He said, I'm
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: not going down without a fight.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: He's like, bet.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: He was like, hold on. Let me pick my finger
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Put the blood on. He laying up
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: naked underneath the car. How did you hit yourself with
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: your own car?
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: There's a bat in it.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: I told you it was bad. I told you it
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: was a bad car accident, okay? But I could be
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: in at six, okay? I just need like an hour
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: and a half, and then I'm going to be good.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: I'm okay.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They said the blood going to stop bleeding, and
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be good. Yeah, no, I'm going to
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: be in. I'm like, what? I know, I know. Honestly,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: not mad at.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: It, okay?
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: No, I know.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: It's impressive.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: But if you're going to do the car one, you
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: need to have some photos just lying around. And then
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: for meta purposes, you probably need to screenshot them first,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: send them to yourself, then download them again, and then
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: send them to the person you're trying to lie to.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: So hopefully that messes with the metadata on the time frame.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: On the photo unless you're dealing with a boomer and
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: then it's like honestly send them a drawing right and
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be like wow looks.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Bad yeah i killed off the same dead a lot
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: in college but.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Of course and r.i.p r.i.p r.i.p r.i.p.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: But there is something so like macabre about being like,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: let me see that obit. And I did have some
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: professors who would be like, let me see that obit.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: That's so disrespectful.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: I was changing that sunrise sunset all the time. What
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: day is it? Okay, shit, sunset. I made it a
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: couple days before because we had to plan a funeral. So, okay. Yeah,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: that's good. Like, why do I have to do this?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: That's dark, yeah.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Can't we just accept the excuse? It doesn't matter. I know.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: No matter what I say, it's not getting done.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't do it.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: So now what?
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't do the paper.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: So work with me.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Excuses are such a fun scam because they really are
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: just a scam of ego because no matter what the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: excuse is, the result is still going to be the same.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be there or I'm going to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: be late. But if I give you a reason that
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: is dazzling enough for you, it's okay. Sure.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: I guess the goal is probably to get as close
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: to honesty like all the time. What?
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Obviously.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Not on this show.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're going to do the car accident one,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: make sure, don't, if you see somebody else in a
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: car accident, maybe get a couple photos of their shit.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: You pull over, but just a picture. Be like, thank
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: you so much. For the archive.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: For the archive.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, guys.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: And I'm sorry for your loss.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so sorry. No, that's a real serious one.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: This one's for if I'm really on thin ice. Okay.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: I got it.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Could you scooch?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Just scooch a little bit. Yeah. No. Oh, my goodness.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: That and if you're sick, guys, or if you're going
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: to call out sick, the best way to call out
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: sick is to lay down flat on your back. It
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: changes the quality of your voice. It makes you sound, like,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: more tired and more sick. Oh. Yeah, so if you're, like,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: laying down, it kind of just takes a little bit
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: out of your voice.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: I bet also if you're hanging upside down, it would do.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Lay off the edge of the bed. Yeah. Yeah. You know,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: they try to teach us that in Cosmos. It's a
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: new way to have oral sex. Lay on the bed
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and put your neck off the edge of the bed.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: I'm gay, honey.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: That's, like, standard practice. Yeah.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: It's horrible, though. They don't really explain that, like, balls are, like,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: right there.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's not a— I don't think we all need to—
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not a sword swallower. Yeah.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: This isn't the greatest show.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: That's what Cosmo used to be. I know. It was like, hey, girls,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: if you want to keep a man. Put an ice
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: cube in your pussy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was the real.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: That or in your mouth. Yeah. Have you ever had
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: a dick in your ear? Cosmo. That and Anne Hathaway's
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: new movie.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: And stop eating, you fat bitch.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Yo, they really used to be like.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: It was dark.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: 12 diets for girls who don't like to swallow anything
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: but juice.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: I was like, you're eating nut and nut.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: And that's it. And then it'd be like, now open
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: this little wing and sniff this perfume. Fat skank. Yeah.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: And we bought them.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: We didn't know. We didn't know. I like that scam.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I want to bring it back. All my quizzes just
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: don't hit the same.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: No, there's too many. It's oversaturated and it's like all
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: the pop-ups and stuff like that.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So real journalists eventually picked up the story. So
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Dave wasn't alone in his conquest here. And LA Times
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: reporter Ashley Ahn was able to interview multiple brokers. She
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: found out that they had communicated with their clients through
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: a Korean app called K-Cal Talk. So most of their
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: clients were Korean. Many brokers were using bots to book
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: time slots faster than a human could. One broker said
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: he used three to five devices with a group of friends,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: and that's how he secured times at 6 a.m. when
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: they went online. He told Ashley that he started out
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: during COVID-19 pandemic to help his grandparents who struggled with technology.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: Don't blame your grandparents. Don't bring my mom and pop
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: up into this. That's crazy. Pencil had a good grandma
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: who helped her. She was like, stop calling the scam man.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Stop clicking the link. That's a good grandparent. Don't come
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: over here and try to act like you was helping
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: your grandparents when you were just helping yourself. But also
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: something to me, my racism spidey senses kind of wonder,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: if this is a Korean app, I've never heard of Kakao.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: I'd venture most people on this Korean app A Korean. Okay.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: So what happens when the Korean app starts to take
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a monopoly on what is a pretty white-dominated sport and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: all the Koreans start to get all the tea times?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: The white guys are like, wait a second.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Wait a second.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: None of these people look like me.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Right. I haven't seen these people since I was at
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the barbecue spot downtown. Alert the presses. What are you
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: doing on the golf course with me? All of a sudden,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: it got real crazy rich, didn't it, Brad? And that's
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: when they started looking into it.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Got crazy rich.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Got a little crazy rich Asian on them. And they
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: were like, wait a minute.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: I wonder if that's how they spotted this and started
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: doing this.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Because if it was, think about it. If the golf
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: course was like a bunch of random white dudes and
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: you just think that, oh, it must be really competitive
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: to get these things. But they were like, wait a minute.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: It's not benefiting me.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Me? That's not right. Let's investigate.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Call LA Times. He's like, yeah, I'm white.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Call the LA Times for this is the whitest thing ever. Like,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: imagine being deep throat for the cacao app for golf
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: tee times. You're at the parking lot, like, in your
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: church coat, like, with your cigarette, like, hot. It's called cacao.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: It's called cacao. It's big in the Korean community.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: Like.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: He thought they were playing Mahjong. Turns out they're playing
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: 18 holes. Oh, Lordy, that's very good. You're right. This
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: is some of the whitest reporting we've ever had. So
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: some golfers have suggested that insiders, a.k.a.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: L.A.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: City Golf Course staff, must have been helping the brokers
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: get the tee time slots early. But that was never proven.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: So they didn't even turn against the cart girl. Damn. Said,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: it's you, Becky. You're not just out here making penicillins.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: You're out here doing crime.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Also, wait, what exactly is the upcharge? Like, are they
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: making thousands of dollars?
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: So our dude, the broker here, was saying that he
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: was getting $ 7 a surcharge per person. Okay. So I
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: would imagine if, what was that number that we have
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: for like what LA has been doing booking-wise?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: $ 55?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but for the, hold on. Okay, $ 7 a person, right?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: But according to LA's golf division, remember, the city's public
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: courses host more than 1 million rounds of golf per year.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: So all of a sudden that's... Even if you could
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: take a quarter of that action, $ 7 a head? Sure.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: That's $ 7 to add up. It adds up. And from
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: just using your fingers. Yes, your fingers. Just the tip
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: of your finger. Okay, no bots. Okay, we keep it
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: clean over here. So obviously this sparks public outrage. So
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Dave Fink, our investigative journalist with the hair here, he
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: put a call out on his Instagram urging golfers who
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: were angry about the broker situation to show up at
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Golf Advisory Committee, which is a meeting that happened on
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: March 18th of 2025. The committee is an independent body
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: of unpaid volunteers who usually don't have an audience for
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: their meetings because it's the Golf Advisory Committee. Yeah. doesn't
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: sound that exciting to me.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: No, it's like what color should the T's be?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Right. But at this point, I kind of want to
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: start going to like city council meetings that are like
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: not exciting. Like how much like influence and power do
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: you think we could have if we just start showing
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: up to the lowest attended like parts of the government?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: I think a lot.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: I really do think Like, public pressure does sway things.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: So even if it's us two just being annoying.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: What if we just, like, made that kind of, like,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: a fun millennial outing where it's, like, we hit some bars. Or, like,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: first we hit the council meeting. Yes. And it's for, like,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: fire hydrant zoning. And we're really passionate. Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: We got 60 fire hydrants added to one block.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: And then we just go bar crawling afterwards. Yeah. We're
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: just menaces to society. Yes. We just show up at
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: a mob.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's get shit done. So, you know, like at
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: this meeting, though, Dave is an influencer. So he told
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: the girls to pull up. So look at this. Look
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: at this. They got people outside. Look at that man
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: with his arms crossed.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: He is so white and angry.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: He is disapproving. He is disapproving like a motherfucker. You
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: never want to see a man with that much free
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: time cross his arms like that. No, that is a threat.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: He's like, I've got eight hours left on this earth
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: and I'm spending four of them here.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Right. Fuck my grandkids. I'm going to be at every
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: golf advisory committee meeting, bitch, till y'all make a change.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I love this. And look at this guy with his
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: blue polo. You know, he fed the fuck up. OK,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: he got he got a nice like a bourbon belly.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: Well, even without the brokerage people, he would struggle to
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: secure a time. Do you know what I mean? Yeah,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: because his phone's maximum magnification are like, yeah, he's like
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: getting one time slot viewing at a time.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: And he's he's got the kind of phone that like
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: it would end up going. viral if he sent anything
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: ridiculous in a text. Because I'm three rows over on
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: the airplane like, what is that?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: You're just watching one word scroll at a time.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: One word scroll at a time. Yes. It's giving the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Star Wars. It's giving teleprompter.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He's upset, and I love that
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: for him. So this one is obviously packed. They got
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: this small conference room lit the fuck up. You know
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: it just smells like Old Spice and grass and Bengay
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: with a little bit of like Maylocks.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: Privilege, yeah.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Little Maylocks in there. So they packed it up, right?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: And this is in this gray bungalow near the LA River.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: And they had standing room for our homie who's upset.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: We also got our nosy homie next to him who's like,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: y'all get it fixed?
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like he's taking a break from writing
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: his screenplay.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Right, or maybe he's writing a screenplay about this. About, yes. Yeah,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: The underbelly of white sports.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Tea time. The underbelly of white sports. Crazy. But yeah,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: so he looks nosy. I would be him. I love
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: this for everyone. They got people overflowing out the door.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: And this is also bringing together the classes. We got retirees,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: like our arms cross man. You know he collected his benefits.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: We've got the working class, like our tight polo man.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: You know his wife got him that from Marshall's on sale.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: It's like one of those bins where they're about to
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: burn the clothes. Tommy Bahama, but it's spelled wrong, yeah. Yes, yes.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: It's like they didn't go to the cruise ship gift shop,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: but when they got off, like on the way back
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: to the boat, they found this teal shirt that they
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: love for him.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: And it's his favorite, yeah.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: It's his favorite. So now they have all these people
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: of all these different, you know, like social classes or whatever.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: They're all like together for the same cause. We got
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: veterans in there. And like the veterans were saying this
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: was one of the most affordable venues for exercise and
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: relaxation for them. Oh, that's beautiful. Right?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: That honestly makes me care about this. Way more than
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: I did. Oh, my God. That's beautiful. That's everything for
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: the veterans. Yeah. And it should be accessible and cheap.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And they shouldn't have to know somebody on some
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: secret app and pay an extra $ 7. Crazy.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: If I have to download one more app, by the way,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: I'm driving my car off a building.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Like, I remember when you used to see an app
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: and be like, oh, so cute. Yeah. So convenient. Yeah.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Now they're like, app to live.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Or for a coffee shop. I'm like, there's no reason.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And they take your info. Like, even now, Tap
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: to Pay, certain places can get your email address, your
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: phone number. I'll get a tap. You got four points.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: I go, four points? To who?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: I'm just not sending random texts to people to say,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: you have four points. That's just a link for me
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: to take your money. Yeah, it's... It's getting out of hand,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: but we need this for the vets. So both Dave
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: Fink and Mr. Lee, who had also been attending meetings,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: were among the dozen to attend. The overwhelming sentiment was
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: that players wanted to golf and they wanted it to
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: be more affordable and accessible for the Angelenos. They offered
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: potential solutions and pled with the L.A. golf officials to
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: change the booking procedures to fight the shadow broker system. Lovely.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: Joseph Lee... An activist. Remember, he himself is an active
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: member of the L.A. Korean community. And he condemned the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: brokers and vowed to expose how they are monetizing a
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: public good. He went against his own Korean community.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: Good for him.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: That's how impassioned he is about it. Yeah, yeah. You
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: might have to stay away from barbecue spots, but... You know,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: he said, I fed up. I don't care.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: We need more of that in the white community.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we actually need all of it in the white community. Okay, honestly,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Joseph Lee, let your Korean brethren get their tea times.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: You turn on your people.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I need to get all the tea times
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: and give them away to non-white people.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: That's a start. Right? As far as social justice goes,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: we got priorities. Yeah, I know.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: But you know what?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: We do need a golf guy. Everybody needs a golf guy.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: I'll hope where I can. Okay, Zach, you're helping where
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: You're contributing. Here I come.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Here I could come. Here I could come.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: Yes. So, you know, Joseph Lee is like, I'm exposed, y'all.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: He said, we're chasing them till the end and we'll
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: keep you updated. Is the end the 18th hole? Where's
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: the end? I don't know where the end is. But
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: the crowd applauded when Joseph said this. Good.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's the thing, too. People like we do
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: want blood in everything that we do. I think it's
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of like we're angry about other things and
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: then like they're all fueling into like this issue in
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: this moment do you know what I mean yeah so
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: like oh I have time and I will pursue this
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: till the end and it's.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: Also like if you're gonna do it then do it
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: to your fullest ability so you know Joseph Luther King
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: he got up here he gave these speeches and he
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: let the girls know like to freedom yeah okay I'm
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: okay I had a dream free at.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Last free at last golf is free at last.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Okay That any man could put his ball into a
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: hole on a Saturday morning. Somebody got to fight for it. Yeah.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: So the head of the city's golf program, Rick Reinschmidt,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: he didn't even bother showing up to this meeting. Of
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: course not. Now, this is his whole thing. And he
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: didn't even come. Rick Reinschmidt, I don't like that. This
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: is your whole thing. Mm-hmm. So keeping L.A. golf accessible,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, love of
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: parks and recreation, so Leslie Knope is now involved, prompted
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: by the social media uproar and subsequent media coverage, started
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: an investigation. They partnered with the city's attorney's office and
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the staff at NBC Sports Next for golf, which is
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: the whole name of that thing. NBC Sports Next for golf.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Too much.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: Too many things. Too much. But NBC Sports, it gives
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: like legal plausible deniability. It was like, no, it wasn't NBC.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: That was NBC Sports. Next for golf.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: Next for golf.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Cousin. Too much.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Twice removed.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Esquire. Global. We don't know them. So the city
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: of L.A. implemented a pilot program. Now when someone books
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: a tee time for a public golf course, they have
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: to pay a $ 10 deposit on their greens fee. discouraging
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: brokers from snatching up tee times they won't use via bot,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: which seems to be working. I love that they were like,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: how can we make this more convenient for everyone? Put
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: in another fee. Crazy.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: They couldn't figure out another way.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: Like verifying that it's a human or something. This is
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: what also chaps my ass about all of these things.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: Like all these big companies could block bots. They could
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: do it, but they know there's more money involved. In
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: having the bots amidst us all. Do you know what
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Yes. Because they're not taking the financial hit that we
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: are from buying it from the resellers. So all they're
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: doing is making sure that they guarantee that the tickets
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: were sold for what they.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Got their cut.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: And so it's faster.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, look at us. They're like, we're all
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: sold out in 20 seconds.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: Bam. We sold out MetLife in 10 minutes. Bummer. Bummer.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: But they're like, if the seat's empty, we don't give
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: a fuck. If the concert's not good, we don't care.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: We got our money.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: We got paid, yeah.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hate that the city of LA was like,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: we'll save you. How about a $ 10 fee?
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: That'll save you.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Come give me a hug. Give me $ 10.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Also, shouldn't it be as simple as, like, having a
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: profile with the site?
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Or only being able to
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: purchase one tea time per person. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Like, what? Annoying. So...
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the golfers, though, because there was a
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: group of local golfers that filed a class action lawsuit
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: against the city, arguing that they ultimately failed to control
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: the brokerage system. So even though they were like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: we have an idea. Fees to protect you. They're like, no, OK,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: how about files? Like we're filing a suit against you
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: in court. Good. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm going to
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: keep the L.A. golf community in my prayers. Oh, are you?
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: They're not going to make mine tonight, but I'll try
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: for tomorrow.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: I think your priorities are fucked up. And God, please
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: help the golfers of Los Angeles. LA City, public golfers specifically.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: And stop the lynchings.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Right? That's the last thing?
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying how ludicrous it all sounds.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: No, it is.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: It is very ludicrous. I feel like the scam, if
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: I were to rate, and I want to know your opinion, too,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: before we go. I would say, one, this is a
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: pretty victimless crime. If you have, except for the veterans,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: because I was going to say, if you have a
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: disposable income to golf in general, that comes with a
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: barrier of entry of, like, having the clubs and, like,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: are they measured? Are they, you know, do they blah, blah, blah. Totally.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: You know, just like the greens fees, the things that
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: you incur, you know, that is a barrier to entry.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: It's not like pick up basketball where you can just
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: find a court. Yeah. So that to me like takes
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit of the edge off because I'm like,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: who are we really hurting? Except for the veterans. I
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: want them to have access to golf if it like
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: helps with their PTSD or whatever. Yeah.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, um, yeah, I'm a big, uh, when it
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: comes to scams, I love scamming up. Like when you're like, yeah,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: a lot. And I hate obviously scamming down, which I
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: guess is everyone's take on it. But, um, yeah, when
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: I hear golf, obviously nothing comes to mind. It's like
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: a blank slate for me. I'm like, don't care if
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: golf was removed entirely from the planet.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: That's okay with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: I'd miss NBC next up for golf now, but.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Global, but also regional, depending on who you ask. Dot net.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the brokerage thing is so slimy. And I
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: put them in the Ticketmaster thing, which also chaps my ass.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, same.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: And like the fees, I'm so sick of even booking something.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: And then it's like, it's $ 19.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: 95.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: Then you get it and it's $ 31. 02. Yeah, just tell
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: me what it is all in. Yes, because now I'm
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: at the finish line and I'm pissed off.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But you're going to finish, though. We got you
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: on the hook.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. That is total bullshit.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: You have eight minutes to complete your.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: Also, it's bullshit on Ticketmaster that if you buy a
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: more expensive ticket, that all of a sudden your Ticketmaster
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: fees go up in proportion to the cost of your ticket,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: as if the system has to do more work for
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: me to get this more expensive ticket than it does
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: for me to get these all-sweep tickets. Ticketmaster, I'll kill you!
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: A ticketing site like Ticketmaster should be $ 1.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: 95 per ticket.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: There's, I can't, you could not convince me otherwise. It
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. But they're like, they know that at
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: this point we're not fighting back. So they're like, we're
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: going to charge you for everything.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: Whatever we want. Yeah.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: Until you guys decide to organize.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: So ultimately, how do we rate scams? How do we
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: rate this one?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, you can rate it however you want.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: We don't have a specific system. Okay, okay. I think
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: where I fall on this in the spectrum is like,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: The scam itself, I'm not that mad at. The only
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: bummer is like the veterans not being able to access
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: to stuff. But other than that, I'm kind of like, well,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: they found a way to be the middleman. They found
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: a demand and then they slid on in there. Yeah.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: Ultimately, I'm not proud of them in any way. I'm
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: proud of the ingenuity.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: But I don't like it because shit is expensive enough.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: We don't need more fees. Totally.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: It's like find a way to to charge like, I
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: don't know, rich guys in like stock trading.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like people who produce nothing
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: and help the world in no way. You're right. Because
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: these are people who want to touch grass quite literally. Yeah.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: And just get like that's. That's so annoying to me.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like a human pleasure that you're like, now
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: you're like a... It's gross. Yeah, you're siphoning off of.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: You're a parasite on joy.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 4: It's bad juju.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: And if I met this person at a party, I'd
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, you're disgusting.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Disgusting. And you know they'll be bragging about it like
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: they're some kind of fucking tech bro. Like, a scientist
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: erupted the space.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: So I just set it up.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: I got a couple of bots.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: Boom, $ 58 in my pocket. I'm like, you suck.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I would cross the street to avoid this person.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: You know what, Zach? You're changing my mind here. Itself?
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: not that harmful, but it is scamming the average consumer
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: who's actually just trying to have joy in what is
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: stacking up to be a pretty joyless world. So I
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: think I'm on your side, especially when we pair it
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: with the resellers. Yeah. Yeah. It's a gross way to
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: do it. Yeah. Yes. Well, as always on this podcast, one,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: we want to thank you, Zach, for joining the congregation.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. And before we end service,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: we like to ask, where would you like to be found?
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Any socials, anything you want to plug?
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: What if I just list my home address?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: That's where you want to be found. Also, did you
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: know that.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: Like our information is on like whitepages.com unless you like
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: tell them to take it off?
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to tell them to take it off. Crazy.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: You can find me at Zach Noe Towers everywhere. Z-A-C-H-N-O-E-T-O-W-E-R-S.
• 1:22:11
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• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: the Drag Queen produced. That's on YouTube. It's called Twink Death.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: It's fun. It's a good time. And I'm really proud
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: That's a great name, too.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:22:21
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• 1:22:24
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• 1:22:29
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• 1:22:32
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• 1:22:48
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• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: watch Scam Goddess on Hulu. Or, you know, do things.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Put things in your ears and your body. But Congregation,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I want you to.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: Put things in your ears and your body.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Use your fingers.
• 1:23:03
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• 1:23:06
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• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: get out there and stay swinging.