Latest / Scam Goddess / The Criminally Morbid Mortician w/ Harvey Guillén
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Scal Come.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Rob fro.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Sca, Come.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Rob's fro goddess.
- 0:19Speaker 2: What's popping? Congregation, It's spooky season. Do you like my
- 0:26Speaker 2: spooky voice? Would you climb down into a slow with me? Yes,
- 0:31Speaker 2: my name is Lacy Mostly and this is the podcast
- 0:34Speaker 2: Scam Goddess, all about robbery, fraud and those who practice it.
- 0:37Speaker 2: And yes, it's a comedy show as well.
- 0:41Speaker 3: Sometimes we love.
- 0:42Speaker 2: The scammers, sometimes we hate them, but we'll learn that
- 0:46Speaker 2: along the way. Today we have an actor, an actor
- 0:50Speaker 2: on the show, a true darling who you may have
- 0:53Speaker 2: heard as Perrito in Putting Boots The Last Wish, or
- 0:56Speaker 2: perhaps you've seen him in the sci fi thriller Companion.
- 1:00Speaker 2: For our more comedy loving macabre fans, you may know
- 1:04Speaker 2: him as Guermo de la Cruz from the hit show
- 1:07Speaker 2: What We Do in the Shadows, and for this portrayal,
- 1:10Speaker 2: he earned five Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting
- 1:14Speaker 2: Actor and made history by becoming the first queer LATINX
- 1:16Speaker 2: actor to be nominated in this category. I noticed, right, Congregation,
- 1:22Speaker 2: please welcome our first timer to Hallelujah Night Halloween. Yes,
- 1:29Speaker 2: Harvey gian to the show.
- 1:31Speaker 3: Hi Harvey, I thanks for that intro that was really nice,
- 1:34Speaker 3: and I love the voice.
- 1:35Speaker 1: I was trying to give him a.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Little spooky nice Yeah, okay, it was a sophisticated spook.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I liked it. I was like, oh, you know what
- 1:44Speaker 3: it is.
- 1:44Speaker 2: It's like I had ral Stein as a kid, and
- 1:47Speaker 2: so we had that like weird skeleton man who had
- 1:52Speaker 2: like a little bit of skin lift.
- 1:53Speaker 1: That's what really made him scary.
- 1:55Speaker 2: If he was just like a bone skeleton that you see,
- 1:57Speaker 2: like you know in like biology, he wouldn't have.
- 1:59Speaker 3: Been that scared skin And it's whoever did the illustrations
- 2:03Speaker 3: I think it was the same illustrated for all the
- 2:04Speaker 3: books did a fantastic job, because that's how you got
- 2:06Speaker 3: those in your head, Like you got the visual like
- 2:08Speaker 3: the cover of the book, and you're like, I'm in
- 2:11Speaker 3: the power of a cover of a book. The jingles
- 2:14Speaker 3: that make us.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I miss jingles now they just be like baddies. We said,
- 2:17Speaker 2: we know you've starved, we know food prices is up.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Come on over here with your bitch ass. They used
- 2:24Speaker 2: to try to woo.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Us McDonald's a whole bunch of commercials with black people
- 2:28Speaker 1: like bye bye bye, we're black and we love it.
- 2:32Speaker 4: Now.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Now, it's like right.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Now, they're like, just come get this McDonald's.
- 2:37Speaker 3: We know you're living a food still they don't even
- 2:39Speaker 3: want to film the video.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Where are you gonna eat? I know ain't on grocery stores.
- 2:44Speaker 1: They're buying. Y'all don't got a community garden. So where
- 2:47Speaker 1: y'are gonna eat? Come get this chicken? Snap, right, we
- 2:49Speaker 1: put a little lettuce on it. That's healthy.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Maybe chicken.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Maybe maybe chicken.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Although I will say when that documentary came out, like
- 2:57Speaker 2: ages ago, I had to watch it in health class,
- 3:00Speaker 2: the one about McDonald's supersized me. Yeah, I got a
- 3:03Speaker 2: McDonald's burger.
- 3:03Speaker 1: That day, may want to go.
- 3:06Speaker 3: I was like to eat it, Say what you will?
- 3:09Speaker 3: I want to have a bite. That's right.
- 3:11Speaker 2: But also there are moments with McDonald's where they were
- 3:13Speaker 2: like now with real chicken, and we.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Were like, now with real meat. Huh. I feel like
- 3:22Speaker 3: that's something you just don't tell us then, because at
- 3:25Speaker 3: that point we crossed the line. Just don't tell me.
- 3:28Speaker 3: It's just like.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Taco Bell knows their audience, okay, because they got healthier
- 3:31Speaker 2: beef and stuff and they didn't tell nobody because they
- 3:33Speaker 2: were like they'll think it's not gonna be nasty if
- 3:36Speaker 2: it's healthier, so they didn't tell people that they actually
- 3:38Speaker 2: upgraded the quality of the It's.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Kind of true. My brothers will not eat something if I
- 3:41Speaker 3: tell them it's healthy. But if I tricked that, trick them,
- 3:43Speaker 3: scan them into thinking that this is like that's regular
- 3:46Speaker 3: taco and they eat, like that's pretty good. Wasn't it good?
- 3:48Speaker 3: Like that that was a vegetarian and they're like and
- 3:51Speaker 3: they they get sick or like they get sick of
- 3:53Speaker 3: their like no, don't do that. That's gross, and they's
- 3:55Speaker 3: got like spinning it out like you are eating it.
- 3:58Speaker 3: You were eating a second ago. I was like, yeah,
- 4:00Speaker 3: but I know it's not real meat.
- 4:01Speaker 1: And I was like, they like the opposite, like if
- 4:03Speaker 1: you try to trick a vegetarian like yeah, that.
- 4:06Speaker 3: Was fishing and cry out, how do you feel you? Yeah?
- 4:10Speaker 1: And it hurt real bad when it died.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Because I feel like now, like the younger generation, like
- 4:16Speaker 2: a gen Z or jen Alpha, the way that they
- 4:17Speaker 2: consume spooky is like they'll be like and then slender
- 4:21Speaker 2: Man hopped out of the shadows, and I'm going to
- 4:25Speaker 2: tell you all about it while I apply my Patrick
- 4:27Speaker 2: starts setting spray.
- 4:29Speaker 1: It's like they don't get the full spooky news.
- 4:32Speaker 2: I don't want to see you doing your makeup while
- 4:34Speaker 2: you tell me about a Garrizzlan.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Murder, Like I want to be scared.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Yeah, like no, it's really important to put on your
- 4:40Speaker 1: base and and make.
- 4:41Speaker 3: Sure, make sure, and guys to a look at this. Yeah,
- 4:44Speaker 3: you gotta put the hand up the same color that
- 4:46Speaker 3: the victim was found dead with. Yes, but different on me.
- 4:49Speaker 3: So what you want to do is oh anyways, so yes,
- 4:50Speaker 3: four people ended up being murdered.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Yeah, but like their blood was running rouge red throughout
- 4:55Speaker 2: the streets. And speaking of rush red Rihanna has a
- 4:57Speaker 2: new red lip color out and be thank you, femty.
- 5:01Speaker 2: I'm going to be doing this today. But as I
- 5:04Speaker 2: was saying, when the last lady was stabbed to death
- 5:06Speaker 2: with a knife that had a similar shimmer to this
- 5:08Speaker 2: eyeshadow that I'm wearing from urban to Quay.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Yes, can you see it?
- 5:12Speaker 2: This is actually the Love Island combo. I'll put the
- 5:15Speaker 2: link blow Okay, y'all get it the past, Like the
- 5:18Speaker 2: link cud is Olandria, the linkut is Nicolandria. Oh man, yo,
- 5:29Speaker 2: I did actually think though, when when that season was out,
- 5:33Speaker 2: like Landria was wearing like a full beat and I
- 5:36Speaker 2: was like, you need to get in some makeup industry
- 5:37Speaker 2: because every time she kissed Nikis face was gonna be
- 5:39Speaker 2: dark skin. He was like, not agreeing to black face.
- 5:42Speaker 2: He kiss her and then and then all of a
- 5:44Speaker 2: sudden he was in black face. So you know, we
- 5:45Speaker 2: gotta get some stay makeup.
- 5:47Speaker 1: We got a game. But we always asked on this podcast,
- 5:50Speaker 1: he listen, Okay, they need that, Patrick Star said, spray.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Patrick Starr spots of the show.
- 5:54Speaker 3: I really don't like it.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I really do.
- 5:57Speaker 3: Like it, like this, okay, I still have the wicked.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Yeah, they're beautiful.
- 6:01Speaker 2: I got something to my house, like tricksy stuff and
- 6:04Speaker 2: like yeah, like the pigments. Like listen, a drag queen
- 6:07Speaker 2: knows how to make it stay okay, because they're gonna
- 6:10Speaker 2: be up there in church.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Does not but it doesn't move.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Face don't move, okay, face on FROs.
- 6:15Speaker 2: But we always ask on this podcast, Harvey, what's your
- 6:18Speaker 2: relationship with scams?
- 6:19Speaker 1: Do you love them?
- 6:19Speaker 3: Do you hate them?
- 6:20Speaker 2: Have you ever run any that are past the statute
- 6:21Speaker 2: of limitations? Have some been run on you? It could
- 6:24Speaker 2: be anything.
- 6:24Speaker 3: I mean, I don't love any that's run on me.
- 6:26Speaker 3: You know, I've been trying to be scammed several times financially.
- 6:30Speaker 3: Maybe those telemarketers that people call you that it's it's
- 6:33Speaker 3: a thing scammed.
- 6:34Speaker 1: You were picking up those calls.
- 6:36Speaker 3: No, eventually I was not. But you know the first
- 6:38Speaker 3: time you get to call, you like what and you're
- 6:39Speaker 3: vulnerable and you're like that, like.
- 6:41Speaker 2: I mean you work in television. Yeah, And so sometimes
- 6:43Speaker 2: there's production calls for a number that you don't.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Know all the time. I almost missed out in a
- 6:48Speaker 3: role because a number called me. I was like telemarketer,
- 6:50Speaker 3: and and they kept calling and calls like, oh my god,
- 6:52Speaker 3: leave me alone. Hey you get the part? What what? Yeah?
- 6:57Speaker 2: Yeah, you think you're super talented and oh okay, hey,
- 7:04Speaker 2: I'm falling for that.
- 7:05Speaker 1: And I went to this audition and you say I
- 7:07Speaker 1: was there?
- 7:08Speaker 3: Yeah, oh okay, I see Okay. That would explain why
- 7:11Speaker 3: I didn't work for four years because I kept turning
- 7:15Speaker 3: down the calls that kept saying yes, and I said
- 7:17Speaker 3: no end no, no war, no, not no war. I
- 7:24Speaker 3: don't like scams, but I have been part of scams
- 7:28Speaker 3: that I unbeknownst to me. Maybe I knew when I
- 7:31Speaker 3: was in elementary school, I wanted to pay for acting
- 7:34Speaker 3: classes because my parents couldn't afford to pay for it.
- 7:36Speaker 3: So I found a flyer on our street where they
- 7:39Speaker 3: had those things and you know, light pulps or whatever
- 7:42Speaker 3: polls and it says are you rip off a number?
- 7:45Speaker 3: I called them and they said if you're the ages
- 7:47Speaker 3: between thirteen to sixteen, that was an agent. But I
- 7:51Speaker 3: was ten eleven, so I wasn't old enough. So I
- 7:54Speaker 3: called and I scammed them, and I was like, yeah,
- 7:57Speaker 3: I'm thirteen, and they came to the house and the
- 7:59Speaker 3: guy it was it was this crook who would literally
- 8:01Speaker 3: hire kids who've been a juvie because they know that
- 8:03Speaker 3: nowhere else to go to make some money. And so
- 8:05Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I'm thirteen, and he looked at me,
- 8:07Speaker 3: all yeah, I guess yeah, I believe it. And I
- 8:10Speaker 3: was like, okay, thanks. It was like they want him
- 8:13Speaker 3: to believe it, but not so easily. I was like, yeah,
- 8:15Speaker 3: I'm thirteen. He's like yeah, you look at and.
- 8:17Speaker 2: But you know, when you're a black or brown person,
- 8:20Speaker 2: they automatically assume we're older than we are, even though
- 8:23Speaker 2: we aged the best and we don't look that way.
- 8:27Speaker 3: To grow up.
- 8:28Speaker 2: They're like that man, that grown man had a stick,
- 8:31Speaker 2: so we had to attack him.
- 8:32Speaker 3: He was tenser.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like, no, that wasn't a girwn man.
- 8:35Speaker 2: And the news still doesn't. They'll be like this adult
- 8:38Speaker 2: was murdered, like that was a baby.
- 8:40Speaker 3: That is literally a baby.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Maybe can't go to the bar, that baby can't.
- 8:44Speaker 3: It was holding something. It was a bottle. It was
- 8:46Speaker 3: holding it.
- 8:47Speaker 1: It was a bottle.
- 8:47Speaker 3: He was holding a bottle.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was attacking that lady. No, that was breastfeeding.
- 8:51Speaker 2: He's any Yeah, No, that's his mother.
- 8:55Speaker 3: That's his mother.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Like you're aging up the brown people too much. Okay,
- 8:59Speaker 2: so you feel like you and kill him, Like, no,
- 9:00Speaker 2: they're an adult.
- 9:01Speaker 3: Needs to calm that down a little bit. Yeah, a lot.
- 9:05Speaker 3: So I was ten eleven and pretending to be thirteen,
- 9:07Speaker 3: and I knew it was a scam the second I
- 9:09Speaker 3: met this guy. But I need to make money, so
- 9:11Speaker 3: you need me.
- 9:12Speaker 1: I need you that Desla meter.
- 9:13Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, I see some bread legs, but at
- 9:16Speaker 2: the same time, I'm trying to get the bag.
- 9:17Speaker 3: I'm trying to get that bag, and I'm trying to
- 9:18Speaker 3: pay for my acting classes, and my mom was like,
- 9:20Speaker 3: who is this man? I was like, he works for
- 9:23Speaker 3: I always say the name for it because it probably
- 9:24Speaker 3: still out there. And on that scam artist California blank something,
- 9:28Speaker 3: and it was yeah, yeah, California something. Yeah. I hope
- 9:34Speaker 3: he's not in business, because what a crook like he
- 9:37Speaker 3: would take these kids in low income communities and literally
- 9:40Speaker 3: give you a box of chocolates that he paid a
- 9:42Speaker 3: dollar for each one at the nine sinstor you sell
- 9:43Speaker 3: it for five dollars, he gives you a dollar twenty
- 9:45Speaker 3: five he keeps the rest.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Okay, here's what bothers me about this. Clearly he's having
- 9:51Speaker 2: you all do to leg work and he's not giving
- 9:53Speaker 2: you a fair cut of the cash, right, Like you're
- 9:57Speaker 2: getting twenty percent, but you're doing one hundred percent.
- 9:59Speaker 3: Of the leg kids. Yeah, and we're desperate.
- 10:01Speaker 2: And he's taking eighty. But also I don't think he
- 10:04Speaker 2: was dreaming big enough. Why the fuck you're trying to
- 10:06Speaker 2: sell this for five dollars a bus, Like when you
- 10:08Speaker 2: got it for a dollar and you got cute kids
- 10:10Speaker 2: that are knocking on doors, like hey, we're trying to
- 10:13Speaker 2: play basketball, and we mean Jerseys.
- 10:15Speaker 3: Yeah, oh hey, that was how my voice sounded the
- 10:18Speaker 3: way back then. That is my boy.
- 10:22Speaker 2: We want to work for you one day, like leaning
- 10:25Speaker 2: your house a song. But we can't do that if
- 10:28Speaker 2: you don't buy these chocolate bars, because otherwise they gonna
- 10:30Speaker 2: put us in jail. So rather like yeah, hey, nice
- 10:34Speaker 2: white person, wouldn't you want me working for you.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Rather than being a monologue. So my best actor was like,
- 10:39Speaker 3: hi am Harvey, and I'm in California because I'm two
- 10:42Speaker 3: bucks away from earning my you know about a trip
- 10:44Speaker 3: to six Lags or a camping trip or whatnot. Whatever
- 10:48Speaker 3: he told us that week was the goal, which at
- 10:50Speaker 3: first I believed him, and I was like, you know,
- 10:52Speaker 3: we take trips. We got Disneyland, we got a thing.
- 10:54Speaker 3: We never went Disneyland, like I worked for that man
- 10:57Speaker 3: for three years. I never went to anywhere with him
- 11:00Speaker 3: except for McDonald's afterwards. What he would drive us to
- 11:02Speaker 3: after working a long shift, so you would waste your
- 11:04Speaker 3: money because you would need to come back tomorrow.
- 11:06Speaker 2: He wasn't going pay when he took you out of
- 11:08Speaker 2: Mickey d. No, He's said, y'all have McDonald's money.
- 11:12Speaker 3: You got one five you might I just gave it
- 11:15Speaker 3: to you.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Okay, now you're not gonna be able to get no prize.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Like there's a water cup.
- 11:18Speaker 3: If you're smart, you'll fill it with lemona but no, yes,
- 11:22Speaker 3: and that way you understand. Like I became really good
- 11:24Speaker 3: at it because also I was younger. So I was
- 11:26Speaker 3: this kid who was walking in so chubby kid with
- 11:28Speaker 3: the box that could hold it and like literally this
- 11:31Speaker 3: it was heavy. It was like it was like twenty
- 11:32Speaker 3: five items in They're like big box. I remember those boxes.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Sewing kids also we sold sewing kids. We sold it
- 11:37Speaker 3: didn't matter if you're diabetic or not. We had something
- 11:39Speaker 3: for you. Like it was like we got a sewing kid,
- 11:41Speaker 3: we got like you needed this thing, a fairy uh
- 11:45Speaker 3: card holder, it's whatever the ninete sentistor was selling that
- 11:50Speaker 3: day on sale. He would buy a bulkle.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I can see you cleaning up. I like if it's like.
- 11:55Speaker 2: You come to the door with a box and it's
- 11:57Speaker 2: so heavy. You got your little baby ten year old
- 11:58Speaker 2: arms shake and.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Like what you like to buy and it's like they
- 12:02Speaker 1: got to shake an army.
- 12:06Speaker 3: I was like it was also winter. Sometimes they were
- 12:08Speaker 3: like by whooping cough.
- 12:15Speaker 2: You just went aroundulous again. You literally went around like
- 12:21Speaker 2: tiny tail week. But then they got a great story
- 12:24Speaker 2: for dinner parties. They were like, there was this young
- 12:26Speaker 2: boy and he was shaken, shaking, helped him and I
- 12:29Speaker 2: helped him.
- 12:29Speaker 3: I held the savior. Yeah, literally, that's what they needed
- 12:32Speaker 3: to feel like they were the same in the story.
- 12:34Speaker 3: And I was, you know, banking it in like I
- 12:37Speaker 3: was selling so much, and I became like a junior manager,
- 12:40Speaker 3: which meant like he would give me the better spots,
- 12:42Speaker 3: like gas stations were better. Mind you, I'm like a
- 12:44Speaker 3: kid and I'm at a gas station until eleven PM
- 12:47Speaker 3: on a weekday, like working these streets. What if y'all
- 12:51Speaker 3: got abducted. Here's how we stopped that. This is before,
- 12:54Speaker 3: like we stopped. So there's complaints about getting abducted, and
- 13:02Speaker 3: we took those complaints into consideration. We took k HR, which.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Comfortable.
- 13:11Speaker 3: I got to HR, so I get the complaint in
- 13:13Speaker 3: the complaint box and I read them and I'd be like,
- 13:15Speaker 3: we can address this. And the fear was that, you know,
- 13:19Speaker 3: this is before no one could no one afford to
- 13:21Speaker 3: have a cell phone. No, we didn't have cell phones.
- 13:23Speaker 3: And the way that you got security was he gave
- 13:26Speaker 3: you a piece of chalk, and when you went into
- 13:28Speaker 3: a street, you put an arrow that you went into
- 13:29Speaker 3: that street with your initials. If there was no arrow
- 13:32Speaker 3: coming out on the other side of the street, that
- 13:33Speaker 3: means you're in that street. So we know where to
- 13:35Speaker 3: find you. And if for some reason you forgot to
- 13:38Speaker 3: chuck out, we stay in that street looking for you
- 13:40Speaker 3: for an hour. In the hopscotch hr he would look
- 13:44Speaker 3: for you late at night. Sometimes we'd be looking for
- 13:48Speaker 3: don't coming back.
- 13:50Speaker 1: We know either a pigeon was over or you got
- 13:53Speaker 1: took Like, what do you mean.
- 13:56Speaker 3: No, I'm telling you. We spent like an hour and
- 13:58Speaker 3: a half looking for this kid, and we're like, can
- 13:59Speaker 3: we go home? We were all hungry, we were looking
- 14:02Speaker 3: for one kid. But this guy was as like this responsibility,
- 14:04Speaker 3: I gonna go tell these kids. So he finally gets
- 14:06Speaker 3: the gut, pulls over to gus and calls the home
- 14:08Speaker 3: and goes, hey, just to let you know we can't
- 14:10Speaker 3: find Oh, he's here, he's there. He's like, yeah, he
- 14:14Speaker 3: just took the bus and left and didn't want to
- 14:15Speaker 3: do it anymore. Would have been great if he told
- 14:18Speaker 3: us that, because we've been looking for an hour and
- 14:19Speaker 3: a half. I got home like at midnight that night,
- 14:21Speaker 3: and I had a test next morning.
- 14:23Speaker 1: But he should have did the right thing and hung
- 14:26Speaker 1: out at each stop with the kids. Well, he had
- 14:28Speaker 1: to be greedy and separated.
- 14:30Speaker 3: He would pack a van with twenty kids, and we
- 14:33Speaker 3: would be sardines in this band, like we were like
- 14:35Speaker 3: over the maximum capacity, Like there would be kids on
- 14:37Speaker 3: each other's last.
- 14:38Speaker 2: See, if he was a smart business person, he could
- 14:40Speaker 2: have hit several areas multiple times with different kids. Because
- 14:44Speaker 2: if he had kept all the kids together and been like, Dervy,
- 14:47Speaker 2: you go to this one house and we're gonna hide
- 14:49Speaker 2: over here in the corner in the bushes. And then
- 14:51Speaker 2: the next kid, okay, Shane, you go to this house.
- 14:53Speaker 2: We're gonna be in the bushes, and then we get
- 14:55Speaker 2: hit it the same week. We just write a little
- 14:57Speaker 2: map like, okay, Harvey hit this one, so now you
- 14:58Speaker 2: know this one.
- 14:59Speaker 3: Had like he's like this week, we're doing a SUSA
- 15:02Speaker 3: next week mono belt like he was like covering his tracks.
- 15:04Speaker 3: And then in five six weeks we come back to
- 15:06Speaker 3: those cities again and he would switch out, you got it, Okay,
- 15:09Speaker 3: so you're doing.
- 15:10Speaker 2: It, but no more irresponsible. You just can't take your
- 15:13Speaker 2: eyes off the children.
- 15:14Speaker 3: You wouldn't want to hit the same neighborhood twice in.
- 15:15Speaker 1: A week about draw chocolatene.
- 15:17Speaker 3: You were, that's selling yourself short. Because if you hit
- 15:19Speaker 3: the same neighborhood twice in a week, like I just
- 15:21Speaker 3: bought from this little kid cheeks last week, they don't
- 15:24Speaker 3: want that. Let seven weeks go by, you can revisit
- 15:26Speaker 3: that place again.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, And then I just don't like that. He's like,
- 15:29Speaker 2: if you are feeling like you're gonna get abducted, like draw.
- 15:32Speaker 1: A little body out line.
- 15:34Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that we know you got too yeah,
- 15:36Speaker 2: and now we can't yeah, kidnapper, I just have to
- 15:39Speaker 2: draw this real quick so they know, like no.
- 15:42Speaker 3: No, you want a scammer. And then the worst prob
- 15:44Speaker 3: is that he didn't let us take tips because he
- 15:46Speaker 3: doesn't get a cut of that, because he doesn't if
- 15:48Speaker 3: you've got a tip and didn't sell a box, he
- 15:50Speaker 3: that's you know, you don't get ten percent of nothing
- 15:52Speaker 3: or ninety percent of nothing. So he was like, no
- 15:55Speaker 3: tick tips. And so I was a parenter about taking
- 15:57Speaker 3: tips and one time lady for your act exactly. So
- 16:00Speaker 3: this lady's like I'm diabetic, I don't I have a
- 16:02Speaker 3: twenty And I was like, oh, we don't accept and
- 16:05Speaker 3: I was like, wait, why don't we accept tips? And
- 16:07Speaker 3: it's like me just being followed the rules, follow the
- 16:09Speaker 3: rules and play by the rules. And I was like okay,
- 16:11Speaker 3: and I took the twenty. And I had this gut
- 16:13Speaker 3: feeling the whole day that he was gonna find out something.
- 16:15Speaker 3: I was like, you think I didn't see that. I
- 16:17Speaker 3: was like, that's what I thought. So I collect the
- 16:19Speaker 3: tips and sometimes I would go home with way more
- 16:21Speaker 3: tips than actual cells. And eventually he saw my cells
- 16:23Speaker 3: like declines, like you're not selling as much. And I
- 16:25Speaker 3: was like, yeah, people aren't buying. It's like or maybe
- 16:27Speaker 3: you're not trying harder. And I was like done, done, dune,
- 16:31Speaker 3: And I was like he's starting to smell that. Like
- 16:33Speaker 3: I'm going to work and I'm not putting as much
- 16:34Speaker 3: effort of selling one box. I'm putting much effort. If
- 16:36Speaker 3: you don't like chocolate, I'll take a tip. I was
- 16:39Speaker 3: working for tips.
- 16:39Speaker 1: You're funny as well doing bits.
- 16:43Speaker 3: I was like I used to do that as a kid.
- 16:46Speaker 3: They would like go door.
- 16:47Speaker 1: To door sing for people Carol, like you were Carol.
- 16:49Speaker 3: I me and my brothers and my sister's coming. We
- 16:51Speaker 3: weren't a professional Caro. I came, I may think come
- 16:53Speaker 3: with me door to door to Carol and be like,
- 16:55Speaker 3: we wish you merry Christmas. Them we're fo okay.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Entertainment.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Entertainment was always in the family. So one day he
- 17:05Speaker 3: was driving and we hit we're picking people up and
- 17:07Speaker 3: we saw a guy. He was like sixteen. He'd been
- 17:09Speaker 3: to Juvie. He was wearing like you know, this white
- 17:11Speaker 3: top like tattoos everywhere. But he knew that he needed
- 17:15Speaker 3: this job because no one else they weren't hiring Hm McDonalds.
- 17:17Speaker 3: They weren't hiring because of his record, Like he had
- 17:19Speaker 3: a really bad record, and at that point he needed
- 17:21Speaker 3: this job. But people were tipping him. They were taking like,
- 17:23Speaker 3: you know, take this twenty and you know, all the
- 17:25Speaker 3: best to you. He saw him take a tip, and
- 17:28Speaker 3: he got out of the van and he walked up
- 17:29Speaker 3: halfway through like the walkway where the house was, and
- 17:31Speaker 3: he goes, I saw you took a tip, and he goes,
- 17:33Speaker 3: I know what you're talking about is that I saw
- 17:34Speaker 3: you get to me. He said, what give me the tip,
- 17:37Speaker 3: I said, guarantee me, and he grabbed it and like
- 17:39Speaker 3: wrestled him to the floor. This is a child, he's
- 17:41Speaker 3: still sixteen's underage. This is a full over ten dollars,
- 17:44Speaker 3: like just wrestled him. And I was like this like
- 17:46Speaker 3: watching in the window, and that's what I knew. I
- 17:48Speaker 3: have to get out or that's gonna.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Be yeah, because that.
- 17:52Speaker 3: Is a pill. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it was
- 17:54Speaker 3: heading that way eventually. He was probably going to start.
- 17:57Speaker 3: Now that you're really good at selling chocolate, you could
- 17:58Speaker 3: sell something else, yes, artists. I would say working for
- 18:02Speaker 3: him was like a big scam, but he taught me something.
- 18:04Speaker 3: It's like people are out there scamming people every day,
- 18:06Speaker 3: and either you're the scammer or you're the one being scammed.
- 18:09Speaker 3: You know. It's just like people are desperate and they
- 18:13Speaker 3: and everyone has needs. Yeah, Scarce.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I just think like wrangling up a bunch of children
- 18:23Speaker 2: and having them under threat and trying to keep them underpaid.
- 18:28Speaker 2: You're like, what are you doing, bro, Like if you
- 18:31Speaker 2: can round up this many kids and it's like kind
- 18:33Speaker 2: of daycare.
- 18:34Speaker 3: I mean, oh, and I saw one time I got
- 18:37Speaker 3: to go to his storage facility, which was his house,
- 18:40Speaker 3: his garage. This is going terrible. This is a storage facility.
- 18:44Speaker 1: Akay where he lives, you know what.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Listen.
- 18:48Speaker 2: I was on Coning once and I was in my
- 18:50Speaker 2: car and ConA was like, Lady, I thought you were
- 18:51Speaker 2: gonna call, like we were gonna have this video call
- 18:53Speaker 2: from your office because it was like the height of COVID,
- 18:56Speaker 2: And I was like, this is my office wherever I.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Park is my address?
- 18:59Speaker 3: Okay, y'all.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Elex, Yeah, that's where my office is currently. Okay. It
- 19:07Speaker 1: was just a mobile office. You know, people have mobile homes.
- 19:10Speaker 3: I have a mobile office.
- 19:12Speaker 2: He had a storage facility that was also where he slept.
- 19:15Speaker 3: Had a mansion. Yeah, And I saw this man. I
- 19:17Speaker 3: was like, you live here in a two story mansion
- 19:20Speaker 3: and he's all yep. And I was like, and you
- 19:21Speaker 3: do something else like during the day. Nope. His lifestyle
- 19:25Speaker 3: was paid by these kids and he lives in a
- 19:28Speaker 3: gorgeous home while I'm living like an apartment with a
- 19:31Speaker 3: family of six, you know, like a one bedroom you know. Craziness,
- 19:35Speaker 3: Like the idea that I was like, we're That's what
- 19:36Speaker 3: I realized. I was like, we're paying for this house.
- 19:39Speaker 3: I'm paying for this I should live in this house.
- 19:41Speaker 3: And he was just like, yeah, keep the boxes. It's
- 19:43Speaker 3: the garage to the doors open and there's tons of
- 19:45Speaker 3: chocolate like you would have imagined. It was just like
- 19:47Speaker 3: drug Kilo cocaine.
- 19:51Speaker 2: He had his corner boys. Yeah, we're out here slanging
- 19:53Speaker 2: that chocolate.
- 19:56Speaker 1: That pure Columbia Columbia jacko. Okay, straight to your door,
- 20:03Speaker 1: very discreet, very.
- 20:06Speaker 3: Nice, very mindful.
- 20:09Speaker 1: He was Pablo Esco Candy Bar.
- 20:11Speaker 3: You know, Let's chocolate bar.
- 20:16Speaker 1: They call him. You do not want to cross l Jaco.
- 20:21Speaker 1: I once took a tip and son jumped out the
- 20:23Speaker 1: band and wrestled me to the ground.
- 20:24Speaker 3: I've already heard legends of choco, It's true. Though. That's
- 20:29Speaker 3: when I knew that. I was like, I need to balance.
- 20:30Speaker 3: I need to also if I'm really good at this now,
- 20:32Speaker 3: like I could probably get a job that doesn't put
- 20:34Speaker 3: me in danger that night, and like then you know,
- 20:37Speaker 3: ended up going to work for a swap meet as
- 20:40Speaker 3: the runner off of Tips. I realized Tips is where
- 20:43Speaker 3: the money's at. Yeah, And I was like, I could
- 20:45Speaker 3: just do a job that just and you.
- 20:46Speaker 2: Have great vibes, and you really have to have great
- 20:49Speaker 2: vibe like when you walked into the studio.
- 20:51Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, Harvey, are such great vibe?
- 20:53Speaker 3: Really?
- 20:53Speaker 2: Yes, I could feel it, and you really have to
- 20:55Speaker 2: have great vibes to get good tips.
- 20:57Speaker 3: That's true. I didn't think about that. I just thought
- 20:59Speaker 3: you just like you a good job and you're getting
- 21:01Speaker 3: a good tip. But you're right. I've met people who
- 21:03Speaker 3: work in food service when I was, you know, a
- 21:05Speaker 3: waiter and stuff, and people are not good vibes. And
- 21:08Speaker 3: I was like, what are you doing here? This is
- 21:09Speaker 3: not for you. And they're like, yeah, it's just like
- 21:11Speaker 3: hi walking and vodka. Sure, I'll get that. And I
- 21:14Speaker 3: was like, what are you doing? Like that's how you
- 21:15Speaker 3: talked to customers. It's like you're not getting a tip,
- 21:17Speaker 3: and then they get mad at they don't get a tip,
- 21:19Speaker 3: Like what did I do wrong? Everything?
- 21:21Speaker 1: Everything, everything is okay.
- 21:23Speaker 2: So I was kind of like medium vibes because I
- 21:26Speaker 2: didn't want to be working at a restaurant. But I
- 21:28Speaker 2: wasn't going to give you an attitude. I'll key keep
- 21:30Speaker 2: with you a little bit.
- 21:31Speaker 3: But I just really was not supposed to be so
- 21:34Speaker 3: such a long way.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Yeah, but like I had a friend Nick who like
- 21:36Speaker 2: he like I was still get very high tips, but
- 21:39Speaker 2: he would get the highest tips every quarter because he
- 21:42Speaker 2: liked engaging with fellow full out, and like, my worst
- 21:46Speaker 2: nightmare was if there's like a couple that's been together
- 21:48Speaker 2: for a long time and you could tell they don't
- 21:50Speaker 2: really have nothing else to talk about. So then when
- 21:52Speaker 2: you walk up to the table, like, hi, welcome, can
- 21:54Speaker 2: I get your order? And they're like, oh, how you doing,
- 21:56Speaker 2: little lady? How was your week? And then all of
- 21:58Speaker 2: a sudden we're in a conversation. I'm like, I don't
- 21:59Speaker 2: want to talk to you. Please the order, and then
- 22:01Speaker 2: they come, you know, you come at the end of
- 22:03Speaker 2: the medal and we're like, did you enjoy everything? And
- 22:04Speaker 2: they're like, oh, we hated it, and look the plates
- 22:07Speaker 2: him act like it was the first time I've ever
- 22:10Speaker 2: heard that, Like my soul is just leaving my eyeballs
- 22:14Speaker 2: and my body.
- 22:15Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, yeah, I empty.
- 22:18Speaker 3: I saw it as an acting gig. Every table was
- 22:21Speaker 3: a was a bit because everyone has different energy. So
- 22:24Speaker 3: I would go to the people that are they're about
- 22:26Speaker 3: to break up, so I'm going to make it lighter
- 22:27Speaker 3: but not too over the top to like I'm annoying
- 22:30Speaker 3: them to be like, hey, guys, welcome and it's like,
- 22:32Speaker 3: how's it going, Well, sure, I'll get that for you.
- 22:34Speaker 3: They also want their quiet time. You read people's energy
- 22:36Speaker 3: and they're about to break up, give them a second,
- 22:38Speaker 3: bring the check after. Oh.
- 22:39Speaker 1: They used to call me a mercenary.
- 22:41Speaker 2: If I had a couple that was about to break up,
- 22:42Speaker 2: I would actually do the opposite and run the tab up.
- 22:46Speaker 2: I'm like, somebody knows this, they last meal, Okay, somebody
- 22:49Speaker 2: to know. You want to push that dessert, the drink
- 22:51Speaker 2: you want to drink, you give me Yamazaki by Yeah,
- 22:55Speaker 2: you know it's like at least fourteen you know, don't
- 22:59Speaker 2: mind the price because I could just tell like money, yeah.
- 23:02Speaker 3: How you live today? Yeah, but it's true. Every every
- 23:05Speaker 3: table was I felt like it was like a little scene.
- 23:08Speaker 3: And for this tonight's performance, for this table where they're
- 23:10Speaker 3: breaking up, you're a little more like fun but light
- 23:12Speaker 3: but not like too much. For this one, they just
- 23:15Speaker 3: had a really terrible day. Cheer them up. They want
- 23:17Speaker 3: to have a good day, so cheer them up. And
- 23:18Speaker 3: it worked every time because everybody goes to the stelships
- 23:21Speaker 3: to get food and nourishment or whatnot, or to get away,
- 23:24Speaker 3: and now you're just doing your best because they're living
- 23:26Speaker 3: their life. You're doing the best you can, and they're
- 23:28Speaker 3: doing the best they can. So all I want is
- 23:29Speaker 3: that tip. So like I want to making sure that
- 23:31Speaker 3: you left happy and whatever that capacity means to you.
- 23:33Speaker 3: If you were happy by my service, you're happy that
- 23:36Speaker 3: I made you laugh, But you leave happy, that's all
- 23:38Speaker 3: I can exactly.
- 23:39Speaker 1: And that's why you had the risk.
- 23:40Speaker 2: That's why you were making money when you were out
- 23:41Speaker 2: here being scam not even knowing, and then like you
- 23:47Speaker 2: did it legit and you made even more money.
- 23:49Speaker 1: I love that.
- 23:50Speaker 2: That's such a great story, you know what I mean.
- 23:52Speaker 2: And wherever you know Esco Chocolate bar is you know,
- 23:55Speaker 2: I hope he's doing well.
- 23:56Speaker 3: Well.
- 23:58Speaker 1: I don't know you was beating up keys. We can't
- 24:00Speaker 1: hope that you're doing that.
- 24:01Speaker 3: I don't know. I wish you the day you deserve.
- 24:05Speaker 3: I wish you the day whatever that means, whatever I
- 24:08Speaker 3: wish you.
- 24:09Speaker 1: To get exactly.
- 24:11Speaker 3: And whenever someone taught me that, and then there's the
- 24:13Speaker 3: stay with me, because it's true. People like no, I
- 24:15Speaker 3: wish them well. I was like, no, don't wish them,
- 24:16Speaker 3: ill wish the day they deserve because you know if
- 24:18Speaker 3: you've done good or bad, and so if you say no,
- 24:21Speaker 3: don't don't tell me that. It's like, why is there
- 24:22Speaker 3: something you want to confess, like yeah, I wish you
- 24:24Speaker 3: the day you deserve? No no, no, no no no, not
- 24:27Speaker 3: about why what have you done? Have you done? Or
- 24:30Speaker 3: if you go like thank you, that's thank you. You
- 24:33Speaker 3: know you've done good because you have no you know,
- 24:35Speaker 3: quarms about it. But if someone goes, no, no, no, not.
- 24:39Speaker 1: The day I deserve, that's a good little scam, just
- 24:43Speaker 1: like I wish you the day you deserve. Why would
- 24:45Speaker 1: you put that evil on me?
- 24:50Speaker 2: Oh man, Well, now it's time to get into the
- 24:53Speaker 2: spooky part of the show. Even though I think, like
- 24:58Speaker 2: l chuckle lot is kind of scared. You know, it's
- 25:01Speaker 2: it's taking off. He took like a fun confection and
- 25:03Speaker 2: now I feel like if you saw that same chocolate.
- 25:05Speaker 3: Bar, be likes, Yeah, I do see people sometimes there's
- 25:10Speaker 3: kids with boxes. I guess no, and I'll go up there,
- 25:12Speaker 3: like you don't have to do this. He can be
- 25:15Speaker 3: out the streets.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Now, you pulling a full drink like you do at
- 25:17Speaker 1: the strip club, Like you don't have to do this.
- 25:19Speaker 1: I'll put you in a song.
- 25:20Speaker 2: Okay, you work on at the Hooters on Peach Street,
- 25:24Speaker 2: I'll put you in a song. You never got to
- 25:26Speaker 2: sell a hollow again.
- 25:29Speaker 1: You were like, no, y'all put the chocolate bars down.
- 25:31Speaker 2: You were like that Michael Jackson mean when they're like
- 25:33Speaker 2: and they don't really care about us and they hold
- 25:35Speaker 2: the gun up to Michael Jackson, he like puts it
- 25:37Speaker 2: down with his finger, like, no, you don't have.
- 25:40Speaker 3: To sell this chocolate. No more, No Peach Street. I
- 25:43Speaker 3: was just on Peach Street this weekend in Atlanta.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Well yeah, you know, I'm like, what would you do
- 25:49Speaker 2: if your son was not home? I'm alone on the
- 25:52Speaker 2: neighborhood flock because he's hllongry. The only way to feed
- 26:00Speaker 2: the miss just say some chocolate for a little bit of.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Money, Like no, oh my god.
- 26:07Speaker 2: So we have our Halloween spooky episode and we definitely
- 26:11Speaker 2: wanted to do this because you are very familiar with
- 26:14Speaker 2: the spookiness.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Oh yes, what we do.
- 26:16Speaker 2: In the shadows, and so we wanted to give you
- 26:19Speaker 2: a fun little historic Ooh do cood y'all feel that
- 26:22Speaker 2: shiver could shiver up your spine? Yes, yes, it's not anemia.
- 26:28Speaker 3: It's fear.
- 26:29Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's not anxiety.
- 26:36Speaker 1: It's me making you shiver.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Also a thing, it could be.
- 26:44Speaker 1: So.
- 26:45Speaker 2: In the early nineteen eighties, a mortician, David Sconce, found
- 26:50Speaker 2: new and gruesome ways to cut corners in the cremation business,
- 26:55Speaker 2: turning his family's funeral home into a money machine. Oh yeah,
- 27:01Speaker 2: I just feel like funerals are one of those things
- 27:03Speaker 2: where funerals are for the living, and I don't want
- 27:06Speaker 2: anyone running a funeral home like it's something in Silicon Valley.
- 27:10Speaker 2: I don't want you thinking about like the numbers. Yeah,
- 27:14Speaker 2: I hope there's not a chart that's like, look, deaths
- 27:16Speaker 2: are up this year, which means we need to be
- 27:18Speaker 2: on the ground. Okay, if we see an ambulance coming
- 27:22Speaker 2: with a black with the whole black body bag, that
- 27:25Speaker 2: is an opportunity for us and we need to get
- 27:27Speaker 2: after it. Like, I don't want that to be like
- 27:28Speaker 2: it's supposed to be a nice emotional thing for people
- 27:30Speaker 2: to say goodbye.
- 27:32Speaker 1: But he was like, no, I see some ROI we
- 27:34Speaker 1: could get on these.
- 27:36Speaker 3: Well, you know, I grew up in St. Gabriel down
- 27:38Speaker 3: the street from this place in pasadenaas it's like I
- 27:42Speaker 3: grew up down the street. Yeah, this mortuary and crematorium
- 27:48Speaker 3: was down the street from the funeral home. Yeah, you're
- 27:51Speaker 3: familiar with the lab funeral home have been around like
- 27:53Speaker 3: the nineteen twenties.
- 27:54Speaker 2: Because it's a family business. So David sconce is the
- 27:57Speaker 2: one that took over and studied.
- 27:59Speaker 3: He married into the is this right? Do you marry
- 28:01Speaker 3: the daughter who's the son?
- 28:03Speaker 2: Let's see that. I think you might be right about that.
- 28:06Speaker 2: So before so the family business. Just to get a
- 28:08Speaker 2: little sense of the last the Lambs, not to be
- 28:11Speaker 2: confused with Raah Carrey's stand base. Also, let's look at
- 28:13Speaker 2: him real quick. This is David Scott. Yeah, he looks
- 28:18Speaker 2: like you know what people hold on today hairline And
- 28:22Speaker 2: it's like the hair does look luscious on the parts
- 28:24Speaker 2: where it's not bald, and you can see he's putting
- 28:26Speaker 2: some product in it.
- 28:27Speaker 1: But it's also like we can see that you ball babes,
- 28:29Speaker 1: like just go ahead and lean in, like you don't
- 28:33Speaker 1: have to, like what is this? The mister Burns come
- 28:36Speaker 1: like you win in and like you were like you
- 28:41Speaker 1: went into the barbershap and was like give me the
- 28:42Speaker 1: smithest special.
- 28:44Speaker 3: This new show just came out this year called The Sentiens.
- 28:47Speaker 3: I really love.
- 28:48Speaker 1: It's so good. It's so like, I'm not going to last.
- 28:51Speaker 3: I don't just one season.
- 28:54Speaker 2: I get two seasons for sure. So he looks mischievous
- 28:58Speaker 2: in this photo, So I'm game. So the fam right Smith,
- 29:04Speaker 2: So the family business. Before their license was revoked in
- 29:06Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine, Lamb Funeral Home had been one of
- 29:09Speaker 2: LA's well known and trusted places to help lay a
- 29:13Speaker 2: loved one to rest. So we're looking at the Lamb
- 29:16Speaker 2: Funeral Home.
- 29:17Speaker 3: I love that it like it's past style.
- 29:19Speaker 2: Spanish style. That's I was about to say, Like it
- 29:21Speaker 2: blends into the neighborhood. It's not giving us there, it's giving.
- 29:25Speaker 3: Like this is a you know, there's a coffee shop
- 29:27Speaker 3: right across the street from there, and I literally drive
- 29:29Speaker 3: by there once a week.
- 29:31Speaker 5: Yeah, and.
- 29:33Speaker 3: It's kind of terrifying that things that happened there that
- 29:35Speaker 3: like you know now have led to this, But most
- 29:37Speaker 3: people who live there either forgot about it, because if
- 29:39Speaker 3: you live in SGV, in the Singhaba Valley, you either
- 29:42Speaker 3: knew about it or you didn't. And I was too
- 29:44Speaker 3: young to young amazing, So I just remember not hearing
- 29:53Speaker 3: about this till later, and because you know, after a while,
- 29:56Speaker 3: people hear like stories, especially like sing Gaber like about
- 29:59Speaker 3: haunted places. Yeah whatnot. But I grew up in that
- 30:01Speaker 3: area and I'd heard about it, but not to the
- 30:03Speaker 3: detail that I've come to known in the last like
- 30:06Speaker 3: couple months.
- 30:07Speaker 1: So you didn't get like a chill down your back.
- 30:09Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say spine, but I like back, buddy,
- 30:11Speaker 2: you didn't get a chill down your back when you
- 30:13Speaker 2: walked past.
- 30:14Speaker 3: No, I mean you do. Get that started he started
- 30:18Speaker 3: shaking control of Smith.
- 30:22Speaker 2: So it was run by a prominent old Pasadena family
- 30:25Speaker 2: and had been established in the nineteen twenties, helping Pasadena
- 30:29Speaker 2: and Altadena neighbors mark the passing of their loved ones
- 30:31Speaker 2: with respect and dignity, or at least it appeared that way, right,
- 30:35Speaker 2: So Charles f Lamb founded the funeral home, then his
- 30:40Speaker 2: son Lawrence Lamb took over from the nineteen fifties to
- 30:43Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties. When the business passed on to Lawrence's
- 30:47Speaker 2: daughter Lorianne, they clocked it and her husband, former football
- 30:51Speaker 2: coach Jerry Sconce, their son David Sconce, So they're the
- 30:57Speaker 2: son of Lorianne and who she married. Dave Wisconce really
- 31:00Speaker 2: wanted to be a football player and wanted to be
- 31:02Speaker 2: like his dad, who was jerried.
- 31:04Speaker 1: One faithful day, David stepped into a gopher hole and
- 31:08Speaker 1: suffered a career ending and injury, which led to him
- 31:12Speaker 1: joining the funeral home business instead. So he's like, I
- 31:14Speaker 1: can't play football, So how does one.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Step into a golfer hole? Like it's like your whole
- 31:18Speaker 3: foot goes in there. Yeah, because like you can't goes in.
- 31:21Speaker 3: How big is a golfer?
- 31:23Speaker 1: Like the golfers be making holes and then like you
- 31:26Speaker 1: may be running.
- 31:26Speaker 2: On fields or something, it's gotta be big enough for
- 31:31Speaker 2: like a young man's foot to go in. Yeah, And
- 31:34Speaker 2: it was just like the top of your foot, like
- 31:35Speaker 2: if you break your ankle something crazy. Yeah, if you
- 31:37Speaker 2: break it something crazy, then it's a wrap.
- 31:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:40Speaker 2: So he was like, okay, I was trying to play,
- 31:42Speaker 2: you know, football, But now he looks like happy the
- 31:44Speaker 2: funeral home.
- 31:45Speaker 3: You know, look happy in the last photo we saw him.
- 31:47Speaker 3: Now he looks happy there. Yeah.
- 31:49Speaker 2: But he was like, okay, I'm getting in the family business.
- 31:52Speaker 2: And so twenty thousand future victims suffered at his hands m.
- 32:00Speaker 2: David Sconce who we've been talking about, and now we
- 32:03Speaker 2: know his parents were Lorianne and Jerry Scott's and that
- 32:06Speaker 2: he wanted to be football player like a daddy, and
- 32:08Speaker 2: the gopher hole snatched him up. Yeah, the gopher hole
- 32:11Speaker 2: was like Lake Lanier and just snatched him up underneath.
- 32:14Speaker 2: And then he couldn't he couldn't do football no more.
- 32:16Speaker 2: So now he's like got twenty thousand victims at the
- 32:19Speaker 2: funeral home. So David Scots got his mortuary science certification
- 32:22Speaker 2: from Cyprus College at his parents' suggestion. Yeah, you can't
- 32:26Speaker 2: just join the funeral business. This is not like that
- 32:28Speaker 2: one television show where you just be like I'm a.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Part of it. Like you have to get some education.
- 32:33Speaker 3: How to embody? Yeahbody, body, body already.
- 32:38Speaker 2: Yes, So David's parents kept running the actual funeral home
- 32:44Speaker 2: and during embalming's viewings and burials right while David got
- 32:48Speaker 2: to run the cremation business, which happened off site at
- 32:51Speaker 2: the old Pasadena Crematorium facility in Mountain View Cemetery. So
- 32:57Speaker 2: the parents were still like, we'll do the embalmings. We're
- 32:59Speaker 2: going to do the viewings and the burials. Because we
- 33:01Speaker 2: know what we're doing. And then you come in and
- 33:04Speaker 2: you you you do the crematorium off site, and I
- 33:07Speaker 2: will say, like fifth funeral homes do tend to be
- 33:10Speaker 2: a family business.
- 33:10Speaker 1: A lot of the funerals I've dealt with, we're a
- 33:12Speaker 1: family business.
- 33:13Speaker 2: And I've said it on this podcast one time, like
- 33:15Speaker 2: like a ten year old in the suit, like open
- 33:16Speaker 2: my grandpa's casket for the viewing, and then he was
- 33:19Speaker 2: like we would walk up like hysterical crying.
- 33:21Speaker 1: He's like, I'm so sorry for your lost and I
- 33:23Speaker 1: was like, this is a baby. He was like, you
- 33:26Speaker 1: running around selling your chuckle lives.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Wasn't that the storyline for My Girl? The movie, Dan
- 33:31Speaker 3: Aker plays a dad who works for the funeral Jamie
- 33:33Speaker 3: Curs is the mom and she has to bury her
- 33:36Speaker 3: best friend McCay clulk and when he gets stung by bees,
- 33:39Speaker 3: Oh yeah, She's like, this is classes.
- 33:42Speaker 1: What is he gonna see the beest classes? That is
- 33:45Speaker 1: one of the most depressing crockety scene's just like sobbing.
- 33:49Speaker 3: I was like, I'm too young for this. And the
- 33:50Speaker 3: reason he went back to get her mood ring was
- 33:53Speaker 3: for her because he loved her and a crush on
- 33:54Speaker 3: her and got stung by killer bees. Well, no, he
- 33:57Speaker 3: was allergic to bees, that's the shit.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Yeah, he was allergic to bees. Name had the baby
- 34:00Speaker 2: didn't handle Eppan, but she grew up in the funeral
- 34:03Speaker 2: part because her dad owned. So I was like, oh
- 34:05Speaker 2: my god, that is the story they know.
- 34:08Speaker 3: That's depressed, I know, but also very sweet.
- 34:10Speaker 1: She was like, no, he gotta go away looking like
- 34:11Speaker 1: how you be looking.
- 34:14Speaker 4: But it was like no one expected that movie to
- 34:17Speaker 4: take that turn. Honestly abusive, you know what I mean.
- 34:20Speaker 4: It's warning, trigger warning if you hate bees, if you
- 34:23Speaker 4: hate dying like.
- 34:24Speaker 2: L ray or if you love Macaulay Culkin, because he
- 34:26Speaker 2: was definitely that childhre yes, so.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Please be serious.
- 34:31Speaker 2: So, cremation was getting popular as a cheaper alternative to
- 34:34Speaker 2: burial at the time, but David wanted to up their output.
- 34:38Speaker 2: So in nineteen eighty two, now, how are you going
- 34:40Speaker 2: up output? That's depending on people being dead? Like, I
- 34:43Speaker 2: don't think you can run the numbers up, like it's
- 34:46Speaker 2: just in but we all need to be watching the
- 34:48Speaker 2: eleven o'clock news, okay, and then we send them a
- 34:51Speaker 2: fruit basket and our funeral stuff.
- 34:53Speaker 3: Okay.
- 34:54Speaker 1: I'd like feel like they're like at candlelight vigils for
- 34:56Speaker 1: like missing people, and they like they got their candle.
- 34:58Speaker 3: But they're like, hey, yeah, if this doesn't the way
- 35:00Speaker 3: that we want, this is a car. This is cay coupon.
- 35:04Speaker 2: Yeah, we give you a coupon. If there's a missing person,
- 35:06Speaker 2: you get fifteen percent off. We also can bury empty
- 35:09Speaker 2: caste exactly if they come back and they're not alive,
- 35:16Speaker 2: the makeup will be free.
- 35:17Speaker 1: So like, what is wrong with y'all?
- 35:22Speaker 2: So he's so David wanted up the output, so he
- 35:25Speaker 2: started offering cremation services out to other funeral homes using
- 35:29Speaker 2: the Mountain use like cemetery down the street. So it's
- 35:34Speaker 2: like I already got the plug here, so if y'all
- 35:36Speaker 2: need them, y'all need them cooked, like let me cook.
- 35:39Speaker 3: And so.
- 35:48Speaker 1: I need to get off the internet.
- 35:52Speaker 3: Oh my god. Okay, ready forgive me. If you only
- 35:59Speaker 3: alternative ways of saying goodbye to your loved ones, that's clear.
- 36:06Speaker 2: What I mean.
- 36:08Speaker 1: That's what I mean.
- 36:09Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm here as an interpreter for my client.
- 36:14Speaker 3: Thank you so much. This is my counsel because y'all
- 36:17Speaker 3: are gonna get me objection your honor.
- 36:20Speaker 1: I shout up with a lawyer today.
- 36:21Speaker 3: Okay, sidebar, I can't say that, okay, okay, And don't
- 36:30Speaker 3: my client wishes to if you don't need them to
- 36:34Speaker 3: cook them?
- 36:35Speaker 1: He said, shut hell up?
- 36:36Speaker 3: You said, shut he up. Are we wording that to
- 36:39Speaker 3: alternative ways of saying love ones goodbye?
- 36:41Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we mean. Remember it different?
- 36:45Speaker 3: Yes, rab.
- 36:50Speaker 4: Run.
- 36:52Speaker 2: So he started offering the cremation services to other funeral homes. Right,
- 36:56Speaker 2: David was the sole owner and operator. He used his
- 36:59Speaker 2: Dodge van and with the seats taken out, to pick
- 37:02Speaker 2: up the bodies from mortuaries as far away as Santa
- 37:05Speaker 2: Barbara and San Diego. Then he drove them back to
- 37:08Speaker 2: Pasadena to cremate them. Now, I know y'all working at
- 37:12Speaker 2: a funeral home. Y'all been doing this since nineteen twenty.
- 37:13Speaker 3: Y'all got a hers budget cuts. We gotta gotta be
- 37:17Speaker 3: your social Also Dodge a resolciful, reliable car. Dodge sponsored
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- 37:25Speaker 1: You're probably watching us from that's a new creature about
- 37:27Speaker 1: Dodge that I didn't know.
- 37:28Speaker 3: Pick up your bodies with Dodge? Like what pick up
- 37:31Speaker 3: your bodies?
- 37:31Speaker 2: You're like our ac system works real well, like we
- 37:35Speaker 2: got it in the front end of the back you
- 37:36Speaker 2: can't tell they're live or not, like what. So he
- 37:40Speaker 2: undercut everyone on price to drive up the business, charging
- 37:43Speaker 2: fifty five dollars per body, hundreds less than other more targets.
- 37:47Speaker 3: Yeah, fifty five dollars to be cremated. Like he can't
- 37:50Speaker 3: get these deals now.
- 37:51Speaker 1: He was like the uber of cremation, you know, yeah,
- 37:54Speaker 1: call me up.
- 37:54Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, fifty five dollars. That's really good, even for
- 37:57Speaker 3: nineteen eighty nine. That's right, right, that's really good.
- 38:00Speaker 1: So his overhead was the cardboard boxes bodies were carried in,
- 38:04Speaker 1: which costs five dollars, and the diesel fuel for the crematorium,
- 38:07Speaker 1: which was less than that. He returned the ashes to
- 38:10Speaker 1: clients or scattered them at sea.
- 38:13Speaker 3: I don't think he scattered them.
- 38:14Speaker 1: I don't think he did. That was the drive he's
- 38:17Speaker 1: not making even you said you scattered him ass, yeah,
- 38:20Speaker 1: but might.
- 38:20Speaker 3: Say the wind scattered them in your backyard.
- 38:22Speaker 2: He was like, garbage island is at sea, so I
- 38:24Speaker 2: put it in a trash can. It'll make it to
- 38:27Speaker 2: the sea. So I didn't really lie.
- 38:29Speaker 3: Oh if I just put them somewhere else and right.
- 38:33Speaker 1: It was like the toilet water is technically the sea,
- 38:35Speaker 1: So what do you mean terrible? We're like, no, I
- 38:38Speaker 1: don't think it is, sir, I don't think.
- 38:39Speaker 3: I do think.
- 38:40Speaker 2: As his operations got bigger, David hired former football players
- 38:43Speaker 2: he knew from his time as a player as van
- 38:46Speaker 2: drivers for two hundred and fifty dollars a day. So
- 38:48Speaker 2: he was like, you ain't making it to the NFL.
- 38:50Speaker 2: H Well, you were still lifting two fifty.
- 38:51Speaker 1: So what do I have a job for you?
- 38:55Speaker 3: This is second best?
- 38:56Speaker 1: So you worked out this much like you can lift
- 38:58Speaker 1: these bodies. Do you have a dodge questions of the show?
- 39:02Speaker 3: Dodge dodge for your family vacations and for your family vacations. Yes.
- 39:09Speaker 1: So he paid his right hand man, former gang member
- 39:12Speaker 1: Johnny Polarana.
- 39:15Speaker 3: That's the game. Was like, oh no, it's Johnny Colaramo.
- 39:18Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very like the scarf facing in.
- 39:21Speaker 2: So he paid Johnny Polarana six thousand dollars a month
- 39:24Speaker 2: to help him load the bodies into the oven chambers
- 39:27Speaker 2: where they were burned. Johnny was smoking rock cocaine at
- 39:30Speaker 2: the time.
- 39:32Speaker 3: Okay, this is a photo of him, Johnny. Johnny is Johnny,
- 39:38Speaker 3: you know what's funny?
- 39:38Speaker 2: Like he's got on this kind of palm tree button up,
- 39:41Speaker 2: like he's trying to give like you know, warm weather crazy.
- 39:45Speaker 3: But then he's staircase and he's doing crack. Is it
- 39:49Speaker 3: rock cocaine? Crack, Johnny, don't do crack. Don't crack, Johnny, don't.
- 39:56Speaker 1: I hope he wasn't lighting up the little pipe with
- 39:58Speaker 1: the with the fire from the front.
- 40:00Speaker 4: Is the stuff?
- 40:00Speaker 1: Now? I'm like, what was going on? Johnny?
- 40:03Speaker 3: Just look like he's lived a life though, Like in
- 40:05Speaker 3: those eyes, you're like, you know stuff. He's not telling
- 40:07Speaker 3: the stuff I could tell right now. He's only telling
- 40:09Speaker 3: us as much as we need.
- 40:10Speaker 1: To know exactly.
- 40:11Speaker 2: And you know, they say people have like crackhead strength sometimes,
- 40:13Speaker 2: so he was in there like lifting bodies, right, so
- 40:17Speaker 2: he was very strong. You know, Johnny, I'm not really
- 40:20Speaker 2: against you right now because it seems like you were
- 40:23Speaker 2: just doing what like you were told. This is still
- 40:25Speaker 2: people's like wonderful gift and last wish you get a
- 40:27Speaker 2: nice urn, you can keep it in your house.
- 40:29Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but I think Johnny was the
- 40:31Speaker 3: reason that this all fell apart because he was smoking
- 40:34Speaker 3: crack and he burned the crematory.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if your right hand man should
- 40:38Speaker 2: be smoking crack a lot. It just feels like a
- 40:41Speaker 2: bad business idea. I mean, yeah, that's friends, but I
- 40:47Speaker 2: feel like you could have had a lower ranking position,
- 40:50Speaker 2: Like I just feel like right hand man be reserved
- 40:53Speaker 2: for anybody who's like actively on crack.
- 40:55Speaker 1: If you're not on crack anymore, that's a different story.
- 40:57Speaker 2: If you're a recovery like and honestly to anybody who's
- 41:00Speaker 2: in recovery, like what you've been through like, but if
- 41:03Speaker 2: he's actively still doing it, then not a good Yeah.
- 41:08Speaker 3: And I think if I could be wrong, but I
- 41:10Speaker 3: think I remember hearing about it all went down because
- 41:12Speaker 3: of him if he spoken cracy, Harry got the cheese make.
- 41:17Speaker 2: Harvey is from the neighborhood and he's walked past the
- 41:20Speaker 2: grandies on their.
- 41:21Speaker 5: Porch Liken, Okay, a model crack say crack again?
- 41:40Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 41:41Speaker 1: Yeah, the cheese made was hot? Yes, so cutting cremation corners.
- 41:47Speaker 2: The Pasadena crematorium facility at Mountain View Cemetery had two chambers,
- 41:51Speaker 2: and under previous managers it would only have done a
- 41:54Speaker 2: max of four cremations in a day because it takes
- 41:57Speaker 2: several hours to heat it up to the point of incinerating,
- 42:00Speaker 2: and several more hours to cool down to the point
- 42:02Speaker 2: that you can open the chamber again. So in nineteen
- 42:05Speaker 2: eighty one, before David took over, there were one hundred
- 42:08Speaker 2: and ninety cremations at the facility. In nineteen eighty two,
- 42:11Speaker 2: that number went up to fifteen hundred, then thirty five
- 42:16Speaker 2: hundred in nineteen eighty three, and four thousand, three hundred
- 42:20Speaker 2: and nineteen eighty four. So when they were doing ethically
- 42:23Speaker 2: and only doing four commissions a day, they were doing
- 42:25Speaker 2: one ninety. Right by the time two years time, they
- 42:29Speaker 2: had uped it to four thousand, three hundred.
- 42:31Speaker 3: That's a big jump. Yeah, that's a huge If those
- 42:35Speaker 3: were stocks, you just hit the judge, right, you just
- 42:38Speaker 3: hit the judge.
- 42:39Speaker 2: So he started by putting two or three bodies into
- 42:42Speaker 2: a chamber at a time and then upped it to fifteen.
- 42:46Speaker 3: That's at a time. I yes, I heard about that.
- 42:48Speaker 3: I heard that that's not physically possible naturally, you would
- 42:52Speaker 3: have to be breaking limbs, and.
- 42:54Speaker 2: That's what I'm so sorry for the gore, But like
- 42:57Speaker 2: you really are a spot on, Harvey. To make them
- 43:00Speaker 2: fit David and Johnny would have to break collar bones
- 43:03Speaker 2: sometimes or legs or arms and force them in. And
- 43:06Speaker 2: he used to, Oh, my gosh, I'm not gonna I
- 43:09Speaker 2: don't know, I'm not gonna say this part, but like
- 43:11Speaker 2: it's so gross. Like there's also docu on HBO if
- 43:14Speaker 2: you want all the nitty gritty gory gross, but I'm
- 43:16Speaker 2: not going to do that.
- 43:17Speaker 1: Well, we're good times to.
- 43:18Speaker 3: The family, the families of these victims that like they
- 43:21Speaker 3: trust you to say goodbye to their loved ones and
- 43:24Speaker 3: you're stuffing them in like you're you know, Now, it
- 43:26Speaker 3: kind of makes.
- 43:27Speaker 2: More sense to me that his right hand to do
- 43:29Speaker 2: this part needed to be on crack, right, yeah, yeah,
- 43:34Speaker 2: because like no person who's in there, like right mind
- 43:36Speaker 2: would be like yeah, sure, Like obviously we know David
- 43:39Speaker 2: is not a sane human being, and so Johnny could
- 43:42Speaker 2: have just been like the crack made him like this
- 43:45Speaker 2: is a good idea.
- 43:46Speaker 3: Maybe it wouldn't be if he wasn't. But the weird
- 43:49Speaker 3: part is that, like, i mean, obviously we know who's
- 43:51Speaker 3: at the top of all this. Yeah, but it got
- 43:54Speaker 3: it got to the point where he was so selfish
- 43:56Speaker 3: that it wasn't enough that they were crying so many
- 43:58Speaker 3: bodies in one day into the crematorium. They started taking
- 44:01Speaker 3: gold teeth out of their mouths. They start taking their
- 44:03Speaker 3: rings their like it's like, what, you're already robbing the
- 44:07Speaker 3: family of the dignity to say goodbye to their loved ones,
- 44:10Speaker 3: and now you're gonna rob their teeth. There's a bowl
- 44:12Speaker 3: of gold teeth that he collected from all the skulls
- 44:16Speaker 3: that he like pull those teeth from.
- 44:18Speaker 2: And why And then it's like if you're gonna and
- 44:20Speaker 2: I'm sure we get to it in here, but we
- 44:21Speaker 2: can talk about it a little bit now, Like if
- 44:23Speaker 2: you're gonna have like steel gold teeth, why are you
- 44:25Speaker 2: not melting it down and like selling it?
- 44:27Speaker 3: Why you want to? Yeah, like weird, it's weird. That's weird.
- 44:32Speaker 2: So David and Johnny competed to see who could load
- 44:36Speaker 2: the most bodies in a chamber at one time.
- 44:38Speaker 1: This is not a fun game.
- 44:40Speaker 2: Eventually, one of their burned sessions would yield nine fifty
- 44:44Speaker 2: gallon trash cans full of ash. That's a lot co
- 44:47Speaker 2: Mingling their ashes is illegal, but David argued, you could
- 44:51Speaker 2: never get all the ashes from one body out of there,
- 44:53Speaker 2: putting it like before you put in the next one.
- 44:55Speaker 2: So mixing ashes together wasn't a big deal. And I mean,
- 44:58Speaker 2: it's like I'm not gonna know. I'm not going to
- 45:00Speaker 2: be able to open an earn and be like this
- 45:01Speaker 2: is not Grandma. Yeah, like no one's gonna know, you know.
- 45:05Speaker 3: So, and he leaned into that he I was, you know,
- 45:08Speaker 3: I think it's an interview where he was just like
- 45:09Speaker 3: people are so sensitive. They're gone, they're no longer here.
- 45:12Speaker 3: Is like it doesn't matter they there were souls that
- 45:14Speaker 3: were here and loved ones want to respect their memory
- 45:17Speaker 3: and their legacy. And for you to say it doesn't
- 45:19Speaker 3: matter of bones or bones ashes their ashes, and it's
- 45:21Speaker 3: like you don't get to that. You don't get to
- 45:24Speaker 3: decide that.
- 45:25Speaker 2: And so like you were talking about just a second ago,
- 45:27Speaker 2: Harvey looting. Even with the incredible cremation output that David
- 45:31Speaker 2: had achieved, he was still like leaving money on the
- 45:34Speaker 2: table literally until he started like just membering people.
- 45:37Speaker 3: To get jewelry.
- 45:39Speaker 1: And I know, I'm like, like he just said before,
- 45:41Speaker 1: like what what's enough enough?
- 45:42Speaker 3: I he started looked like he brought it in like
- 45:45Speaker 3: one hundred and forty six thousand dollars right of the
- 45:47Speaker 3: math mathing and the first year and then by the
- 45:49Speaker 3: what is it? The second third year was bringing like
- 45:51Speaker 3: millions of dollars.
- 45:53Speaker 1: It's like when is enough going to be enough?
- 45:55Speaker 2: And that's how you know he's just a scammer, you know,
- 45:57Speaker 2: like he would get watches, bracelet and he had a
- 46:01Speaker 2: clothes hangar full of rings at the crematorium. One day
- 46:04Speaker 2: after work, his wife found him sitting on the floor
- 46:06Speaker 2: in the garage with a styrofoam cup with AU written
- 46:09Speaker 2: on it. And if you took your science classes, you
- 46:11Speaker 2: know what AU stands for. He was cracking teeth with
- 46:14Speaker 2: a hammer to get out the gold fillings and then
- 46:18Speaker 2: sweeping the teeth away.
- 46:20Speaker 3: He called it poppin' chops. Oh, why do you have
- 46:23Speaker 3: a name for it? Not you you titled it. You
- 46:26Speaker 3: have to do this. I gotta pop them chops. Like, no,
- 46:28Speaker 3: that doesn't make it more friendly. We imagine being his
- 46:32Speaker 3: wife coming home, It's like, honey, em, what's that is that?
- 46:36Speaker 1: They're like, Mommy, where's dad? Like why doesn't he have
- 46:38Speaker 1: to eat dinner? And like your father's popping chops?
- 46:41Speaker 3: Right, you know, yours popping chops and he doesn't like
- 46:43Speaker 3: to be doesn't like to be disturbed, Okay, and let's
- 46:45Speaker 3: so smile and have a wonderful dinner. Right.
- 46:47Speaker 2: If you still want to go on that ski trip
- 46:49Speaker 2: to Aspen, you have to let your father work poppin' poppin' chops.
- 46:53Speaker 2: So he made twenty thousand dollars a month from gold
- 46:55Speaker 2: fillings alone, according to his guys. As for feeling remorse,
- 46:59Speaker 2: even nearly forty years later, with plenty of time to
- 47:02Speaker 2: reflect on it, he says dead people are just rotten meat,
- 47:05Speaker 2: so he had no reservations about it. He was afraid
- 47:08Speaker 2: of getting caught, but not too afraid. He flew to
- 47:11Speaker 2: Vegas once a month to gamble and drove a corvette
- 47:14Speaker 2: with the license plate I be are in the letter
- 47:19Speaker 2: for you, So if you haven't put that together yet,
- 47:23Speaker 2: his license plate was I burn for you.
- 47:26Speaker 3: Wow, class act this guy, he's a.
- 47:31Speaker 2: Catch, Like I feel like I haven't seen like maybe
- 47:34Speaker 2: the only stunt queen mortician I know is like Phaedra Parks,
- 47:38Speaker 2: But I feel like everyone else isn't.
- 47:39Speaker 1: Like I bear it your dead well, yes, but respectful.
- 47:45Speaker 2: I don't think she would ever do something like no,
- 47:48Speaker 2: But I'm saying like that's the only famous person I
- 47:50Speaker 2: know who like you know, owns a you know, funeral
- 47:55Speaker 2: and clearly has been doing it very well for many
- 47:57Speaker 2: many years and not doing any weird shit like this.
- 47:59Speaker 2: But other than that, I feel like the morticians just
- 48:01Speaker 2: kind of keep it low key. So it's like, why
- 48:02Speaker 2: would you put that as your vanity plate?
- 48:04Speaker 3: Like that's so weird. Yeah, And also now going back
- 48:07Speaker 3: in saying I know what to do with that. You
- 48:08Speaker 3: literally have all these like things like your license, you're
- 48:11Speaker 3: if you're boasteing, you gave your teeth popping activities a name,
- 48:16Speaker 3: you gave.
- 48:16Speaker 1: It a little kitchy name. That's so weird. So getting caught.
- 48:20Speaker 2: Tim Waters of the Alpha Society in Burbank was also
- 48:24Speaker 2: a low cost cremation provider. But Tim couldn't compete with
- 48:28Speaker 2: Dave's prices like David's prices, and so I think Tim
- 48:31Speaker 2: started to realize, like, if he's doing this correctly, there's
- 48:35Speaker 2: no way he could be this efficient. Like some is
- 48:38Speaker 2: up and so we have a picture of Tim and
- 48:41Speaker 2: this is too Tim. Tim definitely does give me like
- 48:45Speaker 2: I'm here for business, yeah, but no, he also gives
- 48:48Speaker 2: me like the eyes like that are very empathetic, like
- 48:50Speaker 2: his whole face says, I'm sorry for your loss right now, Yes,
- 48:53Speaker 2: I'm resting.
- 48:54Speaker 1: He has resting, I'm sorry for your lost face her time,
- 48:58Speaker 1: and he's you know what he's gonna do.
- 48:59Speaker 2: He's gonna grab your hand for a handshake, and then
- 49:01Speaker 2: he's gonna put his other hand on top.
- 49:03Speaker 3: Of that hand.
- 49:04Speaker 1: He's like, I'm so sorry for your love. Yes, and
- 49:06Speaker 1: he tried to give you a little warmth, but not
- 49:08Speaker 1: too much.
- 49:08Speaker 2: You're not gonna be smiling, you know, but he'll give
- 49:11Speaker 2: you a little just closed mouth smile like.
- 49:12Speaker 3: We're gonna get through this together, Heather. Yeah, I'm Tim,
- 49:16Speaker 3: I hope Okay. Then what happened to Tim? So?
- 49:19Speaker 2: Then Tim is like, I can't compete with this. And
- 49:23Speaker 2: the only way that David's business made since to Tim
- 49:26Speaker 2: was at an illegally high volume. He was like, there's
- 49:28Speaker 2: no way in hell you can do this many creations.
- 49:30Speaker 2: It has to be a leader, yep. So in nineteen
- 49:33Speaker 2: eighty five, Tim started paying attention to David's operation and
- 49:36Speaker 2: spreading his suspicions around the funeral service community in La
- 49:39Speaker 2: So even more cheez man, Yes me too, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 49:44Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. For you having to take this phone
- 49:46Speaker 2: call at dinner. Yeah, see my smiles through the phone. Yeah, yeah,
- 49:49Speaker 2: I gotta tell you about some shady stuff. So Tim
- 49:52Speaker 2: was about to publish an expos article in Mortuary Management magazine.
- 49:57Speaker 1: Y'all got a magazine.
- 49:59Speaker 3: Subscribed to and they've asked me to leave Mayne.
- 50:05Speaker 2: This is this May nineteen sixty five. Mortuary Management was popping.
- 50:09Speaker 2: They're like, learn all the latest sit and homegoing.
- 50:12Speaker 3: Okay, yes, do you want your loved one to have
- 50:15Speaker 3: an updu or down right?
- 50:18Speaker 1: The latest embalming dress fashion? Yes, funeral makeup for you
- 50:22Speaker 1: and yours.
- 50:23Speaker 3: Just because their dead doesn't mean they have to look bad,
- 50:25Speaker 3: right Okay.
- 50:27Speaker 2: So Tim was about to publish this expose, a article
- 50:31Speaker 2: in Mortuary Management magazine about David's crimes. When David hired
- 50:34Speaker 2: his football player drivers to go rough him up along
- 50:38Speaker 2: with the publisher of the magazines.
- 50:40Speaker 1: They said, we gotta beat everybody's ass.
- 50:42Speaker 3: The publisher he's gonna be talking.
- 50:44Speaker 2: Yes, So David made his hired thugs, big men unlimited
- 50:51Speaker 2: business cards and they beat the shit out of Tom
- 50:54Speaker 2: and the publisher.
- 50:56Speaker 1: And now you're gonna leave like a card on me,
- 50:58Speaker 1: like clean yourself up. And also Big Men Unlimited is crazy,
- 51:03Speaker 1: so it's like you can take us out, but we
- 51:05Speaker 1: are unlimited in Big Mens.
- 51:08Speaker 3: Yeah. Sounds like a dating site too.
- 51:11Speaker 1: Oh yes, you like big boys boys Big Man Unlimited.
- 51:17Speaker 3: We got one. You like them? Big the Men Unlimited Unlimited,
- 51:25Speaker 3: Big Man Unlimited. Yeah, big big Man Unlimited. I mean
- 51:30Speaker 3: it's all Bear's good load. Will you be the next
- 51:35Speaker 3: Big Man Unlimited.
- 51:38Speaker 1: Oh so that's a funny card to just throw at people.
- 51:41Speaker 3: I love it.
- 51:42Speaker 2: So Tim went out to eat with David two months later,
- 51:46Speaker 2: possibly to make amends, like hey, I did like David
- 51:51Speaker 2: was like, hey, my guy, I'm sorry I had to
- 51:53Speaker 2: send Big Man Unlimited to whoop your agg Come have
- 51:56Speaker 2: dinner with me.
- 51:56Speaker 3: Yeah, come after talk about it now, let's.
- 51:58Speaker 1: Bury the head.
- 51:59Speaker 3: Let's are you no? No? Not you? Yeah?
- 52:04Speaker 2: So they went out right. This is two months later,
- 52:07Speaker 2: possibly to make amends, and later that evening Tim died
- 52:11Speaker 2: under mysterious circumstances, our sweet face Tim, damn.
- 52:17Speaker 3: And and he's young, he's pretty young. He's younger though,
- 52:20Speaker 3: are you know, suspect? And I'm also like, oh my goodness,
- 52:26Speaker 3: why do you keep doing that?
- 52:27Speaker 2: These are jump scary images of David, My goodness, he's
- 52:31Speaker 2: it's giving step giving so bad.
- 52:35Speaker 1: Like you gotta warn us. There were like.
- 52:39Speaker 3: It's that, it's a clip from scary movie Attacks scary.
- 52:46Speaker 1: I mean you already sent the big man after Tim?
- 52:49Speaker 1: Did you have to send him to the big House.
- 52:50Speaker 3: Of the Tim doesn't deserve that, look at Tim.
- 52:55Speaker 2: So the cause of death at the time was ruled
- 52:57Speaker 2: a heart attack, but Tim had only been twenty four
- 53:00Speaker 2: years old, and many suspected David of poisoning him because
- 53:05Speaker 2: of course, you're like, let's go to dinner and then
- 53:07Speaker 2: you know, maybe Tim gets up to wash his hands
- 53:09Speaker 2: as he does, or have you.
- 53:11Speaker 3: Like, oh, sorry, you spilled wine in your lab. Oh
- 53:13Speaker 3: that's okay, I'm gonna wash it. Yeah, you go wash
- 53:15Speaker 3: it offuson. Hey, I'm back.
- 53:25Speaker 1: Oh you still got a little bit left?
- 53:30Speaker 3: Oh I forgot my keys. I'll be back.
- 53:34Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 53:36Speaker 3: How did you hear, folks? Anything else you can get
- 53:38Speaker 3: in old Okay that's poison right? No? No, no, okay,
- 53:43Speaker 3: Oh right, I'll be back, sir. Why would you do.
- 53:52Speaker 2: It?
- 53:52Speaker 3: Takes a lot of strategy and also if you work
- 53:54Speaker 3: in this field, I think you have access to chemicals
- 53:57Speaker 3: things that could come across us under autopsy or anything
- 54:02Speaker 3: as that's normal. Sometimes that happens, you know what makes
- 54:06Speaker 3: the tests go.
- 54:07Speaker 1: Through exactly because they have to deal with you.
- 54:10Speaker 2: If it's like a homicide or something, you know, yeah,
- 54:13Speaker 2: you know what is not going to raise flags and
- 54:15Speaker 2: it'll just look like a heart attack.
- 54:17Speaker 3: And so I would have never gone to that dinner.
- 54:20Speaker 3: I don't know how great she just.
- 54:22Speaker 1: Had you beat up by goons.
- 54:23Speaker 3: Tim.
- 54:24Speaker 2: I don't think there's a reconciliation. I think he was like,
- 54:26Speaker 2: I need to finish the job.
- 54:28Speaker 3: That goes to show that. Tim sounds like a really
- 54:29Speaker 3: nice guy that was going to give someone like, you
- 54:31Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to give you a second chance
- 54:32Speaker 3: and put my hand.
- 54:33Speaker 1: It's crazy after you get jumped by big Man unlimited.
- 54:36Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, no no.
- 54:38Speaker 2: And so by nineteen eighty six, David's business was firing
- 54:41Speaker 2: on all cylinders and Johnny was getting high a lot
- 54:45Speaker 2: to cope, so and I thought he might be coping.
- 54:48Speaker 2: I did.
- 54:49Speaker 1: So one day Johnny got high and left.
- 54:51Speaker 3: Oh my god, stop doing that.
- 54:55Speaker 2: So one day Johnny got high and left while the
- 54:57Speaker 2: crematory was on, and the whole building burned down. David
- 55:01Speaker 2: no longer had a facility four cremations, but he kept
- 55:03Speaker 2: picking up bodies from all over the state.
- 55:06Speaker 3: But you got nowhere to burn them?
- 55:07Speaker 2: No, he said, that ain't no problem. We got big lighters.
- 55:09Speaker 2: I got like I got a grill. Okay, like you know,
- 55:14Speaker 2: we don't know we got it. Don't know any worry
- 55:16Speaker 2: about that streeteart. So he said, one criminatorium liken to
- 55:24Speaker 2: stop no show, like I thought that it does.
- 55:26Speaker 1: I think it does stop the show. I think we
- 55:28Speaker 1: need to stop now. So oscar Ceramics.
- 55:31Speaker 2: In January nineteen eighty seven, San Bernardino air quality authorities
- 55:35Speaker 2: started getting complaints about a business called oscar Ceramics in Hespiria.
- 55:40Speaker 2: It was a large, unmasked warehouse in the middle of
- 55:42Speaker 2: the desert owned by a man named David Sconce.
- 55:47Speaker 1: One neighbor just a queen keating.
- 55:49Speaker 2: One neighbor had served in the military unit that liberated
- 55:51Speaker 2: Auschwitz and reported the smell of burning human flesh, which
- 55:55Speaker 2: he recognized, and he reported that to authorities.
- 55:58Speaker 3: He was like, he knew what it was, ynyspharia, And
- 56:00Speaker 3: there's nothing out there that's you know, you go out
- 56:04Speaker 3: there so no one finds you, right.
- 56:05Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's also so triggering to like be free
- 56:08Speaker 2: and then you have a familiar smell we sent us
- 56:11Speaker 2: so deeply connected.
- 56:12Speaker 3: To memory the trigger.
- 56:13Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 56:14Speaker 2: And so David had built a warehouse size oven facility
- 56:19Speaker 2: and was burning two hundred bodies at a time.
- 56:22Speaker 1: That is insanity. So Lauren, Jerriet, and David.
- 56:27Speaker 2: Were all later put on trial for dismembering people and
- 56:30Speaker 2: selling their parts without family consent. It turns out that
- 56:33Speaker 2: harvest and gold teeth and organs from cadavers without permission
- 56:37Speaker 2: of NEXTI Kin was actually a part of.
- 56:39Speaker 1: The family business. So now they're also stealing people's organs.
- 56:43Speaker 3: That's crazy. When when is it enough?
- 56:46Speaker 2: Right? It's not enough for y'all. In nineteen eighty nine,
- 56:48Speaker 2: Scon's called guilty. He pled guilty to twenty one criminal counts,
- 56:51Speaker 2: including mutilating dead bodies, holding mass cream like cremations, and
- 56:56Speaker 2: hiring hitmen, which were he was like, no, they're just
- 56:59Speaker 2: big men and limp, just big. Oh yeah, they'll give
- 57:02Speaker 2: you unlimited ass whoopings.
- 57:04Speaker 1: But they're not men.
- 57:05Speaker 3: Unlimited big men unlimited Oh yeah, okay, but so he was.
- 57:11Speaker 2: He ended up being sentenced to five years in prison
- 57:13Speaker 2: and then was sent back in twenty thirteen for viol
- 57:16Speaker 2: like violating his lifetime probation by having a firearm. He
- 57:20Speaker 2: was released on parole in twenty twenty three. Look sir,
- 57:22Speaker 2: we need you to be serious.
- 57:25Speaker 1: You're so serious for one moment.
- 57:27Speaker 2: His mom and Poppa were found guilty of unlawfully authorizing
- 57:31Speaker 2: the removal of organs from bodies before cremation, as well
- 57:35Speaker 2: as three counts of forging customer signatures on organ donor
- 57:39Speaker 2: and cremation authorization forms.
- 57:41Speaker 1: They both served three years and eight months in prison.
- 57:45Speaker 2: Like, how are you just gonna sign my family member
- 57:47Speaker 2: is going to be cremated because you want them to?
- 57:49Speaker 2: And then what I buy a casket and then you
- 57:51Speaker 2: just like fill it with rocks and you're like a
- 57:53Speaker 2: closed casket as closed.
- 57:54Speaker 3: Yeah, locket, or you do the viewing and then go
- 57:57Speaker 3: we'll take care for it. Kill a couple of out,
- 57:59Speaker 3: dump out rocks, and then go to the.
- 58:02Speaker 2: Oh yes, because that might be They're like, oh, we
- 58:05Speaker 2: actually got to get another car, Like this wheel is foul.
- 58:08Speaker 3: Why do you need to take the casco?
- 58:09Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. All bears are like wrestling with them.
- 58:14Speaker 3: We will be right here.
- 58:17Speaker 1: You go.
- 58:18Speaker 3: It's heavier than before that happens. Sometimes they may get
- 58:20Speaker 3: the rock.
- 58:22Speaker 1: That's for different.
- 58:23Speaker 3: We need those.
- 58:25Speaker 2: You know how people throw like pig the ro rocks
- 58:28Speaker 2: in the air and in their memory and it's like
- 58:31Speaker 2: harder to throw and it's more beautiful.
- 58:33Speaker 3: Don't worry about it look out because.
- 58:34Speaker 2: They Yeah, we don't want to work the birds like that.
- 58:37Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's just a part of the rock.
- 58:39Speaker 3: We care about the looking and.
- 58:40Speaker 1: Yeah, we want you to be solid as the rocks
- 58:42Speaker 1: that you want to return it to in the earth.
- 58:44Speaker 3: Do you feel us right? Okay?
- 58:45Speaker 1: Anyways, yeah the rock. Oh, these people are bad.
- 58:56Speaker 3: Yeah, this is scary.
- 58:58Speaker 2: You know that people were doing this type of thing
- 59:00Speaker 2: and then they also weren't ever satisfied.
- 59:02Speaker 1: They just kept making it worse and worse.
- 59:04Speaker 3: And wors You could have gone away with it, actually
- 59:06Speaker 3: and like people would have not known. But then you're like, no,
- 59:08Speaker 3: you know what, I'll get those teeth, you know what,
- 59:10Speaker 3: I'll get those organs, you know what I'll get. Body.
- 59:13Speaker 2: You could do like fifteen people a day, whereas most
- 59:15Speaker 2: people can only do four, and then you could undercut
- 59:17Speaker 2: the market would do two hundred. Come on, come on,
- 59:22Speaker 2: your whole family is bad like this is boo, but
- 59:26Speaker 2: thank you for walking with me, Harvey through this very
- 59:28Speaker 2: spooky story. We always asked at the end of our show,
- 59:31Speaker 2: where would you like to be found any social media?
- 59:33Speaker 1: Is anything that people can watch?
- 59:35Speaker 3: Obviously funeral Home, that's for sure.
- 59:38Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, we don't want you to have there.
- 59:40Speaker 3: You can find me on Instagram and on Twitter at
- 59:43Speaker 3: Harvey Gien. Yeah, and you know, you never know, might
- 59:46Speaker 3: be doing a little spooky podcast show myself.
- 59:53Speaker 1: So hear it, yes, coming through your walls big Man.
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