Fraud Friday: The Bamboozling Beau with Tracie Morrissey

Laci welcomes Tracie Morrissey (Pot Psychology Podcast)to dig into a man who was caught defrauding 35 of his “girlfriends” in Japan, his maybe wig, and his love of cake. Plus, a former senior advisor in the federal government was accused of stealing from New York City public schools. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 05/31/2021) CONgregation, catch Laci's TV Show, Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu! Did you miss out on a custom signed Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes book? Look no more, nab your copy here on PODSWAG Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Tracie Morrissey: @traciemorrissey

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• 2:33Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess Vault. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the paywall. Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall, and as always, stay schemin'.

• 3:15Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? Welcome back to another installment of Scam Goddess. It's me, your host, Lacey Mosley, Scam Goddess, AKA, and this is a show all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. Guys, say it with me, I am what? Yes, I'm so excited, I really am, because this was another, a long con, a long scam. I've been wanting to get this woman on the podcast, she's a queen, she's a writer, she's a producer, she hosts her own amazing podcast called Pot Psychology. Guys, and if you were tuned in at all to what was happening when we were talking about Hilaria Baldwin, then you know this woman's Instagram is like, literally should be in the Sphinx, it's like, so amazing. Guys, we have Tracy Morsy.

• 3:54Speaker 06

  Hi.

• 3:55Laci Mosley?

  Hi.

• 3:56Speaker 06

  That was a very, very, very warm intro, thank you so much.

• 4:00Laci Mosley?

  It's all true, I'm so happy to have you, I love your haircut, too. You look a cute with this little background, thank you.

• 4:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, I got my lashes done.

• 4:07Laci Mosley?

  Oh, yes, we love a baddie on the pod. The listener's like, wow, you just get such good-looking guests. I'm like, it is not by accident. I'm like, we're all the hottest entertainers, and I do mean hot.

• 4:21Laci Mosley?

  So Tracy, do you have any relationship with scams? Have you ever been scammed? Do you like them? Do you hate them? Like, where do you lie on the spectrum?

• 4:28Speaker 06

  I'm like obsessed with scams. I love scams. I like, um, I'm like a scam fan. Like, I'm interested in them, but I also am like, I don't ever want to be a victim of a scam. So I'm like, super have my, you know, antenna up all the time. I, I'm like, you know, I love messing with robo callers, like who are trying to like, you know, get my social security number or, you know, tell me that my Apple ID has been compromised, any of that stuff. I have a lot of fun with them. But, you know, I was trying to think if I've done scams before. And before, you know, before coming on, I know that you talk about scams up top. If anyone's been a scammer, but like, I don't, I don't know if I do.

• 5:13Speaker 06

  I definitely nothing like illegal. Like my scams are like cutting lines. Like I'm getting on an on-ramp and there's like a long line of cars. I'll go right up to like the front and like cut people off there. So like definitely like asshole stuff, but like not like criminal stuff.

• 5:31Laci Mosley?

  Okay. Well, I want to say that you are not an asshole for doing that. That is actually how traffic is supposed to work. I got cussed out like last week at an intersection because I did that where it was like a long line of people trying to bottleneck because the one road lane was going to end. And I just drove up the lane that was ending up to the top and then got in where I fit in. And this truck was so mad. They were honking and like trying to get my attention. I had my windows down, so I just had to kind of like play like I couldn't hear and just stare straight ahead.

• 6:03Laci Mosley?

  But that's if you go, if you go to driver's school, that's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to merge at the last second so that you can keep the flow of traffic going. That's the rule.

• 6:10Speaker 06

  Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I feel like only suckers wait in the line.

• 6:13Laci Mosley?

  Mm-hmm. Listen, I'm, I'm all about that. I skip all the lines. I've skipped so many lines. I remember once there was a really, there was a screaming for a Barry Jenkins movie. Oh, is that Judy? Is that your dog?

• 6:25Speaker 06

  This is Judy, yes.

• 6:26Laci Mosley?

  I'm such a creep. I went on your Instagram. I was like, yes. I saw the little sweater you made for her. I was like, okay, seems true.

• 6:34Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah. I love knitting.

• 6:36Laci Mosley?

  Tracy's like, this woman is a stalker. Like, she knows my dog's name.

• 6:41Speaker 06

  I have no right calling anyone a stalker, the amount of research I do on people.

• 6:47Laci Mosley?

  I mean, it's, I think we have to get to the point in the internet age where we just say like, yeah, I saw you were there on Instagram. Like, I don't, I don't have to pretend I don't know anything about people anymore. Like, you put it on the graph. I saw it.

• 6:59Speaker 06

  Yeah. Actually, it's like, it would be almost like insulting if like, you know, it's like, not that I expect people to like, go and look at my stuff, but like, I'm not at all, I weirded out. Like, I'm, I have a, a public Instagram. If someone sees stuff about my life, it's like, cause I pu- I put it out there.

• 7:15Laci Mosley?

  I put it there, right. But so many people, I've had so many people be like, oh, oh, you, oh, you stalked me. And it's like, girl, you put it on the, on the, on Beyonce's internet for free, for everybody. What you mean?

• 7:28Speaker 06

  I read people's like grandparents' obituaries and stuff like that. Like I,

• 7:32Laci Mosley?

  I do that too.

• 7:33Speaker 06

  I go deep. I mean, if I'm dating someone or if someone pisses me off or something like that, like, I'm like, what do I need to know about this person?

• 7:41Laci Mosley?

  I'm gonna need you to get that re- oh yeah, you get their research upfront. I like that. But before we get into what's hot and fried, I will finish my other cutting in line. Um, have you ever like, cut in line and like, almost got caught? Like, or someone says something like?

• 7:53Speaker 06

  Oh, I mean, I, people are screaming at me from their cars constantly. Or, you know, pedestrians are yelling at me. I'm not like,

• 8:00Laci Mosley?

  White noise for you now?

• 8:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, I'm an aggressive driver, you know? It's just like, you have to be in New York. No, I, there's, I've been, alright, so like when COVID, when the lockdown started, they started this like new procedure at Whole Foods where you go in to the parking garage. And then, you know, you, you come up into the store, this is how it is in Brooklyn. And usually you just walk through the store up at the top to go down to the basement where like, all the grocery shopping is. Um, and that's what I was trying to do. And I saw that there's like, they were forcing people to leave immediately and line up outside. And I looked at the line outside. I was like, get the hell out of here. I'm not waiting in that line. So I would just wear headphones and for a while, this worked for several months. But then they finally were like, ma'am, and like, chase me down.

• 8:48Speaker 06

  You have to go outside. Like, oh, I didn't know. I had no idea. I'm so sorry. So that was like the, you know, you gotta ride it until, you know,

• 8:56Laci Mosley?

  Till it will fall off. I love that for you. I love the show. Because we all know, we work for any larger company, like you don't really give that many fucks. Like, what are they gonna chase you around the store? They're like, well, we told her. All right, she went inside. And then finally, you got, you probably got a hater who was on the job and was like, no, I'm not gonna take this. She will go out into the line.

• 9:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, I think it probably was like at a point where people were being like such jerks about like wearing masks and whatever, you know, like just and people who are working in grocery stores were like really like frontline workers all of a sudden. Yeah. And they just like had it with people like me.

• 9:32Laci Mosley?

  That was the biggest scam of the pandemic is calling people who work in grocery stores essential workers, but then not paying them like they're essential. You're saying that their lives

• 9:41Speaker 06

  Crazy.

• 9:41Laci Mosley?

  Are be put on the line, right? You said essential, right? And then what did this pay not looking essential? This pay is looking very replaceable.

• 9:49Speaker 06

  They don't even have health insurance. It's like one thing, like, you know, your doctor, your nurse, you have, you have health insurance. You know, you're, you're a cop, you get health insurance and any kind of like first responder. But then all of a sudden, these like grocery workers and delivery people are like our total connection to the outside world and keeping us, you know, fed and whatever. And they have like, you know, they're, they're at total risk of COVID and then not having like the protection of like, you know, if they get sick, they're like their medical bills would be like astronomical. So

• 10:20Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 10:21Speaker 06

  It's, it's so messed up. It's so messed up.

• 10:23Laci Mosley?

  It's a scam. And honestly, I hope grocery workers, I hope y'all took like six loaves of bread home every night. I hope y'all took all the toilet paper. I hope he was robbing Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, taking all the food, totally home. Okay. Because they played. They played y'all. And that wasn't right. So shout out to y'all. Um, but let's get into it. What's hot and fraud? This is where we warn our listeners about popping scams in the street. Or more often than not, we get a listener letter from you guys where you snitch on your friends and family. As always, if you want to snitch on your friends and family, just make sure the scam's retired. We don't want to fuck up your bag. That's [email protected]. So Tracy, give me a fake name for this person. We don't care about gender on this show.

• 11:02Speaker 06

  Oh, okay. Jerry.

• 11:04Laci Mosley?

  Jerry, okay. So Jerry says all some nice things. This is a combo because we're getting a listener letter, but they're also giving us some tips. And I saw you had a dog, Tracy. So I was like, okay, you're gonna understand what's popping here. So apparently, um, something people need to be aware of is how common dog scams are now. My wife and I live in Ontario and we have been trying to get a dog for over a year. We've almost fallen for dog scams a few times and they're getting pretty good at spotting them. Ever since the pandemic started, people have been adopting pets right and left. In Canada, where dogs are already pretty scarce because it's too cold for a lot of strays up here, this has caused the dog demand to skyrocket. So I guess the US border being closed, they were like, well, now we can't get dogs, you know, like we used to from, uh, the US.

• 11:50Laci Mosley?

  Okay.

• 11:50Speaker 06

  I did not realize that, that dogs are imported in Canada.

• 11:55Laci Mosley?

  I didn't know that either. Like you thought you were getting some Colombian, Colombian cocaine. You were getting a rottweiler. Like, we didn't know.

• 12:05Laci Mosley?

  So one of the websites is like, you can go on Craigslist, or I guess in Canada, they have something called Kijji. And puppies cost thousands of dollars. I've even seen dogs go for as high as $5,000. Wow. Yeah, for a dog, like, look, I love dogs as much as the next dog lover, but 5,000, and that's before shots. That's before food.

• 12:26Speaker 06

  I know.

• 12:27Laci Mosley?

  It's an expensive dog.

• 12:28Speaker 06

  The dogs that cost that much need like extra care too, because they're usually like purebred and then they have like their teeth are messed up and then they have like eye, they always need operations that you're better off getting a mix.

• 12:41Laci Mosley?

  I've heard that, that they get a little sickly because of all the inbreeding and stuff.

• 12:44Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 12:45Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, I'm sorry. If you're a $5,000 dog, you better be motherfucking lassie. You better be out here telling me when Timmy fell in the well. You, you gotta at least do some light labor around the house.

• 12:57Laci Mosley?

  Five thousand. You gonna be in commercials immediately. I hope you like Alpo cuz you gonna be shooting every week. Like, what?

• 13:06Laci Mosley?

  No, you gotta be employed. So, of course, a lot of folks were trying to get in on the dog craze. And one big scam is that importers would use a rescue, like rescuing dogs from other countries, when really they were getting dogs from puppy mills in the Ukraine.

• 13:20Speaker 06

  Oh, wow.

• 13:23Laci Mosley?

  So, some of them are tricking people and getting the dogs, you know, from the puppy mills. Another popular scam is some people are posting ads for puppies and then taking deposits for the puppy, only to pocket hundreds of dollars from different people before disappearing. Yeah. We bought your dog. Did they, did you do a deposit?

• 13:41Speaker 06

  I did have to do a deposit. I had to do, I think it was only like a hundred dollars. And then I had to bring cash cuz they were Amish. I didn't realize that they were Amish cuz I bought it. I signed up on the computer. Like, I was like, I didn't know that the Amish used computers. I absolutely would not have bought a dog from an Amish person cuz they run puppy mills. I didn't realize that it, the person was Amish until I got to their house. Cuz they were like texting with me and stuff. I didn't know that they could use that technology. And then I show up and it was a total nightmare. It was like, he was like abusive to his baby. Like, cuz when I first pulled in, I was like, their car's not here. They're not home. And then I was like, oh, oh, they have a buggy. Oh, it's their Amish. Oh, my God.

• 14:27Speaker 06

  But, um, you know, I, I do kind of feel like I rescued her cuz I took her out of the situation. But like, I was, I was, uh, really upset. I actually kind of got scammed into buying a dog from an Amish person when I would never would have wanted to do that.

• 14:43Laci Mosley?

  Now, see, I don't know if, I'm not gonna say all Amish people are running, you know, shady operations cuz they do show up for causes and stuff like that. But this man is obviously Am-ish. If he got, uh, the cell, the cellphone and the computer, like, how are you?

• 14:57Speaker 06

  Exactly. Well, I asked him about that when I got there. I was like, so you can use computers and things? And like, you know, I went into his like shed, which was his office, and he had computers and he had- His other side hustle was that he sold socks. Like he imported socks and then sold socks to Amish people. Cause they were all dark socks. They were like all black and brown. So I was like, and he was like, yeah, we were allowed to do this for business. So I guess there's like certain hours and only certain uses that they're allowed to, to do that. So I don't know.

• 15:27Laci Mosley?

  Fascinating. Well, you know, Tracy, I think you just brought representation. Amish people can be scammers too. And um, shout out to that one man for being a scammer, you know? I don't like that he was abusing the baby and the dog. Now that's not good. He's not, that guy wasn't a good guy. But at least you saved the dog. So, okay. Um, apparently there's a lot of designer dogs. Like people are getting scammed by getting these kind of like small, never shed, hyperallergenic dogs. But the problem is that's not how genetics work. So anyone who's like 100% guaranteeing that this dog won't shed, it's hyperallergenic, it's pure. Like they're probably lying. And then the last scam that they talk about here is they said, I have a friend, let's call her Marcy, who was getting frustrated looking for a dog.

• 16:10Laci Mosley?

  After months, she couldn't find any dogs, you know, that were working out for her. I'm gonna skip a little bit of this. It's a lot of words. Um, she broke down and decided to buy a mini Aussie doodle. Shout out to Judith, our super producer. She said that it's a mixture. Aussie doodle is a mixture of an Australian shepherd dog and a poodle. Um, and I love the cute names they come up with. Aussie doodle. That sounds good. I want one. So it sounded real at first, but there were some red flags. Okay, guys, just another update on red flags. There's no such thing as flagaza. It's one flag. When you see a flag, you leave. It's not plural, okay?

• 16:48Speaker 06

  People like will experience like a color guard of flags and then those be like, I don't know. I didn't realize.

• 16:55Laci Mosley?

  I'm like, bro, you had the grand prix. Like we've seen so many flags, okay? Like, come on now. So I just want to say, guys, red flags is just one. When you see the one, just trust that you've been alive long enough that you know what's on the other side. And if you're young, listening to this podcast, you don't have to buy all the wisdom, okay? Like, why buy wisdom that's already paid for? I'm telling you, one red flag, leave. It's too many people on the planet. Let it go.

• 17:18Speaker 06

  That's great advice.

• 17:19Laci Mosley?

  So there were some red flags, plural.

• 17:24Laci Mosley?

  So first, and this is always how desperate you are. Obviously, this woman's been looking for a dog for a long time. It hasn't been working out. Her desperation is, hi, she's parched, she's thirsty, it's arid. Got it? So first, the breeder never let her see home, like the home of like where the dogs were. She never saw where the dogs were bred or the puppies in person before the sale. She also took deposits before the friend could see the puppies. She also had to do a sketchy money exchange to pick up the puppy on the side of a highway. Not the highway.

• 18:01Laci Mosley?

  Y'all couldn't go to an Exxon Mobil or Wendy's at the highway. I've seen people selling puppies outside of IHOP.

• 18:09Laci Mosley?

  Not cars wasn't by. That's really up in the stakes. That's dangerous. Yeah. Right. For the, what if the puppy jump out of somebody's hands? Somebody broke him. They don't know what they're doing? So bad. So it said, my friend ignored all of this because she wanted the dog so badly. And she kept telling herself that maybe the weirdness was just because of the pandemic. Sure enough, when she took the puppy to the vet, she found out the dog was definitely not a mini also do and was likely to grow big and would shed. And the breeder blocked all her calls and disappeared, running off with thousands and thousands of dollars of my friend's money. Wow.

• 18:45Laci Mosley?

  That desperation.

• 18:46Speaker 06

  Wait, and they're in Canada or no? That's just, there's just, that's just another dog scam?

• 18:50Laci Mosley?

  This one has to probably be in Canada because the person, Jerry, Jerry originally was from Canada. So Jerry was talking about a lot of different dog scams in general, which I was like, these are good to update you guys on. But also I think the friend was in Canada. See, that's the hard thing. I really want a dog, but I want like a Shih Tzu that's like basically a cat like my parents have. But my dog's already spayed at home and like my parents won't let me steal her. So I have to like find a chill puppy that's like, okay with like me working a lot and like hates walks.

• 19:22Speaker 06

  Dogs are okay with you working a lot. I mean, because you're working from home, right? They'll just sit on your feet.

• 19:27Laci Mosley?

  For the most part.

• 19:27Speaker 06

  Yeah, they love that. I feel like dogs have loved COVID because all their owners are with them all the time.

• 19:34Laci Mosley?

  Right. I feel like it's the opposite for cats. Like, but you're still here.

• 19:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, cats are like, get out of here.

• 19:38Laci Mosley?

  Get your ass out. Do you have food or what, bitch? What is it?

• 19:46Laci Mosley?

  I saw a funny Instagram. I can't remember the TikTok, but it was like about cats versus dogs seeing you and like dogs coming home like, "Hey, what you do? How's your day?" The cat was like, "You again, bitch." All right.

• 19:59Speaker 06

  Oh, you're bad.

• 19:59Laci Mosley?

  I thought you died. Okay, you bring food?

• 20:04Laci Mosley?

  So. Yes.

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• 21:37Laci Mosley?

  And it's time for my favorite portion of the show, historic hoodwink. This is where we will regale Tracy with an interesting con or caper or charlatan. And we'll just get her opinions throughout. And guys, I want you to know, like Tracy was like, I was trying to get Tracy so bad. She was booked and busy. She was unavailable for the Hilaria Baldwin episode because this woman did the Lord's work on Instagram. I've never seen an Instagram dive. So amazing. It was so good. Um, so I tried to bring you some mess, some tea, you know, that's also pretty fun, uh, for us to get into today.

• 22:11Speaker 06

  Okay, I'm excited.

• 22:12Laci Mosley?

  Yes, so today, and guys, y'all tagged me up and down. You emailed me, you texted me, you called like, god damn about this scam. And I got you. So we're talking today about a Japanese man who was arrested for scamming his 35 girlfriends. Which yes, 35, have you heard about this Tracy?

• 22:31Speaker 06

  Wow, no, I have not.

• 22:33Laci Mosley?

  So Takashi Miyagawa was recently arrested in Osaka, Japan for defrauding at least 35 women, all of whom were manipulated into believing that they were each in a serious and monogamous relationship with him.

• 22:47Speaker 06

  How did he have the time?

• 22:48Laci Mosley?

  Wow, that's what I'm saying. Like this, this man, let's just talk about time management because he's a king.

• 22:55Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's not even one, I mean, that's, you can't even do a whole day with someone because 35. Not enough time in the, in the month.

• 23:03Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, you gotta plan some fake vacations for some of them. You definitely gotta have an Excel spreadsheet.

• 23:11Laci Mosley?

  Like you gotta put facts down about them, like this one's mom's name is this, this one's last name is that. We met here, like I would need a whole journal diary assistant.

• 23:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:22Laci Mosley?

  35 people.

• 23:24Speaker 06

  That's a lot.

• 23:25Laci Mosley?

  That's a lot. So Takashi is a 39 year old, part-time, well, I'm sure you are part-time because you can't be full-time with 35 girlfriends. With no fixed address. So he's a part-time worker, he's 39 years old and does not have a fixed address.

• 23:41Speaker 06

  Transient.

• 23:41Laci Mosley?

  Sound transient, sounds scammy to me. I love that. Wherever he is, there he is, and that's where he lives. And I love it.

• 23:53Laci Mosley?

  I love this for him. So Takashi worked for a multi-level marketing company. Wow. He was scammer all around. Of course, of course. I'm proud of him already. So he's mostly sold hydrogen water showerheads and other equipment at company showroom in Kansai. Like, which is like a region in southern Japan. Kansai, probably. So usually he met his victims at the store. He especially targeted older, single women that appeared vulnerable to him and told them that he wanted to get married. Wow. Geez. So you come in here, you just think you're getting a hydro showerhead from a scammy company. And here's Takashi in the corner, trying to sell you his dick and marriage. Wow.

• 24:41Laci Mosley?

  Not only did he manage to attain multiple birthday presents from the unsuspecting women, he also sold them a number of showerheads while maintaining personal profits. So wow, he was getting them from both sides. He was like, oh sis, you so sexy. Let me get your number. Also. Body shower.

• 24:58Speaker 06

  Wait, so showerheads was the MLM? So was he trying to recruit them to be like his downstream? Or downline, whatever it's called?

• 25:05Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the downline. Cause there's like the upline and then the, yeah. Um, I'm not exactly sure because in this multi-level marketing scheme, it seems as if he's on a showroom selling these showerheads. I don't understand how, unless he was trying to rope them into selling showerheads with him. Cause it's not like a showerhead is like, you know, face cream or something where you start buying one thing and then, you know, or like Herbalife where you buy one. Yeah, you buy one shake, you buy more shakes. Usually set when you have one showerhead, you're fine. Yeah. I don't see myself going through many showerheads a year.

• 25:38Laci Mosley?

  I guess it depends on what you're doing with them ladies. Yeah, exactly. Just thinking that. You're out here riding them like Django, then maybe, maybe you do it in the showerhead every few weeks.

• 25:50Laci Mosley?

  But that's an interesting question. Let's see, we can get to the bottom of that. But, um, all the while, his gals, apparently blinded by love, were completely oblivious to each other's existence. Cause he would meet them selling the showerheads, flirt it up, then start a romantic relationship with each one, under the assumption that marriage was in the cards.

• 26:08Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 26:11Laci Mosley?

  And I mean, like, if you're an older woman.

• 26:13Speaker 06

  Was there a ring? Were there rings?

• 26:15Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, see, that's, that's interesting, because I think what he's saying is like, I am looking to get married, which I'm sure as a woman of, you know, a certain age.

• 26:24Speaker 06

  Certain age.

• 26:25Laci Mosley?

  You deal with a lot of men, not either, if, if a man is above a certain age and they're single, they're usually like toxic, unless they're just fresh off a divorce.

• 26:34Speaker 06

  Exactly, like, why aren't you taken?

• 26:37Laci Mosley?

  Like, baby, what's wrong with you? But you could meet lots of single women, um, who are above a certain age, and you'd be like, oh, that bitch is just rich. Like, wow, okay.

• 26:46Speaker 06

  Exactly, exactly. She's like, she's very well educated and is self-sufficient.

• 26:53Laci Mosley?

  She owns several businesses. That's why she's alone. No one wants to love a woman with businesses. How dare you? You, your home isn't your own name, just you? Oh, get out of here, you filthy wench.

• 27:08Laci Mosley?

  Right, so, you know, she's probably on her divorce of whatever trash-ass man she married when she was younger. So, an intentional man, I'm sure is very appealing. Like, that would be appealing to me now.

• 27:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 27:20Laci Mosley?

  I'm like, oh, you're, you're looking for love?

• 27:22Speaker 06

  Totally. I've, I don't think I've met a man, like, ever that was like, I'm open to marriage. I don't know if I've ever met someone that's like, even I've been married.

• 27:34Laci Mosley?

  No, not a bit, he's made it. Listen, we've, we have been conditioned, we have all been scammed by rom-coms and everywhere else to think that men need to be tricked and hit over the head to get married.

• 27:48Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 27:49Laci Mosley?

  Like, it's always the toxic bachelor who's like, hey, you and me, we're friends, let's start fucking. When it's like, no, we've been in love for ten years. Bitch, marry me. And then by the end, you know, he get a concussion, and then somehow he get married. What?

• 28:05Laci Mosley?

  So he's playing a smart game here. I feel so bad. He told each of the girlfriends that his birthday fell on a different date so he could receive oodles of gifts. Not oodles.

• 28:21Laci Mosley?

  I haven't heard oodles as a quantifying term in so long. Oodles of gifts, okay. So according to a Japanese news outlet, MBS News, Takashi told one forty seven year old girlfriend that his birthday was on February twenty second, but said to another forty year old woman that his birthday was in July. Another thirty five year old woman thought Takashi's birthday was in April. His actual birthday is November thirteenth. According to reports, a Scorpio. Scorpio. We should have known. We should have known. Wow. We know how y'all do. Yeah, Scorpios, I'm dragging y'all. Last week I was dragging, what, more than listeners? Everyone will get dragged.

• 29:00Laci Mosley?

  Scorpios, y'all know y'all bad people, come on.

• 29:04Laci Mosley?

  No, I'm playing. One of my best friends is Scorpio, so I love y'all. No, that's Gemini. Right. Listen, my daddy's a Gemini. You know, is he evil? Duality. I don't know. I don't see that half.

• 29:17Laci Mosley?

  I only see nice daddy face, so.

• 29:21Laci Mosley?

  Could he be committing murders? I don't know, you know? What's your sign? I'm a Cancer, which people usually don't get from me. It's either like, I'm a Liber rising, Aries moon. Okay. Yeah, Leo, Venus. Yeah, I would see, I would, I would totally say Aries for you. Yeah. My mom has a very strong personality and she crushed out a lot of the emotion of me at childhood.

• 29:48Laci Mosley?

  I'll never forget the first time I went to New York. We were walking the streets and, you know, I'm twelve, I'm like looking around like, in New York. And my mom like hits me on my shoulder. She goes, stop looking around, you will get us robbed.

• 30:04Laci Mosley?

  She's like, yo, cut it out with all that whimsical shit. You get stuck up. She wasn't wrong, you know? Learn from an early age. Don't look like a tourist. Anywhere you go, guys, don't look like a tourist.

• 30:16Speaker 06

  Totally, cuz there's scams. There's like, like regulars, like the glasses scam, you know, the glasses scam?

• 30:23Laci Mosley?

  No, it wasn't it.

• 30:24Speaker 06

  Oh, if um, somebody like, if you're getting on the subway or getting off the subway or like whatever, like you're not passing someone by on the platform, they like bump into you and then their glasses fall on the ground and they're broken. And the thing is that they've already had broken glasses and they dropped them and then they're like, these were a hundred and forty dollars, like you owe me money. And then they'll like follow you and you know, they they try to get you to pay for the glasses. Yeah, it's a glasses scam.

• 30:52Laci Mosley?

  Guys, you hear that? New York City.

• 30:54Speaker 06

  It's one of the oldest ones.

• 30:55Laci Mosley?

  That sounds like an oldie.

• 30:56Speaker 06

  People still do it, though.

• 30:57Laci Mosley?

  Like, I've definitely seen the like, we trap you into purchasing things, but the glasses being a unique one. Cuz I'm like, yeah, they could be like, these weren't Wabi, these are Chanel or Warby Parker, whoever's got the expensive glasses. Uh, I guess Warby's cheaper. But yeah, that's such a good scam. No, I actually hadn't heard that. Thank you, Tracy. See? Glasses.

• 31:16Speaker 06

  Or a wine bottle, expensive wine bottle, same scam, but they'll deal with a wine bottle and they'll drop it and they're like, that was an eighty dollar bottle of wine. I'm going to someone's house. How could you? Blah blah blah. So, if you can buy, here's the thing, if someone can buy an eighty dollar bottle of wine, they're not taking the subway.

• 31:32Laci Mosley?

  Right. Also, if they can buy an eighty dollar bottle of wine, they better be able to buy another eighty dollar bottle of wine.

• 31:37Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 31:39Laci Mosley?

  I would hope you didn't just was like, this is my last eighty dollars. Give me the cabinet. Like, why? Why?

• 31:49Laci Mosley?

  You shouldn't be purchasing Cabernet if you can't afford it. But um, yeah, that's a good point. And all of those things involve urgency too, cuz then it's like, oh, we're on the subway, like you need to give me this money right now, like. Yeah, so I always say, guys, anywhere you go traveling, like, I look, I love me, I love New York t-shirt like the next bitch. But like, buy it and give it to your Midwestern family when you get home. Don't wear that shit. Don't look like a tourist, because I promise you, people target tourists.

• 32:14Speaker 06

  Hell, yeah.

• 32:15Laci Mosley?

  Especially in big cities. But okay, so, you know, he's a Scorpio. That was a bad joke.

• 32:26Laci Mosley?

  No, it's fine. You know, some people love it, some people hate it. Uh, but they know it's gonna happen. So it's unclear how exactly the scam unraveled, but in February, many of the women banded together to form a victim association. No, these bitches did not incorporate all your motherfucking ass, Takashi.

• 32:41Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 32:43Laci Mosley?

  They made a LLC, they made a sorority.

• 32:47Speaker 06

  Oh my God, they unionized.

• 32:50Laci Mosley?

  They unionized. They got, they got on the picket line and they said, no more Takashi. No six nine, gotta go. Oh, yes, I love this. See, this is why you can't deal. You were dealing with bad bitches who obviously had at least a little bit of coin and they're older. Oh, they about to mighty morph in, okay?

• 33:10Speaker 06

  They've seen some stuff.

• 33:11Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, they say assemble.

• 33:15Laci Mosley?

  And I love that for them.

• 33:19Laci Mosley?

  Once they had gathered enough evidence, so they went to get evidence. I love this, I love this. I want the movie. I want this movie. I'mma, I'mma get involved. So, once they gathered enough evidence, they went to the police and reported him. The police report claimed that they had been defrauded of a hundred thousand Japanese yen. Almost a thousand dollars. Okay, it sounded like a lot more in yen, but um, okay, one grand?

• 33:41Speaker 06

  Yeah, it did, it did.

• 33:42Laci Mosley?

  Y'all going after this man for a stack?

• 33:44Speaker 06

  A thousand dollars is, is that necessarily fraud?

• 33:47Laci Mosley?

  A collective stack?

• 33:53Laci Mosley?

  He got all of y'all and in combination, it was one thousand dollars?

• 33:57Speaker 06

  It's like, maybe like, wait, what is thirty-five into a thousand? I'm not like, good at math.

• 34:03Laci Mosley?

  Oh, right. Yeah, what's, math, math.

• 34:08Speaker 06

  No, could it be twenty-eight dollars?

• 34:11Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 34:12Speaker 06

  It's twenty-eight dol- twenty-eight fifty-seven.

• 34:16Laci Mosley?

  So I guess some of the birthday gifts were cheaper than others. Cause I'm like, y'all, y'all really made an association, gathered evidence. You probably spent more time than you did money trying to take down Takashi.

• 34:29Speaker 06

  Yeah, but also he's not that efficient of a scammer if he only got that much out of them.

• 34:35Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, no, I mean, maybe he also sold them some shower heads and they're not computing.

• 34:39Speaker 06

  They must have been pissed.

• 34:41Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, cuz I'm.

• 34:41Speaker 06

  He must have just really played with their emotions.

• 34:43Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, this sounds like more of like a revenge of pettiness than like they actually want the monetary. Yeah, it's a love scam. So the gifts varied from electronics to clothing, including an almost $280 suit. So some of them probably paid more and I bet you those girls were the ones leading the way. Like whoever paid for that suit was like, oh no, girls, we're gonna get him. You're gonna get your 28 back, you're gonna get your 1099, I'm gonna get my 28.

• 35:10Laci Mosley?

  Everyone's getting paid, okay? Oh, y'all went to McDonald's and he made you pick it up? Great, 480, we put it in, okay? We're gonna get it back.

• 35:19Laci Mosley?

  There's someone petty at the helm of this and I love that for them. So in an interview with MBS News, one of Takashi's victims said that he had told her that he was serious about their relationship and wanted to be with her forever.

• 35:33Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 35:34Laci Mosley?

  This is dangerous. You never know, somebody could snap, you could be catching somebody on their last. Some people have been fucked over so much in life that you know, you might've caught them on their last straw. And then next thing you know, they're following you or, you know, trying to harm you. This is not wise.

• 35:50Speaker 06

  No.

• 35:51Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, so one woman told the news that he kissed her on the second date. She said, I told him, I don't want to do that unless you're someone who wants to get married or really be with me in the future. Takashi responded, I'm serious, I'm gonna be with you for the rest of my life. Yo, this man is a sociopath.

• 36:11Speaker 06

  I feel like that's when you know, that's when you know some, a man is lying to you if he says that on the second date.

• 36:18Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 36:20Speaker 06

  Men don't. That there's something wrong with him. He's either a liar or he's a total whack job.

• 36:27Laci Mosley?

  Right. You I don't even think you want somebody to want you for the rest of their life on the second date. They don't know nothing about you.

• 36:32Speaker 06

  No, no, I'm still like, I'm still not me on the second date. I'm like dating me. I'm like the I'm second date me, which is like, you know, a little bit drunk and like I smell nice and I look good.

• 36:47Laci Mosley?

  Right. You're right. Because let's not lie about it. Dating is a scam and it's stuff. We all show up as our best selves. And then, you know, once you're like four months in, you know, you can be like, yeah, women do fart. I lied. Um.

• 36:59Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, I mean, my boobs are I'm wearing like a push up bra. My boobs don't look like that when I take my bra off.

• 37:06Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, my boobs don't normally touch my earlobes. Like, you know, for the date.

• 37:13Laci Mosley?

  You're absolutely right. And, you know, men do it as well. But if someone's coming on that strong, coming in that hot, that's too hot.

• 37:20Speaker 06

  No, it's something wrong.

• 37:22Laci Mosley?

  So photographs published by the network show Takashi with several different women at restaurants and at a park. In one image, two small cakes can be seen with the message, happy birthday. Oh, let's see that video. We got a video where we got photos of him at multiple tables with multiple birthday cakes. Wow, Takashi.

• 37:42Speaker 06

  Multiple cakes.

• 37:44Laci Mosley?

  You just really love cake.

• 37:46Speaker 06

  Is he? Yeah. Is he always asking for cakes because he likes it so much?

• 37:50Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, because I have birthdays with people and I don't necessarily have bring them cake. Like, I don't think that's necessary.

• 37:56Speaker 06

  Like, oh, this round's on me.

• 37:58Laci Mosley?

  Right. Let's see. Let's click on this video and see what these cakes look like. And I'll post this video to the page. So they found the man. So we're watching this video and they're following this man around. He's masked up and he looked like he didn't want any attention. Now we're looking at all these pictures of him with all these different women.

• 38:17Speaker 06

  Cakes.

• 38:17Laci Mosley?

  With cakes.

• 38:18Speaker 06

  He looks young. How old do you think he is?

• 38:21Laci Mosley?

  He's thirty nine.

• 38:23Speaker 06

  Okay, so.

• 38:24Laci Mosley?

  He must be moisturizing or this video must be grainy.

• 38:32Laci Mosley?

  One of the two. Okay, so he's got photo, he's doing selfies with these ladies. Yeah. He's got, oh my gosh, all these women have so many photos of him on their phones. Wow. Look at all these cakes, like they're blurred because you can't see the women's faces, but I'm, I'm seeing the cakes coming through. That's wild. Maybe he loves cake. Maybe he just loves cake. This is a lot of work for cake.

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• 40:26Laci Mosley?

  Also like, why are you kissing these women if you don't want to be with them? So he's on the dating apps. This is how he's meeting them too. Oh, this one says happy birthday.

• 40:33Speaker 06

  Wigs? Yeah.

• 40:35Laci Mosley?

  It's giving wig. Is he wearing a wig?

• 40:37Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 40:39Speaker 06

  I've, it feels like a wig to me. It's a little bit like Diane Warren's hair.

• 40:43Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 40:44Speaker 06

  Like Ghislaine Maxwell-ish.

• 40:46Laci Mosley?

  It is Ghislaine. He's giving us the Ghislaine haircut. That's absolutely what's happening. He's also not really cute enough for this. So these women probably were just like, look, at this point, I'm looking for personality.

• 41:00Speaker 06

  He was in a three-piece suit, so, you know, I guess that's like, he had like, style. I wonder if that was a suit she bought him?

• 41:09Laci Mosley?

  Oh, wow, because it does look nice. And for selling them shower heads, it doesn't seem like he's coming up that much. Huh.

• 41:15Speaker 06

  Wait, this, all right, so this, this shot is like, he's on a date with a woman and her face is blurred. Is this a sting operation? Because it's like someone else is filming it in the restaurant.

• 41:24Laci Mosley?

  I think this might be when the ladies got together. Because I'm like, how do they have a whole video? So, this is wild. They started chasing this man. He started running away. This is the reporter trying to talk to him. Look, he running, oh, look, he running, oh. He going from the left to the right. Okay, wait, this reporter got some moves on him. He's some football moves. Okay, now they chasing him. He is fully doing a light jog. Okay, okay. Oh, and now he's running. Oh, he's running away.

• 41:58Speaker 06

  Fully sprinting. Wow, the reporter is like, able to keep up. The cameraman must be having a hard time.

• 42:05Laci Mosley?

  Ah, it's a pretty steady focus for that. Okay, we can stop watching it. I'll post this video for you guys to see. But can we just talk about, uh, the Japanese news, MBS? Like, y'all got some athletes over there.

• 42:16Speaker 06

  Right?

• 42:18Speaker 06

  Fast.

• 42:19Laci Mosley?

  Normally, when somebody says they don't want to do a news story in America, you don't see like, the reporter go full Usain Bolt and just be jogging behind this man.

• 42:28Speaker 06

  No, not even like Help Me Howard or whatever, one of like, those kinds of shows are where they like, try to, like, that had a real Help Me Howard vibe or like...

• 42:36Laci Mosley?

  Billy on the street, but if Billy Akner ran track?

• 42:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 42:44Laci Mosley?

  I'm proud of that reporter. I'm proud of that reporter. He's like, no, you go talk to us. You go talk to us. Takashi. That was excellent. Excellent reporting. I hope you're getting some awards, King. So this bizarre video, uh, basically Twitter was amazed by this crime, right? One Twitter user wrote, are you aiming for a Guinness World Record? Another one said, he's a skillful and diligent, um, man, what a great talent. It's not possible to do this unless you can remember personalities, names, jobs, and preferences of 35 people. That's true. And one tweet said, with 35 people, if he was seeing one person a day, that means he could only meet one woman once every 35 days. If he met two women or two to three women a day, then he could see them every two weeks.

• 43:27Laci Mosley?

  Did he treat dating like juggling or a different part-time job? Yes, he did.

• 43:32Speaker 06

  I can't even remember, like, I can't remember things about like my, my really like great, my really good friends, you know, that I've known for so long. Like I get things jumbled in my head. They're like, dating 35 people is like, that's a nightmare.

• 43:48Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, you have to have something wrong with you, something at least that delights in tricking people, which that's the thing, like a lot of scammers, people think like, oh, it's just about the money. And they make a lot of money and they don't quit. And people wonder why they don't pull out the game. And I'm like, cause it was never about the money. Like, some people are really passionate about fraud.

• 44:08Speaker 06

  I feel like he was probably like a really good texter. And I bet that he just like was texting constantly with these women. And he didn't want to be ever like alone with his thoughts. Like he just wanted to always be like having someone to respond to him. Like that might have been like a component of it. Yeah.

• 44:26Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. Cause what he got out of it, yeah. And then that kind of makes the birthday thing make sense. Cause it's not like the gifts that he got equated to that much money, but it is that attention. It's your birthday, like almost, what, at least once a month, twice a month.

• 44:38Speaker 06

  He wants them to sing for him and he wants to blow out the candles. He wants everyone in the restaurant to look.

• 44:46Laci Mosley?

  Y'all, Takashi never had a birthday. That's why he's like this.

• 44:51Laci Mosley?

  I'm trying to give him a sob story.

• 44:52Speaker 06

  That's the backstory. Yeah, that's what it was.

• 44:55Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, no cake for you, Takashi. Well, they're coming down on him. They're trying to punish him with some kind of, you know, I don't know how this breaks the law, but perhaps in Japan it does because the authorities are after him. So, uh, you know, we'll see how that develops.

• 45:08Speaker 06

  Oh, my God, it'd be incredible if it's illegal to lie to women in Japan. Like, what did you imagine?

• 45:16Laci Mosley?

  Every man in the US will be under the jail, like.

• 45:19Speaker 06

  That's what I love about Mariah Carey when she sued James Packard for, for wasting her time. For fifty million dollars and he's settled with her.

• 45:29Laci Mosley?

  Her time is worth that much money. It really is.

• 45:34Speaker 06

  She relocated her family.

• 45:36Laci Mosley?

  She uprooted her life.

• 45:38Speaker 06

  I mean, that's a big expense. Yeah.

• 45:40Laci Mosley?

  And I mean, next to Jesus Christ, who are we celebrating during Christmas? That's a whole, you know what I mean? Like, she owns the holiday. She's a very busy woman, you know?

• 45:49Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 45:50Laci Mosley?

  Honestly, she might be making more money than Jesus on, on Christmas, like.

• 45:55Speaker 06

  Mariah is the reason for the season now.

• 45:57Laci Mosley?

  Right. So I applauded her for that. I, I, I wish I could sue men for wasting my time.

• 46:03Speaker 06

  Oh, my God, me too. I, but only I don't date guys who are billionaires, unfortunately.

• 46:09Laci Mosley?

  Right. Not yet. I'm gonna, I'm gonna start trying.

• 46:13Speaker 06

  I interviewed the rapper Trina once, like fifteen years ago, and I was like, Trina, how do I meet guys that have a lot of money? And she told me that I need to go to parties on boats.

• 46:24Laci Mosley?

  Wow.

• 46:25Speaker 06

  That's how you meet guys with a lot of money. Go to a party on a boat.

• 46:29Laci Mosley?

  You heard it here first, guys, and I'm about to be on every boat party now. Okay, with my, with my best, my best fashions and lashes, trying to catch me a billionaire. To ruin the planet with. I fully shift. I'm no longer an ethical person. I'm like, look, guys. I don't know what to tell you. Billionaires are hurting too, guys. We're hurting too.

• 46:53Laci Mosley?

  Full monster. And it's time for scammer of the week. This is where we highlight one charlatan that we just think is worthy of our praise. Maybe not, Tracy, maybe we'll hate them. I'm not sure. We'll see. So scammer of the week is Seth Andrew, who served in the Obama administration and stole more than $200,000 to help him buy a $2 million Manhattan apartment, prosecutors said.

• 47:13Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 47:15Laci Mosley?

  So Seth was a former senior advisor in the Obama administration. He was arrested on charges that he stole more than $200,000 from schools that he founded. So he founded the schools and then he founded the money from them.

• 47:29Speaker 06

  He founded where they kept it.

• 47:31Laci Mosley?

  Right. He founded where they kept the money.

• 47:35Laci Mosley?

  You know, and he discovered it. He took it with him, you know? He just made a discovery. So he used that money to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for the Manhattan apartment. Seth is 42 and he's accused of taking money from bank accounts controlled by democracy prep public schools, which teaches mostly low income students of color in New York and other states and used it to purchase a $2 million apartment. All right, Seth, well fuck with your ass. If you had stole this from the gossip girl bitches up on east, you know, on the Upper East Side, if this was a XOXO gossip scam, I would have been like, sure, they don't need all that money. But you're stealing from low income schools.

• 48:13Speaker 06

  That already don't have money? Like, what? I just wanna, I just wanna put it out there that like, and this will sound, I don't know if this sounds bad or whatever, but like a $2 million apartment in New York City? That's not, that's like a, that's like a two bedroom.

• 48:28Laci Mosley?

  Right. It's not like.

• 48:30Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's not worth it. It's not worth like going to jail for. It's not like, it's not like a mansion. It's not like you can't even like, you know, fully have a family there. It's, it probably doesn't even have a view, depending on where it is. You know, it might even be in a walk up.

• 48:45Laci Mosley?

  I'm glad you said that because it's, you know, for those of you guys who are listening, you're not living in New York City, or you're not living in Los Angeles, California, like, the housing market here is so astronomical that I've seen apartments that were 600 square feet for $2 million. And I was like, oh bitch, you are playing with me. So, this is not a lot for the area that he's living in. And it's also like, bro, what makes you think you deserve to live in a $2 million Manhattan apartment that you can't fucking afford?

• 49:14Speaker 06

  Yeah, that just means he's like, feels like he's too good enough, he's, he's, he's too good to like, you know, live in a studio or whatever. He's like, I need to, I need to level up to a two-bedroom, then I need to own it.

• 49:28Laci Mosley?

  Right. He's like, I worked for the Obama administration, so I deserve these things. And this-

• 49:33Speaker 06

  What did he do for the Obama administration, does it say?

• 49:36Laci Mosley?

  Other than crime, he, uh, helped create the network of charter schools in 2005, and he left the network in 2013 for a job at the US Department of Education.

• 49:46Speaker 06

  So he sold out?

• 49:48Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, so he kind of, you know, went to a bigger job. When he worked at the White House, he continued to be paid by the charter school network. So he did all this robbing before he took the White House job, but then continued to be on payroll for the charter school network afterwards. Um, he used his former association with the charter schools to steal $218,000 by using his email address affiliated with the schools to email a blank employee and convince them that he was still associated with the school, which he was not. FBI agent William F. Sweeney, Jr., what a name. Said, William F. Sweeney, Jr. Uh, I don't know, are you a scammer, William F. Sweeney? What kind of name is that? So, he said, "Today, Andrew himself is learning one of life's most basic lessons.

• 50:33Laci Mosley?

  What doesn't belong to you is not yours for the taking." Okay, FBI, let's not get it all preachy, y'all motherfuckers are shady as fuck, like, come on now.

• 50:44Laci Mosley?

  It's like if the Klan caught like a bomber and was like, now what he learned today is hurting innocent people is wrong. It's like, no, you're still the Klan. Like, come on out.

• 50:54Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 50:55Laci Mosley?

  So, according to the Charis School's website, Seth Andrew founded Democracy Prep in 2005 to ensure that every single student will work hard to go to college and change the world. The phrase "change the world" is on the back of the yellow baseball cap that Seth made a part of his signature look. And now we have a picture of him with his baseball cap. Now, here's what I will say. I haven't seen the front of Seth's head, but I can tell he's a white man. Uh, he's got a full head of hair. How tall is he? Cause you know, white man plus tall and full head of hair equals charismatic.

• 51:32Speaker 06

  But I don't know if he's wearing hats all the time. It might be, there might be, uh, he might be receding at the top.

• 51:37Laci Mosley?

  You think he might be receding? Okay, cause it's very thick to be receding.

• 51:41Speaker 06

  Sometimes, no, sometimes guys have like really thick hair on the bottom and then it, there's just like nothing up here. Or it's like very, very thin, or like they have like, it starts to go back and like the two triangles.

• 51:53Laci Mosley?

  Oh, yeah, the two little, yeah, where they drive backwards. Yeah. Which guys, look, hair comes, goes, comes and goes for women too. Be proud of your ball. Just shine it up. Mr. Clean's sexy as fuck. You don't gotta hold on too tight. Um, but I think the bigger point of this picture is like, he's wearing this cap that says "change the world", and it's kind of got a blurred out background of like black and brown kids. Like you can tell, you can see their skin colors. It's just so gross to me that this man, and this is the thing about liberals and the thing that we're no longer being scammed by this liberal thing. Like, we know there's racism on both sides. It's a lot more on the Republican side, but let's not act like the Democrats aren't doing bullshit as well. We got Nancy Pelosi thanking George Floyd for sacrificing his life like he Jesus. George Floyd wasn't Jesus.

• 52:37Laci Mosley?

  He didn't want to sacrifice his life for this country, for y'all raggedy bitches, like. Please don't make him Jesus. No black person alive today is trying to be like, oh, one day I hope that I sacrifice my life for freedom to freedom. No.

• 52:50Speaker 06

  Oh, my God. Yeah.

• 52:52Laci Mosley?

  It was just a disgusting thing to say, but you see it again with this guy. He's supposed to be helping black and brown children. Instead, he's stealing from them so he could get a nice apartment that he can't afford.

• 53:02Speaker 06

  The opportunist. I feel like the scam is part of the hat. I mean, the I mean, the hat is part of the scam because he has a hat on and every single one of these pictures, he's absolutely balding. He's he's hiding.

• 53:13Laci Mosley?

  He's hat fishing us.

• 53:15Speaker 06

  He's hat fishing?

• 53:17Laci Mosley?

  Because who wears a hat with a suit? Like, he's trying to make the hat cute, but you're right. What are you in this suit for? Are you wearing this damn hat? Yeah, we haven't seen a photo of his naked head yet. Where's your raw head, Seth?

• 53:31Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 53:32Laci Mosley?

  Look at it. Look at it. He got a raw head out here. Wow. This man always got a head condom on.

• 53:39Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 53:45Laci Mosley?

  Well, Seth, we don't fuck with you. And that brings us to the end of another episode of Scam

• 53:54Laci Mosley?

  on the words hat condom.

• 53:59Laci Mosley?

  It's just perfectly fine with me. So Tracy, we always ask people on the show, where do you want to be found? Where do you want people to find you?

• 54:07Speaker 06

  Oh, you can find me on Instagram or Twitter. It's Tracie Morrissey. I'm Tracie Morrissey on everything. T R A C I E. I also recently launched a web store. It's called Pipe Dreams, pipedreams fun. I sell, you know, a selection of smoking accessories. It's highly, oh, thanks, highly curated and, um, and other, you know, fun things. I have a line of corporate swag mugs where I sell mugs with the logo of different corporations from movies that I like, like, um, like Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. We have G A W, uh, G A W, which is where, you know, Rose Works, Rose Lindy, yeah.

• 54:52Speaker 06

  Trask Industries, it's where she gets a job in Working Girl. More Max is from Big Business. So, um, yeah, there's, and there's more coming out too, so.

• 55:02Laci Mosley?

  That's so dope. That's so cute. I like that. That's very kitschy. Yes. Well, guys, as always, you can find us at Scam Goddess Pod on all platforms. If you'd like to write into the show, snitch on your friends and family, please do not write in trying to have opinions to me. I don't read opinion pieces in my inbox. I just want y'all to know I delete them. Just email me about the scams, okay? Uh, [email protected]. And if you want to find me, D I V A L A C I D, Velacy on all platforms. And guys, The Black Lady Sketch Show is out, season two, HBO, HBO Max. Watch The Con every Wednesday. I'm also on that joint. Um, and Icarly will be out, uh, I believe, summer, June? Yeah, I'm not gonna say no hard days on that. Um, but guys, yeah, thank you for the support. Love you guys. Congregation, stay Schemin.

• 55:50Laci Mosley?

  Scam Goddess is starring me, duh. Scam Goddess, AKA Lacey Mosley. Scam Goddess is produced by Judith Cargill and engineered by Marina Baies, with research by Sherilyn Vera. Stay Schemin.

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