Fyre Fest of BookTok with Ashley Ray

BookTok used to be the place where readers went to argue about their favorite authors, ship the gays, and learn which creatures their friends were sexually attracted to, and now, like all good things, it's being used to scam. Writer and comedian Ashley Ray joins Laci to discuss the Fyre Fest of book link-ups. A shared cabin, no food, in the middle of the wilderness could be a good time if properly funded; instead, it left a pack of women and one very nice male author hungry and feeling ripped off. Will there be justice or a second round of schemes? SOCIALS: Ashley Ray: @theashleyray https://www.instagram.com/theashleyray/?hl=en Laci Mosley: @divalaci WE'RE ON YOUTUBE: Join us on YouTube! See Laci, the guests, and fraudsters: https://www.youtube.com/@ScamGoddess SOURCES: https://www.tiktok.com/@_britunfiltered/video/7654234457108450591?_r=1&_t=ZT-98fYoRoIcmb https://www.tiktok.com/@_britunfiltered/video/7654234457108450591?_r=1&_t=ZT-98fYoRoIcmb https://www.today.com/popculture/books/what-is-booktok-meaning-rcna70362 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20kEAinag0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7_h_sFVyQ See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:01Laci Mosley?

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• 0:30Laci Mosley?

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• 1:01Laci Mosley?

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• 3:34Laci Mosley?

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• 4:22Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, a.k.a. Scam Goddess, back with another installment of the comedy podcast all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. Sometimes we love them, sometimes we hate them. One thing's for sure, we probably will laugh at them, but never at the victims, okay? Mm-hmm. It's hard out here, for everybody. So, congregation, you already know I'm very what? Yes, excited, elated, thrilled, stimulated? That's okay, that one, the last one doesn't feel right on it. But today, we have a returning guest. We have not only a board member of the congregation, a deaconess, also a youth pastor, but only once a month for the queers, okay?

• 5:04Laci Mosley?

  Stand-up, TV-writing, and pop culture-takes icon. And you've seen her on Netflix's Funny AF with Kevin Hart, HBO Max, BET, Hulu. Just turn your TV on at this point, okay? And Adult Swim. You can also see her in live shows. You can get her honest script notes and a craft table for good causes. She's got a lot of those going on, too. Love that. Do a lot of crafting. Congregation, yes, please go ahead. Stand up on your feet, stand up in your seat for our returning, the woman who helped me take down Shaun King.

• 5:41Laci Mosley?

  We have the Ashley Ray back on the show. Hello, thank you for having me back. Thank you for being here. I am so happy to be here, congregation. I'm so happy to have you. I know the congregation's thrilled. I mean, never before have I managed to take a scammer off the internet. And not, like, just thoroughly destroyed. Like, every platform, he tried to do the, "I'm gonna run to Facebook, I'm gonna run to the..." And they just, every platform, found him. He said, "I'm a turned Muslim." Yep, he even tried to do that one. And then he was Kareem Abdul-Jazza, like, yes. And we had fun names for that, too. Yeah, like, I don't delight in anyone's... That's not true, there's some people I want to suffer. I have some shodden fraud for some very well-deserving people.

• 6:24Laci Mosley?

  But I was glad that we got him off the grift train. He needed to be vanquished. Yeah. And he was, he was just pure evil. Pure, pure evil. And these times of, like, oh, gosh, would you imagine the times of Nolan Wells and Tasha and all these, you know, these black, you know, people that were advocating for these victims? He would be taking advantage. He would be cleaning up right now. Making so much money. Oh, my goodness, he'd be out there with Nancy Grace, trying to do his thing. Oh, he definitely will be with Nancy. He will throw on a nasty robe and be right next door. And I love Nancy, but, you know, she doesn't really have the best, like, judgment. I feel like she'd go with his grift and she'd be like, "And I have this black man here helping me," and it'd be like, Nancy. He is a black man, guys, and he cares about us. He cares about this, and you know I care. He cares about this, because y'all know I care. Yeah, yeah, you're right, she would. She would.

• 7:09Laci Mosley?

  That's the thing, like, and not to go too deep into that, but I do see people talking about, you know, because Nancy Grace has been on the case for a minute. Yeah. And black people love us, Nancy Grace. I love Nancy. Sorry. I love Nancy Grace. And then people were like, "She's been problematic." And, you know, there's been people in the past that she's done this, that, and the third. I'm like, "Yeah, yeah." But when are we gonna stop looking for perfect heroes, okay? Like, MLK wouldn't have been able to get shit done if he was, if he was trying to have a dream right now. Right, no. Y'all be like, "How inclusive was this dream?" Yeah, how inclusive was it? You said you liked a white woman one time, so I don't know, and it's just... Yeah, yeah, we heard she was philandering with the white women. And it's like, eh, we... So, I'm a, you know, Nancy, she's still coming after Casey Anthony. She's still getting the work done, she doesn't give up. Foot on people's necks.

• 7:53Laci Mosley?

  I don't know where she finds the time. She must be spreading her toes, like, one toe for everybody's neck, I don't know. She started, like, a YouTube show, and she is, I swear, on it 24/7, talking about crimes I've never heard of. Like, she is in your local 911 files, like, "Did y'all know somebody stole something from Miss Susan's porch?" And we're gonna get them. We're gonna get them. Yeah, she's gonna get them. And I love that for her, and I love that for us. You know what, I'm with it. So, Ashley, it's been a minute since you've been on. And I want to know, like, what's your relationship with scams right now? I mean, the zeitgeist, how do you feel, like, pretty, literally, anything? I mean, I just heard about a scam that I actually was so impressed with. Oh. Uh, this woman, I want to say Florida. Odds are Florida.

• 8:38Laci Mosley?

  They're right behind Georgia. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, this woman went door-to-door claiming to be a pill recycling center from the city. And she was there to throw away people's old pills. Okay. And she made... Yeah, just door-to-door, just something the city's offering to collect your old medication so we can properly dispose of it. She made it through four neighborhoods before somebody called the police, like, "Is the city actually doing this?" Before she finally met a hater. Yeah, before finally someone was like, "I don't think that's a thing." I, like, someone said, "Let me Google this." And then, why did you have to snitch on her, though? Right, you're being a hater. What bad is she actually doing by taking people's prescriptions?

• 9:21Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, it's like, if you gave it to her, were you really scammed? You thought it was trash, you were like, "Oh, she's gonna recycle it." Exactly. A way she did recycle it, herself. To herself. Yeah. Isn't that reusing? That's, yeah, that's good. It was like goodwill, but for your medicine cabinet. But for your medicine cabinet. I do wonder, like, how successful it was? Like, was she just mostly getting, like, Valtrix? Like, what were these people giving her? Well, you're not giving that away. True. They need that. They need that, that, yeah. Otherwise, how they gonna ride bikes and commercials? Good point, yeah. They need that one. They're gonna hold on to that. Yeah, but I feel like she's probably looking for, like, opioids and things like that. And like, maybe back in the day, she might have gotten me with that one, because, like, opioids make me sick. And I remember, I mean, they don't over-prescribe them as much as they did when I was a kid. Yeah.

• 10:06Laci Mosley?

  But like, I remember I got a tooth pool, and they was giving me, you know, like, black tar heroin. And I'm like, "I can't." I had some dental stuff, I still have, like, pills they gave me. I would have given them to her. Right. Like, take that Demerol, I don't know. Right, and they said don't flush it down the toilet, so... Yeah, so it's just been sitting here, it's three years expired. It's like batteries. Everybody's like, "Don't dispose of them this way." And I'm like, "What then, how?" "What do I do?" And so then I'm supposed to say, like, "She's in trouble for coming to take my batteries?" Honestly, I feel like that was big junture, working in cahoots with big batteries. And Big Allen Ranch. And they were like, we just go, you need to have a random place to throw out stuff that is like, think, or you need to have a random place to put stuff that we told you you can't throw away. Yep, just this, a junk drawer. That's what it is. You just leave all these chemicals in this one drawer with some moosh change and some ketchup packets.

• 10:50Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, and some little pills that you're like, I don't know, that fell down there. Right. And then an angel comes, offers to take something, clean up for you, gets arrested. Yeah, that's bullshit. Cause also, how you gonna arrest me for just like, you gave it to me? Yeah. How, that's, that's like if I go into a bank and I'm like, instead of be like, this is a stick, I'm like, can I have some of the money I got back there? If you give it to me, how is that a robbery? How is that a robbery? So, I'm on her side. Yeah, I guess it's like the whole having a prescription that's not prescribed to you. Yeah, sure, and, but, you know, yeah. But that can happen sometimes. Also, I love the psychology of this, of she was just like, as long as I, and this works. If you, if you give people one valid excuse, or if you have some kind of indicator of power on you, people will listen.

• 11:34Laci Mosley?

  So like, her thing was, the city. She said she came from the city. And she even made a little badge. Oh. It's done. It was done. Period. Period. You know, give her the pills. Give, yeah. Give her the pills. Keep those pills, Florida. Free her. I'm gonna make a t-shirt, free her and the pills. She better walk out with jiggling, jangling, with all of her wares. Okay, cause you know, she just got some Advil and stuff. Nobody was giving her anything serious. Next thing we know, she gonna have a little pushcart like, let that man come to the neighborhood like, This is what I got, y'all.

• 12:05Laci Mosley?

  You got some restless leg?

• 12:09Laci Mosley?

  You can't take a piss? I got pills for everything. She got everything. She got it. We might need la farmacia in the neighborhood. So, I see an entrepreneur. Right. The way these times are trying? Yeah. I don't even think they're trying anymore. Like, time's trying us. I think that's over. I think we're being done. Yeah, we're done. The times are doing. We, we've tried. We've been trieded. We're tried. We're done. We're troged. Yeah.

• 12:31Laci Mosley?

  They're doing now. They stopped trying and they're just doing it to us. Yeah. Oh my goodness. I, I like the entrepreneurial, like, entrepreneurship here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously it is illegal to have other people's prescriptions.

• 12:43Laci Mosley?

  I don't, you can like impersonate a city worker. Probably don't do that. But if it's not a real position, was she really impersonating, or was she inventing? See, see. Again, I'm on her side. Yeah. I gotta be on her side. It can't be. I didn't do that to no one. I owned that identity before. There was no pill recycler from the city.

• 13:07Laci Mosley?

  This is not a title. She didn't steal a job from somebody else. There was no pill recycler. She created jobs. In a, in a recessive job market. Give her the keys to the city. Right. I, I love this woman. Yeah, let's get her an infrastructure. Don't put that lady in prison. This is, that's what I hate about, um, the incarceration system sometimes, is we're locking up our greatest talents. Instead of giving them the education and the resources to put their work to good, you're putting them in a cage and then turning them into, you know, a feral person who's just like, trying to survive, which is so fucked. And it's like, come on, just like, give her a real job with the city.

• 13:39Laci Mosley?

  I get sad seeing so many electrical engineers, so many scientists. I'm like, what do you mean, you got a, a, a flatiron, you cut the cord, split the wires out of shit and figured out how to put it into a trash can with water to make it boil? Yeah. They're, they're geniuses in there. Yeah. Uh, it's like that guy who was like the fake dentist and he like actually did a bunch of people's teeth for real and it was like, well, at a certain point, he's doing it. Yeah, but teeth, teeth, teeth is one of those that can't, there's certain professions you can't do. Like, you can do hair. If somebody was like, oh, I do hair for a living. I'd be like, yes, that makes sense. If someone was like, I do open heart surgery. I'd be like, what do you mean you do that? Yeah. Are you a cardiologist?

• 14:24Laci Mosley?

  I do teeth. Get up my Instagram to book. Bones, they're bones that connect to nerves and your brain and your heart. And I do suppose he messed up a few people, which is why he got caught. Yeah, which like, you know, death can come with doing a bone wrong. Yeah, yeah. Like, no one's dying, I mean, most people aren't dying from bad hairdos, but. But he could mess your mouth up. Yeah, but. But it's like, just send him to dental school. Let him live the dream. Yeah, let him go do dentist for real. There was an autistic black man, um, who was arrested, um, I believe in New York because he loved trains so much. And so he kept like, getting in the train and driving the train. And he was driving, had that bitch on schedule? On schedule? Was stopping at all the stops? Everybody was like, he's like, an amazing worker and everybody likes that he does a good job. He gets all the like.

• 15:09Laci Mosley?

  Just train him. What do you mean, put him in jail? He needs to be doing his job. Like, maybe more of us need to just start walking into the job that we're supposed to be at.

• 15:17Laci Mosley?

  Just do. Just go do it. They're just doing it. You just go do it. At this point, education is so expensive. It feels like try. It feels like you need to just go do. Just go do it. Mm-hmm. They let you represent yourself in law, in, in the court of law? Why can't you start representing some other people? Like, I've been watching so many videos of people defending themselves in court and they're all insane. And it's my favorite thing in the world to watch. I bet it is good. There's just so many YouTube videos and it's people just trying to argue with these judges and they're like, see, so first of all, what you need to understand is I'm a sovereign person and country outside of the United States. So you legally cannot even talk to me in this court of law. And the judge is just like,

• 16:01Laci Mosley?

  contempt. Put, put the person in jail right now. I don't know, they're making a lot of sense to me. Who decides what's sovereign and what's not? Yeah. People? Why can't? Why can't I be people? Yeah. Why can't my body be its own country? Yeah.

• 16:14Laci Mosley?

  I, I, I've been talking about this a lot. I'm just like, when, how much time has to pass for me to do the thing that you, that we all just accepted was a thing? Yeah. So, why can't I be sovereign? Why can't I just be a sovereign person?

• 16:25Laci Mosley?

  Why can't I rain over something? That actually is what this person did. They like ran over a bunch of people at a fair. Okay, I said rain. And then you said ranch. I was like, oh my god, have you seen this one? I was inside and I feel very fed up. Okay, yeah. Especially adult, you're not sovereign citizens. We don't support that. Don't support that. I would've used my dominion to run people over. Okay, I wanna run a country, not the pedestrians over. Why would you do that?

• 17:03Laci Mosley?

  Okay, uh, so a retraction. He lost the case. He did lose the court. He's in prison. He's in prison. He should be in somebody's, somebody's clink just for a little bit, you know, for the, for the vehicular, uh, yeah, for the vehiculars. That's what was wrong with him. Okay, well, let's move into our next segment here. Historic hoodwinks. This is where I will regale Ashley with a famous con group of criminals. We don't know yet. Maybe we love them, maybe we hate them. We'll see all throughout. Okay, so what we're talking about today is very near and dear to my heart as a someone who is an authoress.

• 17:48Laci Mosley?

  If you're not watching, I just posed next to my book, uh, very strangely.

• 17:53Laci Mosley?

  Which is a great advertisement for the book, cause there's a lot of strange things going on in there. It's a good book. You know, as an authoress, I, I, I, I've learned a lot about the book community, um, as of late, as joining it. It's intense. It's very intense. Oh, the, yeah. I have a book event tomorrow and I'm a little scared. It's scary. Yeah. I, I see it mostly on threads. That's where all the book people went when Twitter ended. And I just see all the authors over there fighting. It seems that there's just always drama in the book world. Uh, it's a lot. And I love drama from the periphery. Yeah. So it's like, I'm in the book world enough that I understand like some phrases, some things about publishing and some blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blahs. But you know, I'm not deep enough to where I have like beef yet with somebody. Yeah. Oh, you don't want that.

• 18:37Laci Mosley?

  I don't know. I got an event tomorrow. Maybe I create some. Maybe you make some. It, cause it feels like spicy. You know what I mean? Yeah, just like, go post something about Lindy West or something. I don't, just, there you go. Like, I want people to read me down and like use the word sanguine. Like, let's. Yeah. Yeah, you know what I mean? And then I would be sanguine in the moment. And if you know, you know. Now, she rains.

• 18:59Laci Mosley?

  That's a real flex. People need to start flexing with their education, okay? Y'all wanna flex with cars and shoes and bags and all, just like pull out a real thick ass book. Yeah. Yeah, drop some big ass words on me, okay? Start saying verbose and loquacious instead of they talk too much, you know? Like, give me a little sprinkle to my ear. That's a new scam tactic. I feel like somebody just getting real irritable, just start using all the words on us. That, yeah. It will work for me. I, I've known, that is how a lot of cults have been starting lately. It's just someone's like, on YouTube, they use such big words and sound so smart. I had to just listen to everything they said. And it's like. It's also like a cadence, like an intellectual cadence. And everything that I'm saying right now must be true. Yeah. And I sound like I did my research, so you trust this. Cause look at how I'm cutting off every word at the end. Cause I really mean it. It's so perfunctory.

• 19:44Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. So when I tell you that giving me $500 a month is how you reach enlightenment, I know what I'm talking about. Exactly. And you're not gonna see that enlightenment until the payment has transferred. Yes, yes. That is important to know. Once you see accepted, then you can accept the light into your life. You see how it works? Oh, yes, yes. So, we're gonna be talking about book talk today, which I do love book talk. I, I was like, there was some girls dancing in front of my books. If y'all would like to dance in front of my books again, I would very much appreciate it, okay? Get your little scam song, twerk with the book. Help, help, help a black lady. Um.

• 20:17Laci Mosley?

  But yeah, so I love book talk because it really gave us a little bit of a resurgence in reading as well. Yes, it got the kids reading. Yes, and a lot of the older kind of book snobs, you know, the OG like New York Times. They look down, yeah. They look down on it. And the Colleen Hoover, heated rivalry. Kids are reading. So they're reading. They're reading. Right. That's one less brain in front of an AI video of fruit. That's a book. That's one less brain, like, brain, yeah, right, on Fortnite, wearing black people's skin and talking to pedos pretending to be 12. Yeah, so please. Ain't no pedos in the book. In the book. They ain't got no discord in the book where you can talk to the other pedos who like the book. No strangers popping up in the book. Yeah. Let the kids read the books. Yes, the books are safe. Yeah, yeah. It's a great way to put it.

• 21:02Laci Mosley?

  So we're talking about a book talk influencer, Celestial Meg, so funny. Ashley does not have these cue cards, she does not know what's coming up, and she's already talked about charging $500 for you to reach enlightenment, which sounds like something Celestial Meg might do. Celestial Meg, yes, very big. We're looking at her profile right now. On Threads. So Celestial Meg's got the little star emojis, because that's letting you know she's stellar. She's stellar, she's very whimsical. Book lover with a book emoji, bringer of whimsy with a mushroom emoji, I wonder if that means she does shrooms. That's what I read that as. Yeah, we're getting celestial and a mushroom emoji. And you're gonna bring the shrooms to the party. Yes, okay, now I kinda fuck with Celestial Meg. Yeah. Yeah, because she's bringing a vibe.

• 21:46Laci Mosley?

  That's how we're getting celestial. She likes romance, so she definitely doesn't see them Colleen Hoover's. Oh, yeah. Fantasy. Fantasy, dark. Dark. Whatever. Whatever. I think that Purple Heart probably means something. It probably does, in some community of some preference or something. Yeah, it's probably like, yeah, some preference, like, I like yaoey or whatever. Like a little pineapple or something, she's like, yeah, a little woo woo. Yeah. And then, I don't know what the frog is, but she says, "Coming soon." And then more stars and then a rose emoji, I don't know what she got. She got a link tree though, so she got some coming up. Yeah, she got a lot going on. Celestial Meg got some for you to buy. Yeah. Can't have one link there, gotta have a link tree. She need a tree. Lot going on. Yeah, she gotta tell you stuff, she gotta sell you stuff.

• 22:28Laci Mosley?

  So, you know, Celestial Meg, promised book lovers, so this is Celestial Meg, and so far, I'm on her side, she looks like a vibe, she's got all the stuff in here. I'm interested. I'd head follow. Yeah, because the bio is, I want to know what's going on. Yeah. So, maybe other people do as well, because Celestial Meg promised book lovers a luxury reading retreat with all-inclusive food, relaxation, crafts, and a weekend with fellow book lovers. But what happened was Fyre Fest for books. For books. Oof. Which arguably, more flammable. So, we're gonna get into the bookish community here.

• 23:11Laci Mosley?

  First of all, very funny to me to point out that, on one hand, we're talking about the bookish community, right? So we see on one hand, there's people who are clearly at some kind of like, book fair pop-up, or like, maybe this is like a pop-up used book, or mobile library. Yeah, which you'd expect to see at a book fair. Yeah. Amongst book friends. I love that School Politics for Adults. I would definitely go to, because now we, I think if you didn't have money as a kid, when School Politics came to your school, and you had to sit in the class and do worksheets and stuff, I hope that you're really like into book talk, and like, you're going to this book fair, get your book fair back. Get all the books, get all those books. Because now hopefully you got book money. Yeah, if you're enjoying it. If you don't, oh, no, just take a book. Yeah. Steal for your inner child. Steal some books, I mean, now they got free libraries everywhere, like, we're

• 23:56Laci Mosley?

  trying to force books into people's hands. We really are, go to the free library. Bring a book back, though. But I love the juxtaposition here of like, these hipsters like perusing these books, and then for some reason, on the other side, we have the world's biggest book club, and it looks like a concert, and here are black people dancing about books. Yeah. Which, I love us. Sponsored by TikTok. Sponsored by TikTok. I see, these are all giving like elder millennial. Yeah, yeah, I'm getting elder millennial, I'm not getting book. No, I don't see a book. Not seeing a book. I feel like maybe if they had danced with the books, twerked on the books a little bit, read Wild Dancing. Yeah, maybe like a costume reference to a book.

• 24:40Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. Anything, really. Honestly, though, millennials, y'all get out there and dance, we've never had peace. They say, "Book event, okay, we'll be there." We'll be there to dance. And they are basically in semi-office wear, which... Right, like, where are we going after this? This is three different events. Truly, like, Silver Pants just left Renaissance. Yeah. And then, it feels like the one with the braids, he might have a wedding later, but he definitely had to stop at an office first. I was thinking he has a wedding later, but he's working at it. He's working the wedding. Oh, he bartending the wedding later? Yeah, he's bartending the wedding later. Okay, fair enough. That's what I'm getting from him.

• 25:22Laci Mosley?

  And then, these, Gas Station Sunglasses Ball Head, he feels like he's supposed to be like a Ron Isley like opener, like, for a reunion tour, for like Earth, Wind and Fire. Yeah. Like, he's opening in Vegas. Yeah. But book? No. And then we got Crop Top White Lady Leather Jeans. I mean... She's giving me like, one of them churches, that's like a mega church, but it's like for young white people, like a Hillsong. The Hills, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she goes to Hillsong, and she sits one row behind Kourtney Kardashian. Yeah, or she's like number one in her soul cycle class. I could see that, too. Yeah. She sits in the front and gets lots of praise. She takes it really seriously. Yes, absolutely. We'll leave the rest of you alone. Scans!

• 26:10Laci Mosley?

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• 26:18Speaker 01

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• 26:39Laci Mosley?

  Hola a todos, soy Jamie Lynn Sigler. Cuando metí agnóstico, tenía veintitantos años y todo mi mundo cambió por completo. Pero con el tiempo decidí que no iba a permitir que eso frenara mi vida. Quise tomar las riendas, y después de hablar con mi médico sobre mis opciones, la elección para mí fue obvia. Boom, eso es KISSIMTA. Obtenga más información sobre KISSIMTA o FOTUMA MAP en kissimta.com.

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• 28:37Laci Mosley?

  She'd throw things, wander, and started hoarding. Mom's Alzheimer's was already so hard, but then we found out she had agitation that may happen with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. And that was a different kind of difficult. So we asked her doctor for more help.

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• 29:33Laci Mosley?

  Meet the all-new Volvo EX60, a fully-electric SUV with Google Gemini along for the ride. Turning an idea into a destination is as simple as asking. Hey, Google, find a scenic overlook to watch the sunset. Sunset is at 8:14 PM tonight, I found it. The all-new Volvo EX60. Visit volvocars.com/us to learn more. Google services are enabled through a digital services package included for four years. After this period, new terms and fees apply. See site for details. Sequence is shortened and simulated. Google and Gemini are trademarks of Google LLC. Scans! So, a bit about the bookish community. This scandal popped off mostly on Threads, not TikTok, but book talk goes beyond any

• 30:15Laci Mosley?

  single social media to include anywhere people review, recommend, and discuss their favorite books. That sounds harmless, but the book people can get wild on there, as Ashley has said. They're so mean. Book talk skews heavily towards YA, which is young adult, if you're not bookish, YA fantasy, romance, and romantacy, which is a combination...

• 30:39Laci Mosley?

  Of the two, romance and fantasy. Which would be like a Twilight. Yes, yeah. And we have a lot to get through here, but I do need to hop on one last soapbox. Fucking Twilight. That book is weird, okay? Edward Cullen is a pedophile. This motherfucker, hundreds of years old. Hundreds of years. And just because he had a sparkly teenage boy body, you're supposed to think he not creepy? Why are you hanging out at a high school? Why are you chilling at a high school? Who's alive for a thousand years and goes, you know the best group of people hang out with? High school kids. You could have been in some underground grunge scene. There's plenty of people who are only up at night. Go relive your college years. Yeah, the kids actually need to go to bed so they can get up for the high school. But you, you wanna go hang out with the high schoolers?

• 31:19Laci Mosley?

  And it feels all pedophile coded, because then they would be like, oh yeah, we like it here in Seattle, because it's rainy, it's lots of shadows. But a little kid, you wanna come out with me at night, because that's only time I really hang. And then also on top of that, if we get caught or if it gets a little too warm, my whole family has to relocate cities. We have to move states. We have to move states. If we get caught at the high school. Different database, like. If we get caught at the high school. Yeah. What? Edward Cullen, what are you doing? What are you doing? Get canceled. Jacob, the imprinting on the baby? That was so weird. Like. Like. That lady needs help. Yeah. And she really had us convinced all that shit wasn't fucking weird. Yeah. Weird as hell. All to get people to convert to Mormonism or something. Yeah.

• 32:04Laci Mosley?

  What was her name, Stephanie or something? Yeah, Stephanie Myers. Yeah. It was all like a ploy, which I'm like, you're not really making it sound that good. Yeah, I don't wanna do this. Nothing sounds enjoyable here. But also like, it's funny that she wrote it as a woman, because the whole concept of Edward Cullen feels like a man's idea. Yes. Like, what if I could be old as fuck in my head, but hot enough to attract? Teenagers. Yeah. If I'm not rich enough to attract the teenagers, I can be a hot, sparkly vampire who lures them into the woods at night. Which is like, go make some money, Edward Cullen. You're an adult. You should know everything if you've been on the earth this long. Why you got roommates if you've been on the earth this long, Edward? Go make some money. Yeah. Go invest some dollars. You're too broke. Yeah. Yeah. What are we doing?

• 32:48Laci Mosley?

  You're right, that's priority number one. You way too broke. Like, what do you mean? Okay, you can fly, get a car, bitch. I'm trying to go to a steakhouse. Yeah. Like, the fuck? Drive me. Yeah, they got some blood. You can get it rare, you can suck on that. Like, what are we doing? Anyways, I just had to get that off my chest, because it was upsetting me. It's legit. And this is why I wanted you on for this episode, because so many things that I haven't even covered yet, you've already mentioned, Ashley. So the bookish community has a huge cultural influence at this point. Sarah J. Moss's A Court of Thorns and Roses, Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, and Rachel Reed's Heated Rivalry, like you mentioned, all got a big boost from book talk. Yeah. Which obviously worked out very well from them. Two of those are movies. Yeah. Yeah.

• 33:31Laci Mosley?

  I think they're turning some other book by the woman who did Heated Rivalry into a showdown. Rachel Reed's? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Ooh. So. Please let it be WNBA. Ooh. I mean, but that's not that spicy, because we know they over there fighting. Yeah. And that's what kinda makes it, that's why I love it, because of sports, there's also drama. Yeah. Some of them date around different teams. Yeah. Off-campus was good. Oh, my goodness. Mm, love it over there. So, reading retreats are common in the online book community. Reading is a solitary activity, and the people who like this kind of niche, you know, like the kind of yearnie or romancy books, you know, they might be pretty far from you physically. So, it makes sense to do some organizing and try to make friends in real life. Yeah. I love that they're touching grass.

• 34:16Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, I love that they're making this IRL. Like, they're not just gonna be book nerds hiding in their rooms. They're like, no, we're gonna read, be public about it, we're gonna make it look cool. Thank you. They can all look at each other reading and be proud. We're doing it. I was just doing this in Starbucks alone for so long. And it's like, yes, do that. Maybe other people will see and be like, reading, that's how you make friends. Right, the beach, yes. And also, I feel like I really would like bookish people for the most part. Yeah. There's always somebody in a niche or a hobby that takes it way too far. There's a group of, there's always a friend. But like, I, you know, I've been in a book club or two. I enjoy that, you know? We all have something to talk about, so it's shared experience. Yeah, now, when they do the book clubs, like, were these strict ones? Like, what kind of rules do they have in the book clubs that you're in?

• 35:01Laci Mosley?

  I've been in one strict one, where like, at the top of each meeting, after the assigned pages, she would hand out like a five-question quiz. And like, if you. Shell worksheets? Shell worksheets. And straight up, if you were like, I don't know, or like, got something wrong, she'd be like, you didn't do the reading, so you can't stay. She would kick you out before discussion? She would straight up be like, so most people would just be like, I didn't read, I'm not even gonna go. See, this is why I hate where underpants teachers, because I know whoever that strict lady is, she would be great in a classroom, but they can't afford her. Yeah. Because legitimately, she's like, you didn't do the assigned reading, there's the door. No, put the chardonnay down. Unhand the fig and cracker. Yeah. Yeah. You don't even, you don't get to hear our thoughts. Yeah, no. No, you didn't do the work. No. Try again next week, and I'm disappointed in you, honestly.

• 35:46Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, and then I was in a fun one, where we'd talk about the book for like 10 minutes, and everybody would just get drunk. Okay, listen, balance. Balance, yeah. I love that. Well, so, yeah, they're bringing all these people to one place. This is what our Celestial Meg is doing. That, but this doesn't mean that you should shell out money for a ticket and fly to a remote location without doing your research, right? Yeah. Because I understand, like, being in a book club, and maybe we're not doing as much due diligence on the book clubs that are in our neighborhoods. Yeah. But any book event I'm going to where I gotta get in them people's sky at 35,000 feet, yeah, I need to know some things. I need to read about it, if I'm spending a lot. Don't we love reading? Don't we love reading? That's our whole thing. So let me, so read about it. Yeah, so read about it. Do the research.

• 36:29Laci Mosley?

  So, a little bit more about Celestial Meg now. Celestial Meg, according to her, is a romance book influencer and content creator. She runs the Celestial Meg Book Bestie Blog and social media platforms, where she provides book reviews and recommendations for romance subgenres. She doesn't have a big following, but she's not a nobody. She claimed to read 120 books last year. According to one of her followers, Meg has hosted retreats successfully before. One of her followers. Yeah, was that her sister or something? Right, was that Meg Burner? Yeah. I would, I would check on that. And honestly, her social media not being super huge tracks to me, if she's really reading 120 books, she ain't got time to post that much.

• 37:14Laci Mosley?

  She don't have time to post. Yeah. How does she have time to even schedule to put these events together? She's reading 120 books. That's a lot of books. Is she reading them, reading them, or is she skimming them? I think she's doing that skimming thing they did. I heard like, some of the book talk people, they don't read any of the stuff that's not in quotations. So like, they'll just skip whole paragraphs and just go to the next time, next part where someone's speaking.

• 37:37Laci Mosley?

  Damn, we really are in a literacy crisis. Yeah. Because what do you mean, you joined a whole community about reading, and then decided to cheat on the thing that is the thing? It, yeah, there's a lot of weird rules within it. Like, some people won't read a book unless it's in first person, because they can't imagine a narrative that's like, not within their own head. Like, if they read something that's like, uh, like, oh, I went to the store, they'll be like, I didn't go to the store. How can you put this in print? I didn't go to the store.

• 38:07Laci Mosley?

  You went to, you went to the store, bitch? And like, they're legitimately like, making TikToks, like, don't you guys hate these kinds of books? I can't stand this. And it's like. Then don't read that kind of book, you weirdo. Yeah. Also, like, read the book. Just read the books, and, but, you know what, they're reading, they're reading. Are they? It's, they're, it's, it's the closest, I think, that we come these days. Now, we used to be able to suffer through the book. Yeah. Yeah, y'all motherfuckers ain't read Catcher in the Rye, and that's what's wrong with you today, okay? Because you get to the end of that book, you be like, the fuck? Yeah. Why did I just read this? Why did they make me do this? Why is this a classic? Who is wasting my time? Yeah. Yeah, okay, Salinger, get the fuck out of my face. And it sucks, but you did it, and all your classmates did it, and you suffered through it together.

• 38:52Laci Mosley?

  And then you also read books that your mama didn't want you to have. Oh, yeah. Like, The Coldest Winter Ever, which was just like a smut book. Yeah. But I read about Winter Santana. Yeah. I'd be in my room under the covers, like, ooh. Oh, this is a little sexy. They saying curses up in here, okay?

• 39:08Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. So, yeah, that's, that's kinda weird. So, yeah. So let's get to the promises broken. On her website, which is now gone, Meg said your $900 ticket to the book retreats. Nine hundred American dollars. It got you a four-day, three-night stay at a luxury cabin in the mountains of the Finger Lakes in New York. That included a hot tub. Fire pit. And a huge comfy couch. Now, is that hot tub per cabin? Yeah, like, is that one a hot tub for everybody? Is, and it, why, why are you highlighting a couch?

• 39:53Laci Mosley?

  Is there nowhere else to sleep or to be? Because a couch, to me, is not very special. So, that would make me go, wait a second, is there only a couch? I'm saying that a luxury cabin, it has kitchen sink. Comfy couch. Comfy couch. Autumn in. Window. Ooh, it's gonna be a treat. Okay. Like. Girl, we even got toilet. Yeah, like, I'm sorry, I'm asking, like, what size beds do these cabins have? Because I'm assuming cabins. You're asking the wrong question. We got floor. Okay. We got roofs.

• 40:27Laci Mosley?

  Okay. And wall. Ooh, and throw pillow. Not even real pillow. And a singular, throw pillow. Throw pillow. Okay. They'll toss it to one, we only have one.

• 40:39Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, the amenities aren't really ammenning to me either. So there would be a professional book slash fantasy photo shoot in the woods. So you're also getting $900. Okay. You're getting hot tub, couch, cabin, four days, three to four. Couch, again, a fire pit for fire. You're also getting professional book slash fantasy photo shoot in woods. In the woods. And the woods are a bonus. Okay. We want woods. Okay, okay. You're also, there also will be book binding workshop led by local author Corwin Michaels, author of The Dream One War Saga. A Draymond War Saga. Like Draymond Green. Yeah. Dream on. Dream on. It's spelled like Draymon.

• 41:25Laci Mosley?

  We'll go with Dream on War Saga. Yeah. Book binding is where you fasten an ordered stack of paper pages together inside of a protective cover. So on the itinerary, Meg allotted three hours for book binding. I don't know how long book binding takes. No idea, this is a. Is three good? This is a thorough book experience. Will it be binded when I'm done? Yeah, they're binding them, they're reading them, they're really doing it with books. Honestly, if I was to throw together a scam book festival, these things are pretty enticing to me. I'm a little alarmed by comfy couch, but like book finding. Yeah, book binding. They're like, we're gonna take you from book from start to finish, okay? Like, okay. Yeah, we got the Gutenberg press out here, you gonna get your selfies in the woods.

• 42:10Laci Mosley?

  And then we're gonna make a book. With the Gutenberg press.

• 42:14Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, the photography that I'm not so getting, but I'm sure that's like a cosplay type deal that they are probably excited about. Yeah, because apparently the woods matter, so people want the woods. So there would also be bookish crafts, included but not limited to book bedazzling.

• 42:34Laci Mosley?

  Okay. But not limited to. It's included, so you might do other stuff with the book. Yeah, I mean, we're getting farther and farther away from reading. We're doing a lot now, it's like, well, I don't know that we're using these books for what they're supposed to be for. We're making the book. We're making the books, we're bedazzling books. We have an ink making class where you can learn how to make the ink that you will put in print on the book. And like, we're tie dyeing books, but like, girl, when are we sitting to read? Yeah. Is that in the itinerary? Is that what you wanted? It's crazy. Well, there'll also be meals and snacks that are included. Okay. Plus, so you're getting your meals and your snacks included. Now, like. Plus couch. This is all too much for $900.

• 43:17Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, I mean, honestly, at couch, I was like, how much money do we have left? Yeah. So, plus a swag bag, book club discussion. And they won't kick you out for failing the reading test, okay? If you didn't read it, you still hang. And lots of time to actually read. Okay. Meg promised comfortable accommodations, delectable meals, and creative inspiration. Now, as a book writer and reader, I fear most people who are avid readers aren't also writers, but they can be, the circles definitely overlap. But I would imagine people who are going to book fire fest are probably mostly consumers. And I guess, I mean, now the big thing is, oh, fanfic?

• 44:01Laci Mosley?

  Like, a lot of them will be like, oh, I write fanfic and like, read fantasy books and stuff, so that's like real writing now. Sorry to the fanfic community, you are valid and real. AO3 is. Yeah, I wrote a fanfic about cars, they're all doing it in mine, okay? Yeah. Tires rotating everywhere, oil spilling, shooting out everywhere. They, everybody's got like an AO3. They, those people got some freaky imaginations over there. It gets deep though in mine, okay? Cars, like, one person gets road rash, it's a whole, it's a whole thing.

• 44:41Laci Mosley?

  Is this with the characters from Cars? Or is this a separate group? Okay, okay, it's the characters from Cars, okay. Yeah. Okay, that, yeah. Yeah, and they're doing it. That gives me more context to, yeah, because now I can see Lightning McQueen and I'm visualizing better, yeah. Lightning, yeah, he does a lot of things fast. He's giving somebody road rash, yeah.

• 45:04Laci Mosley?

  But yes, so it's catering to all these different people. Screenshots of the retreat website are still visible on threads, so we're gonna look at some of these. So, first thing I'm grabbing off of romance reading retreat is the font to me is giving funeral home. Yeah. This is giving website made in the year 2008, nine? It just looks very old school. Yeah, looks like a church event. Yes, and yeah, it's giving revival. Yeah, revival. Yeah, and also why so many different fonts? Yeah. We couldn't really make up our minds here. Couldn't make our mind up, we got some Times New Roman in there. Whatever this free guest, like, this looks very romantic,

• 45:48Laci Mosley?

  which makes sense because she's a big romanticy like audience. Yeah, it's giving like, this is my final resting place. Yeah. Oh, the lodging. Now, look, if the lodging photo didn't look good enough for you on its own, we have drawn some little sizzles. Make it sparkle. Yeah, honestly, picture's not that impressive without the, without the hand drawn paint. Seems that's the picture we have. Yeah, but this is the reveal, because you can see it right here. Barely see it here, and then it's like, reveal. And already, I'm like, ah, this looks like a cabin that could fit four people, five people. Is this the lodging or your lodging? Like, is this the meeting place? This brings us back to couch. Yeah. And how many people have access to comfy couch?

• 46:33Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. It's giving everybody, guys. I'm like, well, how many, like, how many people are you expecting? Because that's tiny. Yeah, is this a retreat or is this like a, what would you call it if it was smaller? Like a vacation or? I think it's just a trip then. Yeah, is it a retreat or is it a trip? It's just a, you're just taking a trip. It might be a trip, let's see. But they said, you know, you're gonna get all your food, you're gonna get a swag bag. You know, we love a swag bag, just all the shit that you don't need. I wonder how they're doing in the recession now that people aren't just buying branded whistles all the time. Probably not great. Yeah, man. Swag bag industry.

• 47:16Laci Mosley?

  I wish I had gotten in on big swag, just putting logos on shit that people never need. Never gonna use, never touch again. Never use, punishing them with crap that's just literally going to a landfill. Ah, but first, swag bag.

• 47:31Laci Mosley?

  This is a wireless charger you use once and then it breaks. And then it breaks, or it doesn't, it doesn't work with the iPhone anymore because the iPhone always wanna switch his coochie up, like.

• 47:41Laci Mosley?

  Please, God. So, we see that, you know, this is a $900 ticket, and this $900 ticket does not include travel to and from the lodging or a real summer romance. So they can't guarantee you a train or being run on you or ridden on. They're not guaranteeing any of that, okay? But they just said, pull up, all right? So the attendees, Meg's website said there were two single rooms and one shared accommodation room, so participation would be very limited. Did you, three rooms? So that's three rooms. So are three people coming? You got three people coming?

• 48:26Laci Mosley?

  It's giving trip now. Because so this is the single room, which I would assume means that if you purchase this room, you will be sleeping in it alone. Alone in it, that's what I would hope. Then we have a shared room which has the double beds. If you've ever been on a bachelorette party, you quickly start to realize how little rooms big houses have. So they'll have the bunk bedroom, you know? Yeah, it's your classic Airbnb setup here. Yes, clearly. Yeah, like Walmart bedding. Yeah, which is like Walmart can crack out a bed every now and then, for sure. We got a pillow with words on it that we reading already. See, we're already going. Yeah, as soon as you walk into the room, joy. There it is.

• 49:07Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, I can't read what the other word is, but I could get to joy and something else, bookish. But yeah, and we got picture of the woods here. Yeah, you laying on words, you reading words, we love it. If I'm here by myself, I'm enjoying this space. Yeah, so attendees were friends of hers from online. That included one follower whose online handle is smut whisperer.

• 49:32Laci Mosley?

  The following will be. Smut Whisperer's account of what happened on the retreat from June 18th to June 20th. So let's see what Smut Whisperer has to say.

• 49:48Laci Mosley?

  911, what's your emergency?

• 49:51Laci Mosley?

  Please help us. They're everywhere. We think they're murder hornets.

• 49:55Speaker 01

  911 Nashville returns.

• 49:58Speaker 02

  What's a homicide detective doing here? Three bodies on the ground.

• 50:01Speaker 01

  With emergencies of biblical proportions.

• 50:03Speaker 02

  Mel's since swarmed upon you and upon your people. That's one of the plagues of the Bible. And somebody's unleashing them on Nashville.

• 50:11Speaker 01

  Brian Phillippe, 911 Nashville. All new Thursdays on ABC, next day on Hulu.

• 50:17Laci Mosley?

  Hola a todos. Soy Jamie Lynn Sigler. Cuando me diagnosticaron tenía veintitantos años y todo mi mundo cambió por completo. Pero con el tiempo decidí que no iba a permitir que eso frenara mi vida. Quise tomar las riendas y después de hablar con mi médico sobre mis opciones, la elección para mí fue obvia. Boom, eso es KISSIMTA. Obtenga más información sobre KISSIMTA o fotomimab en kissimta.com. Cash flow crunch? OnDeck's small business line of credit gives your business immediate access to funds up to $200,000 right when you need it. Cover seasonal dips, manage payroll, restock inventory, or tackle unexpected expenses without missing a beat.

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• 51:43Laci Mosley?

  My name is Jessa. One of the things I love the most about working for United Healthcare is that everybody matters. Every moment matters.

• 51:53Speaker 02

  There's a person behind every problem. I care because it's what I was put on this earth to do. I'm Ben, and I work at United Healthcare. I am just one piece of a larger puzzle, but every piece matters. It's more than just work. We want to make the healthcare system better for everyone. I care because I want to make a difference. That's what committed to care means to me.

• 52:17Laci Mosley?

  She'd throw things, wander, and started hoarding. Mom's Alzheimer's was already so hard, but then we found out she had agitation that may happen with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. And that was a different kind of difficult. So we asked her doctor for more help.

• 52:32Speaker 05

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• 53:07Laci Mosley?

  I'm glad I asked for help.

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• 53:13Laci Mosley?

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• 53:29Laci Mosley?

  The all-new Volvo EX60. Visit volvocars.com/us to learn more. Google services are enabled through a digital services package included for four years. After this period, new terms and fees apply. See site for details. Sequences shortened and simulated. Google and Gemini are trademarks of Google LLC.

• 53:48Laci Mosley?

  So Thursday, when readers arrived to the cabin Thursday afternoon, Meg, Miss Celestial Meg, was not there. Oh. Which I feel as though... Meg? Meg, now you invited me to the woods.

• 54:04Laci Mosley?

  I feel like you need to be here. You should be here. When I arrive. When I arrive to the woods.

• 54:10Laci Mosley?

  How will I know if it's my couch? Right. How, Meg? Now I'm all up on these people's couch and then next thing I know I'm on a t-shirt. I'm black. I can't be showing up to places in the woods. Yeah. Meg, you gotta be here. Meg, you're playing. This is your event. So when readers arrived, she's not there. When she did arrive later, she accused the attendees of conspiring against her. So we're starting off, um... Oh, okay. And this is, this is, this is by Smut Whisperer's account. Yes. Which I, I trust Smut Whisperer. I am trusting Smut Whisperer. I'd be Smutty MILF. Yeah, and very honest name. So this is Smutty MILF right here. Smutty MILF has green hair. Personally, um, I know Smutty MILF can make like a mean-ass like frappuccino. Frappuccino, yeah.

• 54:54Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, like, the hair is barista. The hair is barista. Books are life. Books are life, okay? I know, I know a coffee shop, hate to see her coming, okay? She gonna be in there all day, reading them books. Reading, aspiring author, might even be typing a bit. Oh, she might bring a laptop. Might even have her own little laptop. Get the tip it typing. You are right about that. And I like this a little more than Celestial Meg, who was trying to hype us up with the coming soon. Yeah. No, no. Smut Whisperer is just like, aspiring author. I'm not gonna play games here. She's like, I'm working on it. I am, okay. Whereas Celestial Meg's like, I got them shrooms and also a book. And don't worry, the book is coming. Yeah, it's coming. Soon. Out of my brain to a media. I'm real. And then, you'll see. Yeah. Isn't something always coming?

• 55:38Laci Mosley?

  Right. Don't we always have, yeah, something coming up? Until you die, you always coming. There's always something coming soon. Yeah, so Meg, I'm with you there. But... Yeah, but this is giving like... Smutty MILF. And also not too much smart. Like, she does say funny AF, and I kind of believe her. I think she's, yeah. Yeah. She's gonna be funny. I like it. And Smutty's already writing some stuff, so Smutty, I'm, I'm on your side. Yeah. So Meg comes and immediately is like, one of you betrayed me and I don't know how we got there.

• 56:07Laci Mosley?

  You just got here. Like Jesus in the garden, okay? We haven't even sat down on couch yet. Oh, my goodness. Wait, what's going on? So there was no food. So one of the girls, who had a car, went out to get pizza so they could have something to eat. Everyone went to bed unhappy, but they stayed mostly because of the bookbinding workshop that was set to happen the next day and feeling bad for the guy who was coming to do that. So Meg, Celestial Meg, I got a beef with you here. You took $900 from these ladies.

• 56:43Laci Mosley?

  Most of this book shit that you're talking about could easily be whipped up with one quick trip to Michael's. Yeah. With his bitch ass. Yeah. And you could go get some crafts, glitter, some glue. Some bedazzling tools. That, and you have to make sure that the fridge is fully stocked. Clearly y'all aren't in a place where you can Uber eat something. The girl had to drive down to the local Pizza Joint. Probably had to dodge Jason Voorhees and his fucking, you know, the chainsaw mask command. She probably ran past everybody, Freddy Krueger, like, you know. She's fighting her way. Bloody Mary, because y'all are in the woods. Yeah, as you highlighted to people, the woods. Yes. So... So that's not even like if people aren't satisfied with the food, that they can just like quickly, conveniently order something. Like, oh, don't worry, we'll just go grab something. No, you have these people stranded out there.

• 57:27Laci Mosley?

  The least you could do was have a fridge fully stocked of like juices and, and you know, all the milks and all the... You definitely need all the coffees. Book people love a coffee with their book, okay? You need it. Like, that's their drugs. Yeah, coffee book. Coffee book. And Meg had nothing. Like, that's why the book be on the coffee table. Like, everybody knows this. And Meg had nothing? Nothing. Like, I'm immediately gonna know it's a scam if I'm not fed, I don't have my little coffee crack. Yeah. When I get this, you're not here? You could have had some Totinos in, in the freezer and been like, for our next reading challenge, flip this frozen pizza over and see how long it takes to cook it in me oven. Come on, Meg. Best reader wins. I, I still want to, why did she show up with accusations?

• 58:10Laci Mosley?

  Why does she showing up going, you have betrayed me? Like, what girl? It's given that she knows there are problems, so she's like, look over here. Yeah, or she's like, y'all are... Don't worry about how we don't have food. Somebody betrayed me. So y'all are already posting about how this sucks. Right. Yeah, we all love books. It's a murder mystery. Like, she just kills somebody for the plot. Somebody is dead who was supposed to be here. Y'all figure it out. Let's focus on this. Stop worrying about eating. Maybe stop telling the internet that I lied to you. Yeah, telling the internet that I lied to you. Why would you do that? The betrayal. So on Friday. Okay. So Thursday they get in, they hungry. Yeah. One person goes gets a pizza, Meg's talking about a betrayal, and nobody really knows. And everyone's just like, okay, this sucks, but bookbinding. At least I get to bind a book.

• 58:54Laci Mosley?

  And you know what? I think, I think this is that a lot of these bookish people probably have already bragged about this retreat. Yeah. Bragged about the cost and definitely bragged about the bookbinding. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody printed out their manuscript and was like... Ready. Like, they're like, this is the book I'm binding. I'm binding my own book. Yes. Yes. I could see that. I would be excited for that. I feel like the highlight. Yeah. So on Friday, Meg went out shopping, in quotes, and returned with two bags of groceries. Now, Meg, you were supposed to shop before they got there. Yeah. Like, it looks very bootlegged to come into any event with grocery bags. Yeah. I'm looking at you crazy. Like, you didn't know, you knew we were coming, so why did you wait? And I thought there were... It's like if I go to a sit-down restaurant and then all of a sudden somebody come in...

• 59:39Laci Mosley?

  It was like, we got more. Yeah, like, oh, don't worry, we got you, we got you, we're gonna cook this up. We just got it from the store. Yeah, what do you mean? So you, you promised delectable treats. You promised a spread and two bags of groceries is not sounding like enough. Yeah, and also you didn't have to use the word delectable. You know, this is the reading community. Delectable has more weight to it than like, you could have just said, food provided. Yeah. Food gives no context of whether it's edible. Yeah. Delicious. Delicious, if it, you know, is more of an appetizer. Delectable at least means a cheese, like, platter with like, a honey, a real honeycomb on it. I'm getting charcuterie. I'm getting charcuterie. That's delectable. Yeah, with real honeycomb, real fig, that's delectable. But if you're coming with two bags of groceries, you gotta say snacks. Yeah.

• 1:00:24Laci Mosley?

  You can't say that you're providing any sort of real meal. To insult a Fyre Fest injury, in these grocery bags, she has bread. Okay. Meat, and peanut butter, and jelly.

• 1:00:39Laci Mosley?

  Meg didn't prepare any of the food. She was still accusing attendees of sabotaging her. And mentioning AI a lot. Girl, you're sabotaging yourself, girl. Who didn't get me delectable treats? Look at, look at you guys, bringing these disgusting bread sandwiches in here. That's why I brought this bread and this peanut butter and jelly sandwich, too. You got, I'm sure, they had to be so mad seeing her come in with bread and peanut butter and jelly. Like, you know automatically that is just gonna be the cheapest bread, the worst sandwich making stuff. And it brings it back to the Fyre Fest sandwich, which was the cheese sandwich with the little lettuce and tomato. Oh. That was so sad. I bet she got that cheap 99 cent lunch meat and was just like, go crazy. You know it's thick and slimy. Oh, yeah.

• 1:01:24Laci Mosley?

  It's given Lunchables. Yeah, that bread that dries like as soon as you open the bag. Oh, I feel like she got like a bread full of booties. Like, if they made like a booty bread combo for cheap and it's just all ends. And she was like, it was cheaper that way. It was cheaper that way, I got more booty bread that way. It's more, technically more bread for you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, and delectable is in the mouth of the. Bee. Bee holder. Eater. Of the, yeah. Yeah, the, the consumer, so. Peanut butter, Meg, okay. She's tripping. So, but I do like that she's keeping up the sabotage plot and now it's mentioning AI. AI. She's just like trying to do inflammatory things so that no one will turn their anger towards her, who's the real corp, like, you know, culprit.

• 1:02:09Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, like, guys, this is AI's fault that we don't have food. He's like, Meg, where's the food? She was like, the data centers. Y'all wanted me to have delectable food? Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted water here, except the data center. You need to talk to Peter Thiel. Yeah. He's why we don't have delectable treats. Maybe take down Elon. Mm-hmm. Ever heard of that? Yeah, but y'all trying to fight me in the woods. Anyway, who sabotaged me?

• 1:02:33Laci Mosley?

  Why are you all against me? Why are you all against me? So the bookbinding workshop did happen. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. Little sigh of relief.

• 1:02:43Laci Mosley?

  Although, the local author was also creeped out by Meg. And later said she spent the workshop time doing a cacao ceremony. Oh. So, cacao is an ingredient in chocolate, as far as I know. I don't know what a cacao ceremony is, but it creeped out the local author, so. I mean, I only have questions, um, but, so what is that, Meg? Let's, let's search to see if anybody else has done a cacao ceremony. Ceremony. But in the meantime, after the bookbinding workshop, Meg went out to get local maple syrup, which she claimed was important for a drink they were going to have.

• 1:03:27Laci Mosley?

  Okay, now it's getting a little. Yeah. It's getting a little Jonestown. Yeah, I don't know that I would feel safe taking this drink. You didn't have any, first of all, you weren't here when we arrived. Yeah. Then you accused us of sabotaging. I'm sabotaging you for days now, you're accusing us of things, and now you want to make us all a special drink? Right, there was no food in the house, and then you came back with peanut butter and jelly and blamed AI. And now all of a sudden, it's so important that we all drink this thing with a special maple syrup. So, our amazing producer, Joelle, has told us that a cacao ceremony is where white people who want to pretend to be indigenous. Yes, yes.

• 1:04:07Laci Mosley?

  Drink a very bitter, uh, ingredient in most good dark chocolate, cacao. Cacao. And they sit around and they pretend that this is a mestizo practice that, that they know about. It heals them. It heals them in some way. Yeah. But I guess Meg needed to go get some maple syrup, because the cacao was too bitter. The cacao was too much. So at this point, it's 4:00 PM on a Friday, and no food has been provided. Again, we're in the woods. We're in the woods, so I didn't have coffee this morning, I haven't had breakfast, I'm just bookbinding on an empty stomach. Yeah. I hope you're a voracious reader. Yeah. I hope, I hope the appetite that you brought was for knowledge.

• 1:04:51Laci Mosley?

  Because food, we ain't got that. No food. No, no, no, no. All the peanut butter and jelly gone already. Right, period, they over here licking the jar. Oh, no. So Meg wanted to order DoorDash for dinner, oh, but the restaurant they picked didn't deliver to their remote location. Well, we knew that was coming. We, yeah, Meg. They ain't sending no little robot out there for y'all, Meg. Like, have you been here before, Meg, like, what? Clearly not, maybe she got lost and that's why she was late. Yeah. She really thought she was gonna DoorDash these meals. To the woods? To the woods? You hyped the woods? Yeah. Why would you, okay, why would you? So my dad's trying to be like, yeah, no, not that oak tree, the next oak tree. You got, you have to go down a little bit. And then turn, turn at that one. You, you see the squirrel?

• 1:05:36Laci Mosley?

  No, the dead one. The next squirrel. Yeah, we hit a squirrel, you should be able to see that one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, what, what are we doing? I'll be a little marker for you. Oh. Yeah, Meg, you've let me down. I mean, she says celestial, she did say she was whimsical. Yeah, this is, this is whimsy. This is whimsical planning. Yeah. Strangely enough, if I'm planning an event, I become type A, but I am a type B traveler. Oh, yeah, like, I'm very go with the flow. Yeah. Like, I think, I would not be mad at Meg until this point. When it's Friday, 4 o'clock, this is when I'm starting to go like, okay, girl. I'm hungry. Yeah, I was going with you, I was like, not betraying you, but now I might have to betray you a little bit, because I'm hungry. You put the idea in my head, and now betrayal's starting to sound. Now I'm thinking I need to do some sabotage. Yeah, I feel like I do need to betray you. Yeah.

• 1:06:20Laci Mosley?

  Like, the spirit of Judas has entered me. Has entered, because I'm hungry, and this is your fault. Yes. And you want to DoorDash, no, they're not DoorDashing. And we're in the woods, bro. No, we're not DoorDashing, you planned nothing. Nothing. Which, to me, is fascinating too on another level, because at least like, with certain events, like the real Fyre Fest, like Billy McFarland didn't have to actually face all of the guests of the Fyre Fest. You know, he was on Molly Hiding somewhere as everything fell apart, as one should do. He went to a different island with his friends. Right, he was on a yacht with the rich bottles and shit, as he found out that everyone's starving. Yeah, they're starving, there's no water. Yeah, it's turned into like. But Meg is in it with the people. Yes, which is why I'm like, why would you face these people and play in their faces like this? Like, it seems like they should betray you.

• 1:07:05Laci Mosley?

  Also, so we've, there's been one night so far, what are the sleeping arrangements with these three beds? We have not addressed this, and I feel like I would have had to figure that out immediately. Meg wanted the guests to pay for the food, but they refused because they had already paid her $900 each. So she was like, I'm gonna DoorDash it, they said they can't come out to Wood House Number One on Murder Lane, but they said I can come pick it up, y'all fork over the cash for us to pick. And they were like, no, we, it's in our all-inclusive $900 package. Yes. So Meg went out to get the food. The guests wanted to leave while she was out, picking up the food, right? But they waited because they were very hungry. And because Meg had left her dog at the cabin. Oh.

• 1:07:49Laci Mosley?

  That was a nice white lady tactic. Yeah, that's a nice, yeah, she knew what she was doing. They're not gonna leave Fido there. Yep, she knew. And she was like, y'all can't leave because, one, you're hungry, you're in the woods. You're in the woods. I'm your only source of resources, and you can't leave my dog. And you can't leave my dog. At first I thought they were gonna say that she had left her dog on a, I read it fast, and the cabin looked like chain. I was like, is the dog keeping them hostage? They're like a Rottweiler tied up in the front. Tied to the door.

• 1:08:15Laci Mosley?

  Read or die, these are your options. So, they stayed because they hungry. And when Meg returned, they announced that they were going to a hotel and would be requesting refunds for the weekend. Refunds have not been processed, and Meg has not apologized. Meg.

• 1:08:37Laci Mosley?

  Now, I'm trying to figure out how many people. Yeah. She had six attendees. Six attendees. So six at $900, which is what, 600, 5400? Yeah. Yeah. Which is just not enough money for what she had planned. And the lodging was $2,000 for the Airbnb for the weekend. So, Meg took that 5,400 and then she left with 3,400, right, after lodging? Yeah. Clearly she has not paid for food. She didn't pay for food. Maybe she paid the bookbinding author, yeah. Was volunteering. Oh, well, Meg. He was local. Yeah. Then he just wanted to meet people, and think about it, it's six people. How often are you getting the chance to bookbind? Yeah, which is six strangers who love books.

• 1:09:22Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, love books. I bet that was a joy for him. Yeah. Yeah. And hopefully a joy for them. But yeah, she spent none of this on food, according to Smut Miss Bur. Now, if you got a $3,400 profit, now, we're not including your travel, Meg, but let's say, with food, you got six people to feed for a weekend, you could do that easy, but like, okay, if we, if we add in liquor too, let's say 500. Well, she did have that drink, they had to drink. Okay, but that might be the last drink that they ever have. So really, you're not, you don't have to plan for that much food.

• 1:09:57Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, Friday night drinks. We don't need it in the afterlife, we don't need it in the celestial kingdom. Yeah, where Meg has taken us. Yeah. No, you could have easily. You could have done it up with 500. Yeah. That would have been like name brand liquor, all the reheatable foods, pizzas. These people clearly. I'm not going on a retreat with six strangers. That's not enough people for me to call a retreat. That's a trip with strangers. Yeah. That's not enough. That's just, yeah, that's just a trip with strangers. And booking strangers at that.

• 1:10:26Laci Mosley?

  Like. Who are hungry and mad. Yeah, and no shade to the book community, but if I ever loved books so much that I was willing to go to the woods with five strangers, I love books too much. Yeah. Everything gets to a point. You gotta ask yourself questions. You know, you drink enough water, you'll die. And also, six people, as we, three beds, so not, you're sharing a bed with a stranger. With a stranger. You love books that much? You want to share a bed with a stranger? I'm not. I'm not doing that. Yeah, what kind of sexual deviance do y'all have going on? What happens when the book closes? Okay, yeah. When one chapter ends. Cause four people. Which one begins? Yeah, two people, they're sharing a twin XL. That's what, that was the twin XL. Like, am I sleeping head to foot? Everybody don't got the same hygiene. Are you getting to bed with your outside clothes on?

• 1:11:11Laci Mosley?

  Like, what are we doing? Yeah. Yeah, I see, when you love books to this point, we have to, we have to kind of call you back in. Yeah. You know, and be like, we gotta get you to talk to people. Let's make it a hobby. Let's just pull back a bit, you know? I think if I love anything enough to go to the woods for it, it's time for me to think about it. It's too much. Yeah. It's too much love. I'm not going to the woods for anything. No, I think I've gone too far. Yeah. And I mean, and shout out to y'all people out there. Have y'all been hearing about these Alpine divorces? Don't go to the woods with no man. The man. They'll leave you right there. They'll leave you right there. Right there. Where you stand. Yep, just to die. They were like, a bird. Look, and they're just like, I gotta go, I'm down. Chopping it, leaving your ass?

• 1:11:56Laci Mosley?

  No. No. No, no, anything but breakup or have a direct conversation. They're like, I'm really out of this relationship. I leave her in the woods? Yeah, why don't you go look at the summit, take a picture? And then I just will run. Babe, let's go diving. You know, it's got to the point where like, a lot of like vacation spots, like where people do the scuba diving and stuff, they don't let partners dive as, together as partners. Wow. Yeah, like some, some boats have a policy where they're like, you have to go out with like this other diver or whatever. You can't go out with your wife, because people was out there cutting. Cutting them loose, dang. Like, it's so sad how many guardrails we have to have for men. We can't make them stop doing the thing. We just have to be like, yeah. Just like, just separate them. They're just doing too many murders.

• 1:12:40Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, this is the part of the hiking trail with, with by gender. Yeah, they don't let the men go up to the peak no more. So too many people started falling off by accident. Falling off, so we had to, we had to change it up. Which, god, it is, I've honestly watched like four documentaries, I feel like, in the last like month about husbands who pushed their wives off a mountain. Yeah. And tried to be like, she slipped. It's becoming a real trend. And we don't need that as a trend. So again, don't go to the woods. Scans!

• 1:13:12Laci Mosley?

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• 1:17:08Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, don't go to the woods. Nothing is, you don't need to be passionate enough about. And that's how we should know, because like, big tech, one of their favorite things to do is take people to the woods. To the woods, yeah. That's how we should have known. That's how we should have known, something's wrong with it. You wear a turtleneck all the time, why are we in the woods? What's up with that? To talk about integration? Yeah, ChatGPT did that. They took a bunch of influencers to the woods. To the woods! Why'd you take them to the woods? And these influencers didn't even get paid for that shit. They got like a free hotel and like food and maybe some swag. Yeah, some swag stuff. For them to come out there and, and sell their souls in the woods. And probably like a free lifetime subscription to ChatGPT Plus or something. Right. Which. They probably didn't get that, they probably gave them tokens. They're trying to get everybody hooked. Yeah.

• 1:17:51Laci Mosley?

  And then we can't not use it anymore. Cause life didn't function before it. Yeah, they can't think anymore. Right, and I think that people are treating AI like it'll be like the tele, like the cellphone. Like, I absolutely understand that we probably, none of us would ever want to go back to landlines, because reaching people is definitely a lot easier with a cellphone. I don't feel that way about AI. No. AI has brought me nothing, that I was like, oh, this is necessary. Couldn't live without it. Can continue to do all of my jobs, my functions, as I did before 2022. Exactly, look at this picture of me as an old-timey sheriff. Goodness. Here I am photoshopped in a photo with Beyonce. I have eight toes on my ear. Like, what are we doing? I could Photoshop badly before. I can do that for people. You don't need to use ChatGPT.

• 1:18:34Laci Mosley?

  And also, there's a lot of artistic integrity in photoshopping badly. Yeah. You know? I want to be able to tell it's photoshopped sometimes. I like seeing like, that person really put in effort to make it look like Justin Bieber is their boyfriend. And I like that, that's art. And that's, yeah, that's all I need. I don't need these scenarios and, and you know, the. Fake, make this person naked. Oh, my god. Oh, no. Please put this shit under the ground. Please, please. All of it. That should be illegal. Meg, that's where we agree. We hate AI, too. And you know what? We do think there's someone that's trying to sabotage you. And that person is Meg. Is Meg. Celestio Meg. It's you. Turn around, because it's you. It's you. Look in the mirror, babe. There is someone trying to sabotage you. It is yourself. Yeah. Take a look at the woman in the mirror. You gotta change your ways, girl. It's... It's time. It's time.

• 1:19:17Laci Mosley?

  No message could have been any clearer, okay? When you had six angry people in front of you begging for food. Yeah, you gotta make a change right now. So refunds have not been processed, though. Meg ain't giving them coins. And we know she at least walked with like, probably, I would say, three thousand in profit. Yeah, probably like 3K. Like 400 in incidentals, maybe. She did get them some bread for the sandwiches. Yeah, PB and J, cheat meats. So here's Meg's response to smut whisperer. What does Meg have to say? So after the scam weekend, Meg blamed her mental health disorders, including bipolar disorder, for what happened. She said Western medicine doesn't work for her and that she uses plants instead. Hmm. Like the cacao. Like the cacao.

• 1:20:03Laci Mosley?

  I see. Mm-hmm. But then shouldn't she have been very centered? Yeah. I'll let Meg continue. Well, no, I was gonna ask questions here, too. One thing that's very frustrating to me about people who rail against Western medicine, some of it I do think, like, we are over-prescribing. There are some, like, Eastern medicines that I use that work very well, and I would argue better than, like, an anxiety pill or something like that. Like, I do like cupping and I like acupuncture. Acupuncture, yeah. And things like that. However, like, if I was diagnosed with a serious disease, I'm not gonna be like, yeah, put the cups on me. Wave the thing on me. I'm probably gonna be like, yeah, we can get an MRI machine. We can do some medicines. Some medicines we can do. Yeah. And people were always like, I do my own research. I'm like, where are you doing this research?

• 1:20:46Laci Mosley?

  Because they have institutions with, like, laboratories. That's their whole job. Yeah, and researchers. That's all they're doing. Got a job and researching. And, you know, that's their job. Yeah. But you're getting on the internet and you're just, like, eating what's in your backyard. Science. Yeah, science. And, yeah. Nothing annoys me more. And I always say, I'm like, look, if you don't believe in science, then never call an ambulance. Right? Because what can a hospital do that you can't do at all? Stay home. Yeah. Don't go to the doctor. Everybody's like, oh, we don't vaccinate our kids, but we do get Botox in Juve Derm. Yeah. Where them things come from? Oh, it's always that. Oh, my gosh. It's always that. Or, like, you're in the ambulance. I know you're not, like, 12 cc's of what? Let me see it. Let me see. I wanna do my research first.

• 1:21:30Laci Mosley?

  Let me taste a little bit of it before you put the IV bag up. Like, what are you gonna do? Like, so just believe in science. Just believe in science. But, I mean, apparently, her cacao moment did not help settle her through this weekend. It didn't. Also, where the hell was she getting this maple syrup if it wasn't gonna be from the store? Yeah. Because she said, the only time that we have her coming out was, like, she went to the grocery store, and she also went to get this... To get this maple syrup. This, well, the food that she's trying to make them pay for. I don't know what she was doing. Anyway. So, her response, you know, she says she uses Western medicine. She's bipolar, but she don't really fuck with that. So she has some sea moss or some roots or something. Yeah.

• 1:22:12Laci Mosley?

  I could actually see this in a certain state of mania, maybe, planning this retreat. Yeah. Maybe she booked the Airbnb. But planning a retreat, promoting it, creating a website, there's so many... You weren't in media that whole time. Yeah, there's so many steps to continue promoting it, to, like... And I feel like, we can't blame everything on mental health. I mean, two things can be true, though. You can be mentally ill and also a shit person. Yeah. You know? And a liar who's can people. Bad things happen to bad people. Yes. All the time. So... We don't have to give them something because a bad thing happened to them. No. So, Meg, I'm sorry. Like... Yeah. Yeah. Meg, yeah, I'm, like, I just...

• 1:22:55Laci Mosley?

  We're not gonna let you include the bipolar community on this, because I know a lot of bipolar people who are having wonderful lives, you know, and definitely aren't robbing people blind or trapping them in the woods with no food. Yep. And they're making plans and following through. Yeah. And if they say there's food, there will be food. There's food. Yeah. So, I think, I think, Meg, this is something else. Yeah, you tried it. I mean, to put it in perspective, I think when people try to use their mental health to excuse, like, very planned-out, thoughtful, bad behavior like this, it's like if somebody stopped me and was like, listen, you did this book Fyre Fest. I'd be like, I got restless leg. I didn't do none of this. None of it, yeah. My shaky leg, you see it? Yeah, like... That's why I robbed y'all. That's why. Come on. It wasn't my fault. Like, yeah. Like, what are you saying?

• 1:23:40Laci Mosley?

  You know, if it had been like, oh, she planned this, she clearly put in all the work, and then that weekend, like, she just wasn't there mentally to, like, make it happen, but there was food, there was evidence that, like, she had enough beds for everybody, then I'd be like, okay. But, girl... This sounds like you just wanted to steal $3,000 and get away with it. And it sounds like you were fully prepared to steal the money from the moment that you walked in late to the event. That's why she started that betrayal shit. Betrayal shit. I don't even know if you actually are, if you actually have bipolar, because it feels like maybe you're giving us a Tyler Perry version of what you think people who have bipolar would act like. Would act like and do. Because you immediately walked into the function like, what are you, what betraying me? Betraying me tonight. Like, you were setting up your alibi. Yeah, I kind of feel like she's like, actually, you guys showing up to the thing

• 1:24:25Laci Mosley?

  that I did not really plan is betraying me. You all were supposed to cancel. Like, that's, I think, what she was hoping for. Maybe that's why she was late. She was like, why? People came? Like, y'all took me seriously? Oh, my gosh. I didn't think y'all would actually show up. Um, wow. Okay. I'll go get some PB and J. We're the book community. You didn't want to stay home and read your book at home? This is really on you guys. Yeah, because you want to be amongst people? That's crazy. That's crazy. Oh, my gosh. So, she also repeatedly explained that someone has been pretending to be her dream man using AI, and that's why she did this.

• 1:25:04Laci Mosley?

  Okay, walk with me. Swerve. Okay. He was, okay.

• 1:25:09Laci Mosley?

  Meg's being catfished?

• 1:25:14Laci Mosley?

  Okay. We gotta get Neve on the case? She did bring up AI a lot. So maybe she just wasn't connecting the dots with people. She was like, what have you betrayed me? And maybe she's thinking the catfish, was this, was this her Neve setup? Yeah. And she was trying to get the catfish, like, she was like... It's one of these six people. One of these six people is my AI dream man, and I'm gonna figure it out this weekend. Oh. So this was actually a punishment. Agenda. Yeah. That, I would have more support for her if that was the truth. I do, too. Honestly, if that was her plan, okay. Now, I'm like, Meg, write the book. I wanna read it. Honestly, I'm kind of, yeah. Like, this is your plan to trap your AI boyfriend? Someone...

• 1:25:58Laci Mosley?

  Lure the six bookish people you're closest to to a cabin in the woods. Yeah. Starve them. Starve them, until one of them admits to being your AI boyfriend. Yes, and limit the beds. That way, some people are gonna have to get in the same bed. Same bed, and that'll make it really uncomfortable. Who's getting in the bed with me, AI boyfriend? AI boyfriend. Me? And then message your AI boyfriend, and if somebody's phone goes off... Yeah, be like, we're playing a game. Everybody put your phone on or ring her. Yeah.

• 1:26:27Laci Mosley?

  Okay, Meg. But this is another reason why she did this, which you understand. So... I mean, I'm not really understanding why a fake AI boyfriend would make you throw a book retreat, but... You haven't used AI enough. Yeah, that's on me. That is on me, not getting... Because once you use it enough, this makes sense. This makes sense. Like, she probably asked chat... Should I do a book retreat? Would my AI boyfriend think that's so cool? That sounds like a great thing to do, Meg Celestio. That's not just a great idea, it's a wonderful idea. M-dash.

• 1:27:05Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. Well, nobody else is on her side either. They're not believing, you know, the mental health or the quest to find the fake AI boyfriend through book retreat entrapment. Not working for people. But Meg does have a November retreat that's already sold out. No. Mm-hmm. No. And so the first week of November in Salem, Massachusetts, is already sold out. And this is Melanie R. Molinar, who says, "In Salem, the week after Halloween, it already sounds like a disaster." Her advertisement for this says they will be staying somewhere drivable distance from Salem.

• 1:27:50Laci Mosley?

  I'm really curious where she's planning. Salem is in a working-class part of Massachusetts. Most of the fun stuff to do is Halloween-based, which won't be there for... I'm reading this person, so there's a grammar thing here, but like, they won't be there for, is what they're saying. The part, it's like... And then the part pertaining to the Salem witch trials will take place on an afternoon, not days. Oh, yeah. So Meg clearly has never been to Salem, but is trying to do book spooky. Yes. Spooky book. But then, and her timing's already off. A week after Halloween, girly. Halloween is still in the air in Salem, though. Sure, sure. Because it's witchy there. Yeah, it's witchy, so. They have lingering. Yeah. Pre-Thanksgiving cauldron.

• 1:28:34Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, sure, I'll let that pass. Yeah. You know. Clearly, it was booked up for Halloween. She couldn't get the airbnb. She couldn't get it to happen then, and so we'll give it to her. And I think she wanted Salem proper, but then it was too expensive, so now she's like drivable. Drivable, which. Technically, I could drive from California to Florida. Technically. Is that driveable? Yeah, you can be in Massachusetts and be two and a half hours from Salem, so that's drivable, but I would like some details, Meg. And I would imagine in the book community, words would hold even more heft. Yeah. Because words mean things. Mean things. Diction is important. So. So drivable is carrying way too much water here. It's too heavy. And yeah, Salem is a very boring place, yeah.

• 1:29:18Laci Mosley?

  I mean, Hocus Pocus really oversold it to us. It really did. And if you really watch Hocus Pocus as a millennial and you look at the vibes, it was only really one party for adults cracking that whole time. The whole time. And everybody was there. Yeah. Yeah. And otherwise, it's not that great. Otherwise, they were just on the street, in the woods. Honestly, really nothing that spooky about a cemetery, because everybody there is dead. Probably one of the safest places to be at. And the Salem Witch Trial Museum, yeah, that is an afternoon. Yeah, it's an afternoon. It's so quick, yeah. Like, did she think they was gonna have a galley's out, really try witches? We gonna do this this week? No, it's that we're not having a trial, Meg. She think they swept the crystal shops and rounded the bitches up and was gonna throw them in the water? I'd say two hours. Yeah. You walk through, this was them. Of history. Yeah, they made a book.

• 1:30:03Laci Mosley?

  The, maybe, maybe this is where Bette Midler had ice cream one time, shooting Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus. Yeah. That's pretty much the whole thing, so. They don't even, are they bookbinding? Not here. She probably can't afford that. Meg. But she said, I'm giving you drivable this time. We're getting drivable. And I'm giving you post spooky. We will definitely see people taking down decorations. Okay. We're gonna get that post spooky Salem feel. Yeah. Spend an afternoon at a museum. That's when, that's when the witchery's at its highest, it's the fever pitch. Yeah, is after Halloween. That's when the real witches are like, oh, the fake witches are on. Yeah, exactly. It's a performative holiday for fake witches on Halloween, yeah. And Meg saw that, Meg saw that. She saw that, she's a visionary.

• 1:30:46Laci Mosley?

  Okay, so, final thoughts on this episode. We do see here that in November, this retreat, you know, this post-Hollywood boogie-woogie. Yeah. It is sold out, and how do you feel about it being sold out? Why is it sold out? Why is it sold out, Book Talk? Why are you trusting Meg with this? Um, I think, at this point, you wanna, I'm sorry, I don't like to victim blame, but you wanna get scammed. Yeah. I think you're going for the story. It's like Caroline Calloway, that other New York author scammer. Oh, yeah, you know we know about her on here, okay? She's still running scams. People still buy tickets to her events. Because she has one of the greatest grifts, and honestly, if I was a blonde, thin, white woman, I would do the exact same thing.

• 1:31:30Laci Mosley?

  Like, why waste it? Why waste it? She didn't pay rent for like two years. If people are just gonna believe me anyway, I don't give a fuck. But, but the scam of her thing, which is why she won't end up in jail, is kind of like Shaun King's thing, where it's like, "Oh, I told you I was providing a good and a service, and you gave me money, and then you wanted the good and the service? Oh, no, I'm just a girl." Yeah, like, why? Why did you think that wouldn't overwhelm me, all the orders? Oh, my God, my titties didn't think of a product. You wanted a product? You thought I was going to write the book I said I was going to write and sell you? Oh. That's on you a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I said things, and you gave me money, but like, anybody could say anything for money.

• 1:32:13Laci Mosley?

  And I just, I don't think Meg is gonna learn from this. Now the second one is sold out. She's already, and I mean, she's scamming people, six people at a time. At a, yeah. You know, honestly, pretty good grift. It's a good grift. If she keeps it at 900, she walks away with 3,000, she's at least paying rent per retreat. Retreat. And she only has to get six suckers on the hook. Six suckers, and I'm sure she can do that with Book Talk, honestly. Fuck Six Sigma, we got six suckers, that's all we need. Like, y'all, don't, why, why do you need to go read the books in Salem with Meg? Like, what? I don't know, man. This also kind of feels very cool if I was like a book elitist, to be like, I go on these woodland retreats. A book retreat. It's just five of the most bookish people you know and me. We just read in the woods. I learned how to bind books. Yeah.

• 1:32:58Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, at this point, I really don't even need the bookstore. The bookstore, I just make them myself, and it's wonderful, yeah. I have one of those cages, like Joe from You, keeps all my books fresh. It's nice and fresh. Yeah, and only books, never people, I'm hostageing. Just me, just the books.

• 1:33:17Laci Mosley?

  Okay, if y'all go on this, honestly, I would go for the plot a little bit. I would. I like, I actually am curious now. I'm like, does she have another website? Like, what weird, strange cabin are they gonna have to share beds in now? Yeah, I don't wanna share a bed. I need my own private room in the cabin, please, but I do want to be there. I, yeah. And I wanna start rumors of sabotage. This time, like, she's definitely gonna come in with the sabotage feeling, energy. Like, I think now she's like, they're watching me. That's how you set people up to know that there's about to be some tomfoolery. You gotta act as crazy as possible. In the beginning, don't slow-roll it. Yeah, no, come in crazy. Yeah. Expectations can only go down from there. Exactly. See, so by the time you're coming in with PB and J, people are like, well, that's a step up. At least she got food.

• 1:34:01Laci Mosley?

  We're hungry, so we'll wait and watch our dog. She locked Lisa in the broom closet this morning, so at least she feeding us now, this is better. She's done with her cacao ceremonies. Right. Still have quite, still, okay. What if I did a writer's retreat, but I treated it like misery? Like, I was the misery lady, and I just like locked all these, I was like, you're gonna be so inspired to write. You have so much fun. You're gonna finish that feature, you're gonna finish your novel and everything, because I'm gonna be like locking your room. Locking you in a room. Like, maybe breaking your legs. Tying you to a bed, and if you don't hit your page numbers, yeah, I'm breaking your ankles. You might have to break your ankles. Like, I'm so sorry. Yeah. That is coming to that. I could come up with some words that would work. Yeah. Yeah, I feel, I mean, I don't feel bad for anyone involved here.

• 1:34:43Laci Mosley?

  No, like, yeah, even the people who gave their 900, like, even at certain points, they're like, we just decided to stay. Like, it's like, you could've gone, you could've been like, bust, I'm gonna go to a hotel. They stayed for, for the story at a certain point. Yeah, because now. Yeah. And honestly, if you're looking to be more social, or you're super bookish, what's better than a book story that also is entertaining? Tell that at dinner parties, tell that when you meet people. And I bet those six people, they're best friends now. I bet they're so close. Trauma bonded, for sure. Yes, for life. They all hate that woman together, so, you know, you lost $900, but you made some new friends.

• 1:35:26Laci Mosley?

  You did, and you know, one thing is safe to say, I think black people were marked safe from this event. Yeah, I was not worried for our people with this one. Yeah, as soon as they said $900, actually, $900's not gonna take us out, because we stimulate the economy, especially black women. True, true. We'll go on a trip. Yeah. And we'll go on a solo trip. Yeah. $900, not this shit at all. Do a writer's retreat. Woods. Woods. And then you're hyping a photography in the session, wood fantasy thing. With fantasies. Yeah, because already I'm like. With white people having fantasies in woods, and I'm there, and I'm black, in the woods with the white people with the fantasies in the woods. You're not gonna know how to light my skin. I was more so thinking something far more sinister.

• 1:36:09Laci Mosley?

  Let's go with lighting. They're not gonna have the proper lighting. Yeah, you're right. Remember our skin individuals? Let's go with lighting, yes, that's exactly what I would be worried about. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, but all in all, I don't think anybody truly got hurt here. Yeah. Again, I don't like interpersonal scamming. Scam corporations scam faceless entities that are robbing us blind every single day. I will support you. Not smutty moms. Yeah, smutty whispers. Yeah. Smut, smut. Smut whisperer. Smut whisperer, yes, not, yeah. Don't scam her. Don't scam smutgasm. She's, she's an aspiring writer. Yes. You know. And she's funny. Yes, go scam Audible or Amazon or something. My macchiato ain't tasted the same since you scammed her. No, no. No, do that to my, to my queen. To my girl.

• 1:36:54Laci Mosley?

  To my them, my non-binary icon. Who gave us all of the tea, who told us what was up. Exactly, gave us all the tea, in an orderly fashion. Yeah. We found out how much they are being because, then they did the math before we did it here. I still don't understand how no one is like, how they are, there's just not threads complaining about the sleeping situation. Like, I don't know how that's not an entire. It was not mentioned. Now, for six people, we have three rooms, and there's two beds. And a couch. Yeah, so there's, so, so two of the rooms sleep two each, so that's four, and then there's one in each room, that's five, and we have a couch. So technically, everybody could sleep in their own. Oh, there were, I thought there was just the two twin beds. I think that was in one room, but there was three bedrooms total.

• 1:37:38Laci Mosley?

  So there were two bedrooms with two twin beds, and then one bedroom with one bed. And I'm sure Meg got that one, let's be real. Right. Meg got that room. If she was really scamming, she would've upcharged for that room and took the couch. Exactly. But hey. Oh, now she's gonna do that this November. This November, she'll be like, I just sleep in my car.

• 1:37:57Laci Mosley?

  She puts everyone in the cabin, and like, she keeps sleeping in her car, she just comes and she borrows my shampoo. She's like, yeah, she's like, drops some bread off and leave. Meg, I think you have a solid hustle going here, just tricking five people. Sounds like nothing too nefarious would harm. I don't know how your cacao ceremony was creepy, but I could imagine maybe if people are bookbinding and he's teaching like a craft and a skill, he's like, everyone lay the book facing this way, and on the right side, we're gonna put the paste or whatever. And then she's just in the corner like, na, shir, ma. That is how I'm kind of envisioning, is just like in the background, right behind him. She's also not Miss Tisa. Yeah, like, she's just like, I don't know, being covered in chocolate or something by strangers, that's what I'm picturing, and they're all just like, girl, what are you doing?

• 1:38:41Laci Mosley?

  Like, she's drinking it, but like, letting it spill down the sides of her mouth. I think that's definitely part of it. And they're over here like making books, and she's like. She's just like, the nectar. The nectar, yeah, you're right. Yeah. It could get creepy very easily. Yeah. Oh, well, you know what, Celestial Meg, you, you stay, you stay in the clouds. Yeah, and I love that she never apologized, never addressed it. Just mental illness, I have an AI boyfriend, come join me this November. But don't betray me. Don't betray her. Do not betray Celestial Meg. Okay, all right, well, that brings us to the end of a fantastic episode. Ashley, we always like to ask her, where would you like to be found? People can see you perform, your socials, everything.

• 1:39:26Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, you can follow me at TheAshleyRay everywhere. Very entertaining. Yeah, yeah, if you're in LA, you can come to my live. Show every Sunday at Cheetah House Comedy. Yeah. In Silver Lake. And yeah, just follow me. I'm always posting stuff. I love it. And you can follow me at D I B A L A C I D, Valacy on all platforms. If you want, I, I, for now, I do talk to people on Threads. Like Threads is the only app where like, I'll, I'll talk back and forth on Instagram. So Scam Goddess pod on Instagram if you want to see the photos and everything like that. But on Threads, I will, I might add a little convo with you. Threads is actually kind of popping a little bit. Right. Right now, it's, it's been sequestered enough to it feels like I'm in the same reading group. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, once you find like your kind of themes and you're like, okay, these are the cool people to talk to about Love Island.

• 1:40:10Laci Mosley?

  Like, okay, I got my situation on there now. The whole purpose of the conversation is not to be right or wrong. We may just be sharing observations or opinions, or I might have my mind changed by someone or learn a new fact. It's been great for my ADHD. ADHD hack out there for y'all that I've been doing. There's so many, there's so much of that on Threads. Household tasks. I wear house shoes in my house while I'm doing household tasks. And it makes me get more done. Cause like, having a shoe on my foot makes me feel like I need to be. Doing something. Doing stuff. I saw it, yeah. Even if it's stuff for me, even if it's like laundry, but it's like, now this is my job. I'm a little laundry lady at my laundry job. Cause I got shoes on. I kind of like that. I, I don't know, it works for me. There's a lot of tips like that on Threads that are like pretty legit.

• 1:40:54Laci Mosley?

  And then you open Twitter and it's like, oh, right, this wants to destroy me. And I literally don't talk to people about Threads because I want to gatekeep it. But I feel like if you listen to this podcast, then, and I've met a lot of you in purpose. Then you, you're cool enough to go to Threads. You read enough. You can come. You know, you're not on the other half of the country reading below a sixth grade level, which is half of our country. Y'all, that's 150 million people. We should be scared. They let them drive and vote. Yep, yeah. And they can't read good. They can't. They can't even type. Yeah. You know, people don't type anymore. The illiterate are much safer from this scam, baby. Yes, you are not losing 900 bucks. No, not this way. You probably giving it to that orange man, but you're not losing it for books in the woods. Not this time. Sometimes we do get saved. Uh, well, yes, follow us on all those platforms.

• 1:41:40Laci Mosley?

  Get Scam Goddess wherever you get your books, audiobooks. I'm not a snob. I know a lot of readers say audiobooking is not reading. You tell people you read my book if you, if you heard it through your ear hole. Yeah. Yeah, and it's me. That counts. Yeah, it counts. It's me narrating. I'll say you read it. I've written some audiobooks, so. Right. But it's like, it's not even a book. I wrote an audio narrative. So it's like, this is just a radio play. I wrote an audio. An audio, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Have we reverted back to when people used to sit in front of the radio and listen to stories? I hope so. Is that what this podcast is? Basically. That's what I was, yeah. Story radio? Yeah. That's basically what audio narratives are. Wow. Audible is trying to make them happen. You can listen.

• 1:42:22Laci Mosley?

  I feel so like Gen Z G and Gen Alpha right now. Like, you know where they be discovering stuff that was like a thing? Oh, my God. This whole time I thought we was doing podcasting. So different. No, this is talk, this is talking radio. It's just talking radio. Yeah. Okay, I could have survived the, the olden times? Yes. You see, yeah, you wouldn't be, yeah, so on the Sunset Strip, like that lady who couldn't make it in talkies. Right. Yeah.

• 1:42:52Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. And the pictures. And the pictures.

• 1:42:57Laci Mosley?

  Oh, I love that. Wow. Ashley, what a way to end this episode. Yeah, and I will just drop, if you like audio narratives, mine with Kiki Palmer drops on Audible August 23rd. Called Bereavement Committee, so. Bereavement Committee with Kiki Palmer. You already know that's gonna be lit. It's very funny. Uh, oh, I can't remember the names of anyone right now, but so many famous people you love are in it. Yes. Sound, and bereavement, sounds like it's about to be. It is an anti-AI story that Amazon let us tell. That Amazon let you tell.

• 1:43:32Laci Mosley?

  No. It's, it's, you know.

• 1:43:35Laci Mosley?

  Oh, Jeff is so funny. He's a Q ball head ass. Love him, love him. He's so funny. Okay, he evil, but he funny. But yeah, give us more seasons. Yes, give us all the seasons. We love Q ball. We love you. I love him.

• 1:43:50Laci Mosley?

  Oh, well, congregation, I want you to get out there. Stay bookish. Yeah. If you're not bookish, get bookish. You don't have to start with War and Peace, you know? You start easy. Yeah. Captain Underpants. Captain Underpants. Clifford, the red dog. Yeah. He was a blood. Learn about his gang activity, okay? Okay, Clifford. Clifford.

• 1:44:18Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, okay, we're gonna leave you with that. Yeah, I think that's a good place to end it, right there.

• 1:44:32Laci Mosley?

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