"I Can't Unblack My Ears!" The Lego Heist with Mel Mitchell

Leggo my Eggo? How about give that old man his Lego back? Yes, Laci and the hilarious and beautiful Mel Mitchell try to unravel the complex corporate scheme that robbed an elderly, dying man of the chance to collect the sales on his Star Wars Lego collection. Mel and Laci discuss the validity of Lego, how interested the police should be in a Lego heist, and whether or not walking a highline is a sensible activity. Keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at [email protected]. Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Mel Mitchell: @itsmelmitch See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 2:44Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess. Back to you with another episode about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. It is a comedy show. We will laugh at the criminals, but we will never laugh at the victims. And you know that I'm what? Yes. Excited. Thrilled. Elated. Kind of a little bit of a scam hunter to get this gem on the show. Mel Mitchell is a comedian, actress, and digital storyteller. She's open for veteran comics like Roy Wood's Jr., Zaniff Johnson, as well as R. Linux. You may know her from her TikTok series, TikTok,

• 3:28Laci Mosley?

  or Scare Tactics from Jordan Peele's Monkey Paw Productions. She has been headlining tours all over the country, making people laugh in every city, every state. Period! Mel Mitchell! Come on!

• 3:46Laci Mosley?

  You know what I mean? I do Jamaican air hard.

• 3:51Laci Mosley?

  Period! Period! I'm so happy you're here.

• 3:56Speaker 06

  I'm glad to be had, sister. Glad to be had.

• 3:59Laci Mosley?

  I've been playing with some iterations of the show and like, what version? What am I gonna do at the top? I don't like to make people work. So I used to ask people what their relationships with scams are, but that kind of makes you have to work a little bit.

• 4:13Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 4:14Laci Mosley?

  So I will ask that, just in case there's something you want to volunteer. But the first thing I'm gonna ask you is, is it a scam? Is it a scheme? Is it a real thing? I want your opinion about essential oils.

• 4:31Speaker 06

  I think it depends on the oil. I haven't, I haven't heard that name in years, though. So maybe it was a scam because I haven't heard the...

• 4:38Laci Mosley?

  Like, Dotara?

• 4:40Speaker 06

  Like, what is that? I don't even know what you're talking about. That's the thing. Like, so many of the oils have come and went.

• 4:45Laci Mosley?

  Nobody tried to sell you Dotara or get you involved in that program?

• 4:50Speaker 06

  No. What is that?

• 4:52Laci Mosley?

  Oh, they came after me. It's like a MLM marketing company.

• 4:56Speaker 06

  I'm gonna say, is there like a wake-up now for oil?

• 4:58Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, but sometimes the oil do be, it do be good. Like...

• 5:04Speaker 06

  So, okay.

• 5:05Laci Mosley?

  You smell a peppermint and it feel like you did a little bump of cocaine. A little peppermint smell.

• 5:11Speaker 06

  Some of them do be good. Like, I had a, um, man, dang, because the fact that these aren't on the streets no more might prove the point that these were scams, that I think about it. Because did you ever try? How, not you got them, you got a hit. You got, you doing a bump right now on air. What, um, can I talk about inappropriate things on here?

• 5:31Laci Mosley?

  Hey, you can, oh, we are, we are rated R. You can talk about anything.

• 5:35Speaker 06

  I got got with the coochie essential oil to put it on your coochie. There was an oregano yoni oil that got me around 2018. And you're supposed to take it and rub the oil into your lips and coochie area in your flat.

• 5:53Laci Mosley?

  Isn't that for like giving birth? That's when you need to start lubing your coochie up?

• 5:56Speaker 06

  They say it'll heal the yeasts and the BBS and the things. So I was just like, let's just try it. And the whole time, honestly, I was just allergic to latex. I didn't realize that was just my, the only issue I had.

• 6:08Laci Mosley?

  Right. Which means that you were having protected sex. You were actually protecting your coochie and then the latex was giving you a problem. That's, that's actually cool.

• 6:17Speaker 06

  That's literally what it was. But I'm over here dousing my coochie in oil like I'm about to fry some fucking chicken and...

• 6:23Laci Mosley?

  Listen, sometimes you gotta throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Sometimes some don't stick.

• 6:28Speaker 06

  A tea tree oil, a peppermint oil, sure, every once in a while.

• 6:31Laci Mosley?

  A peppermint near your coochie?

• 6:33Speaker 06

  Well, not in the coochie. I'm just saying in general. I'm just saying in general, in general. Because the tea tree used to help me with my ingrown and stuff like that.

• 6:39Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, yeah, you can put that on the outside. You can put that where the, where the ingrown hairs are coming in. Yeah, but...

• 6:46Speaker 06

  Oils are fine individually, but when you put them all together and big essential oil gets involved, big oil.

• 6:52Laci Mosley?

  Big oil, oh!

• 6:54Speaker 06

  Big oil, like Big Pharma. Now we're easing into scam territory.

• 6:59Laci Mosley?

  Right. Because why they got people on the streets, like, running the block, selling the product?

• 7:04Speaker 06

  Healing oils and stuff. I don't want any Dr. Sebi Asparagus to cure cancer. I don't want any of that.

• 7:10Laci Mosley?

  No sea moss. We're not going for it. We can't go for that.

• 7:14Speaker 06

  Police! So, yeah, that's, that's my take on the oil of it all. Um, yeah.

• 7:20Laci Mosley?

  What's your relationship with scams? Have you ever been scammed?

• 7:24Laci Mosley?

  Or know people who've been scammed, or?

• 7:27Speaker 06

  I'm sure, I'm probably getting scammed right now. I don't know, because I'm an easy look.

• 7:30Laci Mosley?

  Oh, because you're on this show, so, yeah, you being scammed a little bit.

• 7:33Speaker 06

  I'm being scammed. You know, I live in America. I'm paying $90 for gas. My chick for like kissing me was $9. I think because I upsized the lemonade, probably.

• 7:41Laci Mosley?

  No, don't blame yourself. That's too expensive.

• 7:44Speaker 06

  Every day, every day is a scam. Every day I wake up in this godforsaken effing country. It's a goddamn scam. Everything, everything's a scam. I went to Walmart today. I went to go look for the Angel Reese Barbie. I knew they weren't gonna have it because it was a black Walmart, but I was gonna try anyway. I bought some cups, some soap, a deodorant. What else did I even buy? I think that was about it. $50.

• 8:10Laci Mosley?

  I can't...

• 8:11Speaker 06

  $50. Doll hairs.

• 8:12Laci Mosley?

  I don't, ooh, not doll hairs.

• 8:16Speaker 06

  Doll hairs.

• 8:16Laci Mosley?

  I can't even walk up in that bitch no more because every time I go in there, I go for one thing.

• 8:21Speaker 06

  What you, what you going for?

• 8:22Laci Mosley?

  And you know, black people supposed to be boycotting Target still, so we're not supposed to go up there anyway, so I...

• 8:26Speaker 06

  We're not supposed to go to Target, so you gotta go to Walmart. But Walmart's hard to get to and Target's up the street. And then I've been driving all around town trying to avoid going to Target and I've passed eight Targets.

• 8:35Laci Mosley?

  I know. And also, as black women, I'm sorry, everybody needs to give us a fucking pass. Like, I should be able to fly on a private jet. I know it's bad for the, the air and for the planet, but I...

• 8:48Speaker 06

  I'm getting a private jet, I gotta kiss my ass.

• 8:49Laci Mosley?

  I should be able to do it, because that's reparations. Y'all ain't want to give me my 40 acres and my mule, so at least let me pollute the planet in this jet.

• 8:59Speaker 06

  I'm, I'm getting a me a private jet. Y'all kiss my ass, man.

• 9:02Laci Mosley?

  Right. Why, why we gotta drive around trying to do the right thing? We always on the right side of history.

• 9:07Speaker 06

  Ain't nobody else doing it.

• 9:08Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 9:08Speaker 06

  Taylor Swift took a private jet from Newark to New York, and I gotta sit in the goddamn Southwest line.

• 9:15Laci Mosley?

  She was taking a private jet from, from Hollywood to Pasadena. She, she been just flying all over and polluting the earth.

• 9:23Speaker 06

  Wasting good, good ozone.

• 9:26Laci Mosley?

  Good ozone.

• 9:27Speaker 06

  I'm not gonna take no shit from y'all. I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

• 9:29Laci Mosley?

  She got a whole hole, like, we know it's a hole in the ozone layer, but she done, she done expanded that bitch.

• 9:34Speaker 06

  She has her own hole. You know how you can buy a star? Taylor Swift has her own hole in the ozone layer that specifically she made from taking that private jet out the goddamn driveway.

• 9:46Laci Mosley?

  And then she be, you know what people do with private jets, too? It's like, it's also a flex to like, let someone else use your jet.

• 9:53Speaker 06

  Yeah, you rent it out, yeah.

• 9:53Laci Mosley?

  When you don't need it. And you just tell them to pay for the gas, and that's like 30K. You pay, you tell them to pay for the gas and then they fly your jet around. And then you can call on a favor later. Like, she knows the whole game. She's, she's in it.

• 10:09Speaker 06

  No, that's the real scam.

• 10:10Laci Mosley?

  She's a Sagittarius.

• 10:12Speaker 06

  And it's something about all of them.

• 10:14Laci Mosley?

  It is.

• 10:14Speaker 06

  I haven't met a single normal Sagittarius in my life.

• 10:18Laci Mosley?

  Okay, that's, so with cancers, the men are bad. With Sagis, the women are bad, but the men actually aren't that bad. Like, I like a Sag man.

• 10:29Speaker 06

  But Jay-Z, Offset.

• 10:31Laci Mosley?

  Okay, damn. Why would you say that? You done named two, okay. Well, damn.

• 10:37Speaker 06

  That's just off the top of my head. That's just, that's just, Fran Hampton. I don't know. No, that's not the day he was born, that's the day he died. That's the day he died. No, remember, because Jay-Z said something that he was born the same day Fran Hampton died, not his birthday.

• 10:54Laci Mosley?

  Yeah.

• 10:54Speaker 06

  I was trying to, I was like, no, okay.

• 10:56Laci Mosley?

  But also, such a Sagittarius man thing to say, why, why are you celebrating the day that a, a, a black leader died? Oh, I was born on that day that the black leader died? What, what, why you even saying that?

• 11:09Speaker 06

  It's future, it's a Scorpio. Is he a Scorpio or? Oh, no, November 20th.

• 11:13Laci Mosley?

  Oh.

• 11:14Speaker 06

  Sagittarius.

• 11:14Laci Mosley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:16Speaker 06

  I think that's Sagittarius, I think that's the, the cuss.

• 11:18Laci Mosley?

  Let's see. Huh.

• 11:22Laci Mosley?

  The way you did-

• 11:23Speaker 06

  He's a Scorpio. It still counts as Scorpio, apparently.

• 11:25Laci Mosley?

  Uh, well, the way that he did Cardi, and Cardi's a nice lady.

• 11:30Speaker 06

  And I wanna say the new man is also-

• 11:32Laci Mosley?

  Oh, Stefan Diggs?

• 11:34Speaker 06

  Yeah, November twenty ninth.

• 11:36Laci Mosley?

  Oh, she keeps dating people in the same range. Damn.

• 11:40Speaker 06

  Same level of hell, the same circle of hell. Cause that new Nigerian soccer player is also evil, apparently.

• 11:46Laci Mosley?

  Mm-hmm. Uh, but here's- My parents kept telling me to watch Shameless, and I think they wanted me to watch it so that they could realize, like, they wanted me to realize they weren't that bad. Because they had generational trauma and they put a lot of shit on me. I'm the eldest daughter and-

• 12:04Speaker 06

  Oh, God bless you, yeah.

• 12:05Laci Mosley?

  I've been through there. They done took me through there.

• 12:09Speaker 06

  Mm-hmm.

• 12:09Laci Mosley?

  And they were like, "Look at this. Look at how bad these people are on this TV show. We ain't taking you through there that bad."

• 12:16Speaker 06

  Right.

• 12:16Laci Mosley?

  Like, but watching Shameless has been something I've been doing. It's like eleven seasons, I think. Like, there's a lot of content to watch. And it's all about generational curses, trauma, and how sometimes you can't get away from it. Because it's not on you, it's in you. And you look for familiar patterns. And then you end up in situations that feel familiar that aren't good for you.

• 12:46Speaker 06

  Yeah. It's like a mess magnet.

• 12:49Laci Mosley?

  Damn.

• 12:50Speaker 06

  It be like that. That's why you gotta like unpack your shit.

• 12:54Laci Mosley?

  Uh, listen, I've done all the therapy. I've, I've, I've hopped in and, and paid a lot of people a lot of money to try to fix shit. And then sometimes that shit is still there.

• 13:03Speaker 06

  It's, it's hard to go to therapy when like the people who are the reason you need therapy won't go to therapy. Cause I can get fixed all the shit I want to. And then as soon as I get around people who are un-fixed, they break my shit again. And I just become the same piece of brain they gotta put back together.

• 13:15Laci Mosley?

  Right. That's why Al-Anon exists. That's why there's AA for addicts. But there's also Al-Anon for people who have addicts in their life who have terrorized them. So they have groups and meetings for non-addicts where you can sit down and talk about all the shit that crazy ass addict did to you. With other people who understand.

• 13:37Speaker 06

  Uh, that's almost like, um, what's the movie? With, was it Viola Davis and J-Lo? And they was, she was in like the, the AA for like Mother to a Lost Son. And they was talking and, and fighting. She was going to find a person who killed her son. And the whole time, J-Lo wasn't real.

• 13:57Laci Mosley?

  Right. Okay, I know what you're talking about. That was like, that was Viola-

• 14:01Speaker 06

  Great and Frankie?

• 14:02Laci Mosley?

  No, that's, that's a Netflix show. It, it, what are you talking about?

• 14:06Speaker 06

  Lila and Eve.

• 14:08Laci Mosley?

  That was, that was Viola's moment to be Liam Neeson. She was neck chopping. She was out here in the streets.

• 14:14Speaker 06

  Yeah, she was, it, it was, it was, J-Lo wasn't real. That was a good movie. What year that came out? I remember being like, this is cinema.

• 14:22Laci Mosley?

  People who understand this podcast know that I have issues with J-Lo. They've saw it on TMZ. They saw how she did me. She did me dirty. And she tried to like really run for it. Yeah.

• 14:39Laci Mosley?

  And she was trying, she was letting it go. She just kept extending it. She kept talking about the shit. Trying to make herself a victim and nobody was believing her because like, girl, we know who you are.

• 14:49Speaker 06

  We have a track record of being the biggest bitch ever sister, so it's kinda hard to-

• 14:53Laci Mosley?

  Do this to you. I didn't, I didn't even bring this shit up. I'm not gonna say that. I'm not gonna say what I really wanna say. Cause some other people piss me off and I was told not to say things about my publicist, so I'm not gonna say those things.

• 15:09Speaker 06

  Yeah. Yeah, J-Lo's interesting. I had, um, one of my posts I made that got a little traction was so funny. Cause I was talking about when I was a P.A. for the Grammys, I was the talent escort for the, her band. When she did the Motown tribute. And I was just-

• 15:25Laci Mosley?

  Which, why was she in the Motown tribute?

• 15:27Speaker 06

  Why was J-Lo doing the Motown tribute?

• 15:30Laci Mosley?

  You're not niggas. Why are you in, what, what?

• 15:34Speaker 06

  And you were one non-nigga, not even a group of niggas, so you're doing so many-

• 15:38Laci Mosley?

  Singer. You can't even sing down. You should never be nowhere near the Motown.

• 15:42Speaker 06

  Why was Jenny from the block doing the Detroit Motown tribute?

• 15:50Laci Mosley?

  Honestly, though, I kinda low-key respect her as a scammer. Jenny is a scammer. And she has always known how to position herself to survive. You ain't getting rid of Jenny's. She from the block, she from the streets, she from the cul-de-sac. You ain't, you ain't getting rid of her.

• 16:05Speaker 06

  Been played this whole time. And, you know, and she has some songs, hits and movies. Now, she got her some movies on her ass.

• 16:12Laci Mosley?

  Mm-hmm. And she was also trying to steal songs from bitches.

• 16:15Speaker 06

  No, she, from black queens. So for you to have, have infamously stolen music and, and demos and voice and vocals from-

• 16:24Laci Mosley?

  Like, how many of your songs are Shanti singing?

• 16:26Speaker 06

  Do, and to do a Motown tribute, Motown, which is the foundation of black music.

• 16:39Laci Mosley?

  Why would she do that? But also so funny.

• 16:46Laci Mosley?

  So crazy.

• 16:49Laci Mosley?

  But also, I kinda respect, like, just like-

• 16:53Speaker 06

  Cause honestly, who's that checked? No one has checked her. If she's gone unchecked, so why would she not keep doing it?

• 16:58Laci Mosley?

  Why would she not? Like-

• 17:00Speaker 06

  If it were me, I'd be like, if I can get away with this, I'm gonna milk it.

• 17:03Laci Mosley?

  Right. Let's, let's run it up. Let's go for a generational run. She did eat that. Like, I actually kinda understand. Like, it's, it's good.

• 17:18Laci Mosley?

  Nine one one, what's your emergency?

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  It's a homicide detective down here.

• 17:30Speaker 02

  Three bodies on the ground.

• 17:31Speaker 01

  With emergencies of biblical proportions.

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• 19:14Laci Mosley?

  Let's get into the episode.

• 19:17Speaker 06

  Yes, yes.

• 19:18Laci Mosley?

  So, historic hoodwinkings. This is where I will regale Midge with the famous Con Caper group of criminals. We don't know yet. And maybe we love them, maybe we hate them, but we'll never laugh at the victims. We will laugh at Joe Criminal ass. So, an eighty-three-year-old man's ultra-rare Star Wars Lego collection has gone missing.

• 19:40Speaker 06

  Oh, God.

• 19:41Laci Mosley?

  Who has it? And how much is the whole collection really worth? That's become the subject of lawsuits and arrests. So, let's go back to nineteen ninety-nine. We was barely alive. We'll have to get right to it.

• 19:58Speaker 06

  Just a twinkle, just a twinkle.

• 20:01Laci Mosley?

  For real. We was zygotes. We was little zygotes.

• 20:04Speaker 06

  That's it.

• 20:05Laci Mosley?

  The first Star Wars prequel hit theaters. And a man in Kaiser, Oregon named Ed Manziel started collecting Lego Star Wars sets. Over the next twenty years, Ed's collection grew to seven hundred and eighty unopened. You know, that's when they, that, that's when it's real good, when you ain't opened it. Lego Star Wars sets, around twelve hundred rare mini figures. By twenty twenty-three, his collection was described by some as the world's largest Lego Star Wars collection.

• 20:37Speaker 06

  Oh, wow.

• 20:38Laci Mosley?

  And it was valued at like two hundred thousand dollars. Although the actual value is disputed, but the thing is, is like, we put value to things.

• 20:47Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 20:48Laci Mosley?

  Nothing costs anything other than what we say it costs. Everything that we buy, how much we spend on things, it's about how much we value it. So-

• 21:00Speaker 06

  He had OG, like, original Legos. Like, that's crazy.

• 21:04Laci Mosley?

  Right. And he was collecting them from ninety-nine? Yeah. He even had the Ultra Cloud City set that was worth as much as ten thousand dollars. So, look, this is what we're looking at right now. Apparently, this is highly valuable. And to me, it just looks like plastic toys.

• 21:21Speaker 06

  You know, as a collector of things, AKA hoarder, I understand. And that these bitches, they, these are high. These be like five hundred dollars.

• 21:32Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 21:32Speaker 06

  These whole apartment complex in, in the, in space they be having on Star Wars, those are hot. So, he never put them together? They just in the box?

• 21:40Laci Mosley?

  No, he, he didn't touch them. And that makes it more valuable. That's like having comic books that you don't take out the plastic. People want that.

• 21:50Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:50Laci Mosley?

  So, by twenty twenty-three, Ed was eighty-three and had been diagnosed with cancer.

• 21:56Speaker 06

  Oh, no.

• 21:57Laci Mosley?

  He asked his son, Brian Manziel, to sell the Lego collection and put the proceeds towards his grandkid's education. Okay, grandfather. A grandfather, okay. Period. Brian approached the store Brick and Menfigs to handle the sale. Brick and Menfigs is a Lego reseller chain with over three hundred franchise locations.

• 22:22Laci Mosley?

  Three hundred franchise locations for Lego reselling?

• 22:25Speaker 06

  There's a whole nother world that we have no idea about. Like, you don't know what people are doing in their house.

• 22:30Laci Mosley?

  You really don't. That's crazy. I didn't know they was doing all this. They have locations in Burbank and Pasadena. In Oregon, the store owner, her name was Crystal Law, and she accepted the consignment deal to sell the collection for Brian, who's the son of the grandpa who's trying to offload the stuff for his grandkids. And they made a deal that would make sure that Bricks and Menfees got thirty-five percent of the cut out of the resale. Brian handed the Legos over to the store in November of twenty twenty-three. They put a yellow sticker over the barcode to identify the stock. The collection was one of the largest sealed Star Wars collections covered.

• 23:15Laci Mosley?

  It was like covered by the local news. Everybody was like excited by this shit, which is strange to me, but you're right. We don't know what people doing in their house.

• 23:23Speaker 06

  You just never know. You never know.

• 23:26Laci Mosley?

  About a third of the collection did get sold, and Brian Mel, like, the son, he was paid for it. But that's when the shenanigans started. In November of twenty twenty-four, Crystal, that store owner, who, the reseller store, her and her husband planned to leave the US when Donald Trump won his second term. She thought the plan was for B and M Corporate to buy the store back from her, but she was fired instead.

• 23:58Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 23:58Laci Mosley?

  And I honestly really resonate with her wanting to leave the country when Trump got elected a second time. I was in Ireland when he got elected a second time, and the, I love, they're my favorite white people. Irish people are my favorite white people. They understand oppression.

• 24:15Speaker 06

  They didn't let them be white for a while.

• 24:17Laci Mosley?

  Nah, like, that's the thing about whiteness. That's why whiteness is not the same as blackness, is because being black in America, it was us all realizing like, okay, we have the same skin tone, we have the same ilk, we all just gonna ride for each other, we gonna be down for each other. Whiteness, if it's not specific to the country of origin that you're from, we don't know where we're from. You stole us. But you know where you're from. So if y'all have an Irish parade, if y'all have a Scottish parade, if y'all like do anything, those are specific countries. But when y'all get together on whiteness, that's a Klan rally.

• 24:58Speaker 06

  That's what they.

• 24:59Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. It's not the same. They think it's the same as being black and us being out and falling can be a black. It's like, no, we didn't know where we're from. So we just all locked in together, cuz we at least know that we look like each other. You are getting in white events to be evil.

• 25:17Speaker 06

  The, the goalposts always move to whiteness. They don't, they, they just started accepting Italians and the Irish and all of them. And the Jews, depending on the day, you know, so.

• 25:26Laci Mosley?

  Depending on the day. When shit gets bad in the country, Jewish people will come niggas again. And then they start trying to hang around us again, like, hey, niggas, sorry, we left y'all for a little bit.

• 25:37Speaker 06

  Wait a minute, yeah.

• 25:38Laci Mosley?

  No, we back, we back.

• 25:40Speaker 06

  Depends on the day.

• 25:42Laci Mosley?

  Depends on the day. We back though, so what's going on?

• 25:46Speaker 06

  It's like, uh-uh.

• 25:48Laci Mosley?

  Crazy.

• 25:49Speaker 06

  But yes, Crystal.

• 25:51Laci Mosley?

  Yes, Crystal. So we have a video from the day that she was kicked out. And it shows Crystal and the new store owners of the place that she thought she was gonna get bought out of, which she was fired from. So we have Crystal talking to the Director of Operations, Kai McAllister, about the Lego collection. So here's the video.

• 26:14Speaker 07

  A guy named Brandon Best showed up on a Thursday night and demanded the keys. They threatened us with the police and promised to do an inventory and compensate us. They said they understood there was a large collection on consignment and acknowledged they were taking that over.

• 26:27Speaker 00

  They told us the same thing they told Brian Mancell, that we could fight them, that they would drag it out and make it so expensive, we would be putting ourselves into a whole lot of shit.

• 26:38Laci Mosley?

  Josh and Brandon, they took over the Lego collection and later removed identifying yellow stickers. Brian came to the store a few days later and found Crystal gone. And the new owners said they were unaware of any Star Wars collection. There were reports of a U-Haul truck moving Lego to the Bricks and Menfix store in Eugene, Oregon. Mind you, remember they got three hundred stores, which Josh and Brandon also own. And on the night that the new owners took over, how much Lego was left in the store was up for debate because it wasn't.

• 27:17Speaker 06

  So this is a Lego heist.

• 27:19Laci Mosley?

  Yeah.

• 27:20Speaker 06

  Not Diamond, not the Pink Panther, not Cat.

• 27:25Laci Mosley?

  Right? Why do people care about this so much? I'm, I'm confused as well. I don't know why people care about this so much.

• 27:32Speaker 06

  Comic Con with it? Is this how you get nerds hoes? What is the motive? Okay, okay, continue.

• 27:38Laci Mosley?

  No, like, like, what kind of square-headed ass bitch you trying to impress with these Legos?

• 27:43Speaker 06

  A hoe with hands like this.

• 27:47Laci Mosley?

  Hands can't even pick up shit. Ha- hands, just two circles. What's going on? Why are we here? So Brian later found out that B and M Corporate had a pattern of seizing stores and grabbing assets. Brian didn't tell Ed that the Legos had been stolen. He didn't wanna stress him out during his cancer treatment. But Brian did call B and M Corporate and also contacted the police. But neither worked. Honestly, for one time, I'm proud of the police. You, you, police should be doing more serious endeavors. If the, if you call the police about some Legos, they actually should not pull up.

• 28:27Speaker 06

  Cuz like, what do you mean?

• 28:28Laci Mosley?

  Right. Legos? No, we have to solve murders. And you know they only have like a forty percent solve rate. Police are not very good at their jobs.

• 28:37Speaker 06

  I can't solve the last murder. You talking about some Legos, hell.

• 28:41Laci Mosley?

  We solving more murders on TikTok than the police are. So Brian did call B and B Corporate and also contacted the police. We talked about that, didn't work. In April twenty twenty-five, Brian got the YouTube channel Collecting Weekly to start reporting on the story. So now he done reached out to YouTubers. He's like, I need help. We, we, we need to stop this.

• 29:02Speaker 06

  That's how you get the word out.

• 29:04Laci Mosley?

  But when Bricks and Menfix, I'm so tired of saying that. I'm just gonna say B and M from this point, cuz Menfix, I don't wanna, I don't wanna say that word no more. Like, what? B and M started issuing like legal threats cuz of the videos on YouTube. And so then they took their videos down until Reckless Ben stepped in. So Reckless Ben is another motherfucker that we, we gonna introduce to the story. Ben Schneider, AKA Reckless Ben, is a YouTube cult investigator and slackliner. Do you know what a slackliner is?

• 29:45Speaker 06

  No, I do not.

• 29:46Laci Mosley?

  So this is some crazy white people shit. Being a black woman going outside is dangerous.

• 29:53Speaker 06

  For sure.

• 29:53Laci Mosley?

  We don't need to go chase a high or a thrill. Slacklining is when you extend a rope across like a very high surface, like, like, building to building, mountain to other mountain, and then you tight rope on it. You walk on the rope. And the people who do it the best don't even have a harness. They,

• 30:18Speaker 06

  Oh no.

• 30:18Laci Mosley?

  Have you ever seen Free Solo?

• 30:20Speaker 06

  No.

• 30:20Laci Mosley?

  Free Solo is about a man who climbed Mount Capitan with no harness, no rope, just climbed it. He could have fell to his death at any point.

• 30:33Speaker 06

  Nah, I've never heard of such a thing.

• 30:35Laci Mosley?

  You look so confused.

• 30:37Speaker 06

  And I'm immediately irritated. Cuz I don't do stuff like that.

• 30:43Speaker 06

  And never will.

• 30:45Laci Mosley?

  I don't either. Being black is hard enough. Every time I leave my house, it's a thrill up my leg. When I get home, I'm like, damn, I made it another day. I didn't die.

• 30:54Speaker 06

  Literally, literally.

• 30:56Laci Mosley?

  But they just be doing this kind of shit. They be living on sport mode. They need it.

• 31:01Speaker 06

  I just can't. But continue, okay. I'm, I'm, I'm, I mean, let me, let me stop. Let me take my black hat off. And listen, okay.

• 31:09Laci Mosley?

  No, keep your black hat on.

• 31:12Speaker 06

  Cause I can't un-black my ears hearing this story. Cause why the fuck is you doing that?

• 31:19Laci Mosley?

  I can't un-black my ears. I might title that episode that.

• 31:25Speaker 06

  I'm trying to understand and emphasize and empathize with the Legos and the fort.

• 31:29Laci Mosley?

  But it ain't make sense.

• 31:31Speaker 06

  Legos?

• 31:33Laci Mosley?

  The math not method. None of the math is method. We fighting over, over like plastic toys. Bricks. So now this motherfucker gotta get involved. Okay.

• 31:44Speaker 06

  Alright.

• 31:45Laci Mosley?

  In twenty twenty one, he appeared on the television competition series Go Big Show, where he broke the world record for the most flips on a slack line in sixty seconds, doubling the record.

• 32:00Speaker 06

  Where?

• 32:00Laci Mosley?

  So that means he was flipping on that little rope on top of the city. And white people have now made this a thing where they're like, oh, you did so many flips on the little tight rope. This is not a thing that people need to be doing, but we made it up. Okay. So in twenty twenty four, Ben was on the news for filming himself walking a tight rope between two unfinished towers at Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles. So he was hooking his rope up to towers and, and walking on them. And everybody was like, get off them ropes. What you doing? Please get down. You stressing us out. In twenty twenty five, reckless Ben took on B and M. I told you I'm not saying that name no more.

• 32:46Laci Mosley?

  So he went to the Kaiser store and was greeted by a manager, Amanda, and asked about the missing Legos. So now he looking for the Legos too. Amanda told him it was a corporate issue and that he had to leave. The cops arrived and removed Ben for trespassing. So this man is so unserious that he takes unserious things seriously. So he showed up, this ain't none of his business. And he showed up to one of the Lego stores and was like, where are the Legos? And then they, they arrested him and, and grabbed him and took him out of there.

• 33:26Speaker 06

  Lego Gestapo.

• 33:29Laci Mosley?

  They took him away.

• 33:32Laci Mosley?

  So I know, I'm exhausted too. I'm, I'm.

• 33:36Speaker 06

  Like when people are, I die about it. Like they really mean it. And it's even if it's Legos.

• 33:39Laci Mosley?

  Right? Like you, you don't play about this. You don't play about Legos. But also like, we know he's an unserious man. He, he be putting little ropes up to dance on in the sky. He not serious.

• 33:52Speaker 06

  At all.

• 33:53Laci Mosley?

  He ain't never had a worry in his life. So the corporate headquarters of B and M, I told you, I'm not saying that name again. It's in Provo, Utah. And high ranking executives of the company are Mormon, cause it's Utah.

• 34:10Speaker 06

  Because of course they are.

• 34:11Laci Mosley?

  And I grew up with Mormons, okay? Joseph Smith, I know all about him. The tabernacle, the, the underwear, the, the garments.

• 34:21Speaker 06

  All I know is, is very doctored water in a Stanley cup and soaking.

• 34:28Laci Mosley?

  Oh my God, the soaking. That's sex. You know, sometimes they would like, if you don't know what soaking is, it's something that the, the Mormon youth would do because they're not supposed to have caffeine, drink alcohol, have sex, primarily, all these things, right? And soaking was kind of the cheat for the horny motherfuckers who actually wanted to fuck. And they would stick their penis in a woman and not move. They wouldn't.

• 35:00Speaker 06

  And then have a third person come in and shake the bed.

• 35:06Speaker 06

  That is so crazy. Cause like, what if you the jumper? What do you do as the jumper?

• 35:11Laci Mosley?

  I would be the jumper.

• 35:14Laci Mosley?

  I would be the jumper.

• 35:15Speaker 06

  Are they turned on too? Are they naked?

• 35:18Laci Mosley?

  No, they're just there to do a job. The jumper's just there to jump.

• 35:22Speaker 06

  If I'm gonna be participating in sex, like, cause it's, it's technically a threesome. This is group sex now. I wanna be naked. I'm gonna be, now I gotta see you're fully clothed.

• 35:30Laci Mosley?

  As a jumper, you're fully clothed with your shoes on. So maximum impact and you jumping on the bed and, and making the sex happen.

• 35:39Speaker 06

  And the dirt, the dirt particles are crumbling, crumbling into my coochie and now you got BB.

• 35:47Speaker 06

  Because, uh, cause your homegirl jumped on the bed with Timberland to help you have sex. And now you have dirt in your vagina.

• 35:56Laci Mosley?

  I would definitely be the jumper. Like, I remember, okay. I remember like watching, like remember Cinemax? When Cinemax would become Skinamax?

• 36:09Speaker 06

  Skinamax, yeah.

• 36:11Laci Mosley?

  And it was like fake porn sex or whatever. And we, me and my cousins, we'd all be watching it together, which is strange. But I remember there was always like a lady in the porns who would see people having sex. Like sometimes we would be watching Sex Court. We watched Sex Court and the lawyer would come in and talk to the judge. And they'd be like, meet me in my chambers. And then they did sex to each other. But then the court stenographer would walk over to the quarters and she would be looking through a window and she was like, oh, y'all doing sex to each other.

• 36:54Laci Mosley?

  And then she'd be shocked, but then she'd be like, ooh, let me rub my coochie a little bit and I'm involved too.

• 37:00Speaker 06

  And they probably be doing.

• 37:03Laci Mosley?

  I'm the stenographer. I'm like, ooh, what y'all doing?

• 37:07Speaker 06

  Coochie juice all on the keyboard and you at work. Somebody leaves, they, they type right around home, gotta borrow yours. Zang, why the key sticky? Cause you was over here fapping

• 37:20Speaker 06

  on the job. Nasty.

• 37:24Laci Mosley?

  Uh, yeah.

• 37:24Speaker 06

  Ooh, what's that smell? When I hit the spacebar, a waft comes.

• 37:28Laci Mosley?

  No, this coochie is water. It smell like nothing.

• 37:32Speaker 06

  No, but coochie has smell.

• 37:34Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, certain times of the month.

• 37:36Speaker 06

  Like coochie.

• 37:37Laci Mosley?

  Sometimes of the month.

• 37:38Speaker 06

  Not a, not a bad smell. I'm not saying stink.

• 37:41Laci Mosley?

  Hormonally, it has a different.

• 37:43Speaker 06

  Coochie. It's pheromone.

• 37:45Laci Mosley?

  Not all the time. Only one week out of the month does it, does it have a pheromone that's stronger. Uh, the rest of it is water. It don't smell like nothing.

• 37:56Speaker 06

  It's like a.

• 38:00Speaker 06

  I'm trying to describe it.

• 38:01Laci Mosley?

  Okay, I'm gonna walk with you. I'm gonna walk with you. I'm gonna let you think.

• 38:05Speaker 06

  Cause it's, it's not bad. It's coochie. You know, it's not like a loud, it's just like, mm, coochie. This is all the coochiness. Like I, I go for a walk and sat down like that's loud fermented coochie, but just like a usual, just dormant Monday coochie had a smell.

• 38:24Laci Mosley?

  I, I've talked about this on the show before. I didn't understand as a kid why in television shows and movies, there would be these moments where the woman would be like about to hook up with a man and be like, let me go freshen up. And I didn't know what that meant. I didn't know.

• 38:42Speaker 06

  You gotta wipe the day off that thing.

• 38:44Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, they had to wipe the day off that coochie.

• 38:46Speaker 06

  And some men's is nasty and they like that.

• 38:49Laci Mosley?

  They do.

• 38:50Speaker 06

  And they, and they.

• 38:51Laci Mosley?

  They want a little fermented, I can't.

• 38:53Speaker 06

  They want the twang.

• 38:55Laci Mosley?

  That's.

• 38:56Speaker 06

  And.

• 38:58Laci Mosley?

  Oh, they want that little, oh no. I don't like that. That's why I'm gay. But I gotta be gay for the right woman, cause you gotta wash your coochie before I get down there and eat it.

• 39:10Speaker 06

  But once you like somebody, you kinda like they sent. Like when my king comes home from work, I'd be like, come here.

• 39:18Laci Mosley?

  When your king comes home from work.

• 39:24Laci Mosley?

  Oh, he went and did his employments. I think that's what you horny about. He went and did his job. And you were like, he worked. You went to work. Okay.

• 39:33Speaker 06

  Now some of the more daring people go balls.

• 39:36Laci Mosley?

  You're not working.

• 39:37Speaker 06

  My man who don't work, don't eat. Coochie.

• 39:39Laci Mosley?

  Period.

• 39:44Laci Mosley?

  Period. No thanks.

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• 40:09Speaker 07

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• 41:46Speaker 06

  And fraud! The Legos, yes.

• 41:49Laci Mosley?

  Yes, Legos. Back to Legos. And Ben, who got involved, he visited their corporate office and spoke with their CEO. Because he's a white man, so he's like, "I need to speak to the manager." And he went all the way up to the CEO.

• 42:05Speaker 06

  Dear God.

• 42:05Laci Mosley?

  And his name is Amon McNeff. Why are all these names? Y'all wear me out. So, Amon denied that anything had been stolen. And Amon said that it had nothing to do with the corporate situation. They had nothing. He was like, "I'm not in it. Like, we ain't do nothing, okay?" And he said this was a franchise problem. So then, Ben went reckless mode. Remember, he's reckless Ben? He set up a registered religion in order to run a raffle for the Lego sets and try to make this criminal case get to law enforcement. Because doing a... Is it 501(c)(?)

• 42:49Laci Mosley?

  The religious organization that you don't have to pay taxes for? Yeah. He knew that the government would get involved as soon as money on was involved. As soon as money's involved, he could get the government involved. So he filed a bunch of small claims, like cases against the store and the company and the owners of the store. Ben created a mock revival business. Revival. Now, I know you're a church girl. You know, send a revival.

• 43:19Speaker 06

  Hey, Lord, send a revi...

• 43:22Laci Mosley?

  And let it begin in me.

• 43:25Speaker 06

  I didn't know you could just register a religion. And this is reminding me of Family Guy with the Church of Fonz.

• 43:30Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, Fonzie, the Fonzie scheme, yeah. Now, I'm very close to making a church. I'm very close.

• 43:40Speaker 06

  I mean, since you can just do that, you know?

• 43:42Laci Mosley?

  You can do that. You can do anything. And I already got it, the congregation. We already in church. It's time for me to make a church. So...

• 43:51Speaker 06

  This is the same. Okay.

• 43:53Laci Mosley?

  He made this revival business, and the name of it... Okay, welcome, Mel. The name with it, the name that he made it?

• 44:01Speaker 06

  I'm irritated.

• 44:02Laci Mosley?

  I know, you about to get more irritated. The name of the church is We Steal From Old People.

• 44:15Speaker 06

  If you're old, we'll definitely steal from you.

• 44:18Laci Mosley?

  In one incident, an actor dressed up as a UPS driver and went to Josh Johnson's house in Utah. Josh called the police. The police arrested reckless Ben on charges of stalking. So reckless Ben started stalking people. They also arrested him on charges of trespassing and targeted residential picketing, which means that he stalked this man, found out where he lived, and then started hooting and hollering in front of his house. And they grabbed his ass up and took him away.

• 44:52Speaker 06

  It's to sprinkle Legos in this AI graphic for me.

• 44:59Laci Mosley?

  People online started making allegations about a conspiracy with the Mormon mafia because Josh's father held a senior position in the Latter Day Saints church. I knew them motherfuckers was gangsters. Organized religion, look. I was raised missionary Baptist. I have a special place in my heart for religion. But I do think that the King James Version, the Bibles that we get, like, it's all meant to subjugate you. Like, the meek will inherit the earth. Like, "Oh, poor people, don't worry that we stealing all your money from you

• 45:43Laci Mosley?

  because when you die, you'll finally..."

• 45:45Speaker 06

  When you get to having it be grand, then you get up there. And it's closed.

• 45:49Laci Mosley?

  Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it till you die. When you die, it's gonna be lit. Don't even worry about that. What?

• 45:55Speaker 06

  It's like, drop dead gorgeous.

• 45:57Laci Mosley?

  Crazy. So reckless Ben has released seven videos about the saga so far on YouTube. The first one has more than 6 million views. He even hooting and hollering about these Legos. And let's watch a little bit of it.

• 46:11Speaker 07

  This man spent his life collecting what's now known as the world's largest Lego Star Wars collection ever. It's estimated to be worth around $200,000. And then, the entire thing got stolen. And the police are actively working with the thieves to cover the entire thing up. But the craziest part is that the collector doesn't even know that his collection's been stolen. Yeah, the collector's son, Brian, well, he reached out to me because he has no clue how to break this news to his dad.

• 46:40Speaker 06

  At this point, my father had a help episode. We can't bring any stress to him.

• 46:46Laci Mosley?

  Well, yeah. He's ringing every alarm for these Legos. And now we're reaching the end of the episode. So this is the fallout.

• 46:55Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 46:56Laci Mosley?

  According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Ben faced... Ben reckless Ben, who clearly is reckless.

• 47:03Speaker 06

  For sure.

• 47:03Laci Mosley?

  He faced misdemeanor charges of stalking, targeted residential picketing, disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing against two Utahns. He deemed irresponsible for the missing Lego sets. So he went after them for the Legos. Like, imagine, like, I'm not going to jail for Legos. We going to jail for Legos?

• 47:27Speaker 06

  Is it a Lego jail? Is the jail made up Legos? Or is it just like a Lego jail?

• 47:32Laci Mosley?

  Maybe then I would go. I would like to see a Lego jail.

• 47:35Speaker 06

  Like?

• 47:36Laci Mosley?

  Like, I ain't never even bought no Legos because all the parents that I know are like, "I step on one and it breaks my baby tongue."

• 47:45Speaker 06

  I haven't been... I haven't Lego'd in a minute. I have not touched a Lego. In quite some time.

• 47:53Laci Mosley?

  In a statement in May, the American Fourth Police Department's chief, Cameron Paul, outlined four cases against Ben, which ultimately led to his arrest twice and charges against him, like, in March.

• 48:08Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 48:09Laci Mosley?

  In a video response posted June 1st, Schneider accused the police of lying and hurting his arm during an arrest. In the Oregon courts, Crystal, Crystal coming back. She's suing B&M alleging wrongful termination. Because remember, they were supposed to sell... They were supposed to buy the business from her, and instead they fired her. So now she's suing. So in Utah courts, B&M are suing Ben and Brian Manziel alleging defamation, profiteering, racketeering, and harassment.

• 48:47Speaker 06

  A Lego Rico?

• 48:49Laci Mosley?

  A Lego Rico. And racketeering is one of the hardest things to define in the scam lexicon.

• 48:56Speaker 06

  A Lego Rico?

• 48:58Laci Mosley?

  Rico. So in June, B&M announced their... On their blog that they were permanently closing the Kaiser Oregon store, where Brian Manziel originally entered into the consignment agreement. They made a mutual agreement, in quotes, with the franchise owners, Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson, to part ways due to a devastating social media campaign. So B&M, their CEO, Amon, he's back. He's become an internet villain.

• 49:33Speaker 06

  I could... I bet.

• 49:36Laci Mosley?

  Reckless Ben's Patreon got immediate content removal requests from B&M. Patreon CEO Jack Conte has publicly announced that Patreon will not be removing Ben's videos.

• 49:50Speaker 06

  No.

• 49:50Laci Mosley?

  He's Team Reckless Ben. He's like, "We not taking this shit off. It's doing numbers."

• 49:57Speaker 06

  And I've never seen the Patreon CEO speak out about anything. So he popped up for Ben and the Legos? Again, I... Maybe I underestimated Legos.

• 50:05Laci Mosley?

  I didn't know that Legos was this strong. I didn't know.

• 50:08Speaker 06

  I didn't know Legos got down like that.

• 50:10Laci Mosley?

  Right. Legos a little bit more real in a game than we thought. And there's an online fundraiser set up by Ben, and it's raised more than $500,000 for the Manzells. Crystal's own online fundraiser has raised more than $90,000. They on here running it up on GoFundMe. None of the allegations have been proven in court, and some of the facts are disputed by different parties involved. Obviously, like...

• 50:39Speaker 06

  This is...

• 50:41Laci Mosley?

  Okay.

• 50:43Speaker 06

  It all is over some god-doggone Legos.

• 50:48Laci Mosley?

  I chose this episode for you on purpose, Mel, because...

• 50:51Speaker 06

  Because you hate me.

• 50:55Laci Mosley?

  No, because I love you and I know that this is a harder one to get through. A lot of it's still not making sense to me, but I knew that you would be able to handle it and that you would be able to lock in with me while I just spit a bunch of fucking facts at you and a lot of them, I don't even understand my damn self.

• 51:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, cuz we're, I'm, listen.

• 51:18Laci Mosley?

  I'm tired, like my, my brain is tired from this, like, what? So, thank you for going through there with me.

• 51:26Speaker 06

  We built this episode brick by brick.

• 51:28Laci Mosley?

  Brick by brick Lego.

• 51:36Laci Mosley?

  You better come through with a motherfucking callback.

• 51:39Speaker 06

  You see what I did there?

• 51:41Laci Mosley?

  I see what you, oh, and I live for it. Oh, live for it, period, period.

• 51:51Laci Mosley?

  Oh, I love you real bad. So, I always ask at the end of the show, where would you like to be found? Anything you want to promote, socials, all of that, whatever it is?

• 52:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, right now, cuz I finished on my headlining for the summer. So, yeah, the airport comes out in the fall, I'm really excited about that. Um, I get, they let me be Ryan Coogler on TV, so. I'm waiting on my season to exist cuz at least it's like, you know.

• 52:21Speaker 06

  But yeah.

• 52:21Laci Mosley?

  I'm so seated, I'm so excited.

• 52:23Speaker 06

  It's gonna be a good time, I'm so excited for it.

• 52:27Laci Mosley?

  You're brilliant.

• 52:28Speaker 06

  Thank you, thank you, hopefully more to come.

• 52:30Laci Mosley?

  Superstar.

• 52:31Speaker 06

  Thank you, YouTube sister.

• 52:33Laci Mosley?

  It's always more to come with you. Don't even worry about that sweetheart, it's always gonna come to you.

• 52:38Speaker 06

  Listen, thank you, I need to hear that cuz it ain't easy. It ain't easy, but yes, to find me, Bad as Mitch on TikTok, um, it's Mel Mitch on Instagram.

• 52:49Laci Mosley?

  And if y'all haven't followed her pages and seen her comedy, y'all are missing out cuz.

• 52:53Speaker 06

  Get over here.

• 52:54Laci Mosley?

  She be having me cackling, like, all the time. One of my favorite videos you did was, um, it was, like, you were the neighbor to, uh, Macaulay Culkin, like.

• 53:08Speaker 06

  Oh, The Home Alone.

• 53:09Laci Mosley?

  Home Alone, you were the Home Alone neighbor.

• 53:11Speaker 06

  That's probably one of my most successful videos ever, like, the people ate that one up.

• 53:15Laci Mosley?

  It was so good, you just being across the street like, where are your parents at? They left you?

• 53:20Speaker 06

  Asking the questions that need to be asked because.

• 53:23Laci Mosley?

  Truly.

• 53:25Speaker 06

  No one cared about that baby and you don't see this little boy wind up and down by himself?

• 53:28Laci Mosley?

  Right, y'all got on a plane on Christmas and left the baby alone?

• 53:34Speaker 06

  Too much.

• 53:35Laci Mosley?

  Hmm, I love it. Uh, as always, you can follow me at D I V A L A C I, Diva Lacy, to see my shenanigans. If you want to see the photos from this episode, all of that will be on Scam Goddess Pod on Instagram, TikTok, if you want to talk to me, Twitter, like, or not Twitter, I don't be on Twitter that much no more, go on X, go on, or not X, touch that, go on Threads, that's what I mean, yeah, go on Threads and you can talk to me on Threads cuz I do be yapping with people on Threads now, I'll talk to anybody on Threads. Um, so, you can buy my book wherever books are sold, you can listen to my book on anywhere that audio is available and you can watch Scam Goddess, the first season of the show

• 54:17Laci Mosley?

  on Hulu, you can watch Going Dutch on Hulu as well, you can go watch my movies on Netflix, you can get into all the content. Go get in, hop in, jump in, and also leave five stars. Listen, if you got through this episode and, and somehow you figured out what I was saying cuz I'm a little confused about it, I don't know, I don't even know if I told y'all what it was for real, but if you did, you don't have to spend no money on, you don't have to spend no money to support a black woman, go give me five stars on Apple Podcast and give me a nice review and then go brag to people at dinner parties about it, that you supported a black woman today, okay?

• 54:57Laci Mosley?

  Congregation, stay confused, today we gonna be confused, but sometimes confusion is us figuring something out and then we'll move forward with that new information, so, I, I, I can't even give you an episode label on this, I'm very confused, but I'm not confused about Mel and I'm not confused about her talent, I'm not confused about having a generational bad bitch on my show gracing me with her presence, so y'all just enjoy that and then maybe try to figure out this Lego story and, and, and maybe write me back and tell me what you think and send me some notes cuz I don't know. All right, bye.

• 55:36Speaker 06

  Bye.

• 55:41Laci Mosley?

  Scam Goddess is an iHeart Media and Big Money Players production. The show is hosted by me, Lacey Mosley, the SVP of West Coast Productions, Jack O'Brien, Vice President of Programming, Miles Gray, and Director of Programming, Lindsay Hoffman, oversee production. Our executive producer is Joelle Monique, our senior producer is B. Haskins, Ina Burke is SVP of Content with additional services provided by Mark Canton, Dylan Unger, and the team at Hot Dog Sandwich, our editor is engineer Justin Connor, our theme music is composed by me, Lacey Mosley, cover on photo is Robin Von Swank. You can follow the show at Scam Goddess Pod on Instagram, TikTok.

• 56:21Laci Mosley?

  If you've been scammed, pulled the scam, or saw us scam, send us an email at [email protected] to tell us all about it. Don't forget to like and subscribe and tell a friend.

• 56:34Speaker 04

  Hola a todos, soy Jamie Lynn Segler. 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 te abraco mi médico sobre mis opciones, la elección para mí fue obvia. Boom, SOS KISSIMTA. Obtenga más información sobre KISSIMTA o FOTUMA MAP en kissimta.com.

• 57:04Speaker 03

  Okay, laundry stinks, literally. I mean, you could just keep buying new underwear, not that I've ever done that, or maybe sort your clothes into piles based on how re-wearable or filthy they are, or just use Arm & Hammer Deep Clean. It's made for real life stinks and stains, so even if you don't do laundry the quote "right" way, Deep Clean will knock it out. I mean, it is from the number one liquid detergent brand that tackles more loads than any other. Come clean with Arm & Hammer Deep Clean, number one claim based on total wash loads sold.

• 57:41Speaker 03

  Latte for Keenan?

• 57:42Speaker 01

  That's me.

• 57:43Speaker 03

  Hey, you're.

• 57:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 57:45Speaker 03

  Buying a car online on Autotrader?

• 57:47Speaker 01

  Really? But unlike other sites, you can start online, test drive with a local dealer, then finish online or at the dealership.

• 57:54Speaker 03

  Really? Wait, are you?

• 57:55Speaker 01

  Yep, it's Keenan.

• 57:56Speaker 03

  Able to finish in person without starting the process over?

• 57:59Speaker 01

  Really? Your info stays with you every step of the way.

• 58:02Speaker 03

  Cool, enjoy.

• 58:04Speaker 01

  It's Keenan Thompson, buy your car online on Autotrader, really.

• 58:10Speaker 03

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