The L. Ron Ex-Con with Cody Ziglar (Fraud Friday)

What's poppin, con-gregation? Cody Ziglar joins us to talk about an ex-convict claiming to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Plus, a teen allegedly steals nearly $1 million from a Kroger grocery store. Stay schemin! Research by Sharilyn Vera. Resources SOURCES https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=962&v=9z8AVci97SI&feature=youtu.be https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=962&v=9z8AVci97SI&feature=youtu.be__;!! NUnUjx3wvH5xgA! KNQ3Icgxx1Y2cvtyfLmADmARTzMgg7T1x6P-SHi-oFdx8380v4Cy83Djs1TQAQ$ https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kgkwv/this-guy-claims-to-be-the-reincarnation-of-l-ron-hubbard https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kgkwv/this-guy-claims-to-be-the-reincarnation-of-l-ron-hubbard__;!! NUnUjx3wvH5xgA! KNQ3Icgxx1Y2cvtyfLmADmARTzMgg7T1x6P-SHi-oFdx8380v4Cy83DffPPIZA$ https://www.businessinsider.com/craziest-scientology-facts-leah-remini-2017-1#there-are-at-least-two-mansions-in-california-that-are-maintained-staffed-and-stocked-with-food-in-the-event-of-hubbards-return-wright-says-18 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.com/craziest-scientology-facts-leah-remini-2017-1*there-are-at-least-two-mansions-in-california-that-are-maintained-staffed-and-stocked-with-food-in-the-event-of-hubbards-return-wright-says-18__;Iw!! NUnUjx3wvH5xgA! KNQ3Icgxx1Y2cvtyfLmADmARTzMgg7T1x6P-SHi-oFdx8380v4Cy83BRmf3HnQ$ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atlanta-area-teen-stole-nearly-1m-kroger-grocery-store-over-n1255199 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atlanta-area-teen-stole-nearly-1m-kroger-grocery-store-over-n1255199__;!! NUnUjx3wvH5xgA! KNQ3Icgxx1Y2cvtyfLmADmARTzMgg7T1x6P-SHi-oFdx8380v4Cy83D7CuolFA$ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR03drjMuIU https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR03drjMuIU__;!! NUnUjx3wvH5xgA! KNQ3Icgxx1Y2cvtyfLmADmARTzMgg7T1x6P-SHi-oFdx8380v4Cy83AI5ZzZiA$ Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scam Goddess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus http://siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 3:15Laci Mosley?

  What's poppin', congregation? We're back for another installment of Scam Goddess, the podcast that's all about scams, robberies, and fraud, and also comedy, that's the scam, I'm a comedian. Um, guys, I'm so what? Say it. Yes, excited, very excited for today's guest. And like, honestly, like, even more excited than normal because this man helped me start the show. He is a producer, he is a writer, he is behind some of the things that you love so much, Robot Chicken, She-Hulk, which is about to pop. Y'all see in a minute, y'all go see Rick and Morty, honey. I got another Rick and Morty genius on the pod, honey. And I, this man literally introduced me to all the black people in LA that I know and love.

• 3:59Laci Mosley?

  I love him so much, he is a dear friend and a genius. Guys, we have Cody Ziegler.

• 4:05Speaker 01

  Yo, thanks for having me. It's, you know, it's so surreal being like, five years ago, we were meeting in fucking basement of UCB Sunset, being like, hey, you're a negro, I'm a negro. What other negroes do you know that do comedy? And can we introduce each other together?

• 4:19Laci Mosley?

  Can we all be negroes together? Like, I just, it was very, and that's the thing, with black folks in any white space, we're always like, oh, what's up, King, they treating me right? Like, we all like, kind of like, do the nod to each other. And you're like, what's up? You know, it's so funny, I'm on iCarly now, and there's so many black people who work behind the camera.

• 4:40Speaker 01

  Oh, no shit, that's dope.

• 4:41Laci Mosley?

  Camera ops, the first AD is black. Um, there's a lot of black folks, and one of our directors that we love so much, Phil Lewis, he's black. And so sometimes, like, when they come around, we're like, you good, you good, they treating you good? They treating us all good, so we be like, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I love that person.

• 4:58Speaker 01

  That's so dope, yeah, I was like, oh my, you're not, you're not Ego, or you're not Kirby? There's a new black lady in town? Yeah, let's dig it, let's link up.

• 5:04Laci Mosley?

  Yo, one time I was at a performance at UCB, and I had a show after the show, but I came a little early because I wanted to watch, and Ego was performing. And then I went backstage, and I won't say the comedian because I don't want, I don't want y'all to be mean to them. There wasn't, it was, I guess, innocent enough. But a big comedian came up to me and was like, it was a white woman, and she was like, oh my God, you just killed it out there. And Ego was in the room, and I was like, bruh, we not, I didn't just, I'm about to go on, what you talking about?

• 5:33Speaker 01

  That happened to me once, like, one of my first years there, like, somebody was like, oh my God, you were so great last night, so funny, I was like, first of all, like, I don't even like to perform, so I know you ain't talking about me. And then, like, through there, at the conversation, it's sussed out that they were talking about Lou Wilson. I was like, I was like, what?

• 5:47Laci Mosley?

  It's so funny, it happens all the time. Before we get into what's hot and fraud and your relationship with scams, Cody, I do have to tell you guys about something that happened to me last night.

• 5:57Speaker 01

  Oh, boy.

• 5:58Laci Mosley?

  Um, where I think that someone tried to run a scam on me. Okay, so, I, y'all know I'm bi. I was dating this girl, she turned out to be real crazy. It wasn't even dating, we went on a couple, we hung out like, two times, so let's be clear. But then she subtweeted me on Twitter, and then when I talked to her about it, she sent me this So Weedy Take Care meme and was going off on me for ignoring two texts of hers. It was a lot. Um, but I was like, you know what? I'm gonna get back out there, and I'm gonna do it. So I got on Hinge, and I, this is not an ad, and this guy was super cute, and I was like, fuck it. So we started talking, and at 5 o'clock, we started talking, and then at like, 7:38, he was like, oh, what are you doing tonight?

• 6:42Laci Mosley?

  And I was like, ah, am I about to meet a stranger?

• 6:46Laci Mosley?

  Stranger danger. So I was like, yes, I'm about to get with this stranger. So, um, I had already made backup plans to meet up with Sydney Washington, who I love, hobby hunter, listen to that podcast, it's amazing, I'm gonna be on it. So I knew I was gonna meet up with them later, so I was just like, oh, I'll just pop in. And he said he was meeting with friends at the place, so I was like, whatever, and it was outdoors. So I go, and it's a poppin' ass place, so there's no parking, but I have like, parking aggression, where I'm like, I will not walk. Like, bitch, I will circle this block 30 times. Bitch, one of you is gonna leave. One of you's gonna, I pray to my parking gods, that's Priscilla, she has that parking jujitsu, I'm like, Priscilla, put it in my body, and my car.

• 7:30Laci Mosley?

  And so I, I'm driving down the street, and I see a spot, but it's on the opposite side of the street. So I look both ways because I know I'm about to do something illegal, which I love to do. And I was like, I'm about to flip a bitch. So I flip a bitch, and I get it, right? I'm waiting on the car to pull out. Someone pulls up behind me and puts on their blinkers, and I was like, this is only one spot. And like, do you know that, was they holding it for you? Like, my head is racing, because I'm like, this is my parking spot. So I pull in, and then I'm getting ready to get out because I'm like, I don't know what this person's doing. They're still there. They walk up to my window and knock on my window, this woman. And when I tell you she was fully unhinged, her wig looked highly flammable. It was like, insane.

• 8:14Laci Mosley?

  So I rolled out my window, and she was a black woman, I rolled out my window, and she's like, do you know you almost just killed me? And I was like, what are you talking about? And she was like, I was behind you, and if I had hit you, I would have died. And I was like, girl.

• 8:26Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 8:27Laci Mosley?

  She was like, when you turned, I was driving normally, and I was like, I put on my blinker so I could breathe and like, get myself together.

• 8:33Speaker 01

  You do be driving wild as hell, though, so like, I'm just saying.

• 8:35Laci Mosley?

  Which is why I was very insecure about it. So I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry I didn't see you. I thought I looked, because I really looked, because I was like, I'm doing illegal shit, like, let me look. And she's like, I was like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Like I truly like, I thought that I looked really well and that I was just trying to grab this parking spot. I'm so sorry. And she was like, well, I don't need sorrys. You just need to drive careful because that was blah, blah, blah. So now I'm thinking she's just like a black lady wants to give me some black lady.

• 9:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, she covered it hot.

• 9:01Laci Mosley?

  For her road rage. So I was like, yes, queen. Yes, yes. Then she's like, you know, we almost collided. And I was like, okay, but we didn't. She was like, but the damage, she was like, the damage, like when I stopped so hard, like my car crunched up and it like didn't want to work. She had a little old car. Congregation, remind me, when I post this episode, I will post something. I'll tell you in a second. So I was like, oh, okay. Like, I'm sorry your car crunched up. We didn't hit each other. You didn't hit me. So then she proceeds to walk away. She's behind me talking to some random person on the street, pointing at my car and shit.

• 9:39Laci Mosley?

  So now I'm like, let me just sit in my car and so this bitch leave. Cause now I'm like, she might key my shit or something. And I was shook. So I'm sitting there. And then she comes up behind my car and starts taking pictures of my license plate.

• 9:52Speaker 01

  No.

• 9:53Laci Mosley?

  And I'm like, bro, we didn't have an accident. We didn't have an accident. So now I'm thinking like, yo, cause she kept saying like, the damage, the damage. And I was like, the what damage bitch? Like, ah, you didn't hit me. What are we talking about? So when she took a picture of my license plate, my scammer brain was like, uh-oh, this bitch is gonna try to take a bet to the front of her car and say I did hit and run. So I got out and I took a picture of her and her license plate in the front of her car. And I will post that on Insta. Just remind me and I will.

• 10:20Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 10:22Laci Mosley?

  Bruh, she tried to scam me.

• 10:23Speaker 01

  That was like, well, you could. That was what, cause you can see the buildup to the grift. Like, she's like, I was like, it's just like one step away from like, oh, my neck be hurting. Cause like I, I had to stop so fast, right? She might've had the brace in the car too. Like you lucky, you, you got it on fork in four K.

• 10:38Laci Mosley?

  Bruh, like I, that's why I got out and took a picture. Cause I was like, ah, this feels like someone's about to try to scam me. Let me take a photo. I was so shook, but I'm also a bad driver. So I was like very insecure about that. I was like, mm, I probably did almost kill you.

• 10:53Speaker 01

  Yeah. So she almost, she, she didn't know that you had a weakness and that was just like driving wild.

• 10:57Laci Mosley?

  She got it. She got me. I was the right one for that. See, that's the thing about scams is like, sometimes you get the right one and like, that's how they pop off. And I was the right one for that scam. She picked on an insecurity that I have. But I didn't hit her and she was like, you didn't hear the sound. And I was like, girl, in LA, people honk or something. You did, there was no honk. There was no sound. What are you talking about?

• 11:18Speaker 01

  So what? She just dip out or she like, uh, she saw you getting evidence?

• 11:21Laci Mosley?

  After. And then after I took the picture, she got in her car and she still lingered and I just sat in my car and waited for her to leave. Cause I was like, I don't want this bitch to keep my car. And I drive a Mercedes. It's not like the nicest Mercedes. It's like a mid-class, you know?

• 11:33Speaker 01

  Just a mid-class Mercedes, you know how it is.

• 11:36Laci Mosley?

  It's not a G-Wagon, which I want, but, but like, so I'm like, it's not giving a hundred thousand dollars. Like, girl, why do you think you about to get some coins off of me? Like, what's happening? So, yeah, I had to tell you about that, Cody, cause I know you know.

• 11:49Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, look, I love some good goss. I love a good Lacy beef. I haven't had one in a while. I haven't had a Lacy beef in a while. So like, I'm glad just to get a taste of it. That's all I need. I saw you popping off the other day on, on Twitter. I was like, oh my God, this is about to be a, about to be a Lacy. I can't, I, I think you were subtweeting someone. I, I did, I texted to Edgar, just let him know, keep his hairs up in case a Lacy beef does pop off, but I don't think.

• 12:12Laci Mosley?

  Oh, I know what you're talking about. That's how he knew. Cause he texted me. I can't.

• 12:17Speaker 01

  Look, we are, we're watching your back, queen. We got you.

• 12:20Laci Mosley?

  Oh my God. So Cody, what is your relationship with scams?

• 12:25Speaker 01

  You know, I am a sweet boy. I would never scam anyone. Um, I, I, I'm a sweet southern gentleman. I, I will say I did for a time after college work at like a, a call center, not a telemarketing center, but if you're like one of those people that like happen to fuck up and fill out a survey or call those numbers that you get like at the end of receipt, when you buy like a.

• 12:45Laci Mosley?

  Trying to rebrand, like, oh, not a telemarketing center, a call center, where we still do unsolicited calls that you don't want, but like it's better.

• 12:52Speaker 01

  Nah, see, I'm about, nah, I'm about to turn it on and say, just, just stick it with me, right? Just, just, just, just hear me out. So I work at those places. If you like, bought like a microwave or some shit from like Best Buy and you filled out like the little number that's like, go to like www.bestbuy.com and felt the survey. We're the people that will call you to see how like that service was. Like that was the whole thing. Job sucked ass, but I needed money. So like the, the basic premise is you come in, you see, you have to work there. Four days a week and one of those days have to be on a weekend. And like, you know, ain't nobody, yeah, you know, nobody wants to talk to a fuck a.

• 13:23Laci Mosley?

  We're living for the weekend. What's this on?

• 13:25Speaker 01

  Exactly. Yeah. Like, no way.

• 13:28Speaker 01

  Ain't nobody trying to talk to you on a Sunday at three o'clock. So like, my whole thing was like, I found out pretty early on, this is a temp job. So like, I really didn't give a fuck. But like, I found out like, two weeks in that like, if you had your keyboard set up a certain way, like if you had like the caps lock, the number lock and whatever the other lock is, like it makes like three, like flashing buttons. If you hit those on, you could see when like your like supervisor was listening to your call. So like, we had to hit like a certain quota. You had to hit like 10 a day or whatever. But if you, you could dick around in between those times. So like basically what I would do is like, I set up my keyboard to see like when someone be listening in and whenever they listen in, I started doing work. So like,

• 14:04Speaker 01

  I spent most of the day like drawing like little doodles, drawing Spiderman and shit, like looking up stuff on Instagram, like just chilling. And like whenever they cut, they pop over, I would, I would call. So like, what I'm saying is like, I wasn't scamming. I was scamming the scammers. So like in a way I was woke. I was taking them down from the inside for those nine dollars an hour.

• 14:22Laci Mosley?

  You were a revolutionary. You were an activist.

• 14:25Speaker 01

  I was doing my thing.

• 14:26Laci Mosley?

  Cause people don't want to be called at dinner or now they call all times of the motherfucking day. And I am on some student loan hotline, I guess.

• 14:34Speaker 01

  Me too.

• 14:35Laci Mosley?

  And now these niggas are blowing me up. And when I tell you it's from every direction, I keep blocking the numbers when they call and then they call from a different number.

• 14:43Speaker 01

  Well, they do that fuck shit where they, they call from like a number that looks like it's from somewhere where you grew up, like it'll have the same area code. And maybe the first three digits of like what you would be.

• 14:51Laci Mosley?

  One fours, a lot of two one fours calling me.

• 14:54Speaker 01

  And then like the last four numbers are just like random. It's like, what this is, no one has this number where I'm from. So like you flex, you're gonna answer. Like you just gotta block it.

• 15:02Laci Mosley?

  Yo, I know. Oh my God. That's a great scam. Cause like I told you guys, we're also anti-capitalist here. Like if you work at a job and we were talking about this on Twitter, if you work at a job that you hate and it's just a big company. If you're ready to quit, you don't have to give them fucking notice. Would they give you notice if they fired you? No, just quit that bitch. Leave that bitch. I've done that. I've quit mid-shift. I was like, okay, bye. Like I was working at a restaurant and they didn't want to let me off. I was working like full time. They tricked me into working full time. They just kept giving me shifts and I'm an idiot and I just kept taking them. And my grandpa was having his 80th birthday party. My mom threw it. It was ridiculous. There was like a valet. There was servers. It was at our home, which I was like, mom's so extra. There was an ice sculpture.

• 15:45Speaker 01

  Oh shit.

• 15:46Laci Mosley?

  And it had a luge on it. And so we were like taking shots from the ice sculpture at my grandpa's 80th. It was fucking lit and my grandpa's no longer with me. So I'm so glad that I left that job to go see my family because at the end of the day, I wish that we could get ourselves like Europeans, like, you know, people in France and shit. We're like, work is not the way to live. Life is about connections. It's about family. It's about experiences. And work is just what you do so you can eat and have a roof over your motherfucking head. It shouldn't be your life. Like.

• 16:17Speaker 01

  Exactly. Like no one, like for me, like I'm lucky now that like I, I've been lucky enough to like love the jobs that I have been doing for the past couple of years, but like, even then like, you know, I'm not trying to work 40 hour weeks to see my loved ones for 24, for 48 over the weekend or whatever, 24, whatever it is over the weekend. Like, that's just not, like, I'm not here to do that. Like, that's not what I'm trying to do. And like, the only job I've ever quit, like just on the spot mid-shift too, was like, I was working at this place called Food Line. It was like a grocery store in North Carolina. Like, you know, you get like the MVP cards or whatever you can swipe people through or like get them credits and shit or off the stores.

• 16:49Laci Mosley?

  I don't know nothing about that, but I want to.

• 16:51Speaker 01

  Oh yeah. It's like, like, you know, it's basically like a Kroger card. Like you get like discounts or whatever off. Like you get three dollars off of your fucking ground beef or whatever, like.

• 16:59Laci Mosley?

  Right. Cause they're tracking your spending behaviors so that they can collect data on the store and what to order and shit. Yeah. I try, I actually use the store card on every store. Cause I'm petty and I don't want them to know, but I still get the discount.

• 17:12Speaker 01

  I was the dude that was like swiping the card for you. It's like, all right, cool. Like we were all in college. Like you ain't got no money. Let me go ahead and swipe this. The, the company don't care. Like they're giving these out for free. I swiped and like my supervisor just saw that and she was like, she started like yelling at me like in front of this customer being like, why are you doing this? I told you not to do this. Why are you swiping this card? It got so bad that the customer was like, yo, why are you yelling at this guy? Like he's, I asked him to do it. Like I didn't bring my card. And she was like, you hold up. I'm talking to him. Like he was just great. Just tearing my asshole out in front of this dude.

• 17:39Laci Mosley?

  What a hater. And that's not a hater job. Like girl, but did you lose money from the store that you don't own? Like what the fuck are you talking about?

• 17:47Speaker 01

  You from the Food Line family? Why do you care? Like, I just like look at her.

• 17:50Laci Mosley?

  Boss bitch? Like, are you Mr. Food Line? Like, what's happening?

• 17:54Speaker 01

  Why are you tripping over two 17? And I was just like, yo, I'm like, I'm graduating in two months. I don't need this shit. And I just quit and walked out. But like, I, if anyone listening to this that has a bullshit ass job that you don't want to work and someone's giving you grief, fucking quit that bullshit ass job. Cause they will fire you in a heartbeat. They ain't giving you two weeks.

• 18:10Laci Mosley?

  And also if you hate your bullshit ass job, just know there's plenty of bullshit ass jobs that you can go to and you know, like get tired of them too. You could go to a billion jobs. Like, you don't gotta, don't stay if you, if you tired, okay? And also it's such a powerful moment when you have like asshole managers who are bootlickers for the company. You just leave them.

• 18:33Speaker 01

  Yeah. Like seeing someone scramble to call out someone to cover your shift is the best feeling in the world.

• 18:38Laci Mosley?

  Cause I threatened to quit once at my horrible job, which I just went to a reunion for all of the servers at this restaurant. Cause it was like, they picked like hot, cool people to like slave them basically. I was a sushi hoochie and, um, and it was intense. Like I would get chits and like chits are basically like a little piece of paper that says like, this guest is really important. And this is what they like. And this is what they want. And so I would get that and then it'd be like, oh, I have to set up their chopsticks with this thing on the table or oh, they want Yamazaki 18 on the table before they arrive. Like all this extra shit, right? And my manager was just like a horrible person who would nag you even if you weren't doing shit. Like he would come up to me like, hey, Lacy, I noticed that your wagyu beef sales are down. I'm like, bitch, I'm an actor. I'm just trying to get some points. I'm for fuck of my wagyu sales are down. I'll kill you.

• 19:24Speaker 01

  Plug? What are you talking about?

• 19:25Laci Mosley?

  You don't sell the beef bitch. Like what?

• 19:29Speaker 01

  Like getting a cut.

• 19:30Laci Mosley?

  Right. Exactly. He had, he was getting a cut. And then when I, I told you, I already threatened to quit. So then when my grandpa's idiot came up, I was like, look, if I can't go, I'm gonna have to quit. And they were like, you threatened to quit once and we accommodated you. So they thought I was bluffing. I was like, okay, bye.

• 19:45Speaker 01

  No, no, wait, wait, wait. I was joking. They're like, no, I'm out.

• 19:47Laci Mosley?

  Like, when I say I'm gonna quit, I'mma quit.

• 19:52Laci Mosley?

  It's not a threat. You did what I wanted, so I didn't quit. But if you don't, when I say I'mma quit, I'mma quit.

• 19:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, I got nothing to lose. You don't give a damn. I don't give a fuck. I'm out.

• 20:00Laci Mosley?

  Right. I'm a scammer. I scammed my mom yesterday. I needed a new phone, and I'm still on my parents' plan because generational wealth. And I'm not an authorized purchaser. So when I went to AT&C, which, oh, my God, AT&C customer service, you raggedy bitch. Inside the store, amazing. When you call, hell. And I couldn't get authorized. So after a while, I was like, fuck it. Because like, my dad tried to help me, but he was golfing, and we thought it was done, and it wasn't. And my dad was like, I'm trying to finish a golf round. Hurry the fuck up. He was like, cussing at the guy. I was like, oh, this is a lot. And so finally, I just got on the phone with them. I was in the store, and I was like, hi, this is Lori Bishop.

• 20:41Speaker 01

  Oh, boy. Oh, no, you did not.

• 20:45Laci Mosley?

  And my mom texted me and was like, hey, I just got off my work thing. I'm gonna authorize you now. And I was like, nah, my mom already scammed it. I just said I was you. It's cool, right? It's cool.

• 20:54Speaker 01

  I mean, it was for a good cause. I respect it.

• 20:56Laci Mosley?

  She, it was not like, it wasn't with their consent, like, they were gonna do it. So let's get into our first segment, because we're eighteen minutes in. This is what happens when my friends are on the show, is that it is a nightmare.

• 21:08Speaker 01

  Producer brain on. We got it. We got it. We all right. We got a focus. I got you, queen.

• 21:11Laci Mosley?

  Oh, my God. So let's get into our first segment. What's hot in fraud? This is where we warn listeners about scams that are popping in the streets, or more often than not, we get a listener letter, and we expose you and your friends and family. So, guys, if you want to snitch on your friends and family, [email protected]. All I ask is that you make sure the scam is retired. We don't want to fuck up your bag. And also, if there's a statute of limitations, maybe wait, or tell me to delete the email when I get it, you know? Okay, some of y'all do that. So I'm like, ew. Cody, give me a fake name for this person. We don't care about gender on this show. It's a construct.

• 21:45Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm. Billy Longsworth.

• 21:49Laci Mosley?

  Billy Longsworth.

• 21:50Speaker 01

  Good improv name.

• 21:50Laci Mosley?

  Wow. It is. It truly is. So Billy says, I am what? Excited to be sending you this email. Ha, Billy, funny. Okay. And then there's like some, I'll read this. I never read the nice stuff, but I'll read it. I just don't like to like, be like, reading nice stuff.

• 22:09Speaker 01

  Hey, you need it. You earned it.

• 22:10Laci Mosley?

  You know? But it says, I know you won't read this part, but I'm a big fan of the show and just heard that you're gonna be on iCarly. Iconic. I read it, okay? Maybe I read it so that you guys know that I'm on iCarly. Okay, so let's get to it. A few years back, I was looking for a job as a nanny using Care.com, which is a popular website where people can apply for babysitting and nanny jobs. I love that you are, you know, we know what Care.com is, but I love the clarification.

• 22:36Speaker 01

  Explain to me. I love it.

• 22:37Laci Mosley?

  A thorough king or queen, or, or royalty non-binary as well. Hey, Billy. So after creating my nanny profile, I got a weird text message. You know how scams kind of have their own scammy language? Yes, I do. That's a new language, scam. Because it is a language, okay? And I'm fluent.

• 22:59Laci Mosley?

  I couldn't just tell if it was fishy from the beginning, or like, she's saying like, I could tell it was fishy from the beginning, rather, excuse me. Basically, the person texting me said that they were helping their sister, who was about to move to town, find a nanny. They offered to pay some exorbitant amount of money per week that was what most families would offer in a month. Okay.

• 23:19Speaker 01

  First red flag.

• 23:19Laci Mosley?

  If you were lucky. So I knew it was fishy, so I ignored it. But continued to get texts from different numbers that were almost identical, being curious, ooh, you love scams, and I love you, Billy. I decided to play along with it for a little while to see what the scam could possibly be. After responding with "interest" in quotes, the scammer said that they would send a big check for me to get groceries and household essentials for the family moving into town. After doing some research and learning that this is a very popular scam, it seems that the scammer would ask the scammy to pay back some of the money, which of course was from a fake check, meaning you would end up paying them out of your own pocket. I think there are a few variations of the scam out there. Look out. So we've talked about the scam a billion times.

• 24:02Laci Mosley?

  And we talked about it in the workplace, where that someone will email you and pretend to be your boss. We talked about it in, you know, artistry spaces like Etsy, when I told you guys that my sister literally fell for the scam, where her friend was like, somebody wants to buy my art, but I don't want my parents to know it's in my bank account. Will you deposit it? And I'll give you some of the money. Like, and my sister doesn't need money. But like, so I've seen this happen a billion times. And I picked this letter because, yeah, we've already talked about the scam a bunch. But I just want you guys to know that any medium, any medium where it's like, Indeed, monster.com, Craigslist, Care.com,

• 24:44Laci Mosley?

  any medium where you see someone who's trying to pay you an exorbitant amount of money, but they want to do it in a check, especially an e-check.

• 24:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:53Laci Mosley?

  Like, don't do it, especially if they're like, here's the kicker, if they're like, give me some of the money back. Because like, a check is something you can write for the exact amount. So why are you sending me more money than what I need?

• 25:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's one of those things that's too good to be true, then also you're like desperate for money. Like, that's the kind of gig where like, you need it. Like, you need a paycheck, a paycheck, needle of paycheck to pay to get some shit done.

• 25:20Laci Mosley?

  And they know that. And that's what disgusts me about this scam, because I'm all for scamming rich people. I'm all for scamming capitalists. But when you're going on a website where someone is trying to get sitter jobs or something like that, a lot of times those jobs are something that holds you over. If you're an au pair and a professional nanny or whatever, that's different. That's your profession. But if you're just doing it to get some coins to get where you're trying to go, those sites, like, are ripe for scammers.

• 25:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:47Laci Mosley?

  So anytime you're working in any kind of like side hustle job, you have to be fully aware that someone may try to scam you, because it is happening more and more.

• 25:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, they'll get you, especially now that everyone's logged on, and they have to be like checking emails and doing work through online shit.

• 26:01Laci Mosley?

  Mm-hmm. With the Zoom age, which Zoom came up in the pandemic.

• 26:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, they got their coin.

• 26:07Laci Mosley?

  I feel bad. You know what it is? Zoom feels like, to me, what happened with Netflix and Blockbuster. Blockbuster was where the girls went on the weekends, and they got their chocolate-covered raisins, and their love in basketball, DVDs, or tapes, depending on how old you are. And then Blockbuster didn't realize the world was changing, and them bitches didn't ever evolve. So then Netflix, right? Then Netflix was like, okay, so we gonna start as Blockbuster, but then we gonna be Blockbuster the app. And it's like, well.

• 26:39Speaker 01

  And then we gonna flex, we gonna, we gonna flex so hard that we're gonna have a documentary that we make about how we put Blockbuster out of business. That's what Zoom do. That's what Zoom's about to do to Skype. Like, y'all thought y'all, you thought y'all were doing something.

• 26:50Laci Mosley?

  Zoom got they foot on Skype's neck, honey. Like, it's over for Skype. Skype where? Skype where?

• 26:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:56Laci Mosley?

  Like, we don't Skype. I don't even know how to get on there.

• 27:00Speaker 01

  Anybody got that app no more?

• 27:01Laci Mosley?

  No. And I don't even have a Zoom account. I just scam and use other people's.

• 27:08Laci Mosley?

  I'm like, let's do a Zoom meeting. You.

• 27:09Speaker 01

  Yeah. Let's get that Sirius XM Zoom going.

• 27:13Laci Mosley?

  Literally. But all right, guys, we're gonna take a quick break for some non-scam advertisements, and we'll be right back with historic hoodwinkings. Scam!

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• 27:33Speaker 06

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• 27:35Speaker 02

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• 29:22Speaker 05

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• 30:12Speaker 05

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• 30:22Laci Mosley?

  And we are back. And it's time for historic hoodwink. Honey, this is my favorite part of the show. I will regale Cody with a famous story about a charlatan or a group of criminals or whatever, you know? And we don't know if we like them. We don't know if we like them. We'll decide at the end. And I just have to say that many quotes from this research, shout out to Cheryl and Vera, are from an interview in a Vice article by Jamie Tate. And that's spelled J-A-M-I-E-T-A-E-T-E. Okay, we like to give credits here. We're not going to scam the writers, okay?

• 30:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:00Laci Mosley?

  It's not all from Jamie, but Jamie girl, God bless you. So, a 33-year-old man has legally changed his name from Justin Allen Craig to Lafayette Ron Hubbard.

• 31:12Speaker 01

  Already a scam. Already a scam. It's already off the rails.

• 31:16Laci Mosley?

  When you changing your name?

• 31:17Speaker 01

  Lafayette what?

• 31:19Laci Mosley?

  You're a scammer. Like, anybody who changes their name other than getting married to someone and changing the last name, like, you are a scammer. If you change your first name, we know you're doing crime.

• 31:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, Lafayette's a swing too. Like, that has like-

• 31:32Laci Mosley?

  Lafayette! Lafayette! Child, I'm already-

• 31:38Speaker 01

  I'm already, I cannot wait to see what this goes.

• 31:40Laci Mosley?

  So he changed it to Lafayette Ron Hubbard, basically making him L. Ron Hubbard. You know where we're-

• 31:46Speaker 01

  Oh, wait, are we? Oh, I'm in.

• 31:48Laci Mosley?

  Oh, yeah, baby. We're going there, baby.

• 31:51Speaker 01

  Let's go.

• 31:52Laci Mosley?

  So the official Church of Scientology isn't buying this story.

• 31:57Laci Mosley?

  I'm, okay, so how we're going to refer to this is like, the new, still alive L. Ron Hubbard, the Lafayette Ron Hubbard. We're going to call him Lafayette. And the deceased one who started Scientology, we will call him L. Ron Hubbard.

• 32:11Speaker 01

  Gotcha, okay.

• 32:12Laci Mosley?

  So that everyone can follow the story. We got it. So this Lafayette is obviously not the L. Ron Hubbard who wrote the sci-fi novels and founded the Church of Scientology, because he died in 1986, right?

• 32:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, he'd been dead.

• 32:24Laci Mosley?

  Ultimate scammer. He, honestly, L. Ron Hubbard made me-

• 32:28Speaker 01

  Chef's kiss.

• 32:29Laci Mosley?

  L. Ron Hubbard made me feel like, oh, God, I can't believe I'm saying this. My mom's going to kill me.

• 32:34Speaker 01

  Oh, boy.

• 32:35Laci Mosley?

  Was Jesus a scam?

• 32:39Laci Mosley?

  Because L. Ron Hubbard basically did what Jesus did. And he's dead, and all his stuff is living on. And I'm like-

• 32:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, he was the archetype. He was like, yo, we're going to have a navy. Got it. We're going to have buildings in every city. Got it. We're going to be posted up in Florida. Scam capital of the US, by the way. Florida. Like, he-

• 32:56Laci Mosley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 32:57Speaker 01

  He knew what he was doing. He knew what he was doing.

• 32:59Laci Mosley?

  I love Florida simply like because of the fact that they are lawless. Florida's like, we're doing what we want. Like, pandemic where? Like, Florida was the first state to open up, and I'm not sure if they ever closed.

• 33:12Speaker 01

  Hey, I don't think they closed.

• 33:13Laci Mosley?

  They just had a code, a curfew. They didn't close. They were like, we ready to die. Like, what?

• 33:18Speaker 01

  Y'all got to leave at 8:00, but you can come back at 7:00 tomorrow. It's all good. We go see you.

• 33:22Laci Mosley?

  Florida was like, we got a competition at the bar tonight. Who can take the most spit in their mouth from strangers? Like, they were like, we don't give a fuck about the pandemic. Bruh, Florida's wild. The only reason we haven't cut them bitches off of America is because the beaches are hot and the women are beautiful.

• 33:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, you need it. They've earned their keep, you know?

• 33:45Laci Mosley?

  Miami is holding Florida down. Because otherwise, we would have just shipped that penis-shaped extrament off of the US.

• 33:52Speaker 01

  Yes, it's carrying Florida on his shoulders.

• 33:55Laci Mosley?

  Right. But I will also say this. Anytime you see like a Florida man's story or anything online, just know that Florida has different laws about privacy when it comes to doing crime and stuff. So they can publicize anything you do with your mugshot in that state. And so that's why we see so many Florida man did this, Florida man did that. Because some other states have more restrictive laws about like airing niggas out. But honestly-

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Don't give a fuck.

• 34:23Laci Mosley?

  Honestly, Florida should do that because they're so fucking ratchet. Like, you've got to put everybody on notice about some shit. If somebody's eating someone's face, you've got to be like, hey, y'all, don't go down Miami-Dade Street.

• 34:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, just like, y'all know, we do things a little bit different down here. We built different.

• 34:37Laci Mosley?

  It's a face-eating man on the block. Like, you know, they got to warn the community, which is fair. So this Lafayette is 33 years old. Same age as Jesus.

• 34:48Speaker 01

  Jesus. It's time to gather.

• 34:50Laci Mosley?

  He had died. Okay. Lives in a small town in Washington State and claims to be the other L. Ron Hubbard, but in a new body.

• 34:59Speaker 01

  Oh, shit. Oh, a picture just popped up. Oh, my God.

• 35:02Laci Mosley?

  And like, city girls, like, what'd they say? You fuck the old body, this the new body? Okay? And Lafayette was like, this the new body.

• 35:11Speaker 01

  This made it look like more of a scammer. He could not look like more of a scammer.

• 35:14Laci Mosley?

  Definitely a scammer. Is that a hand tattoo?

• 35:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm trying to see what it says.

• 35:18Laci Mosley?

  Can we zoom in on the hand tattoo? I'm confusion. Okay, we can't read it, but it's got some like, it looks-

• 35:25Speaker 01

  It makes me, I'm not saying it.

• 35:26Laci Mosley?

  Those are characters. It's either Japanese characters or Chinese characters.

• 35:29Speaker 01

  Well, let's see, I couldn't tell if it was a racist hand tattoo or not. Because he looks like he could be racist, but he could also be a woke king. I don't know.

• 35:36Laci Mosley?

  Right. He could literally storm the Capitol, or he could be like giving a speech to the white people at the BLM rally. Like, I don't know. He's got on this button down and these glasses. It's elusive. He doesn't look anything like L. Ron Hubbard. And why is L. Ron Hubbard over here writing with a quill?

• 35:53Speaker 01

  He got a quill.

• 35:54Laci Mosley?

  He got a quill, bro.

• 35:55Speaker 01

  He got to write demise in ink, so you know it's real.

• 35:58Laci Mosley?

  Yo, Marina, screenshot this, because I'm going to post this Instagram too, so y'all can see. Because I am confusion about this quill, okay? He's got some characters on his hand. White people, and also just anybody who's non-Asian, and we all know there's been a fuck-ton of shit happening to our Asian-American brothers and sisters, you know? And I'm always with you guys. I was at the rallies. I'm going to be at the rallies. But it's so funny to me when people who are not someone who is from the ethnicity or speaks the language gets like a Japanese tattoo with the Japanese characters or like a Chinese tattoo with Chinese characters. What are you doing?

• 36:40Speaker 01

  It's such a big swing because like, there's like maybe the asterisk next to that would be like, if you like studied this and like you were really in that culture, that's one thing. But like, I'd say that's very few and far between. It's usually like some white dudes and like our black brothers and sisters, like, we got to stop getting those tattoos too. Like, come on now. You can't, you need to appropriate.

• 37:00Laci Mosley?

  And it's not, yeah, it's appropriation, but it's also like, you don't speak that language. So how do you know your tattoo artist isn't a scammer? Because remember when Ariana Grande basically got barbecue tattooed on her?

• 37:11Speaker 01

  Right, yeah.

• 37:13Laci Mosley?

  It's like, why would you submit yourself to that? If you don't speak Sanskrit, like, why the fuck are you putting it on your body?

• 37:21Speaker 01

  They're trying to have a hot boy summer.

• 37:24Laci Mosley?

  But at the same time, I love little hot girl tattoos. So I'm like, yeah, get those little hot girl tattoos. They're cute, you know, boys and girls. I love it. I love it for you. So I'm not saying stop. I'm just saying, maybe, I don't know.

• 37:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, get a different aesthetic. You can do something that matches with you can still be hot, but not get like a, a.

• 37:40Laci Mosley?

  Right. Cause it's like Harigana, Katana, Kanji, Shi. There's a lot of characters even just in Japanese language. So it's like, bruh, are you sure what you got on you says what you think it is?

• 37:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, I don't be trusting that Google Translate.

• 37:55Laci Mosley?

  No, you can't trust Google Translate because I speak Spanish and sometimes I'll like forget a word because I don't get to speak it often enough. And I'll Google it and sometimes it'll give me some shit that I'm like, that ain't it.

• 38:06Speaker 01

  They have you out here talking crazy. I'm like, uh, no, no, no, I don't remember that.

• 38:10Laci Mosley?

  Right. I'm like, I'm like, can I have some more bread? And then I Google translated and it's like, esto es la biblioteca. I'm like, that means I'm at the library. What are we doing?

• 38:20Speaker 01

  It's paying, right? Let me get that paying. Come on, I got that one.

• 38:23Laci Mosley?

  What are we doing? Oh, my God. So in a Skype call with a reporter, Lafayette talked about his tattoos. He says, I have a cross of Scientology here, pointing at his right arm and gesturing to his left. So we saw him. He has tattoos.

• 38:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, you got him.

• 38:37Laci Mosley?

  He said, I have the infinity symbol on my forehead, which is a cover up of something else I got in prison. Hmm, you got a prison tattoo?

• 38:45Speaker 01

  You know, that was a swastika. I'm telling you, I don't know.

• 38:47Laci Mosley?

  It absolutely was.

• 38:49Speaker 01

  Was a swastika. I'm telling you.

• 38:50Laci Mosley?

  Because he's saying that he got, uh, what did he get over the tattoo in prison? He's saying that he got a.

• 38:58Speaker 01

  Infinity.

• 38:59Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. So like, what's the affinity? It's like that eight kind of thing?

• 39:03Speaker 01

  Yes, like a sideways eight. Yeah.

• 39:05Laci Mosley?

  So hmm, could that have covered up a swastika? Trying to think.

• 39:09Speaker 01

  I think, I mean, I can't also, I can't imagine that the handmanship of a prison tattooist is like.

• 39:14Laci Mosley?

  Right. It's gotta be stick and poke. Yeah. And maybe it was small and it was like a swastika and then he just put an infinity over it. Yeah. But when you go to prison, like, even if you weren't a problematic white person, you gotta, you gotta join the Aryan gang. What else you gonna do?

• 39:31Speaker 01

  You gotta, you gotta get radicalized. You either, if you're black, you become Muslim. If you're white, you become an Aryan. That's just how it is.

• 39:37Laci Mosley?

  Well, you're right. When you go to prison, you gotta be like, they will not replace us.

• 39:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, blood and soil, right? Yeah, that's me.

• 39:45Laci Mosley?

  Lord Jesus. So in Scientology, there's a belief that our souls are infinite. Lafayette said, let's just say I was a member of a certain prison gang at one time. He would not specify which.

• 39:55Speaker 01

  I think we know which one. Yeah.

• 39:57Laci Mosley?

  We know.

• 39:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, we got you, King.

• 39:59Laci Mosley?

  Listen, you was white. I love that you're embarrassed, so you won't say it, but you was white in prison. Like prison is a bad, stupid place that people have created to validate doing slavery still.

• 40:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, at least he's.

• 40:13Laci Mosley?

  We'll just enslave everybody, but we'll mostly incarcerate black and brown people.

• 40:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, most of the brown.

• 40:17Laci Mosley?

  And then they'll make license plates for 10 cents a day.

• 40:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, we'll pay you 7 cents a day. At least he's, at least he's embarrassed. At least he knows that he should be embarrassed about being a Nazi gang.

• 40:25Laci Mosley?

  I love that about him. Yes. So, but also prison is survival. Like, if I had to go to prison and for some reason, the white Nazi girls were like, hey, we'll protect you. I'd be like, well, you know, hell, Satan, hell, Satan, who we hailing?

• 40:39Speaker 01

  Look, I'm trying to survive. I can't do time. I ain't got no bodies on me. I gotta do what I gotta do. I feel you. I respect it.

• 40:45Laci Mosley?

  Right. I would fully be Clayton Bigsby. I'm like, yeah, I hate black people. Like, what, what I gotta do? Like, I just wanna live. So I get it. So a brief history of scams in Scientology. We're gonna give you a quick rundown. The Church of Scientology says the most Scientologists remember past lives. Okay, so Lafayette ain't wrong. L. Ron Hubbard himself claimed to have lived previous existences as a British imperialist and as a mogul Cecil Rhodes and a tax collector in an ancient Rome setting, right? And an alien race car driver in a distant Gallic.

• 41:20Speaker 01

  That's my dude. He's talking that talk.

• 41:23Laci Mosley?

  A distant galactic civilization. So in the six, then like in 1960s, so like the 60s. His followers were convinced by his tales of past lives. He was allegedly able to lead an expedition to dig up treasure he buried during a previous life. No treasure was found. Duh.

• 41:39Speaker 01

  Shit. Yeah, that's a lot. You can't be, you gotta commit.

• 41:42Laci Mosley?

  Yo, L. Ron is a fucking amazing scammer. He was like, come on, y'all, we gonna find this treasure that he knew wasn't there.

• 41:47Speaker 01

  It's like 300 more feet. It's 300 more feet.

• 41:50Laci Mosley?

  Right. It's 300 more feet. Or he was like, damn, somebody dig my shit up from my past life.

• 41:55Speaker 01

  Damn, you know what happened? Someone must have remembered my other past memory and they got here first. Damn, I hate to even do that to you.

• 42:01Laci Mosley?

  He was like, I did a time capsule for y'all, but somebody dug our shit up. God damn. Like, I love this for everyone. So there are at least two mansions in California that are maintained and staffed and stocked with food in the event of L. Ron Hubbard's return.

• 42:18Speaker 01

  Oh, shit.

• 42:18Laci Mosley?

  Wow. Talk about power. You are dead, dead. And people are still like, well, when you come back, we got the loaves and fishes.

• 42:26Speaker 01

  He got staff. Like, they're like, their niggas like rubbing down the silverware right now because he might be popping back in. I need that. I need that.

• 42:34Laci Mosley?

  Right. I need that too. That power. I want that founding fathers' power because I fucking hate. Anytime I'm on Twitter or anywhere in the news, when people are like, well, the founding fathers wanted us to have, I'm like, that niggas are dead. They've been dead for 300 plus years. They were racist, bigots, slavers, pedophiles with wooden teeth. Why do you give a fuck about what George Washington wants you to have in America? He is deady, dead, dead.

• 43:05Speaker 01

  That nigga, he didn't even have iPhone. Like, he didn't have electricity. Like, we don't need to know what he looks like on planet.

• 43:10Laci Mosley?

  How you gonna give us advice? He didn't even have lights.

• 43:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, come on. Yeah, he didn't even have, he didn't have Netflix. What are you talking about?

• 43:18Laci Mosley?

  Right. He didn't know about USB cores. He definitely didn't know about the cloud. Like, what is this into him?

• 43:24Speaker 01

  He never sold 90 Day Fiance. What are you talking about? We don't need that.

• 43:27Laci Mosley?

  You know what, though? They were good scammers because they put the elasticity clause in the constitution, which was basically like, well, if shit changes, like, y'all can like freshen this shit up. So everyone's like, oh, my God, the elasticity clause, we can freshen shit up. They're such geniuses. It's like, bitch, they just knew that they were in the olden times and didn't have shit. And they probably saw the wheel get invented and were like, oh, new technology. Like, we gotta prepare for that. Like, come on now.

• 43:53Speaker 01

  Exploit some brown people. Let's go ahead and put that in there.

• 43:55Laci Mosley?

  Tech bros and pedophiles. Like, come on now. We don't, we don't need to do this. So L. Ron Hubbard was under investigation multiple, in like multiple countries and often lived on a ship to evade anyone's jurisdiction. So you brought up the ship before and I, it's so funny. I've watched Going Clear. I've watched all these documentaries and I thought I really understood Scientology. But this is a very key part for me that I didn't know, which is that this nigga was on international waters so that he couldn't get arrested.

• 44:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, yeah, like, I can't remember what they were called. Like, they had like the, it's like, they had like a whole marine, marine time, like section, like the aquanaut or some shit of like.

• 44:35Laci Mosley?

  Sea Org.

• 44:36Speaker 01

  The Sea Org. Yeah. And nigga would just like, he would just spend like months trying to find ports to him to do shit in because he was out there international waters. He could do what he wanted to do. And that just had niggas working on this ship for free.

• 44:46Laci Mosley?

  One of the best scammers who ever did it. He was like, oh, y'all gonna try to jail me on land? Okay, a bitch is about to be out to sea.

• 44:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, we catch you in the Pacific, baby. We see you.

• 44:57Laci Mosley?

  Yes. Uh, the cops gonna pull up to the ocean?

• 45:01Speaker 01

  You got a cop boat, sir? I don't think so. Peace.

• 45:03Laci Mosley?

  I don't think so. I know some Uber drivers have looked like they were in the ocean, but y'all can drive here.

• 45:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, catch me in the Suez Canal.

• 45:10Laci Mosley?

  Right. I love this for him. So Scientology has a detailed and costly courses, basically. And we know that. I haven't done a Scientology app. This is not the Scientology app. This is specific, but I will do one on the religion. Because, honey, a scam.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  It's a lot. Yeah.

• 45:25Laci Mosley?

  A scam. If you don't have money, they're like free labor. If you have money, they're like, we'll have all of your money.

• 45:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, come through.

• 45:32Laci Mosley?

  We'll flame you and harass you. They're fantastic scammers. So Scientology is detailed, like it has detailed and costly, you know, courses and it's called the Bridge to Total Freedom. Scientology teaches that reaching to the top of the bridge means that you're able to use the mind to do powerful things, like move things or cure cancer for yourself, according to Leah Remini. And I watched Leah Remini's doc and I fuck with Leah Remini. I really do.

• 45:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, she came out hard. She's like enough of this shit.

• 46:01Laci Mosley?

  Right. And like, she's the only one who's ever done something that big against Scientology and she could only do it because she was a celebrity. Because otherwise, they have people following you when you leave. They have people harassing you. It's very scary. Like that lady who walked up to my car. I had a full panic attack after that. I can't imagine that was every day in Scientology when I left. Like, niggas coming up like, you, you forgot about Zidane?

• 46:25Speaker 01

  You would, whatever. Imagine finding like someone rent, like that organization rented a house next to you so they could spy on you. That's some wild shit.

• 46:32Laci Mosley?

  And that's, they had the money to do it. That's why, look, I don't wanna campaign for organized religion not being tax exempt because like, honestly, I wanna be tax exempt.

• 46:43Laci Mosley?

  But y'all don't be giving back enough for the tax exemption. Joel Osteen don't be giving back enough for the tax exemption. When Houston had the floods and the hurricanes, he closed the doors of his church. And it was like, bruh, a church's whole point is to take in the needy and help them. You can't close your church, you bitch.

• 47:02Speaker 01

  So he needed some, he needed some, y'all, y'all needed some coin. That's what he was saying. Get your bank up.

• 47:07Laci Mosley?

  Hmm. So required courses cost about $650 each and a course could require that its members study from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM, seven days a week. And I'm just gonna take a quick pause to tell you guys, 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM is 11 hours, right? And it is enough time to start a brainwashing period. If you do anything as a human being long enough, your brain will start to like conform to it. Like there's like this thing that's like, oh, if you make a habit and you do it for 21 days, your brain will do it for the rest of your life. So if you're nine AM to 10 PM every day studying, they will brainwash you and indoctrinate you into their cult.

• 47:49Speaker 01

  And you just like, that's just your world too. Like all your friends are going to be from that. All you're like, you're probably your, your like loved one, your spouse or your spouse.

• 48:00Laci Mosley?

  Yep. I have a lot. I know a lot of people in Scientology and like your spouse, the people you live with. Like everything becomes about it. And then Scientology threatens that if you leave, you won't have these friends anymore because you'll be excommunicated. You won't have this life. And so basically they're like, if you leave, we'll take away the life that you've known.

• 48:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:19Laci Mosley?

  And that's a big threat for people.

• 48:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:22Laci Mosley?

  More than violence, because at the end of the day, like we were talking about earlier with work and companies, people just want to live full lives where they're with the people that they love. So yeah, big scam. Reaching the top of the bridge in quotes doesn't mean you're free and clear of further courses and costs. Scientology allegedly spends thousands of dollars to purchase every book written by Hubbard. Leah Remini has shown off a large bookcase in her home filled with Hubbard's texts. She says there are 12 basic books in Scientology and that the package costs about $4,000. And a member will often have to buy the books multiple times whenever Scientology says they've been updated. So they'll change, they'll move some commas and some periods and change the cover and be like, okay, so we got a new book, y'all.

• 49:07Speaker 01

  Yo, that, that goal, that moving goalpost is so perfect for like a scam organization. Cause it's never done. Like you, you're never going to be done.

• 49:15Laci Mosley?

  And that's what they want. And it's amazing. You're absolutely right. So in addition to courses, Scientologists must attend auditing. Essentially the church's term for therapy, which allegedly costs $800 an hour. Every meeting is recorded and videotaped to use against members if they decide to speak out. So, and a lot, I think that's why a lot of people, especially famous people stay in Scientology, because they probably said something in auditing that they don't want to go public.

• 49:40Speaker 01

  Yeah. What, what do they call it? Uh collateral? Is that what they, that's what they call it? Yeah, yeah.

• 49:45Laci Mosley?

  And it's like this sense, I, I have a lot of info about this because I know a lot of Scientology type Scientologists. Um, but they bring you into this room. Sometimes your auditor is like a child. Sometimes the person is like, yeah, like they're like 14. It's like crazy. And they ask you all these questions and like really dig, dig, dig, dig, keep you in there for a long time until you reveal something that is collateral for them. And then, yeah. So, and you have to do these several times. So that's how they keep you. So Lafayette's relationship with Scientology. Lafayette says that he was first introduced to Scientology while in prison 10 years ago. After another inmate gave him a copy of Dianetics, one of the foundational texts of Scientology.

• 50:30Laci Mosley?

  He said, I spent like 12 straight hours reading that. I went to sleep, got up, read the next day, and then ended up reading about it eight more times. Lafayette was in jail for auto theft, shoplifting, attempted carjacking, battery, threatening a public off official and resisting arrest. So he's a scammer.

• 50:47Speaker 01

  He a real one. All right.

• 50:50Laci Mosley?

  I'll just be the next El Ron. Like, what are you talking about? So if Lafayette's claim of reincarnation is true, these acts would be the continuation of a crime spree started by El Ron Hubbard, who was charged with theft and fraud and dabbled in bigamy. And if you don't know what bigamy is, it's marrying someone while still illegally being married to someone else. And while named as an unindicted co-conspirator in one of the largest ever infiltrations of the US. So El Ron Hubbard obviously was a scammer. We know that Scientology is a scam. But so Lafayette was like, well, I'm a scammer too.

• 51:28Speaker 01

  Yeah. And we, we got these past lives, you know, like I'm doing, I'm, I'm round two. I'm the, I'm the second one.

• 51:34Laci Mosley?

  He was like, my past life, I was Abraham Lincoln. I was like slaves. Get it popping in these streets.

• 51:39Speaker 01

  That first El Ron was just a mixtape. I'm the full album. Come through.

• 51:42Laci Mosley?

  I was like slaves, quarantine is over. Like, what? So at the end of Lafayette's prison sentence, he tried to enroll in courses at the Church of Scientology in Inglewood, but left when they tried to limit the services that they would perform for him because of his criminal background. So basically they were like, you doing crime, crime, you can be in Scientology, but you can't be like rising amongst the ranks.

• 52:06Speaker 01

  I didn't know niggas was out there like that.

• 52:08Laci Mosley?

  Oh, oh my God.

• 52:09Speaker 01

  I didn't know that. For real? I didn't, I didn't know that.

• 52:12Laci Mosley?

  What are they called? The Nation of Islam, right?

• 52:14Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 52:14Laci Mosley?

  Scientology targeted the Nation of Islam.

• 52:17Speaker 01

  Oh, word.

• 52:18Laci Mosley?

  And got them involved in Scientology.

• 52:21Speaker 01

  No shit.

• 52:22Laci Mosley?

  Yes. Come on diversity.

• 52:24Speaker 01

  I didn't know that. I didn't know that.

• 52:26Laci Mosley?

  Yeah. It's a thing.

• 52:27Speaker 01

  That's crazy.

• 52:28Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, it's a thing. So he got involved in the black churches, which is so funny because he's definitely a white man.

• 52:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, he definitely.

• 52:34Laci Mosley?

  But they, and, and they may have not been the black ones, but it was in Inglewood. So we know the population in Inglewood is mostly us.

• 52:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:43Laci Mosley?

  So hmm, curious. So over the next 18 months, he said he started remembering things from his previous existence. So when they said that he couldn't be the next, you know, Scientology it girl, he was like, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm having, he turned into Raven Simone and he was like, like.

• 53:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm having a vision right now. Hold on. I'm, I'm seeing something.

• 53:05Laci Mosley?

  Seeing something. So believers and non-believers. When a reporter reached out to the Church of Scientology spokesperson, they wrote back, I have never heard of Mr. Justin Allen Craig. The claims are unhinged and ludicrous. You could not be serious about running this story, which, okay. Maybe they hadn't heard of him. Maybe he is a scammer and obviously he definitely is. However, the Church of Scientology is a scam and they be lying all the time. So neither of y'all niggas are credible. Like, sorry.

• 53:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:33Laci Mosley?

  Pot, pot meet kettle. Like what? So there are people who believe that the teachings of Scientology, but for various reasons, like don't associate with the organization. So there's some people who are like, yeah, we like El Ron, but we don't fuck with him.

• 53:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, we, we that.

• 53:46Laci Mosley?

  They're called independent Scientologists. And this is where Lafayette has found some of his support. Scientology Media, oh wow. The Scientology Resource Website, aimed at the independent Scientologists, posted an interview with Lafayette to its YouTube channel. Steve Watkins, an independent Scientologist who lives in the UK, said he also turned away the main church after becoming frustrated with the amount of money that they expected from him. So they're like, El Ron, we fuck with the vibes, but we don't fuck with the coins.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  In a way that seems like the ultimate scam because like, yo, I'm trying to burden myself. You're teaching me, but like I ain't trying to pay you no money. So like I got what I need to get. I ain't going to get got by the organization. That seems smart to me. Like I'm, I'm with that.

• 54:23Laci Mosley?

  And that's the thing about organized religion. Like I'm Christian and I believe in Sky Daddy. Mostly because when I die, if Sky Daddy's up there, I don't want to lose. I'm gonna, I look, I do well in the casino, so I'm betting on everything. Jesus, God, everybody. I'm like, I worship everybody. Buddha, I saw you. I see you king. Like.

• 54:43Speaker 01

  Come through.

• 54:44Laci Mosley?

  Right. So, but also I believe in like the good natured stuff that's in the Bible, but there's a lot of bad shit in the Bible. Like your dad can sell you if you're his daughter and like, you know, gays are bad. There's like a lot of shit that's like unhinged and stupid and weird. And also the Bible's full of fairy tales, a burning bush, like all this shit. And we try to act like that's not folklore.

• 55:08Speaker 01

  Not, yeah. It's like taking the ultimate control. Like I get to pick and choose the best things about this to better my life without having to subscribe to like the shit that I don't agree with.

• 55:16Laci Mosley?

  And why after, you know, AD, why after AD, no bushes ain't burning no more? Why is Jesus not pulling up in his chanclass right now? Because shit is bad. Like what's happening? So I'm like, you know, I still have my confusions. So Steve said that the story of Lafayette being the reincarnation of El Ron Hubbard doesn't seem false. He said his second date of birth, his mannerisms, all of this tie in. But like, there were so many videos of El Ron because El Ron loved the video. He loved a movie moment. Yeah, he did. So like you could just watch that shit and copy his mannerisms, but okay.

• 55:58Speaker 01

  Scammer scam.

• 55:59Laci Mosley?

  So this is true. Lafayette was born a year and a half after El Ron Hubbard died. What does that mean? A year and a half? That's not the same day. That's not significant.

• 56:08Speaker 01

  We do one year or two year, like that the point five don't mean nothing.

• 56:12Laci Mosley?

  A year, like, bro, were you born on the day he died? Like, what are you trying to say? Okay. He was like, I was born 3.5 years after El Ron Hubbard died. So I'm him. What that mean?

• 56:21Speaker 01

  Okay. Yeah. I guess that makes sense to connect those dots.

• 56:24Laci Mosley?

  I can't even do that in numerology. Shout out to Left Eye. So Steve has been working with Lafayette over Skype. Oh, Skype. Wow.

• 56:32Speaker 01

  Oh, RIP. Rest in peace, King.

• 56:35Laci Mosley?

  That's a scammer app now, apparently. Doing auditing sessions, AKA the counseling that's central to Scientology, right? Since the Church of Scientology charges hundreds of dollars an hour for auditing, Lafayette has been providing his services from a range from free to $50. So basically I feel like Lafayette was like, oh, y'all not gonna let me be the king of Scientology? Great. Okay. I'm gonna go do great value Scientology.

• 56:59Laci Mosley?

  I'm gonna go do Kirkland Scientology, okay? Where the girls can get it for the cheap.

• 57:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm taking it back to the people here.

• 57:08Laci Mosley?

  Okay. I'm not mad at it. One customer said, he hasn't got much money out of me. If it's a scam, I don't see the angle. I don't know what he would be going for, which, because he ain't, you know, gouging the girls like Scientology. So according to Lafayette, his process is different from the church because it's able to grant people their wishes in like two to three days. Wow.

• 57:28Speaker 01

  Has a quick turnaround. For four billion years, two or three days, I'm going with it. I love this dude already. I love this dude, El Ron.

• 57:36Laci Mosley?

  Y'all want to go clear, but y'all don't want to spend y'all life doing it? Okay. I got the two to three days. You gonna be clear as fuck. You gonna be see through bitch. Okay. We got. Scientology got going clear. We got going see through.

• 57:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, we got that. We gonna be transparent.

• 57:51Laci Mosley?

  Going cellophane. Okay.

• 57:55Laci Mosley?

  All right, I'm not mad. So in a recent YouTube video from 2020 titled Scientology is Dead, Lafayette claims that he is calling this new era of Scientology espeirianism. He has purchased trademarks and people can pay for experience processing materials.

• 58:12Speaker 01

  Yes, I love this man.

• 58:13Laci Mosley?

  Wow. So that's his whole scam. And how do you feel? I don't know. I think I might fuck with him.

• 58:20Speaker 01

  Like, I think I'm with because one like, like you, like we've been talking about like organized religion. Like, I'm not really with it, but like, sort of like turning the scam back on the ultimate scam is like the best move. Like, he's like, he's doing what I think, I mean, what I assume the religion should be doing. Whereas far as like, we're charging you nothing to 50 bucks to like, come in here and like, get your salvation or whatever. Like, I guess, grant you wishes. I'd bring a hundred bucks to get my wishes granted.

• 58:45Laci Mosley?

  I think Scientology is all about narcissism and confidence, which is why they have been able to easily target celebrities.

• 58:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 58:56Laci Mosley?

  Because celebrities have a lot of attention and that has two effects. One is like, it's like, oh, wow, people think I'm amazing. I'm living an amazing life. I'm, I'm a special person. But the other half is people tearing you down and you being like, oh, well, everything has to be special that I do. And my confidence is getting low. And what Scientology is doing is giving you an outlet for both of those things. And they string you along with it so that they can get your money and your time and your work. And even if you're not famous, you feel like, oh, wow, I can still be involved. I just have to give up my life and do hard labor and all my friends and family are Scientology people.

• 59:35Speaker 01

  Yeah. And also they're not afraid to cut a check like that. Like I saw that new center they built on, uh, was it on like Virgil, not Virgil, whatever Vermont or whatever, like that new like media center they built over there.

• 59:45Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, for their propaganda.

• 59:47Speaker 01

  Yeah. And you're like, I know so many actors who have done Scientology movies. Yeah, like they're not afraid to cut a check and uplift people like within their own like spear or whatever. Like, everyone's a blue checkmark at, at, at the, at this Scientology center and they're not afraid to make an echo chamber.

• 1:00:02Laci Mosley?

  Right. And so I think that scam really appeals to a lot of people who are lost because there's nothing wrong with being lost. We're human beings. We don't know what happens when we die. Nobody comes back and tells us, like, you know, nobody's like, oh, I died. And then, girl, let me tell you what was on the other side. Like, nobody ever tells us. So we just assume, like, we hope that it's like some heavenly thing or something interesting, because that makes it worth living. And then if you have a religion that teaches you to be kind and wonderful to people, then like, it's kind of like, what's the harm? But with Scientology, they're teasing that shit out. He was like, I'm gonna be Jesus 2.0, L. Ron Hubbard. And was like, I'm gonna give y'all some good wisdom, but I'm also gonna make y'all pay all my bills and build my empire.

• 1:00:47Speaker 01

  Let me hit you with that memo. Like, yeah, I think that's what makes it so like sad and like the insidious is that like, moving to LA is already fucking stressful enough. Like, it's just, we're like, this is where it thrives, right? Like, you don't really have any friends. You're just trying to fit in to do your thing and chase your dream, whatever it is. And like, you see this organization that's like, hey, come in, like, we can welcome you, like, we can network you with people. And like, we can give you purpose while you try to achieve your goal. Yeah, exactly. Like, and like, the thing that's really fucking scary is that, like, like you said, like, that goalpost keeps moving every, like, oh, I'll take these three classes and like, then I can do the thing. Like, well, now you gotta buy these three books. And now we have three more editions of this book. So you gotta buy more. Now you gotta do audits. You gotta give us all this compromising information about yourself. It's like, it's.

• 1:01:26Laci Mosley?

  And then you're stuck because it's like, oh, if I leave, they're gonna snitch on me. Like, in that documentary that I watched, I watched a couple about Scientology. There was one where a woman was like, I got in a trunk after shooting a Scientology movie. I got in someone's trunk so I could leave Scientology.

• 1:01:41Speaker 01

  Oh, fuck, that's.

• 1:01:42Laci Mosley?

  Yeah, that's, that's how desperate she felt.

• 1:01:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's sad. And it's like.

• 1:01:47Laci Mosley?

  She couldn't just walk off the premises and leave, like, you know, a normal human being could. That cult had her like, I'm gonna have to hop in this trunk.

• 1:01:57Speaker 01

  I gotta, I gotta get out.

• 1:01:59Laci Mosley?

  She didn't even ask the person who was driving. She was like, oh, yeah, she was like, this shit is a lot. Oh, this is my trunk.

• 1:02:06Speaker 01

  I hope you go into K-Town because that's where I live. Let's go.

• 1:02:09Laci Mosley?

  Right.

• 1:02:12Laci Mosley?

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• 1:05:18Laci Mosley?

  And fraud. And we're back. Guys, it's time for Scammer of the Week. This is where we highlight a charlatan that's worthy of our praise, or maybe not. Uh, you know, I've given up on making them honorable. You know, we'll see at the end. But Scammer of the Week this week is a 19-year-old Atlanta-area teen who's been accused of stealing $1 million from a Kroger grocery store. So far, I'm in. A million, a million from the Kroger?

• 1:05:43Speaker 01

  Let's go.

• 1:05:46Laci Mosley?

  So even though he's over 18, we're gonna change his name to John because he's still pretty young. Um, we don't want to, like I say, we don't want to fuck up the bag for the babies. Okay?

• 1:05:56Speaker 01

  You think?

• 1:05:57Laci Mosley?

  So John spent two weeks creating over 40 fake returns to obtain over $980,000 while he was employed at Kroger between December and January. December and January?

• 1:06:09Speaker 01

  Yes. See, he was, he's a little bit too ambitious. He should have spread that out over like a year.

• 1:06:14Laci Mosley?

  You don't do a million a month. What's happening?

• 1:06:18Speaker 01

  That's too much, King.

• 1:06:19Laci Mosley?

  He got greedy and we talk about that on this podcast. You can't get greedy with your scams. Let it be passive income. You gotta think of your scams as like you're a landlord and you just get rent every month. You can't be out here just trying to get the whole bag.

• 1:06:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, you should get some fun play money. You can't, you can't be securing everything.

• 1:06:34Laci Mosley?

  So the returns ranged from $75 to over $87,000 for non-existent items and were placed on several credit cards, detectives said. Corporate employees noticed the transactions and contacted the police. Further investigation showed that John appears to have used the money to buy clothes, shoes, and two cars. Amen.

• 1:06:56Speaker 01

  Hey, I'm with it. Yeah, I'm with you.

• 1:06:59Laci Mosley?

  He got the drip. He went and got the drip. I'm not mad at getting the drip. Like, yes. So prior to his arrest, police said that John totaled one of his cars. Oh, damn, John.

• 1:07:10Speaker 01

  The sex.

• 1:07:10Laci Mosley?

  He's young. I can't drive. I can't drive either. We talked about it at the beginning. So I feel you, John. I've totaled a car. I've totaled two cars. Oh, my God, I totaled two cars.

• 1:07:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, you've got, you've got bodies, Lacey. Yeah.

• 1:07:22Laci Mosley?

  Good thing I didn't harm nobody in the process because that's my biggest thing is like, I don't want to hurt nobody with my terrible driving. But, you know, so prior to his arrest, police said that John totaled one of his cars, right? A large sum of money was returned after John's arrest, but the amount is unknown. What? So John has been charged with theft. So John basically was like, oh, y'all want y'all money back? Okay, I'll give y'all girls like, a lot of it. Y'all good?

• 1:07:50Speaker 01

  But we keeping some. That's smart. I'll fuck with John.

• 1:07:53Laci Mosley?

  Stop for when he get out, cuz he know he gonna do a bid. He, he, he has to do a bid in jail. But he's like, when I get out, first day out, type, take Lizzie, you know?

• 1:08:02Speaker 01

  Let's go. I mean, the, the company's gonna be alright. That's the good thing, too. It's like, no one gives a shit, like, this multi-billion dollar company. Just take it. There need, there need to be more Johns out there.

• 1:08:10Laci Mosley?

  Kroger is fine. They'll be fine, okay? John was just trying to get the bag. And that's the thing about capitalism is when you're doing this shit, which our country is built off of. And I know you guys know after the pandemic and seeing how your government fucked you.

• 1:08:25Speaker 01

  Fucked you, yeah.

• 1:08:26Laci Mosley?

  Even though all you do is pay to daddy government. Every check you get, daddy government gets a slice. So, the whole point of daddy government was like, when daddy needs to step in, daddy gonna take care of everybody. And then when everybody was in need, daddy was like, actually, I'm in Mexico, uh.

• 1:08:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, you did. I got you some bootstraps. Pull yourself up with them.

• 1:08:45Laci Mosley?

  Remember that bootstraps we talked about? Go ahead and start pulling yourself up, cuz daddy government ain't got it. Look, we got nine hundred million dollars to invent a triangle wheel for a tank, but we don't got money for y'all.

• 1:08:58Speaker 01

  What you see, what you didn't know is that there was a wedding going on, right? In Syria, that need to be bombed, right? So there was some innocent people there. We need to get them.

• 1:09:04Laci Mosley?

  No, not a wedding. Yo, America's trash. We're literally the bullies. We're the white man of the world.

• 1:09:11Speaker 01

  We are.

• 1:09:11Laci Mosley?

  Which is why when Barack Obama was president, a lot of people would be like, well, he didn't do that much for black people and blah, blah, blah, you know? And I'm like, he became president of the white man of the world. What did you expect? He's, he's, he's not completely in control, like, it's the white man of the world. What, what is he supposed to do? He gotta put his foot on people's necks, cuz that's what's required, like.

• 1:09:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, he, he's just part of it.

• 1:09:36Laci Mosley?

  Right, we do horrible things in this country. We are horrible. And it's funny because we have such great branding, which is a scam, which is like,

• 1:09:43Speaker 01

  Oh, we got the bad guy, or, oh, we stormed Saddam's cave and all this shit.

• 1:09:49Laci Mosley?

  And we're like, oh, that's so wonderful. But they're not talking about all the drone strikes where they kill innocent people. And it's like, imagine us in our homes right now, and then just a drone flies and drops down and kills us.

• 1:10:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, right, imagine, imagine.

• 1:10:01Laci Mosley?

  That's what's happening.

• 1:10:02Speaker 01

  Imagine looking forward to, to, to cloudy days, cuz that's when the drones can't come through your hood. Like, that's what kids are living through right now.

• 1:10:09Laci Mosley?

  We're, we're the bad place, like, it's bad. And like, I knew after Sandy Hook, when all those little children got murdered by gun violence. And, and, and we say by gun violence, it was by an angry white man.

• 1:10:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:10:27Laci Mosley?

  There was no gun control after. I said, oh shit, we ain't never gonna get no gun control.

• 1:10:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:10:31Laci Mosley?

  And like, what's crazy, too, is, is that people are like, well, we can't get gun control, so I'll just buy a gun. Okay, so you're gonna turn into Tomb Raider when the shots start firing? Like, when the motherfucking shit pops off, you're gonna show up and you're gonna be Laura Croft? You're gonna be motherfucking Keanu Reeves and, you know, fight everybody hand to hand? You're gonna be Liam Neeson and start neck chopping? No, you're fucking not. You're gonna run. And that's what happened in that Vegas shooting at the country concert.

• 1:10:59Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:11:00Laci Mosley?

  A lot of those country artists had guns, and they ran. So I was like, bro, you got, I thought, I thought that's why you had a gun. You was supposed to start spraying.

• 1:11:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, that's what happened in that, that Florida school, the Parkland thing, too. Like, the, the, those safety resource officers, like, dead. He's like, I ain't trying to get that smoke.

• 1:11:14Laci Mosley?

  Right, cuz every, at the end of the day, even if you work in protection and security, you not trying to die for that shit.

• 1:11:20Speaker 01

  Fuck no. I was a bouncer. Like, I wouldn't try to, I wouldn't try to get stabbed for a fucking, for, for.

• 1:11:24Laci Mosley?

  Hell no.

• 1:11:26Speaker 01

  Seen you were frogs or read the fucking place I was working at. It's like, I got dreams, too.

• 1:11:29Laci Mosley?

  Right, I'm trying to live. I try to die for the cause. Who the fuck you think I am? That's why when I found out that Jared and Ivanka Trump, when that man was president, were having their security use the bathroom, like, down the street or, like, in some little garage or something. They didn't let them use their personal bathrooms. I was like, y'all are stupid as fuck, cuz these niggas probably don't wanna jump in front of a bullet for your bitch asses right now. And now you're making a poop across the street? They definitely ain't gonna jump in front of a bullet for you.

• 1:11:56Speaker 01

  Hey, no guards doing no shuffles with their pants around their ankle to get to Ivanka Trump.

• 1:12:00Laci Mosley?

  They gonna be like, damn, that's crazy.

• 1:12:02Speaker 01

  Damn, that's crazy. I hate to see it, king. Yeah, I'mma, I'mma send up a GoFundMe for you.

• 1:12:05Laci Mosley?

  Right. We gonna get the GoFundMe popping.

• 1:12:11Laci Mosley?

  Right, it's so real. But this is the end of our show. And Cody, we always ask on the show, and you know, cuz you produce the show with me. You are, like, the reason that I started the show. This is so special to me. I'm so sorry I said I would get you out in an hour, but you're my friend and honestly, I just wanted to catch up with you.

• 1:12:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:12:33Laci Mosley?

  Oh, I love you so much. Where do you want to be found?

• 1:12:37Speaker 01

  Now, if you need to find me, find me at gayforzig across all social media platforms. I want you to know, my notifications are set up to where, like, I only get pinged when someone I know comments or follows. So like, if I don't answer back, don't take it to heart. It just makes it life a lot easier for me. I ain't trying to be in no discourse in the year twenty twenty-one.

• 1:12:55Laci Mosley?

  King shit, king shit.

• 1:12:56Speaker 01

  I ain't trying to be in no discourse. Uh, yeah, other than that, like, if you're into, like, nerd shit, comic books, uh, any of that stuff. I have a podcast called, uh, The Dark Wee with my boy, Brody Reed. Uh, we just talk about nerd shit with other black and brown people. It's really great. And I got a comic.

• 1:13:10Laci Mosley?

  The Dark Weeb, right, with the B.

• 1:13:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, W-E-B, that's the, the podcast.

• 1:13:16Laci Mosley?

  The Dark Weeb, yeah.

• 1:13:17Speaker 01

  I got a comic book coming out called Siege Society Number One for Marvel Comics, May twenty-sixth.

• 1:13:22Laci Mosley?

  Oh, my God, yes. I saw you talking about this on Twitter. I was so excited for you. This is like, yes.

• 1:13:28Speaker 01

  I'm stoked. Please check it out, folks. I'm very excited to.

• 1:13:31Laci Mosley?

  And Cody is a comic book king, so you will not be disappointed, because he is the one. I saw a tweet where someone said you took a comic book out of your backpack, at a, in a writer's room, to school the girls.

• 1:13:45Speaker 01

  Look, uh, it wasn't my proudest moment, but there was a time in She-Hulk, we were talking about a character. And like, they just, they wouldn't comprehend it when I was spitting, right, queen? So I just had to educate them. So I just happened to have that comic book in my backpack, and I pulled it out, you know, I had to spread some knowledge, had to kick some knowledge. Had to kick a little bit of knowledge in that room, but you know, we got to do it.

• 1:14:03Laci Mosley?

  I love this for you. I love this for me. Guys, as always, you can find us at Scam Goddess Pod on all platforms. If you wanna see the picture of the woman who tried to scam me with her car scam, I'll put it up. Please remind me, congregation. There's some certain people in the congregation who are very thorough. Asa, you know, y'all, y'all know who y'all are. Uh, y'all will remind me. Um, and also, follow me at D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I-D, Valacy, on all platforms. And guys, A Black Lays Sketch Show, April twenty-third.

• 1:14:33Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:14:33Laci Mosley?

  I will scam myself back onto television. And I don't have any dates for iCarly, but I'll give those to you when I have them. And guys, you're tagging me in merch ideas after I posted and asked you guys for merch ideas. The merch ideas that you guys had and the ones that I had really linked up a lot. And I'm gonna give you guys some fucking fashionable merch, so it's coming. Don't worry, honey. Podswag.com slash Scam Goddess is about to be lit. All right, congregation, stay scheming. Scam Goddess. This has been an Earwulf Production in association with Team Coco. Scam Goddess is starring me, duh, Scam Goddess, AKA Laci Mosley.

• 1:15:14Laci Mosley?

  Scam Goddess is produced by Judith Carbo and engineered by Marina Baiz with research by Sherrilyn Vera. Stay scheming.

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