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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant

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Speaker 1: that makes this stuff. You shouldel guest producer Casey in

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Speaker 1: the house. Yes, it just sounded like you did, because

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Speaker 1: welcome Casey. That's pretty good. Thank you. Yeah, Chuck. Um.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of again named Gregor McGregor. That's

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Speaker 1: not a name, it is a name, you know. I

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Speaker 1: once lived with a guy named John Johnson in college.

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Speaker 1: Choose a college roommate. Gregor McGregor had um an evil

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Speaker 1: sense of humor, or else just was driven by greed.

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Speaker 1: But at the beginning of the nineteenth century he fashioned

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Speaker 1: himself as the Prince of paw Wa Poia. Did he

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Speaker 1: make up that name? Completely? P o y o I

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Speaker 1: s completely non existent place? No. Not only was it

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Speaker 1: a non existent like places in a non existent country,

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Speaker 1: it was a non existent island supposedly off of Honduras

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Speaker 1: that he supposedly owned because he was supposedly the prince

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Speaker 1: of this place. This is at a time when you

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Speaker 1: could basically say, hey, you want to go colonize this

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Speaker 1: this um country called Poi wa Um that's rich with

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Speaker 1: but rubies and gold and timber and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And you guys will be the first settlers there. So

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Speaker 1: you're going to be in on the bottom of this

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Speaker 1: went around selling stock the right to go colonize this

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Speaker 1: this place that didn't exist to the English, and I

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Speaker 1: imagine to the English, two d and fifty settlers traveled there.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred died on the journey looking for this place

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Speaker 1: that didn't exist because they got the coordinates and there

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Speaker 1: was nothing there and they were all exact, not necessarily.

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Speaker 1: While these people were off, he moved Gregor McGregor moved

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Speaker 1: on to France and was doing it again. Finally, about

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Speaker 1: fifty of these people come came back, and they still

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe that this guy made this up. That some

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Speaker 1: two and fifty settlers and then some Actually during his trial,

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Speaker 1: this guy was so audacious that um he was still

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Speaker 1: selling stuff too. He was still selling stock and and

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Speaker 1: and um rights land rights to this place to like

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Speaker 1: local nobility, whoever he could get to buy it. Sounded

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Speaker 1: like a skilled con man. He is a con man.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, Cohn is short for confidence. Most

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Speaker 1: people knew that, but turns out that's not true. I

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Speaker 1: just told Lizzie that and she went really well, if

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Speaker 1: she probably wasn't paying attention, you never know, So, Chuck, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I think it's high time, after all these requests, that

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Speaker 1: we've gotten to do how common work that we do?

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Speaker 1: How common work? Yeah, this was on the Facebook page

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Speaker 1: of the day. I should have written down the name.

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Speaker 1: So apologies to whoever put this on our Facebook wall

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Speaker 1: mid April. Yes, this is for you. And we've done

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Speaker 1: at least one before, we've done Ponzi schemes. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that'll pop up here. Yeah, but this is like an overview.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different cons going on at any

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Speaker 1: given time all around you in the world that you

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Speaker 1: average of eight to twelve times a day. Studies show

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Speaker 1: connart Is Josh are deceptive, their liars, their cheaters, They

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Speaker 1: trick people. They're probably pretty smart. They take advantage of

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Speaker 1: your weaknesses. If you're lonely, if you're not too smart

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Speaker 1: like cats, if you're elderly, and unfortunately a lot of

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Speaker 1: or and this is a very very um important point.

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Speaker 1: If you are greedy, well, yeah, greed, they can't. Well

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Speaker 1: is um. There's there's such thing as something for nothing.

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Speaker 1: And if you are greedy, um, you are likely going

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Speaker 1: Charlie Sheen got swept up in that greed and they

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Speaker 1: But um, the father was honest. He was an honest man.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't be conn he couldn't be bought. He's like, no, no, no, son,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about con man, So, chuck one of the

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Speaker 1: hallmarks of the confidence man or woman or woman. That's

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Speaker 1: a really good point because, um, that's they're just as

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Speaker 1: A woman will more likely play on a man's lust, yes,

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Speaker 1: working the man. Chuck. One of the hallmarks of con

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Speaker 1: people is that they travel frequently, mainly because they don't

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Speaker 1: like to be chased by mobs with pitchforks and torches.

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Speaker 1: Although they frequently are right, so um, to kind of

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Speaker 1: seen Paper Moon your favorite movie? Yeah? They were always

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Speaker 1: just sort of from town to town, right, yeah, Bible salesman.

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Speaker 1: That's right, traveling Bible salesman. Although the whole thing was

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Speaker 1: If you want to throw some other cool nineteen twenties

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Speaker 1: a shy sta, a bunk o man, a grift, swindler, hustler, bamboozla.

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Speaker 1: And the awesome movie The Grifters from Stephen Freers is

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Speaker 1: we talked about Ponzi schemes before. That is one of

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Speaker 1: some street cons. Street cons are generally characterized by um,

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Speaker 1: They happen quickly and usually for a fairly small take

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Speaker 1: about some street cons. Okay, what about Chuck the pedigree dog.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, this article has the most super

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Speaker 1: We should point out that's all the fun articles the

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Speaker 1: pedigree dog, but you can insert dog with violin or

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Speaker 1: That's the greed that they play on the bartenders thinking, hey,

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Speaker 1: their hands. Yes, the dog was never pedigree it. The

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Speaker 1: They dropped it on the way to the deposit thing.

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Speaker 1: halfway through, say tear your whole roof off, put half

424
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 1: the roof back on, and say I'm gonna need more money,

425
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: and what can you do at that point? You're over

426
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: a barrel. Yes, that's a scam. Or they might do

427
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: shoddy work and have you signed a contract that has

428
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: something like some clause in where if you don't make

429
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: the payments, if you don't pay them in full, they

430
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: can put a lean on your house and basically take

431
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: it from you. Um, so you have to pay them

432
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: for shoddy work no matter what happens. There's also scams

433
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 1: perpetrated by people who are not contractors, like, um, there's

434
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: there's one that's like, uh, they'll re asphalt your driveway

435
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 1: and this group of guys will just basically paint your

436
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: driveway black and be like give us our money. Um.

437
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: That's they're not actually contractors, their painters really. Yeah, and

438
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: since you mentioned it, um, the guys who approach you

439
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: in the grocery store parking lot to fix your dents,

440
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: they are not auto body specialists. Um, that just happened

441
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: to be there with all their materials. They have their materials.

442
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: And I'm really really sorry to say that my wife

443
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: felt for that. Her old Honda Accord that I drove,

444
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, Honda Civic that I drove until recently

445
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: had two of the worst smeared bondo jobs I've ever

446
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: seen in my life. Because she was going into the

447
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: grocery score and guys like I can fix that for you,

448
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: like I saw just while you're shopping. I saw him.

449
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 1: I never mentioned him, yell for it, and I try

450
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: not to give her too much of a hard time.

451
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: But she's like, well they seemingly honest. Well they gained

452
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: your confidence. Awesome, that's a con there. Um. You could

453
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: also have the fake home inspector who supposedly is an

454
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: official of the city, state, municipality, county, um, who's just

455
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,479
Speaker 1: dropping by an announced at your house and for a

456
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: surprise inspection, and it's going to find eight things wrong

457
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: with your house that don't meet code, right, but really

458
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: do because this person is not legitimate but has a friend. Yeah,

459
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: has a friend. You can do it for pretty cheap. Well,

460
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna be terrible work, unnecessary work, and expensive work.

461
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: I got one for you. Yeah, if you ever see

462
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: the words uh, debt removal or debt erased, just walk away.

463
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: I didn't even know this exists. Oh yeah, man, you

464
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: look around their signs on telephone poles that say, you know,

465
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: debt removal. We can remove your debt, which means they'll

466
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: hand you a document that says your your debt has

467
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: been erased. And that's literally all it is is a

468
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: piece of paper that says we've erased your debt, but

469
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 1: you've bought it. Yeah, well you've bought that piece of paper,

470
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: and imagine, sadly some people have probably taken that piece

471
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: of paper into like a bank and said, but no, look,

472
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: it says here that my dad has been raised not

473
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: so yeah, I'll bet there's a lot of discomfort in

474
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: that first few moments where the person is trying to

475
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 1: convince the banker that they don't have any debt any longer.

476
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: This thing just make this whole podcast makes me feel bad. Um.

477
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: We mentioned mortgage refinance scams, where basically you find somebody

478
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: who has some equity, a lot of debt, and not

479
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: a lot of income, and you issue them a refinance,

480
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: a mortgage refly, and you have to be an actual

481
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: banker to do that, and they do it. They do

482
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: it because they want that house. You might be signing

483
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: away your house. Yeah. Um. And also there's um bankers

484
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: who have been known to slip clauses into the fine

485
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: print of a home mortgage loan or refly that says,

486
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: these people can have this house, by the way, and

487
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: you're just sleying over your house for nothing, which I

488
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: don't understand how somebody could get away with that, I know.

489
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: And then, of course, Chuck, I think we're at the

490
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: public service announcement Part how to avoid the con Yeah,

491
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: first and foremost, don't be greedy. Yeah, don't be greedy.

492
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: If it looks too good to be true, then it's

493
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: you're right on the money there. Don't trust anybody, especially

494
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: if you're an elderly person. You never get something for nothing.

495
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: That is not how the world works. It is never

496
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: worked that way. It will never work that way. If

497
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: someone is promising you large amounts of money for very little,

498
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: uh what you considered very little money, that it's just

499
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: it's wrong. Solicitations are usually basically that's a horrendous business

500
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: model in this day and age. So if a company

501
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: is still using door to door cold visits, they kind

502
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: of deserve to go out of business. So you can

503
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: go ahead and assume that either one you don't want

504
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: to do business with that company that's soon going to

505
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: go out of business because they're using a business model

506
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: from the fifties or a marketing model from the fifties,

507
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: or that these guys are actually on artists and they're

508
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: not really going to sell you a security system and

509
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: they're actually probably just casing your house to break into

510
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: it later. Yeah, maybe, so you need to look out

511
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: for other signs like if you meet a nice man

512
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: who's got a great deal for you, and he gives

513
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: the business card and it says Jim Smith po Box

514
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: fourteen and that's all it says on it. Hand it

515
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: back to him, walk away, ask for information, ask for

516
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: their driver's license, let them see you taking down their

517
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: license plate number. Yeah. And you know, if you're asking

518
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: them all these questions and they're legit, then they're gonna

519
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: be like, sure, man, here they will be. It's gonna

520
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: be a little uncomfortable because you're basically saying like, I

521
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: don't trust you. You have a little too much pain

522
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: on your jeans or whatever, so I don't like the

523
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: look of you, but I'm willing to see what you

524
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,239
Speaker 1: do when I do this to you. Now, squirm uh.

525
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: And if they don't squirm, then you know you might

526
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: be able to trust them right right. And if they're

527
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: if they really need that decision fast, if you say

528
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: something like you know what, this sounds really good, but

529
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: give me about a week or so, they're like, no,

530
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, this deal ends today. Yeah, there's very

531
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: likely there's not any deal that ends today when there's

532
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: lots of money involved. Um. And then chuck. If you

533
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: have been conned. The the point of con artists confidence

534
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: is that you'll feel too embarrassed and foolish to tell anybody,

535
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: so they'll be able to keep operating in virtually the

536
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: same place for a while. Right, So you want to

537
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: actually go and tell somebody, Go tell the popo, Tell

538
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: the popo. Tell call up that that annoying guy on

539
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: the local news that goes and sticks microphones and people's faces.

540
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll help you out. You know, there was a

541
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: guy named Count Victor Lustig who managed to sell the

542
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower twice. A pretty good story because the first

543
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: guy was too embarrassed to tell anybody that it had happened.

544
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: But basically, about fifteen years after the World Air in Paris,

545
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: the Paris Exposition that saw the raising of the Eiffel

546
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: Tower um the comp the city was like really having

547
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: trouble paying to keep it maintained. So it was kind

548
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: of it wasn't just completely unbelievable that the city would

549
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: hire an agent to secretly shop around the right to

550
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: to tear it down and use the steel for scrap.

551
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: It was originally supposed to be temporary, right it was?

552
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: Who knew? I don't know. So he would take people

553
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: in a limousine and make a big fancy show about

554
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: it to him up to the observation deck and show

555
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: him that the medals that they were going to be bought.

556
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: And somebody paid out. This one guy paid out. Um.

557
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: Andre Poissant was a steel dealer who paid out for it,

558
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: and was too embarrassed to tell anybody. And so Lustick

559
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: did it again a month later. Um, and it was

560
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: lucrative both times. I liked the guy's first scamp. He

561
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: created a machine that they clee turned out blank paper,

562
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: right printing machine. He built it as a printing machine

563
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: that could print on bills, and basically what he did

564
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: was he stuck two hundred dollar bills in. The problem was, um,

565
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: the machine could only spit a hundred dollar bill out

566
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: every six hours. So even if you had the time

567
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: to spend twelve hours staring at this machine, you're going

568
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: to see it spit out two hundred dollar bills just

569
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: waiting on that third right. Um. So people paid I

570
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: think um, three thirty thousand dollars for a machine like this,

571
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: and he he was a very smart man, very smart

572
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: unethical man. Yeah, because you'd make that thirty grand back

573
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: divided by six hours, or divided by a hundred divided

574
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: by six. So that's how long it would take or

575
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: time six whatever, eighteen hours eight I think eighteen hundred

576
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: hours or dight it's a variation of eighteen. What fun

577
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: would it be to get a calculator? Oute? You know? So? Um,

578
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: I guess that's it. Yeah, well we we should list

579
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: some movies here, yeah, um, because I love a good

580
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: con artist movie, The Staying classic, I've not seen it,

581
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: House of Games. David Mammitt not seen it classic. Uh,

582
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: catch me if you can. We've talked about that confidence

583
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: I saw that one. I didn't see that one. Was like, okay,

584
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: definitely a you'd watch it on a Sunday afternoon. Eddie

585
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: Burns Yeah, uh, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is one of the

586
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: great comedy conn one of the great movies ever. Absolutely

587
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: if you're into Mammitt, of course you gotta go with

588
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: the Spanish Prisoner, so he wrote to huh he wrote

589
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: the Spanish Prisoner and House of Games Yeah, yeah, okay,

590
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: and Glen Garry Glen Ross, which is not a con

591
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: man movie, and State in Maine another great movie. Yeah,

592
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: I'm a big Man, a fan stick man. I'd say

593
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: it's um slightly slicker than confidence. Confidence. Yeah, my favorite.

594
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: It was The Grifters Stephen Frears movie, which he didn't

595
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: get through, and then The Hustler, which proceeded this thing,

596
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: and then of course the number one confidence movie of

597
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: all time, The Baltimore Bullet. Have you seen it? No? Okay,

598
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: I hadn't even heard of it until today, but it's

599
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: got a great movie poster and its starred Mr James Cockburn.

600
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: Can't go wrong there, now, you can't. If you want

601
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: to learn more about cons basically, you should print out

602
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: this article and carry it with you all times, so

603
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: if a stranger comes up to you and um, you

604
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: suspect their conning you, you can use it for quick

605
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: and easy reference. You can just pull it out and

606
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: unfold it and be like, oh, an envelope full of money.

607
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: I know what's going on. Come with me, sir. I'm

608
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: placing you under citizens arrest. You can type con artists

609
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: into the handy search bar at how stuff works dot

610
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: com and by the way, Chuck, citizens arrest, what do

611
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: you think? We've got a lot of requests and I

612
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: don't know how that works. Let's do it. I've tried

613
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: it a bunch of times and I just get beat up. Um.

614
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: Since I said search bars, how stuff works, dot com, etcetera,

615
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: that means that it is time for listener maw. Josh,

616
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this a plea for joining our show.

617
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: You're Josh and Chuck and Jerry. I've been listening to

618
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: and enjoying your podcast for about a year now. I

619
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: wanted to thank you for reinforcing the crumbling concrete of

620
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: my sanity with your rebar of knowledge. That's why I

621
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: read this one. I just like that sentence. I'm twenty

622
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: six years old and for the last three years have

623
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: been working in a windowless office, endlessly shuffling paperwork. Your podcast,

624
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: with its breadth of subjects, with the D with the

625
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: D and cheerful banter, has allowed me one glimmering sliver

626
00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: of anticipation every day I have to drag myself into work. Uh.

627
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: Despite your insistence that you have submitted clumsy podcast in

628
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: the past, I have found something endearing and enjoyable and

629
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: every one of them. Your inclusion of pop culture references,

630
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: asides in jokes and personal anecdotes is what distinguishes you

631
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: from more mediocre podcast. So who knew that is nice? Um,

632
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: if all this flattery didn't tip you off, I was

633
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,280
Speaker 1: going to suggest one minor change, however, possibly the addition

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Speaker 1: seamlessly with this new fangled medium. So he's basically saying,

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Speaker 1: kind of be on your show as the third team member. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I thought Jerry was the third team member. Well, the

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Speaker 1: third podcast or fourth team member. Um, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for putting out a consistently great show. I'm a loyal listener.

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Speaker 1: I will upgrade myself to fanatical if you can explain

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Speaker 1: open source computing in thirty minutes, Sincerely, Matthew G. So, Matthew,

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Speaker 1: I can say two things. We will neither explain open

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Speaker 1: source computing in thirty minutes, nor will we accept your

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Speaker 1: gracious offer to join us as a third podcaster. What

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Speaker 1: are you saying I should not? Do you want him

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Speaker 1: on the show? No? Okay, yeah that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to break it to him easy that the

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Speaker 1: position has been filled it's there's there are no openings here.

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Speaker 1: I don't we are what's called a comic dietd yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we could ever become a triad,

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Speaker 1: even for a single episode if it wasn't an interview.

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Speaker 1: We had Strickland in here. Oh yeah, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: But he's not funny, so that's not that's no threat

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Speaker 1: to our comic diet. And he can explain explain open

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Speaker 1: source computing. Well, let's just get Strickland in here again. No,

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Speaker 1: just give this guy to Strickland. All right, done either way?

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Speaker 1: Those just you and me, right, that's right, Okay, thank

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Speaker 1: you Matthew. Gee though, for your spunks, can we like that? Yes? Um,

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Speaker 1: if you have ever been conned, we'd like to hear

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Speaker 1: about it, right chuck, Yeah, it's sad, but yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: hear it. Okay, Well we can share with people. How

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