WEBVTT - The Resurrecting Romance Novelist w/ Paula Poundstone (Fraud Friday) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.880 What's popin congregation is your girl? Lacey Mosley aka Scam Goddess. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:09.600 Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.880 older episodes from the Scam Goddess Baalt. That's right, Fraud 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.680 Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.280 From behind the paywall. Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:26.040 and as always, stay scheming, Scam, come. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.400 Rob from. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:43.879 Scam, come right from Goddess. What's pop and congregation is Shagirl. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.080 Lacey Mosley aka Scam got us back with another installment 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.400 of the podcast Scam Goddess, all about robbers, con arteas 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.680 people who practice scams. Sometimes we love them, sometimes we 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.040 hate them, and parasocial girlies out there, one of my 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:02.240 blues clues girlies. Yes, I'm very Yes, I'm very excited. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.959 I love you guys and welcome new people. All right, No, 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.440 I'm extremely excited. Y'alln't even understand we have a legend. Okay, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.840 I don't even know how we scammed her and got 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.760 her time like this, but shout shout out to the team. Okay, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.680 today we have an amazing stand up comedian and author 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.160 rest on the show. She has a regular panelist on 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.920 NPR's news comedy QUI show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.800 which I've done quite a few times. This is the 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.399 Queen Victoria of stand up. You can listen to her podcast, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.040 Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and you can check out 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.679 her stand up comedy tour in a city near you, honey, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.119 because she'd be out here in these streets, honey, back 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:40.880 in the day. She would get on the ground and 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.640 do all the mics everywhere. And that's just my own 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:48.240 personal I'd be stalking Paula. But you can check out 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.920 our stand up comedy tour. Go to Paula Poundstone dot 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.760 com for more information. Congregation, please welcome Paula Poundstone to 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:55.440 the show. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.640 Thank you so much, Thank you for having me. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:58.880 Thank you for being here. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.000 Queen. I'm so I'm really truly elated to have you 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.800 on the show. This is really dope, you know. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.680 I realized as I'm watching you talk into the microphone 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.120 like she doesn't need me. I can see that you 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.079 sort of imagine the audience that you're talking to. There's 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.560 a very close feeling I feel between you and the 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.480 audience who was not in the room. So I feel 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.080 like I'm interrupting a little bit. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.440 No interrupt. All you want is not interrupting, it's you're 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.160 gonna make me cry. Oh my god. I put in 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.560 just a teen spit of like the stalking that I've 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.320 done about you over there. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.720 I did. Used to write the Greyhound all around the country. Yes, dude, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.880 you could buy a thing called Namarrapas for thirty days 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.320 you go anywhere you wanted. You know, it was like 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.640 a blank ticket book, so you could write anywhere you 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.400 wanted for thirty days. And I used to live on 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.320 the greyhound bus back in the day. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.240 You was really torn And I'm your SnO stand up 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.840 episode with Robin Williams, Like, I just you're You're the goat. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.079 So I'm just I'm so excited to have you here. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.520 We always ask our guests on this show, like what 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.000 is your relationship with scams? 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.200 Like do you love them? Do you hate them? Having 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.080 anyone ever tried? 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.800 I mean, I can't imagine being on a greyhound bus. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:07.160 You know. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.480 That was back when the greyhound wasn't as sketch. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.959 Oh, it was somewhat. I mean, I haven't I don't 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.560 know that I've ridden a greyhound in a while. Okay, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.160 I'm going to tell you a gross I'm going to 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.800 tell you a really gross greyhound bus story. Okay, it 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.280 was not a scam so much. It was harassment. So 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.080 I was, I think nineteen years old. I was very shy. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:29.560 Young. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.600 I still am, but I was really shy then. So 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.760 you know, when you're on a greyhound bus, you don't 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.080 own both the seats, right, the seat that you paid for. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.080 Somebody wants to come sit down beside you. You move, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.480 you're junk, and they sit down beside you. So this 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.720 guy sits down beside me, and I'm the kind of 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.920 person I can talk to the other passengers a little bit. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.520 Oh you're better than me, small talk like I'll literally die. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:53.880 I hate talking about the weather. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.600 Like say, you know, hello, where are you going? Right? 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.720 Some people you engage with more than others. I forget 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.280 what was about this guy that kind of suggested to 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.400 me maybe I don't really want to chat, you know. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.760 And I was reading and writing and looking out the 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.480 window and sleeping. So anyways, he sits down beside me, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.440 and he's wearing overalls. Now at that time that was 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.120 like a fashion, but that. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.240 Was a statement piece. Yeah, it was giving. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.880 Yeah, so at some point I think he recognizes, like 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.440 how sort of, I don't know whatever. He slips his 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:36.960 hands inside, both hands inside his overalls, right. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.200 And that's a deep dive because overalls means you got 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.800 pants up to your neck, so you gotta go in then, But. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.000 The top part is just a bib, so you can 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.359 go in the side, right, Okay, I don't think I 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.599 need to describe to you what he was doing at 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:57.480 that point. And I'm so like shocked and embarrassed, and 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.039 I'm like I have and there is no way in 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.640 hell I'm gonna tell somebody that he's doing this, because 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.120 I'll feel too embarrassed to say the words. I'm nineteen, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.000 I was a baby, So I do at some point 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.880 say like that I needed to get out, and I 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.039 walk up to the driver because I know he'd like 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.800 he would, he'd freak out if he knew that, right, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.640 So I walk up to the driver and I lean 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.240 my head down to the driver and I say, where's 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:31.680 our next stop? And the driver, because I whispered my question, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:37.320 he whispers his answer. So I have no idea what 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.680 exchange we just had, and he assumes. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.320 That it's about him diddling his man's exactly. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.400 Okay, So when I go back, he's moved. I love 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.600 that pretty you know, think back on, I'm like, all right, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.280 there was. I'm not the brightest ball in the chandelaiyer, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:52.479 but that was pretty damn clever. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.160 And he didn't have the awareness not to realize that 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.000 he shouldn't be you know, oh he did. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.919 He was trying to get under my skin. You know. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.279 He was just doing something to get attention and to 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.520 get you know, and to him, it was going to 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.680 be more glorious if you know. I was forced to 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.720 so I just whatever. And that was. He was still 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.800 on the bus and I still saw him every time 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.680 there was a stop where. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.120 People where were you going? How long? 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:17.640 Is that true? 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:18.880 I can't remember anymore. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.640 It was it was it must have been a long 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.760 trip if they're all yeah, yeah. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah it was there. It was anyways, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.240 that was my uh so, but my relationship with scam 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.919 that was just my relationship with gross, my relationships and 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:33.640 my relationship. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.800 And now I'm wondering about the overalls, Like he was like, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.560 I'm a lady, is this neck pants? So people can't really. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:45.120 Know if it was like yeah, part of his uh. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.359 Because if somebody walks over and they're like, sir, what 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.679 are you doing with your genitailia, he could like slide 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.120 his hand up the neck pants and. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:51.240 Be like, I'm scratching my chest. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.680 You know, he's like he can move around more than 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.400 if you in pants that hit at the waist and 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:57.680 everyone getting right. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.839 There's practical use in the old days. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.680 You heard him for four neck pants overalls of people 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.480 public masturbates. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.960 Like kind of people still do on a farm sometimes, 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.160 don't they? Every now and then you'll see you farmers. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.840 All McDonald really fucked it up for farmers, Like what 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.320 are farmers just like hipsters in Brooklyn and they're like, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.120 we actually give fashion and all the girls think we 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.200 wear straw hats and wear overalls. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.040 Because of one bad marketing campaign. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.520 Well, you know, they haven't really been able to force 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.400 Gingham on the rest of the world. You know Gingham, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:34.520 the little they're white and red. Yeah, right, exactly, except 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:35.280 for smaller U. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.400 I mean to bring it back out for my birthday, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.280 for the Julacy that's the fourth of July. We don't 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.480 need to celebrate America celebrate. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.800 Is your birthday really the fourth? For Jay? That's all 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.600 I'm going to celebrate from now on it because I 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.280 don't care that much about the fourth No, I. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.080 Mean, what is it even really? But wait, so you 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.720 were saying your relationship with scams. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.720 Okay, so I have been scammed before? 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.880 Oh tell me, because I'm scammed a lot, even recently. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.000 So there's no shame. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.000 I was, and you do feel ashamed by the way 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:07.240 when it happened. Isn't that weird? 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:08.800 And that's what we're trying to get rid of because 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.680 we want people to share the ways that they've been scamped. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:11.040 So that O. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.720 There's people so many ways now that you know who 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.400 they get to every day. That's a thing. Yeah, might 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.360 have been eighteen years old. I was working a restaurant 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.520 in Boston and this woman comes in with a kid 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.200 and she does this con thing where and the kid's 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.240 like two years old. It's very distracting, kids banging on. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.560 I wasn't a part of this. I just saw it happen. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.440 She takes out a twenty, she tells cashier she needs 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.160 two tens. When the cashier gives her the two tents, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.600 she now takes out a dime and says, now, I 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.840 need two Nichols for this dime. The cashier goes to 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.400 do that, she takes the two twenties, she hides them away, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.360 I mean the two tens, excuse me, hides them away 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.720 and lays out two ones. And when the cashier looks 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.400 up again after doing the two Nichols, she says, what 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.600 did you give me these two ones for? Now? You know, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.960 in restaurants, the girl, the woman on the cash register 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.760 get stuck for that, you know exactly, So you know 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:10.120 it's bad. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.160 I worked in restaurants, I know. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:12.560 Yeah. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.080 You know, if your draw short, then you gotta just 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.160 fill it out. And you normally will even fill out 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.640 your drawer if it's short without telling management because you 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:21.640 don't want to lose your job. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.240 So yeah, it's like I gotta and you know we're 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.160 making you know, something slightly over nothing per hour. And 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.600 so now, all right, So I saw this happen. So 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.640 now I'm on my way to work one morning and 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.280 I stop off at the dunkin Donuts on Boylston. As 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.679 I'm waiting in line, the same woman is in front 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.720 of me, and I didn't recognize it right away, but 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.240 then I see her do this same thing, so you 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.520 know she could was two ondes to whatever, what did 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.840 you give me these two ondes for? And I stood 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.640 right there and watched her, and I had this idea 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.360 in my head. I'm from a small suburban town in Massachusetts. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.839 I had this idea in my head that the minute 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.800 she was foiled, she would somehow run away. Yes, you 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.760 know what happened, Well, didn't happen this time? She uh she, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.120 I said, she didn't give you two ones, she gave 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.240 you two tens. And the woman turned and went off 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.920 on me, and she said she was gonna drag me 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.000 outside and beat the crap out of me. Oh, what's 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.200 funny is it's not like I can't run or or 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.880 you know. All of a sudden, I was just frozen 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.120 because I just thought, that's exactly what's gonna happen now. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.720 And so the the so. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.680 You thought when you told that, oh this is a scam, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.240 she was gonna just run out the door. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.640 But she was like, I'm a bitch away right Suddenly 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.679 I was a pole hang. A woman from Duncan Donuts 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.439 grabs me over the counter because she thought I was 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.719 gonna be dragged outside too. She grabs my arm and 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.760 she says, no, you're you're not gonna do that. Now 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.000 I only have one arm to defend myself. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.040 Listen, America runs sound dunking the like they're like the 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.600 waffle House of coffee. Everybody had Duncan knows how to fight, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.920 just like how everybody has Spirit Airlines knows how to fight. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:08.280 They teach that in the train. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.520 They actually do before all flight attendant teach you how 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:14.920 to do a basic self defense. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.240 And like you have to restrain people sometimes in the air, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:18.640 but it's. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.560 Got to do it with office supplies. You have to 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.160 deal with duct tape. I can't even I can't even 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.240 duck so to help you. But then she was gonna 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.280 with just one arm. It's not like I would have 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.440 hit anybody anyways, but I was deflecting her blows with 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.160 one arm, and she finally. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.000 She went over again. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.679 Yeah, and then she and then she went to the door. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.559 She fight. They kept saying we're gonna call the police, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.960 We're gonna and I'm thinking to myself, go ahead, go ahead, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.640 call the police. Now she made it to the door, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.679 and I'm like, huh, I think I started to cry then, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.240 which just is not humiliating. And then she ran back 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.920 and kicked me, ran out again. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.240 No one more for the road. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.120 And you know what I said after words? I said, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:07.400 could I get a jelly donut chocolate doy clay please? 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.800 And then I sat down at a counter. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:10.480 Did they make you. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.160 Pay for shobbed? Yeah? They did. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.280 Oh that's fucked up. That should have been for free. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.400 Now damn, you don't help them with a scam. They're 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.480 gonna charge you. Yeah, that's who As I start fighting 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:19.480 the Duncan lady. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.040 Yeah that was I should have come back with you 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.199 got a dunk the dunkle there. I was not personally scammed. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.520 I was abused, but I did recognize the scamming. Now 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.880 drop it there now, Paula. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:33.480 I hate to do this. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.760 I hate to do this, Paula, but I'm low key 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.160 a little bit on that later side. Are you just 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.800 because the Dunking is a big company and she's scamming 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.040 them like she's. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:49.040 Not hurting nobody. But it was this, It was this 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.800 like to the best, Pano. This is in the old 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.800 days when they made them wear these kind of pink 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:04.280 sack dresses with with aprons. Okay, that you're thinking. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.920 From a service perspective, which I do too, which is 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.839 why I overtiped for everything, because I've worked in service for. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:09.680 So many years. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.200 Is that like that woman's drawer was gonna be short 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.920 and she might have been out of a job. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.959 So I understand we're coming from. I take it back. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.480 You was like homegirls drawers is going to be short. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.200 I was fighting for justice. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.680 Yeah, yeah, you were trying to help homegirl who worked there, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.440 okay for her a little bit of money an hour 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.200 and not to lose her job. So I absolutely understand. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.880 Damn though, she she messed you up, holding you Now, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.240 how you gonna hold me though? And then I'm getting 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.719 squabbled on and then you're gonna charge me for the 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:36.360 jelly donut. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:37.600 Now she messed up there. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:42.319 She messa see, And that's why I don't help corporations, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.680 because she still stood in the gap for the corporation 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.680 because since I helped you and not have a short 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.680 drawer and you over here holding me back while. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.320 Somebody is hummeling me, and so you were doing it 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.000 for the community. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.760 And that no, no, she she messed up because she 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.720 should have gave you a free jelly donut. It should 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.720 have been free in your coffee. I'll tell you something, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.600 dunk A Donuts, if you hear us right now? One 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.559 sponsor the show. Two, y'all owe Paula pumps. Y'all owe 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.160 Paula Boundstone, a jelly donut and a coffee at the 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:09.880 very least. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.040 Okay, because y'all way, jelly donut and chocolate honey glaze. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.360 Oh, chocolate honey glaze. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:15.559 Get it right, I can mick that. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.840 And even if it's discontinued, you better continue it. Okay, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:26.920 get it right, Scarce, come and we are back. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:32.200 And that was fast. Whoa who I hear. I'm thinking 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.720 I'm gonna kickback. Relax, breathe for as again. I got 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.160 a whiplash from that break. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.040 Oh but to breathe, you don't get to breathe. It's 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.480 time for what's hot and fraud. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:42.240 Let's do it. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.400 Yes, So this is when we want our listeners about 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.480 scams popping on the streets. But more often than not, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.360 we get a letter from you all out there as 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.760 always touch on your friend's family and enemies and scam 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.280 gootspot at gmail dot com. Just make sure your scam 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.080 is retired because we don't want to what Yes, fuck 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.960 up your bag and somebody really understood that today. I 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.880 just need a fake name from you, Paula like it 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.800 could be we don't care about gender here, So any. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.880 Name Angelina Angelina? 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.800 Ooh yes, I like Angelina. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.160 So Angelina says, skip to the bottom for your flowers. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.680 This is a long one, so we're just diving right 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.680 on it. Angelina, you've been listened to the podcast because 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.520 you know how it go, all right, so I picked this. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.320 It's a little complicated, but there's still like a little 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.200 bit of a scam that can still be run. So 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.400 I just wanted to let y'all know about it, right, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.160 So it says Angelina says, you might have actually come 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.360 across the scam before. But there used to be a 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.760 widely utilized review buying system that anyone selling something on 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.359 Amazon could use to artificially boost reviews on their products. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.440 It wouldn't be advertised directly on Amazon, but rather through 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.200 a variety of one thousand percent shady websites across webs 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.840 like ami Ze review Trader and if it's like amz 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.520 review Trader, if y'all want to know Elite deal Club, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.120 I love to you, snag Shout, and many of these 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:09.720 names snag Shouts, nigils pornographic Man. For some reason, snag shout, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.360 and many other mostly defunct sites. Now essentially all that 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.160 you had to do was find an item on one 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.600 of these websites that you wanted and then request a 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.360 discount code, as well as give them a link to 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.600 your public Amazon profile so that they could see your 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.880 review history. So if you leave a lot of reviews, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.920 which I will say, I appreciate reviews, I don't do 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.280 reviews often. But when I go on Amazon or any 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.000 other popular website and give you know, Q ball head 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.400 Jeff Bezos my money, which I shouldn't be doing, I 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.160 try not to. I try not to. I try not 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:41.920 to order from Amazon because a lot of times if 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.440 you go on Amazon, the price is higher than if 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.440 you actually click on who's selling it and then go 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.640 to the real website where they sell it from. So 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.960 you can find something on Amazon because it's quick, and 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.040 then go to the real website and get it cheaper. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.520 But my neighbors and I, because he owns whole food, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.720 my neighbors and I went in on a strawberry last summer. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:01.560 That's how one strawberry. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.080 Yeah yeah, and it yeah, y'all cut it up. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.680 But it was a situation strawberry ceremony strawberry we call 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:15.040 it the Strawberry Festival. Very it's very expensive and what 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.400 more does he need honestly? 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.359 Right, Also like the workers, Like if I know people 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.800 are peeing in power aid bottles, I'm like, I don't 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.240 want to do two day ship and so y'all can 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.560 be stressed out. Yeah, But Amazon does have all the things, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.520 all the things. So if you're a reviewer on Amazon, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.159 I do appreciate you because sometimes they be posting pictures. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.480 They'll post a picture in the outfit, They'll post a 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.439 picture of the table once they built it, and it 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.880 gives you like a little bit of scale to how 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:43.479 big it is. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.240 And I worry about the review things because I feel 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.680 like people can just wouldn't you just get your friends 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:51.840 to say good things? 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.960 Yeah, Or they trick people by sending the product to 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.480 people's houses who didn't order it and then making reviews 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.520 for them. They do that too. So there's a lot 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.960 of different little scams that people on Amazon du to 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.640 get their rating up. Because if your Amazon review rating 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.880 is higher, you pop up in the feed higher, which 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.800 means you get more legitimate orders than other companies for 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.159 the same product. So there's reasons why they're doing this 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.359 and giving these discounts. So Angelina says, the discounts were 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.080 anywhere between ten percent and one hundred percent off free. Okay, yes, 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.880 I said free, Angelina. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.400 What company is given one hundred percent off discounts? 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.879 But think about it. You give one hundred percent off 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.880 and then people give reviews. You get ten reviews, right, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:39.560 you sacrifice the profit for ten products that bo that 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.080 boos youer algorithm, and then you get probably way more 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.640 people buying it legitimately, like legitimately because they saw it 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.400 from the reviews. Oh okay, yeah, and like Amazon makes 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.000 it to where the company can't really falsify reviews that much, 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.920 so they need people to do like quote unquote legitimate reviews, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.359 so they said, Angelina says, And they had everything you 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.840 could want if you got to that request button before 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.000 someone else did. The deal was that they would give 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.640 you this discount and then you would leave your honest 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.760