Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio, Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Elizabeth Dutton and Sarah and Burnett. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was hoping I could run into you. Do you
Speaker 1: know what's ridiculous? I do? Oh well, then you say
Speaker 1: your part. Nascar romance novels what Nascar in the early
Speaker 1: two thousand's got together with Harlequin, the romance novel publisher,
Speaker 1: and they did Nascar romance novels. Were they featuring NASCAR
Speaker 1: drivers to Man in his Car? No, they were, Um,
Speaker 1: it was like surrounding. Yeah, Nascar drivers would be one
Speaker 1: would be the love interest in like some like pit
Speaker 1: crew boss, who was like I just gotta be with him. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's one book called speed Dating and it's the
Speaker 1: story of an actuary and who falls in love with
Speaker 1: a fictional NASCAR driver, a fictional one. They didn't like you,
Speaker 1: trick trickle. Um. There's no sex, drug for alcohol or
Speaker 1: car crashes in the books. Okay, what is really emotional kissing? Instead? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were just smooching, really like strong smooches. Um. And
Speaker 1: so a lot of knees getting weak, yeah, tons of them.
Speaker 1: It's just it's there's a whole bunch of them Nascar.
Speaker 1: I kissed him in my leg, just went up in
Speaker 1: the back, you know, like that little Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna start writing Nascar.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick up where they left off Christmas all that.
Speaker 1: You know what I want? I want what was the
Speaker 1: Jose consco one? Oh? The air Force Gator? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So we're going to build a ridiculous crime library that
Speaker 1: has air Force, Gator, the air Force, all of the
Speaker 1: NASCAR romance novels. One's called Dangerous Curves and there's another
Speaker 1: one called Total Control. Yeah. I love all these cheesy titles.
Speaker 1: So good, Slippery when wet is that one in there?
Speaker 1: Probably probably Dangerous Curves ahead. So that's that. That's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: That's good. Uh, if you have a moment, I got
Speaker 1: one for you. Yeah, excellent. Okay, Well, how about the
Speaker 1: story of somebody I know you love to Instagram influencers
Speaker 1: who go on and around the world cruise and it's
Speaker 1: so exciting and new and they document all of this
Speaker 1: on their social media. But it turns out that the
Speaker 1: pair actually a cover for international cocaine smuggling operation. Let's
Speaker 1: call it the coke Boat. Yeah, soon we'll be taking
Speaker 1: another run. The coke boat promises something for everyone. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers.
Speaker 1: Heis and cons It's oh, murder free and ridiculous. Elizabeth Done,
Speaker 1: Sarah Burnett. I have a confession to make. I've never
Speaker 1: been on a cruise ship. I have no idea what
Speaker 1: they're like. Zero. I watched the Love Boat that to
Speaker 1: me is a cruise ship in Disney commercials, you know, likevirus.
Speaker 1: So to me, they kind of look ridiculous. Of the ships,
Speaker 1: I mean, not the cruises like you see them out
Speaker 1: in San Francisco at the docks. Yeah, it looks like
Speaker 1: somebody kicked over one of the skyscrapers. It fell into
Speaker 1: the water. They're like, I don't know, let's make a
Speaker 1: boat out of this. But I have, you know, all
Speaker 1: my nonsense aside, Elizabeth, you've been on a cruise I
Speaker 1: have twice. Okay, So what was it like, just to
Speaker 1: let me know, I have no idea. It's a it's
Speaker 1: an interesting experience. It's like it is like being in
Speaker 1: a giant hotel on its side. Everyone falls over. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's un like, what do you do all day? Is
Speaker 1: it fun? Do you walk around you see people? Do
Speaker 1: you make friends? Like you like, do you see people
Speaker 1: and go, hey, what should go bowling at the You
Speaker 1: can you can make friends, or you can hang out
Speaker 1: with your family or like, you know, they have like
Speaker 1: trivia games. My family did the trivia thing and like
Speaker 1: went to every single one and got really like aggressively
Speaker 1: racking up prices. Then you tell you not to comment
Speaker 1: or come on, everyone else a chance, and then they
Speaker 1: have you know, people go there. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are there just to eat at the buffet, the buffet lines.
Speaker 1: I read a lot about this in the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then um, you can walk around on the deck
Speaker 1: and like look out at the water. And then they
Speaker 1: have stops. I mean they stopped places about that. But
Speaker 1: I'm saying when you're on the boat, that's the part
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. You sleep and you read,
Speaker 1: and you also produced you are somebody who's doing a
Speaker 1: cruise ships too correct, That is correct? What what did
Speaker 1: you do? The best thing is I mean truly the
Speaker 1: rocket of the boat, like it just puts you to sleep.
Speaker 1: It's just if it's the most soothing thing and then
Speaker 1: cruises really are like um, like floating hotels that have
Speaker 1: all the amenities you can possibly think of. Like the
Speaker 1: ships that've been on have um movie theaters. They have
Speaker 1: like Broadway style stuff, which I don't really like, but
Speaker 1: but like people get into it. And and if you're sick,
Speaker 1: like you can watch it from your room that it's
Speaker 1: closed circuit record broadcast. I had no idea they're running tracks.
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, uh, really nice restaurants at some
Speaker 1: crappy restaurants, but also really nice restaurants, so it's not
Speaker 1: just cruise ship magicians anymore. No. And they have like
Speaker 1: kids clubs so the kids can all hang out then
Speaker 1: that way, you know, they have they make friends parents.
Speaker 1: It's very Vegas like, yeah, all right, okay, Now, either
Speaker 1: one of you imagine when you were on these cruises
Speaker 1: that along with you were some cocaine smugglers. I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if there weren't. Well, it's time to meet
Speaker 1: through heroes of this ridiculous crime. I'd like to introduce
Speaker 1: you to Melina R. Four. She's the primary focus of
Speaker 1: our cocaine smuggling plot. She would later be joined by
Speaker 1: her future co defendant Isabelle Lagasse, who was a thirty
Speaker 1: year old at the time. Now they had this. It
Speaker 1: all started out. This whole like coke Bote scenario happened
Speaker 1: when Malina's friend whom she only ever refers to a
Speaker 1: sugar Daddy, So I will have to be referring to
Speaker 1: him as sugar Daddy, so forgive me for that. But Sugar,
Speaker 1: that's his name, first name Sugar, last name Daddy, last
Speaker 1: name Mr. Daddy. So Sugar was kind enough to offer
Speaker 1: to sponsor her for a luxury cruise around the world.
Speaker 1: Sponsor her exactly. Now what could she say? I mean,
Speaker 1: who says no to a free world cruise? I mean, now,
Speaker 1: of course, mix into this little heady cocktail of a question,
Speaker 1: would you or would you not? It's also your job
Speaker 1: to post photos on social media? So how could you
Speaker 1: possibly resist this offer? I mean, this is pretty much
Speaker 1: catnip right, it's a can holiday and there's also one
Speaker 1: the other little codessile. Nothing in life is free, so
Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself what will be the price
Speaker 1: of this if I'm being offered it for free? So
Speaker 1: this is this whole story. When I was reading it,
Speaker 1: it kept reminding me of the old ads what would
Speaker 1: you do for a klondike bar? Right? And like I
Speaker 1: used to laugh at people, and I still laugh at people,
Speaker 1: and I think they have been doing those ads again,
Speaker 1: and like I actually and they have a fool who
Speaker 1: sit there and watching and go home. I wonder what
Speaker 1: I would do, and I imagine what I would do.
Speaker 1: There is nothing that I would do for these likes
Speaker 1: that these people are doing all of this for. They're
Speaker 1: willing to ruin their lives for likes. And you will
Speaker 1: see what I mean. In one sense, you don't want
Speaker 1: to get sponsored to like fly out a medie with
Speaker 1: a bunch of balloons of coke and your tone tongue, yes,
Speaker 1: exactly telling my best impression of a coke Doncory. So
Speaker 1: Melina Robert. She grew up the small town of Granby,
Speaker 1: which is a case you don't know the Montreal excerpts.
Speaker 1: It's a little village outside of Montreal, and it's a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger than village. I would say it's a
Speaker 1: town about sixty people. Oh okay, that's a small town.
Speaker 1: The town of group and was about fifty two people.
Speaker 1: And I thought of it as a town city. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't think of it as a city, bustling metropolis. It's
Speaker 1: a you know, a Canadian small city. So after she
Speaker 1: leaves Granby, she heads up to you know, grab her
Speaker 1: piece of life in the big city of Montreal, as
Speaker 1: do a lot of people from Granby. She's a high
Speaker 1: school grad at this point living in the big city,
Speaker 1: and she gets a job at a jewelry store. Her
Speaker 1: customers are mostly local, wealthy, rich travelers, tourists, and of
Speaker 1: course international criminals. Molina. She takes to this life, the
Speaker 1: fast life of Montreal. She loves it. She loves the pulse,
Speaker 1: the beat of the city, the art, restaurants, the clubs,
Speaker 1: everything is for her. She's like, I've waited all my
Speaker 1: life for this. She has a sponge from Montreal. So
Speaker 1: soon enough she becomes the next thing that happens in
Speaker 1: this phase of evolution for this country girl, gone city.
Speaker 1: She becomes a scene store in the clubs. She becomes
Speaker 1: a club girl right for her now she as she
Speaker 1: gets known in the club scene, everyone around her and
Speaker 1: just like her, they're all documenting their lives on social media.
Speaker 1: So she starts to become a social media influencer, or
Speaker 1: at least a hopeful influencer. Right now, she'd been in
Speaker 1: Montreal about two years when she meets the man who
Speaker 1: had changed her life, who we previously referred to as
Speaker 1: Sugar Daddy. Sugar so sugar Daddy. He's an older cat,
Speaker 1: as you might have guest, and he was also another
Speaker 1: thing you might have guessed, mysterious. Yes, he had money,
Speaker 1: and he said he had a business online and she
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's cute. I do business on businessman.
Speaker 1: So he's he've done well in life, right, at least
Speaker 1: money wise, and he liked to spend his fortune. He
Speaker 1: was very will stay generous with it. Turns out he's
Speaker 1: more manipulative with her, but he would spend freely around her.
Speaker 1: She got to enjoy the fine things that he enjoyed.
Speaker 1: This life, his way of life becomes intoxicating for Molina.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, sugar Daddy, I love this. Right. So Molina,
Speaker 1: now twenty years old, smitten on a life, doesn't understand
Speaker 1: or get how it's being paid for. And she's now
Speaker 1: knee deep into what of a criminal adventure that she
Speaker 1: doesn't see around her. Okay, right right now, Molina and
Speaker 1: her her older friend will call him Sugar Daddy, her sponsor,
Speaker 1: her sponsor, she finds out about his mysterious secret. One day,
Speaker 1: she discovers the source of his fortune. Can you guess
Speaker 1: what it was? Online business that he ran was an
Speaker 1: escort service. He was a pimp, and not like the
Speaker 1: fun kind like Snoop Dogg in a music video. He
Speaker 1: was a pimp, like a eurotrash pimp, like open shirt,
Speaker 1: gold chains, like a pimp in Montreal. So he would
Speaker 1: take advantage of young women like Molina. He would enthrall
Speaker 1: them with his life that they couldn't possibly lead. He
Speaker 1: get them so far into it that they considered it
Speaker 1: kind of like now their life. And then you go, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a little favorite, asked, just a small favor.
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to have sex with one of
Speaker 1: my rich friends? He likes you? And what are you saying? Right?
Speaker 1: And so Molina, once she'd walked through that door, she
Speaker 1: becomes a sex worker. And she doesn't really realize it
Speaker 1: at first, but then she's like, well, I don't hate
Speaker 1: my new life. This isn't bad. She's down to being
Speaker 1: a sex worker. And I'm not shamming sex workers? You know,
Speaker 1: do you boo? I don't care, But like when you
Speaker 1: hear me being a bit judgmental about this. All of
Speaker 1: that goes on to sugar Daddy. So sugar Daddy, he's
Speaker 1: the one exploiting the susceptible and the gullible, right, and
Speaker 1: I don't cotto that personally, So sugar Daddy is the
Speaker 1: bad one, right. So he's also arranging sex work for her.
Speaker 1: It starts out his favors, it becomes more formal, and
Speaker 1: then he's like her pimp, right with engraved invitations. They
Speaker 1: have like contracts and stuff like. So she and her
Speaker 1: eurotrash pimp. They move on to what comes next, which
Speaker 1: is they go to where rich people congregate. So she
Speaker 1: starts working Monaco, all right, So sugar Daddy's introducing her
Speaker 1: to the ultra rich and lascivious. And meanwhile Molina is
Speaker 1: getting paid well, sometimes it's extravagant gifts. Other times it's
Speaker 1: that she did a favor for sugar Daddy and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't worry, I'll take care you on the back end,
Speaker 1: right anyway, But he's also probably like room and board
Speaker 1: all the yeah, like all the whole like how who
Speaker 1: bought your plane ticket? Baby? You know, like I don't
Speaker 1: know your electric So by May, she's now moved on
Speaker 1: to working in Morocco as an escort because apparently there's like,
Speaker 1: you know, action there and uh this Morocco trips she
Speaker 1: goes on in super lucrative. She ends up banking fifteen
Speaker 1: grand from that trip. Things are going well for us.
Speaker 1: She's pretty good being an escort, right, and she likes
Speaker 1: living amongst the wealthy. She enjoys trading pleasure for pay
Speaker 1: all right. So then comes a faithful offer that will
Speaker 1: change her life, the one that she kind of just
Speaker 1: wanders into. Molina's sugar Daddy, her friend. He says, I've
Speaker 1: got some friends, and my friends they have big plans,
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, what are your friends big plans?
Speaker 1: He's like, look, I'd like you to come with me
Speaker 1: and travel around the world. And she's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: who would have to sleep with to pay for that?
Speaker 1: She's like, and she's surprised when they answer is like,
Speaker 1: no one. You don't sleep with anyone. She's like, how
Speaker 1: would I don't get it? What would my job be? Right?
Speaker 1: And he's like, sugar daddies friends they just want company.
Speaker 1: They just like to have pretty girls around. He's She's
Speaker 1: like okay, So now without realizing it, She's about to
Speaker 1: graduate from escort to cocaine smuggling, right, So Molina was
Speaker 1: graduation ceremony. You moved the tassel from one side and
Speaker 1: then you look at and so she's now happier with
Speaker 1: their life. Was an escort, not too keen on becoming
Speaker 1: a cocaine smuggler. So when sugar Daddy's like, hey, you
Speaker 1: want to take a ride in the coke boat, She's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'd rather not. I just like to do the Monico
Speaker 1: thing in Morocco. That's cool. A few weeks past, Sugar
Speaker 1: Daddies come back to her and he's like, hey, remember
Speaker 1: that thing I asked you about with the coke boat.
Speaker 1: What do you say would you would you be into that?
Speaker 1: She's like no, I just like to concentrate on my
Speaker 1: Instagram influencing and just doing escorting. And that's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: like all that's good. So we can maybe just keep
Speaker 1: this going. And he's like oh yeah, yeah, shures right.
Speaker 1: More time passes again, Sugar Daddy comes back. He's in
Speaker 1: a bind. He's like, look, I need to help baby.
Speaker 1: You gotta hook me up. Like, well, what what's the problem?
Speaker 1: What can I do? He's like this girl I had
Speaker 1: she was gonna do the trip. I got her in
Speaker 1: your place, but she she backed out last minute. You
Speaker 1: gotta do this for me. It'll be it's a twenty
Speaker 1: two dollar trip. You'll have an amazing time. It's seven weeks,
Speaker 1: you go all around the world. She's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's like, i'll give you six grand spending money. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's do this. She's like, she's like considered an early
Speaker 1: birthday present. She's like an early birthday present, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I need you to do this. She feel like it's
Speaker 1: not really at this point, he's not asking no, she
Speaker 1: doesn't get that right, so but she still wants to know.
Speaker 1: She's like, well, I had to actively like transport the
Speaker 1: cocaine and smuggle it, or can I just like be
Speaker 1: pretty into distraction? And he's like okay, I'll just what
Speaker 1: do you think You're gonna have to actively smuggle the cocaine.
Speaker 1: She's like, okay, well I'm not into that. She's like,
Speaker 1: just chill, baby, They'll be like one or two kilos
Speaker 1: at most, and she's like okay. So she eventually, when
Speaker 1: she starts imagining all the likes flowing in, she's like
Speaker 1: I'll do it, and so her fate is sealed. Now,
Speaker 1: after this little quick break, I'll tell you about is
Speaker 1: about Lagas, and we'll get you on that coke boat,
Speaker 1: all right. Elizabeth Isabel Lagasse. Yes, the thirty year old.
Speaker 1: Now she has seen more of the world than young Molina.
Speaker 1: Now Isabel, she had seen the good, the bad, and
Speaker 1: the ugly of the world. And by age thirty, she
Speaker 1: was like Pride on the coke boat. No, actually that's
Speaker 1: not that's not actually how she was. She was a
Speaker 1: waitress and she was working on Montreal's South Shore, which
Speaker 1: I doubt you know this because I didn't know it,
Speaker 1: had to look it up. That's where like the commuters
Speaker 1: live who go into Montreal. So it's like she works
Speaker 1: in the suburbs, right, and now she dreams of starting
Speaker 1: a new life. She's at this point, she was a
Speaker 1: twenty eight years old and she started dreaming of her
Speaker 1: new life. And she gets into problems due to her
Speaker 1: previous bad decisions. She owed twenty dollars to some bad
Speaker 1: men and she was working as a waitress, which would
Speaker 1: not pay for that anytime soon. She's like, what can
Speaker 1: I do? I need to make a move, I need
Speaker 1: to make a big move. Right. Lucky for her, a
Speaker 1: big move comes her way. She gets an offer, unfortunately
Speaker 1: was from the same bad men who she owed the
Speaker 1: grand time. They count her and they go, hey, we
Speaker 1: gotta wait for you to pay off that loan. She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take all around the cruise. She's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do what. You're going to take an all around cruise?
Speaker 1: And she's like, I don't really want to do that,
Speaker 1: and you're like, all around I'm sorry, all around the world.
Speaker 1: Creuse Okay. So she's like, I don't really want to
Speaker 1: do that, and you're like, yeah, this isn't a question.
Speaker 1: So here's what you're gonna do. You're going to do
Speaker 1: this and then if you do it, we won't hurt
Speaker 1: your family. She's like, Okay, this is definitely not a choice,
Speaker 1: so I will do this. So she agrees to take
Speaker 1: her trip on the coke boat and around the World
Speaker 1: cruise under direst exactly forced into it. Otherwise your family
Speaker 1: is going to get luxury around the so is about
Speaker 1: the Gas and Molina have both agreed under her ask
Speaker 1: to go on the around the world luxury coke boat tour.
Speaker 1: So Molina Isabelle. They know each other. They were both
Speaker 1: like on the scene, like they're familiar with each other.
Speaker 1: They're not like super tight, they're not friendly, but they
Speaker 1: know each other. So it's not like an impossible thing
Speaker 1: for them to be thrown together and go, here's your cabin,
Speaker 1: spend the next seven weeks together. They're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: kind of know her. She's all right, Yeah, I know her.
Speaker 1: She's cool. So they're you know, fine with the idea.
Speaker 1: When they're told like, yeah, this will be your partner
Speaker 1: for this criminal enterprise, you're like, okay. Now. The thing
Speaker 1: about crime, and I don't think a lot of people
Speaker 1: always recognize this is for a lot of people, they
Speaker 1: don't really realize that they've become a criminal. Like there's
Speaker 1: really porous borders to crime, and it's not like a
Speaker 1: fixed thing. It's like there's no job at review. You
Speaker 1: don't come in and go, okay, you get the job.
Speaker 1: You start criming on Monday. You know, it's like to
Speaker 1: put it in your title. Yeah exactly. It's more like
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you do a thing and you
Speaker 1: look back and you're like, oh, oh, look at that,
Speaker 1: I'm a criminal now, right, And so that was kind
Speaker 1: of what happened to Molina and Isabelle. They wandered into
Speaker 1: the waters and all of a sudden they were way
Speaker 1: steep in crime. Yeah, So the influencer and the waitress,
Speaker 1: they are flown from Montreal over to England where they
Speaker 1: were board this around the World coke boat. Right. They
Speaker 1: arrived in the British sports city of Southampton and they
Speaker 1: this is where the ship will launch from. And it's
Speaker 1: going to go from the UK over to Ireland and
Speaker 1: then we'll go from Ireland across the Atlantic to Canada
Speaker 1: and then down to the US to New York, to Bermuda,
Speaker 1: onto Colombia and then to Ecuador, Peru. Then it goes
Speaker 1: on to Chule, then it goes over across the Pacific,
Speaker 1: stops in French Polynesia. Finally it wanders its way down
Speaker 1: to the Sydney Harbor. Seven weeks. This does seem like
Speaker 1: a cocaine itentity, right, especially all the stops. So two
Speaker 1: months I'm aboarded. This boat essentially is going to be
Speaker 1: their thing. Now. They also have a minder, like a
Speaker 1: criminal chaperone. There is a sixty three year old man
Speaker 1: named Andre Tomine who's going to be with them two
Speaker 1: young girl year and also he's not alone either is
Speaker 1: with Andre just not so good of conversation. So he
Speaker 1: has three travel mates that are with him as well,
Speaker 1: that are friends that the two women rarely see it first,
Speaker 1: but slowly these men make their presence known on the
Speaker 1: ship to the women. Right. The four men are Stephen Chevrier,
Speaker 1: Michel Nicole, and Andre the first one I told you. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's three days. Two of them are secret like
Speaker 1: hiding in the cabins. Three of them. Three of them
Speaker 1: basically just they just always seemed to be wherever the
Speaker 1: girls are. And then like they'll go to eat with Andre,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, these like Andre will like
Speaker 1: waiver signal to one of the guys. They started to go,
Speaker 1: do you know these guys things start putting it together,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that these four men all happened
Speaker 1: to purchase their twenty dollar cruise tickets from the exact
Speaker 1: same Montreal travel agency, and they all happened to pay cash.
Speaker 1: They're all the yeah, the only ones who happened to
Speaker 1: do this, right, Yeah, So the cruise ship, this cruise
Speaker 1: ship that they're spending time on apparently, like you guys
Speaker 1: said it has everything. Like I had to read up.
Speaker 1: This is the the MSc Princess. So it's Princess Cruise
Speaker 1: Lines out of Los Angeles. It boasts all the amenities
Speaker 1: you could wish for from a luxury cruise liner. I
Speaker 1: didn't know this. They had a day spa, a casino, restaurants,
Speaker 1: it had an adrium that was decked out in gold.
Speaker 1: I mean the thing. It's just luxury, luxury, right, It's
Speaker 1: like a Vegas attraction, but like actually done really nicely. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the women they start posting Instagram posts. They and
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, look at our life and his luxury, right.
Speaker 1: And the very first one is a post by Molina
Speaker 1: that she put on Instagram. It's her getting Irish coffee
Speaker 1: in Ireland and like the little seaside town of Cobb, right,
Speaker 1: She's like, oh look, real Irish, do almost some coke.
Speaker 1: So then the two start posting the more selfies from
Speaker 1: aboard the ship. There's bikini picks, big smiles, sunny ocean bustance,
Speaker 1: cocktails in hand, the whole nine. You can imagine the shots, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The ship then starts passing into the Atlantic waters. Now
Speaker 1: we're underway. The coke boat is cruising right, Millian Isabelle.
Speaker 1: They start seeing the three Bad Men more and more often.
Speaker 1: Now they're like sitting down with them at breakfast or
Speaker 1: like this is getting weird. They cross paths all the time.
Speaker 1: The men would stop to chat with Andre when they're
Speaker 1: just walking the deck. They're like, are we gonna ever
Speaker 1: be introduced to these guys? Like, what's their stories? Still
Speaker 1: haven't been introduced. They don't know who these guys are
Speaker 1: serious presents. No. I like to imagine these dudes like
Speaker 1: playing shuffleboard and they got like dark socks, the sandals,
Speaker 1: they got like the white shorts, open collar shirts, the
Speaker 1: gold chains. But they're like they just spend their evenings
Speaker 1: like standing at the rail wanting to see the green
Speaker 1: flash and Tomas telling each other about it. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. Man, these Montreal hard men, and
Speaker 1: they're they're friendly minder Andre. They just keep being hard
Speaker 1: men on the cruise and being generally suspicious. But the women,
Speaker 1: they don't really put any of this together. They're like,
Speaker 1: that's probably the coke guys. I guess, I don't know whatever.
Speaker 1: I would love to be on this cruise and then
Speaker 1: just be letting my run wild Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd be overheating here completely. I'd have smoke coming out
Speaker 1: of my ears trying to figure out. Yeah. So, eventually
Speaker 1: the cruise gets to Canada and they stop at Nova Scotia.
Speaker 1: It's one of their stops and the passengers, one of
Speaker 1: the passengers on the MSc Princess disembarks. He's one of
Speaker 1: the four men incidentally, and uh, the ones who are
Speaker 1: friendly with Andre. Right, so this man is Michelle Chiasol.
Speaker 1: Michelle disembarks in Nova Scotia and Molina Isabel don't know
Speaker 1: why he gets off the boat. They don't see him,
Speaker 1: and they also don't notice that he gets grabbed by
Speaker 1: customs when he gets off. When he steps off the
Speaker 1: boat and customs says, hey, we want to talk to you, right,
Speaker 1: So the Canadian border officials take him to custody. They
Speaker 1: interview him, and what Molina and Isabel also don't know
Speaker 1: is that Michelle Chiassol ends up fingering them as suspects
Speaker 1: for authorities to keep an eye on. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's two girls on the boat and they are cocaine smugglers.
Speaker 1: It does not me so, but at this point the
Speaker 1: boat has left the harbor. It's gone to New York.
Speaker 1: So the Canadian authorities can't do anything other than to
Speaker 1: phone to New York, so they call the American authorities.
Speaker 1: The women get to New York, nothing happens. There's nobody
Speaker 1: there waiting for them at the harbor. They get off,
Speaker 1: they go to Times Square, they take more selfies. Everything's
Speaker 1: la la la, right, So they're enjoying their time. Trips
Speaker 1: going well. The pictures are getting mad likes. Everybody's loving it.
Speaker 1: People can't believe the life that Molina and Isabelle are
Speaker 1: getting to live. They don't see the actual, you know,
Speaker 1: the truth lurking behind their smiles. But you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: blown away by They're looking at these photos of them
Speaker 1: in Bermuda, which is where they go next. The two
Speaker 1: Canadians they pose in bikini pics, right, and they're like
Speaker 1: like staring wistfully at the sea. They're taking each other's
Speaker 1: picture from behind. They're leaning on rocks and stuff and
Speaker 1: doing the whole like my feet in the water, my
Speaker 1: bunts on the rock, you know. Okay, So the cruise
Speaker 1: ship now it passes through the Caribbean and they get
Speaker 1: to Colombia. Now things are starting to get spicy, remember
Speaker 1: coke boots. Right while they were off the ship cruising
Speaker 1: through a zoo in Colombia, we don't know if it
Speaker 1: was like yeah, hippos, yes, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a cocaine zoo. I don't know if Pablo Escobar zoo.
Speaker 1: But so they go and they hit up Pablo Escobar
Speaker 1: zoo and they're like, this is what the good life
Speaker 1: pays for road hippos. They're like, we're looking for inspiration
Speaker 1: there it is show what's the little cessma plane he had?
Speaker 1: So at this point though, while they're in the zoo
Speaker 1: and Colombia, a couple of dudes, young guys who they
Speaker 1: recognize from the cruise line, they walk over them like hey,
Speaker 1: and the girls are like, oh, we know that the
Speaker 1: the Italian guys I said they referred to him, so
Speaker 1: they Italian guys. Maybe they're I don't know, attractive Italian
Speaker 1: guys and they caught their eye. So they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: is the Italian guys. Italian guys come over and go
Speaker 1: oh yo, hey, hey, you're doing you're doing that thing
Speaker 1: that you're doing that thing we're doing. That's awesome, right,
Speaker 1: And she's like what wake nude nus, you're doing the thing.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, they must be with the coca influencers
Speaker 1: him exactly. So the Italians make it clear like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're running coked also, just like you guys that are
Speaker 1: were influencers. Then so this twosome now becomes a foursome.
Speaker 1: So them in the two hot Italians, they become four
Speaker 1: young coke smugglers out on the world. Right, they have
Speaker 1: breakfast together, lunch together. Like, I'm customs, I would walk
Speaker 1: through this ship because you know, the bulk of the
Speaker 1: people who can afford to do this and have the
Speaker 1: time our retirees. So if I'm on the Round the
Speaker 1: World cruise ship and I'm walking around, I see some
Speaker 1: young folks and I and they're not and they're hanging
Speaker 1: out with a dude name Andre to me out of
Speaker 1: here hauling them off red flag, red flag. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: you're not far from the truth on that. So these
Speaker 1: new fast friends Molina is about and the two Italians,
Speaker 1: they're always hanging out and uh, they lays about the
Speaker 1: pool together, they son tan together. And it turns out
Speaker 1: the Italians seemed to also know Andre and the hard men,
Speaker 1: so they're like, you know, winking a nod from a
Speaker 1: distance to them, so they're like, okay. They get confirmation
Speaker 1: when the boat goes to its next stop in Peru,
Speaker 1: and these guys all get off the boat and they
Speaker 1: go to a building and they make five different trips
Speaker 1: to load things onto the boat. So whatever it was
Speaker 1: that they needed to get it took them five trips together.
Speaker 1: And they're being really hush hush about it, but they
Speaker 1: get all this stuff loaded onto the boat. A souvenirs, yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of like statuary and various blankets, things that
Speaker 1: would look good in a storefront. Yeah. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: we're in the import export exactly. Balina posts a photo
Speaker 1: from her Peru stop. She is and I kid you
Speaker 1: not astride and a TV wearing a bikini in this
Speaker 1: rugged background, and her caption reads, it was just really crazy,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. She also, by the way, added
Speaker 1: hashtags hashtag bucket list, hashtag quad after that, it's onto
Speaker 1: the Pacific. Now we're going. So they got a Chile
Speaker 1: and the coke boat is now on towards other exotic
Speaker 1: destinations more exciting and new. Come aboard. We've got the
Speaker 1: coke for you. So they disembark in French Polynesia Molina.
Speaker 1: She decides to consecrate this whole fantastic magical trip with
Speaker 1: a tattoo, because, of course tattoo. So she chooses two
Speaker 1: intersecting lines, which is a sign of protection. Firstal life
Speaker 1: traveling exactly Jesus Zodiac killing. So she posted caption on
Speaker 1: her photo with her new tattoo, and it says, and
Speaker 1: I quote used to be afraid to get out of
Speaker 1: my little town, and now I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: want to see that little town anymore because it's beautiful
Speaker 1: out there and it is so worth it. So that
Speaker 1: post earned her a boatload of likes. D it's so
Speaker 1: worth it would come back to bite her in her
Speaker 1: sun tanned ass. So two days before the Sea Princess Ak,
Speaker 1: the coke boat arrives in Sydney Harbor, it's final destination.
Speaker 1: Isabel is alone when one of the Italians comes up
Speaker 1: to he and says, give me your room key. So
Speaker 1: she's like, what do you mean my room key? I
Speaker 1: don't why do you need my room key? He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, So she has to hand over a room key,
Speaker 1: not by her choice, but she hands it over. The
Speaker 1: Italian tells Isabel that the coke will be in your stateroom,
Speaker 1: and uh, just put it in your luggage and don't worry.
Speaker 1: She's like, what do you mean. He's like, hey, don't worry.
Speaker 1: No one in Australian Customs would ever check the bags
Speaker 1: of a pretty girl like you. She's like, you think.
Speaker 1: So the next day the ship arrives at Sydney Harbor.
Speaker 1: And now, Elizabeth, I'd like you to close your eyes
Speaker 1: and picture it. It's six August sixteen. You've been on
Speaker 1: board the Sea Princess now for seven weeks. You were
Speaker 1: invited by your friend, the heir to the Fluffer Nutter fortune.
Speaker 1: It's been a beautiful cruise, but by this point you
Speaker 1: never want to see a buffet line or a cruise
Speaker 1: ship comedian ever. Again. You can't wait to set foot
Speaker 1: on Australian land. But you're also a bit of a
Speaker 1: busy body, as we all know. Now. You take notice
Speaker 1: when a squadron of police and customs officials streamlinded the
Speaker 1: ship as soon as you arrive in the Sydney Harbor.
Speaker 1: You're like, goody, so you decide not to immediately disembark.
Speaker 1: But that's also not really your choice because the cops
Speaker 1: aren't letting anyone off the boat until they've inspected all
Speaker 1: two thousand rooms and get to search them. So now
Speaker 1: you have to bide your time, So you stroll the
Speaker 1: decks not worried about your room. You're looking for trouble,
Speaker 1: so you find it when you walk past cabin number
Speaker 1: P three one two. You turn when you hear a
Speaker 1: squadron of cops approaching you. But it's not just cops.
Speaker 1: There's also folks from the Australian Border Protection and they
Speaker 1: have dogs, so you're like, yes, dogs, what's it all
Speaker 1: the excitement about. Is there a stowaway on board? You
Speaker 1: wonder the big does the border cops have dogs with them?
Speaker 1: And these dogs are not bomb sniffing dogs. They look
Speaker 1: to be drug sniffing dogs. And just as you're standing
Speaker 1: there in the passageway of the cruise ship, the cop
Speaker 1: dogs indicate what they're looking for is behind the door
Speaker 1: of cabin P three one two. Cops pound on the door.
Speaker 1: You wait, all eager to see whose cabin it is.
Speaker 1: You have your suspicions. You're like, I bet it's one
Speaker 1: of those guys, and you're surprised when you see who
Speaker 1: opens the door. It's that pretty young brunette woman, Molina
Speaker 1: what's her name from Canada? You ate dinner with her
Speaker 1: one at the casino. When she sees the cops at
Speaker 1: her door, her eyes widen. Your eyes widened in surprise.
Speaker 1: The cops don't ask to be let in. They just
Speaker 1: pushed past her and they start going and the dogs
Speaker 1: quickly locate the lug and start barking and sounding. Tech
Speaker 1: comes into the room. He checks using tracing technology to
Speaker 1: determine there is, indeed cocaine present on the luggage. Everyone
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is it. You're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is the best. And you see that pretty much. They
Speaker 1: go to open up the suitcase. They open it up
Speaker 1: and boom, you see, sitting right there on top is
Speaker 1: pretty much helos of cocaine, just of cocaine, specifically thirty
Speaker 1: five kilos of cocaine in American terms, that's seventy eight
Speaker 1: pounds of cocaine. That's like a small child of right.
Speaker 1: So when the cops und zip the bags, Billina completely
Speaker 1: loses her cool. She's like, oh, that's not that's not mine.
Speaker 1: I don't know they got there. She becomes hysterical, she
Speaker 1: can't speak anymore. She starts crying. She falls in the ground,
Speaker 1: wailing and sobbing, and then starts to hyperventilate. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: someone should get a bag, so you start pointing around.
Speaker 1: The cops don't know what to do because only bags inside.
Speaker 1: I'll have cocaine and them what should we do? Fast
Speaker 1: thinking that you are, you tell an officer grab one
Speaker 1: of the trash bags. They grab a trash bag. It
Speaker 1: hasn't been used. They hand it to Molina. She's able
Speaker 1: to breathe and calm down. But you've kind of ruined
Speaker 1: your spot because now the cops still you're watching. They
Speaker 1: slam the door in your face and that's the end
Speaker 1: of the scene. For that's wonderful. The youth ay as
Speaker 1: the door is slammed in your face, they look like
Speaker 1: such nice girls. Meanwhile, the Australian authorities continue their coke
Speaker 1: starch and they also locate Andre to means room he's
Speaker 1: cabin holds an additional sixty kilos of cocaine. That's about
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty two pounds of cocaine. Now all
Speaker 1: told thirty two that's two d and ten pounds of cocaine.
Speaker 1: That's equivalent to a whole Tom Arnold of cocaine like
Speaker 1: he was. That was the first person I looked up
Speaker 1: online who there. Their weight was listed at two pounds.
Speaker 1: But I also found that when Roy Jones Junior weighed
Speaker 1: in to fight Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Junior weighed in
Speaker 1: at two pounds, which means they were moving a heavyweight
Speaker 1: boxer amount of cocaine. Yeah. Now, Elizabeth, if you were wondering, Zarin,
Speaker 1: how much would a Roy Jones junior worth of cocaine worth? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good question, Elizabeth, And turns out the answer
Speaker 1: is twenty two million US dollars. Wow, that's in prices.
Speaker 1: Now after this little break out on this yeah, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: they were geting. She got six grand spending money. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: after this break I'll be back to tell you how
Speaker 1: all of this blows out. Okay, Elizabeth. So this coke
Speaker 1: bust is now Australian history. It is the largest in
Speaker 1: Australian history to date. This coke bust was so massive
Speaker 1: that interrupted the cocaine supply for the city of Sydney. Like,
Speaker 1: people couldn't find cocaine after this. They're all waiting for
Speaker 1: the coke boat to arrive. So interestingly, when the cops
Speaker 1: were like checking the luggage they found in Andrea to
Speaker 1: means cabin, there was a name tag on one of
Speaker 1: the pieces of luggage and the name tag belonged to
Speaker 1: Michel exactly. So remember he said, you, oh, let's see
Speaker 1: two girls. Apparently there was some fight between him and
Speaker 1: Andre to me and or something, and he got pushed
Speaker 1: out and then he's like, push me out to watch this,
Speaker 1: and he got his revenge and took him all down.
Speaker 1: So it was every Sydney disco. So Melina Rubager and Isabelle,
Speaker 1: like Gas and Andre to mean, they all get arrested
Speaker 1: in Australia. And I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 1: but Austin law is not cool on cocaine. They're all
Speaker 1: facing life sentences for cocaine smuggling. Sarin, I have watched
Speaker 1: to catch a smuggler. Yeah, never mind. Then you know
Speaker 1: it's an Australia version that I don't need to tell
Speaker 1: you anything. I didn't know about this, but cocaine is
Speaker 1: also very expensive in Australia, Yeah, like really expensive. Like okay,
Speaker 1: I've traveled to Columbia and I was shocked at how
Speaker 1: cheap cocaine was down there. What did it like? Advertise
Speaker 1: it on supermarket? No. I talked to people who had cocaine.
Speaker 1: They were like, I have cocaine for so would you
Speaker 1: like to buy it? And I was like how much
Speaker 1: for the cocaine? But the Aprile cocaine it was like
Speaker 1: three to five dollars for April. Now, I'm not a
Speaker 1: coke person. I didn't end up buying it, but the
Speaker 1: prices blew me away. I just wanted to know. I
Speaker 1: just like to know. But what were the prices on
Speaker 1: the street? Right? So at that time in America, just
Speaker 1: to keep this in perspective, and Graham would have been
Speaker 1: about fifty dollars and Aprile will be about a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars, it was three to five dollars for
Speaker 1: an eight ball cocaine and it was like pure exactly right. Now,
Speaker 1: take that same logic and you go all the way
Speaker 1: down to Australia, so far from the source that it
Speaker 1: is four to five times is expensive. So there was
Speaker 1: this blustering cocaine market growing there that the Hell's Angels
Speaker 1: and other people are running because it's so big that
Speaker 1: prices are amazing. So the sinealoa cartel and all these
Speaker 1: people are trying to get into the Australian market because
Speaker 1: it's just worths so much more. So this was like
Speaker 1: the beginnings of this be really being them going big,
Speaker 1: like how do we get it in the cruise ships
Speaker 1: go down to Australia. So they were pushing it through
Speaker 1: cruise ships until Michelle Chias Song got a little petty
Speaker 1: and decided to finger the two Instagram influencers and ruined
Speaker 1: it for everybody. So now Sydney had no cocaine. I
Speaker 1: wanted to check the prices, and so I didn't really
Speaker 1: I don't know how to check, you know, Dustralian drug prices.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, am I calling Australia. No, there
Speaker 1: wasn't like a dark web price sheet I could check.
Speaker 1: But I did check Vice and vices usedly good about
Speaker 1: knowing this kind of stuff, and they said that a
Speaker 1: quilo of cocaine and I quote sell wholesale in Australia
Speaker 1: for two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars to two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars one kilo of cocaine,
Speaker 1: in comparison to an average wholesale price of fifty four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in the US and eight in the UK.
Speaker 1: What's the Kirkland brand costco. It's Kaine, so you can
Speaker 1: see why now the national Kirklane cocaine. The international criminals
Speaker 1: were so hyped on Australia, right. But I feel bad
Speaker 1: for old Molina Isabelle because these two decided to trust
Speaker 1: the idiots who are trying to take advantage of this
Speaker 1: price difference, and they didn't even think to ask any questions.
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, yes, this will be fine, We'll
Speaker 1: go at an Instagram influence to be great. Now, if
Speaker 1: you stopped in Colombia and Peru, as you noted, you're
Speaker 1: gonna raise red flags to the cops, which is what happened.
Speaker 1: And I can attest that when I flew to Colombia
Speaker 1: and I flew back from Colombia, I've never been searched
Speaker 1: like that in my entire life. They opened up all
Speaker 1: of my luggage, took out all of my clothes, they
Speaker 1: were breaking souvenirs like they let him drop onto the
Speaker 1: airport floor. All of my clothes are on the airport floor.
Speaker 1: I had to repack the entire bag at the customs station.
Speaker 1: I've never anything like that. My friend Dave Korean gentleman.
Speaker 1: He was with me. We were going down to Columbia
Speaker 1: to shoot this movie. He comes back and he's got
Speaker 1: a thing of protein powder, a giant tub like weightlifter
Speaker 1: protein powder, and he brought He's weird, so he brought
Speaker 1: with him and it was it's white powder. They opened
Speaker 1: it up, they look in and they're like, what's this.
Speaker 1: He's like protein powder. They're like okay to each other
Speaker 1: at customs. Yeah, so they didn't do anything, didn't even like,
Speaker 1: didn't even like put put a finger in and give
Speaker 1: it like a little sniff or a whiff, not see
Speaker 1: if the stuff goes. No. Nothing. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: is it's a little bit uh. The security is based
Speaker 1: on red flags and not on actual like let's actually
Speaker 1: test this. So the girls they could have gotten away
Speaker 1: with this. I can see why they thought they could
Speaker 1: have and might be willing to bet you without Michelle
Speaker 1: Chias they would have gotten away with it, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: So the difference in all of this is that you know,
Speaker 1: my friend the uh, he looked innocent. They looked innocent,
Speaker 1: but their friends did not look In this case, I
Speaker 1: would have been the andre to me anyway, you get
Speaker 1: the point. So Malina Isabelle. They had to go before
Speaker 1: an Australian judge. The judge is not down with social media.
Speaker 1: She's not down with their whole lifestyle of Instagram influencing
Speaker 1: and bikini photos. So District Court Judge Kate Trail, she
Speaker 1: goes hard in the pain on these girls and she
Speaker 1: shames the two women for their life shaped by shame.
Speaker 1: She's like, just before announcing their verdict and sentencing this judge,
Speaker 1: she pulls out the chopper and just guns down the
Speaker 1: defendants with shame. And I you know, I believe in
Speaker 1: the shame based economy system, economy a shave based to
Speaker 1: so she says, and I coote she wanted to be
Speaker 1: the envy of others. I doubt she is now the
Speaker 1: envy of others. Now you're going to an Australian prison
Speaker 1: for seven years. How you like that? Okay? I added
Speaker 1: that last I was like hoping that she said directly,
Speaker 1: I was gonna do an all Australian accent just but
Speaker 1: that was like that. So the two of women, they
Speaker 1: get sentenced to seven and eight years in prison. Now
Speaker 1: isabel Lagas she's eligible for parole. In February one, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to freedom, Isabel My good question. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: wondering the same thing, Elizabeth. Probably what about sugar Daddy?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, whatever happened to that eurosh dad? And he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He wasn't. She wasn't on the boat. No, remember he
Speaker 1: said I'd be on the boat and he wasn't. He
Speaker 1: just had the minder andre to me. So, despite the
Speaker 1: fact that it could have helped her in court, Molina
Speaker 1: refuses to name him. So does so does Isabel. Well,
Speaker 1: they're smart because he probably would have taken them and
Speaker 1: everyone that he threatened. Their families already always one of them. Now,
Speaker 1: Molina said, during starts sentencing hearing quote, I feel like
Speaker 1: I would be endangered if I did mention his name,
Speaker 1: So she straight up says it. Now, there is a
Speaker 1: suspect that gets named by Canadian press outlets, and they
Speaker 1: suggested that sugar Daddy was a man who had once
Speaker 1: hired Isabelle to be the manager at a jewelry store
Speaker 1: he owned but is now since closed. Neither woman would
Speaker 1: Datus refuse to confirm who this guy was. So whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. Sugar Daddy, nothing bad hapens to him.
Speaker 1: What if it's Tom Hanks, that would be amazing stranger
Speaker 1: things Molina. She gets released from the Australian prison and
Speaker 1: then she sends up serving four years of her eight
Speaker 1: year sentence. She gets released like I don't know, good
Speaker 1: behavior whatnot. She gets deported back to Canada because Australia's like,
Speaker 1: get the hell outright, And now guess what she is?
Speaker 1: This is the one who is the influencer. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: primary influence, not the influencer. And she worked was a
Speaker 1: club scene. She worked in a jewelry store. She worked
Speaker 1: a couple of different places. But I don't know. She
Speaker 1: like a kindergarten. I'll give you a hint. She's been
Speaker 1: to prison. Okay, she's now a published author. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, if you want a book deal due time.
Speaker 1: Every author is just like rolling. Everyone goes to prisons,
Speaker 1: they come out like I got a story, tell people
Speaker 1: like a program. It's like, what that was a waste
Speaker 1: of money? She just got locked up, gone on a
Speaker 1: world tour. Exactly got some She was at the very
Speaker 1: end of the world tour. She got the tour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good point. She'll always have those memories there. And you
Speaker 1: can't take those away. So her book that she wrote
Speaker 1: was a of course, about her brief time as an
Speaker 1: accidental tourist come international drug smuggler. I bet you, I
Speaker 1: bet you. It's really really well written. Oh, no ghostwriters involved,
Speaker 1: there was all her. She wrote it in prison on
Speaker 1: toilet paper. The book of the title is Psalms Filter,
Speaker 1: which in French or as close as I got is
Speaker 1: unfiltered or without filter, which is of course a joke
Speaker 1: on the Instagram filters. You get it. So Amina says
Speaker 1: she learned a hard truth from her time in prison,
Speaker 1: and I quote, the lesson learned is far greater than
Speaker 1: the story itself, and I wanted to take the chance
Speaker 1: to tell it in my own words. I am so
Speaker 1: grateful and excited to finally be able to share with
Speaker 1: you the five years that changed the course of my life.
Speaker 1: And yes, that announcement was made on Instagram. She's back. Bitches. Wait,
Speaker 1: I want a list of all the people who bought
Speaker 1: all seven talked to her. I want to talk to him.
Speaker 1: Why did you do you know how to read? This
Speaker 1: is just going to go into pictures? Is this a prop?
Speaker 1: What is this? Did she post pictures from when it's
Speaker 1: actually just a coloring book. Instagram still live he got
Speaker 1: taken down. I had to find like internet archives stories
Speaker 1: that had clips from it. It would be so rich
Speaker 1: to look at those pictures, the comments, the comments from
Speaker 1: the people when it was still live, because they were
Speaker 1: able to say all sorts of stuff when she was
Speaker 1: first arrested, so people were just don'ting on them. It
Speaker 1: was a graveyard. So, Elizabeth, what's a ridiculous takeaway? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, um, a lot of things. One, it's good
Speaker 1: to be a nosy person, but the busy body part.
Speaker 1: You gotta bind your own business, but you gotta just
Speaker 1: like don't get involved. So if you're on a cruise ship, speculate, speculate,
Speaker 1: but keep it, you know what, your business, mainly because
Speaker 1: you don't want someone like sugar Daddy knifing you in
Speaker 1: your sleep and dumping you over the side of the
Speaker 1: boat because you know too much, too much. I think
Speaker 1: that we need to start educating our youth about not
Speaker 1: being even about Yeah, I mean, like, honestly, this is
Speaker 1: a bad man. This is and just the whole Instagram
Speaker 1: influencer thing, like letting that override any kind of logic
Speaker 1: or reason, Like this guy is gonna this guy is
Speaker 1: gonna pay for this this tour twenty grand worth of
Speaker 1: a ticket, but give you six thousand spending spending money.
Speaker 1: And so really that's your pay for this. You're moving
Speaker 1: two million dollars worth of goods. You're going to be
Speaker 1: on the hook for it. Oh my god, girl, you're
Speaker 1: not even getting one person who cares. I don't get
Speaker 1: the whole Instagram. I mean, I'm old, there's that, but like,
Speaker 1: I don't care if someone wants to go with their
Speaker 1: rump hanging out on a beach and take it, I
Speaker 1: don't care. Yeah, I don't think that's for you. And
Speaker 1: like the people who are like sipping you know, like
Speaker 1: a cactail and it's always like ridiculous blended coffee drink
Speaker 1: that has all this stuff. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: and you're like, you didn't even take a sip of that,
Speaker 1: you like post and you threw it away because you
Speaker 1: wouldn't consume that many calories and carbohydrates in your entire life,
Speaker 1: let alone in one beverage. The only thing I think
Speaker 1: that people actually eats the black ice cream. I think
Speaker 1: they do eat, maybe, but then it's like they're all
Speaker 1: done up and they're put who cares? Who cares? You
Speaker 1: know what I want? I want to I want good chuckles.
Speaker 1: So well, my ridiculous takeaway. Once again, thank you for asking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're totally welcoming. There are so few surprises in this story,
Speaker 1: right right. It's just like once you get past the
Speaker 1: broad rushstrokes of Cokeboa and Instagram influencer and you're a
Speaker 1: trash pimp, you just get down to like human nature
Speaker 1: one and what every every development? Oh of course, well,
Speaker 1: of course that followed beef followed up. I just don't
Speaker 1: get why, you know, I guess the cruise lines want
Speaker 1: to like turn the turn a blind die on it
Speaker 1: because it's a revenue stream to have these people on there.
Speaker 1: But it's like when you have young influence. This is
Speaker 1: again I just I don't get it, because I still
Speaker 1: can't get my head around how these people make money
Speaker 1: in terms of as it's sponsored a certain point and
Speaker 1: you have enough people who follow you and like your stuff,
Speaker 1: companies will say hey, hold this product, and it's you
Speaker 1: get paid to do it. It's the same as anything
Speaker 1: subscriptions or can you get a crowd to follow? Really
Speaker 1: suspicious of that, And so if I see these young
Speaker 1: people and then those two Italian cats. You know, this
Speaker 1: is just this is red Flag city over there. Just
Speaker 1: let all the retired folks who just are they're not
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