WEBVTT - Pray For Them: Buddhists Monks Behaving Badly 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.120 Elizabeth Ern So nice to see you, So good to 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:07.600 see you. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.360 I got a question for you, sir. And that bright 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.320 eyes and bushy tail smile. Do you know it's ridiculous? 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.720 I do know it's ridiculous. Okay. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.560 You know how people who've been drinking smell like alcohol, Yeah, totally, 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:22.040 you know, and. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:23.880 Like sometimes it's coming out of their pores. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.439 Yes, especially the next day. I have friends who definitely 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:27.640 smell like bar rags. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.920 And like, if you get pulled over, you know, it's 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.880 not just the police will look at how you're driving, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.040 is maybe an indication that you've been drinking, but they'll sniff. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.360 Like, oh yeah, they definitely smell their smell the alcohol 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:39.640 I've been drinking today, sir. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.360 Yeah, well, so we got a problem here with this 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.800 is a mashup, and so you. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:46.919 Take I'm taking it. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.360 I'm starting with Cores. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.080 God, and. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.639 What would you not want to have it. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:03.280 Mixed with course course your mouth deodorant? What deodorant? So 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.679 they've teamed up. Cores has teamed up with this company, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.880 Dura Chill, which is like a deodorant company, and they've 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:17.000 made this like Dura Chill Cours deodorant's supposed to smell 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.039 like the breeze of the Rocky mountains. It has to 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.839 be refrigerated before it can be properly. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.120 Applied because it's the coldest beer. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.520 And you know how like the packaging on the cours 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.480 the mountain changes colorue, Well, that same thing happens with 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.400 the deodorant. Okay, cores Light is all about helping people, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.479 quote choose chill this summer. We wanted to take that 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.240 to the next level, starting with your armpits. We can 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.280 blame Marcello pascoa vice president of marketing at cors Light, 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.240 in a press release. There, whether you're sweating through a 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.600 heat wave or just trying to stay chill watching a 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.560 Leagues Cup match, Dura Chill is like giving your underarms 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:55.840 their own ice cold beer. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.960 Is there a competition we don't know about where these 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.000 companies try to come up with the craziest mashup. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:00.720 I don't know. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:02.400 Just the people like us talk about it. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.160 I think it's the people like us talk about it. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.680 We got tipped off by I don't know if it's 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:11.800 Charmie or Charmie Cajun on Instagram, right, you know, but 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.040 the Cajun told us about this. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.440 This is horrendous way to get me rage and care. Well, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:19.160 we got back to. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:20.919 The point I'm looking at this, and I got back 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.840 to like, I don't think I want to do these anymore, you. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:24.160 Know what I mean? 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.399 Like, Lord, I do not ask for much. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:27.880 Takes the wind out of me. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.640 I'll tell you, I've given myself a break, I know, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.720 and I come back and I'm just like end of 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.840 the Empire stuff. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:35.919 I can't take it. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.680 So anyway, I'm glad I could share my pain course deodorant, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:45.560 Corse deodorant. It's also it's limited, of course, of course, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.920 fourteen ninety nine, limited to tu per household, not subject 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.760 at discounts, and intended for those over the age of 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:54.280 twenty one. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.040 But there's no beer in it. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.480 You've done a lot of these mashups over the years. Yeah, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.000 I've never heard one that I was like, that's actually 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.320 a kind of a good No. They're always like one 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.600 like mad lips, like, all right, name a product, dealt Okay, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:14.720 we're gonna combine that with name another product. Wow, Well 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.880 I'll give you that. It is ridiculous, Yes it is, Elizabeth, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.560 I got something for you it's straight up ridiculous. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:21.320 Is it ridiculous? 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.080 Truly deep levels of ridiculous? 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.200 Like it is it cold armpit ridiculous? 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:26.000 Not so much. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.080 It's a better kind. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.120 Now, if I say to you a couple of words 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.320 like Wu Tang and Shao l in abbots and monks, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.800 and then I mentioned crime, right, you may think of 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.119 the rappers or the Wu Tang class specifically for the children. Yeah, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.920 like old dirty bastards mini run ins with the law. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.280 In that case, you'd be wrong. Oh why is that 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.720 great question? Elizabeth? The reason it's simple, Real Buddhist monks 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.680 keep popping off with legit, wild ass crimes, and I've 0:03:51.720 --> 0:04:15.240 got a compendium for you today. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:20.480 This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.279 heights and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.120 and what one hundred percent ridiculous? 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:28.440 Yeah? 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.839 Okay, first things first, Yeah, let's comeiver any confusion that 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.400 I may have started you off with between Wu Tang 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.359 and Wu Tang clan. Now, if I say Wu Tang, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.160 that refers to a holy mountain located in the Hubei 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.080 Province in central China. It's also known as Wu Tang, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.760 which is home to the Daoist and Zen Buddhist traditions. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.280 It's also where the birthplace of Kung Fu. The Wu 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.240 Tang it refers to the Purple imperial city of Emperor 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.200 yong li Ming, dating back to the fifteenth century. It 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.320 was constructive between fourteen oh four and fourteen twenty. Now 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.279 if I say, w Wu Tang clan that was formed 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.479 in the late eighties early nineties in Staten Island, and 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.760 it's a it's a rap group, right, They were formed 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.640 circa nineteen ninety one. Yeah, the Wu Tang Clan features 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.080 some of the finest lyricists in the history of hip hop. Specifically, 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.320 there's the Rizza, the Jizza, Old Dirty Bastard, Inspected Deck, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.280 method Man, ghost Face Killer, Ray Kwan, the Chef, You 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.160 God and Mastakilla. So Wu Tang Clan, bunch of sick 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.039 ass rappers from Staten Island. Yeah, Wu Tang Holy Mountain 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:27.919 in China. You got it? 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:28.680 Yes? Got it? 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.800 Good? Now let's get down to the nitty gritty and 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:37.120 the sorry state of criminal Buddhists in Wu Tang and elsewhere. Now, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.080 if you follow international news like I do, you easily 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.120 see that these days Wu Tang and Shallin and crime 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.640 have become this ongoing news story. It is real a 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.360 steel because real life Buddhist monks are on some real 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.960 crime energy these days. It's truly wild. Like I'm like, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.839 wait again, Like sometimes I think the story has already 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.480 been reported. I was like, no, this is a different 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.040 version of the same story. They're making Wu Tang clan 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.840 look like a bunch of kiddy cats, is what I'm saying. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.800 For instance, we'll start with case one. It's called the 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.640 Sika golf sex scandal. Oh have you heard about this? 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:06.800 No? 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.960 Yeah, Well, this first story takes place in Thailand, not 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.360 in Wu Tang And obviously, Thailand is a nation in 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.000 South South Asia, and it's a nation where ninety percent 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.520 of the populace are Buddhists. I did not know that 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.440 it's a really high percentage. Now. Earlier this year, just 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.240 before the start of the Asala Bukhah Day, which is 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.640 nicknamed basically Buddhist Lent. Asala Buka Day is a holy 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.040 day meant to commemorate the first sermon of the Lord Buddha. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.480 It also marks the beginning of the brotherhood of Buddhist monks. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.440 And I learned a lot about Buddhism, and so I 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.400 wanted to share it with you. There's coming called the 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.800 three gems. Now there's the Buddha, and then Dama or 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.760 what was what we call it dharma, and then the Sanga. Now, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.000 dama or dharma is a Sanskrit word that refers to 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.240 the law of nature or quote, the truth of life. Now, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.520 the law of nature is simple enough. It determines that quote, 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.920 all beings face death, illness, and old age while life 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.560 is suffering kind of thing. Now, the sanga is a 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.800 word that refers to the monks and the nuns who 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:09.240 practice Buddhism, and then obviously the Buddhas, the Buddha. So 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.840 these are the three gems of Buddhism. They form like 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.960 a trinity, if you will. The Buddha, the Dharma, and 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.720 the Sanga. Got it, got it okay? So today we'll 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.320 be focusing on the sanga, the specifically the monk side 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:21.760 of things, because I didn't find a lot of the 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.920 nuns doing crime. Surprise, surprise. So back to the news 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.920 that I'd mentioned earlier this year, Elizabeth, the sanga is 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.520 a shaking because of this major sex scandal that came 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.200 to lights the Sika Golf scandal burst onto the scene 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.160 with this woman nicknamed Sika Golf was arrested for sex 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.520 stortion of multiple high ranking Buddhist monks. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:43.520 See when you said. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:44.960 It was the golf scan, I thought it was like 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.600 a golf club, like a posh resort where they all 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:49.240 played golf. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.160 I wish it was that simple. It's more of a nickname. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.040 But here Sika it means devotee of a monk okay right, 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.360 and golf is like her street name. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:57.760 I guess. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:03.000 So just like these club there, you know. Now, just 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.120 like Catholic priests, Buddhist monks are also supposed to maintain 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.280 a vow of celibacy chastity, but there's a treasure trove 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.280 of evidence that they often don't, And in this case, 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.280 it was found in this one woman's cell phone. So 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.800 police found some eighty thousand photos, videos, and chat logs 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.440 that made it self evident these Buddhist monks had been 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.520 not taking their vows very seriously. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:25.640 Eighty thousands. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.360 Yeah, and I'm talking like a boatload of Buddhist monks 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.480 that she was hitting. There were fifteen different temples that 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.480 were embarrassed by this scandal. Oh, it went all the 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.880 way to the top echelon. Yeah, not that matter. It 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.760 was focused more on Tai Buddhism. For instance, there was 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.320 evidence that implicated the abbot of the pra Buddha Chai Temple, 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.520 the deputy abbot of the Wattsthearn Temple, and the deputy 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.640 abbot of the paknam Psi Chaaron Temple. So that's basically 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.720 like the abbot runs the temper. So each one of 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.600 them is these powerful, wealthy, deeply respected and review temple. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.440 So it was very embarrassing. Yeah, and all told, there 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.000 were nine abbots, that's the leaders of the temples who 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.439 were implicated in this sex scandal. So what's the story. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.160 How did this all come about? And then how did 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.560 it just pop into the being? Everyone's like, oh, fully 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:14.520 formed sex scandal? 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.200 But were there like eighty thousand items like videos or 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.840 videos and photos and they're nice, so they're under just 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.960 under like ten thousand photos apiece. Oh yeah, however much 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.559 I can't do math, but I'm rounding down the eight 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.040 of them. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.760 She got a lot. Oh, it's a ton. She she 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.720 was a documentarian, sounds like it. So it all started 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.199 when this high ranking abbot abruptly left his temple and 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.160 the monk hould that he led, and that was suspicious, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.400 and so it triggered an investigation by the Central Investigation Bureau, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.199 which is like the Taie version of the FBI. So 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.880 the lead investigators they get assigned to this case and 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.040 they go out and they discover the reason why he 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.080 suddenly and abruptly left the temple. Turns out, this sixty 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.880 seven year old app it was being blackmailed by a 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.920 thirty five year old woman named Willowan Golf mswat. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.760 Right golf Golf is her. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.960 Nickname, so Willowan mswat Aka Golf. Now, not only that 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.720 she was also pregnant. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.959 She probably drove a VW golf That would be hilarious, right, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.880 she's a name for her car. Now. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.640 When she informed the abbot that she was with child, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.280 she demanded he pay her some big money to keep 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.600 quiet about it because it would be embarrassing to Buddhism, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.400 his temple, ham everything. So she's like, you're going to 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.120 have to pay from a love child son now. According 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.920 to the Bangkok Coast, this now former abbot transferred thirteen 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.520 million tie Bot to Sika Golf as hush money slash 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.400 childcare funds okay, and that I know you're curious about this. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.760 That works out to be three hundred and ninety seven. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.520 Eight nine dollars. He's just sitting on that money. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.480 Well, we'll get to whose money that is. So the 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.640 investigators they take a trip out to the temple to 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.760 question the abbot, and they learn he's already bounced out, 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.800 like he's gone, man, you ain't gonna find him here. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.000 So they locate him and then he's like, oh, I'll 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.800 be happy to help with his case. Maybe you can 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.280 get me justice. Yeah, get to you justice. What do 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.600 you mean? So this is the first crack in the 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.040 sex scandal all told, The investigators determined that this now 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.880 former abbot had transferred about twelve point eight million bot 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.120 from his personal bank accounts and an additional three hundred 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.240 and eighty thousand bought from the temple's bank accounts. Oh yeah, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.559 he transferred the cash through mobile banking apps between January 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.440 and July of twenty twenty four. The investigators learned that 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.080 initially Sika Golf approached the now former abbot by posing 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.040 as this wealthy socialite. She just bounces around in circles, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.240 hangs out with the abbots, and she claimed to be 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.440 connected to other powerful and illustrious abbots from other temples 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.240 that he knew. So once she earns his trust by going, oh, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.440 I was hanging out with you, folks, the pair began 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.720 this relationship which eventually turned intimate and then it turned 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.880 into baby making. Now, the monk claimed he sent the 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.160 money to Sika Golf for a ceramics business. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.439 Despite the huge. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.240 Sums of money he'd transferred, he had no written receipts 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:05.760 or business agreement for this. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.120 So much in his personal accounts. He'd been skimming already. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.360 I'm at one would suspect, We'll just say allegedly. So 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.840 the now former abbot said he'd contacted another former abbot, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.599 one of the Watt Tree thoughts to Tep Monastery. He 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.160 was a fellow temple leader and he'd already fled the 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.839 country to Laos after he was a target for a 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.319 corruption probe of his own. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:28.560 Oh. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.240 That led the former abbot to pra Paron that's the 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.679 original dude, to try to get back the funds from 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.600 Sicco Golf. He's like, oh, wow, you're shady. So he 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.000 contacts her via DMS on social media. Of course, she 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.640 ghosts him. So when he couldn't get the temple's money 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.800 back that he'd transferred to her, and then left a 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.079 paper trail and a huge hole in the temple's finances. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.040 It gets discovered by others, he gets kicked out of 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.360 the monastery, so then the investigators they start to get 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.560 a handle on his portion of the story. But this 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.160 leads to other high ranking and powerful monks because he's 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.160 remember like, oh, yeah, she told me he hung out 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.319 with this guy and this abbot. So they go around, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.040 they start asking questions, and then this all leads to 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.640 the arrest of Sika Golf. She gets caught at her house, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.439 and this house is in this luxurious housing estate r 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.319 she's living large. When she gets busted, the investigators discover 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.840 evidence that confirms the now former abbot story that he 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.920 transferred the three hundred and eighty thousand bought from his 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.600 temple that was in February of twenty twenty four, and 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.480 then the authorities they start questioning Sika Golf and she 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.920 admits that she knew the money was from the temple's 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.920 bank accounts, but that's the former abbot's problem, not hers. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.040 She didn't say take it from the temple. She just 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.600 said run me my check. So yeah, so she doesn't care. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.200 So the police authorities are like, well, that's kind of callous. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.160 So she then tells the investigators, Oh, that's just the 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.680 tip of this little dirty iceberg. Because she also says 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.400 I had sex with at least nine high ranking abbots 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.360 and other Buddhist monks. They're like, do you have names? Now? 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.280 I remind you they swore vows of chastity salada forbidden 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.959 from having sex. So just that alone would be you're 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.400 getting kicked out of Buddhasm, right, and that's why they, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.520 to keep their secrets safe, had been paying her. All 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.840 in all, she had blackmailed the monks and the abbots 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.960 to the tune of roughly eleven point nine million dollars US. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.440 What that's a period over three years. Wow, she was 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.160 just going through abbot after abbot after abbot and just 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.040 run in checks. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.640 None of these people believe in karma. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.800 One would think it's kind of their bag. Yeah, right, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.960 So what did she do with all this money? I 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.200 mean other than her having like the nice house and 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.080 like her her VW golf? What is she doing with that. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.560 Cool ceramics business? 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.280 Of course? Well, apparently investigators learned that Sika Golf had 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.520 been spending the money on online gambling. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.960 Oh no, you know, that's the devil's work. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.840 And she was not good at online gambling because nearly 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.240 all of the money, all twelve or eleven point nine million, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:56.640 was gone. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:57.800 I think most people aren't. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.320 Yeah, well, some people, you would hope if they're running 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.480 like through eleven point nine million, they'd win some when 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.560 they get to her, Like she was betting, Like her 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.520 biggest single bet was a five hundred thousand BOT, which 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.480 is about fifteen grand in US, So she was putting 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.320 down big bets. So when the investigators catch up to 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.840 her and they like go through her bank accounts, they 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.320 find that there is eight thousand BOT left in her 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.680 bank account, which works out to be two hundred and 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.480 forty four dollars America. Out of eleven point nine all 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.720 she has left is two hundred and forty four dollars. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.080 I wonder if she was playing something that she heard 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.280 an ad about during a podcast. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.360 It's not really a casino. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.640 It took a fake casino. She doesn't understand. Yeah, so 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.400 she runs through this twelve million dollars in three years. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.120 The whole kit and kaboodle was gone, right, So that's 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.680 probably why she was blackmailing her latest ABBT for you know, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.760 child support payments. Yeah, she asked him. She said she 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.040 wanted thirty thousand bought every month for the next twenty years. Now, 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.120 that may sound like a lot of money. That's actually 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.120 nine hundred and sixteen dollars a month. Yeah, that's that's 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.800 or eleven thousand dollars a year eas. So that's really 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.560 not a big score. So she'd have to get up 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:05.120 with another apple. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:06.960 She's, yeah, exactly, she's gonna have a lot of the 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.600 scores they add up, you get ten. Those dudes totally 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.080 keep a couple on a line rand a month. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.520 So when the investigators first visit Seeker Golf's home and 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.000 they're investigating that first abbot sudden dismissal, that's where they 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.680 find all the evidence of all how she's been blackmailing 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.760 all of these monks. So the investigators find on five 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.160 different cell phones the eighty thousand pictures, the videos, and 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.400 they're all with different very powerful monks. Okay, so Elizabeth, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.520 just to put that into perspective, eighty thousand pictures in videos. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.920 You know me, you're an inbox zero person. Yeah, I 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.160 am not I have form like years, like more than 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.640 a decade of emails is one hundred and seventy thousand 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.080 unread emails. She's got eighty thousand picks just in three 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:48.560 years time. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.040 Think about the number of pictures that we have in 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.720 our phones in the iCloud, I think I eighty. No, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.800 I don't, And all I do is take pictures of 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:02.400 dogs and tomato plants and the bread click. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:02.960 Click click click. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.440 I mean it was she was going off. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:05.119 That's crazy. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:05.360 Yeah. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.480 So of the nine different abbits. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.000 I mean, I take a lot of pictures. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.879 Oh totally, But I don't think you're anywhere near eighty thousans. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.480 So of the nine different abbits in monks that she'd 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.800 sexed up and blackmailed, eight of them had been now 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.000 been kicked out, and they have left her straight up 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.880 fled their temples and monasteries. So far as he could, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.920 Golf has largely avoided making any public statements about her 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.600 sex stortion ring. Yeah, which, honestly, I don't blame her, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.280 you know, like because honestly, in the tie press, she's 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.240 the one who's getting blamed for the abbots and the 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.840 monk's bad behavior. She's the one everyone's focusing on. Now, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.200 I'm not trying to defend the blackmailer, but I'm saying, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.359 is that in this case, you know, it takes two 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.680 to tango or to break one's chastity valuce. Sure, of course, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.360 a walking honey trap. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.639 Yeah, but she's she's not like this, you know, magical seductress. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.600 But she is a criminal, she's. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.040 Exactly, And they're doing crimes with other people's money, you know, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.000 And everyone's like, well, just look past that and focus 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:57.280 on her. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:57.840 Yeah. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.199 Now, before she was formally arrested, she did deny the 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.359 charges against her, and then she admitted she had an 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.040 intimate relationship with one monk and he gave her money. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.520 And then her story soon grew and she's like, okay, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.359 there may have been like two or three monks. Okay, 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.280 there's this also, this professor or a religious professor. They're like, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.520 what were you getting? She's like, well, there was that 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.680 brand new Mercedes SLK two hundred they got me what 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.639 So they were getting her things that weren't just cash. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.520 She was getting gifts, you know, I'm thinking maybe the 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.760 house payments. Anyway, I agree with there's this Thai op 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.840 ed writer Sonnet suda Ekachai. She wrote in the Bangkok 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.840 Post that quote, when the clergy's moral decay is in 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.320 full view, it's the woman who takes the fall, while 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.639 the monks are cast as victims. She also later added 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.000 about the abbots and monks, they live in privilege, surrounded 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.080 by wealth and deference. And that's kind of the problem 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.480 because if you go back to the beginning, the Buddha 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.920 was a wealthy prince. He renounced and walked away from 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.600 his life of privilege and had fantastical wealth for a 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.720 life of devotion and you know, quiet contemplation, and he 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.639 expressly forbade his followers from these types of earth temptations. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.879 There's no equivocation on this. He's like, avoid money and lust. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:05.080 These are the big ones. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:06.880 And they're like, I believe I will. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:08.679