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Speaker 1: It's a woman Woody podcast minis for when you're in

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Speaker 1: a rush or just can't be bothered listening to them

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Speaker 1: blather on for half an hour.

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Speaker 2: Pretty amazing story in the news today and one that

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Speaker 2: would make you a bit nervous if you're used to

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Speaker 2: hire VHS videos, which is.

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Speaker 3: Nearly well everyone over the age of twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's good numbers. I've got all of you over

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Speaker 2: twenty five year olds. Anyways, a woman called Karen McBride

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Speaker 2: from Oklahoma, who is this is a legit story. She

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Speaker 2: once failed to return the Sabrina the Teenage Witch VHS.

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Speaker 2: This was twenty years ago.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: She is now being chased by the courts around chargers.

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Speaker 2: And when I say like chased by the courts, I

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Speaker 2: mean the District Attorney's office is chasing her and filing

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Speaker 2: charges of felony embezzlement because of the fact that she

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Speaker 2: never paid her overdue return fees.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't really get the legalities around that, but

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Speaker 2: what I'm taking from it is because a woman didn't

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Speaker 2: return Sabrina the Tea Age which she could be facing

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Speaker 2: jail time.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Now here's the question. We as a family used to

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Speaker 2: always go to the local videos store. It was Video Easy.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any video Easies that are left,

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Speaker 2: but we used to go to Video Easy every single Friday. Now,

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Speaker 2: I thought it would be fun to get a friend

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Speaker 2: of the show, Frenchie who actually used to work for

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Speaker 2: a debt collection company, yes, to call my dad, yes,

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Speaker 2: and make my dad believe that there is still an

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Speaker 2: overdue VHS that was never returned, yes, and to see

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Speaker 2: if Dad would actually believe it and squirm.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: But either we've got French on the phone.

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Speaker 2: Friend, you can hear. Hey, hey, y'all follows now.

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Speaker 3: First of all, Frenchie, so, I think Woods shmeared you

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Speaker 3: with being a debt collector, but you also you also

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Speaker 3: used to own Civic Video.

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Speaker 2: Is that right or c Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: We owned a couple of video shops.

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Speaker 2: Up in the Northern Territory. So excuse me, French and

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Speaker 2: them in talk you down there.

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Speaker 3: That's why I didn't talk you down. Lots of accountants

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Speaker 3: that listened to us Woods in there, and they're people too.

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Speaker 3: I'm finding that out increasingly. But Frenchie, so he used

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Speaker 3: to own simm Videos. Can I just ask, like how

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Speaker 3: often did this happen? Because I know I don't think,

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Speaker 3: I don't think as a family, I ever went to

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Speaker 3: the video shop without us going back the following time

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Speaker 3: and finding out that we owed at least fifteen dollars

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Speaker 3: in debt.

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Speaker 1: Oh every every week, especially on dollar Tuesdays because everybody,

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Speaker 1: we'd make people pay all their fees before they could.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I remember my dad used to Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 2: real sting. And Tuesdays what was.

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Speaker 3: Just a shocking and everyone's calendar. God, you guys ran

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Speaker 3: and wrought. Did you make a mint off this friend?

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Speaker 2: You be honest with me, No, Well we.

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Speaker 1: Wrote off a lot of money. We had one store

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Speaker 1: had over a million dollars in outstanding debts.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Wow, so you actually had to So this is I mean,

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Speaker 3: like this Sabrina and the teenage witch story. I think

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Speaker 3: they're making her go to jail she doesn't pay the

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Speaker 3: money back. What's the biggest fine you've ever chased off

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Speaker 3: somebody who's gone to a mate.

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Speaker 1: We've had a guy where he's had like we write

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Speaker 1: the dead off after we write the product off after

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Speaker 1: about eighteen or twenty days, as per the legal requirements.

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Speaker 1: But that's eighteen or twenty days at five ninety five

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Speaker 1: a day for four items and then you put the

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Speaker 1: charge of the item onto the product. That guy there

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Speaker 1: had like four PlayStation games at that stage, and you

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Speaker 1: know they're eighty bucks each and plus four times twenty

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Speaker 1: one days times five ninety five.

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Speaker 2: And no one knows the numbers there, but it sounds

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Speaker 2: high numbers. It sounds hime he lived out in the

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Speaker 2: open there. It almost makes the figures sound bigger.

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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, it sounds

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Speaker 3: like it was only about four hundred bucks, but you know,

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Speaker 3: still a substantial for b to be bang any video.

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Speaker 3: So the big question is French you know, I love

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Speaker 3: that it sounds like, you know, all the lingo around

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Speaker 3: this because he used.

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Speaker 2: To genuinely have to chase these people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Do you think you could call Wood his dad and

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Speaker 3: make him believe that he owes thousands?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'd love to give it a nudge.

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Speaker 2: Perfect, Frenchy, you're the man for the job. Look, we're

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Speaker 2: going to go to a song. Through song, French, I'll

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Speaker 2: give you a whole bunch of details about my dad,

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Speaker 2: where we used to live and stuff, and then hopefully

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Speaker 2: we can make the tight ur squirm after this song

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Speaker 2: sounds good. Perfect, Let's go to a song that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I don't speak to Steven if he is available, please.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, good afternoon. It's just my name's Troy. I'm

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Speaker 1: calling you from a company called Entertainment Recoveries. We represent

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Speaker 1: a company called Video Easy and we're just chasing up

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Speaker 1: some outstanding debts that were left at Video Easy in

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Speaker 1: the past at Hawthorne and we're just we're just trying

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Speaker 1: to find if we can recover some debts that are

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Speaker 1: outstanding on.

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Speaker 4: Your account there, I see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's mostly for unreturned movies and the VHS's

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. You know.

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Speaker 2: They some of them weren't returned.

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Speaker 1: Some of them were returned particularly late, and it's accumulated

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Speaker 1: fair bit of a debt on your account, and we've

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Speaker 1: been licensed to come across and chase up that debt

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Speaker 1: for the company. Really, can you recall using that service

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Speaker 1: at the video store? Sir?

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Speaker 4: Do you want to just cut to the chase and

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Speaker 4: what your claiming?

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Speaker 1: I own, Well, there was a number of movies that

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Speaker 1: weren't returned at all, so the replacement charge has been

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Speaker 1: charged on the account for those movies as well. The

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Speaker 1: mask for example, Terminator the Titanic RoboCop was another one.

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Speaker 1: It's come up to a fairly staggering figure of about

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Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars on a round figures.

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Speaker 4: Thing.

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Speaker 1: As we've had this debt going for some time, we've

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Speaker 1: decided to look at around two seven hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: five dollars to replacement of those products.

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Speaker 4: It's very generous.

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Speaker 1: So how would you like to procedure with this matter.

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Speaker 4: I'll do it through a solicitors, of course, can you

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Speaker 4: this is your phone numbers on this line?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I will give you our phone number. We'll

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Speaker 1: need to recover this that we need to get onto

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Speaker 1: this as soon as possible, So if you could call

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Speaker 1: me back a S.

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Speaker 3: A P.

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Speaker 1: Because we are proceeding with legal there are legal legal

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Speaker 1: ramifications to these to this debt and we don't want

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Speaker 1: you to have a black mark against print rating or

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Speaker 1: anything like.

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Speaker 2: That, of course, So if you could be.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, sir, that's very nice for you to be concerned.

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Speaker 2: Hey Dad, Hey Dad, it's Will and Woody.

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Speaker 4: You prick, you prick?

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Speaker 2: I tell you what hook line and sink and Dad.

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Speaker 4: The only reason I took back call. No call is

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Speaker 4: because often the station phone is no caller ID. I'm

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Speaker 4: trying to launch my profile, and I thought I can't refuse,

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Speaker 4: and then I get this jerk.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, you were seconds away from erupting.

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Speaker 4: It was brewing. I was like letting a fish run

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Speaker 4: for a while with the line. He probably his Christmas

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Speaker 4: at the time of fun and I was going to

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Speaker 4: just collapse. And then I thought I'd give him the

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Speaker 4: ships with the solicitor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good play.

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Speaker 3: Him.

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Speaker 2: You're about to call Will and say Will, can you

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Speaker 2: represent in a case?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'll bring him the top to top people.

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Speaker 3: There was there a moment this is this is BENI

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Speaker 3: by the way, he's mad about He's the guy who

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Speaker 3: made the call.

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Speaker 2: Used to work at Civic Video, by the way, so hearing.

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Speaker 4: Him, I want to see you.

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Speaker 2: I want to him.

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Speaker 4: Preferably street video.

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Speaker 2: More of the boys on the Full Show podcast.

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Speaker 4: You know you want to