Bridgerton, Bar Tabs & Baby Daddies w/ Chris Powell (CP)

Summary

Scam Goddess: Bridgerton, Bar Tabs & Baby Daddies w/ Chris Powell (CP)

Release Date: August 26, 2025
Host: Laci Mosley (Scam Goddess)
Guest: Chris Powell (CP; comedian, actor, writer)

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Episode Overview

This hilariously candid episode of Scam Goddess features comedian Chris Powell (aka CP) joining Laci Mosley for a night of laughter and jaw-dropping scam stories. The pair break down wild listener-submitted cons—ranging from clever bar hustles to a disastrous Bridgerton Ball—and swap their own scammy encounters about bike theft, insurance, and deadbeat baby daddies. Listeners get both comedy and cautionary tales, all in the spirit of Laci’s mission to showcase the creative, sometimes relatable, world of fraud—minus the murders.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introducing the Guest and Scam Credentials

• Laci welcomes Chris (CP), noting his many comedy and TV credits and affectionately grilling him:
  “Anybody who got an alias, I’m like automatically like, are you a scammer?” (01:20)
• CP shares how childhood scams started small, like asking to ride someone’s bike… and riding away for good.

  CP: “Nah, nigga, get on your bike. You never see him or that bike again.” (03:02) Laci: “They said, let me ride your bike... to the sunset.” (03:05)

2. Mopeds as Crime Mobiles

• The duo riffs on the infamous use of mopeds in petty crime.
• Laci: “Crime mobiles. Cause you can weave through traffic. You can get and go very quickly, man.” (04:32)
• CP: “Moped man, moped, moped and did mo bad. You know what I'm saying?” (05:13)

3. Personal Scam Stories:

• CP's Mom and the Bitcoin Scam

  • CP recounts a scam where his mom was threatened with arrest unless she sent Bitcoin, with hilariously suspect details.

    CP: “You ever just listen to a [scammer] talk and be like, dog, you don't even have the fucking intelligence level...” (06:24)

  • Laci skewers police scam calls:

    “Cops are never like, hey, just a heads up, we are gonna arrest you at 3:45...” (07:17)

• Scammy Bar, Club, Salsa Spot (Listener Janice)

  • Laci and CP roast a listener letter about someone scoring free drinks at a multi-purpose club using a fake (mail) credit card.

    Laci: “Why y’all got so many establishments in one establishment?” (10:54) CP: “That was a good one, Alky.” (13:43)

  • Discussion extends into fake bills at bars and the intricate (and small) scams people run for little wins.

4. Robin Hood Scams & The Hustle Economy

• CP praises those who hijack luxury goods and make them affordable for the community:

  “That was like... the hero scammers. Like, man, thank you, man. My mind was not trying to spend XYZ on that shit. But we throw you a hundred for the coat, you know what I'm saying?” (17:00)

• Laci shares about an LA hairdresser who funded her business with stolen credit cards and retail schemes.

• Details on card checks and why purses require stricter ID:

  Laci: “You don’t ever go in to buy a purse. Cause then they want to check ID, but anything else is fair game.” (17:52)

5. Scammy Roommates & Pet Rats (Listener Herbert)

• Story of a college roommate covertly adopting a rat (by calling it a “caged animal like a hamster”) to skirt lease rules.
• CP and Laci riff on the scam of stretching your age for discounts:

  CP: “You know how long I was five to get into an amusement park? Till I was 10.” (25:34) Laci: “I identify as five.” (25:57)

6. The Bridgerton Ball Catastrophe (Listener Jermaine)

• A deep dive into a listener’s experience at an infamously botched Bridgerton Ball in Detroit—promised elegance, delivered disaster:

  • Event rescheduled at the last moment, no refunds—just "store credit"

    “No refund options, just a credit for a future event.” (31:16)

  • No ticket checks, no security, dinner chaos (“work potluck” food), and sad attempts at decor with un-ironed shower curtains for photo backdrops.

    “A random guy in a sweatsuit passed around water bottles... it was Sam's Club water.” (39:14) “Work potluck or mediocre baby shower food... I just know it was a Swedish meatball over there.” (41:03)

  • Fake “Bridgerton” drinks were Costco lemonade + a Lifesaver mint:

    Laci: "You put a Lifesaver mint and some Costco lemonade. Get out of my face." (44:20)

  • Guests left to buy their own pizza, got no photos, winner of $2k prize to be "mailed her 2k grand prize" (Doubtful), DJ was whack.

    “Doing the Cha Cha slide was a sight.” (42:05) Laci, about the ballroom decor: “We got a wall of flowers. Again, this is a shower curtain... It is unironed.” (46:01)

  • Both hosts speculate organizers didn't expect so many guests and possibly spent the money before the party.

7. The Deadest Deadbeat Scam (Listener Clarissa)

• Listener writes in about “cousin Jesse,” who faked his own death and marked himself federally deceased to avoid $100,000 of child support.

  Laci: “This is the deadest beat of the deadest beat. Nobody has been a deadbeat harder than him.” (51:19)

• CP confesses to a college scam: pretending his mother was absent to qualify for orphan-based grants.

  CP: "Pretending to be an orphan... I got all this bread for that to finish college." (54:24) Laci: "That’s wild... Don't clap when they say my name." (55:18)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• CP on the simplicity of scams:
  “The first scams was like, let me ride your bike... you never see him or that bike again.” (03:02)

• Laci and CP on the Bridgerton Ball's food:
  “Work potluck or mediocre baby shower food. I just know it was a Swedish meatball over there.” (41:03)
  “You know, and they were scooping it... giving you the clunk onto your plate.” (41:17)

• On the Bridgerton drink scam:
  “Costco lemonade, bottled lime juice, and a circle of mint. Nothing homemade. And somehow the two of them and a water comes out to be $18.” (43:25)
  “The mint is killing me. They put the mint on the... ones you suck on, y’all... The Lifesaver mint.” (43:55)

• On faking your death for child support:

  Laci: “This is the deadest beat of the deadest beat. Nobody has been a deadbeat harder than him.” (51:19) CP: “He heard deadbeat. And it gave him an idea. A bulb went off, and he said, what if I was dead?” (51:44)

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Listener Letters Segment Highlights

• Janice: Fake bar/scammy kitchens, running up drinks on a phony card.
• Herbert: The pet rat lease dodge.
• Jermaine: The Bridgerton Ball catastrophe with viral news coverage, looks at DIY event baths, sadness masked with dancing.
• Clarissa: Deadbeat cousin Jesse, the ultimate child support fraud.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• CP’s first scam story & mopeds: 02:39 – 06:13
• CP’s mom and the Bitcoin scam call: 06:16 – 08:15
• Listener Letter: The Salsa Club Bar Tab Scam: 10:01 – 15:03
• Homages to local Robin Hoods (boosters): 17:00 – 18:56
• Listener Letter: The Roommate and the Rat: 18:56 – 26:35
• Listener Letter: Bridgerton Ball Fiasco: 26:43 – 50:03
• Listener Letter: The Deadbeat Dad Declares Himself Dead: 50:04 – 57:10
• CP's confession about pretending to be an orphan for college aid: 54:24 – 56:41

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The Hosts’ Tone and Language

• Candid, playful, Black cultural references and in-jokes, boisterous riffing, and a warm-welcoming space for the audience to "stay schemin'."
• Listeners are invited to submit their own scam stories (as long as the scams are “retired”), maintaining a communal, confessional vibe.

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Outro: Promotions and Where to Find Them

• CP promotes his special “Sunday after 6” available internationally on VEPS, and his handle @ComedianCP (58:40)
• Laci Mosley plugs her socials @divalaci and the Scam Goddess book and Hulu show. (59:03)

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Summary Takeaways

This episode is a laughter-packed showcase of both ingenious and foolish scams, from riding off on someone’s bike to trying to fool colleges with orphan tales. Through listener letters and personal stories, Laci Mosley and Chris Powell hilariously highlight the petty, the Robin Hood, and the truly audacious edge of “true con”. The infamous Bridgerton Ball tale is a standout, full of chaos, grit, and community resilience despite being, as Laci put it, “Bridgerton, the cookout.” Whether you’re here for lessons or laughs, this episode offers both in abundance—and leaves listeners with the eternal Scam Goddess directive: stay schemin'!

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Stay tuned, congregation—and as Laci says, get out there and stay losing Isaiah!

Transcript

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[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

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[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yep.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

What's your relationship with scams? Do you love them? Do you hate them? Have you run some that you could talk about and the feds won't come.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Knock, knocking. First of all, I can't. I don't know nothing about nothing that's ever gone on. Right? But like, but like, the first scams was like, let me ride your bike.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Okay. How is that a scam you just sharing a picture.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Nah, nigga, get on your bike. You never see him or that bike again.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, damn. They didn't say. They said, let me ride it away into the sunset.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

But see, I see how trusting you were right there. What's wrong with that?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

You know, Let somebody get a bike.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Even the scam goddess. You see what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Even get scammed sometimes.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Listen, they have come down into the world of benevolence, you know what I'm saying? They don't give a. They don't give a damn. They'll call your kids, be like, this is Mickey.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Give me your parents credit card number.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Your kid be all in your wallet like 6, 8, 3. You know what I'm saying? Like, they have crept down into.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

This is Mickey.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I'm in jail.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I'm out here doing.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Too bad nobody give a about Mickey. All the I did for those Mickey just be landing on you. Think you like damn Mickey. All right, Damn.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Since when you start calling us n? It's like, nigga, you heard me say daffy motherfucking ass head down him. Let me ride your bike is crazy too, because they didn't say they were going to return it. They didn't say let me borrow your bike. They told you they were going to steal it. They said, let me ride your bike.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Don't let it be a moped. Don't let it be a moped for good. Oh, nigga, come on, let me just. Come on, man, let me just do that. Oh, ain't nobody gonna steal. Yeah, gone, nigga. Mopeds are changed his life.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Crime mobiles. Cause you can weave through traffic. You can get and go very quickly, man.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You can snatch something out of somebody.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Hand and keep mopedding.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Like that's cause. Yeah, man, the hood did that. Mopeds was for delivering pizzas, you know what I'm saying? That's what the moped was for. You get you a moped band. Now you working at Domino's Meat me straight down to the neighborhood. That was for delivering pieces off the meet me now you. You know what I'm saying? Now niggas doing crime. That's what happens, man, often. Meet me.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah, that's. We've had some scam stories where it was somebody who pulled up to the airport and was like, okay, give us the cash. And then they were on the moped and they drove away on the moped. And the moped or the cash was never seen again.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Moped, man, moped, moped and did mo bad. You know what I'm saying the moped then did mo, bad moped. Sponsor the show in Jamaica. A moped. You know, like back on that, like. Like that movie shot us or something like that. I'll never be saying, yeah, we got the machine, we got the mopad. We can take over the politician. So we need to take the politicians.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yo, maybe we need more mopeds in America in our protests. Like, we're gonna take over the politician, man.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Take the politician, mopeds, niggas get a moped. Next thing you know, niggas doing moped willies, yanking them side to side. Like, man, we got too much flavor, man.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It turns into a young jock video immediately.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yes. Look, basketball used to be chest passes, bounce passes and thumbs ups. That's all it was. That's all it was, man. We got in that. The rest is history, truly.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

But do you. Have you ever been scammed yourself, cp.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Man, on some real shit?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

The faces that you're making right now, like, I wish I could see him. He's like leaning back, looking up like something happens.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

What happened, man? Look, on some real shit, Like, I don't. I haven't got scammed before, but I remember one time my mom got scammed and they told her they was coming to take her to jail and all of this, and she was just so scared. And then she was like, can I call my son? And they let her call me on three way. And you ever just listen to a talk and be like, dog, you don't even have the fucking intelligence level to be the level of nigga. You know what I'm saying? This nigga, like, that's right. And we gonna need some bitcoin because you know, Trump got that whole crypto thing going on. So, you know, that's popping. I'm like, nigga, that's popping. He's like, yeah, I'm a sergeant if y' all don't pay it. I was like, man, my hang up on this, man. It was just so. He had her on the phone for an hour when she called me talking about she was going to jail. And so I don't know, you know, it's just like, yeah, man, my mom is. She's so easy, poor baby.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Listen, she likes to follow the law. That scam is so rampant. But it never makes sense to me because when people are getting arrested, the cops are never like, hey, just a heads up, we are gonna arrest you at 3:45. So just go ahead and have those hands up for the cuffs. Like, no, they pull up on you like, they kick down the door, they surprise you. Like, no one's getting a heads up from the police.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You can avoid, right? You can avoid this if you got $1,500.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Right? You know how Trump got that coin.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Now that you're using?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

We will accept Melania coin as well, but we're gonna need that in the next hour or you going to the clink.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

My mama can't do them. My mama can't do no time. Poor baby. She's like, I can't do 35 days.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I can't do 35 days.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I'm like, what?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

An arbitrary amount of time.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Who gives somebody 35 days, though? That's just crazy. Yeah, they gave your ass seven business weeks. Like, what's going on? What's going on?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Like, they like. Or go to Walmart and get some gift cards and scratch them off and then read them. We won't come take you to prison, but that's the only way. You know, that reminds me of. I didn't talk about it on the show, but those Louisiana prisoners who escaped, did you hear about that?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Hell, yeah. Finessement of the century.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Like, there literally were people, like, having, like, bets. They're like. And when a prisoner got caught, they'd be like, man, he fucked up my parlay. I'm like, y' all are really betting on these prisoners getting caught?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You ever hear back in the day, people were saying that jail can't hold me. Some people were serious. Some people were serious. They'll hold me. They were like, no jail, hold me. Yeah, man, these. Man. Man, look, I don't want them to be out here kidnapping people, and you know what I'm saying? But it's like, man, just for the ones that's in there that don't need to be in there, and it ain't fair. I want somebody to. You know what I'm saying? Like, somebody need to just.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

We need a jailbird with a harrowing story that we can get behind. Well, speaking of people in the streets doing crime or reporting on crime, let's get into our segment today. So I told y', all, we will read your listener letters on certain episodes. Today is a listener letter episode. And I'm just going to get CP's feelings, his advice, all of that, all throughout. As you all know, snitch on your friends, your family, and your [e-mail]. just make sure the scam is retired, because we don't want to what? Yes. Fuck up your bag. So for this first listener letter, I Just need a fake name from ucp.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Janice.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Janice. Okay, Janice. So Janice says, this is a small scam I witnessed. Not you snitching, Janice. I love it.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Everybody gotta say what they saw. Go ahead.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Janice says, okay, so, boom. All right, Janice, we know you black. Cause anybody who starts a sentence with okay, so, boom, we know where you black. So, okay, so, boom. I used to go to a salsa dancing, or I used to go salsa dancing at this restaurant slash club bar. Didn't we all? The room with the real bar set up had the salsa dj, but the room with the bachata dancing DJ was an event space where the bar was set up in the kitchen window. Okay, so in one room of this bar, club slash restaurant, they actually had the dj and there was a physical bar that you could go to. And then Janice is saying that in another room, it was also could be an event space. They doing a lot with this building. And the bar was set up in the kitchen window. So it was like you just went up to the kitchen window, and you were like, hey, can I get a Long island iced seat? Like, okay, this already sounds scammy, because why y' all got so many establishments in one establishment? Like, I feel like I could also get a haircut in here. Like, it's giving me.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

This is a good place to buy color contacts and weird shit like that, right?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Y' all are. Y' all are doing a little too much over there.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

If y' all gotta swap me, just say that. I don't understand why y' all gotta even play. Like it's not a convention. Like, it's not.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's also giving Atlanta, because Atlanta let it have a bar slash lounge, slash.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Hookah spot, slash restaurant, car wash, car wash, barbershop.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Come here and get it all. Get everything you need.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

There'd be a daycare in there. Like, why is my daughter washing rims?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's school activity today. That's recess. They gonna get these rims clean. So people were crowded in the window ordering drinks, and the bartenders would have to turn their backs on us in order to get alcohol and run our card payments. The guy who was in front of me ordered a couple of drinks, and the bartender made them, then gave him the drinks and took his card. The bartender turned around to run the card, and I watched him while I waited to go next. I could see the bartender had gotten an error message. Then he reran the card. When the payment didn't go through a second time, the bartender turned back around to ask for a different card again. There's a crowd at this bar. Window kitchen club, hookah steak restaurant, car wash. So he's looking for the guy, and now I'm looking for the guy, and the guy is nowhere to be found. Turns out the card was empty. Or fake. Like the ones you get in the mail when they want you to sign up for a card. Like, have you ever gotten one of those where it's like you've been pre approved and they send you a fake plastic card?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Man, what? What you talking about, man? First time I ever got one of those, I went straight to the bank. Yeah, this check said I got 10 million.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So it's always a fake check in there too.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Like, this could be yours. When those first came out, that was hell for people. People really thought it was a lit.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Especially if you really needed some coin and you saw a check in the envelope, you would be like, hell, yeah. And I would open it, look at the check. It's watermarked. It was like, usually orange.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You done got the kids ready? We going grocery shopping. As soon as we leave the bank, all we gotta do.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So he used one of those fake plastic cards. That guy got free drinks that night. Have you witnessed someone do something like this before? I'm just glad they didn't associate me with that man. Cause I was not about to pay for anyone else's drinks. Yes, you should not be paying for nobody's drinks at the club, restaurant, car.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Wash. Hey, I ain't gonna lie to you. That was a good one. That was a good one. That was a good one, Alky. That was a good one, Alki.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

See, when I used to bartend, people would come in and pay with fake twenties. And when I was new in the game, I didn't know how to see a fake dollar bill. Like, and our restaurant was a dive, so it wasn't like we had the little pins where you can like swipe the bill to see if it's fake. They actually taught us to like, rub the bill. And they're like, there should be ridges and there should be. It's not supposed to be smooth like this. And then flip it over and you should see a symbol and the Illuminati sign and everything. And we were like, okay. So that's how we had to check the money was like, hold it in the light, Rub it.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

That's crazy. But I mean, yeah, that does work. Like, a lot of these bills is like, have a transparent strip on them. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. What I'm always impressed with is the amount of scam for the rewards, right? It's like that whole setup was to get two drinks just to get like, you know how much of a drunk you gotta be to go suck them two quick ass drinks down and sneak out the bar and like, you know what I'm saying? Got two more bars to hit. Like, you just like, that's what you do. That's crazy. Like, for all we know, that person.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Has a plethora of dead cards and they just go to places like this.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, they just go places and just go crazy.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's giving your picture on the wall.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

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[Chris Powell (CP)]

I always respected the people who stole expensive clothes and then could sell them in the hood for a little cheaper. That was like. To me, that was like the hero scammers. Like, man, thank you, man. My mind was not trying to spend XYZ on that shit. But we throw you a hundred for the coat, you know what I'm saying? And blah, blah, blah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's when it falls off the truck.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Hell yeah. So that was like, to me, man.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

My first hairdresser, when I got to la, she was always like, she was a really good hairdresser, but then sometimes she would be going to jail and I couldn't get my hair done. And I was like, bitch, like, you in jail again. Like, I need my weave. But everybody who would come through there was like scammers. And so they would come through and they'd be like, hey, who wanted those new Gucci's? I got those. I got this. I got that. And I was like, oh, are you like a seller? Like a store or something? And you just dropping them off? And she was like, oh, no, girl, I stole all this.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I was like, damn.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And she was like, here are the tips. You don't ever go in to buy a purse. Cause then they want to check id, but anything else is fair game. And I was like, have you ever gotten caught?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

How do they get out with the shit?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's what I asked. She was like, I've only gotten caught once. And they tried to take the card and I just snatched it out of their hand and ran out the store. I was like, oh.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

So she doing it off other people's.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Cards, Cloning people's cards.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, man. Wow.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

But she says it doesn't work on purses. Cause they check id, but everything else, you're good to go.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. That's weird. I wonder why they check ID on purses. You ever think about that?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's cause it's more expensive.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, I guess.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Like a designer purse is typically more expensive than a designer T shirt.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, but like some, you know, it's some Gucci shoes that could probably be like 1100. You know what I'm saying? You feel me? That's crazy. Yeah, man. But I love people who get shit like that. That's like, that's the real Robin Hood to me.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It really is.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Those are like, who really got hurt here? Gucci. They'll be fine.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, they'll be just fine. Yeah. Yeah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So our second listener letter here. I need a fake name for, uh, Herbert. Herbert. Herbert says hello. Lacey. Back when I was in college, I spent most of my time at my then girlfriend's house, probably to the annoyance of her roommates. But lesbians are going lesbian. All right, Herbert.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Damn.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Herb, have you ever had a roommate?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. Hell yeah. In college.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Did they date anybody?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Uh, yeah. I remember when 911 happened. It was like my first week of college.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Okay, this just took a turn.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

It was my first week of college, but I remember I woke up my roommate.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I asked you if you had roommates and if they dated and you said, I remember when 911 happened.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I'm about to tell you.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Please make it make sense.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I'm about to tell you. And so it was. My first roommate was a white boy that went in blind. It was Michigan State, so it was like a lot of white people up there. And he was dating this big old, big old fat white girl. And he was big old fat too. But I looked over and she was next big old ass. And she was like, we're under attack. That's when I found out that the plane's here. I was like, what the fuck?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's how you found out about 9 11?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

That's how I found out about 9 11. I woke up, looked over, saw a big ass, little crack too. There's a lot of backing ass around me.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, Lord Jesus. The description. I don't need this. I asked you if you had a roommate, and now we talking about naked 911 alerts.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

It was like, hey, Peter. Huh? I'm sorry, C.P.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I asked you if you had a roommate. So was the roommate and the girlfriend staying over a lot?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, she was always over. But, you know, it's like, did it.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Bother you at all?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I mean, I was barely there. You know what I'm saying? Or, you know, you in college, man, you just come home to sleep. You walk in, you know, whatever. I was, you know, I was on a ziggity boom freshman year. I was lit, so I was, you know, that was just a place to have my shit at. For real.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Well, our reader Herbert here was staying with their lesbian partner, even though the roommates really, really weren't feeling the vibe.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

That's crazy.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So one of her roommates was the kindest person I've ever met, so I was totally surprised to watch her run a scam on the landlord. Typical college kids. All of us miss having pets, but the roommate really, really wanted to get a pet. Guess what pet the roommate wanted?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

A ferret.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

You're so close. A rat.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Aw, man, that's not a pet. Hell no. That ain't no pet. Damn her.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's like, I want a pet roach.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Like, no, I don't want that.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

You wilding.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Don't nobody want to look at no rat all the time.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

No, I don't want to see rats ever. Rats see me. It's never an invitation. They just pull up, right? So I didn't get it at the time, but a few of us were sure the landlord would say no just based on the vibes that people have with rats. Yeah, I think the landlord would say no just because rats.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Right.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Like, typically, that's not very sexy for a building, is to have rats.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

And it just doesn't send the right message. You know what I'm saying? What if the rats start screaming and then a bunch of other rats come to the screen and the rat just starts calling rats? And there's rats just everywhere, like, and the rats overcome the house, chew the wires up, chew all the TVs up, and chew all the snacks.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Cause rats are very entitled.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, rats don't give a damn.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's their subway, man.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I was walking my dog and a rat ran across our feet. And my dog just looked at me. I never seen my dog. You ever see your dog's ears go back crazy like, that rat scared the shit out of my dog, man. I understand. Nobody want no beef with no rats.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Don't nobody want no rats. We not inviting rats. They are unwanted guests.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

They are unwanted pets, for real.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

When I first moved to la, I was kind of broke and we were looking for apartments, and we saw one that had really good rent and was in the area we wanted and everything, and it was open. So we were like, oh, let's go visit. Was a two bedroom. We got there, we looked around. I always open all the cabinets. I highly encourage you, if you're renting just to open the cabinets, make sure you don't see no droppings. Make sure you don't see anything like that. And so I opened the cabinets, everything looked on the up and up. And I asked the landlord, I was like, okay, well, do you guys have any, like, roaches or rodents or things like that? And he was like, no, no, no, no. We don't have roaches. We don't have rodent. But if you leave crumb, roaches will come. And I said, crumb, a crumb. A singular crumb. And then the roaches come. Y' all got roaches, right?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

But if you leave chrome, basically what it's saying is there's no roaches in here right now.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Right now.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

But if y' all move in Start cooking. Oh, roaches gonna come for show.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, yeah, for sure. Sure.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Roaches. Roaches, you know, like, they. They. They do love this place, man. They love it in here, man. It was just so funny to me.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

He was really trying to sell it, and I was like, sir, we will not take this place. But thank you so much for being honest.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, that's some wild shit.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Cause he could have just said, no, no roaches. But he was like, you leave comments, roach come. So apparently we're going back to Herbert. Apparently, though, having a pet rat is actually a really good way to not get wild rats, because they're real territorial, so if they smell the pet rat, they'll keep away. So apparently a pet rat.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Okay, so it's the opposite of what I said then.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah, I thought I was on your side. I thought the rat would throw a party called Ratatouille. All of them, Mickey. And they would all slide.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, don't let it be a girl rat. She cute as hell in her little private school, you know, got a family. And you just a street nigga, rat. Just out here just doing your thing, like, trying to figure your shit out. And you meet her and it's like, you know, I mean, this little gift nick named Tanika, little hood rat.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, my goodness.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Herbert says the rat fever would die down after a week or two. But then a rescue rat came through our local animal shelter, so it was go time. So this roommate wrote up a nice little email to the landlord asking if she could adopt a small caged animal like a hamster. The landlord emailed back, sure. And never even added pet rent to the total rent. The roommate got her rat. And all of us learned a valuable lesson about the poor. We all learned a valuable lesson about the importance of vagueness.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Herbert Shedda, man, look, you know how long black people have been doing that? You know how long I was five to get into an amusement park? Till I was 10. I was five till I was 10.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

At one point, you were five. We didn't talk about. Today's five.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Right, right, exactly. Yes, I'm five. Plus some other things. I identify as five.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I identify as five.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, I identify as five all the time. What? Diaper. Wan. Wan. That's me.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

What is a senior citizen? We define that as right, Exactly. I identify as a citizen when I go to the movies.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I have definitely seen. I've seen your citizens. Right. I am a person who has seen your citizen. I've seen your citizen, senior citizen. I've seen your Citizen? Yeah, you said senior citizen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Senior citizen. I've seen a citizen. Senior citizen.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I've been a senior in college, in high school, and I'm a citizen.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. Flat out. So. What are you talking about, flat out?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

All right. I need another fake name. This one looks fun.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Jermaine.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Jermaine.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Is it a dude or a girl? Cause sometimes, I don't know.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Gender doesn't matter here.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Okay, that's cool. Jermaine, then.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Jermaine. Jermaine says, hey, Lacey girl. Long story short, but I got Wonka'd, but Bridgerson style. So if you guys don't remember, there was a Willy Wonka event that went super duper viral. It even ended up on snl. They were on red carpets and stuff during award shows. But at this event, it was supposed to be like Willy Wonka Land. There was supposed to be, like, chocolate everywhere and all of this stuff and bring your kids. And it was the most bootleg, ridiculous scam that happened in a warehouse. There was this one Oompa Loompa who looked like this was her last resort in life. And they were handing out pieces of candy. Like, they said all the kids were gonna get candy. They were giving them pieces of, like, raw candy out of a bag. You could only have, like, one or two.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Damn if you don't remember.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

We'll put some photos in the.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, look at the backdrop. Not the Candyland.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

The Candyland backdrop that looks like a Candyland shower curtain that somebody hung over a rod. And it's still folded. They didn't even iron it.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, they didn't even. Or at least hit that steamer on it just so it could give you a little bit. And then also too, like, straighten out them edges. Cause it's like sinking in like a. You know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah. They said they promised photo shoots. So this is the backdrop for the photo shoots. We've got our sad girl here in her green wig. This was a whole hot mess.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Well, you can see that this was her husband idea. And she been. She's so sick of going along with his bullshit. And she's just like, man.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Christmas decoration. Candy canes. Just a few. It was really sad. So Jermaine says that. So, long story short, in May, there was an advertised Bridgerton themed ball event in Detroit. I heard about this. It was supposed to be at a historic castle building downtown with dinner, drinks, live music, live performances, dances, carriage rides, games, as well as a chance to win 2000 in cash for best dress. And people love Bridgerton. It really Was canon. Like, Shawna did her big one. And so I could get why people wanna dress up and pretend they're in the olden times, especially black people. Cause, you know, they were not letting us up in them balls.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Hell no. That's funny.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So I wanna go somewhere and do a hand dance with somebody. Like, we just touch hands and go in a circle. Like, they look so classy. I love a good twerk, but I would love to just touch hands and.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, man, I love a good twerk.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

And still touching hands.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Right.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And Richardson was like, famous for remixing, like, popular songs. Like, it would be like, thank you next. But it we on strings, like. And so I'm like, I would love to hear, like, back that ass up.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

On, like, can you imagine? Like a fairy God, brother.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

They're doing it for the nine nines and the two 2000s.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, exactly that same voice.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And then I'm hand dancing. Like, that sounds fantastic.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

And they had a big ass bird cages under their dress. And then they. And then they. And then they switched it up and do do the Glorilla.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's 7pm Friday. It's 95 degrees degrees.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

We ain't got no and no ain't got me.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yep.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. And they out there. And they out there acting a fool.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yes. But I want it to still be the hand dancing.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, that's hard.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So Jermaine says, so boom. Another black person. The event was supposed to be August 25, but five hours after sending a reminder email, we got an email announcing the event was being rescheduled. This email came in at 11pm So 11pm the night before you're supposed to be at the ball. They were like, actually, we have to reschedule it. So on August 24, they sent an update with a new date and location. No refund options, just a credit for a future event. So if you couldn't go on August 24, but you could go on August 25, you don't get a refund.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Right.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

You just get a credit to the next party. I've never heard of parties doing stuff like that.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I've never heard of that either.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

No, we got you for the next function. So this one. But the next question, we got you.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Hey, I ain't gonna lie. Oh, man, that's just so.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's like, if I go to the club and I pay to get in, and they're like, oh, we have capacity. But next Time you wanna come shake your ass, Come on in. Like what?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

No refunds. It's wild.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

After it was canceled, slash rescheduled, the news got ahold of it. I try to give the benefit of the doubt. I know. Please don't drag me in the. And the organizer blamed the venue. So Jermaine said the organizer was like, it was the venue, y'. All, we still gonna do the function. And Jermaine was like, you know what? I believe you and I'll be there. So. And it says the news got a hold of it. There's a hyperlink here. Are we gonna see something?

[News Reporter]

Being carried into her client's new Detroit home is the only action Terry Burch's Bridgerton ball gowns are going to be seeing.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

This was my other option. Okay. That dress doesn't really look like it was giving.

[News Reporter]

Same for Dolores Parson and her ornate custom made gown for the dresses.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, these are like older people.

[News Reporter]

Dolores niece is Terry's client. All share a few things in common. A love for the show Bridgerton and a flair for dressing up. So when this Detroit Bridgerton themed ball came on their radar, they grabbed some tickets.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

We were all looking forward to it.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

We all had bought our fancy clothes.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Our shoes, got my nails done. I went over.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah, it was an opportunity to kind of indulge in a fantasy. People were actually sending them to me from all over. This is happening in your city. You know, from Pennsylvania, from Canada, from the West Coast.

[News Reporter]

But that ball didn't happen. Instead, ticket holders got this email at 11pm the Thursday before saying they're suddenly rescued.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So this is the email that they sent out with the rescheduling. Dearest gentle reader, we hope this message finds you in splendid spirits as we await the momentous occasion of our Bridgerton themed ball. Your enthusiasm in procuring tickets warms our hearts and we can hardly contain our excitement to celebrate with you. However, we must convey some unforeseen news that it's regrettably out of our control. Due to circumstances that have arisen with great suddenness, we find ourselves in a position of needing to reschedule our delightful affair to a later D. I love how they wrote this cancellation letter in like Lady Whistlebound. I'm not going to read the rest.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Of it, but they were committed. They were committed to making sure you had that little experience. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's like, damn. They were like another thing. Refunds will indubitably be an infinity book. It's like, damn, man, the refundment of.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Your funds is prohibited.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

All the women read the letter just like that?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Of course they did. And the men, too, I'm sure. So Fast forward to September 22, the new event date. I don't even know where to start, but I will say people looked so good. Detroit really showed out. I'm not gonna lie. I was hating a little bit on Detroit. I was like, y' all in Detroit? You really thought that they was gonna bring the Bridgerton Ball to It's so.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Cold in the D. Well, I'm in Detroit right now. Don't do that.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's so cold in the dark.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

How the fuck did we post a Candace? Hey, man, listen, listen, listen. She was telling her story. You know what I'm saying? I don't know what to tell you, but yeah, you said it's just hers.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's singularly hers.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

That's her story, man. You know what I'm saying? It's more on a nigga mind than working and doing crime.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

But you not doing crime exactly.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

At all.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

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[Chris Powell (CP)]

Cause ain't nobody gonna rob none of them bridges and living there. You gotta be a scoundrel to run up in there in all them big dresses and birdcages. You gotta be a scoundrel.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's true. That's true. And these old ladies.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

No, no, no, no.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

We don't have the old ladies.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Ain't no security other than for them to stop fighting each other.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Right? So I sat down at one of the dinner tables. Not every ticket includes dinner, but mine did. However, since they didn't check the tickets or direct people, it was a free for all. So they didn't check no tickets. So everybody's like, you know what? I am vip. I decided a lady wearing a football shirt came around and said dinner would be served at 7:30. Again, it was supposed to be at 6. So my friends went up to get drinks from the bar while I held down the table. She got a hold down the table that she paid for because everybody just scavenging at this point.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

That's crazy. What you mean? What she mean? A football shirt? Like a jersey? Yes.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And I'm like, shouldn't you be in Bridgerton gowns, girl?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Right, right, right. You should be lady.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Just like Lady Whistledown. What you got on? She got on a 49ers jersey.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. Hey, y'. All.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Or Lions. She got on the Lions jersey.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

We got ribs. We got ribs and green Beans. That's crazy.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Didn't even try to dress up. While they were up there at the bar, a random guy in a sweatsuit passed around water bottles. I asked for 3 extra for my friends. Their stuff was at the table. He acted really stingy, but gave it to me reluctantly. Child, it was Sam's Club water, not like Fiji or something. So he walking around with one of them big packs, you know, in the plastic. And, you know, I just know he was holding the whole plastic thing of the water bottles and just being like, here you go.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

How much did they charge these women to come to this?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Chip, Cheerio. Chip, Cheerio.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

They probably had Cheerios.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So a friend came back down after going to the third floor and waiting at the bar. It was a dry bar with sparkling cider. That's it. So they wasn't even giving the girls alcohol. They ain't had no absinthe or no old timey liquor for them or nothing. Around 8pm they said they were gonna serve dinner. Now, remember, dinner was supposed to be served at 6. It's now 8.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

But no. But then they came out and said 7:30, to be fair.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And we in Detroit. Detroit. 7:30 is 9pm Y' all get me? Y' all feel me?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You done came for Detroit so much, Lacey. Jesus Christ.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I have. And I'm gonna keep coming for y'.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

All.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I'm so glad that you're from Detroit so I can roast it good.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, okay, Cool. And where you from again?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Frisco, Texas.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, yes. Thank you.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Period.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Say less, say less. That's all I needed to know. You talking about Detroit? All right, come on. Frisco. Frisco, Texas.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And at 8pm well, at 8pm they said dinner will be served. Then people lined up because they said it was a buffet. In the end, it was buffet style. Quality was given. Work potluck or mediocre baby shower food. Oh, no, I just know it was a Swedish meatball over there.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, it was a pasta sack. Pasta salad was there. Damn it.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Canned green beans. They just.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, man. Not the spaghetti that got the cheese melted on the top.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, yeah. You know.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You know, and they were scooping it. They were scooping it out. They were scooping it and giving you the clunk onto your plate with the scoop. The clunk.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Had the Hawaiian dinner rolls. You had to get it out of the pack.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

They didn't even warm it up with no butter. Some of the driest wings that they picked up earlier that day from Ponderosa or a similar style restaurant.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, no.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, man.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

They ran out of food. Herbert says, I never got food. We got left. So we left and got pizza and liquor and came back for dancing photos, a performance, and a fashion show. I didn't get my free pictures. There was dancing, which wasn't terrible. A bunch of us dressed the hell up. Doing the Cha Cha slide was a sight.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, my God.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Nacho was like. We determined to have fun. So y' all left and got pizza and liquor and came back and did the Cha Cha slide. Okay. Overall, DJ was kind of whack, but the lights were very bright anyway. Black folks make the best of anything, so a lot of folks were just going outside in the courtyard, dancing and vibing to the music or going to the cigar lounge across the street. I didn't see a fashion show, but someone came outside and said they crowned the diamond of the season, even though the majority of people had left. I heard they said they're mailing her the 2k grand prize. I hope sis gets her money, but, whew, I doubt it. Now, why they gotta put it in the mail? She ain't getting that.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

She ain't getting that. And that's so crazy. Cause it probably was 1500 a ticket or something crazy like that. Maybe 600.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I wanna pull up some of the accoutrement. So the Bridgerton drink, and I'm gonna show you a picture of it. So their Bridgerton drink with lemonade, lime and mint in it, consists of the most bitter Costco lemonade, bottled lime juice, and a circle of mint. Nothing homemade. And somehow the two of them and a water comes out to be $18.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

So even.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Is that a. A Lifesaver mint on the end of a straw?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Lifesaver on the end of a straw. That came in a 500 pack and. Wow.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And you cannot use the fake lime juice in anything. For real. Like, what are you doing, man? But they sold it as a mint lime lemonade.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, my God.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

But the mint. The mint, y'.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

All.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

The mint is killing me. They put the mint on the. I'm talking about them ones you suck on, y'.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

All.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

The Lifesaver mint.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Can I tell you, Lacey, they put.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It on a straw.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

They didn't put that on there in the drink. They didn't put that on there. She fished that out with her straw. It was sitting at the bottom of her drink.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It was in the drink.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

It was sitting at the bottom of her drink. Like that fish food that you use when you're going out of town.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah, you told me. I get a mint lemonade and you put a Lifesaver mint and some Costco lemonade. Get out of my face.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I don't know how I think that this is what I think happened. I honestly think that they were throwing a ghetto Bridgerton party for the people around there, and it got out of hand with tickets. It was supposed to be something small and ghetto, but they put Bridgerton on it and it turned into something that was way bigger for them. So they had to postpone it to get a big enough venue. Right. But that money, they probably spent the money. And so they, they, they just. Ah. I know. That's what happened. They. They didn't expect it. They didn't expect it.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I just. I'm appalled.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I ain't gonna lie. Like, like, like I'm grossed out. I'm grossed out because I know what that Costco lemonade tastes like. Like, you know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Put some.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

And you put some lime juice in it and then a mint. A mint. Do you think that that mint was going to dissolve quick enough for people to drink their drink? And that look, that meat looks so whole like that. That man still got the edges on the ridges on the side like that.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Hey, I could still read Lifesaver.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Ain't no flavor come off that mint.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

You gotta stir it. You gotta.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You gotta stir that. But what if you don't know what's in there? You mess around and choke. Oh, my goodness.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And so let's look at the next photo here at the event. So this was the photo booth opportunity. We got a wall of flowers. Again, this is a shower curtain, much like the Willy Wonka one. It is unironed.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, they could at least hit it with the steam.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

They did not hit it with the steam. At times.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

It has no self esteem.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And then it don't even hit the floor.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

It does not touch the floor. It is flooding.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So you're trying to get your shoes in the pic, you're out of luck.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You can't get your shoes in the trip because the backdrop is flooding.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And then they had the nerve to put some fake flowers on the top of it.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I ain't gonna lie. Can I just say this? Had they steamed it and you got a good angle, one person at a time, knees up, it could have looked all right.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That requires too much.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I'm just saying, you gotta do what you gotta do. You gotta. You know what I'm saying? Knees up. With the right lighting, it could have. It could have. It could have went.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Stand on a chair.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, stand on a chair. Or, or, or be Short, right?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

It's a nice little filter. Yeah. Instagram filter.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Don't black or white. Don't throw a sepia. That's exactly what I was gonna say. Don't throw a semi and have it looking like back in the day. What?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah, you're right. You're right. We could have made something work with that.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

They could have made something work with that.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Now let's look at some of the food. So here is our lady in the football jersey, which makes no sense for the event.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, man. Her edges tell me everything I need to know.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And it looks like they got a bowl of.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

She got the AirPod on over the food.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Why she got the AirPod on?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You know that. You know that. Cause she working hard, so she's sweating. You know that damn airpod and fell in that salad bowl a couple of times. Oh, my God, look at the salad. The salad that don't look Caesar. Don't look even like. Look at it on this young lady's plate.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Store bought lettuce. You know the lettuce that's about to go bad. It's got a little brown around the edge.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Oh, man. Yeah, I know. This the leather, this the lettuce that you feed iguana.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

No. And I do see a pasta salad on here. A pasta of some sort.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. Yep, I see a pasta. Yeah, man.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah. But her football jersey is killing me. And it. I can't tell what the team is.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

It just say, is it the 49ers F. Okay, well, yeah, it do say football footer.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Girl, why you got this on? You couldn't just wear a black T shirt if you worked there. Like, man, you sound like somebody auntie got called.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Why not just be professional? Damn it, man. I can't say nothing because I probably know these people in some capacity.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Got to be quiet. Yeah. They're my neighbors. Thank you. Thank you for that.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah. And we're going to pray for them because this is giving like church repass.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Like after the funeral. Like, this is the food that you go and get and your aunties whipped it up so everybody could eat something, baby.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. Just so everybody can have something.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I just know it's a casserole on that table and it's making me sick.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. But that just made me hungry, though. Damn. Cause you know, if anything, it took my appetite away.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Good Lord.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Really? I don't know why it made me hungry because now I, you know, just, you know, like something good. Not like that, but that did look like something good. Usually people who. You know, I don't want anybody with the AirPod over my food, but it just remind me of a cookout. Like, damn, I want some cookout food. You know what I'm saying? Just. It just. It just gives me, like.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I think it was supposed to be Bridgerton, the cookout.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I agree. It was definitely not a Bridgerton barbecue. You know what I'm saying? It looked like I should have sold it at barbecue. Like a Bridgerton gender reveal in there. You know what I'm saying? It really does.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Oh, it's so sad. Well, I'm so sad that that happened, but at least you had a fun experience, and y' all made the best of it. You got some pizza. Y' all went and got y' all some drink. You weren't sucking on your lifesaver drink. And damn Jermaine, that's the best we can hope for you.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Damn Jermaine.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Okay, our last letter. I just need a fake name for Clarissa. Clarissa. So Clarissa says, I've been listening to you since day one. Oh, thank you, Clarissa. Your episode with Joel Kim Booster encouraged me to talk about my cousin Jesse. Not. I hope you change the name Clarissa, because you can put Jesse on blast. So he's. Clarissa says he's a nationwide piece of garbage. Damn. He not even local garbage. He nationwide.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Hey, man. Nationwide. And he probably on your side, right?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

He not on your side. Nationwide, but he not on your side.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Go ahead.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

So he faked his own death and hacked computers in Hawaii and federally electronically marked himself deceased to avoid paying child support to the tune of $100,000. How much child support do you like? $100,000 is definitely more than one kid. It's getting Rolling Stone.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Wherever he laid his hat was.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. It's giving. They live in a shoe.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah. This is also to go this far, not to take care of your children. Instead of taking care of your children, you're gonna hack into a database and call, declare yourself legally dead. Like, this is the deadest beat of the deadest beat. Nobody has been a deadbeat harder than him.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Gotta think smarter, not harder. They be calling him a deadbeat the whole time. He's like, you know what? Y' all might be on to something.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

He heard deadbeat. And it gave him an idea. A bulb went off, and he said, what if I was dead?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

If I was dead? You can't beat that. You can't beat being dead.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Being dead. You can't beat being dead. You're right about that. Oh, man, he Was born in Hawaii and spent most of his life in Kansas. He wrecked my first car. I'm still not over it. You got a bone to be Clarissa with cousin Jesse. So then he roamed around Michigan and east Indiana, Kentucky. He was still bouncing around, even though on paper he is deceased. So he said, I'm Lazarus, like I was.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, if I was a ghost, I'd be all over Michigan, Indiana.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

But real talk, have you ever done something so dumb to get out of paying for something? Sheesh. I have never declared myself dead. This is giving me ideas. Have you ever done something to get out of paying? Something that you can talk about?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I think.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I'm trying to think. I'm like, did I do a slip and fall? Did I limp somewhere?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah. I don't want to talk about it. I gotta see. I gotta see. I gotta see. I gotta see. I gotta see.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

What? What, you can't tell me at all?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I gotta see. I gotta see, man.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Not. I gotta see now.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I gotta see. I gotta know.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

You might have to tell me off.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

The air, you know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I think declaring yourself dead to avoid child support is pretty fucking wild, I think.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I don't know. I think mine is worse. I think mine is worse. Mine is worse. I'm really back in my brain right now. Okay, look. Okay, look. All right. So when I was a kid, kid, my grandfather made. I guess he named himself my guardian because he had the good insurance, right? And it didn't matter because we all just. I live with my mom my whole life, but, you know, my mom and dad was split, so he was like, I'm his guardian. I had the good insurance, braces, all that my whole life. And so whenever I was going through middle school, I always had to put my grandfather's address down, right? Because he had the big house. The good house, whatever. So when I got to college, I'm sitting there and they, like, trying to find me money to, like, you know, like, financial aid and all that. Yeah, exactly. And so I told the financial aid lady, like, yeah, you know, Plus, I never met my mom, ever. She was like, what? And I was like, yes, it's on all my files. I never met the woman. She's like, are you serious? I was like, yeah. She was like, there's money for that. So then I got all this bread for that to finish college, to be.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Pretending to be an orphan. And then what happened at graduation when she wants to come celebrate?

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Listen, when at graduation, I'm like, listen, I need my. You know, this is a White woman. She'd be like, where were you when he needed you? Just graduation, right? And so I was like, ma, you gotta go over there. Cause I ain't supposed to know you. They giving me grants. You know what I'm saying? They giving n grants. Like, I think it was like the Losing Isaiah Grant or something like that. You know what I'm saying? Shoot, Halle Berry.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Like that Halle Berry movie. She lose to somebody.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, she is. Cause she's an old, irresponsible, forgetful. You know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Forgetful ass mom.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

She a baby mama. You be like, tell me that the car seat not on top of the car. You rode home with the baby.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

With the baby in it and you driving away. You didn't see. I only did that three times. Calm down.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

We just went to cvs, Charles. Damn. Like, oh, wait a minute, y'. All.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Yeah, the Losing Isaiah Grant is crazy. Being like, yeah, my. Don't know. No, don't clap when they say my name.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Do not clap. Don't say nothing, because I got that damn lig. And so if I. If I. If I introduce you as Auntie Mama, this. This. This role. You know what I'm saying? She basically raised me. She raised me right here. Where would that be? Yeah, where would I be? Where I be anyway, right? So if they want to come take my dad.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Cause you were like, my story is, I was a son crying at home on the bathroom floor. Cause I was hungry, and the only.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Way to feed me was to just disappear for 18 years.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Okay, that's wild. That's a wild one to get out of something.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, but shit, I was in them college classes. Like, y' all niggas, pay attention, please. Some of us don't have parents.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Just sprinkling it around wherever you need to.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

They was like, you know that guy. Guy, he's really dedicated. He has nobody be like, where you going for Thanksgiving, C.P. i'm like, I'll find somewhere. Oh, damn. Well, my mama made a sweet potato turkey. All kind of, you know, said, what are you doing for the holidays, CP I'll figure it out.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

The sad voices killing me. I'll figure it out.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

I'll figure it out. Guys, don't worry about me.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Mother's Day rolls around. You always gotta be like, damn, it's a hard day knowing damn well you got a mom.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Right? Cherish it. You know.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I love using that for everything. It's like, hey, I saw you gave me a B minus on my paper. If my Mother had been alive, it would have been A. So go ahead and change that.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You gotta tell them, like, sad thing is that there's no one at home to be disappointed in these grades. So I really just got to make it for myself, you know? And these B's and A's mean a lot, so. But if you mean a lot, you wanna give me this, you wanna give me the B, that's fine. But, you know, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to compete in this job industry with no support system.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

That's an excellent one, cp. Oh, my God.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

You know what I'm saying?

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And that brings us to the end of the show. You're so much fun, man.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Thank you. Than. Thank you. And I want to shout out my special too. That just dropped.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Of course. I was about to say, where would you like to be found? Social media. You're special. All that good stuff.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

So I have a special called Sunday after 6, right? It's a dope, dope comedy special. A very, like, unique set that has, like a through line and it's like one huge story. It's really good. And it's on a platform called Beat V E E P S, which is like an international, like a concert platform, right? And. But they allowed me to go on there and drop my special independently to the world. So there's people from all over the world watching it and really enjoying it. So I'm excited about that. Yeah, man. Yeah. They can find me at Comedian CP on everything. Comedian cp all one word. Don't. No spaces, no nothing. Nothing. Comedian cp.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

The letter C and then the letter.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

P. The letter C and the letter P. That's right.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

I love it.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Yeah, man. That's it, man. I really enjoyed this laziness. This is like mad fun.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Thank you. This was such a good time. I really enjoyed you. Thank you for coming on the show. As always, snitch on your friends, family, and your enemies. @scamgodispodmail.com we see. We do read them on the show, y'.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

All.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

And if you want to find me D I V A L A C I Divalacy on all platforms. If you want to see any of these ridiculous photos. And y' all really do want to see this. This lifesaver situation. Scam Goddess Pod on Instagram. If you want to chat with me, Scam Goddess Pod on Twitter, y', all, my book is out. You can get it anywhere. Scam Goddess. All the episodes of Scam Goddess are now airing on Hulu as well as going Dutch. So get into those first two seasons. Have a good time and congregation. I want y' all to get out there. I want you to get out there and stay losing Isaiah.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Never find him. That's right. No, Never. Fine. Get that money. Get that money.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

Get that money. Okay.

[Chris Powell (CP)]

Be Isaiah. Be the lost Isaiah.

[Lacy Mosley (Scam Goddess)]

This has been an Airwolf production in association with Team Coco Scam Got a Stars and is hosted by me, Lacy Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Our producer is Jessica Cisneros and our audio engineer is Rich Garcia. Research for the show is conducted by Kate Doyle. Stay scheming.

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