Con-Fessions: Progressive Posers

Summary

Scam Goddess: Con-Fessions – "Progressive Posers"

Date: October 29, 2020
Host: Laci Mosley
Guest: Priscilla Davies

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Episode Overview

In this bonus "Con-Fessions" installment of Scam Goddess, Laci Mosley and guest Priscilla Davies dive into real-life scam stories sent in by listeners, with a sharp focus on political and activism-related cons. The discussion is hilarious, insightful, and critical of scammers who take advantage of causes like LGBTQ+ rights and Black Lives Matter. The pair unpacks how these scams unfold, their social context, and what makes some grifts both “ingenious” and deeply unethical.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Scams Within Activism and Progressivism

• Opening Banter & Episode Theme

  • Laci muses on the new reality of sincerity in greetings during 2020, joking about how "How are you?" is now an invitation for real talk (00:22).
  • Set-up for the episode’s focus: “Today we’re gonna be talking about political and activism scams.” – Laci (00:53)

• The Facebook “Pride Binder” Scam

  • Listener “Julissa” shares a saga involving a Facebook group that started as a podcast spin-off, then morphed over time (01:36–03:26).
    • Former moderator ran a series of small grifts, notably raising money under false pretenses for a child’s political camp (04:00).
    • When members checked, the “canceled” camp was actually still running; refunds were only available upon direct request (04:35).
    • “That’s a gaslighting technique that rich people love to do. It’s like, no bitch I need my money, and I need it now.” – Laci (07:09)
    • The moderator later ran a viral pride scam: she claimed a trans boy neighbor asked her to receive a package of a binder (a chest binder), and solicited donations on PayPal and Venmo (09:04–10:11).
    • Group members revealed her scamming history, leading to warnings on her viral article to donate to organizations instead.
    • “I hate to be a Karen slash hater, but she’s going to fuck things up… She’s putting [the kid] at risk by pulling this kind of business.” – Julissa (reader), relayed by Laci (11:13)

• Expertise and Vulnerability

  • Laci and Priscilla confess to not initially knowing what kind of "binder" was referenced – light-hearted acknowledgment of the learning curve and the importance of context in activism spaces (09:27–10:05).
  • The duo points out the absence of evidence for the existence of the trans boy, showing how scam stories often hinge on unverifiable details.
    • “I’m pretty sure this little boy doesn’t exist.” – Priscilla (11:23)
    • “It’s a brilliant scam… all the ends are just tied up so neatly. The flavor. However, it’s also a horrible scam.” – Laci (11:49–11:56)

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2. Black Lives Matter & Technology Scams

• Venmo “Donate or You’re Racist” Request

  • Listener “Patrick” reports friends receiving unsolicited Venmo requests labeled “BLM Fund: donate or you’re racist.” (12:24–13:01)
    • “I already love this scam.” – Priscilla (13:01)
    • Another variant: scammers send $5 from an account called “Venmo” and demand it be transferred or forfeited, preying on confusion and urgency (14:42).
    • Laci and Priscilla discuss the inflexibility of Venmo in handling mistaken transactions and why these scams are effective.
      • “Keep your damn Venmo transactions private.” – Patrick (15:36)

• "Reparations" Street Scams in Oakland

  • Priscilla shares a story of people in Oakland citing “reparations” while skipping Uber fares or restaurant bills, creating a tangential but pointed discussion about the intersection of activism language and everyday grifting (15:41–17:22).
    • “You better rob Target.” – Laci, after recounting looting during protests with a humorous and radical lens (19:14)

• The Problems of Scamming Activism Causes

  • Both hosts express indignation at targeting disenfranchised communities:
    • “Stop trying to scam disenfranchised people.” – Laci (12:33)
    • The emotional and reputational harm such scams can cause to genuine movements, particularly when centered on the most marginalized.

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3. The “Professional” Activist Scammer: Sean King

• Discussion of Sean King’s Pattern of Behavior
  • The duo can’t resist referencing notorious activist figure Sean King (a recurring subject for scam allegations), specifically an incident involving his use of Chadwick Boseman’s passing to segue into plugging his own book (21:39–24:18).
    • “What’s up, fam? It’s me, Shaun King. Definitely black.” – Laci, parodying King’s email style (21:39)
    • “This reminds me of my book.” – Laci, skewering the segue (23:00)
    • King’s dodgy defense: “I don’t even make money off my book.” (23:18)
    • “So then how do you make money then? Where is this money going?” – Priscilla (23:29)
    • Laci points out credible authors corrected his claim, explaining he earns royalties after covering his advance (23:50).
    • “How you gonna disrespect the people like that?” – Priscilla (23:54)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Online Group Scams:
  "That’s the thing that rich people fucking do to poor people all the time to gaslight them... wait, you’re telling me you worked because you needed the money to pay a bill?" – Laci (07:09)
• On the ideal scam technique:
  "When people offer you more details than necessary, they are lying, hands down." – Laci (08:48)
• On activism scams and real harm:
  “She’s going to fuck things up… She’s putting him at risk by pulling this kind of business.” – Laci, paraphrasing Julissa (11:13)
• On the “donate or you’re racist” Venmo scam:
  “Did you donate, or are you racist? That’s really what inquiring minds want to know.” – Priscilla (13:35)
• On looting and protest:
  “Guess what, nigga? We the Boston Tea Party now. Okay? We the Bompton Tea Party, okay? We out here.” – Laci (17:22)
• On Sean King’s scammy behavior:
  “What’s up, fam? It’s me, Shaun King. Definitely black.” – Laci (21:39)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening banter on greetings in 2020 (00:22)
• Introduction of activism scam Facebook group story (01:33)
• Discussion of “Pride Flag/Binder” viral scam (04:40–11:23)
• Reflection on the Venmo "Donate or You're Racist" scam (12:24–14:42)
• Talk on reparations scams and protest looting (15:41–19:22)
• Clarity and backtracking on binder term (“cishet losers” aside) (19:58)
• Reflections on disappointment in political scam artists (20:42)
• Sean King’s “book promotion via Chadwick Boseman” controversy (21:39–24:12)

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Tone & Style

The episode’s tone is playful, self-deprecating, and satirical, while forcefully critical of scammers who exploit progressive causes. Laci and Priscilla blend acute social commentary with infectious humor, often switching between roasting scammers, mocking themselves, and reflecting earnestly on the impacts of grifting within marginalized communities.

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Final Thoughts

Listeners get an inside look at how scammers can weaponize trust and community within activist circles, why digital platforms are fertile ground for these schemes, and how to be more vigilant. The episode is packed with laughter, honesty, and pointed lessons about the importance of discernment—even (or especially) in spaces devoted to social justice.

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Contact the show: Send your own scam stories to [e-mail].
Find the hosts:

• Laci Mosley: @divalaci
• Priscilla Davies: @risilladaviesactor, @otdesert on Twitter

Closing words: "Congregation, stay schemin’."

Transcript

[A]

Hello, and welcome back to another installment of Con Fessions, the bonus content of Scam Goddess Pod, where we read your letters and your mess. I'm Lacey Mosley.

[B]

And I'm Priscilla Davies.

[A]

What's up, Priscilla? How are you?

[B]

I'm as well as can be.

[A]

I told myself to stop asking people that. I'm so sorry. I forgot that I'm not asking people that anymore.

[B]

It's like a faux pas in 2020. Like, what? Ask me, bitch.

[A]

How am I? You don't want to know me. Oh, let me tell you how I am. I feel like that's going to be the new norm is like, instead of saying, how are you as Americans anymore, like, plan, like, we actually care, people are going to just start telling you the truth. They're going to be like, yeah, I'm trash.

[B]

Yeah. So I'm. Well,

[A]

listen, we're alive, okay? That's all you can really ask for these days, like, literally, is to be alive. So today we're gonna be talking about political and activism scams.

[B]

Wow, I'm ready for this. I think I can guess who might end up in this discussion.

[A]

No, these are all letters, so there's not gonna be any Sean King, AKA Talcomax, Fannie Lou Scammer. Martin Luther Scheme.

[B]

Web Defraud. No. J. Simpson, Thurgood?

[A]

Partial. Oh, we could do it all day.

[B]

All day. There's so many all day.

[A]

It's too fun to dunk on Tron King. He's evil. But no, we will be talking about y' all scams. So this first one is more of an activism scam. We've got a pride scam. And, like, I thought this was interesting because Priscilla, if you guys don't know yet, is an avid Facebooker.

[B]

Don't you dare describe me in such terms. Avid fa. Actually, today was my breaking point. I'm done with Facebook.

[A]

You say this, like, every three weeks, Priscilla.

[B]

No, I love it.

[A]

I'm not fighting with anybody. Priscilla's been in Facebook jail. I had to make T shirts. Like, free my makeup, Priscilla. I had to spray paint all T shirts.

[B]

She kept all the proceeds.

[A]

You know, I did. I was like, free my nigga P. Mark Zuckerberger. Let her go.

[B]

For real.

[A]

Oh, God. But so you know. You know how Facebook goes. So this is a problem. So let's give this person a name. What name you got, P?

[B]

Let's call them Julissa.

[A]

Julissa. I like Julissa. So Julissa says I'm in a Facebook group that was originally a spinoff from a podcast, but has been through several iterations and is now a blend of politics and Bravo. So already that first sentence. So you. This is all like Facebook. You were in a Facebook group that was a spin off.

[B]

How is the first of all, I don't think there's such thing as spinoff Facebook groups from television or podcasts, but go ahead.

[A]

Like, what does that even mean? It's a spinoff? It was like, yes. So we like this podcast and then we made this Facebook group that was like, what y' all doing over there? We like friends. So we made a friend spin off Facebook. It's called homies.

[B]

Okay. Weird. That's what they say. You can find anybody on Facebook and you can find weirdos on Facebook.

[A]

Right? That's also the algorithm. The algorithm will start if you allow Facebook to suggest for you. If you just keep clicking yes, you will eventually end up in some wild ass shit. That's how QAnon got lit. QAnon. They were like, oh, okay. Do you like Republicans? Okay, Republicans. Cool, cool, cool.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Is the earth flat or. Nah. And then you like earth flat. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. So does Tom Hanks buy children from Wayfair and dressers? That's how you get there.

[B]

Slippery slope.

[A]

They're like, okay, okay. We see you, like, a little crazy. Okay. That's how the hoteps get there too. It starts with, like, black liberation Facebook.

[B]

It always starts with black liberation. Next thing you know, you at a Hebrew Israelite parade with Nick cannon. Shout out to Nick Cannon for doing the best 180 of 2020. I was just watching the masked singer. I was like, n. You did right. Collect that check, Nick.

[A]

That was a wild ride that you took us on. I'm glad you. But it's okay. You probably went down that Facebook bubble and next thing you knew, you were telling women not to drink milk so they could have their period.

[B]

Which works, but that's besides the point.

[A]

You were on Etsy looking up oncs and you went down a deep. It's okay, you know, Dr. Umar is now like your morning podcast and meditation. But it's okay. You came back. You came back. But. So Facebook is a slippery slope. So she says. Our most recent version of the Facebook group came about because the previous moderator was doing a lot of shady racist stuff and had also been running a few scams on us. For example, her daughter was going to some politics camp in D.C. and people donated and offered airline miles to send her, etc. Then all of a sudden the camp was canceled and people could have their Money back if they wanted to, in quotes, which means you'd have to ask rather than just getting it back. Oh, and someone googled the camp and it most definitely was not canceled. She talked a lot about how hard it was moderating the group so that people would do little things like collect money to give a Sephora gift card. And it all blew up when she deleted the group and we all rebuilt it without her crazy ass. This reminds me of this.

[B]

You know what this reminds me of, bitch? Laci and I were in one of these Facebook group cults, okay?

[A]

We got gone. I technically wasn't in the cult like

[B]

you were, but I was getting her there.

[A]

You were, you were. You were leading me in small spoon fed doses. First it was the cult. You were like, join this on Facebook. I was like, okay. Then you were like, hey, they're having a party tonight. You want to come at the hottest club in la? Slowly but surely. Then it was like, hey, you want to go to so and so's house? We all hanging out there till 5am Yeah, I was definitely about to join that cult for sure.

[B]

But.

[A]

But it's interesting that she was like, look, guys, do you know how hard it is to moderate a Facebook group? It's like, hard work. I'm doing this every day for free. So how about you guys chip in so I can get Kat Von D's new eyeliner?

[B]

Okay? And the thing is, the thing is, you know, from my. Our experience in that Facebook group, like, they don't even have to hide it. They just, like, people are so willing to just be like, yes, take my money. Take it. Like, they can say for Kat Von D eyeliner, and people will actually give them the money for it.

[A]

Right? And I love that she was honest about that. However, she lied about this D.C. camp being canceled. And then I love that she knows the nature of the people in her Facebook group. They must have been fans of her because she was like, you can have your money back if you want to ask. It's that thing that rich people fucking do to poor people all the time to gaslight them. Like, when you don't pay people on time, they're like, hey, I really need my check. They're like, oh, you need your check? You don't have money saved? Wait, you're telling me that you worked because you needed that money quickly to pay a bill? Oh, my God. Ugh.

[B]

Right? You're so poor.

[A]

You're so poor I spit on you.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

Like, it's such a gaslighting technique that rich people Love to do. It's like, no, bitch, I need my money, and I need it now. And we should be proud to say that. And people shouldn't feel awkward by being like, hey, I need you to run me back the money that I gave you because you didn't use it for what you said you were going to. Okay, so this woman's a scammer, and I love it. So she says. I say all that because now we found out that she's gone viral with a very suspicious story. She claims that a young neighbor, a trans boy, saw her pride flag outside and left a note asking if he could ship a boat binder to her address so his parents didn't find out. She's been accepting donations for the Imaginary child via her PayPal and Venmo and has now tweeted her list of things she wants, like meeting celebrities and stuff, now that she's gone viral. Oh, and conveniently, her birthday is Friday. We, of course, brought receipts from her previous scam. She locked down her Twitter, and the article now has a disclaimer saying that she's a scammer and donations would be better sent to organizations instead of a random crazy lady in Colorado. I. So there's so much to unpack here. Really, guys, number one, we've said it so many times on this podcast. When people offer you more details than necessary, they are lying hands down. And they're not a good liar, because good liars know you just give people flat. It's like Sean King, you give people a flat thing. You know what I mean? You ignore shit when people call you out, you delete stuff, and you never acknowledge anything. You definitely don't give a long story that people can poke holes in.

[B]

Exactly, Exactly.

[A]

So she, first of all. So she says she has a trans boy as a young neighbor, and she's got a rainbow flag hanging outside her house. I don't even think she got the rainbow flag out there.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I think she lying about that. We'll start with that. And then he left a note saying that he wanted to ship a binder. So is this just, like a RuPaul's Drag Race binder?

[B]

Like, why.

[A]

Oh, my God, I feel like such an asshat. Cause I consider myself, like, a part, like an activist for trans lives.

[B]

Me, too.

[A]

And I have to say, guys. So our super engineer Marina just paused us and told us that it's not a school binder that the little boy was asking for. He was asking for a binder that goes over your breasts so that you can, like, minimize Them. And I know what they are. I've seen them. But I just saw a little boy and I thought, school. And I thought, he's a staple, right?

[B]

He's in seventh grade.

[A]

Oh, fuck. Forgive us. Please don't cancel us. It's a binder.

[B]

We know what a binder is. We just didn't get it in that moment.

[A]

Oh, shit. I'm so sorry, guys. But yeah, so this makes more sense. She went viral because she was asking to raise money for a trans boys binder that he secretly wanted. And so everyone's of course going to be like, oh, his parents aren't supporting him, but we're going to support him financially. So then this goes viral. So then she's like, I need to go to Ellen. All makes sense now.

[B]

Now. Hey, girl, I'm sorry we talk so much shit about you. Cause you know what? You know what? Let me donate as well. What's your cash app?

[A]

Right? We love you now. No. Oh my gosh. So all that to say. So when she starts asking to meet celebrities and stuff, they basically come out with all of the receipts on all the scams that this woman has run, right? And Julisa says, I hate to be a Karen slash hater, but she's going to fuck things up for real for this trans kid. And putting. She's putting him at risk by pulling this kind of business. So I agree with that. It's so sad that this woman is trying to take advantage of the most vulnerable in our communities. And I hope that she's giving money to this little boy. I hope that she's not keeping all these coins because that would be really upsetting.

[B]

Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and say that I'm pretty sure this little boy doesn't exist.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Like, I feel like this is a completely made. Because have we seen like at nowhere. Does. Does Julissa mention that we see the boy? There's a picture of the boy.

[A]

You know what I mean?

[B]

But she could probably get away with

[A]

that too, because it's like, I don't wanna out the little boy. And I certainly don't wanna take photos of a minor and put them on the Internet and have them go viral.

[B]

God damn. It's a brilliant scam.

[A]

Oh, it's a good scam.

[B]

I mean, all the ends are just tied up so neatly.

[A]

The flavor, however, it's also a horrible scam. Cause it's like trans people go through enough. The last thing they need is you trying to fucking grift them, you raggedy he. We do not support this scam. Although it is excellently crafted.

[B]

It really is. It's well crafted. You get an A for crafting and an F for humanity.

[A]

All right, guys, let's get to our next scam. This is a Black Lives Matter scam.

[B]

Wow. Dun, dun, dun. How dare they.

[A]

Right? As if we're not already dealing with enough. Like, you can't scam us. We are disenfranchised. I say this all the time. Stop trying to scam disenfranchised people. Okay, So I love this scam, though. So it says, what are we naming this person?

[B]

Let's name this person Patrick.

[A]

Patrick. Wonderful. I love that name. So Patrick says, yesterday, a couple of friends of mine got a request for $20 on Venmo with a note, BLM Fund. Donate or you're racist.

[B]

I already love this scam.

[A]

I've attached a screenshot of one of the requests. So the screenshot's not in front of you, Priscilla, but the screenshot literally is just a Venmo request. And it says, donate or you're racist.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

It says the same guy sent both. Someone named Buddy McGee, which sounds like a fake ass name to me. Neither of my friends recognized the sender of the request. Well, do y' all have black friends? Okay, Buddy could be your Buddy Patrick. Come on, P. Did you donate or are you racist?

[B]

That's really what inquiring minds want to know.

[A]

So it says. I've also heard that some people have their Venmo account set to automatically accept money requests from people on their friends list. Scammers apparently will find people through Facebook or add them directly from Venmo, then send requests. I'm pretty sure Venmo won't let you cancel once you send someone money either. No, they will not.

[B]

They will not. They made it.

[A]

I once sent, like, $150 to the wrong Zeke, and thank God that the other Zeke is my friend, because he was like, oh, here's your money back. But what if it had been, like, some Facebook person that I just happened to have on Venmo? They wouldn't give me that shit back.

[B]

Okay. I just wonder, what is Venmo's fucking problem? Like, let people fucking just cancel it like PayPal does.

[A]

Yeah, but you don't want that from Venmo because. Okay, okay, what if you go and buy a T shirt off the street?

[B]

Or what if you go. This is what Venmo says does. I know you know that. What if someone revokes their payment and then. I know. I get it.

[A]

I Think it's perfectly fair. But it also says that. He says there's also a scam where an account named Venmo is sending people $5 and saying they have until a certain date to transfer it into their bank. You can tell it's a scam because they say, here's five dollars on us.

[B]

Like, no proper five dollar on us.

[A]

Here, five dollar. Here, five dollar on us. No proper grandma. Etc. So I'm trying to understand how does that scam work? You send someone $5 and then you say, here, $5, and then they deposit it and then what? How do you make money off of that?

[B]

Maybe. Maybe it's like a. A digital version of the check scam where you deposit it and then how

[A]

would that work through Venmo? I don't know, Patrick. I don't know what you're talking about there. But then he says at the end, remember, keep your damn Venmo transactions private. Patrick, you didn't say if you donated the $20 or not. So now I don't know if you're racist.

[B]

And that's really what I'd like to talk about right now, Patrick, if you've ever. I mean, this actually reminds me of. I think I've told you this before about Oakland and how black lives matter. Well, black people in Oakland. Cause, you know, they're like, really, really hyphy people out there, right? And so, like, hypey. They're hyphy as hell. But they're also super political. And so there's this thing, this thing that they do now where basically, like, they will, for example, like, take like, you know, like a pool, an Uber pool, and then they will literally, like, leave the Uber pool and leave the person who's got the pool with them on the hook for the Uber pool and be like, I don't know. This is like. Someone told me this. They leave them on the hook, and then they'll be like, black lives matter reparations. And then they leave. Or they'll go to a restaurant and eat and then just walk it on the bill and be like, black lives matter reparations.

[A]

I mean, yes, reparation. I. Look, I will tell you, nothing made me happier than a video that I saw on Twitter that was underscored by Pop Smokes, Dior, Diors. And it was black looters in Atlanta looting Lenox Mall at the Dior, stealing the mannequins, stealing everything that was nailed down and wasn't nailed down. I saw someone leave with a display table, and I just.

[B]

I bet you that's in somebody's foyer right now. The beautiful vase on top. Beautiful.

[A]

I mean, that was my favorite part of the protest was watching looting on Twitter because, you know, people care about property over people. And I'm sorry. Like, y' all love the Boston Tea Party. Throwing that tea in the river. Guess what, nigga? We the Boston Tea Party now. Okay? We the Bompton Tea Party, okay? We out here. And so y' all just gonna have to deal, cuz, if you're not gonna respect peaceful protesting, know what? You will? Guess how fast we started to get some arrest as soon as we lit a match. And that wasn't even us. That was mostly white anarchists, who I love. And I love the anarchy. Like, the right tries to make anarchy seem like it's an organization. Anarchy is not organized. That's the definition of the word. Antifa is not organized. They're just a bunch of people who are like, we want to fuck shit up. Maybe they got. Maybe some people have group chats, but there's certainly not no Reddit thread or like, we are antifa.

[B]

Listen, to be antifa, all you need is black clothes and a bandana and you're in.

[A]

You don't even need that. You know what I mean? If I say I'm antifa, I'm antifa. That's how easy it is to join. You know what I mean?

[B]

You say it three times in the mirror, right?

[A]

And then they show, and then the bandana and the black clothes show up on your bed right there. And if you're really antifa, it also shows up with a spray can and some bricks.

[B]

Okay? If you're really about that life.

[A]

So, you know, I mean, looting, stealing, like, you're never gonna get me to feel like that is a bad thing. I'm sorry. Not sorry. I remember I saw a woman, a white woman, in Target looting. And this was in Minnesota. And she was in the Target getting home goods, honey. Some people were hitting up the pharmacy. Some people were getting essential. She was in there.

[B]

She had a lamp, a rug, a nice ottoman.

[A]

She said this shit was too expensive. And now it's five fingers off. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. You better rob Target.

[B]

Okay, go ahead.

[A]

But, yeah, so that's funny that they were, like, reparations. I mean, I don't know. It's hard for me because I still have a little bit of that pull up my pants in me.

[B]

Like, no respectability politics.

[A]

I'm trying to get rid of it

[B]

no wonder why I didn't know what a binder was.

[A]

I didn't either.

[B]

I'm sorry. I knew. Guys, again, we. No, I'm kidding.

[A]

Look, we. Look, we may not know. Look, we know, but it's just not. I don't know why I didn't put it together. We talked about staples for so long. Like, we are the most cishet losers right now. I'm so sorry.

[B]

We're so basic.

[A]

We're some basic ass bitches. I'm so sorry. I swear to God. I knew. I have not.

[B]

Binders have friends. You have friends who have b.

[A]

Your. Your.

[B]

You. Your neighbor, your cousin's married to somebody.

[A]

I have three friends with binders. Oh, my God. I swear. No. Yeah. Oh, my God, that sucks. But, yeah, look, we got there. Did we not get there? Thanks for helping. Shout out to you, our savior. Thank you, someone, for intervening, Jesus.

[B]

Thanks. Take the wheel, please, because we literally

[A]

would have moved on. Yeah, we got that right.

[B]

High five. Moving on.

[A]

That was great. But it's hard when it comes to the political scammers because it's just so disappointing when you are hoping that someone's doing the right thing for disenfranchised people in the world, and they're not. I mean, I know we said we weren't going to talk about Shaun King, but we do have a little time, so. Why not? Because after the Sean King episode, that Negro was up to more chicanery. So he sent out a newsletter, which he has, like hundreds and thousands of people's emails, and he'll reach out to them, you know, Pintland shit. So he sends out an email one day and it's like, it's the day before Chadwick Boseman's passing, which rest in peace to a King. God, that hurts so bad. So the day before Chadwick's passing, he sends out an email and just happenstance, and it's like, what's up, fam? It's me, Shaun King. Definitely black. I was just over here rubbing some mermaids on my temples and I thought about y'.

[B]

All.

[A]

Just wanted to see how y' all doing. Respond to this email, tell me what's up, I'll read it. Which is just very Caroline Calloway of him because, like, if people respond to, like, hundreds of thousands of people respond to you, you're not reading all of them. I remember Caroline Calloway had a fucking event where she said, if you write me letters, emails, I'll respond to each of them. And she got so many emails that she just started Responding with emojis.

[B]

That's legally binding.

[A]

But is she skimming these? Because what if somebody's sending you some shit and they're like, yeah, my dog just got really sick, and he's really all I've been having to live for. And then she sends you back, like, an eggplant emoji. Like, what the fuck? Like, that's so.

[B]

You never know. That could be the thing that makes things better.

[A]

You just never know, right? THEY LAUGH so Sean King sends out this email, right? Then Chawick Boseman passes away, and he sends out another email the next day, and he's like, what's up, Kings and Queens? It's me, black ass Shawn King, who's black. And I was sitting here, I was sitting down very African Americanly, and I realized that Chadwick Boseman passed away. I know this is a sad time for y' all brothers and sisters who are also black, like me, and also whites. And he basically says, like, you know, rest in peace to Chadwick Boseman. Then he's like, this reminds me of my book.

[B]

Oh, my God, you're always waiting for the segue.

[A]

And he directs people to how they can purchase his book. And so, of course, this outrage on Twitter, and everyone's upset, and he tweets out that, like, I was not promoting, using Chadwick Rosen's passing to promote my book. I don't even make money off of my book.

[B]

They never make money off the shit. It's always, I don't even make money. It's always. So then how do you make money then? And where is this money going?

[A]

And then people, authors, like, credible authors, like, came down in the comments to say, so you don't make money off the individual sales of this book until you make back your advance. You already made an advance. So once you make that back, you will make money off this book. So selling these books does contribute to your profits, and you know that.

[B]

So that was. So he was hinging that on a technicality.

[A]

Come on, player.

[B]

How you gonna disrespect the people like that? I'm so. I'm extra mad at his ass. What? Cause you know you're not getting your. No, I mean the rules of getting your advance. Like, what a shady motherfucker, right? He was like, I don't even get

[A]

paid off this anymore. That's like, dog.

[B]

And, you know, that's how you know. Especially a shyster like you knows what's in your contract and how it works, right?

[A]

With your little pencil mustache. Anyway, he made his Twitter private. Now he still has over a million followers. A little over a million. And he made it private. That way, you know, people can't go on there and troll him and be like, we know what you did.

[B]

Right? Oh, God, how disgusting.

[A]

And on that note, Priscilla, where can people find you?

[B]

Well, they can find me on IG risilladaviesactor, and you can find me on Twitter. Otdesert, as in Queen of the Desert.

[A]

I love that Twitter name.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

And guys, as always, if you want to email us your scams, your cons, snitch on your friends and family, just make sure it's retired. Scamgoddesspodmail.com we may read it on the shows. And as always, you can find me at D I V A L A C I divalacy on all platforms. Congregation, stay scheming. Yeah, I'm Goddess Sam.