"I Can't Unblack My Ears!" The Lego Heist with Mel Mitchell

Summary

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Scam Goddess Podcast Summary

Episode: "I Can't Unblack My Ears!" The Lego Heist with Mel Mitchell

Host: Laci Mosley
Guest: Mel Mitchell
Date: August 4, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of Scam Goddess brings the "Congregation" a truly bizarre scam: the epic heist and subsequent drama over an ultra-rare, $200,000+ Star Wars Lego collection belonging to an 83-year-old man. Laci Mosley and guest Mel Mitchell (comedian, actress, and digital storyteller) navigate the labyrinth of cons, corporate drama, and true crime-adjacent shenanigans that ensue—while roasting capitalism, MLMs, and the inexplicable world of adult Lego collectors. As always, they keep it hilarious, honest, and unfiltered.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Essential Oils: Scam or Nah? (04:00)

• Laci probes Mel on her take regarding essential oils.
• Mel: "It depends on the oil." Shares a story about being scammed by "oregano yoni oil" marketed for vaginal health—ultimately realizes she was just allergic to latex, not cured by oil. Hilarious exchanges about dubious health claims and MLMs like DoTerra.

Mel (05:07): “I got got with the coochie essential oil… I was just allergic to latex. That was just my issue.”

Insight: Both hosts roast how "Big Oil" (essential oils, not Exxon) pushes wellness products, blurring the line between helpful and hustling scams.

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Everyday Scams: Capitalism Rant (06:51)

• Riffing on the price of Chick-fil-A and Walmart trips, both bemoan how living in the U.S. is fundamentally scammy ("Every day I wake up in this godforsaken effing country—it’s a goddamn scam.").
• Humorous attacks on inflation, Black women’s right to “reparations” via private jets, and Taylor Swift’s legendary ozone-layer-destroying jet use.

Laci (09:01): “We know there’s a hole in the ozone layer, but she [Taylor Swift] done expanded it.”

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Generational Trauma, Therapy, and TV (11:17)

• The conversation weaves from Zodiac signs to generational curses, with Laci reflecting on family dynamics using the show Shameless as a lens.
• Both discuss the challenges of healing when family members don't do their own work.

Mel (12:34): “It’s hard to go to therapy when the people who are the reason you need therapy won’t go to therapy.”

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J.Lo Scams and Cultural Phenomena (14:10)

• Both skewer J.Lo’s notorious Motown tribute and her track record of "scamming" her way into culture ("Jenny is a scammer and she has always known how to position herself to survive.").
• Tangents on pop culture and music history add comedy and context.

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The Lego Heist: Historic Hoodwink (20:40)

The Setup: The Most Valuable Star Wars Lego Collection (21:06)

• Backstory: Ed Manziel, 83, amasses over 780 unopened Star Wars Lego sets and 1200 rare minifigures since 1999—collection valued at $200K.
• Ed gets cancer; son Brian is tasked with selling the collection to pay for grandkids’ education.
• Consignment deal with Brick and Minifigs (B&M): Store takes 35% cut and gets custody of the collection.

Mel (22:03): “As a collector of things, AKA hoarder, I understand.”

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The Drama: Corporate Takeover and Shenanigans (24:51)

• The store owner, Crystal Law, is fired unexpectedly due to B&M corporate drama around the 2024 election.
• New owners—Josh and Brandon—allegedly seize the collection, remove identification stickers, and transport bulk of the Legos out, denying knowledge of the Star Wars sets.
• Brian's attempts to get police and corporate help fail—leading to YouTube sleuths getting involved.

Laci (28:44): "This is a Lego heist... Not diamonds, not the Pink Panther, not cats—Legos."

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Community and Internet Involvement (30:06)

• Brian contacts YouTube creators to publicize the theft; B&M counters with legal threats.
• Reckless Ben: Eccentric “cult investigator” and YouTuber joins the fray, personally visiting Lego stores and getting removed by police for trespassing.
• Laci and Mel mock-white culture’s “slacklining”—a running joke about unnecessary thrill-seeking.

Mel (32:37): “I can’t unblack my ears hearing this story, because why the fuck is you doing that?”

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The Mormon Corporate Angle, Soaking & Tangents (35:35)

• B&M's headquarters in Provo, Utah, is run by Mormon executives.
• Detour into Mormon cultural practices (soaking, “the jumper”) with extended comedic riffing on religious sexual workaround hijinks.
• Skewering organized religion as just another form of structurally sanctioned scam.

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Escalation: Reckless Ben vs. The Mormon Mafia? (44:54)

• Reckless Ben escalates, founding a parody religion ("We Steal From Old People") to trigger law enforcement involvement.
• Crash course in how church status, legal filings, and social media amplify the scandal, leading to stalking and trespassing charges against Ben.
• Online conspiracies fly ("Mormon mafia"), fundraising surges ($500K+ for the Manziels, $90K for Crystal).
• The “Lego Rico” lawsuit: B&M sues Ben and Brian for defamation and racketeering.

Mel (51:53): “A Lego Rico.”

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The Fallout (49:59 - 53:42)

• No criminal charges proven in court; facts heavily disputed.
• B&M closes implicated store, citing "devastating" social media campaigns.
• Reckless Ben’s videos go viral; Patreon’s CEO publicly refuses to take them down.
• Both hosts amazed at the “realness” and reach of Lego drama in the scam world.

Mel (54:30): “We built this episode brick by brick.”

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|---------------------------------------------|---------| | 05:07 | “I got got with the coochie essential oil to put it on your coochie.” | Mel | | 07:16 | “Every day is a scam. Every day I wake up in this godforsaken effing country—it’s a goddamn scam.” | Mel | | 09:01 | “She’s [Taylor Swift] taking a private jet from Hollywood to Pasadena... she expanded the ozone hole.” | Laci | | 14:57 | “Why was J.Lo doing the Motown tribute?” | Mel | | 28:44 | “This is a Lego heist. Not diamonds, not the Pink Panther. Legos.” | Laci | | 32:37 | “I can’t unblack my ears hearing this story, because why the fuck is you doing that?” | Mel | | 51:53 | “A Lego Rico.” | Mel |

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 04:00 – Essential oils: scam or scheme?
• 06:51 – Inflation, everyday American scams, Black women & reparations
• 11:17 – Generational trauma, therapy humor
• 14:10 – Pop culture scamming: J.Lo and Motown tribute
• 20:40 – The Lego Heist hoodwink begins
• 24:51 – Store owner drama and the Lego grab
• 28:44 – "This is a Lego heist"
• 30:06 – YouTube/citizen detective angle
• 35:35 – Mormon corporate HQ & soaking tangent
• 44:54 – Reckless Ben's "We Steal From Old People" church & legal escalation
• 49:59 – The fallout, lawsuits, fundraising totals
• 54:30 – Recap and episode wrap-up ("brick by brick" callback)

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Tone & Takeaways

• The show is playful, irreverent, and full of side-splitting asides about Black culture, capitalism, and the absurdity of true crime stories about Legos (without ever mocking the victims).
• Both hosts maintain a witty, incisive rapport, making sharp social commentary through the lens of scammy drama.
• The overall episode is a celebration of Black women’s resilience, side-eyeing the bizarre worlds of white hi-jinks, and ultimately, a dizzying but hilarious ride through one of the weirdest frauds ever covered on Scam Goddess.
• Episode Mood: Deeply funny, self-aware, a bit exasperated—but always on the side of the everyday person just trying to survive in scammy America.

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Where to Find the Hosts

• Mel Mitchell:

  • TikTok: @baddestmitch
  • Instagram: @smellmitch

• Laci Mosley:

  • Instagram/TikTok: @divalaci
  • Threads: @divalaci
  • Book and show: Scam Goddess (now on Hulu!)

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Final Words

Laci (ending): “Stay confused. Sometimes confusion is us figuring something out. ... Maybe try to figure out this Lego story and write me back, because I don’t know.”

As Laci puts it: This was a wild, confusing caper—built brick by brick—showcasing how even the world of Lego isn’t safe from a good old American scam.

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Scam Goddess: Stay schemin’!

Transcript

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Mel Mitchell]

Scams CA

[Lacey Mosley]

Robbery and Fraud Scam Goddess what's poppin Congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Back to you with another episode about robbery, fraud and those who practice it. It is a comedy show. We will laugh at the criminals, but we will never laugh at the and you know that I'm what? Yes, Excited, thrilled, elated, kind of a little bit of a scam hunter to get this gem on the show. Mel Mitchell is a comedian, actress and digital storyteller. She's open for veteran comics like Roy Woods Jr. Zaynab Johnson, as well as Ari Lennox. You may know her from her TikTok series, TikTok or Scare Tact From Jordan Peele's Monkey Paw Productions. She has been headlining tours all over the country, making people laugh in every city, every state, period. Mel, Mitch, up.

[Mel Mitchell]

Come on.

[Lacey Mosley]

Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.

[Mel Mitchell]

You know me, I'll do Jamaica Earhart,

[Ray Porter]

period.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm so happy you're here.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm glad to be had, sister. Glad to be had.

[Lacey Mosley]

I've been playing with some iterations of the show and like, what version? What am I going to do at the top? I don't like to make people work, so I used to ask people what their relationships with scams are, but that kind of makes you have to work a little bit. So I will ask that just in case there's something you want to volunteer. But the first thing I'm going to ask you is, is it a scam? Is it a scheme? Is it a real thing? I want your opinion about essential oils.

[Mel Mitchell]

Mm. I think it depends on the oil.

[Lacey Mosley]

I have.

[Mel Mitchell]

I haven't heard that name in years, though, that. So maybe it was a scam because

[Lacey Mosley]

I had like, doterra.

[Mel Mitchell]

Like, what is that? I don't even know what you're talking about. That's the thing. Like, it's. So many of the oils have come and went and we.

[Lacey Mosley]

Nobody tried to sell you doterra or

[Mel Mitchell]

get you involved in the program? No. What is that?

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, they came after me. It's like a MLM marketing company.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm about to say, is it like a wake up now for oil?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, but sometimes the oil do be it do be good. Like, so, okay, you smell a peppermint and it feel like you did a

[Mel Mitchell]

little bump of cocaine, a little peppermint smell. Some of them do be good. Like, I had a man. Dang. Cause the fact that these aren't on the streets no more might prove the point that these were scams, now that I think about it, because. Did you ever try how not you got em? You got a hit. You're doing a bump right now on air. Can I talk about inappropriate things on here? I forgot. Yeah, you can.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, we are rated R. You can talk about anything.

[Mel Mitchell]

I got got with the coochie essential oil to put it on your coochie. There was an oregano yoni oil that got me around 2018. And you supposed to take it and rub the oil into your lips and coochie area.

[Lacey Mosley]

Isn't that for, like, giving birth? That's when you need to start lubing your coochie.

[Mel Mitchell]

They say it'll heal the yeasts and the BBs and the things. So I was just like, let's just try it. And the whole time, honestly, I was just allergic to latex. I didn't realize that was just my issue.

[Lacey Mosley]

Which means that you were having protected sex. You were actually protecting your coochie. And then the latex was giving you a problem. That's.

[Mel Mitchell]

That's actually cool. That's literally what it was. But I'm over here dousing my coochie in oil like I'm about to fry some fucking chicken. And listen, sometimes you gotta throw shit

[Lacey Mosley]

at the wall and see what's thick. Sometimes something don't stick.

[Mel Mitchell]

A tea tree oil. A peppermint oil. Sure. Every once in a while, a peppermint near your coochie.

[Lacey Mosley]

Well, not in the coochie.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm just saying in general. I'm just saying in general, in general. Because the teacher used to help me with my ingrowns and stuff like that.

[Lacey Mosley]

But like, yeah, you can put that on the outside.

[Mel Mitchell]

You can put that where the oil

[Lacey Mosley]

ingrown hairs are coming in. Yeah.

[Mel Mitchell]

But oils are fine individually, but when you put them all together and big essential oil gets involved. Big oil.

[Lacey Mosley]

Big oil.

[Mel Mitchell]

Big oil, like big pharma. Now we're easing into scam territory, right?

[Lacey Mosley]

Because why they got people on the streets, like, running the block, selling the

[Mel Mitchell]

product, healing oils and stuff. I don't want any Dr. Sebi asparagus to cure cancer.

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't want any of that. No CMOs. We not going for it. We can't go for it.

[Tony Ayo]

Police.

[Mel Mitchell]

So, yeah, that's my take on the oil of it all. Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

What's your relationship with scams? Have you ever been scammed or know people who've been scammed or.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm sure I'm probably getting scammed right now. I don't know. Cause I'm an easy lick.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh. Cause you on this show, so yeah. You being scammed?

[Mel Mitchell]

A little bit. I'm being scammed. You know, I live in America. I'm paying $90 for gas. My chick fil a kiss meal was $9, I think. Cause I upsized the lemonade probably.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, don't blame yourself. That's too expensive. Every day.

[Mel Mitchell]

Every day is a scam. Every day I wake up in this godforsaken effing country. It's a goddamn scam. Everything, everything's a scam.

[Lacey Mosley]

I went to Walmart today.

[Mel Mitchell]

I went to go look for the Angel Reese Barbie. I knew they weren't going to have it because it was a black Walmart, but I was going to try anyway. I bought some cups, some soap, a deodorant. What else did I even buy? I think that was about it. $50.

[Lacey Mosley]

I can't.

[Mel Mitchell]

Doll hairs.

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't. Oh, not doll hairs. I can't even walk up in that no more. Because every time I go in there, I go for one thing. And you know, black people supposed to be boycotting Target still, so we're not supposed to go up there anyway. So you're not supposed to go to

[Mel Mitchell]

Target, so you got to go to Walmart, but Walmart's hard to get to and targets up the street. And then I've been driving all around town trying to avoid going to Target, and I done pass eight targets.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, and also, as black women, I'm sorry, everybody needs to give us a fucking pass. Like I should be able to fly on a private jet. I know it's bad for the air

[Mel Mitchell]

and for the plane. When I get the means. Don't give me a private jet. Y' all can kiss my ass. I should be able to do it.

[Lacey Mosley]

Cause that's reparations. Y' all ain't want to give me my 40 acres and my mule. So at least let me pollute the planet in this jet.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm getting a meal. Private jet. Y' all kiss my ass, man.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right.

[Mel Mitchell]

Why would you do it too?

[Lacey Mosley]

For trying to do the right thing. We always on the right thing and

[Mel Mitchell]

ain't nobody else doing it. Right. Taylor Swifton took a private jet from Newark to New York. And I gotta sit in the goddamn Southwest.

[Lacey Mosley]

She's taking a private jet from Hollywood to Pasadena. She been just flying all over, polluting the earth.

[Mel Mitchell]

She's flying, wasting good ozone. Good ozone. I'm not gonna take no shit from y'.

[Tony Ayo]

All.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, we know it's a hole in the ozone layer, but she done expanded it.

[Mel Mitchell]

She has her own hole. You know how you can buy a star? Taylor Swift has her own hole in the ozone layer that specifically she made from taking that private jet out the goddamn driveway.

[Lacey Mosley]

And then she be. You know what people do with private jets too is like. It's also a flex to like let someone else use your jet.

[Mel Mitchell]

You rent it out. Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

When you don't need it. And you just tell em to pay for the gas. And that's like 30k. You pay. You tell them to pay for gas and then they fly your jet around and then you can call on a favor later. Like, she knows the whole game. She's in it. She's a sagittarius.

[Mel Mitchell]

And there's something wrong with all of them.

[Lacey Mosley]

It is.

[Mel Mitchell]

I haven't met a single normal Sagittarius in my life.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay, that's. So with Cancers, the men are bad. With SAGs, the women are bad, but the men actually aren't that bad. Like, I like a SAG man.

[Mel Mitchell]

Jay Z. Offset.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay, damn. Why would you say that? You done. Name two. Okay, well, damn.

[Mel Mitchell]

That's just off the top of my head.

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[Mel Mitchell]

That's just Fred Hampton. I don't know. No, that's not the day he was born. That's the day he died. That's the day he died. Oh, my God. No, I remember. Cause Jay Z said something that he was born the same day.

[Ashley Iaconetti]

Yeah.

[Mel Mitchell]

Fred Hampton died. Not his birthday. Yeah, I was trying to. I was like, his death day, but

[Lacey Mosley]

also such a Sagittarius man thing to say. Why. Why are you celebrating the day that

[Mel Mitchell]

a black leader died?

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, I was born on that day that the black leader died.

[Mel Mitchell]

What? Why are you even saying that? Cancer is a Scorpio. Is he a Scorpio or. Oh, no. November 20th. Sagittarius. Oh, I think that's Sagittarius. I think that's the. The Cusp. Let's see.

[Lacey Mosley]

Huh.

[Mel Mitchell]

The way he's a Scorpio. It still counts as Scorpio, apparently.

[Lacey Mosley]

Well, the way that he did Cardi. Cardi's a nice lady.

[Mel Mitchell]

And I want to say the new man is also.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, Stefon Diggs.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah. November 29th.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, she keeps dating people in the same range. Damn.

[Mel Mitchell]

Same level of hell. The same circle of hell. Cause that new Nigerian soccer player is also evil, apparently.

[Lacey Mosley]

Mm. But here's. My parents kept telling me to watch Shameless, and I think they wanted me to watch it so that they could realize. Like, they wanted me to realize they weren't that bad because they had generational trauma, and they put a lot of shit on me. I'm the eldest daughter, and.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh, God bless you.

[Lacey Mosley]

I've been through there. They done took me through there, and they were like, look at this. Look at how bad these people are on this TV show.

[Mel Mitchell]

We ain't taking through there that bad. Right?

[Lacey Mosley]

Like. But watching Shameless has been something I've been doing. It's like, 11 seasons, I think. Like, there's a lot of content to watch, and it's all about generational curses, trauma, and how sometimes you can't get away from it because it's not on you. It's in you. And you look for familiar Patterns. And then you end up in situations that feel familiar that aren't good for you.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah, it's like a mess magnet.

[Lacey Mosley]

Damn it, be like that.

[Mel Mitchell]

And that's why you gotta like unpack your shit.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, I've done all the therapy. I've hopped in and paid a lot of people a lot of money to try to fix shit and then sometimes get in there.

[Mel Mitchell]

It's hard to go to therapy when like the people who are the reason you need therapy won't go to therapy. Cause I can get fix all the shit I want to. And as soon as I get around, people who unfix, they break my shit again. And I just come to the same piece of brain and gotta put back together right Every.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's why Al Anon exists. That's why there's AA for addicts, but there's also Al Anon for people who have addicts in their life who have terrorized them. So they have groups and meetings for non addicts where you can sit down and talk about all the shit that crazy ass addict did to you with other people who understand.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh, that's almost like. What's the movie? Was it Viola Davis and J. Lo and they was. She was in like the AA for like mothers who have lost sons. And they was talking and fighting and she was going to find a person who killed her son. And the whole time J. Lo wasn't real.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right. Okay, I know what you're talking about. That was like. That was Frankie. No, that's a Netflix show. When you're talking about Lyla and Eve. That was Viola's moment to be Liam Neeson. She was neck chopping. She was out here in the streets scrapping.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah, it was JLo r1. That was a good movie. What year that came out? I remember being like, this is cinema.

[Lacey Mosley]

People who understand this podcast know that I have issues with J. Lo. They saw, they saw how she did me. She did me dirty. And she tried to like really run for it.

[Ashley Iaconetti]

Yeah,

[Lacey Mosley]

and she was trying, she was letting it go. She just kept extending it. She kept talking about the shit, trying to make herself a victim. And nobody was believing her because it's like, girl, we know who you are.

[Mel Mitchell]

You have a track record of being the biggest bitch ever, sister. So it's kind of like, I didn't

[Lacey Mosley]

do this to you. I didn't even bring this shit up. I'm not gonna say that. I'm not gonna say what I really wanna say. Cause some other people pissed me off and I was told not to say things about my publicist, so I'm not gonna say those things.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. JLO is interesting. I had one of my posts I made that got a little traction was so funny because I was talking about when I was a PA for the Grammys. I was the talent escort for the her band when she did the Motown tribute. And I was just which.

[Lacey Mosley]

Why was she in the Motown tribute?

[Mel Mitchell]

Why was JLO doing the Motown tribute?

[Lacey Mosley]

You have n. Why are you in what? What?

[Mel Mitchell]

And you are one non nigga. Not even a group of niggas. So you're doing so.

[Lacey Mosley]

And you also not a singer. You can't even sing down. You should never be nowhere near the Motown.

[Mel Mitchell]

Why was Jenny from the block doing the Detroit Motortown tribute?

[Lacey Mosley]

Honestly though, I kind of low key

[Mel Mitchell]

respect it as a scammer.

[Lacey Mosley]

Jenny is a scammer and she has always known how to position herself to survive. You ain't getting rid of Jenny. She's.

[Mel Mitchell]

She from the block, she from the

[Lacey Mosley]

streets, she from the cul de sac. You ain't. You ain't.

[Mel Mitchell]

The game has been played this whole time. And you know, and she has some songs, hits and movies now she got her some movies on her ass.

[Tony Ayo]

Mm.

[Lacey Mosley]

She was like trying to steal songs from bitches.

[Mel Mitchell]

No, she from black Queens. So for you to have. Have infamously stolen music and demos and voice and vocals from like, how many

[Lacey Mosley]

of the songs are shocking to do

[Mel Mitchell]

and to do a Motown tribute. Motown, which is the foundation of black music. Wait, you stop.

[Lacey Mosley]

Why would she do that? But also so funny, So crazy. But also I kind of respect, like, just like.

[Mel Mitchell]

Cause honestly, no one has checked her. She's gone unchecked. So why would she not keep doing it? Why would she not? Like, if it were me, I'd be like, if I can get away with this, I'm gonna milk it, Right? Let's.

[Lacey Mosley]

Let's run it up. Let's go for a generational run.

[Mel Mitchell]

She did eat that.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, I actually kind of understand, like, it's. It's good scams.

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[Ashley Iaconetti]

is Ashley Iconetti from the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast. Ben, I've been reflecting a lot lately on how many big life moments our listeners have experienced with us.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah, it's pretty wild.

[Ashley Iaconetti]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Lacey Mosley]

Let's get into the episode.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

So, historic hoodwings. This is where I will regale Mitch with the famous con caper. Group of criminals we don't know yet. And maybe we love them, maybe we hate them, but we will never laugh at the victims. We will laugh at your criminal ass. So an 83 year old man's ultra rare Star Wars Lego collection has gone missing.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh, God.

[Lacey Mosley]

Who has it? And how much is the whole collection really worth? That's become the subject of lawsuits and arrests. So let's go back to 1999. We was barely alive. We don't have to give our age up.

[Mel Mitchell]

Just a twinkle. Yeah, we was here for real.

[Lacey Mosley]

We was zygotes. We was little zygotes.

[Mel Mitchell]

Cool.

[Lacey Mosley]

The first Star wars prequel hit theaters and a man in Kaiser, Oregon named Ed Manziel started collecting Lego Star wars sets. Over the next 20 years, Ed's collection grew to 780 unopened. You know, that's when they. That, that's when it's real good. When you ain't opened it. Lego Star wars sets around 1200 rare minifigures by 2023. His collection was described by some as the world's largest Lego Star wars collection.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh, wow.

[Lacey Mosley]

And it was valued at like $200,000, although the actual value is disputed. But the thing is, is like we put value to things. Nothing costs anything other than what we say it costs everything that we buy. How much we spend on things. It's about how much we value it.

[Mel Mitchell]

So if he had OG like original Legos, like that's crazy we got.

[Kal Penn]

Right.

[Lacey Mosley]

And he was collecting them from 99. Yeah. He even had the Ultra Cloud City set that was worth as much as $10,000. So look, this is what we're looking at right now. Apparently this is highly valuable. And to me it just looks like plastic toys.

[Mel Mitchell]

You know, as a collector of things, AKA hoarder. I understand. And that these big shins, these are high. These be like $500.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right?

[Mel Mitchell]

Apartment Complex in space that we have on Star Wars. Those are hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Mel Mitchell]

So he never put them together, they're just in the box.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, he didn't touch them. And that makes it more valuable. That's like having comic books that you don't take out the plastic. People want that.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

So by 2023, Ed was 83 and had been diagnosed with cancer.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh no.

[Lacey Mosley]

He asked his son, Brian Mansell to sell the Lego collection and put the proceeds towards his grandkids education. Okay, Grandf a grandfather. Okay, period. Brian approached the store Brick and Minfigs to handle the sale. Brick and Minfigs is a Lego reseller chain with over 300 franchise locations. 300 franchise locations for LEGO resellers.

[Mel Mitchell]

There's a whole nother world that we have no idea about. Like you don't know what people are doing in their house.

[Lacey Mosley]

You really don't. That's crazy. I didn't know they was doing all this. They have locations in Burbank and Pasadena in Oregon. The store owner, her name was Crystal Law and she accepted a consignment deal to sell the collection for Brian, who's the son of the grandpa who's trying to offload the stuff for his grandkids. And they made a deal that would make sure that Bricks and Menphase got 35% of the cut out of the resale. Brian handed the Legos over to the store in November of 2023. They put a yellow sticker over the barcode to identify the stock. The collection was one of the largest sealed Star wars collections covered. It was like covered by the local news. Everybody was like excited by the shit, which is strange to me. But you're right. We don't know what people doing in their house.

[Mel Mitchell]

You just never know. You never know.

[Lacey Mosley]

About a third of the collection did get sold. And Brian, Mel's like the son, he was paid for it. But that's when the shenanigans started. In November of 2024, Crystal, that store owner who the reseller store, her and her husband planned to leave the US when Donald Trump won his second term. She thought the plan was for B and M corporate to buy the store back from her, but she was fired instead. Oh, and I honestly really resonate with her wanting to leave the country. When Trump got elected a second time, I was in Ireland when he got elected a second time. And I love. They're my favorite white people. Irish people are my favorite white people. They understand the pressure.

[Mel Mitchell]

Cause they didn't even let them be white for a while.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, that's the thing about whiteness. That's why whiteness is not the same as blackness is because being black in America, it was us all realizing, like, okay, we have the same skin tone, we have the same ilk. We all just gonna ride for each other. We gonna be down for each other. Whiteness, if it's not specific to the country of origin that you're from, we don't know where we're from. You stole us, but you know where you're from. So if y' all have an Irish parade, if y' all have a Scottish parade, if y', all, like, do anything, those are specific countries. But when y' all get together on whiteness, that's a Klan rally.

[Mel Mitchell]

That's what they.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, it's not the same. They think it's the same as being black and us being out and frolicking, being black. It's like, no, we didn't know where we're from. So we just all locked in together because we at least know that we look like each other. You are getting in white events to be white evil.

[Mel Mitchell]

The. The goal post always move to whiteness. They don't. They. They just started accepting Italians and the Irish and all of them and the Jew. Depending on the day, you know, so.

[Lacey Mosley]

Depending on the day when shit gets bad in the country, Jewish people become again. And then they start trying to hang around us again, like, hey, sorry, we left y' all for a little bit.

[Mel Mitchell]

Wait a minute. Yeah, no, we back.

[Lacey Mosley]

We back.

[Mel Mitchell]

Depends on the day.

[Lacey Mosley]

Depends on the day we back, though. So what's going on? It's like, uh, crazy. So.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yes, Crystal.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes, Crystal. So we have a video from the day that she was kicked out. And it shows Crystal and the new store owners of the place that she thought she was gonna get bought out of when she was fired from. So we have Crystal talking to the director of Operations, Kai McAllister, about the Lego collection. So here's the video.

[Ryan Reynolds]

A guy named Brandon Best showed up on a Thursday night and demanded the keys. They threatened us with the police and promised to do an inventory and compensate us. They said they understood there was a large collection on consignment and acknowledged they were taking that over.

[Ashley Iaconetti]

They Told us the same thing they told Brian Mansell that we could fight

[Mel Mitchell]

them, but they would drag it out

[Ashley Iaconetti]

and make it so expensive we would be putting ourselves into a whole lot of shit.

[Lacey Mosley]

Josh and Brandon, they took over the Lego collection and later removed identifying yellow stickers. Brian came to the store a few days later and found crystal gone. And the new owners said they were unaware of any Star wars collection. There were reports of a U haul truck moving Lego to the bricks and Minfig store in Eugene, Oregon. Mind you remember, they got 300 stores which Josh and Brandon also own. And on the night that the new owners took over, how much LEGO was left in the store was up for debate. Because it wasn't.

[Mel Mitchell]

So this is a Lego heist.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Mel Mitchell]

Not diamonds, not the Pink Panther, not cats.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right. Why do people care about this so much? I'm confused as well. I don't know why people care about this.

[Mel Mitchell]

Are they gonna go to Comic Con with it? Is this how you get nerd posts? What is the motive? Okay, okay, continue.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, like, like what kind of square headed ass bitch you trying to impress with these Legos?

[Mel Mitchell]

A hole with hands like this.

[Lacey Mosley]

Hands can't even pick up shit. Hands just two circles. What's going on? Why are we here? So Brian later found out that B and M corporate had a pattern of seizing stores and grabbing assets. Brian didn't tell Ed that the Legos had been stolen. He didn't want to stress him out during his cancer treatment. But Brian did call B and M corporate and also contacted the police. But neither worked. Honestly for one time, I'm proud of the police. Police should be doing more serious endeavors. If you call the police about some Legos they actually should not pull up.

[Mel Mitchell]

Cause like what do you mean? Right?

[Lacey Mosley]

Legos? No, we have to solve murders.

[Mel Mitchell]

And you know they only have like

[Lacey Mosley]

a 40% solve rate. Police are not very good at their jobs.

[Mel Mitchell]

I can't solve the last murder. You talking about some Legos?

[Lacey Mosley]

Hell, we solving more murders on TikTok than the police are. So Brian did call BNB Corporate and also contacted the police. We talked about that. Didn't work. In April of 2025, Brian got the YouTube channel collect weekly to start reporting on the story. So now he done reached out to YouTubers. He's like, I need help. We, we, we need to stop this.

[Mel Mitchell]

That's how you get the word out.

[Lacey Mosley]

But when bricks and minfigs. I'm so tired of saying that. I'm just gonna say B and M from this point. Cause minfigs don't I don't wanna say that word no more. Like what? BNM started issuing, like, legal threats because of the videos on YouTube. And so then they took their videos down until Reckless Ben stepped in. So Reckless Ben is another motherfucker that we gonna introduce this story. Ben Schneider, aka Reckless Ben, is a YouTube cult investigator and slackliner. Do you know what a slackliner is?

[Mel Mitchell]

No, I do not.

[Lacey Mosley]

So this is some crazy white people shit. Being a black woman going outside is dangerous for sure. We don't need to go chase a high or a thrill. Slacklining is when you extend a rope across, like a very high surface, like building to building, mountain to other mountain, and then you tightrope on it. You walk on the rope. And the people who do it the best don't even have a harness. They.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh, no.

[Lacey Mosley]

Have you ever seen Free Solo?

[Mel Mitchell]

No.

[Lacey Mosley]

Free Solo is about a man who climbed Mount Capitan with no harness, no rope, just climbed it. He could have fell to his death at any point.

[Mel Mitchell]

No, I've never heard of such a thing.

[Lacey Mosley]

You look so confused.

[Mel Mitchell]

And I'm immediately irritated because I don't do stuff like that and never will.

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't either. Being black is hard enough. Every time I leave my house, it's a thrill up my leg. When I get home, I'm like, damn, I made it another day. I didn't die.

[Mel Mitchell]

Literally. Literally.

[Lacey Mosley]

But they just be doing this kind of shit. They be living on sport mode.

[Mel Mitchell]

They need it. I just can't but continue. Okay, I mean, let me stop. Let me take my black hat off and listen.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay, no, keep your black hat on,

[Mel Mitchell]

because I can't unblack my ears hearing this story, because why the fuck is you doing that?

[Lacey Mosley]

I can't unblack my ears. I might title the episode that

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm trying to understand and emphasize and empathize with the Legos and the fortune

[Tony Ayo]

legos.

[Lacey Mosley]

The math, not mathin'. None of the math is mathing. We fighting over, like, plastic toys. So now this motherfucker gotta get involved. Okay.

[Mel Mitchell]

All right.

[Lacey Mosley]

In 2021, he appeared on the television competition series Go Big show, where he broke the world record for the most flips on a slack line in 60 seconds, doubling the record. So that means he was flipping on that little rope on top of the city, and white people have now made this a thing where they're like, oh, you did so many flips on the little tightrope. This is not a thing that people need to be doing. But we made it up.

[Ashley Iaconetti]

Okay?

[Lacey Mosley]

So in 2024, Ben was on the news for filming himself walking a tightrope between two unfinished towers at Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles. So he was hooking his rope up to towers and walking on them. And everybody was like, get off them ropes. What you doing? Please get down. You stressing us out. In 2025, Reckless, Ben took on BM. I told you, I'm not saying that name no more. So he went to the Kaiser store and was greeted by a manager, Amanda, and asked about the missing Legos. So now he looking for the Legos too. Amanda told him it was a corporate issue and that he had to leave. The cops arrived and removed Ben for trespassing. So this man is so unserious that he takes unserious things seriously. So he showed up. This ain't none of his business. And he showed up to one of the Lego stores and was like, where are the Legos? And then they arrested him and grabbed him and took him out of there.

[Mel Mitchell]

Lego Gestapo.

[Lacey Mosley]

They took him away. So I know I'm exhausted too.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm gonna, like, when people are, I die about it. Like, they really mean it. And even if it's Legos, right?

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, you don't play about this. You don't play about Legos. But also, like, we know he's an unserious man. He be putting little ropes up to dance on in the sky. He not serious at all. He never had a worry in his life. So the corporate headquarters of B and M. I told you, I'm not saying that name again. It's in Provo, Utah. And high ranking executives of the company are Mormon. Cause it's Utah.

[Mel Mitchell]

Because of course they are.

[Lacey Mosley]

I grew up with Mormons, okay? Joseph Smith, I know all about him. The tabernacle, the underwear, the garments.

[Mel Mitchell]

All I know is very doctored water in a Stanley cup. And soaking.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh my God, the soaking, that's sex. You know, sometimes they would like. If you don't know what soaking is.

[Mel Mitchell]

Oh, man.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's something that the Mormon youth would do because they're not supposed to have caffeine, drink alcohol, have sex, sex premaritally, all these things, right? And soaking was kind of the cheat for the horny who actually wanted to fuck. And they would stick their penis in a woman and not move.

[Mel Mitchell]

They wouldn't have a third person come in and jump on the bed. That is so crazy because like, what

[Lacey Mosley]

if you're the jumper?

[Mel Mitchell]

What do you do as the jumper?

[Lacey Mosley]

I would be the jumper. I would be the jumper.

[Mel Mitchell]

Are they turned on too? Are they naked?

[Lacey Mosley]

They're supposed to do a job. The jumper's just there to jump if

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm gonna be participating in sex because it's technically a threesome. This is group sex. Now I wanna be naked. I'm gonna be. Now I gotta see her fully clothed.

[Lacey Mosley]

Cause the jumper, you're fully clothed with your shoes on. So maximum impact. And you jumping on the bed and making the bed.

[Mel Mitchell]

And the dirt. The dirt particles are crumbing. Crumbing into my coochie. And now you got BP because your homegirl jumped on the bed with Timberlands to help you have sex, and now you have dirt in your vagina.

[Lacey Mosley]

I would definitely be the jumper. Like, I remember, okay? I remember, like, watching, like, Remember Cinemax, when Cinemax would become Skinemax.

[Mel Mitchell]

Skinemax, yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

And it was like, fake porn sex or whatever. And we. Me and my cousins, we'd all be watching it together, which is strange, but I remember there was always, like, a lady in the porns who would see people having sex. Like, sometimes we would be watching sex court. We watched sex court. And the lawyer would come in and talk to the judge, and they'd be like, meet me in my chambers. And then they did sex to each other. But then the court stenographer would walk over to the quarters, and she would be looking through a window, and she was like, oh, y' all doing sex to each other. And then she'd be shocked. But then she'd be like, ooh, let me rub my coochie a little bit. And I'm involved too.

[Mel Mitchell]

And they probably be doing and, like,

[Lacey Mosley]

the way they, like stenographer. I'm like, ooh, what y' all doing?

[Mel Mitchell]

So that was coochie juice all on the keyboard. And you at work. Somebody leaves they typewriter at home. Gotta borrow yours. Dang. Why are the keys sticky? Cause you was over here fapping on the job. Nasty.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Mel Mitchell]

Ooh, what's that smell when I hit the space bar? A waft smell?

[Lacey Mosley]

No, this kushi is water. It smell like nothing.

[Mel Mitchell]

No, but coochie had to smell.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Certain times of the month.

[Mel Mitchell]

Like coochie.

[Lacey Mosley]

Sometimes of the month.

[Mel Mitchell]

Not a bad smell. I'm not saying stank.

[Lacey Mosley]

Hormonally.

[Mel Mitchell]

It has smell like coochie. It's pheromones.

[Lacey Mosley]

Not all the time. Only one week out of the month. Does it. Does it have a pheromone that's stronger? The rest of it is water. It don't smell like nothing.

[Mel Mitchell]

She's like, I'm trying to describe it.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay, I'm gonna Walk with you. I'm walk with you. I'm gonna let you think.

[Mel Mitchell]

Because it's not bad. It's coochie, you know, it's not like a loud. It's just like coochie. It's just all the coochiness. Like I've gone for a walk and sat down. Like, that's loud, fermented coochie. But just like a usual, just dormant Monday coochie had a smell.

[Lacey Mosley]

I. I've talked about this on the show before. I didn't understand as a kid why in television shows and movies there would be these moments where the woman would be like, about to hook up with a man and be like, let me go freshen up. And I didn't know what that meant. I didn't know why that wasn't.

[Mel Mitchell]

You gotta wipe the day off that thing.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, they had to wipe the day off that coaching.

[Mel Mitchell]

And some men's is nasty. And they like that. They do. And they want.

[Lacey Mosley]

They want a little fermented.

[Mel Mitchell]

I can't. They want the twang.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's. And they want that little. Oh, no, I don't like that. That's why I'm gay. But I gotta be gay for the right woman. Cause you gotta wash your coochie before I get down there and eat it.

[Mel Mitchell]

But once you like somebody, you kinda like they scent. Like, when my king comes home from work, I be like, come here.

[Lacey Mosley]

When your king comes home from work, I'd be like, come here. Oh, he went and did his employments. I think that's what you horny about. He went and did his job.

[Mel Mitchell]

You worked. He worked. You went to work. Okay, now some of the more daring people go, I can't fuck you if you're not working. A man who don't work don't eat coochie, period.

[Lacey Mosley]

Period. No thanks. Robbery.

[Kal Penn]

Hey, everyone, it's Kal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project Hail Mary Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections. And it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo. Is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that that deeply, emotionally affected me and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah dude, me too.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to Irsay the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Kal Penn]

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[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah, it's pretty wild.

[Ashley Iaconetti]

They've watched us go from dating shows to engagements, weddings, babies, buying homes. Every stage comes with new decisions.

[Mel Mitchell]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Mel Mitchell]

The Legos. Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes, Legos. Back to Legos. And. And Ben, who got involved. He visited their corporate office and spoke with their CEO because he's a white man. So he's like, I need to speak to the manager. And he went all the way up to the CEO.

[Mel Mitchell]

Dear God.

[Lacey Mosley]

And his name is Amon McNeff. Why are all these names. Y' all wear me out. So Ammon denied that anything had been stolen. And Ammon said that it had nothing to do with the corporate situation. They had nothing. He was like, I'm not in it. Like, we ain't do nothing. Okay. And he said this was a franchise problem. So then Ben went reckless mode. Remember, he's reckless Ben, he set up a registered religion in order to run a raffle for the Lego sets and try to make this criminal case get to law enforcement. Because doing a. Is it 501c, the religious organization that you don't have to pay taxes for? Yeah. He knew that the government would get involved as soon as money was involved. As soon as money's involved, he could get the government involved. So he filed a bunch of small claims, like cases against the store and the company and the owners of the store. Been created a mock revival, business revival. Now, I know you a church girl. You know, send a revival, Lord.

[Mel Mitchell]

Send a revival and let it begin in me. So you. I didn't know you could just register a religion. And this. This reminds me of Family Guy with the Church of Fonz.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, Fonzie. The Fonzie scheme. Yeah. Now, I. I'm very close to making a church. I'm very close.

[Mel Mitchell]

I mean, since you can just do that, you know, you can do that.

[Lacey Mosley]

You can do anything. And I already got it. The congregation, we already in church. It's time for me to make a church.

[Mel Mitchell]

So this Is insane. Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

He made this revival business and the name of it. Okay, welcome. Email the name with it. The name that he made it.

[Mel Mitchell]

I'm irritated.

[Lacey Mosley]

I know you about to get more irritated. The name of the church is we steal from old people.

[Mel Mitchell]

If you're old, we'll definitely steal from you.

[Lacey Mosley]

In one incident, an actor dressed up as a UPS driver and went to Josh Johnson's house in Utah. Josh called the police. The police arrested Reckless Ben on charges of stalking. So Reckless Ben started stalking people. They also arrested him on charges of trespassing and targeted residential picketing. Which means that he stalked this man, found out where he lived, and then started hooting and hollering in front of his house. And they grabbed his ass up and took him away.

[Mel Mitchell]

It's the sprinkle Legos in this AI graphic for me.

[Lacey Mosley]

People online started making allegations about a conspiracy with a Mormon mafia because Josh's father held a senior position in the Latter Day Saints church. I knew them motherfuckers was gangsters, organized religion. Look, I was raised missionary Baptist. I have a special place in my heart for religion. But I do think that the King James version, the Bibles that we get, it's all meant to subjugate you. The meek will inherit the earth. Like, oh, poor people. Don't worry that we stealing all your money from you. Cause when you die, you'll find finally

[Mel Mitchell]

when you get to heaven, it'll be great. And then you get up there and it's. It's.

[Lacey Mosley]

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it till you die. When you die, it's gonna be lit. Don't even worry about that. What?

[Mel Mitchell]

It's like, drop dead gorgeous, crazy.

[Lacey Mosley]

So reckless. Ben has released seven videos about the saga so far on YouTube. The first one has more than 6 million views. He been hootin and hollering about these Legos. Let's watch a little bit of it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

This man spent his life collecting what's now known as the world's largest Lego Star wars collection ever. It's estimated to be worth around $200,000. And then the entire thing got stolen. And the police are actively working with the thieves to cover the entire thing up. But the craziest part is that the collector doesn't even know that his collection's been stolen. Yeah, the collector's son, Brian, well, he reached out to me because he has no clue how to break this news to his dad at this point.

[Lacey Mosley]

My father had a help episode.

[Kal Penn]

We can't bring any stress to him.

[Lacey Mosley]

Well, yeah, he's ringing every alarm for these Legos. And now we're reaching the end of the episode. So this is the fallout.

[Mel Mitchell]

Okay?

[Lacey Mosley]

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Ben faced. Ben, reckless Ben, who clearly is reckless. He faced misdemeanor charges of stalking, targeted residential picketing, disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing against two Utahns he deemed irresponsible for the missing Lego sets. So he went after them for the Legos. Like, imagine like, I'm not going to jail for Legos. We going to jail for Legos.

[Mel Mitchell]

Is it a Lego jail? Is the jail made of Legos?

[Lacey Mosley]

Or is it just like LEGO jail? Maybe then I would go, I would like to see a LEGO jail.

[Mel Mitchell]

Like,

[Lacey Mosley]

I ain't never even bought no Legos. Cause all the parents that I know are like, I step on one and it breaks my baby toe.

[Mel Mitchell]

I haven't been. I haven't lego'd in a minute. I have not touched a lot in a minute in quite some time.

[Lacey Mosley]

In a statement in May, the American Fork Police Department's chief, Cameron Paul outlined for four cases against Ben, which ultimately led to his arrest twice and charges against him, like, in March.

[Mel Mitchell]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

In a video response posted June 1, Schneider accused the police of lying and hurting his arm during an arrest in the Oregon courts. Crystal. Crystal coming back. Okay. She's suing B and M, alleging wrongful termination. Because remember, they were supposed to sell. They were supposed to buy the business from her, and instead they fired her. So now she's suing. So in Utah courts, B and M are suing Ben and Brian Manziel, alleging defamation, profiteering, racketeering, and harassment.

[Mel Mitchell]

A LEGO rico.

[Lacey Mosley]

A LEGO rico. And racketeering is one of the hardest things to define in the scam lexicon.

[Mel Mitchell]

A Lego Rico.

[Lacey Mosley]

Rico. So in June, B and M announced on their blog that they were permanently closing the Kaiser organ store where Brian Manziel originally entered into the consignment agreement. They made a mutual agreement in quotes with the franchise owners, Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson, to part ways due to a devastating social media campaign. So B and M, their CEO, Amon, he's back. He's become an Internet villain.

[Mel Mitchell]

I could.

[Lacey Mosley]

I bet recklessfin's Patreon got immediate content removal requests from B and M. Patreon CEO Jack Conte has publicly announced that Patreon will not be removing Ben's videos. No, he's Team Reckless Ben. He's like, we not taking this shit off. It's doing numbers.

[Mel Mitchell]

And I've never seen the Patreon CEO speak out about Anything. So he popped up for Ben in the legos again. I. Maybe I underestimated legos.

[Lacey Mosley]

I didn't know that Legos was this strong. I didn't know legos.

[Mel Mitchell]

I didn't know legos got down like that.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right. Legos a little bit more real in the game than we thought. And there's an online fundraiser set up by Ben and it's raised more than $500,000 for the Manzels.

[Mel Mitchell]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Crystal's own online fundraiser has raised more than $90,000. They on here running it up on GoFundMe. None of the allegations have been proven in court and some of the facts are disputed by different parties involved, obviously.

[Mel Mitchell]

Like, this is okay. And all of this over some goddargone legos. Legos.

[Lacey Mosley]

I chose this episode for you on purpose, Mel, because.

[Mel Mitchell]

Because you hate me.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, because I love you. And I know that this is a harder one to get through. A lot of it's still not making sense to me. But I knew that you would be able to handle it and that you would be able to lock in with me while I just spit a bunch of fucking facts at you. And a lot of them I don't even understand my damn self.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah. Cause we're.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, I'm tired. Like, my brain is tired from this. Like. What? So thank you for going through there with me.

[Mel Mitchell]

We built this episode brick by brick.

[Lacey Mosley]

Brick by brick. Let go. You better come through with a motherfucking callback.

[Mel Mitchell]

You see what I did there?

[Lacey Mosley]

I see what you. Oh. And I live for it. Oh. Live for it.

[Mel Mitchell]

Period.

[Lacey Mosley]

Period. Oh, I love you real bad. So I always ask at the end of the show, where would you like to be found? Anything you want to promote, Socials, all of that, Whatever it is.

[Mel Mitchell]

Yeah, Right now. Cause I finished all my headlining for. So. Yeah. The airport comes out in the fall. I'm really excited about that. They let me be Ryan Coogler on tv. So I'm waiting on my cease and desist. Because at least it's like, you know. But yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm so seated. I'm so excited.

[Mel Mitchell]

It's gonna be a good time. I'm so excited for it.

[Lacey Mosley]

You're brilliant.

[Mel Mitchell]

Thank you. Thank you. Hopefully more to come.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's a superstar. Hopefully. It's always more to come with you. Don't even worry about that, sweetheart. It's always going to come to you.

[Mel Mitchell]

Listen, thank you. I need to hear that because it ain't easy. It ain't easy. But yes. To find me baddest Mitch on TikTok it. Smell Mitch on Instagram.

[Lacey Mosley]

And if y' all aren't following her pages and seeing her comedy, y' all are missing out because get over here. She be having me cackling, like, all the time. One of my favorite videos you did was, it was like, you were the neighbor to Macaulay Culkin.

[Mel Mitchell]

Like, oh, the home alone.

[Lacey Mosley]

Home alone. You were the home alone neighbor.

[Mel Mitchell]

That's probably one of my most successful videos ever. Like, the people ate that one up.

[Lacey Mosley]

It was so fun.

[Mel Mitchell]

It was so funny.

[Tony Ayo]

It was so good.

[Mel Mitchell]

You just being across the street, like,

[Lacey Mosley]

where are your parents at?

[Ashley Iaconetti]

They left.

[Mel Mitchell]

Asking the questions that need to be asked because truly, no one cared about that baby. And you don't see this little boy running up and down by himself. And then, right, y' all got on a plane on Christmas and let the baby too much.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love it. As always. You can follow me at D I V A L A C I Diva Lacey to see my shenanigans. If you want to see the photos from this episode, all of that will be on Scam Goddess Pod on Instagram. TikTok. If you want to talk to me, Twitter, like. Or not Twitter. I don't be on Twitter that much no more. Go on X. Go on or not X. Go on threads. That's what I mean. Yeah, go on Threads. And you can talk to me on threads. Because I do be yapping with people on threads now. I'll talk to anybody on Threads. So you can buy my book wherever books are sold. You can listen to my book on anywhere that audio is available. And you can watch Scam got us the first season of the show on Hulu. You can watch Going Dutch on Hulu as well. You can go watch my movies on Netflix. It can make get into all the content. Go, get in. Hop in, Jump in. And also leave five stars. Listen, if you got through this episode and somehow you figured out what I was saying, because I'm a little confused about it. I don't know. I don't even know if I told y' all what it was for real. But if you did, you don't have to spend no money on. You don't have to spend no money to support a black woman. Go give me five stars on Apple podcasts and give me a nice review. And then go brag to people at dinner parties about it that you supported a black woman today. Okay, congregation, stay confused. Today we gonna be confused. But sometimes confusion is us figuring something out. And then we'll move forward with that new information. So I can't even give you an episode label on this. I'm very confused. But I'm not confused about Mel and I'm not confused about her talent. I'm not confused about having a generational bad bitch on my show gracing me with her presence. So y' all just enjoy that and then maybe try to figure out this Lego story and, and, and and maybe write me back and tell me what you think and send me some notes cuz I don't know. All right, bye. Scam Goddess is an iHeartMedia and big money Players production. The show is hosted by me, Lacey Mosley, the SVP of West Coast Productions. Jack o', Brien, Vice President of programming Miles Gray and Director of programming Lindsey Hoffman oversee production. Our executive producer is Joelle Monique. Our senior producer is Bea Haskins. Ina Burke is SCP of content with additional services provided by Mark Kanson, Dylan Unger and the team at Hot Dog Sandwich. Our editor is engineer Justin Connor. Our theme music is composed by me, Lacey Moseley. Cover on photo is Robin von Swank. You can follow the show @scamgottispod on Instagram TikTok. If you've been scammed, pulled a scam, or saw a scam, send us an [e-mail] to tell us all about it. Don't forget to like and subscribe. And subscribe. Tell a friend.

[Kal Penn]

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[Ashley Iaconetti]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Ashley Iaconetti]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Ashley Iaconetti]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Tony Ayo]

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[Mel Mitchell]

Ice Cube's Big three season is heating up. The most competitive basketball league on earth is on CBS this Sunday. The two best teams go head to head as coach Nancy Lieberman and Greg Monroe's Dallas Power take on the 1 seed Chicago Triplets led by coach Dr. J and captain Montreal Dreads Harold. Then coach Gary Payton and the Boston Ball Hogs battle Nassir Corps and the Detroit Amps in a must win game for Boston.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The game played the way you love.

[Mel Mitchell]

Watch live Sunday, August 9th on CBS at 1pM Eastern, 10aM Pacific and catch

[Ryan Reynolds]

replays Monday on BET.

[Mel Mitchell]

Presented by iHeart.