Lip Filler Fakers & Bike Taxi Tricksters w/ Arden Myrin

Summary

Scam Goddess Podcast: "Lip Filler Fakers & Bike Taxi Tricksters" Featuring Arden Myrin

Release Date: April 22, 2025
Hosts: Laci Mosley (Scam Goddess) and Arden Myrin
Guest: Arden Myrin, comedian, writer, and actress known for roles in iCarly, Better Call Saul, Shameless, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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Introduction

Laci Mosley welcomes her audience, the "Con-gregation," to another engaging episode of Scam Goddess. This episode features special guest Arden Myrin, who brings her comedic flair to dissect modern scams and share her personal anecdotes related to fraud and deceit.

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Episode Highlights

1. Med Spa Scams: The "Veronica" Case

Arden introduces the concept of med spa scams through the fictional character "Veronica." This scam involves a medical spa offering fake personal training sessions while overbilling clients' insurance companies.

• How the Scam Works:

  • Manager's Tactics: Veronica, the manager, uses over-the-top appearances with multiple plastic surgeries to gain trust.
  • Insurance Fraud: Clients are billed exorbitantly for minimal services, exhausting their insurance benefits and subsequently dropping them as clients.

• Notable Quote:

  "The manager would run around Beverly Hills in these jump shoes, trying to create a scene so people would want to talk to her." — Laci Mosley ([22:41])

• Consequences:

  • Employee Impact: Arden shares how the scam led to deceit in tax documents, forcing employees like herself to face IRS scrutiny due to falsified pay stubs.
  • Owner's Escape: The scam's owner eventually flees the state, leaving the operation to collapse without facing legal repercussions.

2. Bike Taxi Tricksters: Pepe's Paris Scam

Arden recounts her experience working as a bike taxi driver in Paris under the scheme orchestrated by an American entrepreneur named Trent.

• Scam Mechanics:

  • Exploiting Workers: Unlike legitimate bike taxi companies, Trent's model forced drivers to work under contract for minimal wages while pocketing the majority of earnings.
  • Receipt Forgery: Drivers were required to write duplicate receipts, enabling them to fabricate earnings without supervision.

• Notable Quote:

  "The service itself was a scam, obviously. It was way more expensive than a normal taxi. It was way slower." — Arden Myrin ([44:50])

• Operational Issues:

  • Poor Management: The lack of proper training and licensing led to dangerous work conditions, including mechanical failures and hazardous traffic navigation.
  • Employee Morale: A competitive environment ensued, where drivers raced to cash checks before others, leading to unethical behaviors like stealing computers to cover up the fraud.

• Legal Repercussions:

  • Trent's Downfall: Trent's visa expired, leading to his arrest in Singapore for multiple fraud-related charges, including selling counterfeit prescriptions and opioid misuse. He faces up to 25 years of hard labor.

3. The Anatomy of a Successful Scam

Throughout the episode, Laci and Arden dissect what makes scams enticing and how scammers maintain their operations.

• Trust Building: Scammers often use outward appearances and high-energy interactions to build trust swiftly.

• Exploiting Systems: Whether it's insurance billing or ride-sharing platforms, scammers find and exploit loopholes to maximize their gains.

• Psychological Manipulation: From offering irresistible deals to creating a sense of urgency, scammers manipulate victims into compliance.

• Notable Quote:

  "It's like true crime, but without all the death—aka True Con!" — Laci Mosley ([Initial Introduction])

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Insights and Conclusions

Laci Mosley's Take: Laci emphasizes the importance of vigilance and skepticism when encountering deals that seem "too good to be true." She underscores the role of appearance and confidence in executing successful scams.

• Quote:

  "If a woman with filler and bouncy shoes approaches you for a deal, that's our lesson. It's not gonna be as good as it sounds." — Laci Mosley ([34:18])

Arden Myrin's Perspective: Arden sheds light on the complexities scammers face, from legal challenges to maintaining fraudulent operations without detection. She also touches on the personal toll such scams take on individuals involved, including damaged reputations and strained relationships.

• Quote:

  "If you're on a moped or a motorcycle, I don't give any money to anybody on mopeds or motorcycles. You could get away too fast." — Arden Myrin ([34:44])

Final Thoughts: The episode serves as both an entertaining and cautionary tale, blending humor with serious discussions about fraud. Listeners are left with a deeper understanding of how scams operate and the importance of due diligence in everyday transactions.

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Conclusion

"Lip Filler Fakers & Bike Taxi Tricksters" masterfully combines comedy with insightful analysis of modern scams. Through engaging storytelling and relatable humor, Laci Mosley and Arden Myrin provide listeners with both laughs and valuable lessons on avoiding fraud. This episode reiterates the mantra: Stay Schemin'—but wisely and cautiously.

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Notable Mentions:

• Arden Myrin’s upcoming Netflix project, Going Dutch, slated for release on her birthday, December 10th.
• Upcoming appearances on shows like Righteous Gemstones and Will You Accept This Rose? podcast.

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Remember: Always verify the legitimacy of offers and services to protect yourself from becoming the next victim of fraud. Stay informed, stay safe, and keep scheming—but in the right way!

Transcript

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Maureen]

Marine.

[Lacey Mosley]

Marine. I had it. I had it. I had it. Maureen, to the show. And you know what? I've known you for a very long time, and I always want to say Mirren.

[Maureen]

But everybody wants to see Mirren. Honestly, if you throw a Y in there. I know. I see the look in everyone's eyes. I did 120 episodes of Chelsea lately, and I saw every single time I went on, it was spelled phonetically in the prompter. And you know what? I don't blame them. Cause it looks crazy.

[Lacey Mosley]

It needs. Okay, so I watched some. Cause I was like, I've known her too long. I can't ask her how to pronounce her last name. So I watched her. I watched some, like, interviews. I watched some interviews that you did. And I was. And they did. They did do that. They were like, arden, I understand.

[Maureen]

It's Maureen. It doesn't matter. You did so great, Lacey. You did so great.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's all I need. That's all I need is that. Oh, my God. How are you?

[Maureen]

I'm so good to see you. I'm really good. Last time I saw you, I feel like I was, like, slapping your booty on my dance floor.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's what was happening.

[Maureen]

I feel like I was slapping your booty on my dance floor.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love that dance floor.

[Maureen]

Every year, I clear out my living room, my friend Jacob comes in to.

[Lacey Mosley]

Dj, gets going, and we headbang to. We always have to headbang to. Oh, my God. What is, you know, Encantagous.

[Maureen]

Oh, yeah. He always ends with Nirvana. Nirvana smells like tea Spirit. And then he goes into, like, Cannonball. And then we get into a Mr. Bright side. He has his role, but there is always a head banging to still. It's like Teen Spirit.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Every year I try to keep it clear on my calendar.

[Maureen]

It's the first Saturday this December. It's the first Saturday.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's the perfect party because you come in, you mingle, you chit chat, you never know who you're talking to. There's always like, you know, oh, hey, Lance Bass. Oh, hey. Like, it's like, you never know. And then, hey, Drizella. And then we're all just chatting, and then we're by the fire and we're eating great food, and there's always great tacos. And then. But then.

[Maureen]

Then.

[Lacey Mosley]

But then I get crazy.

[Maureen]

Yeah. And you're.

[Lacey Mosley]

And Josh Wright, the dj, he always lures people to the dance floor with, like. I remember he had, like, the hip hop reboot of Secession.

[Maureen]

Yes, he did. He was like.

[Lacey Mosley]

And we were all 20 hours of session. I was like, ooh, who gonna get the company? Who gonna get the company?

[Maureen]

I wanna ask, is it gonna be Shiv? You know what she Got screwed. She got Shiv got screwed. Shiv got screwed. But at least it didn't go to. Who is the eldest boy? Who is the.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, oh, our favorite boy. Our rapper boy.

[Maureen]

Who is our rapper boy?

[Lacey Mosley]

Sad little boy.

[Maureen]

Our sad baby boy. Beautiful sad baby boy. Well, what's his name? Okay, wait. Kendall.

[Lacey Mosley]

Kendall. Kendall.

[Maureen]

Kendall.

[Lacey Mosley]

Kendall.

[Maureen]

The rapper. My favorite rapper, my favorite rapper.

[Lacey Mosley]

Kendall Roy.

[Maureen]

Kendall Roy is my fav. He gets it. He just gets it, you know?

[Lacey Mosley]

Wait, I have to ask.

[Maureen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

What is your relationship with scams? Have you ever been anything? What's in the scam universe in your life right now?

[Maureen]

I love a scam, okay? Lately, because I've been on the dating apps, I'm always fascinated by somebody who's, like, a liar. Like, when it's like, I don't know what the end game is, I'm like, I got it figured out. I'm like, well, you're just a liar. But, you know, like, how did you.

[Lacey Mosley]

Know they were a liar?

[Maureen]

Oh, God. It was like, one of one guy from Raya who, like, they said worked. Like, he said he worked at uta, and it's like, that's my lit agent. So I called. I was like, hey, do you know so. And so they're like, no, like, you don't work at uta. Like, you're like, there was just, like, a few things just got shadier and shadier. But no, I love Escape because then I get excited once I realize someone's a liar. But. But here's my favorite scam, and I'm gonna have to use a lot of allegedly and I'll tell you off.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, okay, listen. We love an allegedly I'll tell you off.

[Maureen]

Air. Who and what, where. I was. Yes, Okay. I was on a show.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay. Allegedly.

[Maureen]

Allegedly. I was on a show.

[Lacey Mosley]

It could be lots of shows. You can't book them busy. It could be so many shows.

[Maureen]

I'm a busy girl. I'm a busy girl. I was on a show, and they were so excited because they hired this new writer.

[Lacey Mosley]

Allegedly, Allegedly.

[Maureen]

Who was allegedly an animation specialist. Had said they came from south park, and people were so excited and was like, oh, my God. And had claimed to have written a very important episode. Okay, okay. And, like, we were so excited. Oh, my God, this person's coming in. There was, like, an animation element of the show. And so they're coming in. And I was like, wow, this person's so cool. They, like, wrote on the show. Somebody started dating them. It's like, oh. They were like, you know, there Was like, cross pollination. Like, they were ready to take it to the next level with this. And this person who was dating them hadn't had much experience, so this was sort of a big thing. And we noticed that, like, some of the stuff they were turning in didn't quite match what they said they had done at south park.

[Lacey Mosley]

Then, like, it, like, in quality, like, it wasn't great. Yeah.

[Maureen]

It was like, huh. Okay. So I was on a press tour, and we were bored, and I'd gotten tricked. It was like, do you want to go to, like, Miami? I'm like, yeah, like, do you want to go to, like, you know, all the fun? I'm like, hell, yeah, I do. On my week off.

[Lacey Mosley]

I've been tricked to Miami before.

[Maureen]

And, like, you know, nothing wrong with these places, but there you are in February and, like, you know, like, Baltimore or something. You know, like, adjacent. So I was with a couple members of the cast who were also tricked, and we were like, boy, this isn't really adding up. And I'm like, well, I know someone who worked at. Let's just, like, call my friend who worked at South Park.

[Lacey Mosley]

And we're like, I love that you always have, like, a. Like, you can make a reference call, like, hello, uta. Hello, South Park.

[Maureen]

I'm like, I'm gonna call my friend. I was like, do you know this person? And they were like, yeah, I know this person. They were like, a pa. They were like a PA on the show. They're like, they didn't ever write.

[Lacey Mosley]

Which. It means production assistant if you don't know. So, like.

[Maureen]

But they didn't write on the show, and they certainly didn't write that episode. Like, nobody had checked. And they'd been giving, like, lectures via, like, they'd been via our show giving lectures about this. Anyway, so then we find out this person was married and was dating when it, like, actually had a full life.

[Lacey Mosley]

So dating someone at work but also married, like, had nuptial.

[Maureen]

Had a wife.

[Lacey Mosley]

Allegedly one of those government contract wives.

[Maureen]

Allegedly had a wife who allegedly was doing all the work for, like, was it fully had this whole other life. Had, like, never written these episodes and.

[Lacey Mosley]

The wife is writing them.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

And the wife is not writing well either.

[Maureen]

No, the Right. And, like, was doing the. Allegedly. The wife was doing the work. And then allegedly, when we called them out on it, broke into the offices, stole a bunch of, like, computers, like, never to be seen again. Never to be seen again. And I was like, nobody, like, Googled this person's, like, resume. Nobody, like, fact Check.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, we're tired. In Hollywood now, you gotta have 50, 11 jobs and you gotta dance for your dinner on TikTok. And you gotta, like, you're busy. You can't.

[Maureen]

To learn dance moves. You can't. And it made me be, like, so excited. I was like, good for not only.

[Lacey Mosley]

They were like, I'm caught. So now I'm gonna steal a bunch of computers.

[Maureen]

I'm gonna, like, steal the computers. I'm gonna, like, steal shit. And I'm part of. It was like, good for the effort. The, like the. The. The hiding the wife, like. And I just almost felt like, let them give them a raise. Let them stay. Like, I thought it was an incredible move to just claim it. Like a really popular episode of television. To be like, yeah, I wrote the last episode of Succession. I wrote the finale to the Sopranos, like, just come in and claim it. It was like an Emmy winning episode that this person had claimed and that, like, you could easily look up and see that they did not write and was like, that got higher.

[Lacey Mosley]

You don't have time to get on IMDb.

[Maureen]

It was so exciting to slowly realize in real time, not only did this person not write it, this person had.

[Lacey Mosley]

A wife and, like, and was not a writer.

[Maureen]

It was incredible. And I thought it was incredible. I was so excited by the scam.

[Lacey Mosley]

I think it's a really beautiful thing to get caught. And instead of just, like, squirrel away, they were like, okay, I'm caught. Let break in and steal a bunch of computers.

[Maureen]

Isn't that fun?

[Lacey Mosley]

That's definitely the A to B in the math.

[Maureen]

That was a swagger. That was caught.

[Lacey Mosley]

Let me steal a bunch of computers. I'm gonna do that as serious. When they realize that, you know, I'm not a real journalist. I'm gonna come in here and I'm gonna steal a bunch of computers and microphones. Jesse didn't hear that.

[Maureen]

Yeah. In the booth.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. No. If they come up missing, it was not me.

[Maureen]

It's not fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm gonna roll out with an office chair. These are very ergonomical.

[Maureen]

This is a nice chair. Yeah. I thought that was just like such a fun exciting. And I wish them well. And I like bravado with which, like, the sort of joy with it claiming it. And I liked them sort of like Yosemite Sam, like, guns blazing on the way out with the computer equipment.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, why not?

[Maureen]

I was just razzled by it. I think it's fantastic.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm razzled by it as well, and that it's giving me an idea. I'm like, okay, serious. If y'all don't. If y'all don't pick up my contract, I will come in here and steal a bunch of audio equipment and computers. I think I could walk out with it. Nobody would ask any questions. Don't worry about this.

[Maureen]

This goddess deserves this.

[Lacey Mosley]

Mr. Sirius said I could have this TV off the wall, so Uncle Sirius.

[Maureen]

Said he could have it. Thank you, Uncle Sirius.

[Lacey Mosley]

Thank you, Uncle Sirius.

[Maureen]

Thank you, Uncle Sirius.

[Lacey Mosley]

We love you.

[Maureen]

Okay, Zaddy.

[Lacey Mosley]

Zaddy Sirius.

[Maureen]

Okay, Zaddy.

[Lacey Mosley]

Si. He's serious, but I'm playing. Okay, okay, so let's get into our episode here. This is a very special episode because you're a very special woman. I love you on the Righteous Gemstones. I love. There's so many shows that I've been obsessed with you on that aren like, here. Like, wait, what was the one that. I'm not gonna say it because.

[Maureen]

Insatiable.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Maureen]

That was so fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

It was so.

[Maureen]

Oh, my God. And I was such a trash bag. I played such a piece of such a trash bag.

[Lacey Mosley]

Iconic. And I love how your character on Righteous Gemstones was one of my favorite shows. I love it. So I watch it every Sunday when it comes out. But I love how Janet is, like, trying to be funny and, like, crack jokes and make all these observations. Also, she's never dressed appropriately for anything. Like, she's in heels. While everyone's playing outside games on the gr.

[Maureen]

She's in, like, a work bikini. I would get to work, they'd be like, here's your bikini for the day. And I'm like, you should have give a gal a heads up. You know what I mean? Like, what? Why is everyone else is in clothes? Why am I in a bikini? No, don't worry.

[Lacey Mosley]

When you get to hair and makeup, they'll wax you.

[Maureen]

Like, you're good.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Here's your work bikini.

[Maureen]

Here's your work bikini.

[Lacey Mosley]

That was me on Florida Girls. You were like, laura Chin is one of my closest friends. And every day we would come in and she's like, here's your work bikini. And we were like, ma'am. And she was like, this is how we really dressed in Florida. So y'all gonna have to put on y'all work bikinis.

[Maureen]

Ma'am. I just need, like, give me like a six week heads up. You know what? I.

[Lacey Mosley]

But I've never had someone see my cooter so much in my life. Like, in wardrobe.

[Maureen]

It's kind of freeing when you're like, okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm like, all right, tape the panty on. Cause you know how when you can't show the sides, you gotta tape the panty?

[Maureen]

The thong, the panties have been taped. Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

We gotta tape the panty. Actors are out here taping panties.

[Maureen]

There's a lot of panty taping. And nobody else's. Nobody else is in a bikini. I know. I like that. She's taken a swing, trying to make a joke with the gemstones. Like, that's, like, the most.

[Lacey Mosley]

But your man keeps being like, be quiet. Shut up.

[Maureen]

Yeah. Oh, my God. Stifler. Sean William Scott. Sweet angel baby. We love him.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, when I saw him, I was like, what a blast of just, like, American Pie of Stifler. And he's like. And he looks so good.

[Maureen]

So good. Like, yeah, I'm gonna be real with you. Seann William Scott is the nicest person I have ever worked with.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, my God.

[Maureen]

I'm sorry. In my entire career, he's the most sincere, kind.

[Lacey Mosley]

I think that makes so much sense because, like, usually the people who. Well, no, you can't say that all the way. But if you're playing with a funny douchebag, occasionally, they're like, the sweetest person ever.

[Maureen]

Exactly. Once. Sometimes no.

[Lacey Mosley]

Sometimes, no.

[Maureen]

Sometimes, no.

[Lacey Mosley]

Sometimes that's just their personality, and they're.

[Maureen]

Just playing their personality. But no, he is so sweet and was. We're both such fans of the show that it was fun to come in. Both of us can't believe we're hanging with the Gemstones. So it was fun to have like a. You know, like in swim lessons as a kid, you have your new noodle buddy in the pool, you to hang on. Each of you have to hang on to the end of a noodle. Like, I felt like he was my noodle buddy, where I would just go in and feel like. Be like, we're on the gemstones. We're both on the gems. We voice memo each other every Sunday. So he's like, you and I are gonna be on the Gemstones tonight. Like, he can't. We both can't believe we're with the gemstones.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, my gosh. You gotta watch it.

[Maureen]

It's so funny.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the media's gone. Like if they decide to pull something or shelve something, then it's just never to be seen again. Yeah. So that kind of happened to us. Yup.

[Maureen]

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[Lacey Mosley]

So there used to be something called Stitcher. If you remember in the lore, the.

[Maureen]

Lore of Stitcher oh, once upon a time.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. And they had a premium paywall.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

And some of you may know, but for those of you who don't, the Stitcher podcast app and website officially ended its operations on August 29, 2020. So what does that mean for you and for us? It means that the listener letters, or better yet, your confessions, disappeared forever.

[Maureen]

Okay. Forever. Scary.

[Lacey Mosley]

Or did that.

[Maureen]

Ooh, exciting.

[Lacey Mosley]

The response, Scary, Exciting.

[Maureen]

Scary, exciting.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Maureen]

Yes. I love that.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Yell at the screen with you. Oh, my gosh, yes.

[Maureen]

That's a yes to the dress for me.

[Lacey Mosley]

You gotta go to the movies on the west side when you wanna get that extra seasoning on the movie.

[Maureen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm trying to bring movies back with Tom Cruise and Nicole.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

Nikki Kidman. I love her. You know, I'm gonna put on my silver suit and also bring movies back with them.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

They put movies out now on streaming way too fast.

[Maureen]

I like a movie. I like to go to the theater. I like to see the kids.

[Lacey Mosley]

I want to see people yelling at the screen.

[Maureen]

Me three.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'll never forget. In I Am Legend, there was a moment where, like, one of Will Smith's, like, best, like, dummies that he would talk to was, yeah. Got, like, murdered by the scary thing that would come out at night, whatever the scary thing was. And somebody screamed in the theater. They were like, nas, friend. And everyone died. That's the best part.

[Maureen]

I remember going to see one of the Fast and Furiouses opening night at ArcLight, and the Rock and Vin Diesel were like, what did you say about family? Family, family. And somebody in the audience starts going, kiss, kiss, kiss. And the whole audience just started dying. I was like, this is the family. It's what we miss when we are not. When we are at our home.

[Lacey Mosley]

Movies are a communal experience.

[Maureen]

Movies are a communal experience.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. So, y'all.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

After scouring the Internet and putting on my goggles and pulling out my Charlie Day vision board, Jess, you're insane. I found some of the best confessions, y'all, so I still have them. So, congregation, keep sending in the letters you can stitch on your friends and your family and your enemies at scamgoddesspodma. But remember to keep them tight and keep them cute, y'all, because y'all be sending me some novels, trying to scam me. It's like a whole book. I like. This is not a. This is not audio book land right now. We're not on audible.

[Maureen]

We have short attention spans in this day and Age. We're all doing the best. We really do.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's so sad. So y'all keep sending in your letters. I'm excited to share some of your stories from behind the paywall and from the past. Honey, we going back to the past. We're going back to the chaotic 2020s and the 2021s.

[Maureen]

Once upon a time.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Okay, so, Arden, are you ready? Ready to sit in our confessional booth today? Okay.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

And I want your opinions all throughout.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

So, I mean, we're actors. We've had a bunch of random jobs our whole lives. So we're gonna keep into, like, the random job energy. I thought that that would be great for you.

[Maureen]

Love it.

[Lacey Mosley]

So we're gonna start with med spa scams.

[Maureen]

Oh, that's fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love a med spa.

[Maureen]

Me too.

[Lacey Mosley]

Just like a little. Little nippy nippy.

[Maureen]

A little devil tuck. You. Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

Stabby. Stabby. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Maureen]

People with you would see online. People go to parties. They're like. Oh, they just, like, just jam. But somebody just jammed everybody in the room with filler.

[Lacey Mosley]

And they're, like, drinking champagne. Which I'm like, should you be getting stabbed while you're getting champagne?

[Maureen]

You're getting stabbed. You're in somebody's house, somebody's stabbing. You got champagne. That's not.

[Lacey Mosley]

I go to the med spot. I have my one nurse practitioner who actually left the hospital during COVID Cause she just couldn't take it no more. So she's like a real nurse. I don't go to the girlies who got their training online.

[Maureen]

No, I don't want to.

[Lacey Mosley]

Online Botox.

[Maureen]

I don't wanna agree to agree. I'm not going discount on that.

[Lacey Mosley]

I love Phoenix University, y'all. And Shaq went there, apparently. If y'all remember that. He used to be like, I went here. I'm Shaq. Shaq just. He promotes random stuff, and I love it. Now all celebrities, like, promote.

[Maureen]

No, he was early on. He was an early adopter.

[Lacey Mosley]

He was an early adopter, too. Like, I'm gonna sell anything.

[Maureen]

When your foot is the size of that entire keyboard. You can sell whatever you want.

[Lacey Mosley]

He can. So medspa scams. Hi, Lacy. When I. Oh, and give me a fake name for this person.

[Maureen]

Okay, how about. How about Veronica?

[Lacey Mosley]

Veronica. So Veronica says, hi, Lacey. When I first moved to la, I got a job off of Craigslist. First red flag. I know. Listen, we've all been to Craig. Sometimes you gotta go to his list. Okay? I've been over there. We all have so it was a medical spa that promoted getting free personal training. Okay, well, y'all trying to do a lot. Cause I don't want to run at the med spa. I'm down here for iv.

[Maureen]

Yeah, stay still.

[Lacey Mosley]

You can be upright glutathione. So how this worked was our manager, this super thin person with lots of plastic surgery. Okay. That means she really should be working at the med spa. She's giving. Med spa.

[Maureen]

Yeah. She's like, we know.

[Lacey Mosley]

We trust everything out.

[Maureen]

That's the thing. But everybody who works at a med spa look like they just test it all day, every day.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. That's how my med spa looks. I wonder if we go to the same way.

[Maureen]

I mean, I feel like they all. They always.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, I run into people that I know.

[Maureen]

Whoa. That just, like, looks like you just did something to your neck. And it's. Who knows?

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't want to look like that. But I do appreciate that they are sampling everything, because then I feel like they're trustworthy. I got all the things.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

You want to talk? I got the nose implant. I got the.

[Maureen]

And then I can be like, I don't want that. I don't. Whatever that is. Yeah, the throat buckle.

[Lacey Mosley]

They're, like, just pointing the stuff. They're like, what about this? Do you want this?

[Maureen]

I got rid of the thing.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, you want the eyes?

[Maureen]

The eye lift?

[Lacey Mosley]

Which one you want?

[Maureen]

I think it's also, like, what don't I want? Like, what? Why are you looking waxing. I don't want the wax, but I.

[Lacey Mosley]

Feel like it's more so like, you're looking at, like, maybe, like, ice cream samples, and you're like, oh, which one? On your body?

[Maureen]

Yeah. I didn't know that I wanted lavender bacon, but it looks good on you, so I'll try it.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. So super thin. Lots of plastic surgery. Manager would run around Beverly Hills in these jump shoes trying to, like, create a scene so people would want to talk to her.

[Maureen]

Nightmare.

[Lacey Mosley]

And she would hit them with the. You can get free personal training through your insurance. What a deal. These are jump shoes.

[Maureen]

Okay. This is a nightmare. Can you imagine running up and down like Bedford in that?

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, in Beverly Hills? Like, I'm running past Gucci in these shoes.

[Maureen]

Can you imagine just running into, like, Louis Vuitton and just. I'll take one of everything. Wrap it up. I'm in a hurry.

[Lacey Mosley]

What is their function?

[Maureen]

Did they give you a bout?

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, I feel like Skecher probably got a version of this. It's like the booty Shoe.

[Maureen]

Exactly. A child with a wheel.

[Lacey Mosley]

So she runs around in these shoes, which are very interesting. I would be convinced they're jump shoes. They're known as bounce shoes or wheels. And they're designed to enhance fitness and promote low impact workout by incorporating springs and other mechanisms to absorb shock and propel the user during activities like jumping and running.

[Maureen]

They make things too complicated, you know what I mean?

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, I don't know, but do you really? Do you want a great butt? You gotta get.

[Maureen]

I do.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay. Okay.

[Maureen]

I need those shoes.

[Lacey Mosley]

You need some superhero shoes.

[Maureen]

I need those shoes.

[Lacey Mosley]

I feel like Batman runs around in those. Okay, I'll do that.

[Maureen]

Batman. With like a bbl. Yeah, BBL Batman.

[Lacey Mosley]

Bbl, Batman.

[Maureen]

I would love to see BBL Batman.

[Lacey Mosley]

So she's saying you can get free personal training through your insurance, Right? What a deal.

[Maureen]

I'll do that.

[Lacey Mosley]

So, Veronica. That's what you say.

[Maureen]

Her name is Veronica.

[Lacey Mosley]

Veronica said. Except it's a scam in all caps.

[Maureen]

Okay, fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the client will come in, see a physical therapist or a chiropractor at our facility for a short five minute appointment and then go immediately into the facility gym and work out with a personal tractor. What the clients didn't realize is we would bill and overcharge their insurance for the appointment. Most people's insurance only allows for a certain amount of appointments and then you have to pay out of pocket. So we would burn through their appointments and then dump them as clients because we couldn't bill their insurance anymore.

[Maureen]

Okay. So they like. So the least amount of work, they would get as much money as they could for the least amount of work.

[Lacey Mosley]

So every time you come in, they're billing your insurance probably like $600. Physical therapy.

[Maureen]

I feel like there's a lot of insurance scam. I feel like that's how a lot of people get rich. There's a lot of like Medicare. There's a lot of like.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's kind of just spy versus spy at that point. Because insurance is a scam. So we both just trying to get each other.

[Maureen]

I mean, honestly, like somebody that could figure out the loophole. Run as long as you can. You know what I mean?

[Lacey Mosley]

Right. So. Well, we had to keep a steady stream of clients coming in to keep it afloat. There was only so many people who wanted to talk to the crazy jump shoes lady.

[Maureen]

That's the thing. You look too crazy. You gotta look cooler.

[Lacey Mosley]

But I feel like in Beverly Hills though, if you look hot and you have plastic surgery, you're wearing those shoes. Oh, the Girlies would be like, okay, okay. You know, I'm trying to keep my husband.

[Maureen]

I'm fascinated by that.

[Lacey Mosley]

And the men would be as well, like, you know, at least the gay ones, you know, you might get them.

[Maureen]

I'm always fascinated by it. The amount of effort to keep the husband. Pretty high. Yeah, pretty high.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. And so they might go over there, you know, trying to be like, jump shoe.

[Maureen]

And they probably got pretty good. They've got like Producers Guild Insurance. You know what I mean? They've got pretty good insurance.

[Lacey Mosley]

They got that good wja.

[Maureen]

They've got their dad, like, their dad, their husband. Zaddy.

[Lacey Mosley]

Zaddy.

[Maureen]

They're Zaddy.

[Lacey Mosley]

Zaddy Serious Insurance.

[Maureen]

Zaddy Serious has very good insurance.

[Lacey Mosley]

Excellent insurance.

[Maureen]

Through that, honey.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. So as an employee, we got paid first, but we had to race down to the bank to cash in. Because in order not to have it bounce.

[Maureen]

Oh, no.

[Lacey Mosley]

I would have to give them the check, have them give me the cash, and then give them the cash back to put in my account. If you put it in without cashing it first, one of our checks will bounce. So basically what she's saying is, Victoria, as soon as we got paid by this scam med Spa, we had to run to the nearest Western Union to, like Western.

[Maureen]

And you gotta be.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's like rat race. Like, everyone immediately gets their check and they got their.

[Maureen]

Put their fancy shoes on.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. They put on their bounce shoes and they bounced down.

[Maureen]

Because you gotta get that cash on it.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. And then once you get that cash from Western Union, then you gotta go to the bank and they put it in the bank. Cause you can't just cash it at the bank.

[Maureen]

This is a house of cards, like, built on, like, lip filler and stuff.

[Lacey Mosley]

This is exciting also just thinking, like, if I got paid and I had to, like, run to cash my check, because if somebody else cashes, there's not gonna be no money left.

[Maureen]

No, no, you gotta be the first one there. You gotta have cash. Cash money. Cash money. Cash money.

[Lacey Mosley]

Then I would be sizing up my other, like, my fellow co workers. Like, who runs the fastest?

[Maureen]

Oh, for sure.

[Lacey Mosley]

Whose car has the best acceleration?

[Maureen]

Acceleration. Who has the most pickup? Wow. I wonder how long they worked there.

[Lacey Mosley]

So cut to the craziest part of it all. Months later, after I had left the company, okay. The IRS contacted me.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

That' they said I didn't pay any taxes out of my paycheck and I owed them thousands.

[Maureen]

Wow.

[Lacey Mosley]

See, don't call me irs.

[Maureen]

And like, I can't. That makes me Panic.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm so sad now because, like, you know, the powers that be are about to defund the irs, and that's not something you want. I know we hate the irs, but you actually want more employees in the IRS so that they can audit the billionaires who, like, those people, can pull up with U hauls worth of paperwork and inundate them so they don't go after them. They go after us. Because if they shake us down, it's faster.

[Maureen]

I was like, I don't know. I don't know what that was. Who knows?

[Lacey Mosley]

I'll start keeping every CVS receipt. I'm gonna just have a large room just dedicated to, like.

[Maureen]

I don't keep anything. Do you keep anything?

[Lacey Mosley]

No. Because it's, like, all checked on my bank account.

[Maureen]

That's how I get. That's what I figure. But I'm like, I don't know what that was that I bought. Then who knows?

[Lacey Mosley]

I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to start keeping everything so I can inundate the irs. Cause they're gonna be down bad. Okay, so we get a U haul full of paperwork. We can do this.

[Maureen]

Exactly.

[Lacey Mosley]

So what my old boss didn't realize is that I every single pay style.

[Maureen]

They're okay. That makes one of us, right? Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Since I knew they were shady and I faxed all 50 of them to the IRS. I know that's right. I know that's right.

[Maureen]

Veronica.

[Lacey Mosley]

We just talked about that, and that's what she did. She was like, I got receipts. I'm faxing, faxing. 50 faxes.

[Maureen]

She had to go to Kinko's to fax who's got a faxing.

[Lacey Mosley]

So I like that she faxed and did not email. That's more convenient. That's easier for them. No, that faxing. She got to be like.

[Maureen]

And then they know they're dealing with somebody who has, like, got time on their hand. They're like, I will f. I will, like, bury you with these receipts. Like, she's not worth it to deal with.

[Lacey Mosley]

And, you know, the IRS is already stressed out, so if the fax machine is just, like, yes, like, all day.

[Maureen]

She came up.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Let it go.

[Maureen]

Very good at negotiating cars, believe it or not. You would think I would not be. But I bury them in paperwork. So I come with printouts of, like, every, like. Like, tax returns, and, like, I just. I come with printouts of their offers that were online that I just come like a crazy person with. Just lots of paperwork that I'll be like, Are you sure you can't get me into that? Because I'm willing to go to the, like, the Van Nuys, and I will get the best deal because I just come with so much paper that I look like they, like, I'm fun. And then I've got paper.

[Lacey Mosley]

That is a great. That's great advice for women out there, because I've just been bringing my dad.

[Maureen]

Nope.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, anytime I buy a car, I'm with my father. I' to Texas, buy a car and ship it here, because I need a man there to be just, like, I have a penis. And then I have. My dad just will walk around the lot and, like, act like he's buying the car. And I'm like, oh, daddy, can I just drive it for us? Thank you, Father. And then I get in, I'm like, wee. And then when they give us the good deal and the good financing, they're like, all right, Mr. Bishop. Yeah, just sign right here and get that card out. And I'm like, it's for me.

[Maureen]

Gotcha.

[Lacey Mosley]

Gotcha, bitch. Can't go back now. Okay. You already signed the paperwork.

[Maureen]

I would challenge you to try, because I will say I think they size you up and they think you're gonna. They think I'm gonna be a ding dong. They think I'm gonna be a fool.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, yeah. They think I'm gonna be a ding dong. I'm short, I'm petite. I got ding dong energy.

[Maureen]

I give. This person gives ding dong energy, honey. So this ding dong. But I think it's like, I've literally. I had, like, an accountant that had, like, a car broker, and they were like, you can use our car broker. So, like, I was like, no, no, I got this. And I had a better deal than the car broker. I challenge you to just. It's fun. Cause if you are willing to walk away and then fly to Texas and do it, you might be surprised if you just go in, be a little bit fun, and then have paperwork.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, so many papers.

[Maureen]

Be a good time with paperwork, girl. You could get yourself a deal.

[Lacey Mosley]

And then I feel like I would put, like, a ream of paper, like, in between all the paperwork, just so it looks so thick.

[Maureen]

Had the paper.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Maureen]

It's like when we used to book, you know, when you do reports and you could, like, space out. You could do, like, you know, I'm.

[Lacey Mosley]

Gonna get that paper that got the holes on the side.

[Maureen]

That old.

[Lacey Mosley]

That old school paper. Yeah, that 80s, like, you know, Bernie Madoff hold paper.

[Maureen]

Yes. White collar crime paper.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Then they're gonna know that you serious? You got a new. You got a new way to get a car lady. Okay. If you got that Ding Dong energy, like that Ding Dong energy, you bring that paperwork, honey.

[Maureen]

Ding dong. See Ding Dong.

[Lacey Mosley]

Ding dong. See the ding ding dong.

[Maureen]

See Ding dong on the dance floor once a year in December. Ding dong. See Ding dong.

[Lacey Mosley]

We really do.

[Maureen]

We do.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, God. If anyone had videos of that.

[Maureen]

Okay. Are you kidding? Fourth of July and my birthday. These two Ding Dongs, we love to throw a party. We love a birthday. We like to celebrate ourselves.

[Lacey Mosley]

So it's so Veronica says. Turns out my old boss faked all of our tax documents. We would have pay stubs showing all the monies that came out, but they were fake. I even had a W2 that I found out later was fake.

[Maureen]

Wow.

[Lacey Mosley]

Thankfully, this cleared me from owing extra money.

[Maureen]

Wow. So they were just stealing the money?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. So she the lip filler, you know, jump shoe lady was. Remember they already had people doing the rat races being like, all your marks get set paycheck. And then they gotta run and like see who's gonna get money. So she was doing that. And she was also setting them up so that if the government came after her because obviously her dealings are shady, that she could blame the employees and put all the taxes on them because she falsified their tax information.

[Maureen]

Wow. Wow. That is really, like not cool.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's nasty as fuck. Like, why would you do that?

[Maureen]

You know what? If a woman with filler and bouncy shoes approaches you for a deal. That's our lesson. It's not gonna. You know what? It's not gonna be as good as it sounds.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's like if you're on a moped or a motorcycle. I don't give any money to anybody on mopeds or motorcycles. You could get away too fast. And she got them jump shoes on. She running real quick.

[Maureen]

With my coin. I agree.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, no, no, no, no. You need to be in a sensible ox for something. I know you street real fast then sensible, slippery. So if, you know, wearing the mall, you falling. Yeah. But if you got away, a getaway shoe or a getaway moped. I'm not giving you my money.

[Maureen]

No. There we go.

[Lacey Mosley]

You can move too fast.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the company eventually folded, but the owner got away scot free because he left the state. So that the owner was a man and he left the state. He did get the manager with the jump shoes pregnant. And I think they're still together.

[Maureen]

That's fun. That's Fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

So they went on the lam that probably.

[Maureen]

I love that.

[Lacey Mosley]

They were just like, we're gonna leave the state.

[Maureen]

Wow. A little scam, baby.

[Lacey Mosley]

I will say it did teach me to look at my insurance very carefully. Sometimes billing can come from human error, but sometimes it's a system that's very easy to scam. So stay vigilant. Cause you know, especially these days, like your insurance, you got so much before, they're like, okay, now you gotta pay this premium on this, you know?

[Maureen]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

I always look at the dentist because I feel like they're always infl. Like, how do I still owe $800 when you hit my insurance? And I know I got good insurance.

[Maureen]

So question. What do you look at? Like, what are you looking for?

[Lacey Mosley]

I mean, I guess you gotta just be like. It's almost like the hospital where, like, if you get a bill and you ask them to print it out, they take off a bunch of charges. If you don't ask them to print out a bill at the hospital, they will charge you. They'll be like, we got the band aid fee, we got the curtain opening fee, we got the bed cleaning fee. You know, we got the pushing the card in fee. I'm learning. Yeah, they'll put everything on. They'll be like, band aid, $500. So you have to have them printed out. And then all of a sudden they'll be like, oh, oh, actually, this is what you owe.

[Maureen]

Hey, I feel like I've seen that at the veterinarian too.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, the vets are running it up.

[Maureen]

The vets are running it up.

[Lacey Mosley]

Listen, they got all they sleeve tattoos that they cover up with a long T shirt under their scrubs. And not only are they covering up their tattoos, they're covering up their crimes. Yeah, okay. Cause like, what's your dog gonna say? I didn't get that treatment. The dog's like, I didn't get the swab no how.

[Maureen]

That's a really good point. Okay, all right, look it. We all learn things.

[Lacey Mosley]

How would little poochie tell you what treatments he got?

[Maureen]

Mittens doesn't know. She tries to give me a thumbs up. Cause she's a cat with thumbs. But other than that, I don't know. I just thought she was. She's got thumbs and I thought she was just being cool.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Maureen]

Pepe Le Pew.

[Lacey Mosley]

Pepe. Pepe says when I was living in Paris 10 years ago, I became a bike taxi driver. See, that's already a scam. What did I say about stuff with no doors?

[Maureen]

Thank you.

[Lacey Mosley]

What did I say about no doors? Thank you.

[Maureen]

I was listening.

[Lacey Mosley]

Doorless vehicles we don't trust.

[Maureen]

Thank you.

[Lacey Mosley]

So Pepe says I was a bike taxi driver for a company owned by an American entrepreneur. Okay.

[Maureen]

Shady. Shady.

[Lacey Mosley]

He bought a fleet of cheap and heavy bike taxis and came up with a business model that would just was just begging to scam like from the ground.

[Maureen]

You knew it. You knew in your bones.

[Lacey Mosley]

But I think Pepe was like, I'm on the right. I'm like on the receiving end of the scam. Cause I'm on the bike.

[Maureen]

Yes. Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

So while other bike taxi companies in Pali rented their bikes to freelance drivers for the day, leaving all the earnings to the drivers, his model was to have drivers work hard under contract for minimum wage. Ew. So he tried to be like the Uber of the bike.

[Maureen]

Yes. That's not nobody. Because that's also like really risking your life and stuff if you're on a bike.

[Lacey Mosley]

At least if I'm in a car, I just put my gas. My foot on the gas if I'm in a bike or. And we trying to subvert the market. Like, that's also me hiking a lot.

[Maureen]

That's shady.

[Lacey Mosley]

I mean, I bet you have great calves, Pepe.

[Maureen]

But yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the problem for him, the American entrepreneur, was he had no way of knowing how many clients we picked up or how much cash they gave us.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

So we were supposed to write receipts in duplicate, but we could essentially invent receipts at the end of the shift because no tourists would ever ask a bike taxi driver for receipt.

[Maureen]

True story.

[Lacey Mosley]

What am I like, yeah, I need to write off this bike taxi?

[Maureen]

Yeah, I don't want that. Exactly. You're doing it because you're hammered. Literally.

[Lacey Mosley]

You're always drunk.

[Maureen]

You're like, I gotta get from the 7th arrondazement to the 14th arrondazement. Like, I.

[Lacey Mosley]

When is a sober person ever got on a bike taxi?

[Maureen]

Literally, not once ever. And I've. I've been two years in a row now in Europe, like over the holidays. They are all blaring Mariah Carey, all I want for Christmas. It's just. They're just blasting that.

[Lacey Mosley]

We got lots of light. The ones that got the lights, I gotta get in. That's when they get you.

[Maureen]

Those are fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. They blast in the music and they got the lights.

[Maureen]

But you're not sober. And you're like, can I have a receipt for this? You're drunk.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, you're drunk.

[Maureen]

You're drunk.

[Lacey Mosley]

Nobody's like, all right, family, let's get in this bike taxi at moon.

[Maureen]

Yeah. No, no, no, no. You've made some decisions.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. And probably some poor ones.

[Maureen]

You've made some bad decisions, Some fun bad decisions. But it's fun bad.

[Lacey Mosley]

Fun bad. Yes.

[Maureen]

We wait.

[Lacey Mosley]

So we wait.

[Maureen]

Yeah, we wait.

[Lacey Mosley]

So it was possible to bring in €300 on a good day, but that meant busting ass, pedaling up to around three people at a time with no electronic assistance, on heavy bikes riddled with mechanical problems.

[Maureen]

Nightmare.

[Lacey Mosley]

After wearing your body out for money, the last thing anyone wants to do is pass said money to someone else.

[Maureen]

Bingo. Agree.

[Lacey Mosley]

In the end, there were three types of people on the fleet. Those who spent their days doing absolutely nothing and getting paid until they got fired after a couple weeks, responded that preach. Those who bought, who brought back just enough money, about €80 a day to not get fired while keeping the rest. And then there were the ones or one or two, like honest drivers in the 30 person fleet who brought all the money back because they said it was the right thing to do. How is that right?

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes, I'm sorry, that's not right for me.

[Maureen]

Yeah, be cool. Yeah, like, okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, that's like you got a suss out at work. Who's like, not cool.

[Maureen]

You're a goody too bike taxi driver.

[Lacey Mosley]

You're like a capitalist bootlegger.

[Maureen]

Yeah, just go be cool. Do you know you're like the hot bike guy that's kind of like a fun bad boy. You're not them like, but the man needs it.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, no, no, no. So the best off. Who were those who brought back the bare minimum and skimmed the rest because we. Yes, I was one of them. Made our salary, kept our jobs, felt okay morally, and also kept what we worked hard for as a bonus. Yeah, yeah. And that's not a bonus. That' you owe. Like, Mr. American dude is not doing anything but collecting coin.

[Maureen]

Agree to agree. I think Pepe was in the right. I wish him well.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. So the owner would put up our list of earnings for everyone to see, hoping it would encourage lower earners. But it just confirmed what we all suspected that almost everyone was stealing.

[Maureen]

I mean, honestly, who's to blame them?

[Lacey Mosley]

No, but I love that he was like, we got a point system, y'all. Whoever makes the most money for me gets to be employee of the week.

[Maureen]

You need something better than a good job.

[Lacey Mosley]

You get to be bike guy.

[Maureen]

You need an actual thing that you get to win.

[Lacey Mosley]

Nope. You just. It's competitive. Who wants to win? Giving me the most money.

[Maureen]

I mean, I like that it's only two people that are in that race. Everybody else is like, yeah, you can have that, Jacques. You can have that. Pierre. It's all yours.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's all yours. Y'all are the winners. Y'all are the top of the score.

[Maureen]

Oh, my God, you did it again. I gotta pedal harder next time.

[Lacey Mosley]

I wanna do that for me. I wanna have a system like, who's making the most money for me? You win.

[Maureen]

You won. You made the most money for me.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, my God.

[Maureen]

Thank you. Oh, my God. Thank you. I see you.

[Lacey Mosley]

I see you. That's it. You just seen.

[Maureen]

I want you to feel seen.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the service itself was a scam, obviously. It was way more expensive than a normal taxi. It was way slower. We rode on loud and heavily polluted boulevards, and it was pretty dangerous, granted. We were in a constant state of exhaustion and driving shoddy bikes along speeding traffic.

[Maureen]

Nightmare.

[Lacey Mosley]

Love, Love. See, this is why you only get in when you're drun.

[Maureen]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

So my first couple of rides with clients almost ended in serious accidents because there was no training for the job nor a license required. The price involved haggling. And to even get clients in the first place, you had to essentially accost them and talk them into it. So we're back to like, jump shoe, girl, jump shoe.

[Maureen]

Put on your jump shoe. You gotta scare somebody. Hopefully they're drunk and then, yeah, off you go.

[Lacey Mosley]

So you got jump shoe and you got like sketchy bike. You gotta pull up and be like, he. Don't you want to get in the sketchy bag?

[Maureen]

If somebody has a mode of transportation that is not out of the ordinary, maybe don't get on board with what they're trying to get you to do.

[Lacey Mosley]

I mean, I don't know. I feel like this is great. But the business hardly lasted a year.

[Maureen]

Aw.

[Lacey Mosley]

And I don't feel bad about its demise because the owner himself was a trump style loud talking con artist with a string of lawsuits against him. And as one can find out with a quick search of his name on the interwebs, he's a con artist who never really got in major trouble. I. E. Prison. But who did he piss off? A lot of people.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

If you're in Paris, just take public transportation.

[Maureen]

Yeah, just take. Just. Yeah, yeah. Wow.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. And you already know how I feel about the French. Very unnecessarily rude. Every time I'm there, I'm just like aggro as hell because everyone is an asshole and not like in the New York way. Like, we're busy, we have to move fast.

[Maureen]

I agree.

[Lacey Mosley]

I am bettles. And you type bitch like, beat your ass.

[Maureen]

I 100% agree with you. My mom and I went to London and Paris and we were so excited to go to Paris. And they were so rude to my mom. And it was like, dude, I had taken six years of French. I was trying. They were so brutal that we just like went back to. We were like, get. Fuck this. Get me out of here.

[Lacey Mosley]

Assholes. Like, y'all really, like, that's, that's cause y'all the weakest. Y'all always fold when it comes to the wars. Y'all literally are the weakest bitches. And I want you to know that if you are listening in Paris, like, voulez vous coucher kiss my ass. Because, like, I cannot stand them. I went to a restaurant with my cousin. I think I said this on here, like, and we had a reservation. We're not being loud, we're not being extra. We're dressed very Parisian. Like a bitch got on a nice long coat. Like, I'm giving fashion like Giving a little bit, you know, a little bit of labels. And I'm a bad bitch. I'm just walking up to the maitre d to just, you know, get the table. And why did this server literally walk like. Like, she. I'm walking through the threshold of the door. I have the right of way. She gonna put her hand in my face.

[Maureen]

I do not like it.

[Lacey Mosley]

While she was carrying a drink, like, oh, so. So. Oh, ball. I was like, bitch, I shall punch you in your throat. I shall punch you in your throat.

[Maureen]

I hate that.

[Lacey Mosley]

By the end. By the end of leaving Paris, I literally was mowing kids over in the train station when we were going to Amsterdam. I was like, fuck them kids. Like, fuck everybody with my two suitcases.

[Maureen]

Does not surprise me. And I'm sorry that that happened. I have had similar things there. And it's like, you know what? When they do it, they want you to know, like, I see you doing it and you want that.

[Lacey Mosley]

You want me to feel small, which is weird. Yes, you're weird.

[Maureen]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not dumb. And, like, I feel you're doing this on purpose.

[Lacey Mosley]

I feel like it's not enough violence over there. That's why they act that way. And not that I want to call to violence, but, you know, sometimes you gotta get your ass beat. And then you're like, oh, okay, I'll be polite. I don't know.

[Maureen]

It's wild. It's so wild.

[Lacey Mosley]

I should have tripped that waitress. And if I tripped her, then she would learn her lesson for life.

[Maureen]

That's really rude.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'd be like, oh, well, I'm sorry. In French, what's my bad in French?

[Maureen]

Like, what is it, Pal Dawn.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, pal Dawn.

[Maureen]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

Why she on the ground?

[Maureen]

Yeah. Pal d'm. Pal d'just.

[Lacey Mosley]

So you know, Paris, if I have to come back there, I will be tripping people, okay? So if you see me, oh.

[Maureen]

I'm.

[Lacey Mosley]

Glad I'm learning that because I will be tripping you bitches and acting like it's an accident. I'm like, oh, just sweet. Desole.

[Maureen]

I'll go with you. I will go with you.

[Lacey Mosley]

So she always has her foot out. So we have our next confession here. Gigs and more gigs. Let's stay on it. This man is snitching on his cousin. As we always say, snitch on your friends and family and your enemies@scamgotta spotmail.com.

[Maureen]

Fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

So we're talking about the crooked cousin and I a name for our cousin, snitch Gary. Oh, Gary seems Like, he's snitching on his cousin for sure.

[Maureen]

Gary for sure is snitching on his cousin.

[Lacey Mosley]

So Gary says, my cousin fucked up his bag big time. Hot. Double exclamation point.

[Maureen]

Big time.

[Lacey Mosley]

A little bit of background. My cousin, Please call him whatever you want. What do we want to call the cousin?

[Maureen]

Um, Trent.

[Lacey Mosley]

Trent. Trent's be fucking up. I ain't seen a Trent in a minute.

[Maureen]

No, nobody's seen a Trent before.

[Lacey Mosley]

It used to be. That used to be the name.

[Maureen]

Trent's a few fun name. Trent. My bad.

[Lacey Mosley]

Trent Trenton.

[Maureen]

Imagine of like, you know, my lover. Trent.

[Lacey Mosley]

Trent. Oh, Trent.

[Maureen]

Trent.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, Trent. No, it's like you can't even moan. Trent, like, oh, Gary. Oh, Trent.

[Maureen]

Gary, Trent, Trent.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm close. Think about that. When you name your kids, like, think.

[Maureen]

About names, think about a moanable name. When you name your baby, think about a moanable name.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's like Arin is very moanable. Thank you. Lacy and Ar, like, these are very mob.

[Maureen]

They're moanable names. Garden and Lacy are moanable.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. But like Gary, I think Trent.

[Maureen]

Trent might be a dirty dog. Trent might be a scam artist. He might steal your, like, Social Security number.

[Lacey Mosley]

So Trent is in his early 40s, hot, and has a bit of a shady past that I honestly don't know too much about because he is 14 years older than me, and I was a kid when he got into trouble.

[Maureen]

Fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

And my lace curtain Irish family doesn't talk about it.

[Maureen]

Lace curtain, Irish. Okay, okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Irish. You know I like Irish.

[Maureen]

Yeah. Trent O'Malley.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right. I've spent a lot of time in Ireland. Ireland. So what's having a good crack? So something about cocaine in Costa Rica. Anyway, so that's just some backstory. The Irish family doesn't want to talk about it, but Trent got in trouble with some cocaine in Costa Rica.

[Maureen]

Good times.

[Lacey Mosley]

We don't know what he did. Okay, so a few years ago, he.

[Maureen]

Rode the white pony to the. To the. Like the Lord of the Rings.

[Lacey Mosley]

Cocaine in Costa Rica gives me smugglers.

[Maureen]

Like, he was trying to put some.

[Lacey Mosley]

Cocaine in a blanket and fly with it.

[Maureen]

Yeah, cocaine in a booty hole.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Some cocaine in a booty hole. That's what we're going with. Okay, so a few years ago, cousin Trent moved to Singapore to be an English teacher. After a couple of failed careers, Trent.

[Maureen]

Does some shady shit. Trent on the lamb. Trent on the lamb.

[Lacey Mosley]

This is like the A to B that you told me about. The writer, like, oh, the jig is up. Let Me steal all the computers.

[Maureen]

Isn't that fun?

[Lacey Mosley]

The jigs up in Costa Rica let me teach English in Singapore.

[Maureen]

And mine is all allegedly. Allegedly, Allegedly, Allegedly. I don't know. It might not have happened.

[Lacey Mosley]

So all was going well as a teacher until he was mysteriously let go about two years ago. It's okay. So two years ago, this was probably, like, 2018. Cause this is, you know, I told y'all, we're going in the vault.

[Maureen]

We're time traveling.

[Lacey Mosley]

The scam stea vault. This is like the Disney vault, but.

[Maureen]

For scammest, I'm here for it.

[Lacey Mosley]

So my cousin is also a photographer. He even sold some photographs to his co workers at his school. Wow. He be doing everything. This is a serial entrepreneur.

[Maureen]

He sure is.

[Lacey Mosley]

Booty hole cocaine.

[Maureen]

Booty hole cocaine.

[Lacey Mosley]

Teaching English in Singapore. Also a great photographer.

[Maureen]

He's got hustles. Yeah, he's got hustles.

[Lacey Mosley]

So he set up a website and started selling prints of his photographs and even sold a few to my dad. I love that he's, like, really mlming this, and he's like, y'all buy my pictures, family. He's getting on Facebook, and he's, like, putting the link up to his pictures.

[Maureen]

Believe me, I've worked with people that are like, I have a handbag line. You're like, okay. No, you don't. But, okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

I feel like that's a Real Housewives thing, that it's, like, thwarted all the housewives to where they now feel like they have to have their own business as well.

[Maureen]

Yeah. I've got my tinctures.

[Lacey Mosley]

Right. I'm not just a housewife. Okay. I make creams.

[Maureen]

Yes. I've got my tinctures.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. What kind of creams? Just body cream.

[Maureen]

I've got my. Exactly. I've got my sober cocktail line.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Oh, gotta have a sober cocktail line.

[Maureen]

I've got my mocktail line. Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

Mocktails. I have my skinny girl. Yep.

[Maureen]

I've got my skinny girl.

[Lacey Mosley]

Skinny girl cocaine.

[Maureen]

Yes. I've got skinny girl cocaine. I've got my athleisure wear.

[Lacey Mosley]

Skinny girl mushrooms.

[Maureen]

Yes. Yes. My tinctures.

[Lacey Mosley]

Got it. So the photos never come, but my cousin swears they're on the way, so. So he. So he sold the photos to, you know, uncle. His uncle.

[Maureen]

Uncle's dad. Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

And never sent them, basically. But then it's like, pandemic time, Right? So obviously, they're in the mail. They're coming. It's taken a long time. Cause it's the pandemic.

[Maureen]

So how bad does his dad really want these pictures.

[Lacey Mosley]

I mean, they must have looked real good. Okay, maybe he had a frame in place for him. He was just ready. Okay, so the photos never made it, obviously. They must have gotten lost in the mail. It's so weird because the same thing happened to some of the teenagers at the school where he used to teach. So he taking one photo, putting it on the Internet, and then telling people they can buy prints and never sending them to print.

[Maureen]

I mean, good idea.

[Lacey Mosley]

Of course, my dad insists that he doesn't need a refund. He's happy to help his nephew, and maybe he'll buy another photograph later. No.

[Maureen]

Yeah, that's on you. Fool me wants shame on me very side eyes.

[Lacey Mosley]

He put in a parenthesis. Side eyes. Not your scare me old uncle too.

[Maureen]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

So cousin remained living in Singapore making selling photographs during the pandemic. But once travel opened up again following the lockdown, he decided to get into the Airbnb game.

[Maureen]

Okay, here we go.

[Lacey Mosley]

This man is making me tired.

[Maureen]

No.

[Lacey Mosley]

So we had.

[Maureen]

Look, life is expensive. I respect. I respect somebody that does.

[Lacey Mosley]

We hold cocaine in Costa Rica. Yeah, We've got teaching English in Singapore. Then we got selling the photographs.

[Maureen]

Now he's a hotelier.

[Lacey Mosley]

And yeah, now he's a hotelier. So there are so many great Airbnbs in Singapore, but there's like a lot of fake ones, too. And some of the great ones have owners who don't speak English. So my cousin sees a market and decides to fill it. He'll start an Airbnb liaison service. He gonna be a middleman. I hate a middleman.

[Maureen]

Agree we don't need you.

[Lacey Mosley]

We don't need you.

[Maureen]

We don't need you.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, we have so many. We work with so many men.

[Maureen]

Literally, it's like, why?

[Lacey Mosley]

What so many men in the middle.

[Maureen]

Why am I paying this?

[Lacey Mosley]

Cuz I sent an email. 1 Now give me money forever. Forever, Forever.

[Maureen]

Give me money forever.

[Lacey Mosley]

Even if I leave that middleman, if I make money on the thing the middleman was involved in, the middleman still gets paid.

[Maureen]

Agree to agree like damn crazy.

[Lacey Mosley]

And then sometimes it hurts. Cuz you see the check and you not with that middleman no more. You like that middleman just taking so much money. So much, but not even agree middleman.

[Maureen]

And no more agree to agree.

[Lacey Mosley]

It hurts. So people send him money for their Airbnbs plus a convenience fee, and he does all the booking for them, no problem. Okay, three exclamation points. Gary put here. So we already know.

[Maureen]

Trust Trent with your money.

[Lacey Mosley]

So A few weeks ago, my dad gets a call from a weird international number, and since he's in his 60s, he answered it. Cause no one who actually answers phone calls today. Like, no one answers phone calls from, like, unknown numbers.

[Maureen]

No one's like, hello?

[Lacey Mosley]

I barely answer the known numbers. Call me.

[Maureen]

Yeah. No, no, don't call me unless you have something really fun. And then text you. Be like, I have something. I pick up. I have to tell you something very fun.

[Lacey Mosley]

And don't just be like, can we talk? That gives me anxiety.

[Maureen]

Can we talk?

[Lacey Mosley]

I know, and it's super fun.

[Maureen]

I'm gonna change my number. You'll never see me. If it's like, I have something that you're gonna love, and I'm gonna tell.

[Lacey Mosley]

You, then I'm like, okay, calm.

[Maureen]

I will step outside. Anywhere that I am, you better call me immediately.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. But don't. Can we talk me then? I don't want to throw up. When I get back, you're not.

[Maureen]

Not my friend anymore.

[Lacey Mosley]

So it's like, I just have to end this.

[Maureen]

It's over.

[Lacey Mosley]

And they're literally like, oh, I just wanted to ask if I could, you.

[Maureen]

Know, can we talk? Or. What are you doing tomorrow? Yeah, I don't know. What are you offering? Don't ask what I'm doing. What do you mean? What's on the table?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Because I'm not going to tell you if I'm free unless you tell me what you. What do you mean?

[Maureen]

What are you up to next month? What do you mean? Why?

[Lacey Mosley]

Why? Why? And then I'll tell you what I'm up to.

[Maureen]

Exactly.

[Lacey Mosley]

Because I might be so busy.

[Maureen]

I might be too busy, but I might be free.

[Lacey Mosley]

I might be free, depending on what it offer is. Okay, so this is the international number. Is Trent calling from jail in Singapore?

[Maureen]

Aw, Singapore jail.

[Lacey Mosley]

Damn.

[Maureen]

Poor Trent. Damn.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's like. I feel like that's where they beat you with sticks.

[Maureen]

That feels scary. That feels scary. They definitely beat you with sticks. I don't know how you're gonna get out.

[Lacey Mosley]

He's in the 2000s. I feel like they still beat you with sticks.

[Maureen]

I feel worried for him. But Trent, I don't know. I'm worried about him. That's not where you want to end up.

[Lacey Mosley]

So it turns out when rich people book an Airbnb and they don't like it when they show up to the house halfway around the world, and there are other people already staying there, they're gonna be mad. I mean, I would be mad.

[Maureen]

I'd be like, this was my housing. Who is this person in the back?

[Lacey Mosley]

These are, like, the White Lotus people coming to, like, get their, you know.

[Maureen]

Airbnb, do their weird stuff. Yeah. Oh, that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

Sleep with my brother.

[Maureen]

Everybody thought it was gonna be the sister, and he's still. He's still, like, in love with her. The way he looked at her felt weird. At the monastery.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. We're not telling you too much. There's still no spoilers, but.

[Maureen]

Yeah, still.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Oh, gosh. So these are, like, the rich White Lotus people coming, and they're like, there's people in our Airbnb. This is not up to our standards. Yeah, they, like, wipe the counter with their finger and, like. Is this dust right? Yeah. No. They're gonna put you in jail.

[Maureen]

Oh, man.

[Lacey Mosley]

So, yes, cousin Trent was obviously scamming people, pretending to book Airbnbs for them, and pocketing the cash, plus his fee on top of that. You could have just pocketed your fee, Trent, why? You gotta come and get the cash.

[Maureen]

And they're gonna find you. They're gonna find you. They know who did it.

[Lacey Mosley]

They know who did it.

[Maureen]

They know who did it.

[Lacey Mosley]

Literally. That you said, hi, my name is Trent. I'm your middleman.

[Maureen]

Yeah, they know who did it.

[Lacey Mosley]

Here's my bank account.

[Maureen]

Why don't I just have a job?

[Lacey Mosley]

I mean, he had a job. Scamming is a profession.

[Maureen]

Good.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's not a good one.

[Maureen]

It's a lot of work. You know, he's got to get work ethic.

[Lacey Mosley]

So. Okay, not a big deal. Maybe that'll get him, like, a few months in jail. Right. And he can probably just get picked up by the State Department. Right? He's a handsome white man. No big deal. Oh, Trent is handsome.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Of course he is. Of course.

[Maureen]

You know what?

[Lacey Mosley]

That changes everything.

[Maureen]

That's how you get away with things. Because you're handsome.

[Lacey Mosley]

He's handsome. He's sexy.

[Maureen]

He's sexy. He's Trent.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, see? So he's trending. Trenton.

[Maureen]

He's Trenton.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, Trenton.

[Maureen]

He's Trenton.

[Lacey Mosley]

Trenton.

[Maureen]

Trenton.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Then you feel like you're like. Like a fancy. Like. Yeah.

[Maureen]

Like a knight. Yeah. Like somebody who's like.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like somebody. Like, who was, like, a cousin of the loyal family.

[Maureen]

Yeah, Like a land baron. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a duke.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Like a dude. An earl. Oh, Trenton.

[Maureen]

He's just misguided. He lost his way. He was an art major, but he never. His. His exhibit never happened.

[Lacey Mosley]

So here's where Trenton fucked up.

[Maureen]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

It turns out his visa Expired when he was fired from the school. Oh, and he was selling blank counterfeit prescription sheets. Plus using those to get himself opioids for his personal use.

[Maureen]

I mean, obviously.

[Lacey Mosley]

And also some loose opioids.

[Maureen]

It started with booty cocaine. It's gonna end with opioids with fake person. I mean, like, you know, okay, because.

[Lacey Mosley]

We had booty cocaine.

[Maureen]

We got booty cocaine. We got. We've got fake photos.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. We had teaching in Singapore.

[Maureen]

Then we got shady Airbnb.

[Lacey Mosley]

Airbnb, shady.

[Maureen]

Then we got prescription drug writer.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, prescription drug. And seller of sheets of prescriptions. Okay, so we've got five jobs.

[Maureen]

Five and a half.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. So he's currently facing up to 25 years of hard labor. See, we were right. Singapore, they gonna beat you with sticks.

[Maureen]

And they're gonna make you heavier worked first. You wouldn't have to do it that hard for 25 years. Years.

[Lacey Mosley]

But.

[Maureen]

But like, poor Trent. If he only wasn't so handsome, he wouldn't have done this.

[Lacey Mosley]

I hate. I hate prisons because this is just such a hard labor.

[Maureen]

I hate prisons.

[Lacey Mosley]

I mean, like, he deserves to do some hard labor because he's been shady.

[Maureen]

But, you know, like, not 25 years. Give him like a month.

[Lacey Mosley]

I just keep thinking of the sticks.

[Maureen]

The sticks are scary.

[Lacey Mosley]

Just like the little bit of rice they're gonna give him and like.

[Maureen]

Oh, man. So no protein.

[Lacey Mosley]

Brutal.

[Maureen]

Poor guy.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the State Department is monitor situation, but currently has no plans to intervene. Yikes. The State Department is monitoring him.

[Maureen]

Brutal.

[Lacey Mosley]

So the feds are involved. Gary says, I don't have a cute, fun way to end this story. So I guess that's it. Laughing my ass off. My cousin still embodies the spirit of our criminal Irish ancestors who got sent to America as a punishment. And I admire that about him. He just flew way too close to the sun and unfortunately got super caught. Good thing Singapore has decided to ease off on executing foreigners.

[Maureen]

Oh, that's the good news.

[Lacey Mosley]

That's the good news.

[Maureen]

Wow.

[Lacey Mosley]

Is that they're not gonna execute for.

[Maureen]

I mean, I picture him looking like Colin Farrell. You know what I mean? Irish kind of hot. Is he Irish? I don't know.

[Lacey Mosley]

Irish? I feel. Is he.

[Maureen]

I don't know.

[Lacey Mosley]

Who's hot and Irish?

[Maureen]

Is Colin Farrell hot and Irish?

[Lacey Mosley]

Can we Google hot Irish white?

[Maureen]

I feel like Colin Farrell is.

[Lacey Mosley]

That seems like he's Irish.

[Maureen]

I think he's Irish. Yeah, he's hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, Bradley Cooper.

[Maureen]

He's hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, yeah. Colin Fairy.

[Maureen]

Jamie Dornan.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's. Oh, Cecilian Murphy. It could be him. Cuz Cecilia Murphy always plays the villains because he got those villain eyes. Like his eyes are just so piercing.

[Maureen]

These are all hot guys.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, Colin O'Donoghue.

[Maureen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. They're hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. He looks like one of these people.

[Maureen]

Jamie Dorman is hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, Jamie Dorman looks like he always got a secret.

[Maureen]

He was in 50 shades of gray.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, that. Oh, yeah, yeah. Where he.

[Maureen]

But then he was so good in. In Barb and Star. Go to Vista Del Mar. Oh my God.

[Lacey Mosley]

I look so good at Barb and Star. Wait, aren't you in Barb and Star?

[Maureen]

No, I wish. When he climbed the tree like a.

[Lacey Mosley]

Kitty cat he was. He killed it in Barbara Star.

[Maureen]

He killed it because I would be Barbara Star. You know what I mean?

[Lacey Mosley]

Damon Waynes is in it.

[Maureen]

Oh, my God.

[Lacey Mosley]

Not David Waynes. Which Wayne? David Wayne's junior.

[Maureen]

Is he in it?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, he's in it too. Oh, yeah. Barb and Star.

[Maureen]

Oh, yeah. Barry. What's his name?

[Lacey Mosley]

Barrett Koki.

[Maureen]

Murder on the Dance floor.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, he's one of the. These guys.

[Maureen]

Yeah, he's hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

I see. I see.

[Maureen]

That's how he got the confidence to run so many scams.

[Lacey Mosley]

The confidence.

[Maureen]

The confidence. Look, con artists are hot.

[Lacey Mosley]

So remember, y'all remember to send your listener letters to us. We miss adding them to the show. And we know how you do too. Keep em coming, keep em tight, keep em cute. Arden, your final thoughts here on. I mean, these scammers that we talked about. Who would you think is the best? Let's rank them. And congregation will let you rank them too.

[Maureen]

So we have. We have Lip filler bounce shoe.

[Lacey Mosley]

Lip filler bounce shoe.

[Maureen]

Then we have bike biker. Then we have. Then we have Colin Farrell. I'm gonna go Colin Farrell?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Maureen]

Colin Farrell. Really? He really committed to being a scammer.

[Lacey Mosley]

He worked so hard and he was in so many different industries. If he. What's the language of Singapore? Okay. Jess is looking it up right now. We've got Singaporean, Mandarin.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Melee, Tamil, and then English. I mean, so I feel like Singaporean Mandarin is probably the biggest one.

[Maureen]

Dude, poor Colin Farrell.

[Lacey Mosley]

Look, he was. That means he had to learn Mandarin.

[Maureen]

He was really good at.

[Lacey Mosley]

Being a scammer's really hard to learn. Oh, I'm sure it's actually kind of a scam if you don't learn it as a child.

[Maureen]

Oh, I'm sure.

[Lacey Mosley]

Learning it as an adult, I'm. Because words can be pronounced a certain way and then they mean something else. Which one was your Fave, like read and red. They're spelled the same way, but they mean a different thing.

[Maureen]

Agree.

[Lacey Mosley]

So we kind of have that too, a little bit.

[Maureen]

Who's your favorite song?

[Lacey Mosley]

My favorite. I'm gonna have to go with Bouncy Shoe Lady.

[Maureen]

Respect. And she ran off into the sunset with him and had a baby.

[Lacey Mosley]

I respect that.

[Maureen]

She bounced off into the sunset and.

[Lacey Mosley]

Had a baby and got away with it.

[Maureen]

Yeah. It's incredible.

[Lacey Mosley]

She bounced her ass.

[Maureen]

She bounced out. She bounced her skinny little fillered ass off and bounced out a baby. Good for her.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, man. I feel like collagen is buoyant. She was probably bouncing higher than anybody could.

[Maureen]

And, you know, she had big, tall, fake boobies.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, yeah.

[Maureen]

Just bouncing down, just not moving. Just braless, bouncing around. I'm so proud of her. I'm so proud of her.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm glad that the person who was scammed got away.

[Maureen]

Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

Our Victoria. I'm glad that you got away.

[Maureen]

Thank you.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. I'm sorry that that happened to you. I don't agree with what she did, but I do love how she did it with such panache.

[Maureen]

She gave us some swagger, a little vim and verve.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Maureen]

You know, a little bravado. Just own it, you know? That's the fun of a scam. You gotta have a little bravado.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Well, Arden, thank you so much for being here.

[Maureen]

Such a pleasure. I was so happy when I got the email. I always love seeing you. I love seeing you, too. Such a fan. And same, I mean, like, you know, banana. See Banana. Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, ding dong, ding dong.

[Maureen]

See ding ding.

[Lacey Mosley]

Ding dong.

[Maureen]

Ding dong. See ding dong. Yes.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. So we always ask at the end of the show, where do you like to be found if there's anything you wanna play? Thank you.

[Maureen]

Thank you for asking. I am on a couple more episodes of Righteous Gemstones. I'm not on this week, but I'll be on a couple weeks. So Righteous Gemstones is on Max right now. And then my podcast, will youl Accept this Rose?

[Lacey Mosley]

I love it. It's a Bachelor podcast.

[Maureen]

It's a comedy bachelor podcast. We're on hiatus right now, so it'll be back when. But you can go back. It's really. A lot of people don't even watch the show. They just listen. Cause it's just funny. And it'll come back during Bachelor in Paradise. And then I have a very fun, exciting project that I'm filming that will be on Netflix, which I can't say what it is yet. That'll be Dropping.

[Lacey Mosley]

I know what it is.

[Maureen]

It'll be dropping on my birthday, December 10th. It'll be dropping on my birthday, December 10th.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. I know what it is. I'm excited.

[Maureen]

You do, you know?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. Oh, girl. I was skulking around that party, getting a tea. Yeah.

[Maureen]

Yeah. It'll be December 10th. Yeah. So that'll be really exciting. So I'm going to go film in Atlanta all summer. So if you come to Atlanta, let me know.

[Lacey Mosley]

If you come to Atlanta, let me know. Arden, are you coming to Atlanta?

[Maureen]

I don't know. You might be.

[Lacey Mosley]

I might be.

[Maureen]

You might be taping some bikinis on, doing something in Atlanta.

[Lacey Mosley]

I was taping bikini in Savannah.

[Maureen]

I mean, that's where you tape a bikini.

[Lacey Mosley]

I would rather tape bikini in Atlanta. There's more professional tapers.

[Maureen]

I've taped in bikini in Atlanta before, and I'll be taping a bikini in Atlanta again.

[Lacey Mosley]

Savannah. They did not have a lot of trained people.

[Maureen]

Bingo, bango. Bingo, bango.

[Lacey Mosley]

I had a. We had a stunt coordinator. Yes. I love Patty Guggenheim. Do you know Patty Guggenheim? Nobody's a great man. She's fantastic. But we had a stunt coordinator, and we were all getting into these fights, like, in the dirt and, like, rolling around. So the stunt coordinator is like, so this is how you pull hair. So it looks like you're pulling the hair, and, you know, it's like you grab the hair, and the person has to, like. It's like a dance. Like, they have to move with their hand. They move the hair, right?

[Maureen]

Yeah.

[Lacey Mosley]

The stunt coordinator, like, grabs onto her hair and. And then starts, like, punching her fists like this.

[Maureen]

Like.

[Lacey Mosley]

And maybe. You know what? I'll give y'all a demonstration. I'll do a video after this so you can see on the Instagram. But, like, so she's, like, punching her head like this. And Patty's like, ow, this hurts. Like, ow. Like, this is clearly a scam stunt artist.

[Maureen]

Oh, my God.

[Lacey Mosley]

She's like, ow, this hurts. And she's like, no, it doesn't. It doesn't hurt.

[Maureen]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Lacey Mosley]

Stunt coordinator is telling us, like, it doesn't hurt.

[Maureen]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yes. That's you and Georgia.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, Atlanta's getting better, more professional now because there's a whole industry, right?

[Maureen]

There's a whole industry there.

[Lacey Mosley]

But Savannah's still starting up. Okay. Like, the lady who held the. Like, who fought the raccoons was making sandwiches the next day. So we was going through it.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, okay.

[Maureen]

And we had a multi she was a multi hyphenate.

[Lacey Mosley]

We had a first AD who had a vibrator fall out of her pants. You know, things happen where.

[Maureen]

Wait, like, the leg of the pant.

[Lacey Mosley]

Or the pocket, like, out of the leg. And she would always kind of be stuttering. And we thought she had, like, a speech impediment.

[Maureen]

Whoa. Did you see it?

[Lacey Mosley]

So one of the. Like, one of the grips who also was selling people cocaine, we found out she took a picture of it on the floor, and it was our office floor. We knew what the carpet looked like. And allegedly, I'm not gonna tell y'all what showed this, but she took a picture of it and she showed it to us, and we were like, what?

[Maureen]

Oh, my God. I mean, she'd been walking around just, like, jacking it all day. We had on a show I was in. In Atlanta, that hair department was like, the cocaine. It was the cocaine department.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, this is your side hustle.

[Maureen]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm so naive because, like, nobody's.

[Lacey Mosley]

I was too. We didn't find out until the rap.

[Maureen]

Party wants to see me on cocaine. Like, I've never done cocaine. Can you imagine me on cocaine? Like, nobody would ever be like, you need. Like, you need cocaine.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, I have a face that people will offer me cocaine. People like, when I go into the bathroom, there's always, like, a nice white lady who, like, looks like the bathroom. Bouncy shoe lady with all the fillers, and she's, like, a professional cocaine user who has, like, a necklace or, like, a ring or something. And they'll be in the bathroom, and I'm, like, washing my hands, and they'll be like, hey, girl, like, would you like to partake? And I'm like, girl, I'm good, but thank you so much. I get offered a lot.

[Maureen]

I got offered a lot of cocaine a few summers ago, but I've never been offered to buy cocaine.

[Lacey Mosley]

No, not to buy. Not to buy.

[Maureen]

Only I've been offered some cocaine, and I'm always shocked that somebody would want to see me on cocaine.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah. No, it's. Yeah, but. But I do.

[Maureen]

I would like that out the window, but I probably love it. I would probably love it.

[Lacey Mosley]

I like that I'm offered it because I'm like, that means I don't look like a narc.

[Maureen]

That means you're cool.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm cool.

[Maureen]

That means you would be stealing the money if you were a bike, if you were biking.

[Lacey Mosley]

Hell, yes. I'm not trying to get to the top of. I gave the scammer the money chart.

[Maureen]

Exactly.

[Lacey Mosley]

So what are your Instagrams?

[Maureen]

Thank you for asking. My Instagram is Artemarine. Look. Looks like Myron Mirren. A R D E N M Y R I N. Hey, buy my book. Little Miss Little Compton is really fun. It is, yeah. Artemarine. A R D E N M Y R I N. That's me, who's a very fun profile.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yes. Thanks, Brad, as always. You can find me at D I V A L A C I Divalacy on all platforms. You can find my book, Scam Goddess, out now on the lines in the bookstores. Yes.

[Maureen]

It's hard to write a book. Isn't it hard?

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, it is. And I was writing it while I was shooting iCarly and Lopez and filming a movie in Atlanta.

[Maureen]

That's hard.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, it was rough, but I loved it. And I loved, like, reading the audiobook was probably harder. Like, I was, like, trying to put. I took a lot of vocal lessons before. Like, so I didn't sound like this.

[Maureen]

No, you sound great.

[Lacey Mosley]

But. Yes. And then also watch Going Dutch. You can stream that on Hulu. Also, you can stream my TV show, Scam Goddess on Hulu and on Freeform. Yes, absolutely.

[Maureen]

Happy for you. Killing it. Honey, how's your mom?

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, my God. She's fantastic. She's doing great.

[Maureen]

She's so cute.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, thank you.

[Maureen]

Okay.

[Lacey Mosley]

All right, y'all. Congregation, I want you to get out there, stay bouncing, okay? Might be bouncing a check. You might be bouncing through the streets.

[Maureen]

You know, Just get out there, stay bouncing, stay bouncing.

[Lacey Mosley]

This has been an Earwolf production in association with Team Coco. Scam Goddess stars and is hosted by me, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Our producer is Jessica Cisneros and our audio engineer is Rich Garcia. Research for the show is conducted by Kate Doyle. Stay scheming with leading networking and connectivity, advanced cybersecurity and expert partnership. Comcast business helps turn today's enterprises into engines of modern, modern business powering the engine of modern business powering possibilities. Restrictions apply.

[Maureen]

So good, so good, so good.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Maureen]

You know, they have Marc Jacobs. Gotta show mom some love. That is so good.

[Lacey Mosley]

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