Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - Ex-Fraudsters Break Down the Smartest and Dumbest Scams

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

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Listen wherever you get your podcasts. The best scams are when the victim thinks he's getting over on you. I don't like to have to convince somebody of anything in order for me to get paid. I enjoy speaking to the people because I'm going to manipulate you. When he said no driving, he meant don't get caught driving. I'm driving. I'm breaking the law. Like, who's going to stop me? Are you going to sign an officer to me every time I step out of the house?

I got to come take the car. He better to go to sleep at any time. He's like, where do you go? Can you think of a scam that would work? I wanted to hear Boziak's opinion of what you offered as opposed to what I offered on the mail-in bullshit? He's going to back me up. Okay, let's see. So run the scam one more time for me.

All right. So somebody's sending out letters to people telling them that someone died and you're going to, you can get part of the inheritance. Here's my issue with any... I'm one of those people that... The scams, I don't like to deal with people. Okay, I don't like to have to convince somebody of anything to, in order for me to get paid. Because I just, I just, I clam up and I have that anxiety inside of me.

Like most people that do that, I mean, I'm not talking shit. They're drug addicts. Most people that do those kinds of scams are, have been lifelong drug addicts. And for whatever reason, those people have that, that, that mechanism inside of them that they just don't get embarrassed, they don't get ashamed, they can say anything to anyone and try and convince anyone of anything because that's what they've been doing their whole life to get their drugs. So it's like I just don't have that in me.

I don't feel like I had that mechanism in me. I can't walk up to somebody I don't know and try and convince them. But that's not that. Either A, to commit a crime openly or B, that somehow I have a bunch of money that I'm going to give. Because listen, anybody with two cents that rolling around inside of their head is going to smell scam from a, mile away. But that's not the scam. That's not what he did. That's not the question. Well, we already know this is a scam that we're, it's called the Nigerian friend scam.

Well, right, but we're saying the different, I'm, I'm explaining. I would like to see. You're right. Honestly, I know you guys think this is such a great scam, but I honestly would like to see the statistics on how many times this actually, that they actually get money at all. No one thinks it's a good time. I don't think it's a good time. I don't think it's just tweaking it. Listen, it's what's called the Nigerian print scan. No, I understand the Nigerian prince scheme. Okay. It's been around for a long time. Right. So what I'm saying. Amazing how I fell for it. What I'm saying, and you didn't fall for, you kind of fell for. You were taken in a little bit, but you didn't fall in for it.

If you'd fallen for it, you would have paid. Yeah. So here's what I'm saying is that the difference is I'm saying the scam in general, I don't like it. But if you were going to do it, if they tweaked it a little bit, it's easier to tweak it by saying, because it was a law firm that contacted him. You can make it look like anything. Right. Their problem is the letter did not look like a letter from a law firm. Yeah.

The guy that answered the phone was did not sound like an attorney. Nope. The amount of money that they off that they. So you're saying if somebody had this operation down to a T would work. Yeah, I think, I think it was less money. Because they were trying to get me for $10,000. And he's saying if it would have been like $450. But trying to convince somebody that they have an inheritance coming, that you,

but you need to give me money first before you get the inheritance. I just think that's, I don't think that's even. I think you don't understand. I think it's crazy. I think that's the most insane thing ever. What it is is the guy is saying, hey, listen, this isn't really rightfully yours. Your name is close to.

So you're trying to convince someone to commit fraud. That makes it even worse. Yep, cool. That makes it even worse. But if you were in, yeah, if you were inclined to participate, then that's where he grabbed, because that's where they grabbed me. Because it's like, hey, this is $11 million. It's the carrot.

And I'm like, are you, so you're saying this woman dying, that this is legal. This is legal. I've been able to trace your lineage and somehow you're loosely related to this guy. So it's legal. We're going to go through all the legal steps to get you this money. My firm knows how. Yeah. I just need you to pay.

To me, that's just such a hard sell. Like it's complicated. It's a hard sell. And I agree. And you're calling. It's random people in the U.S. You're not. And people are going to be like, what the fuck is, are you, what the fuck is this?

You're not listening. What we're saying is it, it, it's, what we're saying. I understand what you're saying, but you're not listening. This is something that does happen and it does work. It's worked for a long, I'd like to see the statistics on that. What, what the question. And they all got to be seniors. They got to be the people that are just absolutely retarded or they're in 90 years old.

The question is this. The question is, if you were running that scam, which one do you think would work better? Asking for, which, which one do you think you'd make more money at? asking $10,000. Asking for a large amount. It's the lower amount. The lower amount. Always the lower amount.

You're going to get more people to pay the lower amount than the few people that are going to pay the $10,000. One, most people just don't have it. But he targeted huge. He targeted people. I understand, but they don't typically target roofers. They typically target just in general people. They're tweaking that scale. But how many, okay.

So let's look at it in just sheer numbers. How many people, how many people fall victim to the crime? I mean, how many times are they successful over or not? So if you, if you, this is a scam that works a lot, then you can hit a bunch of people for low amounts of money to get you, to get you to the amount that you want. But if this is something that barely ever works, then I see them going for the high amounts.

Well, I think it works because your friend when he, because he's like, all right. God, who's calling who falls for this? Like I can't, I can't imagine the person. What is this? Like, what's going on? I can tell you right now. Do you know who falls for this?

Uh-oh. Me. No, no. No. The average. person. I'll tell you right now, did you watch Casey Anthony's trial? Yes. Remember her father was a former police officer? Yes. He paid like $7 or $8,000 to a scam like this. Are you serious? Absolutely. It was in the trial. It was this embarrassing thing that he, they got on there. They had to admit that they'd had

financial problems. Why did you have financial problems? Oh, yeah. Because he'd been taken in by the, by the Nigerian print scam. And he paid, he paid, he paid like six grand. And then they came back and they got him again. Total, I think it was like 15 grand. So I got a little story. average people fall for it. This kid I used to work with. I worked for a very short period of time when I lived in Los Angeles. I worked at a company that built furniture out of mahogany, like really high-end, you know, one chair was like five grand.

But this kid was a moron. This kid was an absolute dip shit. He worked in the warehouse. He just moved boxes around, you know, just an absolute idiot. This guy somehow, where am I going to start in the story? Okay, so we used to have these lifts. in the warehouse. And it was just like a long platform

and you can go all the way up and pull the furniture off the top onto the platform and lower yourself down. When you get on these lifts, you're supposed to put on a harness and clip yourself off in case you fall off the side of the platform you don't smack your face on the ground and die.

You don't go all the way down. Well, this idiot didn't wear a harness and he was up there, fell off the platform, smacked his face on the ground, on the cement, busted his head open, had a bunch of stitches, sued the company,

and won. The company then, after they paid him out, let him come back to work. For whatever reason, I don't understand this. They hired him back. So he gets a phone call one day by someone claiming to be the IRS saying that you need, you owe us X amount of dollars. And if you don't go down to the store and get gift cards,

Visa gift cards right now and give them to us. Somebody's going to come to your house and arrest you. This motherfucker went down to the store. Got $7,000 in gift cards and went back and gave them to the person over the phone. Yes. And in my mind, I'm like, oh my God, are you kidding me? Like, you didn't, like, how dumb do you have to be? Like, because I know right away, like, that's insanity.

To even do something like that's insanity. I've met people who've done that. But this kid was dumb. Like, and I'm like, okay, well, this is the type of person that falls for these scams. I mean, this kid was just a moron. He didn't have any common sense at all. You know what I mean? Barely could keep up his personal hygiene.

It's one of those kids. You know what I mean? Constantly high, smoking dope all day, all day long. And I'm like, oh my God. That's crazy. To that point. I fell for that. Like, you ask him.

But that's a diamond in the rough. How many people do you got to go through before you find that one age? And that's the whole goal of fishing. That's the goal of fishing. They, where they pass out the CDs on the Hollywood Boulevard and out in California. I was green. I didn't know that there was all bullshit and there was nothing on the disc.

Here, man, support my music. You know, like they're supposed to be a rapper. And then they hand you the CD and they're like, oh, I'm accepting donations. And then if you don't, and if you don't give them, the money, they create like a big scene and all this other shit. So I gave the dude $20 and then I got in the car and put the disc in. I'm just like, are you kidding me? This asshole put he's just out there with bullshit.

Like I didn't know. I don't even think that's a. I don't know. That's a street scam. But I don't even. That is a scam, but I kind of feel like that's just. That's a small when you're talking about. Not that you got it.

That's a small when you're talking about. No, because I'm thinking that this guy is an artist. I'm going to see he's a rapper. I'm going to support his music. Right. And then you get it. It's just like. Indian shit.

Right. Like, oh, he got me. But look at all, if you think about all the work he put into getting, like, where did he buy all those CDs, putting him in cases, label them all? Yeah, he did a lot of work to get whatever he get. So that's just kind of like what you're talking about. That's the small scam you're talking about. Yeah, he's probably getting five people an hour.

Yeah, it's like a hundred bucks an hour out there. And if he stays out there, and if the guy comes back and yells at him, he'll be like, you don't like, you don't like, what do you know, I don't give back any, you know, where they do, they call the cops and they don't. He packs up and leaves. Technically, he's not breaking the law. Technically, I don't think he's breaking the law, to be honest. That's why they're out there doing it.

Right. Yeah. So I felt for it. I felt for it because I just had no idea. But I don't think. It seemed like a legitimate thing. You know what I mean? That's true.

I mean, I wouldn't compare it. What were you going to say, Matt? Oh, it's going to say that, you know, I think, I don't even feel like that's really a scam. I wouldn't feel stupid for giving him $20. Well, have you ever felt for a scam? No, you know, I think probably the closest I've come is, um, Like, and you've, I know everybody's been approached by this person, not the same guy, but the same kind of kind of guy where they're like, excuse me, man, you're with your girl.

Hey man, I got to talk to you real quick. Look, I'm not, I'm not like a bum or nothing. I got a job. I work in Orlando and this and you're an Ebor City. And he's like, uh, the problem is I came. I drove here with a bunch of guys. We got to an argument. They left me here.

I'm stuck. I can get a bus ticket back for 30 bucks. I got like 20. I got like 25 bucks. You give me $10 to get me back. Just give me your address. I'll send you the money back. Junkies all.

And you're looking at, and you know, you kind of look at him. You're like, listen. I'm going to give you the 10 bucks because I get it. And not, but I don't want you. And I even said, but I don't believe that. No, no, no. I don't believe that. Because here's the thing.

What kind of a human being are you that you can't pick up the phone and call someone to send you money or drive from Orlando to pick you up? There's a reason why all those bridges are burned. Right. Right. Right. So it's a scam. It's bullshit.

But I am with my girl. here's $10. You know what I'm saying? There's a twist on that scam, by the way. So if you ever pull up to a gas station and you have somebody say, oh, I'm completely parked by a pump, I'm completely out of gas,

I'm stranded, I don't have no money. All I need is like $10, 15 you can put in the gas tank for me. He's like, you only got to give me the cash. You can just go in there. So you go in there, you tell the guy, like 20 on five. So then they act like they're pumping the gas, but they don't pump the gas. And then you leave the gas station.

They go back in there and they get that $20 from the attendant because they didn't pump the, oh, I'm not going to pump the gas. so they get the money. And they get out of you a couple times on that one. He's getting exposed. He's getting exposed. That type of stuff works on.

Oh, I think I've got to go over one scam on that day. That type of thing works on people with good heart. Yes. They pray on people like that. Oh, absolutely. Like they see me and, you know, I'm hopping out of a jaguar or whatever. Hey, bro, you'll, you know, such and such, I turn and look and I see like a grown man. I'm like, bro, you should have got up earlier, got your ass to day labor.

You know your car doesn't run on hope. Get you some money. You're a grown man. Like, go get you some money. I'm not a donating motherfucker, bro. I'm not a donating. Like, I go to Wawa and I see a grown dude with bigger muscles than me asking me for something.

Bro, you're going to get high. Yeah. Why you ask you for a discount on something or something? You know, don't. I'm not going to give you so you can go get of a plug. Fuck you. I'm just trying to get something to eat. No, you're not.

Because if you were, you would have got up early. You knew you ain't had no money when you woke up. You didn't wake up hungry. Yeah, no. You were really hungry, you'd woke up hungry, and you'd go on the day later. You knew you had no money when you woke up. You gave me five bucks for gas. I was just going to ask you the same thing.

I'd drive a Jaguar or I got to do codi all less it drinks champagne. You got five on it? You look like you got money. Well, I need it. I need to support this look. I got to maintain this shit, though. Fuck that. Target for some of us.

You look, you're just a friendly looking guy. Hey, let me get it. He's probably wondering, I'm smiling. He's thinking about the hundreds of thousands he's making on the city. Some people just have, some people have just a lot of empathy. A lot of people have a lot of empathy inside of them. So they feel bad if they don't give it. Like, oh, because they, and that's where they take advantage.

That's where those junkies take advantage. They, they, they, they, they snip those people out. Like, because they're all manipulators. They're all manipulators. Everybody. Yeah, so they know how. You go on to Dillards. they're manipulating you to apply for instant credit.

They need to sales. I was a scam I was going to bring up, by the way. You go to Honda. I love it when they asked me for, would you like to start open a Home Depot? Open a credit card. My probation officer said I can't open any lines of credit while I'm on probation. They're like, oh, okay.

And they just keep going. Man, I made a living off of over, umbunctious back then, Macy's, Burdines, dealers. Yeah, I would go in there. They want that commission. I've got the driver's license.

I've got all my info right. That was the scam I was going to bring up. I've got it all waiting. And I'm just walking around. I walk around in the polo section. Back then, the Nautica section. You know, hey, you want to try Instagram? I don't know.

They still do that to the state, don't they, Instacredit? Yeah, but they don't aggressively. Pursue it. Listen. They used to have. They used to have podiums right outside of Dillards. And before you walk, hey, you're just trying to get out to your car. Yeah.

Hey, we've got teddy bears, lollipops, just if you apply. Now they've definitely tried to catch you at the counter and sign up for the credit card. Yes, it's at the counter. Yes, it's at the counter. Before you ring that out. That's why I always remember it at the counter. So what's the credit. That was what I was going to bring up.

Like you said, the scam would be instant credit where you would go into stores and try to buy something telling us outside of your budget. And then the store would say, well, hey. As America turns 250 this year, it has me thinking about the people that really help build this country. Not the ones in history books. I'm talking about American ranchers. The men and women who wake up before the sun, work long days and keep food on our tables year after year.

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That's good ranchers.com American meat delivered. How about getting one of our credit cards? You want to apply for one of our credit cards. and we'll extend you to credit that way you can leave here with whatever you want. So that's kind of a scam, but it's not like a scam against another person. It's kind of a scam against the company and the bank. You know what I'm saying? We have been talking about scams against other individuals.

Well, how does that work? All right, the way it works is you get a fake ID of someone that has good credit, someone you know that has good credit. Then you take that fake ID into like, Six was just saying, into a department store or a store, and then they ask you, hey, you want to apply for instant credit? All you need is the ID. So you show them the fake ID.

You give them the person with good credit social and the date of births on there, and then they run it. And they basically just base it off of their credit score. And if they have a good credit score, they issue them credit and allow them to purchase whatever they want out of the store. Me and my ex, we used to call that like, what is it, will a fortune, where you go, I'll take the flat screen TV. How much credit I have?

6,000. Take the flat screen TV for 2,850. Then you move on. What do I got left? The dinette set for 1,700. Loaded up in the truck. They go, well, we want it delivered? Yeah.

You want it delivered? Yeah. No, I already brought a truck. You bought it. Ironically. I happen to have a U-Haul with me. That's right. Ironic, and it's backed up.

And it's backed up. So that's the instant credit. So how do you, how do you get, where do you get the ID? That's a good question. So, and what normally, most people have a plug for a fake ID. I heard you're going to start all those conversations with, I don't know, but I've heard. You know, I remember back. Yeah. When, when, when, when, when Zach and I did that exact thing, because that, that thing works. Oh, my God. exact thing.

I used to have his ex in my ear on the Bluetooth. Well, they upgraded it because at first if you're, they would go strictly off your credit score.

Then I guess it became a problem. So they said, okay, well, we'll ask them some qualifying questions. Questions that only you would know. Only the person would know. So when they started doing that,

I'm like, well, I don't know where all that information is. and like I met someone in jail that told me oh that's just Lexus Nexus information I said are you kidding me not credit file Lexus Nexus which tells you Lexus Nexus it's like a detail it's a company where the government

was actually taking information from all angles and compiling it into one source Beth Boziak she's in what age range from 45 to 20 your automobile and tag where you've gotten mail where you've had the color of your car phone numbers that you've listed on different documents, know associates, school, telephone numbers.

You can, anybody can sign up with an account for Lexus Nexus right now, right? No, all that information. Well, you can, but it's expensive. Yeah. And it takes certain certifications for a different company. Anyone can that fits certain criteria. You said I own a financial institution and you had a license as that institution. They would say, okay, we can open an account.

Because you have a license. Right. So you're going to put it in the description. I do A, B and C. I'm bonder or whatever and here's my this and here's that and then they're going to verify this stuff. The people who use LexisNexis,

the hardest is bail bondsman. In case you skip on a bond. So we're all your relatives live. And they're able to break down each. Yeah. That's what you drive. And the car color. That's what I used to see on those letters. So what would happen?

Car color. You go when you go up to the cashier and there's also you have to have people with good credit. So that also it's something you have to obtain. So in order to pull it off, you have to have

information of who has good credit. Right. Right. They would qualify. And the second form of ID because they're going to want to swipe the card. I know with Burdines and all of that, they wanted to swipe the ID so I could get around Oh yeah. That was the

those green dots. That's where the green dots. Yeah. And really green dots for a second. really all it is is you take a gift card or whatever type of cars. So the green dot, you can call and register those and put a name on the Social Security. So that you can get things, use it online and get things shipped to you. Right. But all it is is putting that information on just like your read or writer.

It's just putting that information in. So I don't have my driver's license. I know the number. I got my DL number. All I happen to have is my debit card for some reason. And they're thinking, Bing, Bing, Bing, because I need that second form. Yeah.

So, and then then I would say, well, listen, we'll just run it just so I can get this free teddy bear. I doubt I'll get it anyway. Yeah, this whole scam. I'm not going to get it anyway, but let's just run it so I can get this free teddy bear. And I've got this debit. And then all of a sudden it process, because I know this guy's got a 780. So, oh, man, just here, just give me that. And then I'll just run to the house and get, I can't use this approval anyway with no ID.

so just get and they're going to give it because they want the bonus they want whatever it is so they they want their credit for getting you signed up so he's what he's saying is that they'll they'll let you they'll run the credit and approve you just on knowing what your ID and knowing all your personal information and a debit card so then you'll take the receipt becomes the credit card because then if they scan the receipt it accesses their credit card account so when so he's like just give me the receipt I'll run to the house and get the ID for you oh yeah yeah yeah because I just made 25 bucks for getting you approved for a credit card as the clerk. Yeah.

Really, he does what? Really, you do what? You go and you shop. Of course. You leave that store. Because the whole purpose of their instant credit and they give you this, hey, if you spend today, you can get 10% off of your purchases. Right.

So I use that as, listen, I want to get as much. I'm kind of cheap. So I'm going to max this thing out so I can get the most savings. Today. Today. It's 10% to day. I'm definitely not going to do it there because the attendant knows I have no ID. I can go to another place and I'm the opposite of you where I enjoy speaking to the people

because I'm going to manipulate you. And I can flash an ID. It doesn't have to be John Levensworth. Oh, because the name's not even on it. Yep. No, it's just this receipt. That's how it was. That's how it was.

So I can flash the ID. What was this was like 30 years ago? So 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah, this whole scam you guys were talking about just moved online because all of these websites started offering instant credit. Like Best Buy started doing it. Target started doing it. The Walmart started doing it.

Target was our favorite. Yeah, everybody started doing it. A thousand books. You apply for anything. They ask you like, you know, like what college did you go to? And they give you like four different ones and you're like, oh, boom. And they're like, what color car were you, did you have during this period of time? Oh, it was red.

Then they ask you all these different, like what mortgage companies have you ever had a mortgage with? And then they give you, then you're like, oh, they get into that when there's some type of discrepancy in that instant credit portion immediately. Right. The key with what he had and what he was doing, when we're at that register doing the instant credit, I'm giving you the number that's on credit. I'm giving you the address. So all these key points match, here's the instant credit. If there's some type of discrepancy, I got a new phone number. whatever small thing,

there's that one discrepancy, yeah, go ahead and call. That's what Target was like. So Burdines and did all of them, they want you to call anyway. Circuit City. Circuit City. Circuit City.

They want you to call anyway. Michelle Obama's going to call. And then that was where Madison. Oh, yeah. So we'd have the Lexus Nexus report and we'd be outside and you'd have an earplug in. So when they call and ask you those questions, like what color was the

such and such car? that you own and he would say what color and he would just repeat it back because she can hear you on the phone she can't hear the person. Because you're actually on a telephone. Yeah. So she can't hear a person on the telephone. So you just repeat the question back. I remember what's so funny

is I remember us talking about that. You're like well how the hell is you going to hear the person on the phone? I go repeat the question back. Oh, what color? Yeah. What color? It is so loud. Oh, God. You know, I switched around a couple times. What are that car again? I would just repeat it.

because it's so loud in here. Yeah. So you said what college I went to? So what are the examples again? What college was I going to in 1996? That's the question? Yeah. That was...

And then I could literally hear Madison shifting around. I could see her in her in my head, like sitting on this hotel plush, hotel bed. Oh, no, no. We remember we were outside in the... One time we were outside, but a couple of times we're out in the car, but we might be back at the house. Yeah, this whole scam is... During those times, they were anxious for the... the payout.

We'd be in the U-Haul waiting and waiting. How small is the earbutt in your year? This is back in early 2000. It was huge. But just because I have that on, doesn't mean I'm on the phone. Everybody. That was back in the M.

I'm not hiding. I'm not hiding. I'm on the phone. They don't know that you're on the phone. It's just that I have the phone attached. But I've got the bud in this year. And a phone in this year. Remember the ones that went around your neck and you can just take the buzz off and put them in your ears and put them back? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I believe Zach had a pair of those. Yeah, those were popular for a while. With the older. This is all prior to the iPhone, by the way. Yeah. This is all Blackberry. Pre-2007. Yes.

Blackberry time. Oh, yeah, I remember the Blackberries. Sure, absolutely. But yeah, you'd have to get, in order to get a fake ID, you, generally you have to know someone that was me. That was you, that has a connector that made them. And if you had them, you would tell people like, look, I got them this much money. And then you would get surrogates that, let's say you had a fake ID for $200. Mine were three.

With three, then I would tell everybody it's 400 because I'm going to make 100 because I'm going to deal like I'm going to be the middleman. So I'm going to bring you customer, bring it away, and that's you put the word out. So generally people who are in the scamming arena know someone that's doing IDs. But I think, my friend, let me call it. It's kind of like you send the word out. It's like. You just go online now and order. Oh, my God.

I was vending online. I think he's right. Almost all my IDs. You can do that now. Oh, yeah. A lot of those online IDs that come in, I've heard are crap. Yeah. They're like paper thin.

They're advertising. You know, I've got holograms. But you got to look at my gosh way. If you go to three different websites and you pay 400 bucks for the same ID from four different websites, one of them is. You're going to get four pieces of garbage. Well, I think one of them's. One of them's, well, obviously you can go on. You can look at the reviews.

Are these decent? Are they, you know, so you're probably going to get one. Let's assume you pay $400 to three different people as $1,200 and you only get one decent ID. For $1,200 bucks, that's worth it. You know what I'm saying? To get one working decent ID. So for the purposes of this exercise, we're assuming that all of this is going to take an ID. So we're assuming that we can get a hold of this good ID.

Yeah, but I mean, you have to figure out where you're going to. You know, it's different what you guys would do. You know, you guys are banking on getting someone's information that has good credit. That also requires what I call mining. Yeah. So you'd have to ask like, like, where can I get? And probably like now, you can buy it online back in 2000, early 2000. Like dumpster diving and shit.

Dumpster diving? Or employees of banks and companies. You know, you know somebody. That's my thing. I'm going to find. I was huge. Yeah. Back in the day.

Anybody I meet like, what's your girl do? Yeah. All your guys is operations were an- always. Oh, she's always. Anybody. Ask him. Every single person that we met was a potential.

Like, what is your girl? Especially in jail. Like, what is your girl? Oh, she works at you. Really? All three of you guys. That's a part of the conversation. All three of you guys.

What do you do for a living? All three of you guys, all of your operations were analog. Oh. mine were all digital like I never had to interact with anybody ever I never had to convince anybody of anything I never had to talk to anybody about anything nothing like I never had to rely on somebody

being in a store giving me information like that's just what separates I think the crimes that I did between you guys because you guys are more like I know a chick that works here that she can get a sense of information like I just never I never went that route ever so when I do I do these he was surveying people on the street

I do these home title lock right commercials and I do interviews for home title lock and stuff where I get interviewed. And that's one of the things I always mention is that I'm like when in my day, I physically had to go to the bank. I physically had to go into public records. I physically had to go to the title company. I physically had to meet, you know, these guys that I'm serving.

Like, and now it's like you could take your laptop and you can go sit in a Starbucks. And you can sit here. I can, I can go online and search public records. and download your your um the deed to your house i can open up bank accounts in the name of a fake i can i can apply for loans online i can schedule loans and in all but 13 states you don't even have to go to the closing anymore you can go to it's called uh they're called um remote notary closings so they send you all the documents you then sign all the documents they then have somebody come on who's a remote notary let me see your ID let me see your face

that you do that whole thing, and then they notarize all the documents. They then wire the money to the bank accounts that you have that you now have access to online. Like everything that I used to do in person is now able to be all of it. Yeah, and now if they request any documents, I can make them and send them. You want my driver's license? Here you go. You want my birth certificate? Here you go.

You want my high school diploma? Here you go. You want my mortgage. Here you go. And by the way, the only thing that would stop this type of crime is home title. Home title lock monitors your property records, alerts you of any changes, and if you are a victim, they jump in with their team of restoration experts to resolve the issue. You can get a 30-day free trial of their triple lock protection and a complementary title history report by going to home titlelock.com and using promo code Matt 30 or click on the link in the description box. So even back then there were the virtual crooks.

Like there were the guys that, you know, we're getting the numbers because I remember there were, we were trying to get credit card numbers to do this credit. And I've had guys that they were like, oh, yeah, I could get these, you know, cards online and stuff. Where with how we were operating and when I was operating, I would rather go get that credit card number. Like I back then, how I was getting mine.

info like I would go to you know a hotel with a concierge that looked like he smoked me I could never I can never even approach anybody like that yeah but I'm super recruiting is my favorite it's it's it's a part recruiting is my favorite yeah you guys dig it I am I'm a blue collar yeah I'm puking in my mouth I'm way into the in the lobby I'm built different like I love that's a whole part of the allure yeah like going in and see and I love the dressing the part you don't know who I am until I tell you who I am. And I can make whatever believable about whatever. That's why when Zach was like, hey, let's do it.

I'm like, where have you been all my life? I can't wait to scam and fraud and put on this costume and become whoever it is. I tell you I am. Social engineering. My thing was, in order to get information, I would see you as this, he's probably with a little bit of the bullshit. I would write my phone number down on a $100 bill and, give you that with it. Hey man, listen, give me a call later, bro. It's about some money.

I've never not had a return call. You know what the problem? You know what the problem? Most people look at that is that they think, oh, you give them the hundred bucks and he never calls. But what does it matter? If you give five, if you give out that to five different guys and one guy calls. Yep. And you make a hundred thousand dollars. Then some people would be like, oh, you lost 400 bucks. I didn't lose 400. I knew I was going to lose four. It's fine. It's fine. I mean, it's the cost of investment. It's the cost of everything. Most people are nickel and diamond, though.

I've never had people not call because it's the curiosity. Yeah. It's the curiosity. And I'm telling you in the intro, oh, it's nothing illegal, bro. It's just to have a job opportunity. I had that happen to me one time in South Beach, but the dude wanted me to jerk off on camera. Well, I didn't know until I gave him a call later. He did the same thing with me, though.

Same thing is he want to make $150, $100. He's like, he gave me his phone number and he walked off. Was he, was he, when he handed you the money. When he handed you the money, did he hold your hand a little bit longer? No, you just seemed like a normal dude. And then I called a week later. He wanted me to come over and jerk off on camera.

It's like, fuck. Wow. That reminds me of the. Now, what, talk about a scam. And that's before, Only fans. This is like 2003, 2004. Good Lord. That reminds me of the.

So after you spent the money, I was going to say, do you still have a copy of the take? Reminds me of the... There was a girl coming up here saying she was going to give out a free blow jobs and a cup of coffee. If you just gave her, what was it, some toilet paper. And they go, oh, my God, well, that's ridiculous. I know, I know. I think she went down there over by Johnson.

And he holds up by coffee coffee. She's got a cup. I saw that on a TikTok one time. So she was giving out something like a Snickers bar and a blow job. Right. And then he said, hold out to sing for her like, I think she went up there. Oh, that is so funny. I think she went that way.

I was just saying, you know what's so funny is that whenever people, so, like, one of my scams that I had done, that, that it's, it's funny because you still have, well, we were talking about this, you don't really have to see the person. Now, like, if you could, if you could convert that scam to today, for example, you don't even have to see anybody now. Yeah, and like, you guys were like, you know, you need good credit. You need to get a dump that somebody has good credit. You can make the credit card.

You can do all these things. You know, you still need somebody with good credit. But when I was doing it, and there were times I used people with good credit or I created people with good credit. But the easiest version was if you can eliminate somebody with good credit and just get like, you know, like a homeless person's. You're so right. That's why it would end up having me going to jail like three times.

Using people with good credit. The way you do, the way I would do that is because if you have an asset, then people want to lend to you. Not, hey, I want you to give me a credit card for $20,000. I could go and, you know, I used to have to, I would go rent the house. I would go meet the people and everything. But now, because of like Airbnb and everything, like now you can, you could go survey homeless person, get his information.

order an ID in his name from some Russian website, get the ID. Now, granted, the homeless person has seen you, okay, admittedly, but the chances that they're going to track down a homeless guy three states away, like if you go to, if you go to Oklahoma and get five guys, and then you go to South Carolina, and then all you have to do is you've got the ID, you order an ID. If you order 10 IDs, what does it matter? If I spend $4,000 and I just get one ID that's passable, that I can go, you know, to the bank or even go online because this guy's going to have an ID. You know, you can survey somebody

and say, hey, yeah, yeah, I just need to get your ID. Oh, I don't have an ID. Sorry, I can't use you. You just wait. You talk to 20 guys. You're going to get some guys that have IDs. You pay them 20 bucks. You fill out the survey and you get all their information. And then you get somebody online to make that that ID only with your picture on it because I got all his information. So I open up, you open up a bank accounts online. And now you've got a bunch of several bank accounts online that are open and then you just apply i'm sorry you you then rent an air bn b and b and b and b you then you rent the air bn b and you call up several home several a hard money lenders like three hard money lenders to meet you at the air bn bn you know how hard money lender is yeah okay so like a hard money

is like a like a like a a lender but he's not licensed because he's only lending his own money it's perfectly legal it's like you've got a house for 400 000 they'll lend you 300,000 Is it like the title loan premise? Well, how do they put a lien on your property if they're just a hard money lender? You have to go through a financial institution. No, no, no. Anybody can write it up and file. I can file a lien right now on my next door neighbors.

And I would hold up in court? You know, probably not. But, you know, anybody can file, especially if I file a mortgage. It's fact, there's no contesting what's filed in public record. Yeah, there's none. It's just they record it. And so what happens, and these, by the way, these guys are all like, they do this all the time. You know, they actually have a closing.

So and somebody notarize it and they, they record it. And it's perfectly legal because they did lend you the money and you did sign the mortgage. So what I'm saying they have documented. So who does that like a title company? A title company does it comes and does the closing. They don't come in. You go to them. But yeah, but in like you could actually just, you don't even have to go.

They certify. Oh, I'm sorry. They notarized it. Yeah, they certify. I was going to say there was a transaction and what's in public record is legitimate. Can just a notary public come and do it? somebody who it's more than that because the money has to go from you the hard money lender it has to be wired to the title company and then they create a document that says hey this guy wired us 300,000 he's giving us giving this guy a mortgage and then I have to sign it and they notarize it and there's a closing statement that shows like the title company got 1100 bucks to write a title policy and $500 to search the title and they're going to charge $30 to record it like they show where all the cost

go. But in the end, the money has to go from you, the hard money lender to the title company, and they get dispersed, either by wire or check. So I'm saying you could rent, I could rent an Airbnb for two weeks. I could then go online and take the warranty deed. I could check and see if there's any mortgages, create satisfaction of mortgages, record those online. And I could then take that warranty deed and transfer it from the true owner's house or name into the fake identity's name. So now when the hard money guys show up and they look at the house, they walk around the house and they go, yeah, this is worth about $400,000. And I'm like I've done this exact scam. Like it's not they literally show up.

They walk through the whole house. They're praising. It's not. No, no, no. There is not. Yeah, there's not praise. It's just the guy who's going to get. Correct.

Give you the $400,000. That's the same thing we were talking about. Everybody thinks, the only reason you need an appraiser is if it's a bank, because the bank's not there. This is this guy's own money. He doesn't want to pay $500 to an appraiser because he would be going to get it. This is what I do for a limb so I can find the value. I was going to say, why wouldn't he just send an appraisal, an appraiser? Why would he spend $500?

Like, and not just, well, no, look at it like this. Right now, you right now, in our neighborhood, how many phone calls would you have to make? How do you find these hard money lenders? Right now, how many phone calls would you have to make to determine how much you think this house is worth? You know what the house across the street is selling for. You can go online and look it up. Exactly. You know, but the house that's almost identical to this house is across the street.

It's selling for $430,000. But he's going to want to see the condition of the home. Right. That's why he walks through it. He's going to walk through it. He's going to walk around it. And then he knows where to go. Your basement.

And honestly, they usually lower it too. Like you might be like, I can sell this for 430 and they're going to, but he's going to be like, I'll give you 400. I mean, what do I give a shit, bro? I'm not making it. It's all profit. So if he says 400,000, you go, okay, well, how much will you lend me? He'll go, I'll lend you 300,000. You go, okay, because there's two other guys coming. One other guy's coming in two hours. Another guy's coming in four hours. So you meet those guys. They all say the same thing. They schedule closings at different title companies. Those title companies search public records. And they see that you do own the property. And you bought it for 400,000. And this guy's going to lend you 300,000. And they put together the, uh, closing document. This guy wires the money to each title company gets a different wire from a different hard money lender. None of them know about each other. So if you get four of these guys, that's $1.2 million. And in this whole process, if somebody thinks something's wrong, you know what they do? They say, I don't feel comfortable. I'm not going to do it.

So if you call four, but listen, I've done this. I did this in Atlanta. I've done this in, I've done this in Orlando. I've done this in Clearwater. But all so analyzing that. I did this in Tallahassee. I knew I saw you. Analyzing that because everything is now online because when you did it, I had to, they had, none of it was online. Yes.

And Boziac mentioned something to me when we were, that's kind of one of the things that kind of got me thinking about this is Boziac mentioned most of these, most of these, Airbnbs, you don't, you never meet any of these guys. You never meet the owner. You never meet the owners. You walk up and there's a little keypad. You push the, you know, oh, it's 2-27 and then it opens up.

Oh, my God. You've got the key. That's it. I think I know what he's going to say. You can do it without even being there. I don't have to meet the guy that the hard money lender. I can just say, hey, listen, man, I'm not in town. I'm actually in L.A. right now.

I'm going to be back in a few days. You can go ahead and go in a lot box on the door handle for you. Here's the combination. You can even tell them this is an Airbnb. I live in, I live in Houston, Texas. I just happen on a bar. I'm borrowing against it. And they'll, and you're going to say, because there's furniture and stuff in there, but it's an Airbnb.

And they're going to go, yeah, yeah, what's the code? 227. They're going to walk through the whole place, put it back, call you up and say, listen, looks good. I can do 300,000. You go, okay, well, what's the rate you charge? I charge 14% plus 2% to, and you're like, ah, that's steep, but okay. Side note with that key box. So there's, there's scams all in Atlanta with people advertising on Facebook, renting houses.

that. That's old. They were doing that back in 2000. They're giving them the deposit. First months last month. First month. Running houses. They've got the key box information.

A legitimate lease agreement. Here's a lease agreement. So when you're going there, you're looking and everything and they've got the key. And let me know. The owner shows up like, what the fuck's going on? There was a chick. How horrible. To me, I would not have the heart.

That's fucked up. To do that to somebody. Oh, that's nothing. There was a chick that was in. So how much did that, the girl got $350,000? She leased a place for like a week. And then she put it online for sale. People were showing up and she was taking $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 deposit,

saying she was selling the house under market value and people are giving 15 grand, 20 grand, five grand, just to hold it. And they were writing a check to a title company. But she owns, she just opened a bank account in a title company, $350,000. This was a black woman, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is that even? I'm just saying, you know.

Well, I know that because I think her name was like, you know, Marquisa or something. I don't know. But anyway, she was her name was Kathy, guys. Her name was $350,000 in like a week. Like, oh, what you're doing to a family or someone for money? You know, it's funny about that? messed up. Boziac goes, when we did it, Boziac said, because we saw the pictures of her and she's like

22 years old. And Boziac goes, no, it's not her. She had to have somebody else that knows what's going on that was in this. And sure enough, a week later after they arrested her, they arrested the other chick who was like 35 years old. But I looked at her and I could tell she wasn't the brains of the operation. No, she was the face of it. Yeah.

I knew immediately. And that comes from all of our experience because you can always, we can always tell like, oh, that's not your scam. Yeah, right away. I'm like, yeah. I can ask me two or three questions and know that you're not the brains. So who was actually doing the, the paperwork.

Oh, that was, yeah, yeah, okay. Let's tell us how things have just evolved, you know. It's funny, too, like going to, do you remember when we were in prison? And it's funny, he would tell me about a scam that he had ran. And for Zach, it was always this. The biggest, the hardest thing for Zach to do was get the money in a bank he had access to.

Getting the money out of the bank was easy. For me, the hardest part of my scam wasn't getting the, it was easy for me to get a million dollars in a bank account. It was getting the money out. The only way I could think about how to get the money out was going and ask for cash. Can I have $7,000? Can I have $4,000? This guy, you know, he's transferring money.

He's putting it on the cards. He's doing this. He's buying this asset, selling, he's doing all these things. And draining the money, getting other people to go in and get the money. Like, I didn't know how to do any of that. And it's the same thing with this is that once you go to prison and you network up with all these guys, Like, to me, getting the $1.2 million in a bank account, that's the easy part. The hard part is getting it out.

My question to you is, why didn't you just write checks on the account and have people either cash to checks or cash to checks yourself under different identity? How many people do you have to deal? Like, once again, that's a lot of people that you have to. And then what happens is this. The account starts draining. And then they'll shut the account off until you to come in. That red flags in it.

So. Right. But here's the thing, though, you can, if you were to do, for instance, I knew a guy that he bought and sold silver and gold and precious metals. Oh, yeah. And he literally would have people wire him $80,000. He'd buy silver. He then calls a company that packages it and mails it to him.

FedEx. They would literally leave it by the front door. $80,000 sitting on a FedEx package leaning up the, I mean, $80,000 in silver or gold. And he'd go get it. you can do the same thing with diamonds i knew a guy that was literally for a couple he'd buy a couple hundred thousand dollars he'd wire the money they know it's good and they'd mail him the diamond yeah i think i think crypto's the move now though because you they got they got bitcoin atms

where you can just go right up to like what they have one what is it there's one in tampa there's a no there's a handful yeah there's a handful i've seen several there's one i don't know somebody was asking hey where's the bitcoin ATM i'm like you so i'm looking it up i'm I'm like, I think I had given them an address and they went and they're like, no, that's not, that one's not there anymore and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, bro, I don't know, man. There's, I don't even deal with Bitcoin. The international mall in Tampa, the, the big one.

There's a couple, there's like two there. Oh, yeah, I didn't, like, I didn't. And I thought it was like one. They're at the airports now. They're starting to stick them in the airports as well. Wow. So, yeah, as long as you got that Bitcoin wallet and you walk right up there and type that wallet number in, you're, you're cashing out.

And even my bank, that's the problem with Bitcoin is. It is traceable. Like you can get, move it here and here and here, but eventually. Because it's open ledgers. So anybody that moves any money on the blockchain, you can see. But you only have the wallet name. You don't have the, nobody's tied. Because I can open a Bitcoin wallet anonymously.

They don't ask you for your social security number, your data, ber if your name, none of that shit. It's just a string of numbers. So people can see, okay, this money went from this wallet to this wallet to this wallet. But then they have people who cash out Bitcoin. So, okay, I'm going to send my Bitcoin to your wallet. And then we're going to meet up somewhere and you're just going to give me cash. And it's just straight up dealing with one person.

person on one person, you know, and they got the ATMs that you can go cash out the ATMs now as well. And, you know, and then there's a lot of payment. You can buy houses with Bitcoin now. You got car lots accepting Bitcoin to buy cars. You got, you know, the problem is if it's illegal funds going into Bitcoin and I buy a house, that just tells the cops like, here's his address. It's where he lives. Yeah, you have to be able to get it out in cash or an asset that you can then resell. The great thing about it. But after moving that money around a 50 different wallets, They don't know. But there's still, even when you're moving around the 50 different wallets, you're moving

it around the 50 different wallet. Well, yeah, I understand. But Bitcoin disseminates like that. That's how Bitcoin moves around though. So it's not, it's not weird to see one, one wallet go to like 50. But if I'm investigating it, I'm going to walk those 50 different houses. Well, what's, but the wallets are anonymous. So you don't know who owns them.

But you know where the next transaction went to. Anonymous here, anonymous here, anonymous. You just keep finding. and getting into, oh, there's a name. The way to do it, the way the Bitcoin billionaire, the Bitcoin, all the big, big scammers do is they would go to a, what is it, an exchange. They'd send it to an exchange, and then it gets lost.

Because now the exchange is issuing you more or something. Now, they could then track that. The point is at some point you have to get it out of Bitcoin. Whether they can track it completely or not is questionable. But for the most part, unless you want to spend hours and hours and days sifting and moving in this, the best part is to try and get the money into a bank account and out of the bank account into assets that you could just resolve that aren't that aren't titled. Yeah.

Well, I would counter that anything that you do digitally has a digital footprint. Regardless if that name is a pseudo name or whatever because it can go to frank. But you can dead end a lot of those digital. There's a digital. But it has to be liquidated in order to dead end it. Yeah. Even with the launders, the whole premises to get that stuff off of where it's at, liquidated. Now I have it. Now I can be redeposited.

Right. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Some other way. How do I liquidate it? Is that let you buy something like precious metals? Because you buy the precious metals. You're buying $100,000 with the gold. It costs you like, or let's say $100,000 with the diamonds. It costs you about 3 to 6% just to buy it. Now I've got three, now I've got the $100,000 less, let's say, 3 gram. I can then turn around and go to another diamond person and sell it to them.

They're going to charge 3% to buy it from you, but they're going to cut you a chance. Those diamonds aren't really trace, aren't traceable. So now I got a check in any corporation I want that check issued. Did it cost me 6 to 9% to 9%? Yeah, it did. But it's worth 9% to get it back in the bank. And then you just pay taxes on it. But that original sale is traceable.

So if you're using, let's say I get all these bitcoins and I buy the diamonds. So they can see that it went to here and you bought the diamonds. Oh, you don't want to go back to that. But there's the liquidation part. Yes. Because I purchase it. Now I can anonymously. or however, take the liquid and sell it.

Yeah, yeah, the asset. Now I can put it on and now I can do whatever it is. There's plenty of ways to cash out Bitcoin without it leading back to a person. I mean, this isn't my area of expertise by any means, but I'm sure there's plenty of ways to get your money out of Bitcoin without actually tying it back to any kind of individual one single person.

What I know of anything that is digital, Bitcoin, dog, it's trackable. Right. Now that's by the very nature of by the very nature. But now it's anonymous. Right. So you can do, you know, that number did this.

Right. But if there were winding time and they, oh, I know that this number is hot. But the exchange, you know, it's interesting. But once it goes into the pot of the exchange, it's not guaranteed that all of that, that line of Bitcoin came out and went to. So they don't know specifically. It kind of gets lost. No.

No. You couldn't do a deep dive. You have to do a deeper dive to find out. But if I'm Johnny, if I'm Johnny, if I'm Johnny, if I'm the economics crimes expert and we're doing an investigation, it's ABC. He's got to follow it. It's going to follow it. I'm going to follow this. If it's a million dollars, I'm sure they're not going to do all that resource.

If it's a million dollars, yeah. Oh, absolutely. They'll do that for a third of it. Right. You'll do it for a third of it. There's a victim in the crime. There are people that make their entire living just tracking Bitcoin's scam. Like they just tracking the money.

You can get your money out of these exchanges anonymously. Like just how you set up a bank account under somebody else's identity, you can go to these exchanges under somebody else's identity under a business. Get the Bitcoin into the exchanger. Then once you pull it out of the exchanger, you just disappear like a fart in the wind. Yep. You know what I mean? Because it's out.

But anything, even it's going in this exchange. They're following this number. They don't know what name is on it. So this number broke into seven. Oh, well, I've got seven different footprints. And here's the beauty of Bitcoin. All of them. I'm just following all of them.

Let's say, let's say, let's just following all. Let's say you steal $100 million in Bitcoin and you have it in an account. I love this fantasy. Go ahead. They can't do anything about it. They can't seize that account. They can't seize that account. They can't do anything to it because it's on an open lead.

That's just by the very nature of how Bitcoin operates. They can watch that account. And if that money gets moved out, then they'll know where it gets moved too. But it's not like the federal government can go and be like, oh, I need to shut this Bitcoin wallet down. They can't. It's impossible. Because they don't know.

That's the fucking beauty of it. The only time that they've been able to do that is when it's going. into an exchange and they've had jurisdiction over the exchange and they've contacted the exchange and said, don't send that money anywhere. That's connected to a bank fraud. It's $2 million. And then they're like, oh, shit. Yeah, there's accounts right now that the FBI I've been watching for decades with hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin and they can't do anything about it. All they can do is watch. And the inverse, the investigation purpose is it falls under tax. Like this huge number did it get taxed or this huge number that's going out of the country.

That's the crime. That's the crime. But that's what opens up the investigation. It's also money laundering. Londering, recall. That's all. That's the... Or if they know that this crypto was stolen from this wallet, then that's...

Then that bank fraud, water fraud. You know, I think even... And I want to... This is funny because I had this conversation the other day. Somebody got charged with, like, mail fraud. And I was trying to think of... Because he hadn't mailed anything, but he got charged with mail fraud. And then I started thinking, like, are they considered...

He had sent emails and I thought are they considering emails part of mail fraud? I don't think so I know I don't think so You know what like the generic the mail fraud and the With the money laundering or or the access devices like those are just door those are those are just the most Like it doesn't matter like I don't give them what you did one size one of those three Well you know you've done one of those I was so broad I got That's so, that is so, like, if I had your social security number, oh, that's access device fraud.

How? A social security number is an access device to that person. Like, what the hell are you talking about? More like aggravated identity. But, but so. No. Okay. So, well, listen, here's what I'm thinking is.

I got charged with money laundering when, and I was like, I have a lot. Like, they said, no, no, you stole money. You defrauded the bank out of money. You put it in a bank account and you removed it. Removing it is, I'm like, how else was I going to get the money there? It doesn't matter. As soon as you removed it, every dollar was, it could be a charge. Every dollar.

Well, every transaction. Oh, okay. Every time I walked in and I said, I want $3,000. That's $3,000 in money laundering. That's a whole other charge because then two days later I went back said, I need $9,000. That's another, every one of them, they had hundreds of them that I'd been in. And it was like, just removing the money in cash, money laundering. I don't see how that's money laundering, but that's what they said.

Now, they got that charge of fraud, but still. It's just like any charge. Like walking into a, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, convenience store with a credit card, you can either charge you with this or usually the beginning detectives be like, I'll tell you what, identity theft, fraudulent use of defrauding a parm broker, larceny because of the theft, amount. You plead it all the way down to grand theft. At the end of the day, I get one charge, a third degree felony.

And they just pile it on amount. So they can tell the press like, hey, this guy. It's your bonding with the status. They want to make sure that bond is up here. Oh, yeah. We're going to charge you with all this stuff. We'll let the courts and the state figure that stuff off. You're only going to get really plead guilty to one.

But we're going to tell everybody in the country. Right now it's 50 because we don't want you getting out of jail. Especially if you're someone like me that I firmly believe in shut the fuck up. Yeah. So whenever I'm and I'm in cuffs, there's zero talk. I am super uncooperative because I know you know who I am. That's why you arrested me. I'm not even.

I'm not even a dickhead about it. I'm just like straight up. Like, I don't feel like I have anything to benefit by cooperating with you in any way, shape, or form or giving you a statement. I'll take my chances with the judge. I know you got a job to do. I'm not trying to be an asshole. But I don't have anything to benefit from this.

I'm sorry. They are the low end. It's very courteous. That's how I, that's exactly how I talk to the police. Oh, it's funny. He got pulled over by the cops in his vehicle was searched when he was on his vehicle was searched when he was on his way here from.

In Tennessee, they got me in Tennessee. I was on my way down here from Indiana. I was moving down here. This is 2022. And these guys, for sure, they mean, they pulled me over. They searched my car. I had everything I owned in the vehicle at the time. They pulled all of it out.

They went through every bag, every box, anything with a zipper or a pouch in it. They went through it. They looked through everything. Obviously, I'm not moving drugs. I don't have anything on me. I don't have no warrant. So I just sat there completely courteous with them. They opened the trunk.

It's like, you guys looking for the mother load back there or what? They're like, no. They did that after they ran your name? Is that what made them? Yeah, they ran. They ran me. have any no warrants no nothing they're like and then right when he was giving me my stuff back he's like do you mind if i searched a vehicle i'm like absolutely not go ahead an hour later they're still

searching you know what i mean they're like we're looking for um drugs and and large amounts of cash is basically what they told me what they were looking at we all yeah i was like you guys looking for the mother load or what and they're like no we're looking for large amounts of cash and drugs is pretty much what comes through here side bar the worst belief sidebar yeah you mind if i searched the car fuck you fuck no i don't know what i don't know what I had a roach fell up under the seat. I don't know. I am always saying no.

If I had larger amounts of cash, would I be thriving? While you search my car, I'll search yours. Yeah. And it was funny as they never searched my person. Hopefully not. They're looking for shit. They never had anything. They never Pat searched me.

They never, nope. They were more concerned about searching the vehicle than they were about me. I was being so courteous with them. That's a mind slip. The only time, the only time, the absolute only time I'm respectful with with the law and I get pulled over like a roller motorcycle. It's doing release. Well, during the release.

Thanks, guys. That's after you've given me my license registration back and told me that you're going to give me a warrant. Once I know I'm leaving. Once that, in beforehand, and links in the description below for my six, six gear check me out. But anytime I'm pulled, like I'm a dickhead

because you're the law. We're not friends. Yeah. Like you're pulling me over. There's a thursday. thousand things I could have been doing, not one of them is getting pulled over by you, dickhead.

So, damn. I just got pulled over. I am in the wrong because I got lights and backing me. Have you ever been searched your car? What? That's all that ever happened to me when I, when we lived in Atlanta, we were searched constantly.

And always, we got searched so much, I started saying no. I'm like, hey, I'm not dealing with all these freaking searches. So we assert so much, um, constantly, they always tell us we smell weed.

We want to search the car. I'm like, what? I'm like, what? And then they search the car. They're taking apart the seats, you know, and then they're like, okay, y'all can go. I'm like, but whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You said you smelled weed.

And you found nothing. Yeah. How the hell do you think you smell? Yo, I'm bleh. And the counter to that, what's your name? What's your name? These days.

You might as well take the loss, boy. That's the devil take the loss and leave. These days, the counter to that is, As soon as they start talking, hit that record. Oh, yes. I have a question. So you're saying that you smell, I haven't, I don't smoke weed. I've never smoked weed.

So you're saying that you smell weed, your detective skills, all of your training has brought you to today and you smell weed in the car. Let me just focus this in. All right. So on the threat of, under threat of arrest, you know, obviously you're going to search the car. Let's see what you're fine. Guys, we'll be back in a moment.

and I'm going to record all of this and then I don't like dealing with assholes like that yeah they don't they don't and I'm recording you do your power trip shit they don't like that so listen listen so here's here's the that has a takeaway a punctuation here's a takeaway good look can you can you pan to Zach and six and Boziak

and me never been searched I don't know It's That's semi white Semi white privilege That is a lie Non-tattooed clean cut guy What I don't benefit from that

My car I've never been pulled over and searched ever in my life So didn't you tell me that one time in North Carolina They searched Was it North Carolina or South Carolina? Were you in South? I've been in I've committed fraud in South and North Carolina Yes It's confusing.

What are the Carolina And Nashville and they did not search your car. And you had Becca. I suppose you had Rebecca in the car. No. You didn't tell me that? I've never. Didn't you get pulled over with her once?

I've been pulled over. Matter of fact, I was pulled over with Becky one time. And we had a file folder in the trunk. Of course. A file folder in the trunk that actually had a bunch of different IDs. Like I had these, you know,

these files with, you know, I'd have all your stuff. I'd have your, the ID I had in your name. name. I would have all the credit cards. Zach calls them costumes. Yeah. I, yeah. I call them legends after the CIA

calls him legends. So I had all these legends. And I, and guy walked up and I'm joking with the cop the whole time. Matter of fact, one time I got pulled over because I, listen, obviously I'm driving in an ID that is not my ID. So I'm driving like a fucking lunatic. Please note that this is a clean cut white guy. Of course. Talking about multiple pullovers. Oh, listen. I've got, I've got a, I've got a collared, long sleeve

collared shirt on. I'm driving a brand new Infinity G35. Which doesn't smell like marijuana. I don't smell like marijuana. I pull over. Neither did I. Guy comes up. And one time I had a this is the one you've talked about because I write about this one in the book.

The guy, it was a it was a, it was a highway patrolman. Yes. He had one of the Yes, that's Georgia. Georgia. Yeah. So was that Georgia? Georgia. Where's the Oh, no. You and Georgia? No, they shower with those. I think I was in South Carolina.

I want to say I was in South or North Carolina, so they must have them there too. So when I got pulled over, he, as he's walking towards the car, and I'm thinking, no big deal. Like I've got a valid driver's license

in this guy's name. The car's in the name. I got full coverage insurance. Like, I'm good. And he walks up, he didn't walk onto the driver's side. He actually, at the last minute,

he walks to this side. When he walks to that side, I look over and I realize I've got multiple bags. you know, that when you go into the bank and they give you money, they put in that little envelope. I got multiple envelopes. I got about 30 grand in the visor.

And I know he sees this. My car's getting searched. That might have been what I remember. So as soon as I looked over, this first time I was ever truly like, oh shit. I'm like, oh my God. And he talked, but he talked to me

and he bent over and kind of crunched so he could just see me so he can't see but he was he was stooped down that if he didn't have that hat on he could have definitely seen those envelopes hanging over it was in the driver's side visor it was in the passenger

damn why would you stick him over in the passenger visor I don't know why comfortable they got comfortable super comfortable you know how we do once we're making money and all that invincible yeah I don't know why they would have been in his side he put he's like yeah I'll put it in the passenger visor

but anyway he just sat there and he's like do you know how fast you're know how fast you were going? I was like, depends on how long you've been following me. I think I got it up to 90 one time. I'm late.

I'm like, I don't know. He's like, why were you speeding? I'm like, stupidity? He goes, I haven't heard that one before. And he goes, okay, he said, well,

license to registration. Back then you had to give it to him. And I'd give it to him. And he walked off and he came back and he gave me a ticket. I was like, yeah, no problem. Thank you.

So when he walked off, did you grab the thing out of the divisor? I remember specifically I didn't. Because I remember thinking if I reach up there and I grab it, What if there's a camera? What if somebody else is in the car? Like, I don't know if anybody, I don't know. And I remember thinking if there's no clear choice to nothing. And I just sat there and I thought, you just got to wait it out, wait it out. Came back, gave me the ticket. I signed. He walked off. But yeah, so I remember thinking he searches this car. I'm done. He searches this car. I'm done. I've got four or five different legends in the back. Cash. Cash. I'm done. It's presentation, Matt. So I just joke. Clean cut white guy. They don't hassle guys like this at all.

Everything is matching in the car. That's a whole state trooper. And he wrote you the ticket. He wasn't doing you a favor. No, he didn't. Because by the letter of the law, he's not supposed to be in this car. You've got valid license, registration, insurance. What is he doing in the car?

It doesn't smell like marijuana. It doesn't smell like we, but they don't use that premise. By the way, I went to traffic school. It's the local jocles. By the way, I went to traffic school on that ticket. Because if I'd gotten the points on that, I'd gotten so many tickets in this guy's name. If I'd gotten points on that, I'd have lost. his license. This is like the third ticket

I've gotten in like six months. In my, I just throw it away, what? Now, look at here, I know I got a good thing. I can't. I own two vehicles in this guy. This guy got an apartment in his name. I need this guy. You know, I can't have him losing his license.

I actually, you know where I got that ID? This was Michael Eckert. I actually put an ad the newspaper which is a good credit, bad credit, no problem. Good credit, bad credit, no problem. free mortgage applications call this number and I had a number. He's one of the guys that called up and I took his information to apply for a mortgage.

And then what I did instead was I ordered, I filled out an application to get a copy of his birth certificate. I ordered his social security card. I ordered his high school transcripts. I registered a boat in his name. I then went into the local DMV. I got a driver's license in his name. I opened up a bunch of bank accounts.

I got an apartment. I bought a couple of cars. And I was, So you started to get comfortable with this guy. And the guys at home going, man, I hope I get that mortgage. And at some point, at some point I started doing this. I started going like, how can I alter this guy's identity in such a way that maybe it's undetectable? So I went and I got a lawyer.

I paid him $1,500 and I had his name change to Michael Johnson. Change the guy's fucking name. And went back to the DMV with the paperwork and they changed it on. on the ID. Scoundrel. I feel bad. I feel bad. I like that mortgage guys.

I like that. No, no, you know what I did? I would ruin those guys life. Stop. He's fine. You guys like, damn, I'm going to get that mortgage. I beat it. You know what I did?

You know what I did then? I then, all these people that called, let's say 30 people called and I got their information. Just to make sure it stayed looking legitimate. And this is scam maintenance. I called another mortgage company. And I said, listen, I worked for an, app company, we run ads and take applications, sometimes we then sell them at the end of the day,

we have an overage. Can I fax you? This is back when faxes for a thing. Can I fax you the applications? The only thing I require, we were requesting is that you pull the credit and call these guys back to tell them if they could get a loan. And they're like, you got 30 people you took loans on? Yeah, you don't want anything for them. No, but we do sell these typically. We got to. have a $25,000 generation lead, but at this point, I'll just send them to you because somebody has to call, do these immediately. And they were like, yeah, absolutely. And then I faxed it. So they all got their credit pulled. And then somebody called them back from this other company saying, hey, we just pulled your credit, wanted to let you know, you suck, you'll never get a mortgage. Or, hey,

we can get you FHA approved. So they think that the process continued. So they don't realize I'm the middleman and I just stole your identity. And don't look at me. Don't judge me. That's admiration. He's judging me. I'm a big guy with victimless stuff. I feel bad. By victimless, like I'm, you know, he's only interested if there's victims. He's always.

He's not a big guy with victim. No, I was going to say. You've had the wrong person here. Can I borrow $5? It's like, hey, six, six, thought you were victimless. I'm not, you're not that big with it. That ain't going to work. Something that I would do on a scam thing

if I was the, what was the question? What about, I don't want to give stuff that, like, I guess old stuff that I've done with. You don't do anything I'm currently into. Currently, I'm selling cars at a great price, customized cars. Is that under six gear? Like your like your YouTube channel?

It's under Numbers LLC. Numbers LLC? Yep. Okay. Where I'm actually selling customized cards. Oh. Yeah. It's good.

And motorcycles. Send them a link. I haven't gone into the selling motorcycle. Ah. I'm scared of financing someone on a fucking death machine. Matt will get them financed. Just have them called with the application. I would say, my name got changed.

I would say that you could have a hustle like if you could get a whole. of an ID, any kind of ID. And like I, I, to me, it doesn't matter like if it's an actual with your face because you can, and I remember doing this because I couldn't find an ID connect. So I knew a plethora of 7-Elevens and people always leaving a driver's license and leaving something. So I would get these employees. We had a stack who at the tattoo shop.

I told you this. Remember? Yep. So I would get these employees and say, you got IDs in there. So if anybody remotely looks similar to me and all black people look alike, anybody look similar, I would purchase that. I met him and he was doing that. And I'm like, that doesn't even look like you.

He's like, listen, most cashiers, bank tellers, I'm like, how do they not look at the big and go like, that is absolute. But I want to tell you something about that. He says that. He says that. But the person that you would never go to would be a big. black woman. Like absolutely you would never have a black

woman. They don't play that shit. Oh, what? No matter what they're doing. Not you. They don't even like right. No matter what it. They don't even ask like, is this you? Like black guy, white guy, somebody might ask is this you? A black woman would tell you. I had that is not you. I had somebody. I had

somebody. Period. In the conversation. I was actually using the driver's license because they were a licensed driver. My license was fucked up back then. So I just speeding with this guy. And he weighed, I think, 205 or something and was like five, I'm six feet. He was

five, eight, or nine. So the height, all of that stuff is irrelevant because when, is that you? I was like, yes, I've had cancer. I'm a cancer survivor. Nice. And that, that, that, that, that, throws them back on their head.

They're like, oh, wow, I'm sorry. and they immediately are on the on the like you know oh I'm so sorry oh congratulations cancer does make you taller but go ahead oh well they're not looking at it they're not scrutinizing the ID anymore I was going to say does it still have your weight on it oh absolutely no it doesn't that's oh yes it does no it doesn't have your weight on it's an identifying no it doesn't have your weight on it's got my height five six that's a lie and a good pair of shoes male with a good pair of shoes Yeah, with the good period. It doesn't have my, my, it used to have your weight on it.

I know, but it doesn't have your sex on this? Yeah, they're male. Male. Non-binary. Why does yours say frequent? But anyway. So horrible. Sex, listen, listen.

So listen to this. This is funny because when I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I was, I was just always like, wow. In Nashville, Tennessee, I had bought a house and I was renovating it. And one day I was in the, just walking through the yard. looked down and it was like there was a driver's license that had some dirt on it. I picked it up, cleaned it off. And it literally the ID had the guy's full name information and his social security number on the ID. Oh, some states. Yeah. Now they stopped. They stopped. Now it would say

in A. And but it was probably seven or eight years old or five years. Descriptions it had the social on it. In Georgia, your ID number was your social. I remember like like that's crazy. I remember you know, media. I remember, you know, media. like pulled out my idea like that's that's nothing I looked at it it still had social security number but it just said in A so so they stopped doing it completely but it was still even there they found an older one what state was that it was it was um sorry uh Tennessee yeah I never used that you know I did Tennessee I got busted with the Tennessee license I had Tennessee line remember I drove up there oh yes that's right I love Tennessee Chalanoo the people are super

friendly I know very trust it very easy to make yo it's super Like in grocery store, like in line, people are just going to kick up, is that Brad Pitt? Man, I love it's some lady, white woman, and she just kick up a conversation with you. That was my favorite place to live in Tennessee. Yeah, I never lived in Tennessee. Yep, they're very friendly out there. I survey, I surveyed like 10 or 15. You in Memphis, weren't you?

I've been to Met and Chattanooga. Oh, I drove there. Like, we drove way out of the way. I've been in Nashville. Nashville is the nice of Tennessee. Nice is part of, um, six hours. Nashville's like a real city. From Atlanta to Georgia,

to Tennessee. About an hour and a half. Okay, yeah, yeah. From downtown Atlanta to Chattanooga was like about almost two hours. That makes sense. But from downtown Atlanta to Nashville was about three hours. Do you remember when I was supposed to get, I was going to have a flashback?

I was, we had something that we were going to do. And I had to go to Tennessee to get a driver's license. So it was a money. You had this portfolio. That weekend I tore it up. I was partying crazy. In the house, there was chicks in there. Six, you're still going.

Yeah, I'm still going. No, I'm already halfway in the car. Maybe got a half hour asleep. Hopped in the car, drove there, took the driving test because we were supposed to get a driver's license. So I took that driver's test guy. I was like, yeah, I got it. And you were like, you did.

You just knew I wasn't going to get. It sounded like, I just woke up. I remember that. You know what's funny, in Tennessee, if you didn't have a Tennessee driver's license, this was back when I was doing it,

they would make you take the driving test. Road test, yeah. Yeah, I thought that was, I'm like, no other state does that. Hey, they should do it. You want to drive?

You got to take the drive. You need to make sure you can drive. Seriously. I took mine from. Fair minimum, you got to take the written test on the computer. No, I took my,

I don't know. I almost failed. Which one? I almost failed. the written, you know, and you hit the buttons, right? They got the buttons. But the old ones, you didn't write anything. You know, they'd ask a question.

Christ, home is he? Yeah, you'd hit that they had the big plastic. And I remember at one point, like, I missed, I missed like three of them. And I, yeah, because it tells you as you go. One more, I was, I was like, fuck. Like, I'm about to fuck out. I remember when I went up. And a lot of those questions are like DUI stuff.

They want to make sure. I missed a DUI one, the blood level. And the other one I missed was because I'd never heard this. they had a picture of what I thought was a pedestrian area, right? Like they were pedestrians, but just happened that one of the pedestrians was holding a briefcase. And it wasn't a pedestrian area. It was a business district. And I missed it.

I was like, oh, pedestrian. They were like, so when I got up to the counter and I was like, I went up. I said, hey, I just finished. And she's like, yeah, I see. I said, man, I almost failed that. She's yeah, I can see that. She kind of like laughed. She said, yeah, you were close.

You were one away. And I was like, yeah. And then I had to go take the actually go get in my vehicle and drive and the guy was like, yeah, yeah. We only had drive down the street. He was like, yeah, you're good. Just turn out. Yeah, that's how it was. It was just real brief. He was like, you're not a 16 year old kid. He's like, yeah, I can see you. You've been driving for a long time. Yeah, yeah. But how to license I see? Got my ID immediately went to CarMax, bought a car, put 20% down. I got a loan. I remember first time buyers, you could get put 20% down and they'd give you a $20,000 loan. I bought a next day. Aaron. Listen, I was, Nashville was the fastest I've ever been set up in my life. Within one week, I have an apartment. I have furniture. I have water. I have electric. I have a driver's license. I have a new vehicle. I have a bank account. I have cell phone service. I mean, I had like cable, like everything. God alone. It was like within a week. Each one of those things can be done one day up there. Yeah. It's very, very, very, well, I know, because I had to drive the vehicle all the way back because I'm driving a vehicle that's in somebody else's name. I had to drive it all. I had to drive it all.

all the way back to Charlotte and leave it. And I was driving that vehicle. I'm terrified, bro, because that vehicle was in the name of a guy the cops were looking for. So that was the worst. You wanted. Talk about being nervous.

And you're driving through those mountains between Tennessee. Yeah, that car had been left at the long-term airport. My fear was I don't want them to find it in Nashville. Oh, okay. Then they know you're in Nashville. And I actually left it in long-term parking at the airport. That's what you do.

And then I got on a plane. and flew back. Yeah, I was, listen, I was, I was, I was, that whole ride, I was like, my heart was, every time I saw a cop, I'm usually not concerned when I see a cop, but boy, that whole time, I was like, oh, fuck, fuck, I'm done. Like, I got to drive for the next four, three, four hours. You have diarrhea. Yeah, I can't have them run the plate.

I can't have them run the plate. I can't have them run. To this day, I don't let the cops get behind me, even though I'm not doing anything wrong and all my paperwork is legit. How do you prevent that? I never let them. If I even see them getting behind me, I make, I go in a gas station, I'll turn. off. I'll switch lanes. I'll slow down. I'll do whatever I got to do just so those motherfuckers

aren't behind me. Man, in my mind, that makes them pull you over. Yeah. I'm the opposite. I'll take my chances. I'm the opposite. Like I know my license is good. Registrations good. All this is good. I got no warrants. I'm doing the right thing. I can't wait for you to pull me over. I'm one of those assholes. I roll it down this much. Really? Yep. Oh, I don't do any of that problem. I'm an asshole because I relish in the fact. Their assholes. Are you crazy? I've never had a copy. I've never had a copy. I've never had a copy. me ever in my life. There's no way I'm an alpha. There's no way you're getting mad. You understand, I never had a police officer be disrespectful to me. Well, you've been a

Caucasian for a long time. A clean, I've clean cut Caucasian. A clean, no, I don't benefit. You know what I love? You know what I love? I love the Eddie Murphy skit. I love the Eddie Murphy skit where Eddie Murphy pretends to be a white guy and he goes in the bank and there's a black, there's a white loan officer and a black loan officer. And he walks up and he sits down and he says, oh, what are you looking for? I'm trying to get a business loan of $20,000. He's like, yeah, you got to fill out this application. I'm going to need to see your last two years, taxes. And then the black, the black, no, the, because he's talking, it's two white guys. Eddie Murphy's a white guy because he's got the makeup on and he's talking to a white loan officer. The black loan officer gets up

and walks away. And he goes, it's okay. He's gone. How much you need? Yeah, yeah, no problem. He starts pulling out. He starts handing him cash. It's like, how much he's like, take another 10. Take another 10. He's like, okay. He's like, like, find out what's really like to be a white guy.

But I think, I think that's a real thing. It's not a real thing. But no, no, not like that. In that sense, but like privilege. I think every car, I think everybody's stereotypes. They're not going to scrutinize as heavily. I think everybody's stereotypes. Just like if you're working a cash register,

naturally, you're the sales guy. You're working a cash register. beautiful blonde steps in front of you. You're mentally, it's written into our DNA. You want to be, yeah, you want to be more helpful

to this pretty person, this affluent person comes where you feel like they've got money. Pull up in a nice car, their dress nice, they got a cologne on, they come in. You want to go to that extra foot for.

I also, but I also think, I agree, I get the white privilege to a degree, but what I think part of it is is that I am pulling up in a brand new vehicle. I am dressed,

very nice. I'm polite. I sound educated. That's a stereo type. Now, if I would have been, if I pulled up and I'm covered in tattoos, my vehicle's 15 years old. It's, you know, I got smoke. The windows are down. It's dinged up, beat up. It's rusted. I can't speak proper English. You know, what's it? What are you pulled me over for? Man? What's going on with that? What's up, man? I wouldn't do nothing, man. They're going to be like, I'm giving this guy. That is absolutely, even if I'm a white guy. That is absolutely, you know, being prejudice, pre-judgment.

I'm saying if I'm a white guy doing that. But I think every person on the planet pre-judges. It's part of our nature. If I'm Johnny, it's our nature. We have to be able to do that to identify threats in our environment. Absolutely. If I'm Johnny officer, I just clocked in to find criminals. All right, guys, I'm going out to find criminals.

And I, here comes, you know, Bozziat. Bosia. Bozziah. Why do I always mispronouncing every time. So in your, Joe, no, he goes but if I see him, I'm Johnny Officer, I see him pat, tattoos.

He's got like a swagger about, oh, crap, he's an ex-con. Let me just check. If I'm driving and they look through the window and they see me and I see that they see me, I know I'm getting pulled over. I know I'm fucking know I'm getting pulled over. I'm not doing anything wrong.

I'm not speeding. I'm sitting straight up in my seat. I got my seatbelt on. You know, my windows aren't tinted. I'm getting pulled over just because I've seen him see me. You know how to get it. So I know I'm fucked. You know how to get around that.

That's when you, if you look at him, make eye contact, you pick up the MAGA hat and you put it off. And you weak at him. And he'll be like, he'll do this. And he's going to return the win. And he'll be like, go about your business. What about a black cop? Huh?

You're fucked. Oh, no, he's still a cop. He just messes up the algorithm. So you think the mega hat's going to help with a black cop? I don't know. No. No. I don't know.

I don't know. I think you put a. The reality, you've already had one. The reality is, this week, haven't you? Yes, I have. The reality is, Matt, I think you and I, I think you and I driving in a car with an out tail light, our mentality is different. You're going to be like, oh, my damn tail lights out.

What is this Tuesday? I got time to do it probably Thursday, Friday. Yeah, I got this weekend. Yep. Zach and I, and I'm going to throw you in on the tail lights out, fuck. I'm driving straight to the Auto Zone. Yeah. AutoZone.

is in my plans. I'm stopping whatever I'm doing at that moment. I'm going. And I'm fixing this tail light. Because that's a reason. And then that taillight is consciously on my mind until I go get it fixed. Yeah. Another reason why I don't have, I don't possess privilege.

Yeah. Another reason why I'm always so nervous when I get, they get behind me is, I've done so much shit in my life. I don't know what's going to come back to get me. Hello. So it's like, you know, even though I think I'm good now, I don't have any warrants, but fuck, I don't, I get pulled over and all of a sudden some horse shit. Oh, yeah.

We've got some stuff from my. Or something escalates. Yeah, I've done so much shit in my life. Let me say this real quick. Because that thought came to my mind. I was in Costco. And this is like a week ago. I'm in line in Costco and an old guy turning one of those driveable, whatever, those electric

carts, completely bumps me to almost knock me over. And I look back. He's like, move. Wow. Wow. That's exactly what he said. I look back and I'm like, like, what the car over? Oh, my God.

Move. I'm going to move. I'm going to move. Like, the rage. I'm like, you. Was he an older? No, he was probably like 60-ish. You know what?

I'm going to say I'm 60-ish. You know what I'm saying? 64 years. I'll get it. Yeah. No, so I'm joking. Oh, my God. Oh, my.

Like, and the thing came to mind is probation. Because I'm like, okay. one more month. And I get to punch him. Did you, when he said... If I wasn't on paper, this would have been an altercation. Oh, my God. When he said, when he said move, did you get like a move nigran?

Oh, yes. Nigran. Yes. You did get that vibe. Yeah, because I'm in line. And he's like right here and I'm just standing there. And he doesn't say, excuse me, let me get by. He just turns the cart and hits me.

So you didn't get the... It wasn't a hard hit because the cart moves slow. But it just like, you didn't, you didn't get like the same. senile. He's just an old senile. I look at me like, you got the move. Like, I looked at him like, I'm like, what the? He goes, move. Like, I hit you. You're not facing

me. I hit you. You should have moved. Like, move. He's just an old dickhead. Like, what the, move? I need to get by. Move. I'll have turned around. If he did that to me, I'll have turned around. I'm like, let me answer a question before I move. If I spit on your face, what are you going to do about it? Like when you, I meet that kind of stuff with the same energy that, now mind you, I'm not, I'm not going to be, I'm not going to jump on them. That's ridiculous, but I'm definitely going to say some really sarcastic shit.

I don't mind confrontation. I don't mind confrontation. I don't mind confrontation at all. I'm not going to say, I don't like confrontation, but my analysis was anything is going to escalate this. Yeah, probation is a different. I go any, my, I'm thinking like, I'm on probation, but my mind goes, anything's going to. escalate this. Anything's going to escalate this. Because I want

to escalate it. And I'm not even like, you can ask anybody, I might even like that. Like you told me that I have a lot, long patience, but my mind said, anything you say is going to escalate this. So, I had to let it go. Yeah. That's something I have a problem with, because like, if somebody cuts me in line, or they like, they do something intentionally

that you take it very personal. I can snap. I'll snap and I'll create a scene. This is going to get personal. I'm getting out of my car. I'm coming to your car. Wow. Damn. So if he'd hit you. Are you a road rage? Oh, my God.

He had a big time. He didn't see that. I can see that. I don't like being tailgated. I don't like it when people don't let me merge. You know what I mean? Like I just, that just, it sends me over the edge.

I can see you as a road. I can't see that. What are you going to do in Thailand? I can't see Matt as a road. What's so funny to me, what's so funny to me is if the old guy had bumped me and told me move, I'd have been like, oh gosh, I'm so sorry. Go ahead.

That change is nothing for me. That guy's opinion doesn't mean anything. He bumped me. No big deal. I take everything personally. I also don't get in the road rages. If somebody beeps or cuts me off, I might have a split second of what the fuck? But then I'm like, calm down.

This means nothing. Yeah, I'm chasing through traffic. I can see each one of their like reactions to that scenario. I can absolutely see that in the person. You cut me off. I'm like, but that was an hour ago. But to me, that's him. Gaggy mad.

To me, I've already seen that whole process all the way through from me having to get angry and yell at this guy and cause a scene. to ending up in jail, having to spend time talking to police, filling out police reports, possibly getting charged. I can't think through all of that. My argument is my problem is I'm not getting bonded out. That's my whole issue. Like, I can't have that moment.

That has so little impact on my life. I wouldn't have even thought about it again. I'd have been like, oh, hey, God. So sorry. Sir, by all means, go ahead. My fault. That's my fault. And let him go.

He's an old man. He's a bitter old man. who's in a chair and let him go because that and honestly turned around and then waited in line and never given another thought. I would at least told him. I can't even understand that. I would love to. I would have to send something to dissect that.

I have an agenda for that for that moment, for that day, for the next five years, for the next 10 years. And I'm not going to allow my emotions to, to have me waiver from that agenda. That's, that's the, uh, our debt program with the, uh, letting things that matter. the least affect the things that matter the most. That's the difference between somebody growing up in a consistent environment their whole entire life and being able to plan for the future and understanding that, you know, A, B, and C will lead to X, Y, and Z later. But people who are just, like, you have been living hand to mouth their entire life, you know, homeless. I haven't to think about the now. Like, you know, I don't, I can't think about the future. Like, I don't even factor that

into any of my decisions because I just, I can't, I have to deal with the now. Amen. And that's what happened to me. Because my reaction was, like, anything I do is going to escalate. Because I did want to, I wanted to say something. I wanted to spin in his face. Like, my reaction was, I got to react. But I'm like, anything I do is going to escalate. And this is a white man. I'm a black man. And I'm on supervised release. You know, so the absolute loser is me. You know, what's funny is I think that's the difference between we were all sitting here one day. Jess was here, Boziac was here, and I was here. And we see flashing lights at the front door, at the window by the close to the front.

You can see it flashing lights between the houses. And you can see it in the front. There's a glass thing over our door. Red and blue lights. Yeah, the red and blue lights. And. I was out the back door immediately. So, Jess.

Really? Immediately. You were. Wait, wait a second. Jess glances up and I glance up and she goes, oh my God, she's the cops are here and starts walking towards the front door. She walks to the front door, opens the front door. I walk with her.

I'm five blocks over. We're walking to the front door to open the front door because I've had the cops come here a few times and knock on the door for some reason or another. And they've opened the door. And I immediately open the door. Yes, sir. What's your name? Such and such and such.

You know, I have no problem because I know I'm not doing anything wrong. I don't have a problem. And I know I haven't done anything wrong. And I know I can get anything that it's a misunderstanding. We've worked it out. But so we open the door. Just so happens that the cops had pulled somebody over like a couple houses down, catty courted us.

And so she sees it. sees the lights. Oh, okay, they pulled somebody over. closes the door. She looks at me. She's, I guarantee you. She said, because she turned around, Boziac's gone. She goes, guarantee you he took off. We walk. He's standing in the backyard. And when he's like, he's like this. And she goes, it's fine. It's just this. Come on.

And coaxes him back inside. He walks inside. And she looks at him and she says, you're not living your life right. These motherfuckers are never going to take me again. And they're going to have a chase on their hands because I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever just willingly say here, put the cuffs on me. Motherfucker, you're chasing me today. You're chasing me.

You're chasing. I've had, I've had, I've had cops come. I want to everybody give that story. I've had cops come to my home now. He did. He did. And he's like, but not me. They're not want me, obviously, but go ahead. And I'm just a dick with them.

Like, we operate on two totally different sides of the fence. Like, when you open the door and I see. see you, you're either trying to get information, you're here to do a job. I don't care while you're here. Yeah. I don't want to deal with you. Especially if it's about me. Yeah. Like, I don't care. It's not for anything good. You're not coming here to give me a check. Yeah. I'm not cooperative. Hey, sir, hi. I could, first of all, fuck you. Next, what do you want? I'm doing something watching a game. I'm smoking weed. I'm whatever I'm doing, you're interrupting it. How can I help you? And by help you, I mean, hurry up.

You know what's funny about that? I've actually had the cops give me a check. I just went to, I just went to Orlando, did a keynote speaking engagement for an hour, and they just mailed me a check. You really got to work on the other side of this. So this is two different perspectives. I got a halfway point.

This is the Caucasian that has reformed his life, and he's doing fantastically. Well, he probably tripped into the life of crime. so. Well, Bowles is a you know, like his mindset,

the way he'd think, Zach is on the side of that this is why they're on this side and say, there's a spectrum. So Zach has always been like that. Like low key,

cool. So the one of the time the cops came to my house, right, and they're knocking at the door and I answered a door and it's to police. So when I see a thing,

the police, I just, I get nervous. Just the apprehension of, palms are sweating right now. Talking about it. Everything I've been through with them, I get nervous because I'm like, I don't know what they want. Okay. So I answered the door. What happened was there was a car stolen

out of our complex and they wanted to know if I had a ring camera. And then all of a sudden I get very nice. I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I don't have a ring camera. But I happen to know my neighbor. And I get very courteous and helpful. But like, I don't, I agree they have a job to do, but

you know, I'll fake the happiness and friendly guy, but I'm like, get the fuck away from me, please. But I still get, I still get nervous. I still get nervous. I feel like... If they get behind me, I get nervous. You know, I just, but it's not like, oh shit, I'm going to go to jail, but I still get nervous. Yeah, I view every

interaction with the law enforcement as I'm fighting for my life. Wow. I'm fighting for my life here because you have the power to take everything from me right now. Yep. Even though I've done nothing wrong. So fuck you. I'm not even going to talk to you, you're going to have to chase me. And then we'll just discuss it if you catch me.

Wait a second. Wait a second. Colby is a very clean cut white guy. Have you ever had your car searched? No. Do you feel, when you've spoken with police officers, have anybody ever come by the house like a police officer or had a conversation with a police officer? Yeah.

Did you feel like, I'm just, you know, whatever, like nice. Christ. Christ. Well, there's. I can see, I can see, I can see, I can see, I can see Kobe drive, oh, there's the police. To Colby, those are public servant officers. Yeah. I'm this close to saying, hey, you are for me.

Look at what they want. Rose the window all the way to and sincerely means, how can I help you? Yeah, exactly. Like, what can I do the further your job? Yeah, you guys are, how can I help? Can you? It was a black guy. and a tattooed white guy.

Oh, yeah, they went that way. Absolutely. I just came from the store. There was several. They looked suspicious. They looked suspicious. Officer, I smelled marijuana when they drove by. I gotta tell you, I smelled a lot of pot.

You snitching, my love, man. And this just goes to. I wasn't snitching. I was cooperating. It's a difference. Listen, I'm in L.A. one time, and I'm dating this girl. And it was after dark, and we were going to go to a school. to the store. We're going somewhere, going to get some chicken or something. And I told us,

like, let's take your car. I was like, because I get pulled over. And she didn't believe me. Like, she thought I was full of shit. I'm like, listen, I get hassled. Even though I'm doing nothing wrong, I get hassled. So we take my car. I had a, I had a Mercedes. Geez, what I? The black one? Was it black? It was, it was silver, but I wrapped it teal. I had like a teal wrap on it. Hello. And it was nice. It was a C-63 AMG. Oh, wow. A really nice car. I had it wrapped in teal. We're driving. We're driving. We're on Crenshaw Boulevard over by Rosecrans. The L.A. County Sheriff's coming this way.

I seen him look through his window, look at me, and then flip around. I looked at my room. I seen him flip around and says, we're getting pulled over. She says, for what? We went. I says, we're getting pulled over and we're going to get searched. Literally, we got pulled over. He pulls up behind me.

I roll all four windows down at once because I had tints. And that's what I did because just so he's not sketchy, just so he can see in the car and see that. It's just me and my group. I hit all four windows at once. They come down. I have my license and registration ready for him because that's what you do.

You have it ready for him. He comes up to the window. I handed to him. He says, I didn't ask for that. He grabbed it out of my hand. He threw it on the dash. He says, I didn't ask for that. He says, are you on parole or probation?

I says, no. He's like, do you have anything in the car? Any weapons or drugs? I says, no. He says, well, I'm searching. And he just pulls my door open. He says, step out of the vehicle. Wham, wham, wham, wham, happened just like that.

I'm searching. Pulls me out of the vehicle, puts me in handcuffs, puts me in the back of his cop car. And this is all within a minute, minute and 30 seconds of me being pulled over. I'm like, what the fuck, dude? He couldn't even ran the tag. He isn't even, the tattoos on your, the tattoos on your face. While he's pulling me out, he searched me, he says, what gang were you in in prison?

I'm like, oh, okay, he thinks I'm unbelievable. I'm like, straight up just like, what gang were you in prison? I'm like, oh my God, dude. The one your mom was in? I'm like, why is this? I'm in my mind. We used to run. And in my mind, my mind's reeling because I've done nothing wrong.

I'm not on probation. I'm not a drug dealer. I'm not a gangbanger. I don't have guns on me. I just, plus I had a bald head. Oh, he's got tattoos all over. He's got the whole tattooed.

And my entire head's tattooed. And so I guess I could see. But once he got me in the back of the cop car, I'm leaning up and like, listen, I'm not, I'm like, you got the wrong guy. I was like straight up you got. And then once he ran my name, he immediately took me out of the car, took the cuffs off me, told me to have a good night. He's like, well, I couldn't see in the car.

I couldn't see who you were. Just backtracking now because he's realized I'm not, I'm not who he thought I was. I'm not that scumbag gangbanger. Like, I'm not that guy. And once he realized that, his tune changed immediately. And ever since then, I'm like, dude, fuck these motherfuckers, man. They could just take your whole life away. And there's nothing you can do about it.

I mean, I know he doesn't worry about that. But I'm worried about things like that. Look at the face. It's one of the main reasons I'm leaving in the United States because I just don't want to deal with it anymore. No, I, I've never, never once contemplated tattooing my entire body. You know, because I, because of those types of things, I thought you tattoo your whole body. That's good. All these things are targets.

I go hard no matter what I'm doing. Living next door to the teacher is a guy with the skeleton tattooed on his face. And they give all these opinions. I'm like, I go, how do you know the guy's a criminal? Have you seen him? He's got tattoos all over his face. I go, that's not necessarily mean. He's criminal.

It's a stereo. 20, 30 years ago. It's a prejudgment. It's a prejudgment. Unfortunately. Unfortunately, that's, unfortunately, that. That guy that lives next door that is a criminal. So I've talked to it.

It's a free judgment that we're designed for, especially us ex-cons. You have to have pre-judgments. You have to. But everybody knew the guy that moves into a pod. Everyone with a fully tattooed face. I'm sorry. Probably. But like you're committed.

Your mindset, about 98%? Your mindset, 99% of the people that have the Tets, they fuck it. I don't give a fuck about what you think. about me yeah I like my art so their rationale from them this is is this art it's expression it's all the things it's based it's also it's also on the outside it's he's a rebel well see I think it doesn't give a fuck about what society thinks I think it's it could be military the person that thinks all of that is the same guy also that says I'm gonna tattoo my entire body fuck society and I'm gonna take what I want and that guy has a criminal record

because he behaves like that and periodically it catches up with him he goes to prison he gets felonies and he is that person I thought I just said no no you were just saying it was about art his artwork no no but and then that type of person

has that record what you think right but you also you know they also make questionable well those type of fuck what you think that always they're prone to reflect and more prone to risk

reckless behavior yeah he's also the guy I need some moving math that has he's also that guy that when you do search his car, there's a chance there's a block of... These guys are wrist-takers. I'm only semi in your corner, Matt,

because I've been... I had my car searched. The game point where I said, you know what, we're not agreeing to any more searches. They all have to get search warrants. And they had to get a search warrant three times after that. I was pissed.

Do you think it's because of all your tattoos or because you're black? I think it's because when they run that name. Was it the area you were in maybe? That and black guy, white girl, Mercedes Ben's in Atlanta, Georgia. Stolen. Like it was,

that wasn't the reason. And it was stolen. That wasn't the reason because interracial dating. I have no idea what had them search us so many times. Did you have a record? Oh, but they didn't have a, you didn't have a name.

And, and you know, at that time, I'm in rental cars. But when they, so when they pulled you because rental cars is suspicious. Oh, I don't know.

To areas. I don't know. Oh, absolutely. They'd pull us over and they'd come and they'd look. Rental cars is suspicious. That's true. Because I've driven a lot. lot of rental cars and never gotten a ticket and been pulled over. You are the exception, man.

You are, you are, if you look up, I'm starting to feel bad. Guys, look up white privilege. Yeah. And Webster's. You will see that exact picture with that smile. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Because it's the stereotype. It's the prejudgment. I know. It's so wrong. I feel like, I feel like, I feel like if they took any of us and they say, okay, we will give you $100,000 cash. But we're going to give you a uniform and a police car. You have to make, every arrest you make, you get 100,000 cash. Good luck. So you got no leads, no nothing.

You got a car. Good luck. So you're going to start prejudging and stereotyping. There's three blacks in that car. What are the odds? Oh, there's a black guy and I'm a cross 40th. I'm a cross fowler. Oh, there's a white guy in a tattoo in a rental car.

In the hood. They just know they're more likely to come. come across somebody who's going to have drugs. There's going to be something not right going on in this car. These are these prejudgments. Yeah. And then when I turn and I look and I see that face, what is he did? What am I going to buy?

My mind is he going to refinance my mortgage? My mind isn't initially telling me to search this person like, you know, like this guy's doing something wrong. Like that's not the first place my mind's going to go when I look at him. But if you look at me, he's like, oh, he's got to have something on him. He's got to have a warrant. If we were in prison, if we were in prison, if we were in. prison and and you know he's he wants a honeybond two for one because I always ran a store

mind you one of the stores with you know I don't know if you remember I I name my store the Caucasian corner because there's a certain type of and I deal with my people black you know they're gonna pay you that's right Matt's gonna pay you the white people Matt is the type of person if I loan if I loan him but yeah if I loan them two honey bonds and it's two for one when Matt gets his money Matt is bringing me because he wants that off his ledger. He's the tight, man, I don't, I own it. Yeah, I don't know.

I have a question. My folks will be like, I've literally had my people come to me and they owe me $20. Oh, no, I don't pay out my mama money. I just got a money order, but that's my mama money. I don't pay out of that when I get my baby mama money or when I get time out, motherfucker.

Yeah. You can't meet. That's my money. You don't even have it. have your money yet. And there's where the fight starts. But these prejudgment, it is absolutely a privilege to have a certain look when these people are walking around looking for crime and criminal.

Or as another guy I knew that, and I hung around a lot of guys that had stores, but he had a white customer similar to Matt or Kobe who got food and before a commissary day end up getting released. he's like oh bro I promise you I'm gonna bring the money and put it on your books and the white guy got out of jail and actually came back up to the jail and put the money I've had that happen to him yeah I think it was you and I'm like are you serious both he goes white people both times that is the difference between a white customer and a black one it's just it's just like when my one

one of my friends from high school named Jennifer who the license got suspended and she's like how am I supposed to drive my license is suspended I'm sitting there looking at her like you're what right. What are you talking about? You don't have anything to worry about. Judge goes, Mr. Allen, your license is suspended, so no driving. Absolutely not, Your Honor. How's you getting home? I'm driving. In the car that I drove here. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck he's talking.

When he said no driving, he meant don't get caught driving. I'm driving. I don't give a fuck. What the hell? He's talking. I'm the same way. I drive driven more in my life without a license than I have licensed. If a judge said, Matt, your license is suspended for a year, no driving. I'm like, I can't drive. I can't drive. Are you kidding me? They said I couldn't go to the hospital. But I'm calling an ambulance or a friend. I'm not driving. He's even going everywhere.

I'm getting in the car. I'm going. I'm breaking the law. They tell me you're not driving. I'm like, who's going to stop me? Are you going to sign an officer to me every time I step out of the house? That would be the only way. That's the only way.

And he better work. They need not be a back door. They got to come take the car. Yeah, he better than go to sleep at any time. Where did he go? Yeah, I'm the same way. That's exactly, that's the whole difference. The integrity of Matt and Kobe is just what, like we have known.

Caucasian corner. Even when I was on the run and didn't have my personal driver's license or use it the entire time, I never drove a car that I didn't have a valid driver's license in. Even if it was in someone else's name, I never drove one. So I'm like that in my later years of fraud. Oh, now, yeah. Like in my later years of being the criminal. I'm not now.

I work a legitimate business. But like in the beginning, catch me if you can. And then once I started figuring stuff out, I'm like, wait a minute. That eliminates so much. Yeah. Let me, even if it's not my idea, I'm going to have a driver's license. That insurance is going to be. This car is going to be right.

So when you pull me over, you're going to have. good stuff. I'm not going to go out there and wing it. Yeah. So before we have to close out, I wanted to ask, Matt did have a conversation that wasn't on the right side of the tracks with me. And as I want to ask him, what was your thinking then, like, that you wouldn't drive a car if you didn't have a license. But when I had a warrant, I took I was going to turn myself in and you're like, why? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's where he's on your side. Because I did turn myself. But once again, it was, even six is like, he goes, I think that's overrated.

Yeah, that's not even an option. But once again, that was, that was you. That wasn't me turning myself. I'm like, you told me not to turn myself in. I know, I told you not to. Listen, do you know how many times I would be in, in, in, we were, we were in prison, or sorry, I was in prison and some guy would show up for a 10-year sentence or a five-year, and I'd be like, they gave you self-surrender.

Fuck you. You're talking about, you were eating at Panera this morning, and you're turned yourself in and they're like yeah yeah I turn a 10 o'clock I to be here at the but see that's different and I'm like 10 years but the turn in it so how that stuff works is they plea you guilty you plea guilty I'm guilty sir and then we give you we postpone sentencing yeah it's never been an option for me but but but but hear me out because if you agree to that and he let you go and settle your affairs for the 30 days and you buck you've still not not just the escape favor to appear you've pled guilty to your charges.

Now you're just coming for sentencing. Yeah. So now that you pled guilty. No, no, you get sentenced and they let you still turn yourself into the game. No, yeah. Yeah, yeah. In the feds they do. Oh, that's Feds.

That's how the feds do. In Feds, that's how the judge. You need to do a 10-year sentence. You've been sentenced. And I'll give you 30 days from now. You need to turn yourself into the prison. You need to walk straight into the front door. So I think that if they have asked them where to go.

Yeah. But if you have scone from that arrangement, I feel like they would open that back. No, they can't. I know in the state, no, they give you another charge. They might give you another charge, but it might be a month or two. That other charge, it only as, I'd never turn myself. How crazy is that?

What, why would you? After sentencing? I don't get, like, 10 years? Yeah. But the funny part is both of them would agree. So Mr. Bozziak, you're going to leave now and you're going to turn yourself in in two months for the 10 years sent it. You're like, oh, absolutely. Like, 10 o'clock, should I be there at 10?

Yeah, right. Absolutely. Meanwhile, while I'm walking. out the courtroom, booking flights. Gone. Fuck you. Yeah, I've never been much of a runner, though. I always have bond money.

So I have a question. So how, let's say you get sentenced to 10 years. How are you getting out of the country? You got to have a passport. You have to have another name set up. Well, you'd have to go before it was time for you to turn this. Or you can get a fake ID. You have to go immediately.

I've had multiple passports. Or you get on some boat. You get on some boat, get on some boat right to Cuba. because your name is done. Honestly, you can walk into Mexico. Yeah, your name is done. So you've got to have, but, I mean, some people used to have, you know, put up a whole costume. Of course.

For just such emergency. I got a passport, driver's license, everything, ready to go. You better believe it. You wouldn't be able to get out of the country without a whole thing. So at that time, at the time of sentences, you can. You probably could buy, you probably could buy like a fellow to walking. But you're letting them know where you're going. But if you were to go and on the manifest for, for your.

flight, there's a, there's a, there's a, you might be able to go, but there's a chance that they, they could, they could have your real name. Yeah, under your real name. There's a chance, not always, but there's a good chance. In the federal system, you're probably flagged. In the state system, you may not be flagged. In a different state, you might want to leave with it. If you have, if you have the, the, the wherewithal to get up out the country and dip, you better have another name. Let's say they're not, they're not sophisticated. They cannot, they don't have access to the night. It's just a matter of time before they get pulled over. They have, you know, you have to be able to get out. Is there a way? Okay. So if you haven't, if you didn't surrender your passport

and you can leave the country, but they're going to know what country you went to. Where you went. And then they're going to put, they're going to come try and find you in that country, if they want you bad enough. And honestly, they, they, they, they may not get on the, I know many guys that were indicted, but they hadn't, that the cops hadn't caught up to them. For instance, Joseph Vitale. Remember Vitaly? He had, he had been indicted. He knew he was in trouble. He, he, but the, the, he hadn't gone in yet or been processed. His lawyer was, so he's not even supposed to show up. He's been

indicted. He's and his lawyer's like, hey, you need to turn yourself in on Thursday. He goes and buys a plane ticket and he's ready to fly to Peru or Ecuador. No, Peru. I think it might have been Peru. Anyway, let's say it's Peru. So they go to the airport

and they're sitting there waiting to get on the airport to fly internationally. Well, they told him later, oh, no, no, no. The moment you were indicted, your name was on the list. So we had grabbed you and you were in custody, but in the moment we had, we'd indicted you, it's on a no fly list. He was on a no fly list. So his name showed up and they just, they were just sitting there waiting. They walk up to him. They go, Joseph Vitaly, he's like, yes. And they grab his stuff and cuff him and walk him out. Yeah, but there's a level. But that was federal. That was federal. Yeah, there's a level. Let's say it was a

state of Florida. A state of Florida is not going to do that. State of Florida, you can probably jump, go to the Tampa International Airport with your passport, jump on a plane and leave. But They are going to know where you went. Yeah. They have a record of you flying. Yeah. Yeah. This guy just flew to Mexico.

Now, once you're in Mexico or you're in Guada, you know, you're in Peru or Ecuador or wherever, you fly from there. Like, it starts to get very difficult to track you down or you jump on a boat or you now. That's what I said is the point where it's like, you what's the easiest way to get out of here under your own name and not through like the federal. Probably walk in, walk in the Mexico. Or take a boat to Cuba. You can walk right into Mexico.

You don't have to show. Passport or nothing. The crime chronicles. Chat GBT. GBT. I can recommend it that. So it's got to be good. No, that's not true. Chat GPT is, it makes mistakes all the time.

Every time I go to it, it makes mistakes. I love Chad GPD. Because the mistake is asking it a mistake. You've got to refine your question. Right, I do. And then I'll say, it'll tell me, give me the wrong statistic. And I go, well, that's funny because this and this is what I heard the statistic. And then it says, oh, after reviewing those,

I believe the statistic is 75%. You just said it was 30! I gave the same question. It's called hallucinations. All AI does it right now. Over the next few years, that'll be, yeah, it'll be coded on. Are you opposed to AI? Me?

Yep. No, I just don't want it taking all the jobs, credit card. You know, people have that, people had that same argument about Amazon. I want AI to take all the jobs. And about, I'm old enough for the year 2000 and the advent of these computers. and they already are going to take jobs. Yeah, I want all the jobs to be taken, to be honest with you. We have to have people to do anything.

No, no, I think that'll be a good thing because humanity, everybody will be able to do what they want to do. Like there's this, there's this miscommon myth that people's jobs give their life meaning. And suck my dick, bitch. You mean my job gives my life meaning. What about poetry? What about learning the second language? What about the stars and the planets?

No, I got to go move boxes around Amazon and that's my meaning? None of which, none of which, none of which he does. Right. Because I, yeah, you know, I won't. No, I refuse. What about the podcasting? What about the podcasting? That doesn't give you meaning?

Well, it's something that I want to do that I choose to do. But that's how you make money. Yeah. Well, I'm saying there'll be more things like that. First of all. Be able to like explore like what, like people like don't have the luxury or even the, you know, the big, nobody's actually like set there. Like, man, what do you really, what do you really want on a life?

Because I got to pay my bills. I got to go to work. I don't have time to think about. what I really want out of life. But that's the difference between, you know what I mean? But that's difference between you and about 80, 85% of the population is that 85% of the population buy into the, this is what I want to do. And the 15% that don't buy into that are entrepreneurs are in prison because we're criminal.

Because we're thinking like, why, why do I have to do that? Yes. Like your generic, like your average person would become like depressed. They wouldn't know what to do. Right. If they didn't have a job or something. someone to kind of tell them, hey, they would find meaning, you know. They would have to find meaning because I don't know.

I just, I don't believe the, I don't believe that. That sucks, dude. Listen, if everybody stops working and nobody's paying in money, then they won't be able to pay their bills. Oh, I mean, so he's thinking, it should all be automatic. There be universal. So you would spend your money. You can't give people overall, or you can't give, you can't just print money.

It has to be back. There will be a universal basic. Yeah, we are. It has to be back by later. Listen, there'll be a universal basic income. And all of these corporations that go 100% automated with no employees are going to pay a certain percentage tax every year, which is going to be way lower than paying 500 employees to do a job. So they're going to have a surplus of profit every year and a certain percentage of that surplus goes into the UBI, goes back into the universal basic income system. And then we can all just be, you know, a population of hedonists and, you know, we'll be entertaining.

We're not. The parties will be wild. We're not. Fuck, entertainment will be off the chain. None of that. So you don't even have a DJ at a party. It's in order for us as a society to progress. Dude, art innovation.

To the next level. AI is just a thing that has to happen. Yeah, I understand, but it would have to be controlled. You can't suddenly say, hey, we're going to pay everybody $25,000 a year and you don't have to work. And AI and robots are going to do everything for us. That's not going to happen. They break down. There'll be other jobs.

Not for us. They're going to, like, I can see his vision. Not for us. Because AI, we're going to provide the basic functions of what we need. They're not going to, like, clean our house. We'd have to do that ourselves. There's going to be other jobs. But like to explore space and all like.

AI will be able to refine the questions that we're asking it. We'll be able to cure stuff that we couldn't figure out. We'll be able to go places that we couldn't calculate. Like, that's going to be the next level of our, 20 years. Imagine, imagine, imagine, 20 years when the economy. Imagine telling people, man, you can now wake up and you can make your own decisions.

You can wake up every day and decide what you want to do. Who's going to pass that up? Who's going to give up? Who's going to give that up? Nobody is. Fuck these jobs. And some of us are not. Fuck this system the way it is. I see you're walking and living way.

He's just old and they're, you know, the older people, they're fucking, they hang on the system. They won't let it go because you're like, maybe chaos without it. No, it won't. Something new will come out of everything. and that's just how it's going to be. Yeah.

Yeah. Man. I mean, gosh. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. What happens? What are we doing?

What are you doing? You asked me if I've been exercising, walking. Oh, okay. Nice. You put getting in your steps? Yeah. Steps, exercising. Is that the doctor's plan?

No, no, no. They're trying to figure out why I'm having. He's a flyboard. He's been kept alive right now by a machine. He's a machine. You got a pay. pacemaker? Yeah.

Is that monitor or does that help? It's monitor and it helps keep it at a certain rate. It helps keep it from going in the, because they want to figure out why my heart goes into rapid beats and not pushing the blood. Because whenever it starts doing that, my blood pressure drops. So they're thinking it's some kind of.

And not producing. So they want to know if like they need to thin my blood or if I'm formulating for blood clots or whatever. looking at the data. It's kind ofly monitoring your data. Yeah. But yeah, every once in it, and I take pills for that. And every once in a while, my heart still kind of goes,

tries to go. And I think the pills are like, get back in place. Like, okay. It'll try to, like, I'll feel it like trying to get offline and something will stop it. But it's like, damn.

Because of how our society is now, I feel like we should be able to clone you another heart. I'm willing to put you up. I'm willing to put you up for my. I'm willing to put you up for you. It's like if they need a they need somebody to do it first I'm yeah, but no we we can't do clones. We can't get into that type stuff because of you know. Oh, I'm sure there are somewhere what not in this country. They're doing all that testing and bill dates and all of those all of those places are in Africa. I'm sure there's some Bay Area. I'm sure there's some labs and China. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, where the Chinese don't give a fuck. They're they don't give a fuck. They're splicing animals and humans together. Yeah. And we'll do whatever the fuck and we'll pay you whatever. I think that's... I'm on board.

I believe that happened. What's what weird about that is, I believe the cloning and splicing happen way back eons ago. You know what I'm saying? Where people have, like, pictures of half-man, half-bull and shit like that? Yeah, I don't think it happened. I do. The hieroglyphics of that shit?

You think that shit's people like, hey, you know what I'm thinking, Bill? I'm going to draw a picture of a half-man-half ball. But we're not doing it because... Or how do you think the pyramids were built? It's ethnically wrong. Yeah. I did a deep dive on the pyramids last night. Really?

Have you read anything about that? The Great Pyramid was a water pump that created electricity for... I believe that. It's not... Some crackpot has a whole book written on it. I know, and they expanded on its book. I watched the documentary last time. I mean a pretty compelling argument for it.

You can get six different documentaries telling you six different things that every one of them by the time you're done, you're like, definitely aliens. Definitely aliens. By the end of it, you're like, yeah, it was six guys and a couple of donkeys did that whole thing. You know, I mean, literally what is your theory? What? The Egyptians built him. That's what happened.

It took 50 years. They were, what were the purpose? They are a mathematical phenomenon. Anomole. Anomily, like to, because there's no welding nose together. They're welded together. They're block. I know.

And they seal upon contact. So that's, that's, that is the, box weight 20 tons. Each and like, pulleys, a five school bus. The pressurization. Yes. Of it, the air ducts, like the,

the complex air ducts. Listen, the fact that there are no hieroglyphics inside of the Great Pyramid let you know that it wasn't a tomb and it wasn't used for what mainstream archaeology says it was used for. We watched the wrong. We watched two different documentaries.

Okay. So let's do it. So I'll send you guys the documentary. Probably the 60 documentaries and all of the Egyptian history professors and the people that are really, really, they're all wrong. There's 10,000 of them that are wrong, but there's some guy from Iowa that wrote a book. There's a giant conspiracy around the history of ancient Egypt and all of that. Like there's one mainstream version that archaeology clings to that's been disproven left and right for the past 20 or 30 years. For guys that this is what they wake up every morning and dedicate their entire lives to.

But not that it's disproven. You've got the archaeologists. There's alternate theories. They're getting their evidence and then they're formulating an opinion based on that learned evidence. And then their theorists. Like the Great Spinks. Their theories. Like there's water erosion.

To the people who are looking towards that angle. Oh, that does make sense. Like there's water erosion on the Great Spinks. And the only time that could have taken place. place was like 50,000 years ago, which predates the dynasty, the dynastic Egyptians by 22, 25,000 years. So the dynastic Egyptians, it's Atlantis. The dynastic Egyptians were squatters.

I suggest. Essentially, they were squatters. They, they, they, they, they, all that, all the hieroglyphs you see that, that was graffiti done by a civilization that came way after the pyramids were built originally. I suggest we all, we all talk about something we have an actual expertise on. Not something that we watch. Not something we learned on. I'll take you to school on ancient Egypt.

I'll be doing this second. I'm all of the class. History. I have an open mind. Oh my God. Yeah. Go ahead. I've read all the books.

I've watched all the documentaries. I've studied. You haven't watched all of them. You obviously didn't watch the ones I've watched. Well, he's got a lot in his playlist Q. I just got them all lined up right to go. All right. So we were, we're gathered here today.

Yeah, yeah. What I was, what my suggestion was that we each kind of pick a scam, give a brief overlay of the scam, and then explain, you know, and then talk about like, okay, well, you know, you just said that. How does that work? Like, I don't understand. And pick holes in the scam, right? Because I give you an example is that, you know, Zach has had many, many brilliant scams. And then once you start asking, well, what about this? What about that?

Sometimes they, you know, he's like, you know, you can see where they went wrong. It's like, oh, and I ultimately got arrested. Well, why did you get arrested? Oh, because I got a hotel room and I used the fake credit card. Why did you do that? Or, oh, well, originally when the scam started, I had the credit cards mailed to my sister's house. And it's like, you didn't, well, I didn't think they'd put that together. And, you know, and so it's like, okay, well, that whole scam unraveled based on that one little tiny thing.

And how would you have done it differently or better? or it doesn't even have necessarily to be a scam that you've done, just when you've kind of thought about and heard about it, and this is how you think it would work and just kind of like unravel it. Kind of like the guys when we did that video the other day

and we're talking to this guy on the phone and I'm sitting there thinking, man, if he just tweaked this scam a little bit, he probably would make a lot more money just by tweaking a few things to make it more credible and make it not come back so, you know, on him so easily,

he could probably run this scam for six months. could probably make millions of dollars doing it. He just doesn't. They want to, oh, I'm going to send you $15 million. You just have to send me $15,000. Oh, you're talking about that one that I had. Yeah, I'm saying like that I got scammed on. Well, you didn't, you never sent the money.

No, I mean, because I kept asking myself, where is the scam? Because I'm like, everything seems too perfect. Where is the scam? But, I mean, think about what he did. He really eliminated a ton of potential marks. by saying, I need you to send me $6,000. Like if he had had a letter that really looked like a law firm, and it really went to a decent law firm website,

and it was really connected to a lawyer that you could check out, and he had really planted articles about whatever the organization was and how it worked. And then he had simply said, not that, hey, you have to send me $5,000. He had said something reasonable, like, look, are, you know, and this is something that most, most law firms do.

When you come in, they say, look, we have a basic fee that just kind of pays the administration fee, which is $450. Like, yeah, I'm going to represent you on your car crash, but I need you to pay $450 now, and I'll take one third of the payoff in 18 months when we settle the case. But for now, you have to pay $450 just for the administrative costs. Just to get us going on. Right. Yeah, that makes...

How many times could this guy... Lots of people can afford $450. That's a real thing. My brother-in-law owns a, he's retired now, but he had a personal injury attorney firm, and they used to charge $350 is what everybody paid up front. Doesn't matter if you got a million, $2 million, $10 million. Consultation. But I agree.

Consultation is like once you sign up, you have to pay this for us to start your file. It's just for the administration to set your file up. It was $350, and all of them were charging it. So it was like, so that I'm going to end up spending $350 a minute. just to set up your thing. So you have to pay that. Now, I'll work for my one third, but this is just for the staff, let's say. And everybody paid it. Nobody questioned it. Now it would probably be $450,500. But the bottom line is he could get 100 people to do that and make $45,000 as opposed to getting two people every six months to pay in five grand. You know, he's stupid.

It's stupid. And it's reasonable. And anybody can come up with $450. But I disagree with that. on that scam because he's looking for, like I think his was brilliant because he's looking for people trying to get over. I'm serious, because he's basically saying, hey, there's somebody that died with the last name Cox, right?

I'm saying that, I understand that. I agree with that. But I'm not saying, so I think asking you for money to get money to participate in a scam, I think that would scare more people. Because if I told you, look,

you're not related to him, but I'm going to try to get you there in inheritance. Give me like $400 and I'll start the process. You'd be like, why the fuck when I start the process? I'm even rated. I disagree. I would make it. I would, to me, I'd go the entire time like it's absolutely legitimate.

This is a legitimate thing. This person is related to you. And you know, and you as you may be thinking I'm getting over on him. But if he had said, listen, this person, you know, we actually have somebody who's, whatever, one of these people that put together the trees of, you know, your family tree. we actually have a letter from someone that says that this person is a long lost relative of yours and you actually are supposed to be getting this money now you may think to yourself i don't think so but i'm going to say anything because i think i'm going to get the 15 million dollars so you may be thinking

i'm getting over on him and those are the best scams the best scams are when the victim thinks he's getting over on you and you're getting over on him so i think that if you did that and he said look we're signing you up for the law firm you just have to send 450 to set up your filed an administration, administrative firm, most people would come up with 450. You'd have paid the 450 to see if you got the 15 grand. I think you would have. You seemed pretty, you seemed pretty, you seemed pretty taken in. I was taken in because like of the probably, and this probably still is my character,

but I was taking in by the, the fact that he was trying to do something that wasn't legal. It's kind of like, I'm fishing. You obviously, you obviously knew it was a scam. You were just trying to figure out where is the scam at? Right. And I was allured in because he's basically saying, look, you know, they have the same last name and this money will go to, like, he, he interests me in the hustle because he's saying otherwise this money's going to go to the state. If nobody claims this money, then it's going to go to the state. So there's all this money is going to be thrown away. So I'm kind of like wondering if you're interested in getting it. I understand how you were taken in. I'm saying that he would have just said, hey, you are related to that person. Right. And many,

many people would easily pay 450, you stop dead in your tracks the moment he said $7,000 or $6,000. You were like, oh, wow, that's it. But if he said 450, and if you actually looked it up, is this a real thing? Plus, he could have planted articles about his company doing this for a living. And you would have searched him up and boom, you would have seen these articles. And you'd have been like, man, this is a real thing. This guy really does that. Oh my gosh, I want to get in on this. Then you'd have been like, I want to get in on this. And he'd be like, okay, well, it's 400. $150 for us to start the process. That's all you'll pay. Once we get it, I get 30% of the recovery fee. Takes about 90 days. So how would you like to pay that money? And then he's got 90 days to get

100 more people the same way. So I think that's the way to fix that scam for this retard. Because he was a complete idiot that he just completely fucked it up. I agree with he fuck it up. And he doesn't speak good English. I see the two points. Like so Zach is coming at the angle where like this is already a sizable thing, you know, here's this $15,000 fee and all that. So you're looking at these huge numbers and these big numbers. And if you believe the scam, if you believe the paperwork, then the $10,000, $15,000 fee is to the bank. It's okay. I also see, I also see where you're coming from. And I think that you would get kind of paid more often. Yes. Because like you're giving all of this stuff. Here's this great looking paperwork. You're looking at it. And then you're,

you've got the same understanding that you, oh, okay, this guy's trying to scam. And he's like, hey, you want to get in on this money? So sure, such as such, he could even go as far as saying, I've already paid the beginning half. That's what he did. Of surfacing all of this stuff, bringing it to the forefront. Now we're here. So the only fees that to get it started, let's file you specifically, because I found you, we're going to use you. Just to get that stuff started is a $499. And keep in mind, too, let's assume that there's a chunk of people that absolutely 100% agree that this is for sure, for real. I'm going to get the $15,000.

I believe that this is going to happen. How many people do you know in the United States right now that legally work a job that can come up? I think that number is very low. That legally work. 15%. No, what number? People that are even going to entertain this scam. Wait a second.

Wait a second. I'm saying right now in this room, can you come up with $7,000? Can you come up with $7,000? Can you come up with $7,000? Yes. Most people, legitimate citizens, you're not legit. Legitimate citizens, legitimate citizens that have regular jobs that make the average income of $40,000. They have less than like $2,000 or $3,000 sitting in the bank.

They can't come up with $7 or $8,000. But they can come up for $50. This was angled at the roofer. I mean, I agree, but I don't know that all root, that's absolutely. That's a lot of, that's a lot of money. Can I ask one qualifying question so I know how to think of this? Who, from what angle are we saying, are you trying to improve the scam? From the scammer or from the, you know what I'm saying?

For the scammer. So you're saying as a scammer, we'd make more money if, if, if like, we did what you said, like better website, better paperwork. put more into it and then ask for a less amount of money for more people. Smaller amount of money. And keep mine too. So then I might, I might agree with that. And also maybe.

With today's exercise, with today's exercise, what I'm bringing to the table is exactly that, where it's a smaller figure, but the effort goes more into the presentation and the success of getting what it is that you're scamming as opposed to the going and hitting for the 20, the 30. because I think what you're bringing to the table is along the lines of a bigger score,

what I'm bringing to the table will be the smaller end but more. I think the profit margin is low. It's lower if you're going to do small amounts. Higher quality and, I believe it's a higher quality. I believe that you'll get a lot more $400, $350 fees from our branch to get this stuff going. And then it's the angle where he's like, well, you know, here's the paperwork.

Listen, take your time. But, you know, you kind of got a small window here. And if you don't like it, don't call back. Like, I'm not here to, I'm offering you something. See you later by. Yeah, I can go to my, I would rather make up on follow you. You'd have to have somebody monitoring the phone. You're talking about a lot of expense.

You're talking about a lot of expense. Yeah, I understand. This is your hustle. I understand because people buy numbers and send out text messages that you have a package in order just to get your credit card number to sell it on the dark web. I mean, and I'm thinking myself like, what do you sell them for, 10 bucks? So you send all those texts out. I mean, I'm going to ask myself, what is the profit margin?

You know, so I guess they're also in another country too. So the profit margin in another country is vastly different. So you make $4,000 a month in another country. That's like making $20,000 a month here. Yeah, you're right. That's a lot of money. Or $4 or $500. I don't know.

And that's what I asked myself, like, like what the hell can you be gaining. So I don't, I think the profit would be lower, but because you're going to have to have someone man the phone. You're not going to, you're not going to be able to send, because you've got to send out more. Well, he's pick it. He's, he's, he's sitting at home answering the phone himself. I think you're not sitting at home answering the phone of yourself. If you're doing $4.99, bro, you got to, you got to send out like that you might have sent out like three or 400. I think about a rookie. 10.4th. That was. Oh, he was, he was, he was, and somebody gave him something. And, and he just kind of formulated that.

Yeah, I don't see that that guy with that hustle was, you know, and he sounded like a hood anyway. He sounded like he was grocery shopping there with four kids. Yeah, no, I'll call you back. But think about it like this, too. I'll email. Yeah, email.

In another country, like, he's going to Thailand. What can you live for in Thailand? A month? Yeah. 200 bucks. Oh, yeah, I wish. That's 1970. About 1,500 U.S.

dollars a month. you can live a very, very comfortable life in Southeast Asia. You should see the condos. We're not talking about a shithole condo that looks like a motel. These buildings were built in 20th. Yeah, last year, two years ago.

Looking over the beach. Insane. High-rise luxury condos for about $550, $600 a month. 23rd floor, 30th floor, all the amenities. That number you were quoting was your total living expense. It's not rent. It's everything. Oh, no, you can get a place for $250, for $250.

But I'm saying he's gonna be living in we're talking about like 20th floor Concierge this is like living in a brand of town If my price I'm gonna my price point was a thousand bucks a month And I wanted something out there you're saying that I could live you want to pay right about a thousand dollars month for rent Yes. Oh dude. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah you you would get the equivalent up here, but you have to pay like Like one of those apartments downtown like Tampa about $4,000 You get one of those about a thousand over there. They denied me twice. Yeah, yeah, yeah Well, these guys just pay, these guys that you walk in, you just, you just, you just credit check, no background check.

You have the money? Southeast Asia, really. I'm going to Thailand, but Southeast Asia. We got to come visit. How much is a meal to eat out? A meal to eat out. $2. $2.50.

You just do the meals. You get a giant plate of like noodles, chicken, rice with like, so say all four of us went out and we all got whatever entree we wanted. We all had a big round of drinks and all that. The total price for all four of us would probably somewhere in the neighborhood. of about $30 to $35 U.S. Wow. And listen, forget that part of it. You have, when we're done, you have to send the videos.

When he shows you the video, and it's not one video, there's hundreds of videos of people just going out to eat. Like, you should see the meals they're getting. Yeah, please, send us the video. It's not crap. It's not like a McDonald's meal. We're talking about home cook, like, like, this is like going to bonefish grill. They're bringing out salmon.

They're bringing out. And even McDonald's is cheaper over there. Like over here, you're going to pay like, what, $15? for a value meal now. It's like $6.50, $7 U.S. over there for the same thing that we pay $15, $20 for here. Yeah. Yeah, Southeast Asia is definitely, I think, where it's at. If you want to take your U.S. dollars and see how far you can stretch it. Of course. Yeah, three bucks. What is it? Three bucks a month? Three dollars a month. The infrastructure, listen, the infrastructure in Southeast Asia is rivals and surpasses anything that you see here in the United States. They're, their public

transport i can show you the videos the public transportation the streets are clean like the crime is low it's socialized so the public public transportation is part of your taxes yeah yeah it's dude the crime is low over there here so here's the reason i i have like after sitting with him long enough i've had many conversations with jess but the bottom line is which is my wife the bottom line is in the end you know this podcast is based on 70% of it is people coming in person to meet with me Now, if I could do it all remotely and get the same amount of views and income, well, then I could live like a king over there. But my fear is that if I were to go over there, then I would lose a chunk. And I have all editors in the United States, you know, running or doing all the editing and everything.

So you can't, suddenly everything would drop down and you can't afford to pay that. And you can't, you don't have a place. And my fear is that everything's working so well right now. Why would I take that leap? But that's right now, though. Oh, yeah. Listen. Oh, no, things could change.

But, you know, I want to make it. Taiwan. Yeah. But I'm a vlogger. I vlog. That's what I do. I like to just grab the camera and go run out and do stuff in public. You know, whatever I'm doing. I like that's the kind of content I like that.

Whatever it is. He has videos. There's videos. There's channels, complete channels exactly like the channel. He's going to, well, we can get into that later, but he's starting a channel. When he goes, there's guys that have. Americans, guys from Ohio that have moved there, got a condo, got a girlfriend. Pretty little Thai wife.

Yeah. And move there. And their whole thing is just about, hey, I'm going here today. Hey, I'm doing this. Hey, I just worked for two hours and made, you know, they're doing. Guys that couldn't get laid here in a house are going over there. And they have like just the most beautiful girl you've ever seen. Yeah.

Wow. Gorgeous little, little tie chicks. And then they're making their money. Is that a channel you're specifically starting? Patreon, maybe. There's a bunch of other videos, guys just like him that went there, started a YouTube channel, and probably worked a day job doing some kind of digital, you know, something like on upward or whatever.

A lot of these guys do marketing or they do editing or something until eventually their YouTube channel takes off. And then they don't even have to do that. Now I just, now they just make three videos a week and put them up about their life in Thailand and how much everything costs and here I'm going here and oh, I just got did this and my girlfriend and I were doing that. Wow. That's their whole channel.

Do they get, do they get American rate? Yeah. Because Thailand cannot be happier. Thailand could not be happier about that. You're still a U.S. citizen, so you're still paying taxes to the U.S. So I'm still getting U.S. dollars every month. I just live abroad.

There's certain things. I'm still a U.S. citizen. I still pay taxes on everything I make. You know what I mean? Wow. I'm interested. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, and listen, I didn't understand any of this. Yeah. So I just turned it down at two degrees. I didn't understand any of this really until I started, you know, actually really digging into it and watching the YouTube videos and watching a lot of these guys that are over there vlogging and making videos, talking about the cost of living, talking about just, you know, the culture, the society, how things operate over there. I had no clue, you know, I thought it was all fucking, you know what I mean? Like, I didn't know, like it's, you know, because we live in such a bubble here. And we're made to believe that the U.S. is the center of the universe. We have it better than everybody else.

Our culture is better. Our economy is better. You know what I mean? Win, win, win. American, we push that American excellence where we really just focus on the individual. So everybody's kind of just like this narcissistic. I'm out to make as much money as I can and take selfies. And do this a different culture once you get over on the other side of the world.

A completely different culture. You know, crime is so low over there because the consequences are swift and severe. Swift and severe. And severe. And also, we talked about. this and I haven't seen a video on this was we just had this discussion that basically what it used to be like here back

in the you know a hundred years ago was you know if you saw somebody throw something on the garbage on the ground you'd be like hey like four or five people around there but oh hey bro what did you just do and the guy would pick it up you just kind of that that shame and yeah shame and we're now

be like fuck you mind your own business but that's not how it is over there. The culture over there is completely different they have something called saving face over there so they don't like They don't, won't disrespect each other and, like, you know what I mean? Like call each other out in public and make it, make it, make you to lose face. So the, the culture is completely different than what American society is over there. You don't go on social media and talk shit about some.

Oh, this fucking restaurant sucks. This guy. No, they have, what are those laws called? Where you defame or you defamation. The defamation laws over in Thailand are crazy. Like you can't leave bad reviews on restaurants. You'll go to jail. Wow.

Straight to jail. You know what I mean? So, yeah, they just operate. It's a completely different operation. They don't even have words for probation. First time offender. No, if you break the law over there, listen, their jail, their jails over there are just like, it's 25 dudes in one room sleeping shoulder to shoulder on a cement floor, no mats, no pillows.

I heard they give you one meal. There's toilet, there's a toilet. The toilet is a hole. The toilet is a hole in the corner of the room in the ground. And that's where everybody just squats over it and takes a dump. Oh yeah, like you do not want to go to prison in Thailand. The third strike, their third strike law is dead. It happens on the first arrest.

But possession of drugs and like with like distribution and like all that, it's life. Punishable by life. You get life automatic off rip. This is why the crime rate. You got to try and figure out how to get your time down. That's why their crime race. Dude, there's no violent crime over there. I mean, listen, it happens.

People get murdered. People get assaulted. People get drunk and drive their cars through the front and front of stores. and shit over there. It happens. Like, I'm not saying like it's just perfect. It's a utopia. But listen, the amount of violent crime that happens here in the U.S., like just walking to Walmart, I can get killed. Like, you know what I mean? Like, somebody can just pull up on me and sh-me in the head for no reason. Like, you don't have to worry about those things over there in Southeast Asia. Those, it's not even a factor. Like, you can just leave your purse somewhere. Like, if you're at a table

at a restaurant, you can leave your purse and go to the bathroom and you can come back and and your purse is going to be there with all your money in it. I can't tell you how many times I've had my pistol. Or your wallet or your phone. And that was in prison. Like your iPhone. Like talking about your iPhone. I can leave my iPhone on the table in a restaurant and I can just go to the bathroom.

And I can come back and my iPhone's going to be there. Nobody's going to, you know, oh, look, nobody's going to take it. That type of stuff doesn't appeal to me, the security and safety. I'm usually the bad guy. Yeah. So I'm not worried about all their bad guys. You lost it. You lost it.

You lost it. 25 years for a charge. That's the way you lost me. I'm already thinking about and the bad reviews. People still trapped drugs through there. People still do wild, giant, fraudulent, you know, like 20 billion bot and frauds.

And you see it in the news every day. But what you don't see on the other end of that is how much time those people get in the consequences for what, you know what I mean? Like, it's insane. Yeah, because you never hear from it. What happened to Bob? What happened to Bob?

I know. I know we were selling drugs. I know we got picked up. Yeah. And then you see stuff like, with those cops arresting people, oh, it's not like,

it's, what it, they're, they're, do's, yeah, they just, all that,

all that police brutality. You know, they, exactly, please brutality. Yeah, they're like, that's what we do.

You're getting your ass, don't commit crimes. I don't have to beat you. I don't see that as different from America. Thanks, I'm like, police blue brutality. Well,

no, they don't bitch of mine. They're not going to march in the street if somebody gets their ass beat by the police over there. Oh, it's a part of life. It's just accepted. It's just accepted. The problem of life.

Here, use my shoe. But the problem is, people are like, beat his ass. As an American, you need to move there and know that you have an income. Because you're not going to go there and take a tie job, because if you're taking a tie job, you're not living in the condo. Well, no, they don't let foreigners work.

They don't let foreign. In general, the jobs they are not paying. You're here to spend money. Yeah. And not to suck up our resource. Well, you would have to live like a tie. So they call it living like the locals. And you can go over there and live like a Thai local.

But, you know, they live very, very simple. You know what I mean? Like the Thai people over there, they make about, I think, five or $600 or $600 a month is a basic salary for a Thai person. So there's like the haves and the have-nots. Lots of have-nots. They call it a high-so, high society. If you go there as an American and you can generate enough, let's say you do editing work. You know, like Colby could pick up and go there and make himself for $5,000, part-time working.

on like a website like Upwork. He could just do that and make five grand a month and live like he was in the United States making $100,000, well, let's say $50,000 a month there. But he can't go there and take a regular job and maintain that because now he's going to get

not that they were going to let you take a job, but if you're just working like a regular like a regular Thai person, you're not living in that condo on the 30th floor. So you have to go there as an American and be able to get American wages. You have to have, US dollars to live a decent life you have to have US dollar US income yeah a digital

what are they going a digital nomads right or the great or the GbP the great British pound which is almost twice what the American dollar is against the bot no yeah oh yeah listen you want to us dollars he's got bought he's already got the dollar in the pound are almost the so one dollar is 35 bots one great British pound is 45 bots what would have bought it's a Thai bot it's their dollar it's yeah It's the currency in Thailand. That's what they call. They don't call them dollars.

They call them bought. Right. That's how they. Okay. But I mean, he's already got, he's already got cash. He's already been buying the Thai bots. I have 30,000 Thai bot physical cash. I'm taking over there with me.

That was like 900, 900 US dollars was 32, that I'm taking over there with me. This is totally going off the rails, by the way. We're supposed to be back to. Yeah. You know what, though? I think people are going to, I don't think, I think they just listen to anything. With you four guys. Yeah, but I mean, what we're supposed to be.

This will also be picked up and put at the end. I was going to say, you could cut this and put it at the end. Yeah. Yeah. Let's call the entire conversation. Can we jump back to, yeah. Yeah, I'll probably say, well, you started them. They just reminded me. It just reminded me.

I didn't know it was going to go off on the rails. I'm like, how many more of these can we do before December 3rd? So what about, yeah, because we're going to do a whole episode. We're going to do a whole episode just on like. We're just dedicated to Thailand. Right. Just the start of him. how he got to that point, what the procedures he went through to kind of figure that out,

and then what life is like there, and then what his goal, like the whole thing, we need to do an hour. Yeah, and this is a good, this will be a good space where at the end we're like, check out, check out of those yet, check out six. Yeah, yeah. Watch Zach's older videos. Right, yeah. Because you can go down, you can go down a rabbit hole on.

Every time he turns it on and I sit down, I'm not even sitting on the couch anymore. He'll pull up these YouTube videos and I sit on the couch and an hour and a half, two hours later. I'm like, what am I doing? I just lost two hours watching because I'm so I'm just so like I can't believe this. Yeah. Like this is amazing. And it'd be different of it was one guy, but there's there's eight different guys that he kind of follows it. Oh, check this guy out and he'll click it and boom.

This guy does this. He travels around East Asia and just a normal American being a normal American. And the guy's making he's got to be making five or six thousand dollars a month just on his YouTube channel. Just traveling around. A couple of guys I watch over there from Australia. Somewhere I'm traveling around. And the Australian dollars. sucks against

against the bot. It's like 22 bot per every one Australian dollar, which is not, it sucks. And there's a lot of Australians too. Yeah,

they're struggling. Their currency is down. Yeah, they're definitely struggling. They've always been fighting from behind those Aussies. Yeah, I posted that picture of you guys

and people are already coming in like, oh, like I can't wait. I feel like this should be a weekly lineup. I should have been doing this. That's what the police said. Yeah. I was going to say it.

we got them all in one spot. The problem is, the problem of that is that Boziac's going to be gone in a couple of weeks. Zach may go back to jail for summer. God knows why. I'm working. He's safe, huh? You two are safe. Thank you.

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