The Breakfast Club - Man Who Found Haribo’s Lost $4M Check Is Rewarded With Bags Of Candy

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We'll be right back. It's a breakfast club, bitches. Who's donkey of the day today? Donkey of the day for Wednesday, November 16th. Let me make sure that's the date.

Yes, Wednesday, November 16th goes to Haribo. Haribo. Haribo? Haribo? Haribo? Sounds good. Haribo is a German candy company. I'm sure y'all know Haribo because of their gummy stuff.

Play the little jingle. Oh, it's not? You don't have the jingle? You got the jingle up? Yes. Never heard that in my life, by the way. Oh, it's not, you don't have the jingle? You got the jingle up? It's too good, it's love, it's so The happy world of Haribo Never heard that in my life. No, I never heard that either.

They're all over the bodegas, but I never heard of it. But gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy snakes, okay, according to Haribo, they represent childlike happiness. No matter your age, you can eat them, play with them, but you can't expect Haribo to treat you correctly if you do the right thing. What do you mean, Uncle Charlotte? What are you talking about, Brother Lenard?

You can't expect Haribo to treat you correctly if you do the right thing. Well, let's pretend you're on a train and you find a check for $4.7 million. Listen to what I just said. You're on a train and you find a check for $4.7 million. That's what happened to a man named Anwar G. He's 38 years old, and according to The Independent, he was traveling home after visiting his mama. And then he saw a check on a train platform. Okay, just sitting there, discarded, unattended.

Just a cool $4.7 million. All right, he actually said he couldn't believe his eyes. Okay, I can imagine. All right, in fact, Anwar g says there was such a large sum on it that he couldn't even pronounce it all right now the check was made out the horrible from uh rowi a german supermarket well anwar g being the good samaritan that he is reached out to the company horrible that represents childlike happiness to inform them that he had found the check so horrible asked them asked him to destroy

it and send proof that he did i would think that's a strange request okay i would think they would just ask him to send them the check and then they can do whatever they choose with it in fact if i was on yg i would have told them no no no okay give me an address i'm mailing it because destroying a check for an amount that large, $4.7 million, makes me feel like I'm going to prison. It just feels illegal. Okay. And I bet the person from horrible started that request off by saying, all you got to do is, okay, all you got to do is destroy the check and send us proof that you destroyed it. Nope. Okay. Hey, listen to your uncle Sharla. Whenever someone tells you, all you got to do is whenever a sentence starts with all you got to do is.

Trust me, your chances of going to jail are ninety nine point nine percent. OK, but Anwar G granted Haribo's request. He destroyed the check and sent him proof that he destroyed it. Now, I'm a stern believer that you should always do the right thing for no other reason than the right thing is always the right thing to do. OK, you don't do the right thing expecting anything in return return you just do the right thing because you're a good person and when you do the right thing you shouldn't expect anything in return but i do believe when it comes to money that paper that cream that cheddar that guap when it comes to the dollar dollar bill y'all if i return some money to you a large substantial amount then i personally believe a proper reward okay should be money all right all right a proper reward for returning money or helping you get some money

back should be money compensate me bro all right i need some capital it's only right but horrible is serious when they say they represent childlike happiness no matter the age. Because they didn't decide to compensate this Anwar G with no Skrilla. What do you think they gave Anwar G and me? What do you think? Some candy. That is exactly right. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, okay? Six

packs of horrible products. Twin Snakes, Gold Bears, Sour Screamers, Star Mix, all types of flavors watermelon cherry cola but no dough no bread not one red scent look horrible i know y'all say y'all represent childlike happiness no matter their age but this is ridiculous okay rnyg is 38 years old at that big age after being a good samaritan and essentially saving y'all ass and returning a 4.7 million dollar check i don't want no damn candy okay it's cash rules everything

around me not candy rules everything around me when anwar g told horrible that hey man you know this don't really measure up and i and listen i know you know you shouldn't expect anything when you do the right thing but damn man he had he had to tell the company this don't measure up. Haribo defended the decision and said it was the standard package that we send as a thank you. And Haribo said since it was a named check, nobody but our company could have redeemed it. True. But what if Anwar G would have legally changed his name to Haribo? Haribo, Anwar G, and the G stands for to Haribo. Haribo Anwar G.

And the G stands for gummy. It's ways that he could have got that money. Probably not. But that's not the point. Y'all a hundred plus million dollar company. I mean, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars that company makes. I'm not saying Anwar G should have got a million, but some type of money, just a little bit of financial compensation, a couple of dollars. Can I get a couple of dollars. OK, you should absolutely reward people for doing the right thing in

regards to returning money. Why? Because folks hear these stories and it encourages folks to also do the right thing. OK, you shouldn't need any incentive to be honest and, you know, help somebody get their money back. But, man, it helps. Okay? Please give Horrible the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. For now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw. Let me guess.

Let me guess. Let me guess. And if you don't think they should have got a dime, and if you don't think you should have gave them nothing in return, and if he thinks the candy is a very cool package to receive. Cheap bastard. It is. They can't do nothing with that check anyway. That's not the point.

It's not like it was cash. That check didn't mean anything. If they found the check or not, you can't cash the check. I would have changed my name to Haribo. You would have went to jail. You would have been calling me Haribo the next day. And that's a paper trail. You just can't get a check. I can't find a check that says Charlemagne and just sign it and put it in my bank.

I'm going to jail. You're absolutely right. I'm going to jail. So the fact that he called, okay, they probably didn't care because they would have got another check anyway. That check was probably about to be taken care of anyway. So they gave the man free candy just for thinking of doing a nice thing. They should have gave him some free money for doing the right thing.

I think whenever it's money involved, whether or not he could have cast a check or not. That was a check. Whether he could cast a check or not, just give him a couple dollars. He can't cast a check. He'd go to jail. I know. He can't cast a check because he's not horrible. But just give him a couple dollars just because.

Why not? Why not? Because he didn't do anything. I got a check right now from Gayle King for over $22,000, but it's made out the Team CTG because she be taking our breakfast at the TV show because our offices are right next to each other. And I told her I was going to charge her. I told her it cost over $20,000.

And she wrote the check. For $20,000? Yeah, but it's the Team CTG. There is no Team CTG unless I make a Team CTG LLC. So there's ways. You're not going to really cash that check for her.

No, I'm not. It's not, but it's the point. It's the principle. Okay? Haribo should have gave this man some money, man. No, it was not money. It was a check.

It was a check. Just a little bit of bread, bro. You could tear up a check. He couldn't do anything with that check regardless. It's not like it was cash. But it's the principle. It's not no damn Just a little bit of bread, bro. You could tear up a check. He couldn't do anything with that check regardless. It's not like it was cash. But it's the principle. It's not no damn principle.

The man did the right thing. He returned the $4.7 million check. Even if he couldn't do anything with it, just give him a couple dollars. He couldn't. $1,000, $5,000, just something. He got candy. Don't you always say you do something nice and don't expect anything, and then they give him something, and now you're expecting something?

It's a little different when it's money. It wasn't money. I do feel a little different when it's money. When it's money, they should compensate people with money. All right, well. Open the phone lines, then. All right. Ask.

Today's Wednesday. Yay. You ain't even in here. Yay. Don't have to close the door. All right. The Breakfast Club, as we know it, is officially over. She's not even in here.

She didn't get her makeup done. She didn't really work anyway? Exactly. All right. 800-585-1051. We're asking, should this company have given this man money? I say no. He wasn't going to do nothing with this check anyway.

Just a little bit of financial conversation. They gave him some candy. I'm not even saying a million dollars. I'm not even saying hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm just saying give him a little bit of bread. The gummy bears is good money. No, it's not. What if he's a diabetic? What if he's a damn diabetic? Did you even think about is good money. No, it's not. What if he's a diabetic? What if he's a damn diabetic? Did you even think about that?

You didn't even think about that. What if he's a diabetic? Now this man dead because Haribo done sent him six packs of candy. So you don't be thinking. 800-585-1051. Let's talk about it. Should Haribo, whatever the name of the company, give the man some money?

No. Just a little bit of bread. A little bit of financial compensation. If he didn't cash the check, he'd have went to jail. I think whenever you return any type of money, you should get a little bit of financial compensation. Let's talk about it. Let he didn't cash the check, he'd have went to jail. I think whenever you return any type of money, you should get a little bit of financial compensation. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going.

That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets.

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