Fraud Friday: The Manipulating Manager w/ Priscilla Davies

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Speaker 1: What's poppin Congregation? Is your girl, Lacey Mosley aka Scam Goddess.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess Baalt. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the paywall. Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall, and as always, stay scheming.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump Trump, Donald Trump Tump, what pappin Congregation? It's sha girl, scam Goddess, and uh, I'm thrilled to be joined today by an old, dear friend, that old, not that old, honey, but very funny, very very funny, very talented comedian writer, Miss Priscilla Davies. Hello, congregation, it is a pleasure to be here. Guys. I've gotten some letters and some writing from some Trump supporters who love the show. So, guys, if you're a Trump supporter who loves the show, you should probably turn this shit off. You have Trump supporter I do, and I don't court them. I was like, bitch, I'm not trying to give you joy. Please don't listen, just not for you listening right now, enjoying every second of this. They're the true scammers listening to me, knowing damn well that I don't want them to. So shout out to y'all during these strong times. What are you gonna do about your racism? Guys? God damn just kidding. You still have it? Oh ouches Zinger. It'll keep you warm at night. Racism like a weighted blanket on your soul. Oh lord, we needed some joy on today. Truly, twenty twenty has been a raggedy bitch whoam but today we celebrate and guys, let's get into it. I won't I won't give you too much politics. I'm lying and this is gonna be sprinkled throughout the episode like a doubt o honey, Oh wait, song there anyway that should tastes good? Oh God, fuck your delicious ass and Dobo raggedy bitch, that's our song and go yeah, that's we're specifical talking about. Goya is a Dobo. Everybody else at Dobo. We're fine by us, sweetie. Guys, let's get into it. What's hot and frod Besides the number one scammer being booted from the highest office in the land, the number one scammer got busted, y'all. What a blessing. I'm sorry. I know I said we was gonna get into it. We is gonna get into it. Can we all just relish? Can can we have a moment? Please, congregation, don't be mad at us. I'm so glad I'll showed up to church today because this is a hot holiday. Oh is gonna be preaching? Amen? Amen. We got miss Gurdy on the organs. Chelsea's gonna add organ later for that. She does have authoritis, so the organ music will be a little shoddy, but we're gonna live this. Gordon cook, she gonna cook today. Yeah, I just I truly can't believe it. Who we are free? I mean, we're so black? Can we have my own guess? But we're going for to today like we completely free today. I am a white woman. I am fair of faucet in the seventies when cascading through my flaxen locks. Oh farahs, we were bacca. So good to see you guys, So good to see you. Rebecca. Do you know how good it feels to be free in America? So good? Would you like a watercress sandwich? Of course? I would you have any sparkling water? Oh? Absolutely, Actually we only have flat sparklings too spicy for me. All Right, we're back, So this meant to be foolish. I'm so sorry to all of y'all. Guys. Let's get into What's Hot and Friud. We've got a special listener letter from What's Hot and Friud. I need a name for this gentleman. He is from the Bronx. Oh from the Bronx. Baby, my name is? His name is oh God, not the prayer Hands. Why didn't he go into prayer hands? This is the Bronx. Let's call this guy, uh bell Biv bel biv. You know what we are gonna call him belvit because shout out to Philly Mota back and wait that is be No, that's it is because I say it's something boys. Okay, baby, okay, okay, Well, didn't get no fight. No, that was with U with Bobby Bobby Noby Brown, Bobby bron gonna fight with you ain't see that movie all beats. I saw he's in a different group. He's not. He's okay. Well, now that makes sense. All this adds up to say, bellfif is the name of the listener letter today. Right, So he says, hey, scam gottess and guess. Okay, hello, I'm preciate you for acknowledging. I appreciate you for knowing the structure of the show. So I'm gonna skip past the mushy stuff, but I will say there's a LEG twenty twenty shout out in here, and guys, we fucking did it Leg twenty twenty. You guys went viral with the shits you got lit. You bought shirts. Yeah, and those shirts, the proceeds went to Black Lives Matter. That's at the time where all the proceeds were going through from Earwolf, so you know y'all was also doing y'all's part. Oh wow, amen a skim off the top at all? I didn't and I regret that. I sorely regret it. But I did not skim off of the top. So guys, we did it. We got them legs to the polls and we love it. If you're in Georgie, I don't know when that runoffs happening, it's probably this week. Hun, No, girl, I don't think so at all. I'm pretty sure runoff is like a process. Yeah, okay, so just sitting and run offs in January. Let me stop spreading misinformation because I told you how to wrote a vote on the wrong day and y'all knew what I meant. But yes, guys, So shout out to Georgia followers. If y'all out there Georgia the whole day through, make sure y'all get out. I'm getting sued by Ray Charles Ghost. He's litigitous the Ghost. I believe that. So y'all, you know, stay woke because there's probably gonna be a runout runoff and we're gonna need those seats. So y'all gonna have to get out there and get that leg back to the polemon Georgia, keep that momentum going for us. Take those Georgia peaches and those legs. Yeah, to the poles. So back to belle Viv. We don't get there, that's to what the hell we came here to do. We're gonna get there, y'all. It's actually we're getting into it pretty quickly. I said seven minutes at bad Okay. So, so Belleviv says my name is belle Viv Devo. Okay, we said that. So I'm a Latino who lives in the Bronx these a Latino BK forever he says he and he lives in a very Italian neighborhood. The first time someone tried to run this possible scam, it started the same way, so he said. Someone pulls up and is like, do bless, that's my young and he's like, see, I'm sure because he doesn't like to talk to strangers. And if you don't know what, yeah, bless, that's my YO means it just means to you speak Spanish, but also like there's no official language of the US. You guys should know that, right, that's a fact. So so the guy continues and he says, I'll give you this jewelry for money so that we can me, which is Belbidevaux. He says, I don't have money. I'm so sorry and walks away, which, you know what, Bell smart, you did the right thing. The guy tries to talk to him more and he says sorry and he walks away. So the first time he didn't write in because he was like, I don't know, scamer real. It could have just been random, and I didn't fall for it. We ask forward to the pandemic in New York City in twenty twenty, the day before the election. I believe ooh recent, we love a fresh con very fresh. He says, he rarely goes outside, okay, a distancing king, respect a duke of distance. And when we do go outside, I wear a mask. Okay, cool, that's what you should do. So he says, a different guy in a different car, same story, same type of ring, same family guilt trip. He said, this time it was a guy who asks if he speaks Spanish again, and he had a car seat in the back of the car and a woman in the back seat, assumably with a baby, but he couldn't see the baby. So again, Belviv says, I don't have any cash, and the guy's like, but I'll give you this ring for gas money and he's like, sorry, no cash, and he crosses the street. So he said, I guess this is a popular scam because it's the same neighborhood in the Bronx, same pickup line, The whole give you jewelry to get gas thing is the same thing, and family in the back seat a sob story, basically the whole same grift. So then he did some googles. Nice, we love Google, mm hmm, and the San Francisco gay said drivers beware of roadside scammers offering gold for cash. It's fake now, I know. You know. Guess is hot? Is it gold ring? High? No? In parts of California, I'm keeping it around. I went to San Francisco. You actually may need to give up your back ends, okay, if you're in a high school ring a graduation one, right, listen. I used to sell those what I worked for a redacted rings company stop and my mom used to work there, so she got me a job on campus as a scam. And my job was social media coordinators. I would post on Facebook and I'd post on Instagram about class rings. I was making money for doing nothing, and I I have to sit at the graduation table and be like, do you want to ring? And I got a ring for free. It was nobody has a class ring anymore. No one where's that ugly piece of jowers? So ugly And I'm so grateful. I never spent any money on any And they would try to do like for ladies, for the girls, there's a tiny one little yeah, and it's just they're just not I lost mine. I never had one. I never ever because I even as a kid, I was like, this just seems like a bad investment. You did the right thing. I mean back in the day when it like degrees really fucking mattered. It was like a networking tool, like you had your punch stapering on and be like, oh, ship up, I see you. So that's what it's all about. Those panthers, panthers, the Penstate panthers. It's some kind of cat. I don't know. I went to pitt I know, Penn State. So this is basically another one of those tug on your heartstring scams. It's like, oh, my family, I do this. The thing that I don't understand about it In New York is like there's like a pawn shop on every corner, Like how you like, why we don't think you're gonna give us a real ring when you could literally go to the corner and it's gonna be a liquor store and then a pawn shop. And that's and that's why this scam gets an f for me, because first of all, first of all, you're doing this in the Boogie Down Bronx. Come on now, like niggas got sent out there, okay, And then like it's just it's just such a I just feel like, where can who has God got by this. Apparently some people have also like what is the whole port of being liked blave? Like, what is that supposed to like it's it's the bronx who doesn't speak. I feel like gotta be like, like you gotta hit them with some some I guess it's supposed to be like, hey, like you know we are the same, help me if you will help us and our people, right and our people. It's like, look, give me gas money for I don't know if the ass up bro items complex seems complicated. I just need to know who's gotten got by this? And did you keep the ring? You keep the ring? I love doing that references from hey Arnold, you keep the money? Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: It was this episode where you know how they live in that building, that borderhouse, you know, and I don't know listen, I don't know about hey Arnold. I didn't have cable growing up. So Hayna was this ship. It was like this old old fuck boy and he lived with his woman, and his woman was always paying the bills, always paying the child woman. It was a nickelode and so it was a boy. It was Chelsea, I'm right right. It was a fun boy in his bottom bitch and she was always paying for everything, always hold him down. And then one day he like got came across some money or something like that, and like his bottom bitch was like, you're really about to take this or whatever, and he was sented. And then at the end he came back and redeemed himself and he was like, you keep the money. She was like, damn the plot of belly. I don't want anything to do with this anymore. Get out of here. I love you boo for He was like, you keep the money, and like literally he did that. That's all he did, and then he was back in good graces and back to his fuckery. Oh my god, I love it. Shout out to Nickelodeon. She's just so problematic. He's the cold ass ship. She should have definitely left that again. She was he said, you keep the money, was like, oh, come back here, booth. Yeah, here, I have really really good content. Guys. Ah, I'm just so hyped today, guys, Like, can y'all hear me smiling? Because I'm smiling so hard. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, A lovely day for a neighbor, won't you be mine, Be mine. Fuck you Donald drum. Yes, all right, guys, we're back in. It's time for historic Hoodwig's my favorite part of the show. This is where I will regale Priscilla with a famous hoodwink and we'll get her opinions all throughout. And we're talking about a very special one today. Guys. Oh, we're talking about Milly Vanilli. What's their song? Come on, I don't know what their song is. It's a girl, you know, it's true. Oh okay, I don't know it. Girl wasn't born when they were faced. Well I was, and I'm proud of that. Oh god. So Millie Vanilli was a German French R and B duo from Munich. The group was founded by Frank Farian and consisted of fab More Vron and Raw Polattis. They became one of the most popular acts in the late eighteen hundreds, It's the late eighties in the turn of the century nineties, with millions of records sold and one they wanted Grammy for Best New Artists in nineteen ninety. However, their success turned to infamy when it was discovered that they did not sing any of the vocals to their music. Releases their music releases. Why did my voice go full? Like resis I am an anchor now? Lokyay, y'all see you on the ConA ABC scam on that was the biggest scam of all. Truly, I'm twenty twenty. That's my biggest scam that I've done so far, as me sitting in this chair and being a your head expert, you should be fucking proud of. It's a crime. So the making of Milli Vanilli I what I have to say. I don't know if this would have been such a huge scandal if it happened now, because it's like with auto tune and how much we do to fix people's voices and change them, and how few artists actually sing live at concerts and performances, Like is it really that wild to not sing your own music? I'm gonna go out on a lemon say yes, like yes, are you kidding me? Think about all the singers we got singing in italics and web dings these days, you know what I mean? I got ahead and jail by, I go ahead to jelck delete. Are I don't like this song? Oh damn? I got the anti skip button on the shout out to CD to walk back. What's sers go on now? I e go, oh, now here's my thing. I do think it would be a problem today because in the end, we still expect the artists to be able to sing their actual songs. What do I expect actually today on stuts? Okay, that's not even equal at all. Well, like what like, how can I you? I wish you would go to every actor and be like, wait, you can't do a kickflip into a backflip off of a building. And if you can't, I'm supposed to believe you. I supposed to believe you. Divin Diesel flip them cars. And I'm sure he didn't. I'm sure he is. He really even Ball, I can't trust anything. I can't trust the only person who does their own stump since Tom Cruise. And that's because he's crazy. That's because he hasn't felt anything on the inside since the eighties. It's like, no, I'll jump under the car, like Tom, it's not even gonna be in the movie, like that, we don't know that car. Let's just get it in case. He's like, that's just the pedestrian driving a car. Like we we shouldn't do this dude, I definitely think that's like, no, you can no, you would still get dragged by the media if you. Okay, remember when Jessica Simpson's little sister, she got caught, she got caught lip singing, She got dragged. However, it was still dragged for that jig though. Yeah, it was a twist again, how do ip I love that song and the fun rings and the hay the dank man. There's a clabia so come to rasca mas. I hate it. I know everyone's so angry right now. I'm gonna stop it. It's hard. It's hard. I just I it would be in my opinion, it would be a scandal even to okay, maybe maybe you're right, I mean, okay, do you think a sing underneath that? That? Oh? Yes, he showed. He was like, I wish you would talk about my voice and go on the mass singer. But I don't know what he says in Wisconsin. You're here, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. What was it? He right, take it to a mansion wearing whiskey cans. It was truly truly a moment of artistry. Is so. Frank Farian, a German record producer, was in a disco in his native country when he heard the song girl you Know It's True by the Baltimore band Numero, and immediately knew it could be a bigger hit. I say, girl, you know it's true. You said that? So he started recruiting singers in nineteen eighty eight, singers Linda and Jodi Rocco saying back up and Charles Sharp rapped on the track. Okay, So this is because he decided that he was going to simple a team to recreate the version of that song, taking the original hip hop track and mixing it with a little bit of euro dance. I mean, what a dumb move, like, I mean, the song was a hit. The one that you heard was a remix, that's true. Is Frank Ferrian the original ditty? I mean, here's my thing. And this is I think why this was probably doomed from the start. The goals and I see, I didn't know that they were put together for a song. I thought they were put together as an actual group. Well, so this is just the song. So this is where it started. So this is Farian being like, oh, I like this song a lot, I'm gonna steal it. I'm gonna hit it with the remix. I'm gonna give it some flavor. But then he found people to sing the song, right, or he just well, he found real singers to sing the song. He started recruiting singers in nineteen eighty eight. Singers Linda and Jodi Rocco sang backup, and Charles Sharp rapped on the track. When he played the record for me, I already knew the song, said Shaw. He told Billboard magazine this. He said, I had been dancing to the Numeru version on the weekends in an American club in Hamburg. Farian played it, and I said, this song ain't new. And that's exactly how he said it in nineteen ninety. Let's continue, this song ain't new, homes Hey, this song ain't new. And then I said to Belle boom boom. But that's how people talk about nineties, right. Absolutely so, Farrin admitted that the song wasn't new, but he still went with it and started mixing the voices. You can't really hear the vocals or exactly who's singing because there are so many voices on the course, he said. Eventually, Brad Harrell and John Davis were brought in for vocals. His version of the song quickly became popular in Europe. Now he just needed faces to go along with the music group. That's what I mean. It's like it's empty, it's not real art. I don't know. A lot of music is made for mass consumption, and some of it's good. It's not all bad if it happened the other way around, if it was like I put together this amazing band and they came. But it's like I heard a song and then I built this monster around it. But think about producers and writers, like they're writing music and song for like whatever model is hot right now? True, Like there's some people who can really sing down, Like I think Ariana Grande can sing. I don't think she's like drying very hard, but she can sing. But people made music for all the you know what I mean. Like it's like there's very few area Ona goddas. It's mostly just like models now who can carry a tune? Oh yeah, look at the R and B scene, there's a lot of very beautiful models smoking a week. Oh my man, stole my MONI from a persalitis again? How do I skip? I hate this song? Yeah, I yes, yes, you're right, Well yeah, you're right. So he was like, okay, I gotta find some faces to go with these voices. So this is discovering Polattison Morvaon. At the time, Polattice and Morvon were dancers living in a housing project in Munich. They were pretty poor and we're often stealing food to survive. Oh wow, Farian came along and offered each of them four thousand dollars to become the faces of the duo. That's a lot in the final right, four thousand, we can definitely move out the projects show. So he named the duo after the nickname of his girlfriend. So his girlfriend was named like nickname was Milli Vanilly, and he was like, that's what I'm gonna call, y'all. I thought I had somebo to do a Vanilla. But that's fine. Maybe the girlfriend's name was Milly, Oh, Mildred they called it. I mean, look, I fuck with it. It's still a great name. So Faryan wasn't new to the game. He had done the same thing with his nineteen seventies disco funk group Bonie m Well, that's not a great name with a singer who was actually just a dancer. By the way, Emma is sure for Milly Bony Milly. He oh, he's got his Milly and he's just been making it work. He's like Milli Vanilli Bony Milly. So he did again. This was with someone who was also just a dancer, who was lip syncing to Farrian's own vocals. He was able to hang on to that secret for twenty five years waiting. Faryn was a singer too. This is really what this was all about. He was trying to get his vocals on the track. I need a picture of this guy. Oh so yeah, can we google a photo of him? Because I wonder if he's he can't be hot. Maybe that's exactly because back in the nineties, like it was, you had to be like I forget who wrote this tweet. They're like, remember in the nineties when we had all the posters of like the hot singers and actors on our walls, like we were trying to solve horny murder. And I was like, yes, like you had to be someone we could cut out of a magazine and stick on a wall and be so horny for right. So Farian came back after the song hit the charts in England and said he had to have two faces for the project. I was already paid twelve thousand dollars for singing girl, and he said this nigga's face. Wait okay, and he said, keep your mouth shut and you can do the whole album. I'm thinking that studio work for me. This is Shaw talking. So he's already out Yo congregation, do yourself a favorite and google Frank Farrian and you will understand while he went through so much work to five people to sing his damn songs. Come on, Oh god, I feel see no, no, I feel bad because like we should be able to have more people like what's kind of who likes SpongeBob, Daniel Caesar. We're like, you sing really well, but you're like hideous. But he's this guy's not hideous. He's just an interesting looking character. That's not a positive either, But but I mean he's it's not that he's ugly. It's just like we need to normalize ugly people in music. Well, we are, We've don't We're doing better than we do in the nineties. Yeah, the nineties was like you had to be like a horny superstar. Oh gosh. So Sean is basically saying like, well, I kept working for him because it was a check and I needed some coins. So had Farrin realized how popular the group Millie Vanilli was gonna become, he would have realized the dancer's accents would have been an shoe. Plattice had a German accent and mor Von had a French accent. We'll see. I don't know, because like I think about people like Craig David who like when he sings. He was like, wow, will you creeping around? And then like I am like, all see you kind of pick a bay like that. Yeah, So I don't think that's a big deal. But Linda and Jody, the two original singers from earlier, were also brought back in for more vocals. So uh, he was like, all right, I'm not gonna worry about the fact that they don't have accents or they do have accents. I'm gonna just bring in Linda and Jody for more vocals, and Shaw's gonna come in the studio and he go and record stuff. They said, there was really no plan. We were just recording stuff real fast to get enough together for a four song EP for the American market. Polattice and mor Von would come in and go down to the basement where the pool was and hang out for a couple of hours. They'd make appearances then then go down to the basement, but they never sang a note or went into the studio. Wow. I love that they showed up for appearances to record that. They were like, there's plenty of footage of us going inside of the studio, your honor, I like you to turn your attention to exhibited. My clients went in the studio and they came out hours later. Okay, whether any tracks were laid down, that's none of our business, none of our business. I love the dedication, though, to having them come and then just like hang out somewhere. I mean, they're like, oh, we got go Like I can't do a German accent. We have to go to and you know, well, you want to go to this, love to go to I love to go to this. Just swim so much into you know your congregation knows we speak French. Yeah, I want to go. I am Grumman again, because German accents and French accents from the American perspective are very similar. Right, It's very easy to make. We don't do any one justice. We're so disrespectful in this country, and I love it. So they're basically pretending costplaying to be artists. I stand. So Linda said that they were kept a distance from the guys so that they wouldn't get too close. The real singer was secretly brought in at night, and he would be taken to the studio late at night, even after the other staff was gone, so that no one would know he was the true voice. So hold up. So this guy's coming in masks singer style, like the visor over his face. They roll him in a filing cabinet. He's like, guys, what do I Yeah, yeah, no, you got a record deal? You did. We're so excited to work with you here. I could just stand behind this bush real quick and not make any noises. We're so excited to have your German Sony records. Yeah, okay, we're gonna to put this blanket over your head. No, it's all the rich. Michael Jackson's doing it to his kids. It's like a thing. Just put it on your head, come inside the studio. So yeah, poor guy whoever was really singing these songs. So they were doing all this shady shit, which is very fun to me. So looking suspect as soon as the music video for Girl you Know It's True was a global hit. Millie Vanilli also had four other hit songs, Blame It on the Blame It on the Rain, ooh ooh, ooh, Okay, I'm listening to songs, but I know the congresasionals. It's like, blame it on the rain. You don't remember that? No, why would I remember this? Well? Your parents, well, they won't be jamming to those, like what the hell give my bail Bill? Back then, they had girl I'm Gonna Miss You and Baby Don't Forget My Number, which all hit number one, and All or Nothing peaked at number four. They were everywhere, so Milli Vanilli was a huge sensation. I want to wait. I don't know if we'll get soon Ude by Frank or whoever the fuck actually owes Frank song? But I need to know, I truly need to know, because I've never heard of Milli Vanilly song. Which one is this Girl you Know It's True? Oh? Yeah, what are talking that much? Because it was the nineties, they're gonna they intro song there it comes you. Hey, hey, hey, hey, let that ship rap for a second. Hey, okay, where's the song though, this is all intro. You know how the nineties was all intro, no song. So where is the song? It's coming, grow up, it's taking way too long to get here. Not Chelsea dancing is the booth, that's the rapper turning the song. Wow, that's show. Oh goodness, that's terrible. So basically, they blew the fuck up, right yep? And every time hold on, I just want to tell you, like I was alive, they blew the fuck up. They were on everything everywhere, like they were the shit. What do you think contributed to their success? Are they hot? They're fucking hot. They're models. They were both. That's that's also how what we learned about them is that they were models. They're hot. Really, let me see both of them. I'm looking right now to see if they're hot. If I think that they're hot, Okay, they have this wild hair. One of them has like very strong bone structure. Yep, yep. I mean they are giving the girls fashion and they were like a whole scene. They were a whole vibe too. Yeah. Oh, and they were in the eyeliner and Milly or Vanilli, I don't know which one, but he was rocking a lot of concealer. It was like a hole. They were yeah, and then it's so funny because they look so much alike, but apparently they're not related. It all okay, Wow, he got crochet braids and this Lord Jesus. Okay. So this is a quote from mor Von from Millie Vanilla. He says, every time we gave an interview, the reporters would hear my French accent or Rob's German accent, and they say, no way, how could these guys have sung these songs? Well, obviously they never heard of Craig Diving or Dale or they're like hello, and then you get off the record and we're like, oh oi, why someone go get me? Get me fish and jeeps like that me accent. So they even had dialect specialists brought in paid by the record company to try to help the situation, but fast fame didn't make it easy. So they blew up so fast that they didn't have time to like fix their accents, which nowadays, I feel like you could have a strong French accent or German accent and still singing an American one and nobody would be the wise. I have to say, I'm actually surprised that that was even an issue. Kay, Like I said, like Ace of Bass was around this time too, and they had you know, you know, they had their like Northern European accent and whatever. Oh my god. So we didn't. So basically they said, we didn't want to do any more interviews. Polatus added, the more we talked, the worst things got. Their former manager recalled the situation to Billboard, saying, I remember there were some world some words that Fab couldn't pronounce. He had a pretty thick French guadaloup and accent, oh French guadaloup. But okay, so he had accents, accents. So on the girl I'm Gonna Miss You, he couldn't say miss and he would say miss. He would say, girl, I'm gonna miss you, miss you, miss you? Either those you say me, oh right, I miss you, Hey, I miss you. That's hot. That's okay, okay with that. But I guess the issue is just like if you can't say mess as you say it on the song, because I'm not going to say one's right or wrong, but if you can't pronounce it the same with that you pronounced it on this song that people were like, hmm, interesting, interesting because you sang it like miss you saying this right. My true question is why do we care? I love chaos. I'm like, why do we care? Like, let Millie Vanilla keep like they could dance, right, they could dance their asses off, and they was when I tell you enough and there it is. They were gorgeous. They could dance their asses off and they didn't start no trouble. They were willing to let somebody take over their lives, force them into them into labor they didn't agree with, and they kept you know, they showed up every day them so much shut up to the recording studio. What's interesting here is like Millie Vanilli took so much shit, like the only reason I know of mil even Nelly, it's because of the joke of like, oh, these guys who were imposters. However, they were not the ones who orchestrate these skimps. They were at in the projects, like and someone came in with us. They were in the projects chilling on the stupid I'm moving well up, moving on east side with funding a good zip piece of zipah? Is that the German or the French child? Okay? Because I was gonna do the other one. I don't know, I'm trying to do French and it's terrible. But like they literally were just chilling and somebody was like, hey, four thousand dollars and you get to go to a pool every Tuesday to pretend that you're singing. Think about, like, what the exactly this is a great gig. They have to literally just show up and they're just getting paid paid, right, and it's a shitty record deal. Of course it's probably three sixty where they own your whole booty hall, but they had also they weren't planning to be singers. Also, like the company owns everything, but it never was yours to begin with. So truly you should only sign a through sixty deal if you are Millie Vanilla because like if you can't sing or contribute anything but like beautiful looks. I don't know, though, you should still get some word coins for that because it was the face they can dance too, because think about it, Frank's face wasn't bringing in them coins, Yo, shut up to what's the same lane? Looking up again? Frank Farrian shout out to Frank, but he wasn't gonna bring it up coins in So, but I do feel bad for Millie Vanilli because they took the hit. They weren't the people who made the name. They weren't people who made the music. They were just trying to get out of a bad situation, and now they're the laughing stock, even though they weren't the bad guys. Yeah. I don't know about Frank Faran. What the fuck is that nigga's name? I don't know na Farian, I don't know him. I don't know that. I don't even know Millie Vanilli's name. I just know Million Vanilli, right, So I feel bad because I never knew Frank was pulling these strings. I was just laughing at Millie Vanilla by a run So on July twenty first, nineteen eighty nine, while on the Club MTV tour in Bristol, Connecticut. Wow, how your life fall apart in Bristol, Connecticut. That's tragic, Like, I can't imagine a more sad place to have your life fall apart. So I must spin on my shit everywhere, not Bristol, So polais you know Bristol? You know, girls keep it real in Bristol, Connecticut. Betawn baby, betown baby, we'll be having that shit you in the hood now baby Connecticut, although there were some really hood parts connected so politicsan fab more varon mor von Sorry, I'm fucking y'all named. They were singing their mega hit girl you Know It's True, which we just heard, which is mostly intro, which makes sense. It makes sense to me because I'm like, okay, y'all can't say so, We're just gonna have a lot of intro. I'm not mad at it's a lot of good math right there. So they're singing this when they're live backtracking began to skip. It was and I just again first person point of view. It was like a national international story. It was like when this happened, everybody's like, did y'all hear that Millie Vanilli's track started skipping? And they're not. Actually it was a fucking scandal. The fucking BBC is like tonight, may Vanilli a fraud? Now I know you don't recognize me because my singing voice is very different, very different, ouy, And now that when I sing a sound like twenty one Savage and I am the same person because twenty one Savage is British. Okay, I love the twenty one Savage British I love it so much. He's like, twenty one is a knife, but they not gonna have some stops like like that. I imagine twenty one savage at home. He's like, bring me the bliky. That's what I think is that's a gun. No, yeah, that's how what the kids call firearm, the British gun, the British kids. No, the black one. Yes, Oh well that makes sense now. So I I just think this is so fascinating because they ran off stage. Do we have a clip of them like running off stage? Yeah? It was like a thing. It was I want to. I want to. I just need you guys hear the hook. Oh my god, because I never heard the hook I'm about So while you're doing that, I'm gonna pull up this damn video of them running off of the stage when they're back and began to skip, because I need to fucking know. I think that personally, they shouldn't have run away. Like this is someone where you gotta stand up like Patti LaBelle and be like stand you can't wait too much for two negroes from the fucking projects who don't actually sing. She said, you need to. They're not performers. But by this time they were ready. I wanted to die. Stop. Good, you know it's good. You know it's good. Eighty thousand people good, you know it's good. Yeah. I couldn't repeat it fifteen times. He got so, I stopped, a paint A ran of stage. Wow, I ran after me. I didn't want to go back to stage. I ended up eight thousand people winning. He said, I did not want to go back to stage, and I get it. I feel you. I don't know if this is Milly or Vanilli who's talking. I'm gonna guess Vanilli because he's blonde. I guess I was Vanilli talking. But he said I did not want to go back to stage. I said, no more stage, bliss plas, no more. I'm bad at that sent it's my scam, so place, no more stage. I think if he stayed on stage and just been like, the track is skipping, okay. Just imagine you are a black person Germany living in the projects. Some random white dude shows up offersing four thousand dollars. Flash forward, you don't even know what happened. It's three years later. You're on stage. You're asking way too much, honey, that's too much. They're not real performers. You gotta remember your performer, like we would know what to do forming for long enough that you don't think they can developed some skills. And they were already dancers. Were they real dancers or were they just black people who can dance? What is the difference. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if there were real dancers or black people who can dance. I consider myself to be a black person who can dance. I'm a black person who danced, but I am not a dancer. Choreography is a rat, no, but I am a black person who can dance. Out of some listen, I'm so sorey right now. So I truly don't know. But I just feel like as a scal Okay, yes they're adjacent to the scam. Yes they weren't the people who created it, but they are willing participants. They I don't think they're adjacent. When you're willing participant, that's not adjacency, okay, But they didn't make the scam up. So it's like if you throw a rock in the scam, Yeah, you hit them. You would hit them if you throw a rock, But they're not like the can Okay, that makes sense. No, thank you. No, it's like if you if like it's like a run, it's like the getaway car, and then they ask you to get in, and then you get in, Like, but you didn't actually rob the bank. Yeah, you didn't rob the bank. Why are you hanging out with these motherfuckers? Okay? And they did keep the secret because obviously while they're blowing up, they're not like women not singing the songs, like they're not at all sing home it's all sing. They don't say that they don't sing, they don't say that, you're right. But so that's what I'm saying is like, at this point, this has become your career. You got women fawning over you, men fawning over you, everybody because you're hot. How much sucks they had during those years, right, million evenuely just sticking excellent, So like they're getting everything. They're getting, the fame they're getting, Like the thing is like, yeah, it's probably a shitty three sixty deal, but they're probably getting so many free perks, hotels, cars, joy Like it's not a shitty three sixty. You don't do nothing. Look, they brought the looks and the dance moves and in Hollywood that's a lot. That's a lot. Looks are a lot. Bro a. The CW is is hired models. Okay, everyone on the CW is just fucking hot, and they're like, get up there and say these words that we told you to say with your perky boobs. So there's you know what I mean fact. So I just feel like they should have tried to preserve the scammore. They should have stood there and been like, oh, our track is not working. EMPTV fixed track, like you know, and everyone that would have been fine. I think really what we're seeing is they couldn't do it. They just couldn't, and they were just like we're done, like you know what I mean. I think it was the end of the rabine. They were constantly afraid that they were gonna get found out. And this is the moment scammers. And that's what it is, is that Millie Vanilly weren't and I want to Vanilly so it is their fault. They weren't true scammers. I want to go skim on the show. I love you so much. I just want to say, Millie Vanilly, I sympathize with you guys because you weren't pure of heart scammers. You were literally chilling at your project and this man, this really strange looking man, came up and offered you four thousand dollars. It's not your fault, scammers, because if you were scammers, you would have rolled this bitch to the wheelchair. Off the fact that y'all were so nervous because they were like, that's accents, that's accents. You're already nervous about the accent. Then finally the music skips and you run off stage like these niggas ran off stage like they were Usain Bolt. They were like, and we're out. They were too good for the world. And that that is the sad part of this story is that one of them killed themselves. Yeah, they committed suicide because of this scandal. Yeah, you don't know. No, well, maybe it was an overdose. Well the story, the story I heard was that he killed himself. Yeah. The Lattice was found dead at thirty three and Frank were on April second, nineteen ninety eight of a suspected overdose. And they got famous in the nineties. So yeah, and it was because it was like right after all this show. Yeah, it was really fucking sad. And when you now like talking about this and understanding the breakdown of shit, it's like, oh, they Because I had always understood it to be that this was their idea that they had whatever. I didn't know that they were basically pump part I was kicked out by this frank guy, which makes it extra sense. And I never knew that either. So guys, share this with your friends, because I truly didn't know that Millie Vanilla wasn't the orchestrators of you know, because there's so many Millivanilla jokes. Every fucking early two thousands, late nineties sitcom was like Milli Vanilla tongue and wake. Also, there was a lot of weird Denzel references in the early two thousands because I guess Denzel was like the Michael B. Jordan of that time. Oh my god. And there were so many television shows that I can't well, don't come over Unlessia didn't say at Washington because I want him to fuck me. I say that on network. But you get the idea that Morgan Freeman Half and Half has a ton of references about I'm rewatching Half and Half on Netflix. There are a ton of references that are like, oh, Livin, if it's Morgan Freeman living, no, I'll come over him. I was like, he's the voice of God, Like what are we doing? Okay, that's weird. It's weird. But so back to this really sad thing. Uh, Chelsea just informed us that he had had like addiction issues and that his death was formally ruled an accident. But obviously we don't know. We weren't there and Billa, but I do want to say, like, you know, addiction is nothing to joke about. Suicide is nothing to joke about. I uh, there's something I can hope that make this more positive. However, I'm just like, damn, Like I wish that we had all known that this Frank guy was like the sick fuck who was like really controlling this because this is his second attempt and like, guys, Millie Vanilly was just the one that hit. He's good at going to projects and being like here's four thousand dollars and I will fucking make your face the start and you can just hang out in the pool while it was for the album, so like he's done this before, but this is the one that hit. So and I know that we were all so mean And here's the thing too, is like pre Trump, pre that Raggedy Bitch forty five and honestly, like pre like a social media age, news was news for a long time. So right now, if Millie Vanilli came out and they couldn't sing, we'd probably talk about that for like sixteen hours on Twitter if that, if the memes are slapping, So yeah, Algur's Internet wasn't popping like that at the time, and so everything, word of mouth and everything in the news lasted so much longer. It was like dinner party conversation and conversation on the news and jokes and television shows like things lasted longer because it wasn't like the raggedy orange bitch in office literally had crack rocks flying on his nose and that was news for two hours. Oh my god, this whole Milania turned it to the Grinch and was like, fuck the chlaistmas folks needs. That was news for literally thirty minutes. Meanwhile, when Obama wore a tantuit, we was talking about that nigga for two weeks. My lord, he looked good, right, Or when I just saw this on Twitter and I missed this the first time around, but black Owama apparently called Kamala Harris fine. We said she was the best looking woman in the Senate or like the best best looking attorney general. Where when was this? This is a few years bag and they would have been a ce couple. He didn't, right, that was too much, too much like skin imagery, right, but they would have mad a c couple. But he said this, and and Everybodey was like that Nigga must have been lit because it was completely unprompted, very very Gosha for it. But he talked about it the correspondence that he joked about it, so it was like, you know, Michelle was chilling, it was everybody was laughing. But it's funny though because like I truly didn't even know, but like those things used to last longer the news cycle. And so if you're thinking about that as someone who's under dress, who's understressed, who wasn't the mastermind behind this fucked up shit and they got dragged on television, film, radio, everywhere. Dragging like that would weigh on you, of course it would, I mean, and again, just to reiterate, it was a huge when I tell you, it was a huge fucking story. When this should happened. Really, yeah, it was everywhere. I mean like I remember it, I remember being you know, you know, seeing this, and it was and again, like you said, it's in all the shows, right, every show talks about Even to this day, you can still make that Millievnilli reference and only gen Z won't know what's going on. But I'm bummed for them because if they had just stayed on stage, it wouldn't have been this contsy to stop trying to say, can we just get that out there? I need you to stop. You're such a like, such a sleezy manager, Like why didn't you just stay on stage? I am a sleazy scam manager? I am? Because they ran off and that's what made them look guilty. They look like they were clearly lip singing. They rust off stage, and the course continue to repeat over and over again, which makes me think because like, look, okay, it's back in the day, right technology, they really ate shit. Okay, this was only like thirty years ago, Relax, okay, but if some shit is skipping like y'all, couldn't uplug the bitch y'a couldn't turn the song off like this, someone's sabotage Millie was it Frank did Frank was Frank like, Oh, they got more fame than I ever could. And then he did he get on to Saldibar them He's what now is that what her name is? That Selena? Don't know the woman Selena who was the president of her Oh you say Yolanda la Oh? I know the fuck up? Ye fuck you? On the Selvi bar. She's still in jo I think, so is she in jail for this? She been jailed out and fuck her? You know what. I honestly like feel bad for the actress who played Yolanda Celdivar in the Selena movie with j Lo because whenever I think of Yolanda Saldivar, I think of that woman's face, poor lady. I don't think of the real Yolanta. She had heavy makeup on, so she looks totally different. No, she's very recognizable, and I feel super bad for her because I'm like, anytime I think of Landa Celdivar, I think of that bitch, and I'm calling her a bitch. She's just an actress. She's a bitch and an actress. Oh, she's still alive. She's sixty years old. Yolanda, m M. Fuck that, fuck that ho fuck Yolanda and Donald Trump, both of them, both of them, So man, I really feel for them. So eventually it was exposed that they had never even sung on their six time platinum album to begin with, never not a note, not a June. And that was the other thing is that they had they won Grammys, Like it was like you were fucked from there, Like can you imagine ced Eaty talk about a fucking whirlwind note? And you can you imagine that whirlwind? And you're sitting a repoet Grammy was John Legend Trump to your house and he's like, oh, of you all. Grammy is gone with me. There's been so much singing on stuff. So I'm so sorry, guys. It's all for me too. I'm apologizinging a little bit, but I won't stop. And I'm like I definitely sang as well in addition to you did, but like I feel like more necessary than my singing, which was like I just feel like singing today. Damn, I feel so bad. So they were exposed guys in November of nineteen ninety as complete frauds. They're Grammy was repod they devoted their Grammy and snatched it right off their necks, and unfortunately, their careers were never able to bounce back, which makes sense because they never really had careers. It's like it's harting to bounce back from like something you never had. They went, they went back into the studio where they swam in the pool. But you know, they just couldn't make it any more. Of me. No, they weren't allowed on that pull anymore. Frank was like, the fuck out of here. I think Frank is behind this. I'm going to put a conspiracy theory out that Frank was the person who sabotaged Millie Vanilly. I support it. I think he was hating on them. They got too big. He wasn't ready for that, and he sabotaged them. I believe it. I feel like Frank came in and was like Millie Vanilli, let's hang out, and they're like, Flank was not want to hang with you. We have the glupus hill. We want to be with a gupis And he was like, these bitches. I found them at the projects and I gat them for thousand dollars back to the projects for you all. You know, they're horrible people, so scammer of the week. This is this is perfect. Students for Trump co founder pleas guilty to scamming business out of forty six dollars. Fuck Donald Trump. Ay, fucked Donald Trump? Hey, what the show? Fuck Donald Trump? He hit the dance Donald Trump? Ol uh so. John Lambert, the co founder of Students for Trump, pleaded guilty to scamming consumers and businesses out of forty six thousand dollars by posting as a lawyer online and dispensing legal advice. We love a litigious lying sicking. Yeah, you can scam Trump supporters all you want. Like, I'm I'm not again, step, I'm for it. I'm like, should I make some recount merch for Trump supporters? Right? Like? How can you turn leg into a Trump supporting leg? Has gone full Trump supply Trump twenty twenty Trump leg. I don't know, kick Joe Biden out with a leg? I don't know. I just want to make money, So toy three year old Lambert went by Eric Pope, which already I'm not. I don't trust a nigga name Pope. You know who else the name Pope? Olivia? We don't fuck she ain't she a shady bitch too. Listen, we love we stayed. This is Olivia Pope's stand account. Okay, okay, but she got some dirt on her hands. I know she did. She was fucking the Republican President. Wasn't supposed to be based off condolicta rise. Let me stop talking about get suit. But Eric Pope I love that. He was like watching scandal. He's like, what do I call myself? Olivia Pope? I live Pope, I live a Pope. I'm so close I can feel it. Let's go Eric poop. So he pretended to be a New York based attorney at a law firm called Pope and Done. That done got you though, and Done sounds like some work at the law Done and Done, Done and Done. So the Justice Department basically said this. He pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Are you an attorney, Judge Valerie Caproni asked the Tennessee native in court. The New York Post reported, no, you're Lambert said, that's crazy. He said, Look, he said, I'm not an attorney. I just said that I worked at Pope and Done. Yes, my last name is Pope. Look at Davies and Mosely like, look, we work for Davies and Mosely. We never said we were lawyers. Did I have esquire on my emails of the shirt? Yeah, but it all means just law. Just as my card, my business card, says I'm a lawyer, doesn't mean I really am. Please come on, come on now, back up, Oh your honor. So Lambert founded Students for Trump during the twenty sixteen presidential election. He ran this scheme from August twenty sixteen to April twenty eighteen and made several appearances on news shows. Prosecutors said he created a fake website and claimed to have fifteen years of experience in corporate patent law. I'm just gonna go ahead and say you don't have to be an expert to be on a new show. And I think Lacey scam is Moldly is proof positive. Yeah, guys, don't trust experts new shots because I'm one of them. I just yeah, you should not like rethinking your whole life. All right, I'm gonna just tell y'all a point blank as an expert act on ABC like retweets videos of me like talking about scamps, and I'm like, bro, yeah, don't trust none of that. Nope. So and I'm also very fascinated by that because I'm like, y'all gonna come over here and listen. Think you're about to get some expert information. Look, I told you, I will tell y'all when I'm making stuff up. We do, Sherilyn Vera does research our facts. They are factual and actual. However, I do add non gooya adobo to them. I just want to say, anytime someone rhymes their defense factual and actual, because if the glove don't fit, you must quit. Yeah, you should know what a lion if you gotta rhyme, if you gotta hit niggas with rassele dazzle for the truth, well they are lying. We through Surbrimes for some dazle Have you got throw rassele dazzling nigg you lion, don't make it rhyme. That's all that matters. So they also alleged that Lambert pretended to be a graduate of NYU's law school, which you know, another scam. But yeah, no, seriously, like I don't know, have fu about the scam be kids, I'm just like, yeah, scam Trump supporters seems fair. Right, here's what okay, So here's my thing about the scam again, I'm with you. I don't know how to feel. And the only reason why I don't know how to feel is because I'm like, was this guy scamming Trump supporters? But he also was a Trump supporter? You understand I'm saying, like, was he just scamming his fellow people because that is very Trumpian, you know what I'm saying, right? Or was he really on our side? And you know, scamming trumpers as a as a lefty, as a radical, as a progressive, whatever you want to call us in twenty twenty, that's the question. If he was a Trump supporter, then fuck him. But if he wasn't, then I'm gonna put some money on his books because he's in jail. Right We don't know if he's in jail. Let's figure out if he's in jail right now, I'm gonna have to find out that we did get some information on this Lambert character, and unfortunately he is a Trump supporter. He actually did have involvement in a student organization that was supporting Trump. He just decided to lie and say that he was a lawyer and scam forty six thousand dollars from people. So I'm disappointed in you. Yeah, John, Now I'm mad at you. Now. Honestly, I think if you hadn't been a Trump supporter, you probably would have made more money, just saying like, if you had been scamming this from a better place in your heart, because when you scam, it has to come from the altruistic part of your heart. Okay, at least if you're scamming degenerates, it has to like yeah, and then look, I get it, Like nobody wants to be called a degenerate for voting for Donald Hey, go get Honestly, I'd say if you voted for Trump the first time around, and you were like, oh, we're a Republican. Okay, he's kind of fucked up, but you know a lot of Republicans are and Democrats, let's be honest. I'll let you rock with that. But after four years it is raggedy bitch, a whole pandemic and all the raggedy ass shit he's done, and you still voted for him. Not only you still vote for him, but you were like, let's let's vote in higher percentages. Yeah, Okay. White women before I go, I went from fifty three to fifty five. How dare you what happened? We went on Amazon filth and you did this and the Karen wigs were sold out. I think the Karens assembled. They said, you're gonna call us Karenzel, then we're gonna show you what a Karen really. They assembled like a fucking power Rangers, like they were like it's morphin time, and they all put on those spiky wigs with the banks swooped to the right, and they voted against all of their self interests. Guys, uh, please talk to your family members. You can't if you're a liberal and you enjoy this show, especially because you know I'm a black, andy black woman, you have to talk to your family. Please. Don't spend any more time pasturing on Twitter or talking to your black friends about how bad the world is. We know, but if you're really an allied, guys, get out there and spread the good gospel to your cousins, your aunties, your problematic uncle fucking work. Don't let Uncle Chris tell that weird racist joke he tells every Thanksgiving that you all politely laugh at, Like, guys, we have to we have to do the work. The work is just beginning. Yes, we have won this battle, but this is a fucking war and the war is for the conscience of this nation and we have never gotten in right. And don't think that black people are doing this work too. You think I don't have cousins who believe T. I would. He said that if you drink boiling hot water, the virus will get burnt out of your throat and you won't get coronavirus. I absolutely do have to talk to those people. I have hotep uncles and aunties who think that milk will stop you from getting your period. And guess what I get on Facebook and I'm like, hey, uncle, so and so that's not true. I know T I told you to invest in bitcoin and also that you could sanitize your throat for coronavirus, but he lied, I have to do that, So so do you. We are all doing the work. That's hard, right, And you gotta come from a non pretentious place. You gotta come from a like yeah, yeah, yeah. I also love Lewis fair Kahn anyway. Honestly, he's woke as fuck, minus all his other bullshit. It's all the wild shit that he says you gotta be like, oh yeah, doctor lumers less sermon lit. Anyways, let's talk about let's talk about how you're severely misguided. But all right, guys, we're gonna get out of here, congregate. Wait, do you have anything you want to pluges? I do, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I'm so sorry. No, I actually I guess at this point do I have anything to plug? Not right now? It's the coronavirus. Oh that's right, Okay. Come find me on Instagram at Priscilla Davies actor p R I S c I L l A d A v I E s actor. Just rewind this four times. 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But if you really think it's serious, go ahead and jam me sometimes you know, I'll listen. I'm like, okay, I understand, well for most of y'all, leave me alease stop. Also, fuck Donald Trump? Oh wait, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't hear you. What I said was h Trump? Listen to that right out to that, guys, congregation Stace scheming God. This is has been an Earwolf production in association with Team Coco. Scam Goddess is starring Me the Scam Goddess aka Lazy Moseley. Scam Goddess is produced by Chelsea Jacobson and engineered by Marina Bayez with research by Sherrilyn Vera Say scam In