Introduction to the Podcast
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Darkcast Network. Indie pods with a dark side.
Meet the Hosts and Gordo
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Welcome back to Castles and Cryptids, where the castles are haunted and the cryptids are cryptic as fuck. And I'm Alana. And I'm Kelsey. And this is Gordo. And back. And Gordo was always here.
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You know, we can't hear him. we Oh, that's funny. you should I should say that because, like, listening back to, I think it was the last one. If not, it must have been the Patreon. And you were like, can you hear him? And at the time when we we were recording, I was like, no, I can't. But then when i was editing, I was like, I totally can. The mic picked it right up. He's...
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in fact I kind of what was he doing he was meowing no and then you spent like 30 seconds some call and response and you're like Gordo just like meow so I cut out a little bit of it put it at the end because I was like well I was already I was being in my opinion annoying because I was drinking there was the mead one it was the mead so I was talking a lot yeah I don't even remember
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You probably blocked it out because, yeah. Goidito, you can't lay upside down on top of my laptop. You're gonna push buttons. Yeah. No, that was, yeah, you were, like, talking about how you love bees and stuff.
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And I was like, ah! Oh, yeah. That's so exciting. It's gonna get a tattoo. Yeah, you talked about getting a bee tattoo. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, you remember?
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Okay. Um... And now it's snowing outside, even though it's April 15th. Gordo!
Tech Issues and AI Humor
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Gordo! You're just fresh! Gordo just trying...
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He was like, what's that? He's trying to steal my vape. Oh, okay. i thought he was just trying to grope you. No, he tried to pull the vape out of my hand. Baby boy.
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Yeah. You don't need drugs. No, no, no, no.
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appropriately though he wants to get high for 420 themed episode by barbaro that's what i decided to do yes we've got to um what's that gotta go gotta go ah re re-up my stash it's been a long time this is old yeah Yeah, I was saying it's like reminds me of the old cell phones because everything gets smaller and sleeker and more digitized. Yeah.
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He keeps trying to hit it out of my hand.
World's Funniest Translation Errors
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It's okay. I have to change my headphone already.
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that one but please charging okay he's with the charging i was like it definitely just says please charging it's so very broken english i love it yeah it's like those poor poorly translated signs if you've ever seen those uh pictures people take of like oh yes i'm like signs in grocery stores, it'll be like t-shirts that they're selling in like Asia. No, my friend tagged me in one because... She makes no sense.
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Well, because my friend Jill has been living in China like for a while. So i remember a while ago she tagged me in one that was a picture of bananas and the sign just said curled curved yellow fruit.
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And it's like, Atlanta banana, Atlanta curved yellow fruit. Yep, it's totally the same. Is there a trademark on the word banana? Can you not say a banana?
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like oh Yeah, they just beat it. translating things directly and it don't always work out does it? it's Yeah it's pretty good. Oh man.
True Crime Research Frustrations
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Yeah we're recording this one hopefully to get it in time for Friday before 4 20. Yeah. yeah Yeah. and Hopefully not too long.
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No mine was short. um I did refrain myself from doing more than one case i guess so i don't even have a case yeah the list because i have i don't know man like the last six months i find every time i'm uh especially like true crime trying to find a case i don't know what the fuck is going on with google but i can't find search results it's like just very weird i keep getting like
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like ads and weird like sponsor things and it's like this is not relevant to what I'm looking for or it's just links to like other podcasts and yes YouTube videos there's a lot of that and we're like even yeah yeah like six months or a year ago it would come up with like even don't know the most popular cases and it's like oh now I'm having a hard time even finding those let alone lesser known cases. So don't make us use more keywords. Stop taking over everything with AI and making it stupid.
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See, I have that like blocked so that it doesn't allow AI results and still like my search functions all fucked. So I don't know this one I tried for like once or twice over a couple days, different things.
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And maybe like almost an hour each day just trying to find a case. Oh, God, are we going actually have to pay Rolling Stone or someone like that to get their free articles? Take it out of our budget. Jesus.
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It's rough out there. Wikipedia always wants money. Yeah. They're always crowdfunding. Yeah, they used to be, like, really looked down upon, but honestly, people use them a lot as source with other sources now, and I just feel like it's become, yeah, it's totally normalized.
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It's like, we're not gonna get in trouble at school for using it So. No.
Debating Wikipedia's Credibility
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And you can, like, challenge things on Wikipedia, and it'll say sometimes, like, oh, something needs more sources, or it citation needed, like,
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those kind of legs
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yeah it's uh we ranted about that on another one i know we're not the only ones talking about how it's ai it ruins things and puts people to jobs yeah all these other weird things i hear about it that i don't want to talk about because i can't fact check so like, Oh God, what are we doing?
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Uh, well, we're having fun. That's what we're doing. We're here to do that mostly.
High Times: Funny Buzzfeed Stories
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i mean, i sure had fun. ah researching quote unquote, uh, reading this like Buzzfeed article as my quote unquote research. I was like, this is relevant, right?
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Yeah, they can be fun sometimes. And you can, like, use them as a jumping off point, too. you're like, you know, it might have a paragraph. you can obviously go and find more if if you want. That's always nice.
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Yeah. A couple things. You can do your own research, as they say. me
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ah This one I couldn't really do that because what the BuzzFeed article was asking for ah was getting people to write in their stories about the funniest things or like things that they did while they were too high. oh so it's like a bunch of reader stories. So there's no way to fact check any of these. These are just like submissions.
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Anecdotes. That reminds me of... Yeah, little blurbs. Yeah, I like the ones that come up on, like, my Instagram. That'll be funny 911 calls that people make when they're really out of it. And they're like, my hands are knives! And they're like, sir. Yeah. No, you're fine. How will I pick up my cat? And they're like, well... Yeah. I don't think your hand is your hands, but... We'll send someone over. Yeah, they're fucking hilarious. love Yeah, so it's it's probably been a week since I read this list, so it'll be like I'm reading it with fresh eyes, because I don't really remember, but I remember some of them being kind of funny.
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you should have told me you were ready. I definitely probably could have worked in my notes a little faster. But ah yeah, it was a bit hectic. i I didn't have a phone for a while. That makes life hard, guys. It makes it really hard. Yeah.
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Yeah, when your world could be on your phone, it's hard to be without a phone. have to research on my damn laptop? Like what? No. Anyway. Welcome to my world, though.
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I love a little phone research. I just don't love when people read off their phones on the thing. I'm like, that's too small. On the pod. I don't know. don't know why. I might hate that.
00:10:11
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Ugh, now my mouth is all dry. Just put the pasties. What are you drinking? Nothing? Water? and Just water. So boring.
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Well, that's fair. you just' Actually, after... Yeah, after the training today, I noticed on my way to the store that, because I was at training at a different store.
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oh yeah. And it was, I was like following my my phone how to get there. And I noticed at the one turn today, there's like this huge ace ah like liquor discount place on the way. And I was like, oh my god, that might be one of the biggest locations oh really of that I've ever seen. And that's like such a good store. So I was like, ooh, after work, since today was the second day, like the last day of the training, I was like, ooh, I should stop there on my way home and take a look.
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Because I don't normally go out that way. okay right, yeah, not your usual Yeah, it's not in my area. It's outside of the city and stuff. so I was like, ooh, I'll stop there on the way home. And then, you know, it started snowing.
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And then the roads were getting bad. and I didn't have a proper jacket. And it was kind of cold. I was like, no. It was only like 15 minutes away from my house. I was like, I'll go
Hilarious High Anecdotes
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a different day. And maybe I'll take Alana. And we can go to this huge liquor store.
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looked great. Oh, really? You have to go 15 minutes? I have one within like five minutes of either direction of my house I feel like. No just like how big this one looked. It looked like it was like two or three times the size of the other locations I've seen. was like this looks awesome.
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so Plus they just started doing um points. An adventure for another day. anyway Yeah, so I might have had something fun, but I work at 7.30 tomorrow, so today it's water.
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Yes. Yeah, that's fair. i have one finger of rum and some melting skull-shaped ice cubes because am waiting for her to come to my house, which also had to do with me not having my phone and not knowing...
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how much i had in the bank while Pat had the credit card to go pick up the phone that was getting fixed. Yeah. But some people deliver.
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and which is good Yeah, you can get like Instacart and... That's true. This one's just straight through the store. Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm digressing. I will like i won hit me with the list.
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Yeah. So these are like I said, funny stories, um, listener stories from Buzzfeed. It was an article. Um, yeah. we asked to share like Buzzfeed.
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Their funniest, I got way too high, story is, Nice. these are them. First one says, ah it's small, but I was so excited for a bowl of cereal after a smoking sesh. says cereal when your high hits different.
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I poured a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch, good choice, and ran to the fridge to grab milk, but in my fog I grabbed my Brita instead and poured water into my bowl of cereal.
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I feel like we've all done that. Right? You do something and you forgot just check how much you have of whatever else you need. All the time.
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Yeah, and they said it was the last of their cereal. that was disappointing. That's become poor people's cereal now. But it would have been better with nothing on it at all. it would have been better just dry, unfortunately. Right? Yes.
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Yeah. Oh, God. That's rough one. I can't remember what...
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Oh, it was like this old YouTube duo. um I don't even remember their names. a Ryan and something. It's like these two Asian guys. There were like teenagers that used to do these really stupid YouTube videos, like very, very early YouTube videos.
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And they had this video that was about like first world problems. And it was about like, oh, I poured chips in a bowl and then I got the dip, but I didn't have enough.
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Or, oh i I had too much dip for my chips. And then I poured more chips and then I didn't have enough dip for the chips that I poured. And then it just like goes back. You know, like first world problems. Silliness.
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Ratios. Yeah. Milk for my cereal. I seriously hear them talking about stuff like that on the, the British one where they talk about their favorite meals, the off menu one i mentioned where they're like, you get the beans on toast and gotta make sure you gotta have beans to toast. We don't have a bunch of beans in the end.
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It's just like, Oh God, we all know. and you're just sitting there eating a plate of beans or something's taking up valuable retail space on your plate.
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Which is why Ed doesn't like Yorkshire Puddings and he thinks they just a waste of space. Yorkshire Puddings are great. Exactly. it's just It's a very unpopular opinion. but Especially when you're British. Next one. In my first year of college, my roommate and I decided to get stoned and watch Pineapple Express. Because of course.
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Seth wrote a book. Yeah. 10 minutes into the movie my roommate turns to me with a confused look and says why is it in German? And says yep we've both been watching a different language and neither of us realized it.
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It gives us another five minutes to realize it wasn't German but in fact Spanish. So I was like... poor... No, that's not it. Yeah, that's embarrassing.
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And it's like, oh they didn't realize it wasn't English. They thought it was German. Then they realized it wasn't German. It was, in fact, Spanish. If any movie is going to be, like, as entertaining, especially if you're already, like, probably baked watching it, it's probably fine.
Awkward High Moments and Laughs
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like oh, I love Seth Rogen. just, they were, we were just watching The Simpsons and I was like, I just hear Seth Rogen's laugh like I hadn't heard him all episodes but like he has that distinct laugh you know hooo well the not that gross but you know yeah yeah she reminds me I gotta watch uh the studio looks so good there went on all those Emmys and everything Catherine O'Hara but i can't remember if I found it on anything yet or I forget what it was streaming on yeah
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I think it's like Apple or something. So you gotta have like the separate subscription. yeah I'll just pirate it. It's okay. I'll get to it eventually. and We're almost halfway. I think we're halfway through the Misfits now too. Which that is wild. and it was Early 2000s. Or whatever. It's like early kind of 2000s TV almost too. It's just like this is wild.
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The first two seasons I really like. I think it's the the third season when they... They basically changed up the whole cast by that point. Spoiler. Yeah. And they get rid of fucking what's his face? The guy from Umbrella Academy.
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um yeah Robert burn shing shery yeah I like him well Robert Sheehan he's kind of a dick in that this show though but yeah he is yeah I was like after I showed Pat the first episode that you had showed me and then like it did the next up on Which I don't know if yours did that because we were watching it on something. Yeah, it like auto previews like kind of little promo for the next episode.
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But it's very spoilery every time it happens. I was like, surely that was the episode for the upcoming season because that can't all happen in one episode. It was showing us all this crazy stuff. And then I was like, wow, that really was just one episode.
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Yeah. One 45 in an episode of Pandemonium. Yeah. A lot of powers that do a lot of weird things. Yep. Next.
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It says, I thought my reflection in the mirror was someone looking at me. i just stared at it for a good 10 minutes and thought they were mocking me by copying me. i didn't even remember this happened until I looked at security camera footage the next day.
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a Security camera footage. They must have been like they said they were looking in a mirror so like. Were you at home or at work?
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I don't know I know some people will have like cameras to watch like their pets when they're away from home inside their house but I feel like that's weird. I don't want cameras on inside my own home.
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And where there's a mirror, would have to be a, yeah, an interior, like oftentimes a bathroom, but like also creepy too. Like, cause sometimes if you look too long in the mirror, they're like, yeah you can start to like freak yourself out and not look look like yourself to yourself anymore. And they're like, maybe don't do it when you're really hot. I don't know.
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Yeah. that next says i was high laying in bed late one night eating chicken nuggets and watching Friends that sounds great yeah I couldn't actually hear any of the dialogue just the laugh track uh my husband was dying of laughter beside me and 10 years later every time I watch Friends he still brings it up
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How? Sitting there. They must have had the volume really low, but like the laugh track was loud enough that you could just hear where it was going. Okay, okay. yeah No, that makes sense.
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Sitting there in silence. I mean, well, you've seen it as many times as a lot of us. You know what they're saying. Yeah. ah Next one is just one sentence. It says, I felt bad that my teeth had to chew my food and couldn't eat it because it tasted so good. ah Sorry for that noise on the mic, but oh my god, what? felt bad for my teeth. Yeah. it's like Yeah, because they could only to your food. They couldn't taste your food.
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Okay. You probably treated your stuffies really well as a child. All your toys.
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Oh, this next one is... totally forgot. This one will entertaining. ah it says, while I was high, my husband and I were discussing a certain sex thing we wanted to try that required a dildo and a suction cup.
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Oh, interesting. I went online to order one and apparently in my intoxicated state, I failed to check the length. it or It arrived a few days later. i opened the box and found a monstrous three foot long dong, which was a tad too long for our purpose.
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That's my Vietnamese cousin, too long dong. Oh my God. this section cup four What is What is it for? I don't know, but yeah. Three feet long, that's...
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Ambitious, that's the word. Shareable, one might say. Yeah. oh oh
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Next one, I got in the shower and started shampooing my hair. I felt cold, so I turned around and realized I had never turned the water on. Jesus Christ.
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like that yeah that Just The shower is so nice.
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I must have been slightly inebriated, because I did find an earring in my shower floor the other day, and i went, when did this get down here?
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I was like, okay. But oh my God, I could never, I'd be so cold. My showers in my basement are like walk-in one. Yeah. Freeze to death. don't have the water on.
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Next, last time I ate an edible I got way too high and was laying on my couch next to my boyfriend. I told him I couldn't move. Oh, I forgot about this one. So he jokingly nudged me and I rolled off the couch and landed face down on the floor. i stayed there for like two hours.
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no. Face magnet. Like that one scene in Sense8 where he face plans on the bed. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's other scenes, but the floor does not sound comfortable.
00:24:17
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No, that's... Yeah, I forgot about that. There's a a a really funny movie... thought it was pretty funny. And it was called Pizza Movie. And it it is another movie that involves getting like really, really high on something.
00:24:32
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Something really weird that has different stages. And that's all I'll, you know, say. But it it's it gets bizarre. Yeah, I watched that when we i was at your place. It was good. Oh, right.
00:24:47
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Why does that feel this? Yes, we watched that together. not remember. i had to I was telling a lot other people like Rain and Mom and they were like, did you go see Project Hail Mary yet? And I was like, no, but we're bumble this weekend. This is how get paid.
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And then we finally saw that. Oh, I haven't seen that one yet. I want to. i looks so fun. I will take you, I will go with to any movie that you want to see. I know you said you're you're behind on your movie viewing. Yeah.
00:25:18
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I've tried to i watched... What have I watched recently? I watched the second Wicked movie. That was pretty good. is that like out? Or it's still theaters?
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It's on Disney Plus, i want to say. Oh, okay. okay Yeah, that makes sense. Disney Plus or Prime. okay yeah, because I thought it had been out or whatever. Yeah, I watched that. I watched Trap. That was interesting.
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Trap? The one with the... Oh yeah, with Josh Hartnett. Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's it's a couple years old now. watched that one. It was decent. I liked it. I watched Bring Her Back.
00:25:58
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That one was pretty creepy. From the duo that did Talk To Me. Is it? Okay. at I may have seen it.
00:26:11
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And have no recollection. it's like Sally Hawkins in it. I love her. She was like freaking creepy in it. I loved it. ah
00:26:21
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Damn it. What else did I watch? There was a fourth movie I watched that was like also really long. It was like two and a half hours. Oh.
00:26:33
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Because in the one day I watched ah Wicked that was like two and a half hours and I watched another movie that was like two and a half hours. Yeah, same with the Project Hail Mary. It's not short. Oh, watched that. Oh, you just said one. Oh, shoot. That's the third like Knives Out movie.
00:26:56
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Wake Up Dead Man or whatever. Wake Up Dead Man. okay, okay, okay. The third Knives Out one because I hadn't seen that yet. Yeah.
00:27:07
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So I've gotten back into it watching movies because i went into a weird phase for like a year where I just had no attention span to try and follow a storyline or try and pay attention to new characters.
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Yeah. I just couldn't couldn't focus
Misguided High Adventures
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on it. It wasn't something that like interested me at all even though i was seeing all these movies that I did really want to see and i couldn't motivate myself to actually watch the movies. So.
00:27:36
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That's hard when you're like working all the time and you get home and you don't want to necessarily go after work. and Yeah. I get it. Yeah. So when I was sick at home and could barely move, I just was like, you know what? You're going to watch a movie a day. And then I was like, let's get back into this. You love movies.
00:27:54
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Let's start watching. doy first prescrib Yeah. It was nice. um Yeah. Nice. But love a movie theater. um Yeah.
00:28:08
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Next one says, I was in an elevator with multiple other people and I kept clicking the one button. we were on the first floor and then asking why we weren't moving. and One button to rule them all. Yeah. It's like, why won't it close? You're pushing the hold open button.
00:28:27
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I, well, totally unconscious. It's like, I was walking up here and I think I had been mentioned that we, I was, oh, we're going to try and record some and blah, blah, blah.
00:28:39
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All that. And then Pat was like, oh, going to record, are you? And was like, yeah, like I said that. And was like, I looked down. was like, don't know why I'm bringing my book upstairs, though. Because just started carrying my book upstairs like was coming upstairs for the night.
00:28:49
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Or going to bath or something. I'm going to read this book to Kelsey. Yeah. o yeah Maybe I will. Just kidding.
00:29:02
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Patreon segment. We read the scary stories. love it.
00:29:09
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uh next says i accidentally dropped a giant knob of butter on the open dishwasher door and started wiping it to clean it off after five minutes i realized i was actually just very digital digitally diligently buttering the dishwasher like a baking tray yeah you're greasing it up yeah Squeal like a babe.
00:29:37
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Damn. Why did you have such a big pat of butter on you? know You're like laying out of the... have to take a picture of him if he doesn't move.
00:29:50
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You're so distracting sometimes when we're trying to record. People people won't believe me. He's posing. he starts vamping around.
00:30:02
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or vote This is what he's looks like right now. He's like literally laying outside of the box on the thing. He's like in the box, but he's like melted out of it he's i know Yeah, really. i was like, tilt my head. It's hard to. Yeah.
00:30:18
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Yeah. Hi, baby. you He's kind of melting out there. Yeah. he's He really wants to be like a Renaissance painting. He's like, I'm lounging.
00:30:28
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Yeah. if I'm so relaxed. Okay. ah This one, we're about halfway there. My friends and I stayed in a haunted hotel during Halloween. It probably wasn't the smartest idea to make pot brownies. ah Even less smart to eat another brownie when I didn't feel anything 30 after eating the first.
00:30:53
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Classic famous last words. Wait for the first one to kick in. Pot brownies, pills, anything. Oh my god. um fast forward to me lying in bed high out of my mind when i heard someone sit down on my bed i a hundred percent thought it was a ghost So the
00:31:21
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what the hell are you doing my friend was sitting on the bed and i forgot she was in the room with me the whole time your friend was the ghost you were not being haunted.
00:31:36
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oh no. No comment. and It is hard with edibles because they, I think it's because they, um, what is it? They take so long.
00:31:51
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I think, yeah, it's like fat soluble. So it's like different for every person how long it takes it to um not ingest, but you know what i mean Like affect them or whatever. Well, you know me.
00:32:01
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it i i swear they don't work. and that's ah You know what? Pat has a that same stance where he's never really found any that affect him that he finds either. Because what? When we were in Vegas and I had those macaroons.
00:32:19
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Ugh. I hardly trusted anything they had there. They had barely their weed on the strip. It was barely. Yeah, but that one was different. So that was supposed to have no but about 30 grams between the three of them. And I think I ate three of them in one shot, which should be crazy. 30 grams or 30 milligrams? Yeah.
00:32:40
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30 milligrams for the each one because each one was supposed to be like 10 milligrams or something. But then even when we came back here, what I bought a chocolate bar once that was supposed to be 10 milligrams, ate it, nothing. yeah i bought a drink that was supposed to i can't even remember what was supposed to be in there and i drank it nothing oh see i found lately that that well i know you haven't been to many stores lately because the cartridges have changed a lot or whatever but like the drinks i have found more effective that i have tried lately like i gotta try cream soda thc and like oh and it's yeah the sweet ones are really nice the value buds
00:33:19
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yeah like any still yeah cannabis shop usually has them it's where i went the last time yeah ah i'll try again it's where i got the chocolate bar too just like yeah i haven't had much luck with chocolate bars i don't buy a lot of edibles yeah yeah um This one, this would sound like a bad combination. i did some edibles and was watching Black Mirror. Like, just yeah don't do that.
00:33:52
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A show about how technology is basically the downfall of society. Yeah. So as my but router went down and my TV wouldn't work, then the browser and some apps on my phone stopped working, probably because the Wi-Fi wasn't working. But anyway, I freaked the fuck out because I thought the machines were taking over. Turns out I had just needed to reset the router, which happens about once a month.
00:34:17
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oh my god just poor timing yeah you're like the u plus that strain equals complete paranoia yeah it's like yeah it's not always like that it maybe shouldn't be like that yeah maybe you need to cut back a little bit um there is that yeah there's an episode of that 70s show where for some reason, even though they smoke a lot, you know, they start thinking the FBI is after them and they just start flipping out. You're like, what?
00:34:51
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um I like this one. I got way too high and called my brother a PhD scientist. and asked if the water I drank was the same water dinosaurs used to swim and pee in. I left a voicemail and was very embarrassed the next morning.
00:35:11
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This was probably pre-internet. i'm Like, now you can just Google those thoughts. Probably. Yeah, that's the thing. You'd probably save yourself a lot of embarrassment just Googling things now. You're like, hey siri It's true, I'm saying. I'm swimming in dinosaur pee.
00:35:29
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I listened to one podcast with Fern Brady and she's a Scottish comedian that's also got autism and she's like, it's helpful to be able to end like ask those questions that I don't want to necessarily ask somebody that's going to give me a look. and i could just use My friends and family.
00:35:43
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Yeah. yeah yeah thought that was funny um yeah I once was so high I called my boss to say that I'm sick and couldn't come into work today it was Saturday evening and I had an 8 to 5 p.m Monday to Friday job oh for fuck's sakes luckily we both had a laugh like hey it's Saturday evening I won't be in for Monday Can Oh my god. I like the like drunk professor emails you'll sometimes see on listicle. Oh god, that's cold. Or when the professors are like the funniest email excuses for students saying they couldn't get their homework done.
00:36:29
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That too, yeah. and then And then when the professor is like, I didn't grade your homework because this reason. Sorry, everybody gets an A. And you're just like, yes. Because I was too drunk too. Yeah, you're like, great. I just have a couple more.
00:36:48
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i was once so high I stopped. Oh, this is so funny. um
00:36:58
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This one killed me. The pre-lap. ah Because I started reading it and I was like, why is this funny? And then I remembered the rest of it. Okay. i was once so high I stopped at a stoplight that only changed when a car was there and triggered it.
00:37:14
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I waited and waited. I thought, oh my god, what the fuck is wrong with this stoplight? I scooted forward a bit and nothing. What the fuck? Until I realized that I was walking home and also on the sidewalk standing next to a stop sign that was a block away. Oh, Joe, that's bad. He's walking.
00:37:34
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I was waiting for a stoplight on foot a block away from me. You know what? Better that he's not operating a motor vehicle at that point. Exactly. That's what I thought.
00:37:44
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Good thing you're walking, my man. Hopefully you're waiting. And looking both ways when you cross the street. it reminds me of time when, yes, we were all partying very hard, me and Link.
00:37:58
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friend group when we were, you know, young teenagers and things that, you know, in our small town, it's like, yeah. going home from a party. I was like, probably, ah you know, we shouldn't be also driving because, yeah, then we were both too high. And it's like, wait, why are we waiting at the green light here?
00:38:17
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There's nothing it's nothing. I was waiting for you. I was waiting for you. so we were both waiting for each other? i can't remember. was the same friend, so I'm not going to name names, but like, I'm pretty sure somebody had probably had some mushrooms that hadn't completely worn off and they kind of stopped and went like, oh, I thought the road ended.
00:38:36
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But to be fair, when it's really dark on a country road, it kind of does look like the road just ends. Can't confirm that you're driven. I couldn't go straight. Yeah.
00:38:50
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It's fucking dark. oh Anyway, we're all fine. At least we don't drive drunk. drive drunk. Maybe just a little burnt out or still high.
00:39:08
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This one says, for my munchie meal, once I went and ordered Chipotle and also stopped at Sonic and got a corn dog, I stuffed the corn dog into my burrito and ate it. To this day, it's the best meal I've ever eaten.
00:39:21
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Oh, no. the stoned meal. Iconic. I feel like they have to recreate it. Yeah. But not sober or it might not have the same joy yeah does not spark joy uh these last two were so weird uh it says i got a tattoo gun and was practicing on fake skin i got so high i thought i could control it with my mind and spent 10 minutes wondering why nothing was happening
00:39:55
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Well, you should not be tattooing while you're high. It does remind me of the scenes in Ghosts where the one guy has the power to make things move, but he has to, like, concentrate really hard.
00:40:07
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and And he's already the ghost that died partying in the 80s with no pants on. So it's just like, you're ridiculous. And it finally, like, flops off the table. Dink! And they're all like, yeah!
00:40:19
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It's great. I like ghosts. um Yeah, i've seen I've caught a couple episodes of that show. My mom likes it. they're making a movie version out of the the original British one.
00:40:31
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So it's the same show. But think, you know, British office or whatever. Yeah, I guess they're getting like a feature film. So look out for that. that's Yeah. This last one says, I got so high that I spent 30 minutes texting my friends asking if they'd seen my phone. i have one phone and I was using it to text.
00:40:55
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Classic. Too stressed to realize you have your glasses or phone in hand. Yeah. Yeah, which reminded me of when I went out with my one friend. ah We came back here because he was staying with me and ah I had drank quite a bit.
00:41:18
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And then as soon as we got back here, i went to my room and put my phone, i guess, on my bedside table And then walked out of my room and then we were sitting in the living room room talking and I forgot that I had put my phone in my bedroom and it was freaking out because I lost my phone. And yeah it was also on silent because of course it was. And he was trying to text and call it and we couldn't hear it. So we even called the bar and asked them to look for my phone, which they did. No way. Before you even searched your whole house.
00:41:58
Speaker
I swore it was not. This is my main thing I do when I get drunk in my house is I go, where's that thing? couldn't find couldn't find my headphone case. I'll just find an earbud just laying somewhere because I couldn't find my headphone case after we're like recording. And it was.
00:42:17
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We spent like probably a good hour. I left my phone number and a description of like the case and my phone with the bar and was like, yeah, just call my friend. can't have been that drunk then.
00:42:29
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I'm sorry. I was, I don't know. so weird. I was so with it as soon as my phone was lost, but not remembering that I had put my phone and on my side table as soon as walked in the house. Perfect storm.
00:42:44
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Uh, yeah, so did all that, and then, um, yeah, I was going to go to sleep, and then came out of my room, and I was like, so funny thing, I just had my phone.
00:42:57
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And that, that story reminded me of that, because I did something similar once, where I was trying to use the flashlight on my phone or something to find my phone. And I was like, wait, what am I doing?
00:43:13
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if yeah it's the yeah because you get the walk through the doorway dementia and you can't remember until you what you needed i swear that's what happened when i put
Podcasting with Health Challenges?
00:43:26
Speaker
my phone on the side phenomenon yeah can well they say it's a real to this day i do not remember ah putting my phone on the table i remember almost everything else from the rest of that entire night i do not remember putting my phone on the table my glasses fell into the second what is it drawer
00:43:55
Speaker
whatever my nightstand has a second it's like covered and they fell in the second shell that's the word and i couldn't find them and then pat had to help me because it's hard to look for your glasses when you don't have glasses on too yeah like that's why i need glasses because i'm nearsighted bitch yeah
00:44:18
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Anyway, that's ah that's my funny weed stories. Thank you, BuzzFeed. Woo! I love a compilation. i that used to be the best part of any of the like Cosmo magazine and things like that. It's stupid advice, then people's embarrassing stories, I'd be like, yes, give it to me.
00:44:39
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Love it. yeah Things like that. I, when i was younger, was obsessed with reading the embarrassing sex stories. i thought they were hilarious. Yes. Why isn't there always segments when people shit themselves on everything? It's the funniest.
00:44:55
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Cosmo had the worst sex advice. So like the famously. Yeah.
00:45:03
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Rip out his pubes with your teeth. No, I just heard people making fun of him the other day and they were coming up with shit like, I'm just going that. It was and then it was always like, ah to but make everything more exciting. Put it in the freezer. It's like, fucking everything's going in the freezer. Everything needs, you always need ice cubes in your mouth, apparently.
00:45:25
Speaker
put grapes in the freezer. Put your chapstick in the freezer. Yeah, guys had bad porn and we had bad... Yeah. Magazine advice. Oh, lordy.
00:45:37
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Well. So funny. That was good. I enjoyed it. Thanks. I slacked off because I was sick and I couldn't find a case. And then I was laying on my couch dying because I could barely move my arms. And I was like, I'm not, I don't want to type up a whole bunch of notes right now.
00:45:55
Speaker
it Podcasting is hard. I'm just kidding. First world problem. Guys. Oh my god. Yes, every time Kelsey, poor Kelsey gets sick, it's just see see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. It's always like, you poor head.
00:46:15
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Yeah. Yeah, this was like crazy. Never in my life.
00:46:24
Speaker
a scam. Being alive a scam. It was crazy. and it wasn't even like I caught anything. I was telling people at work because they're like, what happened? And I was like, it's a funny story.
00:46:36
Speaker
i got a COVID booster shot. And you know how they're always like, oh, you'll get soreness in your arm. And I get like the flu shot every year because I'm immunocompromised. I'm supposed to get the flu shots and I'm supposed to get all the COVID boosters. So I didn't get them this winter. i got the flu shot, but i hadn't got the COVID one because it wasn't available. I would have had to pay for it.
00:46:59
Speaker
would like book it and be on a wait list for like months and months. So I just didn't get it when I was supposed to, but it was fine because it's like, whatever. I've had all the other ones. I've had like, what?
00:47:10
Speaker
Yeah. Seven or eight other COVID boosters and all those flu shots and it's fun whatever it's not been like rampant here yeah yeah it hasn't been too bad and other than maybe some soreness for it that day or the next day I've never really had a reaction to a vaccination before but they did tell me at the pharmacy when I got it done they're like oh we've noticed like it'll be a little more tender like this one seems to be affecting people more and I was like okay thanks for letting me know And I got it, and i was fine that day.
00:47:43
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um but it was, like, about halfway through the next day when my back and my neck just started hurting. And then because my neck was getting really stiff and tight, I got, like, a really, really bad headache.
00:47:56
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yeah And then I ended up leaving work. I probably should have left hours early, but i ended up only being able to leave half an hour early. and then...
00:48:08
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i came home, basically slept for like three hours, and then it didn't help. And then it was like the next morning I woke up and like I couldn't move. My arms, I was almost in tears trying to lift my arms, even just standing like It was like I had done ah the worst full body workout of my entire life. Like every muscle in my body was just exhausted.
00:48:33
Speaker
and my neck was sore. I could barely hold my head up. I didn't have energy to hold my head up. Oh, the pain. could barely move my arms. And then even my hips, like my hips actually hurt. So trying to sleep, I have to sleep on my side. and I couldn't sleep or get comfortable because my hips hurt. So like the weight of sleeping on my side was hurting.
00:48:55
Speaker
But because my back and my neck were hurting, and I couldn't sleep on my stomach or my back either. So i for two days, just didn't sleep. Other than maybe like 20 minutes at a time.
00:49:06
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out of every few hours lying there pain. Like when you're super pregnant and you can't get comfy, yep. Yeah. And it was... That's rough. so yeah, last week, what?
00:49:17
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It was the... I got the booster shot on Wednesday. Went home sick. from work on Thursday called in sick Friday Saturday went to work barely functional on Sunday told them I had not quite my energy back but I could like move around and my arms were like 95% better like they didn't really hurt or anything anymore by then so I was like yeah I'll give it a shot and like try and come in so yeah last week just done another booster shot
00:49:53
Speaker
But it was crazy. So everybody's work like, oh, what happened? i was like, like, I hate to say it, but I had a bad reaction to a COVID shot. and but Like, again, I've had 10 of them at least almost. And I've never had, I've been getting, yeah, I've been getting the flu shot for like my whole life and never had a reaction to vaccination like that other than like maybe a sore arm but it was like both my arms it was my neck my back my hips everything hurt even my legs like it was crazy so yeah yeah I didn't really feel like uh trying to type of
00:50:39
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a whole bunch of stuff and then I couldn't find anything anyway by the time my headache cleared and I was trying to look up stuff again i was like oh I'll just I'll just read some funny stories no I think I like that because I think this episode will be more light-hearted which will be good yeah we've had some heavy ones lately so and happy 420 yeah we don't wantnna get stoned and listen to all the um yeah the bad the bad stuff uh we have enough of that Um, yeah. Mine's more of a... Yeah.
00:51:13
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yeah I picked one that i I knew I had heard about a scammer or two about that. Nice. Did some wild weed stuff. and And I went back to find, I was like, I'm sure this was on the scam goddess pod. Like, shout out. And then I went back and was like, oh, wait, which one was it? Because she has several that deal with like a... That sounds fun. fraudster. Yeah. um So...
00:51:42
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Yeah, well we'll take a break here for you guys if we haven't cut this already. Yeah.
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Unveiling a Scammer's Tale
00:53:19
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All right. Well, I think we're back for part two. a yeah. I did enjoy your segment.
00:53:32
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My funny weed, weed stories. huh. It did make me think of times when you're like, Oh, I was so high or yeah. Yeah.
00:53:45
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Um, But yeah, this also is one that's kind of like,
00:53:53
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she fucked up her own life, let's say maybe. Oh no. Well, you know, don't want to talk about someone who was like caught for possession America while, you know, being black and they just had like gram or something. And they're like, then I went to you know jail for 10 years. You're like, that sucks. Yeah. You're just like, what the fuck?
00:54:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, they're... Yeah. I'm happy it's legalized, but there's a lot of damage that hasn't been properly reversed and, like, rectified. but like That was a long row for Yeah, the years before it being legalized, like, still it's fucked up.
00:54:43
Speaker
It is weird. It's kind of like how here in Canada we did... um do like legal age of drinking by province which I always found kind of strange because I'd be like yeah go next door to Maine oh you're supposed to be 21 but like wait can I make it to Quebec where you only have to be like 18 19 to drink like is it's different in every like place yeah yeah they have some weird things just like BC
00:55:13
Speaker
I think it's higher and then BC is also higher for getting your driver's license if that's still true. it was about like 15 years ago you had to be like 16 to get your learners and then it was like 18 to get your license instead of like 14 and 16. Yeah it was weird.
00:55:33
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um Definitely. Quebec was always the closest place we could thing to go to to be like you could party there and
Who is Lizette Lee?
00:55:45
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stuff yeah um okay so i was telling you last time kelsey kills that we were uh dealing with a a scammer sort of situation right right i forgot about that okay yeah
00:56:07
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i see I slapped it one toe to my brain i hadn't heard of this girl before like there's a few at least an episode or of something I think I have it at the end gangster or something where they're like she's the pot princess but I told you I found her through the the scam goddess podcast so I will definitely shout her okay yeah I love the scam goddess podcast and at the host Lacey Bosley um And there is like a show streaming version that I found through Disney plus or something. mr
00:56:46
Speaker
Yeah. It's a little different. Cause like I, on the podcast, I feel like she's more like, um, into the funny side of it and asking guests if they've been scammed and then like talking about scams, but not two people who've been scammed. Whereas on the show, it's a little bit more like she might actually talk just like the actual,
00:57:05
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people who were scammed and so then it's kind of like serious you know and you're like a little bit more formal like yeah yeah you're not like joking so much when you're talking to the people that were actually affected by this yeah yeah um so anyway all that to say This is about someone I hadn't heard of before I had heard their episode on Scam Goddess and their name is Lizette Lee.
00:57:38
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And the tagline I made for this one was from Seoul to Beverly Hills, Lizette Lee be lying.
00:57:50
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Okay. Stupid. Yeah. She was because she was born in Seoul, South Korea. And then like, she'd be scamming when she gets to America. yeah Oh, damn.
00:58:03
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Yeah. Of course. It's the land of the scams, right? Yeah. Home of the brave. What'd they say?
00:58:17
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um Okay, yeah. So this girl was born in 1981 in South Korea. So she's not that old. Uh, seven years older than me, younger, older.
00:58:35
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I can math, but she was raised in sunny California as it happens by family friend. Um, there was a dubious upbringing, which we'll get into a little bit more, but she kind of started out with a stigma of being the product of an affair, like an affair baby, a love child.
00:58:54
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, had I mean... ah Yeah. It's not great, right? It probably wouldn't be great to to know i feel like there's certain things about yourself you shouldn't know. Like, if you were... yeah like an affair baby.
00:59:17
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Sorry. Yeah, like a ah total accident. My... ah
00:59:24
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My best friend in like high school. um Her younger sister?
00:59:37
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no not her younger sister. So she was the middle of the three kids. And yeah, it was her brother. Because they were like fairly young when they had her older brother.
00:59:50
Speaker
yeah They were like... I remember her telling me one time, like, yeah, my parents told us, like, mom was on birth control and they used a condom and she she still got pregnant. And i was like, oh, damn. Like...
01:00:05
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Yes, she's a real fertile Myrtle. i kind of feel her pain. Some people, some people struggle to get pregnant and that's, that's a, you know, whatever in their lives. And then also with some of us, I almost get pregnant a little too easily.
01:00:21
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But, oh, that's rough. Yeah,
01:00:31
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sorry heard was insane a
01:00:37
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yeah I haven't like watched a documentary on this one, but there might be something. i hadn't heard of her but yeah, this lady, uh, Oh, right. Love child. Quote unquote. Uh, her father was Japanese. Um, and her mother was from South Korea where she was born. Um, but there was, yeah, some kind of like stigma and they decided she might have a better life growing up away from them in a completely different country as it happened. Yeah.
01:01:10
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Yeah. and was like- There's a lot of like hierarchy of racism and like stuff within the Asian community which I was not aware of until like i was watching a stand-up comedy special or something and obviously like the person doing it was asia and they were talking about like asian families and like oh yeah and i was like dating this girl and she was from whatever and then um just in the audience you hear oh and then they went oh yeah yeah see you know and then so they had a ah quick breakdown of um all the different uh like how each rung goes down the ladder and
01:01:58
Speaker
shits on other one. Even within a country. Oh, damn. Yeah, it's like you have those different Yeah, within countries and like... Yeah, it's just...
Cultural Stereotypes Discussion
01:02:10
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ah Everybody... ah I'd say like most... Not everybody, but like most um cultures have their people that they look down on and ah Some you hear about more or more, um like you hear about more than others you're not familiar with it. So it can be surprising to learn, but... Oh yeah, totally. Yeah. It's like, damn.
01:02:43
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It's weird when I was talking to a friend at work who is originally from India and a lot of the context I had for what... um I asked her something about her, like her last name kind of, and she was explaining some things and like, yeah. And then i was like, Oh, what is, why is the only thing I know about like the caste system and the quote unquote, like different levels of, you know, you're low, you're poor, you're high, whatever.
01:03:12
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And like, I was like, feel like my only introduction to that was like sex in the city. Cause they're like talking about it and they're getting their feet done by someone. They're like, obviously there's still a caste system here in North America. Like there's people that do our toenails and like whatever.
01:03:29
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was like, oh my God. feel like this is such a ah privileged point of view I have. But like, i've been I've been the server a lot of times. So many of my jobs, I'm like, you know, in the service industry and that that humbles a person, I think.
01:03:45
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ah I think more people, yeah people have lost touch with ah yeah what it's like to be in customer service. Oh, totally. I feel like, yeah.
01:04:01
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Because there's certain drugss Yeah, you don't have to work. You like start to get that kind of entitlement. like You get lazy in a way.
01:04:11
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i don't know. Just my experience.
01:04:17
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Yeah, man, there's there's certain jobs. Like i i couldn't i always said I could never be a waitress. i I would drop one plate and be done. I would just start crying. And I would, even if oh yeah it was totally okay, you wouldn't get in trouble. All it would take is like one table clapping and be like, ha ha ha, done.
01:04:39
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Never again. It's tough. Oh, you're not wrong. Yeah, I did that when I first moved out of here. ah And I've broken, it's not like I haven't accidentally broken things at my work.
01:04:50
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um like. Because my work, like, they have decor and everything. I've i've broken... dropped something into a bin of breakables once, and it broke, like, 15 things at once. And I was like, oh, shit. ah That's worse than we were talking about there's always broken mirrors. As much as they're lucky. Yeah, that too.
01:05:12
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And you're like, oh, no. Yeah. too Too much drawn attention, and I...
01:05:24
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I would have to go walk into traffic or something. my life is over.
01:05:32
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yeah Kudos to the people who can handle jobs like that and be really fucking good at them. Like they just totally amazing.
Lizette's Deceptive Life
01:05:45
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It's so funny because I almost told myself I would never take a job at this company just because in case I could work at the call center part because I was just like, I can't survive a call center.
01:05:57
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And then you're like, now what are you doing? Working at that job. Sometimes as a call center agent, like we don't take a lot of calls per day, but still like that's because it's not like my main job, but I'm like, yeah.
01:06:12
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you You know what it's like. Yeah, people are so fucking stupid and rude sometimes. Anyway. good Yeah.
01:06:23
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Sorry, don't even know. Okay. Yeah, that all that to say... you're on the entitled reviews subreddit, you guys all know. it doesn't take long for people to become more entitled and with things and be like, oh, I'm used to something because I'm rich now and it's going to be to a certain level. Yeah. um So Lizette Lee, she was a character. Once called the product, did I say this, of an illicit multinational love affair?
01:07:01
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Oh, not the multinational. Yes, but yeah. don't know. It makes it sound fancy somehow. I pulled that quote. um Oh, yes. A merger.
01:07:12
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She was the result of multinational merger. South Korea and Japan. Yes. Needed to mend their ways.
01:07:25
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And their relations. uh yeah no she ended up then growing up in beverly hills i honestly it was like you were right complaining about not being able to do research i had then listened today to the scam fluencers it was another podcast um you know episode about it but i'm like um i've already done my research and somehow they had stuff that i had like not been able to find, which was annoying to me.
01:07:57
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you know? Yeah. Just, like, details, right? Sometimes people got them, like, ah they have, like, a group of people that help them with research or people like, compile. So we can't compare ourselves to them. We just can't. oh Oh, you're right. I was going to totally call out that they, like, seem to be at, like, some sort of audible podcast or someone who has, like, a network behind them like they certainly have research people yeah no you're not wrong you're absolutely right and i was gonna call that out but okay so i found some stuff she grew up in beverly hills beverly hills seemed to reinvent her personality constantly she um started saying that she was an heiress at this time and that she went to prep school but people like paris hilton
01:08:52
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Of course. Sure. But that also her friends looked down and bullied Paris and she claimed her army of skanks, her words, shunned Miss Hilton.
01:09:08
Speaker
Sorry. Damn. Leave Paris Hilton alone. love her. She was really good at branding. you know what? I...
01:09:20
Speaker
I feel like I was slightly out of the Paris Hilton like era when I was younger. kind of how I feel about Britney Spears. first came out, people just thought she was stupid. She isn't necessarily my era of thing. You missed the that's hot phrase.
01:09:41
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Yeah, like I'm aware of it and everything, but I wasn't watching... like
01:09:48
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Yeah, like her and Nicole Richie's TV show or whatever. The Simple Life, yeah. I did know that one. But you know what? I didn't realize how well spoken she was until I think it was ah during COVID. She was on Hot Ones.
Paris Hilton's Branding Lessons
01:10:10
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okay. Where he makes me the hot wings. Interview thing where they do the chicken wings. Yeah, but because it was during COVID, it wasn't in the studio. um all it was at her house so she was like doing it over skype so she would they like shipped her the um all the hot sauces and then she had like her own chicken wings or whatever she ended up putting it on but she put they pointed out to her the fact that she was putting like two or three times the amount of hot sauce that like they normally put on the wings she was putting on herself no because if you're gonna coat the wings
01:10:47
Speaker
It's different. You gotta, like, toss them, right? can't just, like, pour shit on the top of it. Oh, no. But, yeah, it was a really cool interview, and she was really well-spoken, and it was, like, really a really interesting interview, and I had never really watched anything with her a whole lot, and I was like, oh, that was actually really cool. Totally. to see that side of her, and they did kind of, it's years ago now,
01:11:15
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I'm trying to remember, but I remember them talking about like the branding and she like explained her thought process behind it and like all this kind of stuff and different things she decided to do. And it was like, oh, damn, that was pretty cool. It's like like vented branding almost. She's like, well, I'm known for saying that's hot and stuff. Well, I guess I'll lean into it. I'm like, I love you. feel like there's certain people that kind of before the 90s, you kind of had like a bit of a brand. But I think starting in the 90s, it really took off. I mean, like, this is going to be my thing. And that's what going be known for.
01:11:51
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um And they lean into it. Yeah, I feel like she's kind of a master of that. where she's like people need to know that i'm smart as long as if i keep playing dumb i get like cameos on supernatural and whatever like whatever else yeah and she's isn't she like a fucking dj or something like people pay her crazy money to like go dj and it's like so it's great she's been doing it for like how many years true good for her
01:12:25
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Yeah, although I can't vouch to how good of a DJ she is, but I may be a little biased being that I believe my partner is a very good DJ. But yeah, that's funny.
01:12:41
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God, I love the simple life. I can see like, I think I've seen like one episode or a part of an episode yeah why i used to watch it with my old roommate ian yeah and we'd watch old buffy together did they cancel the reboot i heard like why before it even started yeah i know what's up with that no
01:13:09
Speaker
look keys can't have nice things no we really can't Don't me started. um Okay.
Lizette's Entourage and Scams
01:13:16
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So, yes. Speaking of branding, she is reinventing herself. Oh, my God. Speaking of Paris Hilton. Lisette, you know, my protagonist here, says she was an heiress.
01:13:30
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And I believe that's because she was a little jealous of Paris. She claimed to have gone to prep school with Paris Hilton, but that was not confirmed. Mm-hmm.
01:13:41
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even better she claimed her friends and her um her friends and her aka her her words army of skanks shunned Paris
01:13:53
Speaker
and um whatever then she attended Harvard and London finishing school and oh all the preppy things and of course she came out of it because she was in London with a slight British accent you know she went full like Madonna and
01:14:13
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Yes, of course. Great. yeah I mean, it's not to say you're not gonna like adopt some bit of an accent if you've been living somewhere for a while, but like it's the affectation of a whole new accent that's crazy.
01:14:30
Speaker
yeah and And she was definitely like a liar. Okay, she met her boy. She's definitely not. In case you didn't know, she's just a fucking liar.
01:14:44
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gonna try and pepper in some of the details. I try not to rely on other podcasts, but I have to admit the stupid scamfluencers had some good details, and I was like, you with your Audible research money?
01:14:56
Speaker
but couldn't find the news. Or whatever. Hey, at least we're telling people where the information came from. We're not pretending that we... Yeah. We're all, we're very transparent here. Yeah. And and having listened to Ska Influencers, it was annoying in their, like, if anyone's ever listened to Crime Junkie or something like that, it's kind of produced. It's like one person's telling most of the story and then the other person, like, say, I'm telling my segment and then you would be like, oh my god, well, what was she thinking doing something like that? It just, like, feels, like, very, like...
01:15:33
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The questions are almost per performative. It's annoying.
01:15:40
Speaker
Weird. Yeah, I don't love it. I prefer an organic. I tell you something and then you're like, what? And that's your reaction. Yeah.
01:15:52
Speaker
Yeah, sometimes we don't know what we're going to talk about. oh Yeah, welcome to Patreon. Right. This girl was such a messy bitch, though.
01:16:05
Speaker
She's so jealous. She's like claiming to be an heiress. Especially, specifically, she says she's an heiress to the Samsung fortune. So like, so you know.
01:16:18
Speaker
The phone? the phone company? The Japanese. like Yes, my family, we invented the phone. People weren't aware. Also invented trees.
01:16:31
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and paper no talk you're welcome it's just so i can't even still because you're you're like you have some money but you keep claiming to like almost have more money and like i don't get it um yeah she meets this guy who's a street level dealer like drug dealer he's david garrett Oh, that's after she gets out of that London finishing school and came out with a slight British accent, of course, like Madonna style.
01:17:09
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Yeah. Then she was claiming to all her friends. Cause she like would adopt these different personalities. She's like, Oh, I don't live in this place anymore. Now that I'm in California, I'll pretend to be this high roller. That's,
01:17:25
Speaker
dating Leonardo DiCaprio and then I've also dated Channing Tatum and like all these A-list
Drug Smuggling Operations Exposed
01:17:34
Speaker
yes you're like were you before 25 because we know Leo wouldn't date you if you were 26 plus yeah how old was he at the time right this is I think still early 2000 yeah
01:17:55
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her low level oh no she her um entourage of friends which I you know put a quote on because she kind of like used her assistants and were really mean to them but also counted them as yeah um but between them and her assistants or whatever other lackeys she called them all team ll because you know she's Lizette Lee and Everything's gotta be about her.
01:18:28
Speaker
Right? It's so cringy. I hate it I know. Also, why was the only other Lizette I had heard about one from the traitors that was also really annoying and she kept focusing on this one other chick or whatever.
01:18:47
Speaker
say chick, but they were probably I know Chala is a traitor. You're like, no you don't! You weirdo. I wanted to like her because she would if she was on the Canadian Traders and she was from New Brunswick. But then I was like, Lisette!
01:19:03
Speaker
You suck. ah Okay, yeah. And you know she's so jealous of these others when she would refer to herself as the Korean Paris Hilton.
01:19:15
Speaker
Oh my god. And she's carrying around a chihuahua in her purse because of course she is. Yeah, and everything's hot pink. It's so hot. That's hot, right? girls That's hot.
01:19:31
Speaker
and remember when she was on Supernatural 2,
01:19:36
Speaker
I do not. have no recollection of this. What was she doing? um feel like it came out around the time she did that.
01:19:47
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She's in that House of Wax horror movie. Yeah. I think it was a wax museum episode, which, don't get me wrong, I fucking love a wax museum.
01:20:01
Speaker
Something like that. Yeah. She... The wax figures are coming to life or something, aren't they? Probably. I think she plays herself. Some some shit like that. i know, I've seen so many wax museum things. Back when TV shows had like 20-some episodes so they could have like little...
01:20:24
Speaker
Nonsensical episodes or bottle. I know. 20 seems like a normal number. Yeah. God, love a House of Wax.
01:20:37
Speaker
Wax Museum movie, though. They're so creepy. love it. It's like that... whatever that phobia you have of stuff that looks real, that has like a face and everything like that people get. Oh, that's what I have. Like wax figures. I'm like, i don't like it.
01:20:56
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Yeah. Yeah. When it's in the uncanny and sort of Valley, it's like pareidolia or pareidolia or yeah. It's so weird.
01:21:08
Speaker
Um, yeah, but this, this bitch, She scammed her way up to the top. ah Oh yeah, right, right. She looks up to Paris Heldon. She's purchased her her purse dog.
01:21:27
Speaker
She's now surrounding herself with her friends and, you know, quote unquote, assistants, whatever. Whatever they might be. um and all that stuff. And her entourage. And...
01:21:43
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So, yeah, she had some money. It's so weird because, like, a lot of the times, you like, the scams where they don't have any money, they're like, you know, send me this amount and I'll give you back this. But it's like, she never was, like, super broke.
01:21:58
Speaker
So it's very strange.
01:22:01
Speaker
I'm like, she just, like, wanted to be bigger than she is, maybe.
01:22:08
Speaker
So they start like after she reads ah o meets the David guy, David Garrett was a low level drug dealer. So he suggests to her that they get into a bigger operation where they run four major amounts of marijuana, like cross state lines. Let's go coast to coast. Why not? We're here in l la Let's go to Columbus.
01:22:32
Speaker
Yeah. for My drug mule.
01:22:38
Speaker
Only you can be my drug mule. i was saying that like, only you can prevent forest fires.
01:22:48
Speaker
But... Gordo, what are you doing? You're being annoying. Gordo! Up to shenanigans. What, mom? God.
01:23:01
Speaker
Okay. Um... Yeah, so she surrounded herself with friends, assistants, and other lackeys, calling them Team LL. You know, because I guess Lizette Lee.
01:23:13
Speaker
I think she's very narcissistic. Yeah. ah Bigger deals. They're running major amounts of marijuana from LAX to Columbus, although her BFS claimed to have not known why she hired her to do that.
01:23:31
Speaker
Hey Kelsey, you want to come with me on a trip? You just have to bring all these suitcases, but you can't bring any of your own suitcases. Is that okay? And if somebody asked if you packed them, yes you did.
01:23:43
Speaker
you certainly did. and you definitely know what's inside of them. I would never endanger you, ever! Yeah, what the fuck.
01:23:54
Speaker
So, they moved over 7,000 pounds of pot over 14 trips. her team of minions right hot does not weigh a whole lot so 7,000 pounds that's yeah it's pretty good yeah yeah yeah it's it's light it's a flower it's a dried flower it's not you're right it doesn't usually weigh a whole time and so you're always like I don't know what 7,000 divided by 14 is but that's quite truly uh
01:24:34
Speaker
Yeah, no. She didn't even try to hide it. Really. just like put it in these suitcases by the time she decided she was smuggling drugs.
01:24:46
Speaker
Yeah. And she was oh yeah, really leaned into the asshole Hollywood persona and be like yelling at people. What are you doing?
01:24:58
Speaker
It's not good enough. And like...
01:25:03
Speaker
ah you know, pretend she was wiretapping you or maybe even kidnap you just to scare you just a little bit. She wasn't a problem. Oh God. i know Yeah. But yeah, she got up to a lot of, yeah, with surveillance, if I said that.
01:25:27
Speaker
So... By the time of June 2010, she and her crew had chartered another jet from Van Nuys to the Port Columbus International Airport. So she was basically going from California to, like, Columbus, ohio like, every month or something. Like, a lot. Yeah, okay. That'd be... Like, what is your dealings with...
01:25:56
Speaker
ah she didn't bother to come up with a scam that would would explain multiple trips which means i'm like you think you're smart like flying to the same places all the time it's relaxing couldn't say you were podcasting researching anything wait what yeah so yeah june they came in hot they have large suitcases She's flying also with her two assistants and her one bodyguard, and they contained 500 pounds of weed with an estimated value of $500,000.
01:26:35
Speaker
posts and dollars But they're like, yeah, we've just been doing this. So it's all good. Yeah. It's just another Tuesday. ah you like Pretty much.
01:26:46
Speaker
But that time the DEA officials ah start asking her some questions. About her frequent flights. Which she never gave an explanation for. a than like She'd be like oh I'm like moving. From California to Columbus.
01:27:00
Speaker
But she said that like. At least three or four times.
01:27:08
Speaker
You're like girl. Just one. I'm just moving once a month.
01:27:14
Speaker
It's the world's slowest move. You could said anything. could have said I have a job out there. well i have to be out there like. I have a friend that I visit. Like... I have a special friend. Yeah!
01:27:31
Speaker
Oh my god, it's so funny. It makes me laugh. It's like... Sometimes I get it because it's like people be talking about a lag and the recording and like, I get it. Me and Kelsey, like we, we record remotely, even though we like technically don't live in a different place. but it's just something things But then these people, they've been making up their excuses and you're just like, wait, what?
01:27:55
Speaker
It makes no sense. Yeah. I always loved watching the, um that Those border border patrol shows where they would have like drug people. and they The customs one. yeah Yeah.
01:28:12
Speaker
So entertaining. What will people try to sneak into Canada? I this random meat. because A lot of meat. Vegetation. Plants. They want to fuck it up.
01:28:33
Speaker
Oh yeah, Pamela, she said she was flying to her boyfriend's horse farm to deliver some things. Even that's a better excuse than moving. Right?
01:28:46
Speaker
Literally. You couldn't have stopped to think about that for two seconds. Because at this point she was like, don't know what does. don't know what his name is. You're like, you haven't thought of anything.
01:28:58
Speaker
I don't know my boyfriend's name. What is my name? Yeah. Yeah,
01:29:07
Speaker
yeah apparently that was one of the major things where, like, they didn't offer to get different pilots. So probably, like, one pilot or whoever tipped them off it was like, seems weird that she's moved to, like, um Ohio, like, three times in the last year.
01:29:26
Speaker
Yeah. She's not trying.
01:29:33
Speaker
So stupid. I love it. That's why she gets caught fast though. So it's not that long.
01:29:43
Speaker
Eight month, about eight month crime spree.
Lisette's Arrest and Entitlement
01:29:47
Speaker
She gets charged with felony counts of possession and conspiracy to distribute, distribute marijuana. Pardon me.
01:29:55
Speaker
But apparently her first question upon her arrest was about whining. Like, what am I wearing jail? yeah orange is totally not my color i don't think it's orange anymore i think it's like beige or tan right yeah apparently what she gets is sort of like this pale blue but like oh it's so entitled man yeah i just love it all the feels yeah
01:30:30
Speaker
more than one ton of marijuana I remind you she had so much weed going yeah um I mean they could have been smuggling worse things but still true not great if you have to be importing a drug it's the least addictive and almost like the least harmful I'm sorry but big pothead over here it's not gonna make you go like crazy you know like
01:31:05
Speaker
But as it were, she
01:31:11
Speaker
It gives me the Justin Timberlake when he gets pulled over and he's like, what about the world tour? I can't stop thinking about that. I know. I recently saw something that was like showing the video and i was like, this is so painful to watch. I actually had to click out. I was like, the secondhand embarrassment. i can't handle it. Yes! You've heard about it. You know what I mean.
01:31:36
Speaker
And they're like, sir, what's your name? And they're like, what? They're like, yeah, what's your name? And he's like, Justin Timberlake? I'm Jamie. And what do you do?
01:31:48
Speaker
Sorry? What do you do? my god.
01:31:55
Speaker
So embarrassing for you.
01:31:59
Speaker
Yeah. God damn it.
01:32:02
Speaker
Yeah, let me finish this page. Probably have to pee again. um
01:32:10
Speaker
Yeah, for that... Whoa, we're going to distribute more than one ton of marijuana. July 2011, she was sentenced to six years in federal prison for drug trafficking. And ah in court, there was Judge Algernon L. Marbley presiding.
01:32:29
Speaker
Presiding. Yet, a plea deal allowed Lisette to have a reduced sentence so she wouldn't serve the full 10 years, but she would would be fined Jesus. she's clearly not the brains of the operation, so I'm sure they wanted to go after the person that was actually providing the marijuana. You would hope she's not the brains of anything! Ugh, sorry. I'm gonna make you pee myself. Wait me two seconds.
01:32:57
Speaker
Um... Did I say her quote where she was like, what's going on here? I'm a model. She's trying to get arrested. No.
01:33:12
Speaker
So sorry. You're about to learn how messy this bitch is.
01:33:20
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Oh, I think I left off on her plea deal. a plea deal allowed Lisette to have a reduced sentence so she wouldn't serve the full 10 years, but she would be fined $20,000. All
01:33:36
Speaker
in all, over 7,000 pounds or more than three tons were smuggled from California to Columbus over 14 separate flights. And...
01:33:48
Speaker
Yeah, she was just like saying things like, what's going on here? I'm a model. do Can't arrest me.
01:33:59
Speaker
That's what made me think of Timberlake in the, what about the world tour? he got like, pulled over. um But like it's clear she was so jealous of people like Kim Kardashian who she apparently worked with the for a bit. i have a little bit more details on like some of the drama from the that set. But like she was so mad she would call her like that fat Armenian. Damn. And she claimed she had Sony money also. She's not only a Samsung heiress. She her you know she's got Sony money as well.
01:34:42
Speaker
And she's a Vogue model. Classic. Yeah.
01:34:49
Speaker
I'm just the working model actress slash heiress. And I'm just so mean because the people I learn from that if I have to introduce my BFF slash assistant, she's going to like, oh, by the way, this is my desperate little whore.
01:35:11
Speaker
wow the scam fluency people she's like i'm gonna start calling you that i'm like that's almost not even funny
01:35:20
Speaker
but yeah she would just always like blame other people right she's like oh we almost got caught like this is amateur hour we need to be more careful you're like bitch you need to come up with a cover story better than i'm moving 17 times this year Yeah, I'm the messiest bitch that this on and off relationship has been going back and forth, back and forth. And then she would tell her friend that, like, well, I have a job for you. You're desperate for a job, right? But you can't take any luggage with you. Because you have to take my luggage. And she'd be like, okay. Like, what? Damn.
01:36:00
Speaker
Literally insane. And, like, we don't condone it, do we? Yeah. Kelsey starts telling me to go to a second location. I'm like, bitch, what you talking about?
01:36:12
Speaker
Go pick up this suitcase, take it to this airport. You're like, no. Right? Like, literally. was like, I thought it might have something to do with money laundering or casino stuff. That's what her friend said. You're like, and that's totally fine.
01:36:33
Speaker
um Yeah, because she's not exactly the heiress to the Samsung fortune. but that No. You don't say. Her maternal grandfather was like the founder of Samsung.
01:36:49
Speaker
So it wasn't like she was completely lying. Isn't that weird? Yeah.
01:36:57
Speaker
I don't even know. It's like they gave her some money, but she didn't think shit that was enough money and clout to like go with. You know what I mean? i don't know. Yeah.
01:37:10
Speaker
What's up, bitch? Yeah. So, as far as I can discern, she was ah the legitimate love child of the casino mogul Yoshi Morita.
01:37:28
Speaker
And her her mother's name was Corinne Lee or Kareem Lee. And her maternal grandfather was a Samsung founder, Byung Chow um But just because your grandfather was the founder of Sony and you were kind of a love child, she was basically given an allowance. And that's what she kind of fluffed up to make it seem like she was more than she was. Yeah.
01:37:58
Speaker
And you're like, dude, you had money. You had more money than most of us have. I would have just coasted by on that. would have been like, okay, great, thanks.
01:38:10
Speaker
Money for doing nothing. For just being born. hi buddy. This Anderson. Yes, I am. Yeah. Paycheck. That, uh...
01:38:23
Speaker
ae What's her face? John Raffia's sister. Money, please. Give me a money. Money. Yes, him and Jenny Slate. oh She's so funny. Yeah, it's like, that's all they care about
01:38:44
Speaker
She just never seems to learn her lesson either. She was in jail for a time And when they were booking her, she requested the police put heiress as her occupation. Because that's a thing.
01:38:59
Speaker
And they put dumbass. No. Oh, she's an heiress. Yeah. um But although she called the experience a learning experience at a vacation at government resort, she apparently got out 2017.
01:39:21
Speaker
and inspired the episode of a short documentary or an episode of a show called gangster americans most evil on lee that i couldn't find
01:39:35
Speaker
i would not consider her america's most evil but okay The scam thing, right? Like, they don't usually kill anybody. It can be very... Yeah.
01:39:50
Speaker
Divided. Buckle up for this episode. The most vicious person ever. And it's just her being like, I pretended to be friends with Dennis Hilton. You're like, what?
01:40:02
Speaker
Honestly, told you I've been loving the scam goddess, and they're like, sometimes... We're on the side of the scammer. Depends. If you're defrauding someone who doesn't have a lot of money, you suck. But if they're fucking rich and you're doing the Robin man thing, Robin, Robin hood thing, you know what i mean?
01:40:22
Speaker
You're like, fuck yeah. You rock.
01:40:27
Speaker
Okay. So, oh, this is, I really need to mention this. um because her her best friend, who I do feel some some sympathy for, who, um Miley, her name is, and she got to know ah when they first moved to l LA, and then it's like, and then she either got duped by you or she's now making a profit on it because she wrote a tell-all.
Miley's Book and Patreon Promotion
01:40:57
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And... Ooh, yeah. Yeah. They're like, her, ah the podcast there, hersh her book Smoke, I'm like, I'm sorry? Her subtitle was 17 pages. Smoke, how a small town girl got accidentally wound up smuggling 7,000 pounds of marijuana and the pot princess of Beverly Hills, an electrifying true story of vice and innocence.
01:41:28
Speaker
Yeah, that's way too long. Right? That's insane. That's like the back of the book paragraph. I was like, she started to read it on the podcast I was listening to. I was like, you even read the whole thing.
01:41:44
Speaker
chapter one the whole first chapter is just on the the the front of the book like star wars style it's just scrolling across in live to but like she was basically like i'm innocent there's stockholm and i this girl drew me into doing things i didn't want to do um that kind of stuff and it was interesting that it enabled her to come away with only 30 days of jail and then time to do her house arrest girl blog and all that stuff. So I feel like she's still trying to pivot on the 15 minutes of fame as some articles mentioned.
01:42:35
Speaker
I'm like, dude, I don't know. friends friends friends but like now I gotta capitalize on your 50 minutes of fame what yeah if I had to lie to make your alibi I would do it but if I have to do other things struck just I'm not cool with it Kelsey I'm not yeah oh
01:43:03
Speaker
so weird drug drug smuggling Right? Yeah. Makes, like, no sense.
01:43:17
Speaker
She just... Somebody just manipulated her. just like, oh, this this trick is super stupid and she has access to a plane. Let's go.
01:43:31
Speaker
I will edit that and we shall reconvene and I enjoyed that.
01:43:40
Speaker
Thanks. I liked your segment. It was pretty fun. Okay, good. I was like, I think I got pretty much done it. We're trying to figure out what we did on the bees one. I was like wait, it was funny, but awesome.
01:43:56
Speaker
Well, I, I don't have our list in front of us. What are we doing next time? you have your list? I do. have Do we have it picked out?
01:44:07
Speaker
We might not have. Oh no Because, yeah, my thing says episode whatever
01:44:21
Speaker
me look at my things my thing. We might need to think about it. Like yesterday, I was like, I don't want do any housekeeping. I can't make decisions.
01:44:33
Speaker
Where's my... Oh, there it is. Episode list order. Let's see. It's loading. Yeah, this is literally the last one I have either. Well, we can... we We had picked out our April Patreon, i guess. That's Mysterious Disappearances. So we can do a Patreon. Oh, yeah. A shameless Patreon. That's true.
01:44:55
Speaker
um And will we'll get back to you on our regular episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good one, actually. Yeah.
01:45:06
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Looking forward to it.
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