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(00:00):
Here we go. It's backs andbuster on Q one or two. It's
time for us to help somebody aroundhere. Yeah, we'll do our best.
Who are we talking to today?Callie? What's up? CALLI welcome
to askedbecs and Monster? What's thematter with you? Yeah? What's going
on? Okay? I need yourhelp because my friend is just an absolute
fraud and I can't sit around andwatch her beef steak anymore. Oh so
(00:25):
she's a social media influencer. Ilike, yeah, well it is absolute
air quotes, but she's actually startingto get some recognition for her posts.
Okay, everything she shares a fake, all of it? What do you
mean fake? Does she stage fakestuff? Like? What's Oh? Absolutely?
(00:48):
She's a travel lifestyle influencer and likegoes and poses at evince that she
hasn't been invited to and she justtakes photos out front pretending that she's attending.
Oh my gosh, she puts upher pictures of all of her exotic
travels to like Tuloum and Italy andshe doesn't even have the passport. Why
are you so bothered by this?This last week, she had an entire
(01:11):
news segment on our local station,talking about how she had come from a
broken home and had suffered from Hodgkin'slymphoma when she was fifteen years old,
and like underwent chemo radiation all ofthe treatment. Was that true? I
was best friends with her when wewere fifteen. She was never sick.
(01:34):
None of that ever happened. Ohmy, that's terrible. And it gets
worse because her again air quotes boyfriendshe doesn't have a boyfriend, has started
a go Fundme page for her tohelp with all of the trauma she suffered.
So they're just scanning people out ofmoney. Wow. Now yeah,
it has over one thousand dollars.People have donated over one thousand dollars already,
(01:57):
And so now I'm like deceiving everyone. Whatever. It was fine,
but she's stealing from people. Wow. So you brought this up with her?
Yeah? Yeah, I called youbecause I really feel like I should
out on social media. I mean, I just bet I now, I
mean, is it the right move? You know? So you just want
(02:21):
to go write to social media andblast like and blast her. You don't
want to have a conversation with her. She's stealing from people. I do
think that you should probably man upand have a conversation with her face to
face, well and tell her thatI'm going to out her. She doesn't
just give people their money back.I mean, because that like, yeah,
I know, maybe that is youknow, like maybe that is the
(02:43):
move. You have a real conversationwith her, like, hey, look,
we're friends. I'm watching what you'redoing here. I don't know if
I can continue to be friends withsomebody that's knowingly kind of people doesn't say
they have that conversation and she says, well, no, I'm not gonna
back down. Then what you needto just walk away from that friendship.
You don't think she should put iton blast. I don't know. People
(03:05):
are so quick to do the wholelike, ah, I'm gonna put you
on blast, I'm gonna cancel you. I'm like, I don't know.
If that's what you're lying about something, sure, then you know report her
gofund me Paige been lying for Imean, and also like all of her
followers for the most part, areshe's paid for. I'm not somebody that
(03:25):
thinks like that, Like I don'tthink to go and go nuts publicly about
a lot of things like that.Usually I'm like, all right, cut
yourself out of it, and alsoreport the page and see if you can
get them taken down. But ifif you try and good soldier this and
be the beacon of the voice ofthe voiceless on this one, cool,
(03:46):
but you might absorb some shrapnel alongthe way. Yeah, but like she's
doing Like, it's not like she'sdoing anything wrong in this situation. Her
friend's the one that's out here scammingpeople, lying to people, deceiving people.
So I could under stand your frustrationand you wanting to take the right
steps. I think a like Bussersaid, conversation happens in the beginning,
(04:08):
and if she refuses to acknowledge it, then beat her ass. I'm just
no, I actually like just reportingthe page, I can just you could
do that right, definitely be theroute you take. Let's do this.
If anybody knows anybody who's living afake life, I would love to hear
about that. Yeah, what arethey doing? What are they buying?
(04:30):
Where are they going? Give usa call? What are they posting?
What do they Yeah, like whatkind of free things? See, that's
why sometimes I get upset about LikeI could understand they're getting free food,
but like they're taking advantage of people, like, don't take advantage of people.
No, and she knows it's likeyou know it. Yet people are
out here like giving their hard earnedmoney to somebody who's just scamming them.
(04:51):
That's not right. You want toweigh in two one five two six three
one two one. You could textseven one o two one or hit us
at becks and Buster. We'll getsomebody on the air next. And thanks
for calling and sharing your story.We wish you luck and how you handle
it all right, thank you somuch. And you just met Calli on
askbecs and Buster. Yeah, andCalli has a friend who wants to be
(05:12):
a social media influencer. Well sheis, but she's scamming people. Yeah,
she got some traction, ended upon the news and made up a
fake illness and then rand to GoFundMego fund me account and is now collecting
money because of that illness. You'reon que and or two. What do
you think of Calli and her fakeass friend. I think that's some real
(05:33):
stomback stuff and she needs to abbher prase healing from people. But don't
think she should have a conversation withher friend about it, Like give her
the option to like come clean,but if she doesn't. But if she
doesn't blow the house, then I'mwith, yeah, we didn't. I
didn't get your name. What's yourname, Heather. I think the girl's
(05:53):
probably going to try to deny it. I mean literally, she like there's
actual little kids who have that kindof cancer, who are suffering that really
going to take these donations, youknow, have a conversation with Cali.
Cali should have a conversation with herfriend first, and then if her friend
is like, oh, I'm keepingit, whatever does Heather and I are
(06:14):
getting in line with Cali kick around. That's right. This girl is totally
ripping people off. And then yougo on the local news station, Come
on this girl, thank you somuch for your love you guys, Oh
love you too. I'm glad we'reI get this side. I don't want
to sit the
Here we go. It's backs andbuster on Q one or two. It's
time for us to help somebody aroundhere. Yeah, we'll do our best.
Who are we talking to today?Callie? What's up? CALLI welcome
to askedbecs and Monster? What's thematter with you? Yeah? What's going
on? Okay? I need yourhelp because my friend is just an absolute
fraud and I can't sit around andwatch her beef steak anymore. Oh so
(00:25):
she's a social media influencer. Ilike, yeah, well it is absolute
air quotes, but she's actually startingto get some recognition for her posts.
Okay, everything she shares a fake, all of it? What do you
mean fake? Does she stage fakestuff? Like? What's Oh? Absolutely?
(00:48):
She's a travel lifestyle influencer and likegoes and poses at evince that she
hasn't been invited to and she justtakes photos out front pretending that she's attending.
Oh my gosh, she puts upher pictures of all of her exotic
travels to like Tuloum and Italy andshe doesn't even have the passport. Why
are you so bothered by this?This last week, she had an entire
(01:11):
news segment on our local station,talking about how she had come from a
broken home and had suffered from Hodgkin'slymphoma when she was fifteen years old,
and like underwent chemo radiation all ofthe treatment. Was that true? I
was best friends with her when wewere fifteen. She was never sick.
(01:34):
None of that ever happened. Ohmy, that's terrible. And it gets
worse because her again air quotes boyfriendshe doesn't have a boyfriend, has started
a go Fundme page for her tohelp with all of the trauma she suffered.
So they're just scanning people out ofmoney. Wow. Now yeah,
it has over one thousand dollars.People have donated over one thousand dollars already,
(01:57):
And so now I'm like deceiving everyone. Whatever. It was fine,
but she's stealing from people. Wow. So you brought this up with her?
Yeah? Yeah, I called youbecause I really feel like I should
out on social media. I mean, I just bet I now, I
mean, is it the right move? You know? So you just want
(02:21):
to go write to social media andblast like and blast her. You don't
want to have a conversation with her. She's stealing from people. I do
think that you should probably man upand have a conversation with her face to
face, well and tell her thatI'm going to out her. She doesn't
just give people their money back.I mean, because that like, yeah,
I know, maybe that is youknow, like maybe that is the
(02:43):
move. You have a real conversationwith her, like, hey, look,
we're friends. I'm watching what you'redoing here. I don't know if
I can continue to be friends withsomebody that's knowingly kind of people doesn't say
they have that conversation and she says, well, no, I'm not gonna
back down. Then what you needto just walk away from that friendship.
You don't think she should put iton blast. I don't know. People
(03:05):
are so quick to do the wholelike, ah, I'm gonna put you
on blast, I'm gonna cancel you. I'm like, I don't know.
If that's what you're lying about something, sure, then you know report her
gofund me Paige been lying for Imean, and also like all of her
followers for the most part, areshe's paid for. I'm not somebody that
(03:25):
thinks like that, Like I don'tthink to go and go nuts publicly about
a lot of things like that.Usually I'm like, all right, cut
yourself out of it, and alsoreport the page and see if you can
get them taken down. But ifif you try and good soldier this and
be the beacon of the voice ofthe voiceless on this one, cool,
(03:46):
but you might absorb some shrapnel alongthe way. Yeah, but like she's
doing Like, it's not like she'sdoing anything wrong in this situation. Her
friend's the one that's out here scammingpeople, lying to people, deceiving people.
So I could under stand your frustrationand you wanting to take the right
steps. I think a like Bussersaid, conversation happens in the beginning,
(04:08):
and if she refuses to acknowledge it, then beat her ass. I'm just
no, I actually like just reportingthe page, I can just you could
do that right, definitely be theroute you take. Let's do this.
If anybody knows anybody who's living afake life, I would love to hear
about that. Yeah, what arethey doing? What are they buying?
(04:30):
Where are they going? Give usa call? What are they posting?
What do they Yeah, like whatkind of free things? See, that's
why sometimes I get upset about LikeI could understand they're getting free food,
but like they're taking advantage of people, like, don't take advantage of people.
No, and she knows it's likeyou know it. Yet people are
out here like giving their hard earnedmoney to somebody who's just scamming them.
(04:51):
That's not right. You want toweigh in two one five two six three
one two one. You could textseven one o two one or hit us
at becks and Buster. We'll getsomebody on the air next. And thanks
for calling and sharing your story.We wish you luck and how you handle
it all right, thank you somuch. And you just met Calli on
askbecs and Buster. Yeah, andCalli has a friend who wants to be
(05:12):
a social media influencer. Well sheis, but she's scamming people. Yeah,
she got some traction, ended upon the news and made up a
fake illness and then rand to GoFundMego fund me account and is now collecting
money because of that illness. You'reon que and or two. What do
you think of Calli and her fakeass friend. I think that's some real
(05:33):
stomback stuff and she needs to abbher prase healing from people. But don't
think she should have a conversation withher friend about it, Like give her
the option to like come clean,but if she doesn't. But if she
doesn't blow the house, then I'mwith, yeah, we didn't. I
didn't get your name. What's yourname, Heather. I think the girl's
(05:53):
probably going to try to deny it. I mean literally, she like there's
actual little kids who have that kindof cancer, who are suffering that really
going to take these donations, youknow, have a conversation with Cali.
Cali should have a conversation with herfriend first, and then if her friend
is like, oh, I'm keepingit, whatever does Heather and I are
(06:14):
getting in line with Cali kick around. That's right. This girl is totally
ripping people off. And then yougo on the local news station, Come
on this girl, thank you somuch for your love you guys, Oh
love you too. I'm glad we'reI get this side. I don't want
to sit the
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