November 7, 2025 • 32 mins
In 2016 a young man named Jamal Hinton got a text from an unknown number inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner. It was the wrong number from a grandma named Wanda Dench (not Jamal’s), and that mistaken text started a 10-year friendship that’s since morphed into a business partnership. Five Californians were arrested in Germany for an alleged fraud scheme related to fake digital currency cards, swindling people of around $345 million. Singapore is bringing back caning as punishment for people who are caught scamming. Starbucks has unveiled its new consumer obsession in the form of a limited-edition bear-shaped cup called the “Bearista.”
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He is an ingenious musician.
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And he provided that drop or that bumper for our
Deeper Dives segment. It says Deeper Dives on Saturday, because
that's usually when we have it on my Saturday show
from five to seven pm Saturdays with Tiffany. But since
I'm here and we're doing Deeper Dives, I said, you
know what, let's give all of you who are listening
a sneak preview of what to expect on our Saturday show.
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So huge shout out to Eric Lesardo and his masterful
mind of musicianship being able to put that together. Eric,
you're listening, Thank you so very much, and you'll hear
that on Saturdays, let's get in to our deeper dives segment.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
An accidental text.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Many of us have received a text or sent a
text if you're that unluss that you didn't intend to
And in most cases it's it's again the word mundane.
It's normal, it's without any sort of consequence. But in
some cases it can lead to what becomes a real relationship.
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That's uncommon. But in this case, it's exactly what happened.
This is a feel good story, if ever there were one,
and I think we need one.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I think we need one.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
In twenty sixteen, a young man named Jamal Hinton got
a text from an unknown number.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Again not unusual, it happens.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The text read Thanksgiving Dinner is at my house on
November twenty fourth at three pm. But Jamal didn't know
who that number was assigned to, so he asked who
he was speaking to.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
The mystery messenger replied, your grandma, basically and saying that
the mystery messenger thought that they were texting their grandchild. Now,
Jamal was a teenager at the time, and as teenagers do,
he said.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Can you send a picture?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
And in response he got a picture of someone who
was certainly not his grandmother. Let me paint the picture
for you. Jamal Hinton is young black male. The picture
he got was of a white woman. Now, he texted
a picture of a photo of himself back and said,
you're not my grandma, but can I still get a plate?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Though?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Now, this is where many people probably would not have responded.
You may have even gone so far as to block
the number. But this person did respond and it led
to one of the most wholesome viral moments in social
media history. The grandmother replied, of course you can. That's
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what grandmas do. Feed everyone.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Jamal, seeing this text response, screenshot it the exchange, posted
it online and of course it went viral. He even
decided to take up this mystery grandmother on her offer,
and she sent her address. These are very trusting people,
and Jamal drove from Timpi, Arizona to Mesa, Arizona to
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celebrate with the mystery grandma and her family. I guess
she figured she had backups and Jamal was going down
there as a teenager, and all of this is very atypical,
but it did in fact happen, and after he celebrated
with her, family, a tradition was born and these two
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have been celebrating ever since. The grandma's name is Wanda Dinch,
and that accidental invitation to Thanksgiving dinner in twenty sixteen
has been carried out and maintained every year since with Jamal,
and they post a picture online to chronicle their story.
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Now Jamal has taken these pictures and he posts them online.
Wanda's not that internet savvy, Jamal's handling all the social media.
Jamal posts and everything goes viral and they share updates
about their relationship and what each other has gone through
in their lives. Some updates are happy with Jamal. He
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started dating a woman named Mikayla, who Wanda said he
could bring to Thanksgiving dinner. So Jamal turned into a
couple and brought his new girlfriend. Some of the updates
are downright sad. Wanda's husband, Lonnie, who was a part
of the initial invitation and dinner, unfortunately died from COVID
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nineteen and twenty twenty. Still, that same year, they got
together in a smaller gathering to honor Lonnie's memory. In
twenty twenty three, Jamal announced on Thanksgiving that he and
Wanda had gone from family to business partners. They launched
a water company, and beyond just Thanksgiving, they started hanging out.
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They posted pictures of them enjoying each other's company over
other holidays. So this transition from just Thanksgiving to a
full on friendship, a relationship, a grandmother slash grandson sort
of relationship. They even went on to partner with Airbnb,
the home sharing app, in which they were able to
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host a dinner sponsored by Airbnb, where people could pay
and come and have Thanksgiving dinner with Jamal and Wanda. Now,
this text sent in twenty sixteen has spawned so much
for both of them, and it doesn't end there. They're
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expecting to have Thanksgiving dinner in a few weeks. But
before they do, there's another development. And I'll share with
you on the other side of the break what Wanda
and Jamal are doing that you can partake in as
well to support this very unlikely relationship born from an
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accidental text in twenty sixteen. More of our deeper Dive
segment on the other side of the break. Tiffany hobbs
here till ten KF I am six forty live everywhere
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Speaker 1 (07:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So we're talking our Deeper Dives segment, of which we
premiered our new Deeper Dives song by Eric Losardo. You'll
have to go back and listen.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I'll play it again.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Got to play it again, Play it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Again, Mario, can you play it again and again? It's
adapted for Saturday. But just know that you know it's
it's Deeper Dives. His stuff is great, This stuff is amazing,
and he's great, ready, Mario, Eric Lisardo. Here we go
Deeper Dive segment. Mark's popping along.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
As a white person.
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She goes in somethings.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Is that based on any existing song?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Janet Jackson? Okay, something some Chifney's deeper?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
So good.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Eric realized that I am a huge Janet Jackson fan.
And there's a song by Janet called Go Deep, and
he modified it to reflect Deeper Dives. Because that's the genius.
He is brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Janet's better than Michael as well.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I'm just agreeing with you on that one. Yeah, it's
a toss up for me. It's a toss up for me.
Janet far superior to Michael.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, I won't argue that because I love her. She's
my epitome love Janet Jackson, love Eric Lisardo.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
So thank you for that, Eric.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And like I said, we are in our like Eric said,
we are in our Deeper Dives segment. We're concluding it
and we're talking about this accidental text that was sent
about ten years ago now by a grandma who sent
out a text to someone she thought was her grandson
inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner with specifics time, date, and
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the uh. The grandson, who wasn't her grandson, replied and
basically said, you know, I'm not your grandson, but I'd
still like to come. And Grandma said, you know, we
everyone around here, that's what grandma's do. And that turned
into a tradition in which each year subsequently these two
met up with family members and friends. And unfortunately Wanda's husband,
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who was a part of this, passed away during this
relationship as well. But it's been a tradition that they've
carried on and it has transitioned from dinner to social
media phenomenon to Airbnb experience. They partnered with air and
B Jamal and Wanda to offer their own experience of
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Thanksgiving dinner to a few people who would purchase that
Netflix was considering making a movie about their text and
following their relationship. And now they have even partnered this
year this year with Green Giant canned vegetables. We all
know Green Giant, Green Giant. They Mark feel like there's
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judgment coming from the other side of the screen.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I'm not doing that when I do, though, Come on, Green.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Giant, You're not getting me to say.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Ho, Green Giant, Come on, Mark, can't do it one time?
See me one hole. Okay, here we go. So they're
partnering with Green Giant, and Green Giant is going to
sponsor this year's Thanksgiving dinner for Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dinch,
And of course that sponsor sponsorship is an invitation for
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all of us to also purchase Green Giant vegetables because
of the feel good nature of this story. But it
just shows that an accidental text can can can turn
into something great. None of my accidental texts ever do that.
They've not produced this sort of thing, but in this
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case for Wanda and Jamal, they did.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
They have that rare happy ending for a bad.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Text, very rare happy.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'm like, you usually see something like this on dateline
or oops, that was.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Meant for someone else.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yes, please are please, please please please.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Don't look at it, don't delete the photo.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
In this case, again it is a very happy ending.
But there are other accidental texts that have gone viral.
There's one that happened in twenty fourteen. It's called the
We Still Coming Wedding Crashers, and what happened was a
bride mistakingly sent a wedding invitation to a stranger and
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at that wedding they were having a barbecue and the
recipient replied, you have the wrong number, but me and
my boys will be there, and true to their word,
they showed up because the address was included in the text.
This is the cautionary tale. Don't put an address in
a text unless you are certain who you are texting,
because you might be inviting strangers into your space and
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it doesn't always end nicely. But in this case, they
showed up to the wedding, they took picture with the
wedding party, including the bride and groom, and of course
posted the pictures online and they went viral. There was
another example just last year where a person accidentally text
a police officer asking to smoke now. The officer's reply
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went viral, showcasing the lighthearted reaction between law enforcement and
the public. There was a woman who texts the wrong
number seeking advice on address. The recipient of the text,
who was a father of six, responded with humor, but
it was later revealed that their child, one of the children,
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was in the hospital fighting leukemia. The tweet went viral
and raised awareness and funds for the famili's GoFundMe campaigns.
So accidental texts turned into a go Fundme surge and
allowed for the family involved in the accidental text to
raise increase funding for their sick child. And then in
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twenty seventeen, there was a man named Roger Hawkins who
sent motivational messages and a selfie don't do that to
another person named Justin Campbell, who he did not know,
and the interaction sparked a viral moment and led to
a lasting friendship between the two men. So, yes, there
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are occasions when these things go well, but in most
cases it won't go well for you, don't I know?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
You could make friends for life and have selfies, or
you could wind up zip tide on your own living
room floor.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You can be a part of the Monsters series, of
which you do not want to feature in as a victim.
Be careful with what you send right Mark.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
You never know when you're gonna randomly meet an ed geen.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I feel like there are a lot more ed geans
walking around than I'm comfortable with.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
You never know. He presented as well. I'm not going
to say normal, but not somebody who would wear your
skin for a vest.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
But that leads me to believe that there are others
out there amongst us who, if they receive an accidental text,
may very well invite you, and again you will end
up on dateline.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Proceed with caution.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Proceed with caution. Also proceeding with caution. Our Scammer's Gonna
Scam segment that's next. Have a batch of scams you're
gonna wanna avoid, and I'll tell you what's going on
all around the Southland. On the other side of the break,
kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app tif me hobs here till ten.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Mario, you can stay, you can stay. I approve of you.
If anyone's listening for management. You can stay.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Tony receives a credit too, because he read my mind
in doing that. But I'm gonna play my personal favorite
coming back after this next break, all right, can't wait
to hear it.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
That's a tease, Tony. You taught him how to.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Tea to take my job. God on, it's pretty good.
What you don't want to do is be separated from
your money, and that then brings us into our scammers
Gonna Scam segment, where I have two stories to make
sure that you can keep your hard earnings to yourself,
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because scammers want your money and they are devising new
ways to try and get your money every day, or
so it seems.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
In this case, these scams hit close to home.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
One in fact, is so close to home that there
are five or four cities in which these scammers originated from.
But they found themselves in Germany actually committing these acts
of fraud. So here's what happened. Their five California residents,
and they were arrested at the request of the Federal
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Republic of Germany for an alleged fraud scheme involving fake
recurring card charges from phony merchants. This, according to US officials.
Now the suspects this is what they did, allegedly organized
a scheme where they deliberately kept monthly charges below fifty euros,
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which is about fifty seven US dollars, and this is
according to German authorities. So they would more or less
tap into cards digital cards and try and make these purchases.
The purchases would be small in quantity, about fifty euros
fifty seven US and they would bank on the fact
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that people would not notice these charges. Obviously, many people
in Germany, in the US, all around the world have
subscription services buy things online and there might be charges
that get passed to you. In fact, there are apps
dedicated to monitoring reoccurring charges so that you don't just
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have your money deducted without without your knowledge or because
you forgot. But in this case, these scammers were able
to do this successfully. They would skim off about fifty
seven dollars and the unsuspecting victim would not know. But
the five men, four of them US citizens, were in
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fact identified by authorities because their scheme turned into three
hundred million euros worth of damage, which is about three
hundred and fifty million US dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Because they scammed.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Not two, not twenty, not two thousand people, but multiple
thousands of victims.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
The four men in Germany, but are from.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Woodland Hills, La Agora Hills, and two are from Irvine.
So these are local boys who went over to Germany
and figured they'd be able to pull the wool over
the eyes of the German people. But the authorities there
caught it and fortunately were able to stop it. And
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they are former employees and executives of German payment processors.
Those are some of the people who were arrested. Now
the US Marshall Services arrested these five and will be
extraditing the men to Germany at the request of the country.
So that's one scam that happened in Germany, can happen here,
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does happen here? Monitor your digital cards, of course, your accounts. Well,
let's say you're trying to do something the old fashioned way.
You're not even necessarily interested in the digital part of it.
You just want to sell a car. You have a car,
you want to sell a car. You want to buy
a car, and you want to sell this car online.
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Someone told you, hey, it's a quick way. Put it online.
You'll get more interested buyers. And maybe parking it on
the street, maybe more viable buyers, and you decide you're
going to put your car online. It's kind of a
trust fall. You don't know what to expect. You hope
for the best. But in one situation in plac Air County, California,
just up north, two Fremont men were arrested after pulling
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off an engine oil scheme.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Which targets private sellers.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What the heck is an engine oil scheme or scam? Well,
in this case, the two suspects, both related, nineteen years
old and thirty six year old, reportedly posed as interested
buyers for a car. Then when they were looking at
the car away from the seller, you know, you check
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the car out and you tell the seller give me
a minute. I want to check under the hood, I
want to check all around. You do your due diligence. Well,
when they did that, and they had the trust of
the seller enough so that the seller wasn't looking, these
two poured oil into the seller's engine and then told
the seller that, hey, your car has some serious mechanical issues.
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We're test driving it and it's acting up. It's not working.
And once the car started smoking or making funny noises.
Of course they'd acted out, they'd act concerned, and they'd
offer to take this broken down car, which the seller
is now surprised they have, and they say, you know what,
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we'll take this broken down car off your hands. It's
a piece of junkets, it's not working. You're not gonna
get anything for it anyway. In fact, you know, we'll
just give you a few bucks for it and take
it off your hands. And the seller obliges because to them,
for all intents and purposes, they have a car that
is not working. It's inoperable, but in fact the car
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can be fixed. And the these interested buyers have pulled
off this new scam called an engine oil scam. For
people looking to buy a car for their teenagers, or
for young adults, young people getting into the workforce, or
people commuting to and from work and you're looking for
a car, these are things you need to be wary
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of or selling a car. This is what you need
to be careful about.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
The engine in the oil trick isn't the only scam
that's revving up around Southern California, around California or the
United States. In fact, people are now duping others by
posting basically fake ads for cars, cars that look essentially
too good to be true, but interested buyers are falling
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for it and sending money via wire and not receiving
the car. So of course experts are saying, do not
purchase cars that way. Make sure that you do not
purchase cars or anything site unseen.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
You want to be able to see it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
And now you have to be careful that people aren't
putting oil into your vehicle. If you're in Singapore and
you're a scammer, just know that they will now punish
you with six to twenty four strokes of the cane.
And that is not a metaphor, that is a literal thing.
They will hit you with the cane because they say
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that sixty percent of all criminal activity is due to
scams and they are trying to cut down. Perhaps that's
something that we should bring to the United States. Bring
back canings.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Using caine as a verb again.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Cane the people for anything. I think that would help.
When we come back, we are going to get into
the viral load and we're going to talk about what
Starbucks is doing that's causing absolute mayhem, mayhem mayhem in
debauchery and violence, Starbucks is at the helm of this.
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I'll tell you what it is on the other side
of the break. Tiffany Hobbs here till ten. K IF
I Am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I feel like we're doing like a Janet Jackson tribute.
After that Eric Lesardo bumper for Deeper Dives, and now
we're getting some of Mario's favorite some of my favorites.
We've turned this into a Janet Jackson bumper hour and
I love it. I'm this is one You're speak You're
speaking my language. Mario.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
You can stay. I told you don't have to keep
proving it to me. You can stay. You're you're good here.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That one of my personal favorites, like I mentioned earlier,
later to use in one of my favorite hip hop
songs as a sample can Call and Drick Lamar Wedded Justice.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Absolutely, you're a good egg.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I'm literally texting Steph fush Off Air about how much
of a good egg you are, so shout out to
Steph as well. Let's get into our viral loads segments.
Viral load, Uh, if you are a Starbucks fan, then
you might find yourself in longer, longer lines than normal.
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And we're gonna talk about this story because it has
gone viral. People are sharing video evidence of what's happening
at Starbucks. And the reason that you may be in
line longer than normal is because Starbucks has once again
unveiled their newest consumer obsession in the form of a
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bear shaped cup. Very interesting. Let's hear about what's going
on at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I got it. I Got the Berry Stemonts.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
The holiday season kicking off with a viral crate after
Starbucks unveiled this twenty ounce glass Barista cup as part
of their holiday line just hours before it was set
to hit store shelves, sparked a festive frenzy.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
One of them are mine.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I will fight you for it.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Social media videos showed customers camping out in order to
get their.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Hands on me.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I have no chats, including this TikTok user who said
several people were already online at nine pm the night before.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Don't I'm so happy that I'm not the only looney tune.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Your VIEI based content creator Rob Peppasino was up at
three point thirty am to get to his local Starbucks
on Staten Island.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Starbucks didn't open until five o'clock.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
I waited from four oh eight until five oh one
when the lady came to the door.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
But despite being another line, you have one no luck
behind me.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
There was like twenty more people that everyone thought it
like freaking out and nothing comes between me and my fleet.
So for meet I got up at three thirty this morning.
I thought that, you know, if I was the first
five people online, I would have got one.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
The cup was sold by Starbucks for twenty nine to
ninety five, but they are now popping up on resale
sites for hundreds of dollars. Guys did just the latest
cup to cause people to flip their lid. Last year,
we saw shoppers storming targets just to get their hands
on Stanley tumblers.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Do you want to establish that this is something that
is rare, exclusive and if somebody gets it there special.
That is kind of how this works and that really
plays well on social media.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
From Stanley to Barista, it seems every holiday season comes
with a thirst for a new viral product.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
You can't do a promotion in twenty twenty five without
thinking about how it's going to play on social media.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
All right, okay, okay, look here, don't be like those people.
Do not deduct from your precious sleep to stand in
line to buy a twenty nine dollars and ninety five
cent plastic bear shaped beanie wearing cup because it is
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popular and you want to fit in with the Starbucks
in crowd.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Do not do that.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I thought we learned from the tumbler, or from the
Stanley situation, from.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
All of these the lo booboo craze.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
All of these things die down and instead of putting
yourself in a situation where you may very well get
into a fight because people are fighting over these things,
Mark Ronnert, like.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Please tell me there's footage of people throwing down over these.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
There's so much viral footage of people fighting literally fists
to face because they have limited supplies. And so people
who are waiting in line at three am or whatever
time they get there and they don't have it, they're
charging at the baristas.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
They're fighting each other.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
It reminds me of the Tickle Me Elmo of the
nineties at kmart, when people would trample each other to
get to this stupid singing red stuffed animal now it's
this stupid plastic bear, of.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Which you know you can buy this same thing.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It may not have the Starbucks insignia, but just you
know those the bear honey. You go to the store
on the top shelf of any area or any aisle
where there's honey.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
That's the same, that's not the same, especes. They wear
lee jeans too, what do you see? It's easy for
you to mock, but these are people with full and
meaningful lives and iron clad priorities.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Is that what you think they have?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Do I sense any hint of sarcasm there?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I want one.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I know what I'm getting you at the company Christmas party.
No white elephant for you to gets you a plastic bear.
Oh my gosh, don't do this people. It's twenty nine
to ninety five. They're popping up online for upwards of
I've seen them. I did some diligence eight hundred dollars
nine hundred dollars resale value because they know that people
are clamoring for these things.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I'm gonna look on any Bay right now.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Buy the honey that comes in the bear seven bucks
eight bucks at Ralphs at Vaughn's pavilions.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Empty that out, rinse that out, put your stupid Mocha
frappuccino in that, and call it a day.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
There you go. You got your bear.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
No no, no, no, no. Picture your child's disappointment and heartbreak when
you present him with some cheap plastic honeybear instead of
the real thing. What what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Any child of mine would appreciate the ingenuity that it
would take to pass off a cheap honeybear as a
twenty nine ninety five Starbucks cup.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Okay, here's a couple. Here's a couple on eBay for
one hundred and fifty ninety nine. A bargain, a bargain,
one hundred and fifteen for one. Oh yeah, people are
making some dough off of this thing. One hundred and
eighty bucks for one.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
This is it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's people can't even afford to buy Thanksgiving dinner and
they're putting twenty nine ninety five dollars cups out at
Starbucks and causing stampedes over these things sold.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Let's see what they've sold for mark Ah, I have
fifty five one hundred and ninety No, no, no, no, no, no,
this is why didn't I find out about this scam
before I could have made some money.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
See now you're saying that it's supposed to be in
the scammer's gonna scam segment and not the viral loads segment.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
No, no, keep it in a load segment. It's a load,
all right, I trust your judgment.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Oh something, it's ridiculous, and it's a It's indicative of
where we are. It's a microcosm of where we are
as a people, and this is why we are regressing.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
You sound like you didn't almost come to blows with
somebody for one of these fancy Trader Joe's lunch bag
things like I have in a very masculine lilac.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
You have one of those.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Oh yeah, look at it? Can you see it?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Judgemant? Yeah, oh my, you're one of those people.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Well, I mean, I didn't buy it for myself. The
trendsetter you hopefully there was some hair pulling involved.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Well, in this case, I think if you stand outside
of a Starbucks for long enough, you'll certainly see something
of that effect. If you stand outside of a parking
lot in this area of Orange County, you might also
see a fight, I'll tell you where and why this
fight could be looming on the other side of the break.
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Tiffany Hobbs here till ten KFI AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to k f I A M six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I know it's time on Saturday. She goes into detail
on a topic.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Understands on time on Topics with Jimney Senior. Something from Chimneys.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Did on Topics, somethings from Jiffney's Deeper.
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Dis Dime and d on Topics with Jiffney A Senior.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Learn something some Jiffney's.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Deeper Josh, what what a drop? What a new bumper
from Eric Lesardo, Friend of the station, friend of all,
Eric Losarto.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
He is an ingenious musician.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And he provided that drop or that bumper for our
Deeper Dives segment. It says Deeper Dives on Saturday, because
that's usually when we have it on my Saturday show
from five to seven pm Saturdays with Tiffany. But since
I'm here and we're doing Deeper Dives, I said, you
know what, let's give all of you who are listening
a sneak preview of what to expect on our Saturday show.
(01:33):
So huge shout out to Eric Lesardo and his masterful
mind of musicianship being able to put that together. Eric,
you're listening, Thank you so very much, and you'll hear
that on Saturdays, let's get in to our deeper dives segment.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
An accidental text.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Many of us have received a text or sent a
text if you're that unluss that you didn't intend to
And in most cases it's it's again the word mundane.
It's normal, it's without any sort of consequence. But in
some cases it can lead to what becomes a real relationship.
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That's uncommon. But in this case, it's exactly what happened.
This is a feel good story, if ever there were one,
and I think we need one.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I think we need one.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
In twenty sixteen, a young man named Jamal Hinton got
a text from an unknown number.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Again not unusual, it happens.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The text read Thanksgiving Dinner is at my house on
November twenty fourth at three pm. But Jamal didn't know
who that number was assigned to, so he asked who
he was speaking to.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
The mystery messenger replied, your grandma, basically and saying that
the mystery messenger thought that they were texting their grandchild. Now,
Jamal was a teenager at the time, and as teenagers do,
he said.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Can you send a picture?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
And in response he got a picture of someone who
was certainly not his grandmother. Let me paint the picture
for you. Jamal Hinton is young black male. The picture
he got was of a white woman. Now, he texted
a picture of a photo of himself back and said,
you're not my grandma, but can I still get a plate?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Though?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Now, this is where many people probably would not have responded.
You may have even gone so far as to block
the number. But this person did respond and it led
to one of the most wholesome viral moments in social
media history. The grandmother replied, of course you can. That's
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what grandmas do. Feed everyone.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Jamal, seeing this text response, screenshot it the exchange, posted
it online and of course it went viral. He even
decided to take up this mystery grandmother on her offer,
and she sent her address. These are very trusting people,
and Jamal drove from Timpi, Arizona to Mesa, Arizona to
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celebrate with the mystery grandma and her family. I guess
she figured she had backups and Jamal was going down
there as a teenager, and all of this is very atypical,
but it did in fact happen, and after he celebrated
with her, family, a tradition was born and these two
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have been celebrating ever since. The grandma's name is Wanda Dinch,
and that accidental invitation to Thanksgiving dinner in twenty sixteen
has been carried out and maintained every year since with Jamal,
and they post a picture online to chronicle their story.
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Now Jamal has taken these pictures and he posts them online.
Wanda's not that internet savvy, Jamal's handling all the social media.
Jamal posts and everything goes viral and they share updates
about their relationship and what each other has gone through
in their lives. Some updates are happy with Jamal. He
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started dating a woman named Mikayla, who Wanda said he
could bring to Thanksgiving dinner. So Jamal turned into a
couple and brought his new girlfriend. Some of the updates
are downright sad. Wanda's husband, Lonnie, who was a part
of the initial invitation and dinner, unfortunately died from COVID
(05:49):
nineteen and twenty twenty. Still, that same year, they got
together in a smaller gathering to honor Lonnie's memory. In
twenty twenty three, Jamal announced on Thanksgiving that he and
Wanda had gone from family to business partners. They launched
a water company, and beyond just Thanksgiving, they started hanging out.
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They posted pictures of them enjoying each other's company over
other holidays. So this transition from just Thanksgiving to a
full on friendship, a relationship, a grandmother slash grandson sort
of relationship. They even went on to partner with Airbnb,
the home sharing app, in which they were able to
(06:34):
host a dinner sponsored by Airbnb, where people could pay
and come and have Thanksgiving dinner with Jamal and Wanda. Now,
this text sent in twenty sixteen has spawned so much
for both of them, and it doesn't end there. They're
(06:55):
expecting to have Thanksgiving dinner in a few weeks. But
before they do, there's another development. And I'll share with
you on the other side of the break what Wanda
and Jamal are doing that you can partake in as
well to support this very unlikely relationship born from an
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accidental text in twenty sixteen. More of our deeper Dive
segment on the other side of the break. Tiffany hobbs
here till ten KF I am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So we're talking our Deeper Dives segment, of which we
premiered our new Deeper Dives song by Eric Losardo. You'll
have to go back and listen.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I'll play it again.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Got to play it again, Play it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Again, Mario, can you play it again and again? It's
adapted for Saturday. But just know that you know it's
it's Deeper Dives. His stuff is great, This stuff is amazing,
and he's great, ready, Mario, Eric Lisardo. Here we go
Deeper Dive segment. Mark's popping along.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
As a white person.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She goes in somethings.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Is that based on any existing song?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Janet Jackson? Okay, something some Chifney's deeper?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
So good.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Eric realized that I am a huge Janet Jackson fan.
And there's a song by Janet called Go Deep, and
he modified it to reflect Deeper Dives. Because that's the genius.
He is brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Janet's better than Michael as well.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I'm just agreeing with you on that one. Yeah, it's
a toss up for me. It's a toss up for me.
Janet far superior to Michael.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, I won't argue that because I love her. She's
my epitome love Janet Jackson, love Eric Lisardo.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
So thank you for that, Eric.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And like I said, we are in our like Eric said,
we are in our Deeper Dives segment. We're concluding it
and we're talking about this accidental text that was sent
about ten years ago now by a grandma who sent
out a text to someone she thought was her grandson
inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner with specifics time, date, and
(09:50):
the uh. The grandson, who wasn't her grandson, replied and
basically said, you know, I'm not your grandson, but I'd
still like to come. And Grandma said, you know, we
everyone around here, that's what grandma's do. And that turned
into a tradition in which each year subsequently these two
met up with family members and friends. And unfortunately Wanda's husband,
(10:15):
who was a part of this, passed away during this
relationship as well. But it's been a tradition that they've
carried on and it has transitioned from dinner to social
media phenomenon to Airbnb experience. They partnered with air and
B Jamal and Wanda to offer their own experience of
(10:36):
Thanksgiving dinner to a few people who would purchase that
Netflix was considering making a movie about their text and
following their relationship. And now they have even partnered this
year this year with Green Giant canned vegetables. We all
know Green Giant, Green Giant. They Mark feel like there's
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judgment coming from the other side of the screen.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I'm not doing that when I do, though, Come on, Green.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Giant, You're not getting me to say.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Ho, Green Giant, Come on, Mark, can't do it one time?
See me one hole. Okay, here we go. So they're
partnering with Green Giant, and Green Giant is going to
sponsor this year's Thanksgiving dinner for Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dinch,
And of course that sponsor sponsorship is an invitation for
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all of us to also purchase Green Giant vegetables because
of the feel good nature of this story. But it
just shows that an accidental text can can can turn
into something great. None of my accidental texts ever do that.
They've not produced this sort of thing, but in this
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case for Wanda and Jamal, they did.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
They have that rare happy ending for a bad.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Text, very rare happy.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'm like, you usually see something like this on dateline
or oops, that was.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Meant for someone else.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yes, please are please, please please please.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Don't look at it, don't delete the photo.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
In this case, again it is a very happy ending.
But there are other accidental texts that have gone viral.
There's one that happened in twenty fourteen. It's called the
We Still Coming Wedding Crashers, and what happened was a
bride mistakingly sent a wedding invitation to a stranger and
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at that wedding they were having a barbecue and the
recipient replied, you have the wrong number, but me and
my boys will be there, and true to their word,
they showed up because the address was included in the text.
This is the cautionary tale. Don't put an address in
a text unless you are certain who you are texting,
because you might be inviting strangers into your space and
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it doesn't always end nicely. But in this case, they
showed up to the wedding, they took picture with the
wedding party, including the bride and groom, and of course
posted the pictures online and they went viral. There was
another example just last year where a person accidentally text
a police officer asking to smoke now. The officer's reply
(13:19):
went viral, showcasing the lighthearted reaction between law enforcement and
the public. There was a woman who texts the wrong
number seeking advice on address. The recipient of the text,
who was a father of six, responded with humor, but
it was later revealed that their child, one of the children,
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was in the hospital fighting leukemia. The tweet went viral
and raised awareness and funds for the famili's GoFundMe campaigns.
So accidental texts turned into a go Fundme surge and
allowed for the family involved in the accidental text to
raise increase funding for their sick child. And then in
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twenty seventeen, there was a man named Roger Hawkins who
sent motivational messages and a selfie don't do that to
another person named Justin Campbell, who he did not know,
and the interaction sparked a viral moment and led to
a lasting friendship between the two men. So, yes, there
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are occasions when these things go well, but in most
cases it won't go well for you, don't I know?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
You could make friends for life and have selfies, or
you could wind up zip tide on your own living
room floor.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You can be a part of the Monsters series, of
which you do not want to feature in as a victim.
Be careful with what you send right Mark.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
You never know when you're gonna randomly meet an ed geen.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I feel like there are a lot more ed geans
walking around than I'm comfortable with.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
You never know. He presented as well. I'm not going
to say normal, but not somebody who would wear your
skin for a vest.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
But that leads me to believe that there are others
out there amongst us who, if they receive an accidental text,
may very well invite you, and again you will end
up on dateline.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Proceed with caution.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Proceed with caution. Also proceeding with caution. Our Scammer's Gonna
Scam segment that's next. Have a batch of scams you're
gonna wanna avoid, and I'll tell you what's going on
all around the Southland. On the other side of the break,
kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app tif me hobs here till ten.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Mario, you can stay, you can stay. I approve of you.
If anyone's listening for management. You can stay.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Tony receives a credit too, because he read my mind
in doing that. But I'm gonna play my personal favorite
coming back after this next break, all right, can't wait
to hear it.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
That's a tease, Tony. You taught him how to.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Tea to take my job. God on, it's pretty good.
What you don't want to do is be separated from
your money, and that then brings us into our scammers
Gonna Scam segment, where I have two stories to make
sure that you can keep your hard earnings to yourself,
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because scammers want your money and they are devising new
ways to try and get your money every day, or
so it seems.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
In this case, these scams hit close to home.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
One in fact, is so close to home that there
are five or four cities in which these scammers originated from.
But they found themselves in Germany actually committing these acts
of fraud. So here's what happened. Their five California residents,
and they were arrested at the request of the Federal
(16:57):
Republic of Germany for an alleged fraud scheme involving fake
recurring card charges from phony merchants. This, according to US officials.
Now the suspects this is what they did, allegedly organized
a scheme where they deliberately kept monthly charges below fifty euros,
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which is about fifty seven US dollars, and this is
according to German authorities. So they would more or less
tap into cards digital cards and try and make these purchases.
The purchases would be small in quantity, about fifty euros
fifty seven US and they would bank on the fact
(17:42):
that people would not notice these charges. Obviously, many people
in Germany, in the US, all around the world have
subscription services buy things online and there might be charges
that get passed to you. In fact, there are apps
dedicated to monitoring reoccurring charges so that you don't just
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have your money deducted without without your knowledge or because
you forgot. But in this case, these scammers were able
to do this successfully. They would skim off about fifty
seven dollars and the unsuspecting victim would not know. But
the five men, four of them US citizens, were in
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fact identified by authorities because their scheme turned into three
hundred million euros worth of damage, which is about three
hundred and fifty million US dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Because they scammed.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Not two, not twenty, not two thousand people, but multiple
thousands of victims.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
The four men in Germany, but are from.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Woodland Hills, La Agora Hills, and two are from Irvine.
So these are local boys who went over to Germany
and figured they'd be able to pull the wool over
the eyes of the German people. But the authorities there
caught it and fortunately were able to stop it. And
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they are former employees and executives of German payment processors.
Those are some of the people who were arrested. Now
the US Marshall Services arrested these five and will be
extraditing the men to Germany at the request of the country.
So that's one scam that happened in Germany, can happen here,
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does happen here? Monitor your digital cards, of course, your accounts. Well,
let's say you're trying to do something the old fashioned way.
You're not even necessarily interested in the digital part of it.
You just want to sell a car. You have a car,
you want to sell a car. You want to buy
a car, and you want to sell this car online.
(19:58):
Someone told you, hey, it's a quick way. Put it online.
You'll get more interested buyers. And maybe parking it on
the street, maybe more viable buyers, and you decide you're
going to put your car online. It's kind of a
trust fall. You don't know what to expect. You hope
for the best. But in one situation in plac Air County, California,
just up north, two Fremont men were arrested after pulling
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off an engine oil scheme.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Which targets private sellers.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What the heck is an engine oil scheme or scam? Well,
in this case, the two suspects, both related, nineteen years
old and thirty six year old, reportedly posed as interested
buyers for a car. Then when they were looking at
the car away from the seller, you know, you check
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the car out and you tell the seller give me
a minute. I want to check under the hood, I
want to check all around. You do your due diligence. Well,
when they did that, and they had the trust of
the seller enough so that the seller wasn't looking, these
two poured oil into the seller's engine and then told
the seller that, hey, your car has some serious mechanical issues.
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We're test driving it and it's acting up. It's not working.
And once the car started smoking or making funny noises.
Of course they'd acted out, they'd act concerned, and they'd
offer to take this broken down car, which the seller
is now surprised they have, and they say, you know what,
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we'll take this broken down car off your hands. It's
a piece of junkets, it's not working. You're not gonna
get anything for it anyway. In fact, you know, we'll
just give you a few bucks for it and take
it off your hands. And the seller obliges because to them,
for all intents and purposes, they have a car that
is not working. It's inoperable, but in fact the car
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can be fixed. And the these interested buyers have pulled
off this new scam called an engine oil scam. For
people looking to buy a car for their teenagers, or
for young adults, young people getting into the workforce, or
people commuting to and from work and you're looking for
a car, these are things you need to be wary
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of or selling a car. This is what you need
to be careful about.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
The engine in the oil trick isn't the only scam
that's revving up around Southern California, around California or the
United States. In fact, people are now duping others by
posting basically fake ads for cars, cars that look essentially
too good to be true, but interested buyers are falling
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for it and sending money via wire and not receiving
the car. So of course experts are saying, do not
purchase cars that way. Make sure that you do not
purchase cars or anything site unseen.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
You want to be able to see it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
And now you have to be careful that people aren't
putting oil into your vehicle. If you're in Singapore and
you're a scammer, just know that they will now punish
you with six to twenty four strokes of the cane.
And that is not a metaphor, that is a literal thing.
They will hit you with the cane because they say
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that sixty percent of all criminal activity is due to
scams and they are trying to cut down. Perhaps that's
something that we should bring to the United States. Bring
back canings.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Using caine as a verb again.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Cane the people for anything. I think that would help.
When we come back, we are going to get into
the viral load and we're going to talk about what
Starbucks is doing that's causing absolute mayhem, mayhem mayhem in
debauchery and violence, Starbucks is at the helm of this.
(24:01):
I'll tell you what it is on the other side
of the break. Tiffany Hobbs here till ten. K IF
I Am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I feel like we're doing like a Janet Jackson tribute.
After that Eric Lesardo bumper for Deeper Dives, and now
we're getting some of Mario's favorite some of my favorites.
We've turned this into a Janet Jackson bumper hour and
I love it. I'm this is one You're speak You're
speaking my language. Mario.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
You can stay. I told you don't have to keep
proving it to me. You can stay. You're you're good here.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That one of my personal favorites, like I mentioned earlier,
later to use in one of my favorite hip hop
songs as a sample can Call and Drick Lamar Wedded Justice.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Absolutely, you're a good egg.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I'm literally texting Steph fush Off Air about how much
of a good egg you are, so shout out to
Steph as well. Let's get into our viral loads segments.
Viral load, Uh, if you are a Starbucks fan, then
you might find yourself in longer, longer lines than normal.
(25:14):
And we're gonna talk about this story because it has
gone viral. People are sharing video evidence of what's happening
at Starbucks. And the reason that you may be in
line longer than normal is because Starbucks has once again
unveiled their newest consumer obsession in the form of a
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bear shaped cup. Very interesting. Let's hear about what's going
on at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I got it. I Got the Berry Stemonts.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
The holiday season kicking off with a viral crate after
Starbucks unveiled this twenty ounce glass Barista cup as part
of their holiday line just hours before it was set
to hit store shelves, sparked a festive frenzy.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
One of them are mine.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I will fight you for it.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Social media videos showed customers camping out in order to
get their.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Hands on me.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I have no chats, including this TikTok user who said
several people were already online at nine pm the night before.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Don't I'm so happy that I'm not the only looney tune.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Your VIEI based content creator Rob Peppasino was up at
three point thirty am to get to his local Starbucks
on Staten Island.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Starbucks didn't open until five o'clock.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
I waited from four oh eight until five oh one
when the lady came to the door.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
But despite being another line, you have one no luck
behind me.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
There was like twenty more people that everyone thought it
like freaking out and nothing comes between me and my fleet.
So for meet I got up at three thirty this morning.
I thought that, you know, if I was the first
five people online, I would have got one.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
The cup was sold by Starbucks for twenty nine to
ninety five, but they are now popping up on resale
sites for hundreds of dollars. Guys did just the latest
cup to cause people to flip their lid. Last year,
we saw shoppers storming targets just to get their hands
on Stanley tumblers.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Do you want to establish that this is something that
is rare, exclusive and if somebody gets it there special.
That is kind of how this works and that really
plays well on social media.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
From Stanley to Barista, it seems every holiday season comes
with a thirst for a new viral product.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
You can't do a promotion in twenty twenty five without
thinking about how it's going to play on social media.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
All right, okay, okay, look here, don't be like those people.
Do not deduct from your precious sleep to stand in
line to buy a twenty nine dollars and ninety five
cent plastic bear shaped beanie wearing cup because it is
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popular and you want to fit in with the Starbucks
in crowd.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Do not do that.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I thought we learned from the tumbler, or from the
Stanley situation, from.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
All of these the lo booboo craze.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
All of these things die down and instead of putting
yourself in a situation where you may very well get
into a fight because people are fighting over these things,
Mark Ronnert, like.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Please tell me there's footage of people throwing down over these.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
There's so much viral footage of people fighting literally fists
to face because they have limited supplies. And so people
who are waiting in line at three am or whatever
time they get there and they don't have it, they're
charging at the baristas.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
They're fighting each other.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
It reminds me of the Tickle Me Elmo of the
nineties at kmart, when people would trample each other to
get to this stupid singing red stuffed animal now it's
this stupid plastic bear, of.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Which you know you can buy this same thing.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It may not have the Starbucks insignia, but just you
know those the bear honey. You go to the store
on the top shelf of any area or any aisle
where there's honey.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
That's the same, that's not the same, especes. They wear
lee jeans too, what do you see? It's easy for
you to mock, but these are people with full and
meaningful lives and iron clad priorities.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Is that what you think they have?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Do I sense any hint of sarcasm there?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I want one.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I know what I'm getting you at the company Christmas party.
No white elephant for you to gets you a plastic bear.
Oh my gosh, don't do this people. It's twenty nine
to ninety five. They're popping up online for upwards of
I've seen them. I did some diligence eight hundred dollars
nine hundred dollars resale value because they know that people
are clamoring for these things.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I'm gonna look on any Bay right now.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Buy the honey that comes in the bear seven bucks
eight bucks at Ralphs at Vaughn's pavilions.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Empty that out, rinse that out, put your stupid Mocha
frappuccino in that, and call it a day.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
There you go. You got your bear.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
No no, no, no, no. Picture your child's disappointment and heartbreak when
you present him with some cheap plastic honeybear instead of
the real thing. What what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Any child of mine would appreciate the ingenuity that it
would take to pass off a cheap honeybear as a
twenty nine ninety five Starbucks cup.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Okay, here's a couple. Here's a couple on eBay for
one hundred and fifty ninety nine. A bargain, a bargain,
one hundred and fifteen for one. Oh yeah, people are
making some dough off of this thing. One hundred and
eighty bucks for one.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
This is it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's people can't even afford to buy Thanksgiving dinner and
they're putting twenty nine ninety five dollars cups out at
Starbucks and causing stampedes over these things sold.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Let's see what they've sold for mark Ah, I have
fifty five one hundred and ninety No, no, no, no, no, no,
this is why didn't I find out about this scam
before I could have made some money.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
See now you're saying that it's supposed to be in
the scammer's gonna scam segment and not the viral loads segment.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
No, no, keep it in a load segment. It's a load,
all right, I trust your judgment.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Oh something, it's ridiculous, and it's a It's indicative of
where we are. It's a microcosm of where we are
as a people, and this is why we are regressing.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
You sound like you didn't almost come to blows with
somebody for one of these fancy Trader Joe's lunch bag
things like I have in a very masculine lilac.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
You have one of those.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Oh yeah, look at it? Can you see it?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Judgemant? Yeah, oh my, you're one of those people.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Well, I mean, I didn't buy it for myself. The
trendsetter you hopefully there was some hair pulling involved.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Well, in this case, I think if you stand outside
of a Starbucks for long enough, you'll certainly see something
of that effect. If you stand outside of a parking
lot in this area of Orange County, you might also
see a fight, I'll tell you where and why this
fight could be looming on the other side of the break.
(32:16):
Tiffany Hobbs here till ten KFI AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (32:20):
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