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slash inquiring minds. So have you ever been conned?

Not that I know of. I mean, I've definitely gotten those calls where I'm like, this is a scam.

This is totally a scam. Yeah, I definitely spotted scams and not gotten conned. But this, you know, past week I was in London, which is why in part we didn't have a show airing last Friday. And I got to London and I tried to get on the Heathrow Express from the airport and they declined by a credit card. And I was really upset because this credit card is supposed to be like no foreign transaction fees.

So I travel with it a lot.

But I don't tell the credit card company every time I go on a trip.

And so I figured, oh, they just don't know that I'm in London.

They think this is like fraudulent, whatever.

I gave them a call and it turns out that somebody was buying a ticket to Chile using my card while I was landing in London.

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