The Parents Who Home-Alone’d Their Kids for the Holidays w/ Kal Penn

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Laci welcomes actor, podcaster, comedian, and author Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar, Here We Go Again Podcast) to the show! Kal dishes on his personal connection to scams, his acting journey, and a jaw-dropping story that may have been inspired by Home Alone. Reckless parents David and Sharon Shoo left their 9- and 4-year-old daughters alone while vacationing for 9 days in Mexico in 1992. Happy holidays & stay schemin’! Don’t miss Kal’s podcast, Here We Go Again, available wherever you get your podcasts. CON-gregation, catch Laci's TV Show Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu! Keep the scams coming and snitch on your friends by emailing us at ScamGoddessPod@gmail.com. Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Kal Penn: @kalpenn Research by Kathryn Doyle SOURCES https://people.com/couple-left-kids-alone-frozen-dinners-christmas-vacation-11838943 https://www.chicagotribune.com/2017/12/22/25-years-ago-st-charles-parents-left-their-kids-alone-to-vacation-in-mexico-their-case-changed-state-law/ https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/01/02/neighbors-had-wondered-where-were-the-children/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/01/03/home-alone-family-called-reclusive/a77bbd3c-ff87-473c-b4c5-1da90202cb13/

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0:00.0	Scam!
0:01.0	Cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:09.0	Scam!
0:10.0	Cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:15.0	Scam goddess.
0:19.0	Was pop and congregation? It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess Was Popping Congregation?
0:21.2	It's your girl Lacey Mosley,
0:22.2	aka Scam Goddess.
0:24.3	And y'all, I'm back in the ghetto,
0:27.0	aka the United States of A.
0:29.2	This is our first episode on U.S. soil.
0:32.8	Okay, y'all be quiet.
0:33.7	I just snatching up in all all the brown people now.
0:37.2	But today I am very what, yes, excited, thrilled, elated because my guest today is a first
0:43.7	timer on the show. We have a new member of the church, y'all. Yes, everybody get up and
0:50.1	welcome. Welcome them. Welcome them. Yes. Get up. Shake your neighbor's hand. Say hello neighbor.
0:55.3	I know that's right. Okay. He's an actor, podcaster, comedian, author, and was an associate
1:01.0	director of the White House office. But more on that later. Some of you might recognize him as
1:08.3	Kumar Patel from the infamous movies.
1:11.4	You're not infamous, famous movies.
1:13.9	I guess I don't know.
1:15.1	Maybe it was infamous for me because as a kid, I wasn't allowed to watch these body anyway.
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