The Welfare Queen w/ Ayo Edebiri

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What's up Con-gregation! Not gonna lie, this is one of our wildest episodes thanks to Ayo Edebiri (Sunnyside, Forbes) and dig deep into controversial tale of Linda Taylor, the Welfare Queen! Research: Sharilyn Vera SOURCES: https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Forgotten-Life-Behind-American/dp/031651330X https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/slate/the-queen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/books/review/josh-levin-queen-linda-taylor.html https://newrepublic.com/article/154404/myth-welfare-queen

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0:00.0	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:07.0	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:15.0	Scamp goddess.
0:19.0	What's up, congregation?
0:23.3	We are back with another installment of Scam Goddess.
0:26.6	It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:30.0	I named the show after me with a very obvious alias.
0:30.9	Hi, guys.
0:32.0	I'm so excited.
0:33.8	I met this girl in the bathroom.
0:35.7	This is good.
0:39.8	I met her in the bathroom, and I loved her so much.
0:43.0	Guys, I mean, she's Forbes 30 under 30.
0:45.0	Comedy Central, Digital.
0:46.6	Writer for Sunnyside.
0:48.9	Also, just the youngest, coolest, hippest.
0:57.7	Like, I am sucking her energy out like I am a witch from Hocus Pocus right now I'm so into it guys I have I won't kill her I will suck to the point of death though but then I'll stop uh we have I oh a debory
1:04.4	does I do it right you did it perfectly oh thank you did it so perfectly I hate fucking up
1:09.5	people's names. I know.
1:10.9	It's hard.
1:11.5	It's a big pet peeve of mine.
1:12.6	I'll ask you four times because you can only ask in the beginning.
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