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Priest Spent $40K of Church Money on Video Game Apps

#willywonka#catholic#slotmachine#blackjack#craps
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0:00 [Music] uh who here is a fan of a Catholic priests anybody yep big fans oh hell yeah I was baptized Catholic you were baptized Catholic M at 15 were you touched no by name by God by God I was he was touched by God I had to go to those classes and everything like when I was 15 paid not one attention to anything I just want to be able to eat the bread so the bread that's the communion bread it tasted like but you were hungry huh I was hungry but that ████ did not live up to the hyp Catholic you believe in Mary is that is that what it is Catholic yeah the Virgin Mary yeah yeah so Christian believe in Jesus I mean they all believe in both I think there's just maybe an emphasis on the Virgin Mary that's the Catholic table just a Catholic cathol are you

0:51 Catholic I'm not no I grew a Buddhist okay never mind I don't know cuz Vietnamese people are either Buddhist or Catholic yeah well that's why I was also going to Catholic churches a lot all the time with like and I have god parents but even though my parents rais me Buddhist but then like I don't practice anything but I do believe in God is that weird no that's called um agnostics agos agnosticism cisms I don't think there's a ISM well anyways there's a uh Pennsylvania priest who's facing criminal charges oh what kind can we guess guess please guess is it is it the stereotypical n he got caught real real doing underground wrestling No gambling nope wait that's not illegal here he's facing criminal charges after police said he stole thousands of dollars of church funds oh thank God I was worried

1:43 I was worried some kids were got touched and used them for App Store transactions oh like what like uh like virtual slot machines marioart Candy Crush and Pokémon go Pokemon go steing for games well if you want to upgrade your ████ if you want all the it's all pay to play is it that's all the slot machine stuff is crazy these guys are all our generation at this point you goty to do it for the church win some money back put it back into the church are a righteous gemstone my friend but because he didn't win that's why he's getting accused I mean if he would have won they would have been complaining huh just let him play again let him get more money he won and brought it back to the church I think that would be a movie right there that's like Nacho Libre part two but at the same time if if he won he would have to give 100% back to church he can't like borrow Church funds win and then 50/50

2:34 it yeah yeah he's got to he's got to make sure he breaks it he's got to go above even back to church so give back what you took and take what you want this guy apparently spent $214,000 on his Apple ID 200 and just under 44,000 of that was charged to a credit card associated with the parish W 44 Grand of church money for ████ virtual slot machines on Candy Crush would you say this Priestess is a loser would you say yeah he's not a winner cuz he keeps losing would you say this guy is like he a spender wait that means he spent like 160 of his own money too yeah that's ridiculous yeah so how did he get caught I mean a criminal complaint Affidavit of a probable cause alleged that this guy Lawrence kak who somebody was like something's and I mean

3:24 it's charged to the credit card associated with the parish so like I'm I'm pretty sure that not one person is just looking at the bank statements for the credit card and then if you got like 44,000 and it's like to an Apple ID over 2,000 of the transactions were marked as gaming I wonder how long like over a period was it does it say it was uh from 2019 to 2022 okay slowly spending the money slow Bill still that's still so much like you think you're going to get away with like some people are dumb as ████ well if it goes unchecked for that many years he's probably like dude I've got this ████ fig fig out small very small and he's like wait I can get away with more and more and then eventually he's like oh dude they don't check I can keep going there's literally a chapter about greed what does it say people want 100 and they end

4:14 up wanting 200 then they end up wanting 500 and then they end up dying wanting more that's exactly word for word that's Old Testament right there yeah Psalms 1 I know but I saw that somewhere and I was like oh I'll use this this will come in handy one day the uh ironic thing is the slot machine apps named in the complaint like cash frenzy Willy Wonka Vegas casino slots and wizard of O slot machine game Willy Wonka bro even award real world money for the wins in dude but they allow you to spend real world money to play to get more spins but you get to flex you get to see how much points I got on willly Wonka dog yeah so what does he do with the credit I'll tell you what on that me and Nina we enjoy playing Willy Wonka Vegas casino slots Willy Wonka in Vegas like they got the giant Willy Wonka machine when you ████ get like a

5:05 certain candies or whatever and then the OA loomas all come out and it's like that the curv dual screen ████ too it's like the giant purple machine now they're like intense the volume goes all crazy and stuff when you get the candies going and it's like it's such a dopamine hit you know what I mean can't wait but that's real money hitting that button and that's not Church money regular money out a ticket and get money yeah you can actually make money off of just stealing JK funds which yeah we got we got to figure out a way to what would if you stole JK funds what would you spend it on what would you do what kind of like addictions do you think you would uh I mean I think it'd be easier to just buy some crypto that's for sure I'm going to get it back for the team you guys I think I'd be you guys know me I think we'd be hitting the craps table like come on you put all on craps that's what you do bro you know how fun that ████ it was fun table

5:55 recently I was watching my buddies play Blackjack at a table that looks like a lot of fun too and if feels like it's better odds all right it it's fun but you can lose money real fast games are so short that's what I saw I saw everyone lose really quick lost 200 bucks in 5 minutes last time oh $25 uh minimum I think B lost 300 bucks on C in 5 minutes last time you got to have a bankroll that lasts at least 50 times your minimum bet oh ████ Joe's actually good at poker so he actually knows what he's talking about for blackjack it's like you play Blackjack yeah and I learned how to car count too yeah so like what what do you think of this Theory right you get like five dudes the boys and we all play at the table Yeah and we all play a little conservatively yeah like do you feel like that it's a it's a helpful strategy to extend the game get you get one person that's playing another person that's also

6:45 playing big and when the count is is favorable you call in a big player to come in and they bit they bet big so you keep so someone's doing the Minima and then they keep the count yeah and then when the count is a better probability for the player side they make a signal big bet player comes in and they go bam bam bam it doesn't really work anymore cuz like the cameras see and then they can see the numbers and they know what like the percentages are and then they'll they'll do a lot of things now to shuffle the deck and reset it all this stuff they don't let you fluctuate your bet like they like like if if you're doing $10 bets and all of a sudden you're doing $5,000 bets they're going to be like what's up with this why all of a sudden yeah this guy's up to something yeah so they they they know all the things for car counting now and

7:37 it ain't like what the movies like I don't know they don't like they sell the dream in the movies ain't the same how does Dana White do it bro that's I think he just does it straight up I think he's just playing got big he's like he got no money I think he's like I'mma pick I'm going just go higher with this bat right now and they're just like come on Dana stop doing it in front of in front of our faces and he's like kick me out I'll go to the next Casino yeah I'll clean your ass out dude and it's like well if you kick me out though I'm never bringing the UFC to your hotel you're ████ dead to me he said he I think in one interview he was talking about how he lost like 3 million he thought he lost like 500k and he left he was like turn out I lost like $3 million on the table that's crazy yeah there's this one um craps player like they're like you saying like yeah it's not really like craps that the

8:28 odds are the same like play the game you can't beat the casino he goes but what you can beat the casino in is when you're a baller you make up you negotiate rules cuz you could be like yeah but you got to pay me out if it lands on this number you got to pay me out this and then and then they'll do ████ like let's say like you're you're playing like hundreds of thousands of dollars maybe even Millions every time you go and you're like hey guys this is getting crazy like there's no way I could come here with a suitcase full of millions my bank is not going to let me transfer Millions so you got to give me credit so a lot of these casinos they act like a bank and they give you credit so you walk in and be like you got a host and the host is like how much you want to play this time and he'll be like 2 million he goes well how about I give you like 1.5 and he goes yeah but

9:19 like you got to give me something else and he goes well all right while you're here you can stay here stay stay at this place we'll we'll we'll feed all your meals whatever you want all you can drink whatever you want all the hookers and drugs and you go all right and so you party over that weekend you play your game let's say you lose it all and just like man I'm never com back into this casino again I lost 1.5 million and they're like all right we we'll pay you we'll give you back like 200k we'll give you back like 500k you only lost a million and like there's so many like flexible things like that that like this one craps guy I guess he figured out like all the ways he can kind of like get the best a and he kept winning and um he would just keep the money and not play again go to another casino be like that casino gave me these odds yeah and they just go to

10:10 different casinos they just keep going to different casinos and then everyone's like oh ████ like they'll still do the math and be like oh ████ this guy ████ outsmarted us and he he took he got better odds but then I guess for like casinos it's like it's still worth it for them sometimes cuz even if the odds are less than someone that's walking up to a player game they'll still negotiate that with you cuz they're still hoping that like you'll still lose they just want you to keep playing right cuz eventually you lose but that's the crazy ████ is I didn't know that like the whales the big players I didn't know that they can like be like I don't like your blackjack rules your blackjack rules like I don't want to play here and they like well what would you make you play here and you'll be like I want to be able to hit on this number and then

11:00 yeah I never play crops don't it's a ████ scam don't it's the most fun

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