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Ray Kump's Verizon Fraud Scare and the Morgue Job
from Seeking Arrangements (with Wendi Starling) · #47
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
2 minTim welcomes co-host Ray Kump, who recounts a near-fraud incident with a Verizon headphone order and his bank, leading into a riff about Ray needing a morgue job to finally get a bank account, potato bread warehouse jobs, and check-cashing places.
- 0:43Ray received a fraudulent Verizon email claiming $600 in headphones were shipping from his account.
- 1:03Tim notes that Ray's bank sent him a fraud alert text, making the story anticlimactic when Ray simply canceled the card.
- 1:25Ray got his first bank account after taking a job at the morgue.
- 1:37Tim reflects that everyone has a personal "morgue job" moment—a challenge that changes their trajectory.
- 1:49Before the morgue, Ray worked warehouse jobs and had to use check-cashing places that charged ten dollars per transaction.
- 2:01Tim jokes that Ray's life story contains so many Netflix documentaries that Netflix has already made them—Bloodline, The Keepers, House of Cards.