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It's Sophia Franklin and you are listening to Sophia with an F. But I think I'm in the mood for a quickie. What do you think?
standing on the corner of the street in Soho holding up 20 wallets in one hand on a keychain and there's these two cops walking by and everyone who was fucking part of this operation is gone
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to Sophia the F. It's Sophia. And I have a little mini episode in store for you. Every week, I'm going to do the minis a little bit different. Some weeks, I'll be doing SOS and be giving advice. Some weeks, I'll be doing a salute university where I talk about a certain topic at length and give you my rundown full analysis. And then there's going to be weeks like this week where I'm just going to
Talk shit. So fasten your seatbelts because it's my show and that's what I want to do. And I don't think anyone's complaining. And if you are, please write in and tell me to never do it again. But if you're not complaining, you can't be trusted. I am so over this like go 24 hours without complaining and see how your life changes.
I do practice gratitude. I really, really do. And I understand the things I complain about are very much so first world problems. I'm very, very fortunate, but...
I just, I don't trust people that are positive and happy 24-7, seven days a week. When I talk shit and complain, there's always like this layer of silver lining to it. It's like, I want to do better. I want to be better. And I'm actually really, really happy. It's not complaining. It's venting. And it's therapeutic, at least for me. I don't know what it is for you guys, but...
Sucks to be you. Joking. Yeah, I just want to kind of give you guys, I want to spend this time to update you guys on my life and what I've got going on. Work is great. Romantic life is, could absolutely be better. And I need to make some big decisions coming up here.
Besides that, I'm thriving and happier than ever. I wanted to tell you guys the funniest shit that happened to me. Well, I have two updates, actually. I'm pausing right now because I'm so furious about this situation. And it just like I just remembered again, I was getting in an Uber and I messaged the Uber and I was like, be right out.
And he was like, okay, no worries. I went to the elevator. I forgot something in my apartment. I had to turn around. I came back in here. I grabbed, I think it was like, I don't even know what the fuck it was. Grabbed it, went back to the elevator. So basically I was late. Okay. I was late getting to the Uber and I walk outside. I go up to the Uber. It's locked. And I'm like, okay, he'll just, he'll unlock it. Doesn't unlock it.
I knock on the window a couple times. I see the dude, okay, behind the steering wheel. There's no music playing, so I know he fucking hears me. He doesn't turn around. He doesn't acknowledge that I'm there. I knock again. He goes driving 40 miles per hour, screeches out of there,
and leaves while my hand is literally on the fucking handle of the car door. And I'm, what if my foot was in front of the tire? It was the rudest thing ever. And he's the fucking, he's the Grinch. Mr. Grinch, you're not going to get me out of the holiday spirit.
A holiday spirit I'm not in yet, I will be. You know what I won't be? Is the manic, frantic as fuck, crazy person at work who knows that we're about to take a couple weeks off and acts like a lunatic. Because I have been running into that issue and it's like everyone needs to calm the fuck down. ♪
You heard me on my last episode. I am on a mission to upgrade my style publicly, but privately as well. Don't get me wrong, a big t-shirt will get the job done,
but we can do better, like way, way, way better. And Gooseberry Intimates makes me look and more importantly, feel hot, snatched, sexy, cute, all of the above. If Sydney Sweeney and Hailey Bieber are doing it,
So am I. Gooseberry Intimates is a woman founded, ran and family owned company designed and produced in a house in Bali. And if there's one group of people I trust to make me feel sexy, confident and comfortable, it's
It's women. So join the movement. Head over to gooseberryintimates.com to get your hands on sexy intimates and swim. Use code SOFIA for 10% off. So that was the Uber, but my mom and I went to Canal Street.
and Canal Street obviously is out on the street, and they'll give you a pamphlet, like this huge plastic pamphlet with all the bags and all the shit that they have, and you pick from there, and then someone will run and go get the bag or whatever and come show you, okay? Because there's police everywhere, right?
And the people that have everything laid out, it's like, it's actually really funny. The people who have all their designer shit laid out, it's all laid out on like a bed sheet. And so the second cops come, they will hurry and grab all four corners of the sheet and throw everything and turn it into a Santa Claus sack and walk away. And they do this in a matter of seconds.
Like they have this shit down to a science, but I purchased a few things, nothing like that cool. I'm overspending like 50 bucks on a Chanel backpack. And then I see it in daylight hours and it disintegrates and the chain comes off the next day. And it's the gold is the color of like
you know, a yellow shirt. That I will not do anymore. But like little things here and there, I don't mind. Then I finally was taken seriously on Canal Street and they took me to an actual storefront and they took me in and there's these two dudes so well-dressed and they show me what they have. They're selling like Kelly's and Birkin's at 500 a piece.
Okay. So at that point, you're thinking like, oh my God, that's ridiculous. I'm buying a fake for a reason. The thing is, is even the best of the best of the best could not tell that it's a fake. And a Kelly or a Birkin, unless you get it directly from Hermes, which is nearly impossible, actually, is a fake.
they're going to run you 20K minimum, you know, 15K used. So it's like 500 bucks. Yeah, it's a lot of money, but the leather and the bags they were showing me, you would not be able to tell. Did I buy one? No. Like I feel silly shelling out 500 bucks for a fake, but like I might, I might fuck around and get one because they were that good. But
This is how I know the operation they have running in there is good. I was like, I'm not going to spend that kind of money. And he was like, okay, then can you leave? Because like I have to bring people in here. Like there's a line. Usually people will haggle you and you will go back and forth bartering for a minute before they let you walk away. So that's how I knew this guy meant business. But I'm standing there.
And I'm looking at the bags from this pamphlet. I'm holding it in one hand and I want to just get like a wallet, which I did end up getting. So if anyone is wondering, I will never lie to you. My Louis wallet that I now have is fake as shit. Okay. My one Birkin I own real one Kelly I own real. I spent, I don't even want to tell you how much money on it. I'm going to be a real asshole and let you know when something's real or fake.
This I'm holding. She has like a bunch of wallets on this key chain, like 15 wallets on a key chain. I'm holding the pamphlet in my left hand, this key chain in my right hand, looking at this wallet. And all of a sudden I these ladies start screaming and they go running. OK, so
Everyone who's selling shit on Canal Street at this moment in time frantically is grabbing their shit and booking it. I have no idea what's going on. I figured like, oh, cops don't actually like crack down on this kind of thing. I had no idea. But fast forward to 60 seconds later, I'm standing on the corner of the street in Soho with
All of these people walking by holding up 20 wallets in one hand on a key chain and a big ass pamphlet in the other that has pictures of all this fake shit, the size of my head. And I'm just standing there holding this shit. And there's these two cops walking by and they're
everyone who was fucking part of this operation is gone so i'm just standing there solo dolo with like my thumb up my ass like are these cops actually am i gonna get arrested right now can you imagine if i got arrested for panhandling and selling fake shit on the corner of canal street like
It's not like I haven't been fucking arrested for forgery before, but like this would have been real deal. And I don't think there could be anything more embarrassing. So I shove everything in my jacket, like throw it down my zipper. And I'm standing there just looking conspicuous as fuck.
The cops do not arrest me. I looked really suspicious. If you saw me that day, shout out. I was not stealing from a store and I was not stealing from these fucking people selling wallets for 10 bucks a piece. I was not stealing. I was just, I guess I was like a co-conspirator at that point. Like I was part of the fucking heist and I was part of the whole thing and I didn't mean to, but...
This lady comes running around the corner on the verge of tears, frantic. And I pull the wallets out of my jacket and she's like, oh my God, thank you so much. So I think I am Santa Claus and that is kind of the sweetest Christmas thing I could do. And that's really why I told this story.
So I could just look like a really good person. It was just, it was really funny. That's my little canal street story. I love you guys so much. Thank you for being my therapy session. I love doing little updates like this. And I feel like everyone does too. You guys, I love you so much. I'll talk to you next week. I think I should just be doing an update every day. So maybe we'll get to that point. Bye.
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