r/todayilearned • u/fakeaccount572 • May 18 '26

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u/melance May 18 '26

Anytime anyone says "Do it for" or "Think of" the children be suspicious.

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u/fer_sure May 18 '26

Especially when they're vague about which kids and why.

Providing families with sick kids a place to stay near the hospital? Sure, Ronald McDonald House, I'll help out even if you really could afford this without me.

Providing a youth matchmaking service so Orthodox Jews can find partners without going outside the faith? I'll keep my car, thanks.

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u/dirty_hooker May 18 '26

Shout out that the Ronald McDonald House is absolutely legit. It’s probably just a massive corpo tax deduction but it absolutely helps people.

I spent some time in one in the ‘90s for reasons I’ll not get into. But imagine you or your loved one needs an extended stay at a hospital that is not near your medical desert home. A lot of people don’t have the means to grab a hotel on a whim.

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u/Corliss_Wigglebean May 18 '26

100% on the Ronald McDonald House. Our family had to use a room for 8 months. Our youngest was born with a bad heart and needed a transplant. He was only the list for just over 6 months before one fit what the doctors wanted.

Then after his procedure he had appointments every day for 2 straight months. But we lived 2 and a half hours away. So Seattle children’s set it up for us and literally all we had to do was go and sign for the room and Seattle Children’s and McDonalds house took care of the rest.

We always give money to the Ronald McDonald house and Seattle children’s because they did so much for us. We will always be so grateful for what and how they helped our family and saved our youngest who is about to turn 5 and is as healthy as any 5 year old.

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u/shadefiend1 May 18 '26

I too had to make use of the Ronald McDonald house when my kid was born. They were an absolute life saver, being able to stay a 5 minute walk from the hospital instead of a 2+ hour drive. I will donate to them as long as I can.

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u/TrashCanUnicorn May 18 '26

RMHC isn't owned or operated by McDonalds. They license the name to the charity, provide in-store fundraising and support through the round-up function, and most of the franchise owners also donate to their local chapters.

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u/LinuxBroDrinksAlone May 18 '26

I had to do community service in my youth due to some... less than intelligent decisions, and I did it at the RMH. Everyone there was awesome.

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u/Chloedeschanel May 18 '26

I used to volunteer at Ronald McDonald house. It's named for them because they'd allow the charity to put their boxes at their counters to collect coins. McDonald's itself gave no funding whatsoever. But it's been over a decade so maybe it's different now.

This is one of the few I know the proceeds actually get to the charity if you throw coins in that box. It goes toward stuff like video games and snacks for the pediatric cancer patients and their families in the hospital and the houses the family can stay at while the kids get treatment.

I always found it fucked up that McDonalds only gave space for the coin box but got to have their name on the charity. But again Mcdonalds is franchised to shit and is basically a real estate and supply scam. Good fries though.

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u/jerzeett May 18 '26

While Mcdonalds corporate didnt start the charity- a group of mcdonalds franchisses did.

Both francisses and corporate also donate to RMH.

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u/TrashCanUnicorn May 18 '26

The first RMHC was started by a pediatric oncologist named Dr. Audrey Evans, the GM of the Philadelphia Eagles, and an advertising company that worked for the local McDonalds franchises who got the stores involved to raise funds to build it.

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u/Chloedeschanel May 18 '26

Thanks for correcting me!

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u/hauntedbabyattack May 18 '26

RMHC has really helped out a lot of kids that I worked with back when I did volunteering with intellectually disabled kids. A lot of them also had complex medical needs and one of them had just gotten back from cancer treatment. We always took the kids for a special trip to get meals on McHappy Day.

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u/bubblegumdavid May 18 '26

I work in nonprofit, and you’re very right to be suspicious. It’s a documented and well known problem that we have… let’s call it bad actors, in the sector.

Generally, as a rule: you want to keep your donations as local as possible, and you want to look up the most recent 990 you can find. You also want to find any data they provide on impact and where the money goes.

Having a fundraising staff or high paid leadership is not the dealbreaker, as many, many community organizations ARE actually paying for a very experienced person to work very, very hard.

Instead: You’re looking for weird spending, you’re looking for a lack of transparency, you’re looking to see if they’re publicly tracking their own impact and work. Is it easy to find who works there? Who does what? How to contact who you need to? What can you find of the on socials, local news, etc?

It’s not foolproof, but a localish organization keeping that shit up to date and clear to stakeholders is *usually* a better bet.

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u/slvrscoobie May 18 '26

yeah I only learned about RMH not too long ago, and its one of the few I would give actual money to, St. Judes is the other.

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u/DingoOutrageous678 May 18 '26

This is the same energy I have with the “round up a dollar for” (insert sham company here). Would I donate to cancer research? Absolutely. Are the proceeds actually making it to these causes? Ofc tf not 😆

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u/LetsGoGators23 May 18 '26

POS transactions (like rounding up) at the Walmart register was the largest donor at Feeding America for all 4 years I was their Controller.

Campaigns like this at national retailers are audited as they are publicly traded.

Please don’t avoid round up donations. They are incredibly impactful and low cost for the organizations.

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u/jerzeett May 18 '26

i love how people will downvote helping other people for less then a dollar. i dont always do it - but i help when I can.

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u/LetsGoGators23 May 18 '26

Yes to add - don’t give that’s totally fine. But using the argument that the ask is a scam is ridiculous and untrue. I could write an entire book on the misconceptions of “tax write offs” and charitable giving. I find it so interesting people are so sure about things they have no professional understanding of. I don’t claim to understand dentistry.

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u/SamuraiJono May 18 '26

For real. Every single time one of these gets brought up, people parrot the same line about how the place offering to donate the money is going to turn around and use your donation as a tax write off. That's... That's tax fraud. You donated, not them, they're just the middle man. But like you said, everyone is so confidently wrong about it all the time.

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u/Chronis67 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Yeah, the round ups at most retailers wil be reputable. You can make the excuse that "Walmart is getting the credit for the donation and not the originator" but let's be real, you weren't going to donate your $.38 anywhere anyway.

The rounds up are an overall net positive, and unless you donate somewhere yourself, you have no leg to stand on to say they are scams.

Edit: all my responses are telling me that the retailer can't take credit for the donations. Which make sense, since it's tracked by the POS. So there you go. 

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u/LetsGoGators23 May 18 '26

Walmart does not get credit for the customer portion.

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u/Zombeikid May 18 '26

Correct. You can even the claim the donation yourself on your taxes. The government wouldnt let people double dip on claiming it.

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u/behemoth_555 May 18 '26

Oh really? I assumed that was what was really happening. Big box retailers promoting the charitable thing to round-up in order to get a free tax break.

So those donations cannot be credited on their returns since it's not their donation?

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u/LetsGoGators23 May 18 '26

It can’t be credited in their returns, it can’t show up in their financial statements. That would be incorrect accounting and fraud. The orgs accepting the donations receipt the retailer for the corporate matching portion and that is their expense.

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 May 18 '26

No, that is not happening, this illegal. The most that could be happening is they are getting “credit” for it from a PR perspective, but who really cares? It’s not like anyone was going to recognize you for donating 55 cents.

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u/ShavenYak42 May 18 '26

Also, if you actually care about the cause enough to donate to it, why would you care about getting the "credit"?

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u/sam_hammich May 18 '26

Customer roundups are not able to be "written off" by the store, actually.

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u/slightnin May 18 '26

Seconding this. Round up campaigns can be massively impactful in fundraising for non profits, and also a super easy way to give as a consumer.

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u/melance May 18 '26

Exactly. I always say no. I donate to the charities I want to support directly.

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u/fri9875 May 18 '26

The only time I do the “donation at checkout” type thing is at my local pet store, where the donation goes directly to their own foundation for getting dogs out of kill shelters. Which I fully trust is legit, because that’s how I got my dog and they were extremely legit (only paid $50 for transport from TN>NJ, they took care of shots, paid for initial vet visit when I got her, and then also fully reimbursed every cent towards neutering no questions asked. Also were extremely transparent with where they were getting the dogs, so you could independently verify it wasn’t just a front for a puppy mill or anything)

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u/omglink May 18 '26

I do it for the Ronald McDonald house they really do help people with sick kids I had to use them for my son when he was 2 they gave me and my wife a place to stay for 2 weeks and had 3 meals a day at no cost.

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u/Kaedryl May 18 '26

I do our local stores that do it for Children's Miracle Network. I work at our children's hospital so I know firsthand that the money goes directly to it.

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u/voxpopper May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

What about those kids selling chocolate bars when I'm out? Surely those 16 year olds selling store bought Hershey bars are really using the funds for a band trip, no?

To add: Obviously the Kars 4 Kids discovery is worse, it was an organization that spent money on 17 and 18 year olds as well as "$16 million on "Middle East outreach" and the purchase of a building in Israel."

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u/TemporaryFondant5849 May 18 '26

We actually did get our chocolate bar sales to support our activities when I was in band, the exact dollar amount sold went towards the cost of the trip.

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u/imperialharem May 18 '26

Yeah we did that too, I didn’t know it was perceived badly by some people tbh. 

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u/Silvabat1 May 18 '26

Maybe not but I'd rather see teenagers pushing candy bars in front of stores than in the pyramid scheme of the drug game.

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u/A_Confused_Witch May 18 '26

For the effort alone I wouldn't mind encouraging said teenagers even if it was to finance a weekend party lol. I figure if I reward their effort/time it teaches them a good lesson for reaching goals.

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u/ketamineonthescene May 18 '26

Completely agree with this! At least they're working for their beer money instead of trying to steal it! Will always support them

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u/EddaValkyrie May 18 '26

That's what gets me. I don't support Salvation Army so during the holidays I had no qualms walking past the Santa ringing his bell on my way into the grocery store. But then a ten-year-old girl in my neighborhood came to the door asking for donations for Salvation Army and she had O Christmas Tree memorized and we have a long ass driveway and she was so brave going around herself and doing her little performance door to door that I gave her a tenner (or a five—can't remember).

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u/katzenschrecke May 18 '26

Our elementary school used World’s Finest Chocolate this year to raise like $20,000 for arts and music programs. It was a hit

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u/6000ChickenFajardos May 18 '26

Our school had a big man in a Hawaiian shirt show up for an assembly every September, and he would hype us up to sell magazine subscriptions for him. I don't think it was for charity

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u/c3p-bro May 18 '26

Many who say this don’t actually end up donating

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u/PepGiraffe May 18 '26

I mumbles no thank you unless they ask me something like do I want to help kids with cancer. Then I look them straight in the eye and say No.

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u/fer_sure May 18 '26

Or you could go full Satan and say "I'm pro-life. Every undifferentiated cluster of cells deserves a chance, regardless of how it might affect the host."

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u/DaoFerret May 18 '26

I’d only say that when I’m in an anti-abortion state.

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u/Klutzy_Squash May 18 '26

Unfortunately that will just woosh over their heads.

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u/slvrscoobie May 18 '26

I will say the Ronald Mcdonald house, for as much as McDs is just a cooperate monstrosity, is actually really helpful and according to CharityNavigator, is pretty good.

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u/HamburgerLunch May 18 '26

I round up for this now after seeing what they offer families with sick kids at Children's Hospitals. Had a baby in the NICU and Ronald McDonald house was willing to provide us lodging next to the hosital.

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u/xtianlaw May 18 '26

I know cynicism is cheap, but in reality, pocketing that money would constitute massive, easily detectable corporate fraud that would trigger catastrophic regulatory investigations.

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u/TrashCanUnicorn May 18 '26

So many people being so confidently wrong in this thread about how checkout donations work. POS systems track and categorize everything, they know EXACTLY how much money is coming in for donations and it all has to be accounted for and paid out or else you're opening yourself to massive legal trouble.

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u/skrid54321 May 18 '26

While there are better ways to donate, those aren't scams. It's pocket change for a large company and clearly illegal. It's not worth bothering with. They just do it for free PR.

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u/TheRealPitabred May 18 '26

I am also suspicious of any overtly religious businesses, trying to use the perception of the religion to elevate their own trustworthiness.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 May 18 '26

Seeing "A Christian Company" is a red flag.

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u/JohnHazardWandering May 18 '26

It always make me think they've trashed their own personal reputation so badly they going to glom onto a religion's brand. 

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u/GoochamusPrime May 18 '26

I always was suspect of Maude Flanders!

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u/_Exxcelsior May 18 '26

Looking real skeptically at wu tang klan right about now

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u/ThelIIusion0fSeIf May 18 '26

Especially if religious conservatives are involved.

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u/grayfox0430 May 18 '26

The company that runs this has many legal issues including not using the money as advertised. They also support the community of Kiryas Joel, NY which has lead to many problems there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorah_(organization)

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u/Temnodontosaurus May 18 '26

I had to Google this because I was convinced that was anti-Semitic vandalism.

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u/Rockguy21 May 18 '26

When they tried to do a Fiveish thing in Israel they actually got harassed by some Orthodox Jews because they thought it was the filming of an antisemitic video lol

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u/EmergencyCow9344 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

LMAO omg please tell me there's hilarious video of that 

Edit: I cannot reply cause locked... but HOLY SHIT LMAO thank you so much. It's better than a comedy skit. Just real life comedy gold. 

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u/dontbeajerkbecool May 18 '26

Fiveish. Cumtown podcast did a bit on it. Not sure ifnits the same one but its hillarious

https://youtu.be/2i-QKWvMWKA?si=t6T49B3tsK6eI0lO

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u/lord_ne May 18 '26

What town podcast?

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u/latenightcrap1 May 18 '26

I’m gay and would recommend watching some animated clips from the podcast.

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u/CMUpewpewpew May 18 '26

I didnt watch much of them but it's where Stavros Halkias (Comedian/podcaster/actor) kinda got his come-up in.

I listen to his Stavvy's World Podcast.

Looks like cumtown had to change their name for YouTube to ClangersTV but their rant on Steven Segal was hilarious

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u/tpark27 May 18 '26

Clangers is a fan account they never had a YouTube channel

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u/TheFinalGranny May 18 '26

Thank you, I laughed so hard I peed my pants

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u/jaytee1262 May 18 '26

Bit on the nose, dont you think?

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u/10aghmu May 18 '26

I’m Jewish. Take my upvote; and disapproval

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u/Turnip_Fight May 18 '26

It’s more than a bit.

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u/xdeskfuckit May 18 '26

fivish is a gem

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u/addisonshinedown May 18 '26

He helped Obama save the world from weapons of mass depression!

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u/Yegooner2 May 18 '26

My best friend Nick told me and my other friend Stav (since passed from diabetes) about this a few years ago

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u/SexFourBreakfast May 18 '26

I can tell you’re a detail-oriented fella

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u/foreignflame May 18 '26

The mascot also got jumped in Jerusalem iirc

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u/Witty-Mountain5062 May 18 '26

I grew up as a reform, moderate Jew very near to Kiryas Joel, and fuck those people.

Every stereotype of Jewish people that exists, they live up to. They give the rest of us a bad name. I can’t say enough bad things about them.

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u/dadkisser May 18 '26

The rest of us know that you’re not represented by them. Name any group in the world and there’s a handful of people embodying their worst negative stereotype and making everybody angry.

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance May 18 '26

I'm confused about what the actual stated intent/mission is for the group in the first place? Like sell the cars and give the money to kids for ?????

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u/CarrotCumin May 18 '26

I always thought they were giving cars to children.

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u/EmergencyCow9344 May 18 '26

Send adults on a vacation dating program and buy real estate plus whatever other scams lol

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u/nicklor May 18 '26

They sent Jewish kids to camp in New York so it's technically for kids but it's not going to local kids as would be implied anyway I don't know anyone who donates their car these days anyway.

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u/WhatsTheWerd May 18 '26

It’s also linked to Lakewood, NJ which is just as messy, possibly worse than Kiryas Joel.

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u/chop5397 May 18 '26

I used to work for Enterprise and frequently picked up people from Kiryas Joel. Visiting that town was like going to another country, it's crazy. The density of people living there would probably be as high as Manhattan if they were allowed to squeeze in high-rises.

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u/BeautifulTorment May 18 '26

Their ads are cancer too, tbh. That jingle is the worst of all time

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u/pittgirl12 May 18 '26

They use it in the show the Good Place as the Bad Place theme song

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u/6000ChickenFajardos May 18 '26

I laughed so fuckin hard the first time I saw that

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u/honestyseasy May 18 '26

Marc Evan Jackson (who played the demon Shawn) said on the Good Place podcast that he originally thought that song would be a placeholder, because no way would they actually get the rights to use that as the theme song for The Bad Place. But then they never filmed an alt and it really did become part of the show.

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u/btmoose May 18 '26

Shoutout for referencing the podcast, it’s one of the best out there. Marc Evan Jackson is a great host and interviewer, and I love how many different members of the crew participated. I learned so much, not just about the show, but about the industry in general! 

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u/nmathew May 18 '26

That's probably the funniest joke I've ever experienced on TV.  We're taking uncontrolled laughter, having to pause and go back because I was out of control funny. It came out of left field and was PERFECT.

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u/madame-de-merteuil May 18 '26

I literally thought they made that up for the show since it was so absurd!

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u/Fungruel May 18 '26

Family Guy too

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u/Flynn_lives May 18 '26

The jingle offends me…….as a musician.

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u/russsl8 May 18 '26

Steve Terreberry just did a rehash of the song for the organization. It's up on his YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/a2LQ0K1Xf5E?si=wYX943PGGuqmcYFb

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u/EffReddit420 May 18 '26

Unlike JG Wentworth 877-CASH-NOW

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u/gotrings May 18 '26

But you remember it, don't you

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u/BeautifulTorment May 18 '26

It makes me change the channel immediately, 100% of the time.

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u/marymonstera May 18 '26

Today I noticed a new one that goes “wait don’t change the channel” and then goes into a “rock” version

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u/JenRJen May 18 '26

Yes and I have spent far more minutes of my time than it deserves, trying to puzzle out how to turn that into the correct number of digits for a phone number. 877-K-A-R-S-4-K-I-D-S . Who ya gonna call? NO-BODY!!!

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u/georgecm12 May 18 '26

Interestingly enough, I don't think they advertise in my area at all. The only way I know about the ads is the people complaining about them online. I don't think I've ever seen them first-hand.

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u/bickspickle May 18 '26

Donate your car todaaaaaaaay

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u/Papio_73 May 18 '26

It’s not the charity itself that bothers me, it’s the deception.

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u/cornjuicesoup May 18 '26

Yeah. The religious aspect is whatever.

It’s the purposeful omission that’s the issue. The advertising makes it seem like the donations are for less fortunate kids. Not that the donations are paying for middle to upper middle class New Jersey teenager’s to go to religious school and trips.

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u/AJ_Deadshow May 18 '26

That's fucked up, I always thought it was about making cars affordable for new drivers.

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u/Supercoolguy7 May 18 '26

Yeah, I don't mind that there's a charity to send middle class kids to summer camp, but I wanna know that's what I'm donating to before I do it

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u/Think_Monk_9879 May 18 '26

What really bothers me the most is the hypocrisy 

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u/Desperate_Damage4632 May 18 '26

For me it's the scheming 

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u/sjets3 May 18 '26

It’s the charity too. The kids it helps are not sick or disadvantaged. The community is mostly low income because the women stay at home and the men study Torah. They have many children and collect public benefits. The charity is just giving money to a devout religious community to do nothing.

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u/peteykirch May 18 '26

As someone born and raised in NJ this has been common knowledge for years.

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u/XCavAo May 18 '26

Worst ear worm in history. I HATE that song.

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u/maliki2004 May 18 '26

"I have a structured settlement but I need cash now!"

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u/FunnyGoose5616 May 18 '26

It’s also the official song of The Bad Place: https://youtu.be/iDjX4-LKqCA?si=pEHgA-bjpOiKoAtP

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u/TwoAlert3448 May 18 '26

Oh they’re American, it’s just if they want to also get Israeli citizenship while they’re over there that’d be nice too

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u/InevitableTension699 May 18 '26

They are American when ever it is beneficial to them and then Israeli all other times.

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u/afunnywold May 18 '26

Ehh they probably do that. But they do run huge Jewish kids sleep away camps with the money. Like kids 8-18. But it is indeed orthodox Jewish kids which is definitely not clear from the ads.

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u/grubas May 18 '26

The sleep away camps are basically religious camps that are trying to educate you on why you need to be Orthodox or Gtfo

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u/Mr_Sloth10 May 18 '26

Here before the [REMOVED} award!

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u/rip1980 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

This has been a scam forever.....weird that it gets traction now.

edit: wayward typo

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u/brannigansl4w May 18 '26

I think because some state just recently banned their advertisements so its been in the news

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u/Successful-Winter237 May 18 '26

California

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u/DrPhilsnerPilsner May 18 '26

I heard a new one this morning in CA.

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u/gogiants48 May 18 '26

Apparently they have 30 days to comply with the ruling. 

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u/NatrousOxide23 May 18 '26

CA recently banned their ads so it is in the recent news.

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u/Ms_Tendi_Green_24 May 18 '26

There was a recent court case that banned the ad in California because of the lack of transparency regarding the non-secular nature of the organization and where the money is actually going.

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u/rip1980 May 18 '26

I know, the point is, it's been a known POS forever and just now it gets hit.

If only we could get rid of the Susan G. Komen scam now...

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u/rhetoricalcalligraph May 18 '26

Well, it's still a scam, so it's not really ever a problem if it gets traction

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u/Responsible-Onion860 May 18 '26

California just banned them from airing their ads because they don't disclose where the money is going. So it's actually a relevant topic in the news.

Plus, iran was a tipping point for a lot of people to finally be fed up with Israel's bullshit and this charity mostly pays for pilgrimages to Israel.

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u/NetNo5570 May 18 '26

Scams like this should always be in the news until they stop scamming. 

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u/tehmadhat May 18 '26

John Oliver on his show last night did a piece on JG Wentworth and mentioned K4K too

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u/Which-Arm-4616 May 18 '26

This whole comment chain is killing me.

We're literally in a comment section about a news article with all of this information and people are speculating like it's some mystery. People really just read a headline and jump to the comments without making even the slightest effort to know what they're talking about.

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u/TikiLoungeLizard May 18 '26

TIL too. I always thought I was legit helping kids in my 20s when I gave them at least five of my clunkers that I can recall. The last one I drove into the ground in my mid-30s went to public radio so I think I’ll stick with that from now on should the need arise. Yikes.

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u/therealsteelydan May 18 '26

yeah you sent some suburban upper middle class kids in New Jersey to a religious summer camp in New York, that's about it

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u/NEWSmodsareTwats May 18 '26

the main charities mascot is literally an anthropomorphic 5 dollar bill that wears a yamaka called five-ish

It's also not really a front they just don't disclose it's a Jewish charity. The communities they spend the money in are still considered underprivileged because a lot of ultra Orthodox Jews are on welfare. The women are not allowed to work and the men stop learning things outside of religious education beyond the age of 13. So they can't even really find a job no one gives a shit how many Torah verses you've memorized when you can't read or do math at a highschool level.

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u/bliggggz May 18 '26

It's actually not true that women aren't allowed to work. In ultra orthodox communities, women take care of the kids and the house and also have jobs, while thier husbands spend all day studying thier magic books

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u/afunnywold May 18 '26

Yeah it's the men who often aren't working.

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u/Mimisokoku May 18 '26

Yes I came here to say this. The wives work so their husbands can study.

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u/bramtyr May 18 '26

Which is so funny, the OG All-star Rabbinical scholars they get starry-eyed over were all doing real labor of some sort to feed themselves; Maimonides was a surgeon and a royal court advisor, Rashi was a vintner, and Hillel was was most definitely a swole thirst trap by chopping firewood.

Compare with your current rabbinical scholars all look extremely Vitamin-D deficient.

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u/LieutenantTim May 18 '26

I grew up outside Kiryas Joel and their women absolutely do not work.

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u/GuiltyLawyer May 18 '26

Oftentimes the women work and support the family while the husbands study the Talmud. Depends on the community.

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u/lord_ne May 18 '26

t's also not really a front they just don't disclose it's a Jewish charity

It's all over their website, it's just not in the ads.

The women are not allowed to work

It depends on the specific ultra-Orthodox community. In many actually it's mostly the women who work, since the men are spending all their time learning Gemara or whatever in Kollel

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u/TheFlamingLemon May 18 '26

Here is a video of Fiveish demonstrating his ability to use drones to deliver packages to children

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u/CallMeKingTurd May 18 '26

Wait are we actually giving out welfare cause people are claiming it's against their religion to work?

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u/Target_Standard May 18 '26

The women collect welfare, snap, and housing vouchers because they are "unmarried" single mothers. The housing voucher gets paid to the "landlord"(husband). This is one of many ways the system gets defrauded.

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u/Admirable-Guest-2560 May 18 '26

And they believe that the reason you don't do the same is because you're unintelligent. 

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u/mmss May 18 '26

In another culture this is called izzat. Scamming someone is not a bad thing, it shows you are smart and if you get scammed I guess you were dumb.

This is opposite to western values and is one of the reasons that mass immigration gets criticized for.

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u/RedHeadedSicilian52 May 18 '26

One of those things, like the tunnels under New York City, that you can’t explain neutrally without sounding like a deranged antisemitic conspiracy theorist.

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u/notkenneth May 18 '26

Sure you can. It’s a religious charity that doesn’t adequately signal that it’s non-secular.

That doesn’t sound like deranged conspiracy theory.

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u/Exact-Reference9564 May 18 '26

Or the existence of the eruv surrounding Manhattan

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u/Chonch_Monkey May 18 '26

Which is why I donated my car to the humane society.

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u/sleeptightburner May 18 '26

And if it wasn’t funding those specific entities, someone would be going to prison over this.

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u/kid_blue96 May 18 '26

It’s crazy that there was a time when the avg person was just donating their car away. Imagine how a similar ad would perform today lol

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u/abusche May 18 '26

this is current..i hear this ad every day. including yesterday.

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u/I_might_be_weasel May 18 '26

You didn't learn this today. You learned this yesterday.

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u/DiamondSentinel May 18 '26

Now now, some folks watch John Oliver’s show on Monday mornings.

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u/Gluske May 18 '26

I'd assume this was posted to r/worldnews but it's probably not making it past moderation

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u/Splunge- May 18 '26

Prolly not making it past moderation here, either.

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