We Gotta Talk About BAD VEGAN on Netflix
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- Girl what even is this story? 😅 LMK If you guys are into this true crime/documentary review combo, I had fun. PS My thyroid is low so I apologize if I seem sluggy.
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Pro tip: If he says he works for the Black Ops or is in witness protection, he’s definitely lying. That stuff is not uncovered on the first date 🤦🏼♀️
I had a coworker who was a habitual liar like this. One day he told us this big story of how the CIA was following him on his skateboard one day, another time he was working for NASA, another time he told us he was training to become a navy seal. We had a post it under the front desk with a list of all the “professions” and job “experiences” he had. Mind you we worked at a retail store at the mall selling speakers 😂 we added to that list frequently. It was just so bizarre. I’ve never met anyone like that.
@@jjgems5909 lmao is his name Irving bc I know a guy that has made these exact claims, not surprisingly he’s a drug addict now
Yeeeerrrppp. I've been told pointing stuff like this out is blaming victims lately, which is getting annoying. How do we call stuff out of people are starting to label calling out red flags defending abuse?
@@timelesstalesbeauty5394 I was going to ask if his name was “Aaron” because he sounds like a former coworker of mine, too!
@@MsLemon42 lmaooo it also sounds like this girl I went to school with 🤣 but the jobs were the jobs her family had
The shocking true story of a woman who would have been better off with Alec Baldwin.
🤣🤣🤣
That idea is scary, indeed.
Word. I was thinking the whole time while I watched it. However, I'm sure he's glad that he didn't wind up with her!
Shoulda been the video title. Lol
but isn't Alec Baldwin married?
Imagine how it would have all worked out if she handled Shanthony like she did Alec Baldwin and every time he said he needed her to wire him 10k, she just sent him links to loan companies...
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Oh my gosh she definitely should’ve done that
If only 😂
Brilliant 😂😂👍
I would rather hear you talk about this Netflix documentary for 2 hours than watch the actual documentary 😅😭
Agreed!!!
Samesies. Netflix documentaries seem to skip the juicy bits yet they are so long and drawn out. There was one in particular where the filler footage was literally in slow motion.
Big same
@@nunpho and the same footage of her walking around new york with pigtails was just spliced through it. It was bizarre! So poorly made.
Yesss this was far more entertaining 😆
Can you blame the employees for not seeing her as a victim?? She was in Rome and Paris for Christ’s sake while they weren’t getting paid!
She strikes me as criminally stupid.... sorry but ffs
Exactly 💯 she knew what she was doing
Because she wasn't a victim. She is an adult who had a business to run.
@@melindaroop1346 I mean, she was a victim, but she also screwed over her employees and deserved to be punished for that.
She knew exactly what she was doing! This was all very calculated in her part and the fact that she acts as if it isn't her fault sickens me. She doesn't care at all that she defrauded all of these people who were so loyal to her. She is 100% out for Sarma..no one else.
The way she was so nonchalant while sitting down for this interview was unbelievable. Her lack of empathy she had towards her employees and friends that gave her money was disturbing.
Cannot agree with this more 👏🏼
I mean it's probably been a long time she's not going ti sit there and cry
A lot of "successful" people like this are sociopathic and narcissistic. :(
Yes, agreed
She seemed medicated to me. At my most depressed/medicated, I’ve been known to act in a similar way. Whether you believe everything she says or not, she’s been through a lot. She got into a weird abusive relationship, she had a successful business that she sabotaged, she went to jail. I think she’s just a woman who was clinically depressed for a long time and still appears to be for obvious reasons. I’m not excusing her actions, I’m mainly just saying labeling her as “sociopathic,” “narcissistic,” etc. like some people have been doing is probably a bit much.
My husband and I watched this documentary. We came to conclusion that she fell for this nonsense because she always thought she was "different" from everyone else. This just played into her own belief of herself.
I couldn’t get through the while thing, but thank you, that does make a lot of sense. 👏
She did not come out of this well at all.
I usually try not to judge people who've been manipulated like this, but this doc kinda shows she had far more opportunities to be pulled out of the delusions he was feeding her but she chose not to look deeper into it. Like its one thing for someone take advantage of, say a nobody who doesn't have a support system, possibly struggling with life and no one to turn to. Those types of people are usually prime targets for this type of stuff because they don't have anyone on the outside to keep them grounded, but this woman had plenty of people around her warning her of the guy. She had employees, friends, coworkers, all these people that he wasn't really trying to block out of her life, who we see knew something was up and attempted to save her.
At some point, this does fall on her because she still chose to follow him and his wacked out story even after people tried to pull her out of it. So I do believe she has to have had a "Not Like Other People" persona that was being fed by this dude. She might have been a victim in the beginning, but by the end, not so much.
Yeah at a certain point it was just entitlement and a sense of superiority steering her through fall of this. But an interesting look into a manipulative narcissistic relationship, I was surprised to see the similarities between her husband and someone I knew to be like him. If anything the show was a very good psychoanalysis
That’s a pretty common manipulation tactic. It’s also why parents shouldn’t foster ideas in their kids about being “special” or smarter than others, because it is usually followed by a hard fall to reality.
Idk why because it's kind of sad, but your line, "Turns out he wasn't clairvoyant he was just...reading her emails," made me HOWL. Thank you for what you do, Jamie 😂❤
OMG. ME TOO! Of course it was 5:30 am when I watched this. I woke the entire house up. Haha
The one that got me is the officer in his professionalism, "There appeared to be no indication that she ate the chicken wings."
😂 I know. It was chef's kiss!!!!
I guess it was important since she’s vegan.
I know because that’s the most important part right 😂🤣😂🤣😂
🥴🤣🤣🤣🤣. That was funny. It is beyond irrelevant to the situation but still funny. If she had eaten meat it would've been the least of the things I judged her for. 🤣
@@sfletch3042to vegans, she’d easily receive death threats for eating any of the chicken. Vegan culture has a lot of unhinged people involved. “True believers”
My guess is she knew she was complicit after awhile, but was in too deep and was too ashamed to get herself out. Also, I think it's okay to judge Shanthony. Dude a grifter and deserves to wear that label.
Ego
Maybe but her reactions and some things that happened definitely scream mental abuse. Like it's crazy not the situation but the things she went through and feels mirror what I went through so closely. Obviously she could be lying but I don't know. I'm at least inclined to believe she was mentally abused hard which makes it easier to believe all of it in my opinion.
@@nicolemenard2147 oh, there's definitely evidence for mental abuse....at least in this documentary. That went along with my 'over her head' remark. She got in deep monetarily AND ideologically. I do think she realized that she was in a lot of trouble and ran from it, and in ways that makes her complicit. It goes to show how mixed up stuff like this is, and how it can change someone. Who would willingly give up an empire for what he was selling unless you were all mixed up?!
My thoughts exactly. Good thing she's trying to repay her employees.
When you finding out will wasn't real and they just fade him away like that, it was pretty hilarious knowing Netflix pranked us.
I was so shook lol
When fake guy showed up with an Irish accent, I had to Google him and the jig was up.
That was honestly iconic lol
At first I thought "nah he's gotta be fake" and when they kept showing that guy talking I was like okay then I guess we'll hear more about him later😂still got me
As someone who works in finance, knowing she had a background in investment banking.. there is no way she wouldn't know the repercussions of blowing off her investors. The SEC requires certain licenses and certifications to be in the industry... they make you take exam after exam that outlines all of the consequences of doing shady stuff like this. She is no victim.. in my opinion. Thank you for the commentary! I love your videos.
She knew, she is no victim
I think so too, I commented a similar thing on another video and i got ratioed, even if she maybe made the mistake once id understand but she literally did it a second time
I feel like there's two sides. She was manipulated by him, but she was also greedy. She married him because she thought he would pay off the 2 million dollar debt she took on in her divorce for the restaurant.
This whole thing happened bit by bit & what happens in these manipulative relationships is you start out being faced with 1 red flag, ignore it enough & it becomes normal.. then the 2nd (even more rediculous) red flag & THAT becomes normal, & so on. Until eventually you find yourself in a new reality where this is all normal to you & you don’t see it so glaringly rediculous anymore. It’s why people in abusive relationships last so long. Your mind adapts to survive
@@cailin5309 well said!
The lying to investors and selfies in Rome while her employees aren’t getting paid convinced me that Sarma is not a victim.
I never saw her smile in any of the selfies, quite sad but at some point girl was being complicit and she did not even take responsibiltu for her part esprcially how things started to go bad at her restaurant.
Like how bad dis she want her dog to be mortal 😩
Don't forget the hotel in Vegas
Mhhhmm, he wasn't holding her ransom or forcing her. She let herself be led down that stupid road. Can't blame him 100%, this is definitely a 50%/50% situation
@@Hiiiiiiiiieeee I don't think I would go as far as to say 50/50 but she does have some % of responsibility.
I know from first hand experience that abusive relationships can warp your reality, but....this is taking that really far. At some point you do have to use your own brain and say "hmm maybe the things he is telling me are not truthful." Also the restaurant workers seem to think she sucks so that colors my opinion a bit as well.
@@shawnalynn5198 I mean, he wasn’t abusing her either. I didn’t hear one thing about physical or mental abuse. He was manipulative, but that is not abuse. There is a big difference. And the average human brain can tell when it’s being manipulated, and it appears this woman was pretty smart. So I’m just saying, it really seems more like she’s trying to play the victim and not make yourself look guilty when she is.
You mentioned not wanting your video to be an hour long, but trust me I would gladly watch you talk about wild stuff like this for hours lol
Sarma had a 2 million dollar debt on that restaurant. She thought he was going to give her the money to pay that off. That's why she married him. She says as much. She also actively tried to swindle people into donating more money, making the investor fly around to meet some guy she knew didn't exist for her own gain. She was manipulated by Shanthony but was a con woman in her own right. No sympathy from me.
The thing is, the business was making money. Had she just kept the guy out of it, the debt likely would have been paid off. But she was so focused on that debt.
Ohhh!
That was my exact sentiment when watching it. If she didn’t try and swindle him, he would not have been able to swindle her. She did not want a relationship with that man, she wanted him to pay off her debt.
Agreed!
No abuse is warranted. This is a strange opinion.
Lmao I almost spit my drink out when you said “my power, my wealth, it’s all yours… hey by the way can I borrow 6 bucks?” Pretty much it.
You and the dog are going to live forever. I guarantee it. By the way, can you spot me 50 grand so I can go play blackjack? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That triggered me. Lol. Like online dating. Guys: I've got a great job and I'm a baller. Also Guys: Buy your own Starbucks.
I totally understand her employees as a former restaurant employee myself. We work hard for low wages and our fate is left to the hands of incompetent owners.
And restaurant employees are underworked and overpaid! I hope they unionize
I work hard for low wages too. But it is my choice...I took the job. It's also my choice to leave if I want.
@kenbrb6261 Weird comment man.
Imma be real. I played the movie for 2 mins, stopped it and said: “Aint nobody got time for that!” I’m glad you covered it, cause I certainly wasn’t gonna watch it ahahhaha
Same! I couldn't finish it
It was frying my brain I skipped out after the second episode!
I couldn't believe half of the stuff l read but l had invested time so l wasted more of my time. Felt infuriated watching
It was pretty shit I watched the whole thing but I don't know why. I didn't feel much empathy for any of them
I'm glad I stumbled upon this comment, cause I was boutta go subject myself to it before watching her commentary. Now I know I don't need to do that lmao
He was literally like "I'm not human" and she was like "okay, take all my money". Literally.
She was the biggest fool
Ikr? How?! I don’t get it?! 😱😱😱🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
And people beating around the bush and NOT calling her a fool is not helping anyone. Critical thinking is CRUCIAL to survival and way too many people don’t have it anymore.
I mean, if someone tells me they can make my pet inmortal then I’ll be giving them all my money too js
Hey @@moramorandobianchi7093 I can totally make your pet live forever.. plz sent the money and Dominoes pizza asap
Ok, I owned her cookbook when I went through my own raw vegan experimental phase (spoiler, it was an eating disorderrrrr) AND whenever I had moments of weakness (uh.. my body literally starving) I would always order pizza and wings too. So maybe raw veganism is just a gateway drug for pizza and wings.
here mfs go calling veganism an eating disorder have fun condoning rape and murder and congrats on getting heart disease too
Hope you're doing better now! ED suck and diet and wellness culture is wildly unhelpful in the ways they encourage ED behaviour and thought patterns.
Raw veggies and fruits just deprive us of all the good stuff we grew up with, grease, crispy deep fried stuff and cheese on bread
That's why I'm a fat vegan that still eats deep fried stuff and pizza lol
hope you're doing better!!! i also fell down the "wellness" trap when bulimia was at peak for me. i'm definetelu much stronger now that i don't think that way anymore!
Eating raw vegan cured me of a decade of chronic illness in four months! It's not an eating disorder. Many, many people have been healed of terminal illness by eating pure, live, food. People get so hungry in the beginning because it metabolizes quickly. Your body doesn't have to work hard to digest it, the way it does with dead, factory made food. If you're hungry, just eat more! You'll still have more energy than eating a doughy pizza and needing a nap after.
I can understand that people can be manipulated into believing the most outlandish things, but she knew she was not paying her employees. Ripping off faceless investors is one thing ( not defending it, it's still wrong) but ripping off people that you personally see every day and knowing that they rely on the pay check that they have worked for to survive while you are living it up on holidays or day dreaming about immortal dogs is another level.
I've been in that position before and it's infuriating to see your boss posting on social media about their latest manicure while they are three weeks behind on your wages and you can't pay your bills.
I think shanthony isolated her enough and instilled fear enough that there were no other options but to get money. Bizarre and so wild, but it happens in scams all the time and people follow "authority" even to harm others -just like the Milgram experiment..
Yes!!
Well remember, it was like he manipulated her into thinking she was living a simulation so he was more important than anything and the rest of the people didn't matter b/c they weren't even real like that.
@@yaileenmaldonadomendez6382 i cant believe anyone would believe she actually believed that... 😔 i think uve been brainwashed lop
@@nomdeplume2213 You'd be surprised at how manipulative some people can be.
There's a legal point where a victim also becomes a perpetrator. I think she crossed that point when she knew her employees weren't going to be paid.
Between this and the Tinder Swindler I am flabbergasted these con men are able to get so much money out of people. If my sister asked me for $100 I would need an itemized list of everything she wanted to use that money for.
I guess I feel bad for her because I have seen this in action. My mom met a guy who did the whole "I'm a badass secret super soldier" thing and, let me tell you, they are really convincing. He took so much money from her, got her to do all this stuff. It took a while for her to dump him.
I'd like to borrow $100,000- Here's my itemised list:
1) Heroin.
That's all.
@@rosesweetcharlotte
Letting him take all of YOUR money is forgivable. Letting him take all the money set aside as wages for your employees is a different bucket of rancid jizz!!!
Itemized list? Come on lmao
I guess I’m a sucker cuz I’ve given my sister thousands of dollars without asking her what she’s using it for because I know she doesn’t make a lot of money and needs to pay her bills
You have provided a public service. You have saved 3 hours and 29 minutes of my life and I can't thank you enough. 🥰
I honestly was so irritated with her by the end of the docuseries. She just refused to take any accountability for all the horrible things she did to her employees and business partners and then just blamed it all on him and pretended to have been totally blindsided by everything. When they asked her if she felt bad for any of the people she fired or put in horrible situations and her reply was basically "Why would I?" From that moment on I no longer felt bad for her at all.
I totally agree thank you for saying this. I was very shocked at the lack of remorse and lack of empathy for her employees who really seem to support her.
Same here
So far, this feels like Gwyneth Paltrow fanfiction.
Needs more candles and vag steaming
☠️☠️ omg 😂
This killed me 😂😂 too accurate
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Watching the "Tinder Swindler" left me heartbroken for the victims, even if they weren't being very careful. I did not feel even a LITTLE but bad for this woman. I feel bad for her family, friends, and employees because she absolutely screwed them.
Same here the tindler swindler girls seemed like fine people, just lonely that made them susceptible. This woman at least partly signed up. I feel bad for her employees not her.
The thing that made me angriest about this is that if she would’ve just went for Alec Baldwin we all could have been spared from Hilaria Baldwin’s bad Spanish accent.
Also, I know the weird Arby’s guy is a comedian but I refuse to accept that.
Alec might not steal from her but mistreat her like he does it with everybody else.
Wow, it occurs to me Alec really had a type- a con woman type
Sad that Bad Vegan lady is far less annoying than “Hilaria”
Ok… my husband is basically the “pit boss” at our local casino. He is the person counting your cards, watching your movements and interactions, he’s counting the exchange of money to make sure it’s correct, and he’s also the first person to alert security downstairs of anything improper that he sees. But do you know what he calls security the most for?… people pooping and peeing themselves. Yep, he calls down because these people are so addicted that they will literally sh*t and piss themselves over “risking” getting up to go to the bathroom. I used to be addicted to cigarettes and got to a point where I was smoking a pack a day. But I never got to the point where I’d sh*t myself in public just to keep smoking my cigarettes. I’m not surprised he came up with this outlandish story, in fact I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he was the type to also poop and piss himself either.
When I tell you my jaw dropped reading that...
@@shae9364 right hahaha 🤣😂🤣
Omg 🤭😭
that took a weird turn
wow I’m even more grossed out by casinos now.
I wouldn't call her paying her employees the money she owed them "good" ...I'd call it the bare minimum.
And it was also restitution, iirc. Not her choice lol
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Yes. Thats true. Good is something else.
I’m curious if the employees have confirmed that they actually received the money
@@SoulShiner1115 Good point. I find it hard to believe a single word that comes out of Sarma's mouth.
If she was actually "brainwashed" it was only because she was so lacking in nutrients that she couldn't think straight. Eat more than just raw vegetables, people.
^This^ 😂
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Jaime: "I, too, had a gambling problem when I was 12."
12 year old Jaime: "GAMBLIN'!!!!!!"
This made my Sprite go down the wrong pipe and exit through both my mouth AND nose, which is the EXACT same thing that happened when Jaime did the "slumminit with bruthar's slobby seggonds" bit from Kissing Booth. Lesson learned. Jaime and Sprite don't mix.
…are you okay? 😅🫂
😂😂
Omgoodness I honestly think Jaime’s take on the slumminit quote is possibly the funniest thing I’ve watched her say. It isn’t just how it sounds, it was watching her mouth have to contort to get it out the way he said it. Too funny.
P.S. I’m s fellow sprite lover and note taken to not consume while watching.
P.S.S. Jaime may need a disclaimer at the beginning of her videos to not consume beverages unless you are okay with the unexpected potential of spitting it out
Same!!!! But with water. It was so unexpected 😂😂😂
I'm glad I saw this comment 'cuz if I saw that clip without any warning, I would've choked on air from laughing so hard
My friend Bonnie is in the doc, so that's why I watched it. (She's the one who said Shanthony looked like the Hamburglar.) Man, what a wild ride. She was the manager of Pure Food and Wine for several years before Shanthony showed up, and left before everything totally went sideways.
She seems like a lovely person. 🌺
@@miriamhavard7621 She really is one of the best people I know.
I remember her from there seating me many times. She's quite tall, yes?
@@dowth3 Yes, she's at least six feet tall.
@@heeree9630 Yes, I remember her being gracious and poised. I'm sorry for her troubles. I'm one of the people who "loaned" Sarma a little bit of money.
Jamie, I wanted to tell you how much your movie reviews mean to me. I deal with bipolar and depression each day is an absolute nightmare. But I seem to find my calm and peace when I watch your videos. You truly are an amazing content creator. I love everything you do.
Please keep this up.
You’re amazing!
Evan. Indiana state.
Jesus is you answer
@@nikkig4847 you? 😂😂😂 failed at English I see.
There were so many things they just offhandedly referenced and then NEVER talked about again it was so frustrating 😂😂
I actually sort of liked that part. Like, there was just so much going on.
Like the mystery blood! Who's blood??? Why blood??? Never mentioned again! I was afraid it was the dog's
One thing I’ve learned is when Netflix wants to do a documentary on you… just say no because you will end up looking like an idiot
😂😂😂
the tweets between alex baldwin and “shane fox” don’t seem weird to me as someone who was on twitter in like 2011. celebrities were WEIRD on there and plenty of people had a bunch of followers who weren’t famous at all, kinda had ‘online friends’ and would tweet funny things at each other, etc. it wasn’t uncommon for a rando to gain a bunch of followers bc they made a celebrity laugh & engage w them enough times to make them seem relevant
Sarma comes off.....as SUCH a clueless person throughout this story, on so many levels, and it peeved me so much how she somehow climbed to such success in her life.
THANK YOU!
I'm definitely wondering the same thing; how did she become so successful and I can't even get a job lmao maybe being clueless pays?
@@kelseyrenee91 Ill tell you how, Sarma was a gorgeous blonde. Lol (edit: Also I don't believe Sarma is as clueless as the documentary tried to paint her as. )
Pretty privilege is for real.
@@leyanash3585 took the words right out of my mouth. Lol
Her disconnection sounds like cognitive dissonance to me. Like, she got it but couldn't consciously face it because it was far too difficult to admit she'd gotten in to such a situation.
That’s what I think!
People are too focused on the money aspect of this. This was never just about money. It seems like she really wanted to believe the story she was being told because she couldn't cope with the problems in her own life. And now that that is over, she doesn't understand how to process it.
Cognitive shmognitive. She was an entitled jerk, period 🤦♀️
An interesting thing to note, in Florida arrest records aren't automatically sealed like in other states. It's one of the many reasons why Florida Man will never die. But if the scammer guy's record of his first known crime were locked, then that means someone had to request for them to be.
I can just listen to Jaime for hours talking about anything cause she sounds like a friend.
He's not taking about vegans in general he means raw vegans. And he's absolutely correct. There's some weird sht in that community. Also the focus on his weight prly has to do with the fact that ed's are very prevalent among raw vegans. A lot of people come to that community from an ed because people like freelee the banana girl told them they're too fat, and raw veganism will allow them to binge without ever gaining weight
Exactly...
Your straight hair and bangs…. IS. ABSOLUTELY. EVERYTHING!!!!! You’re gorgeous and obviously hilariously!!! Love you girlie!!!
Anthony’s dad corroborating his lies is wild. Also a scammer and manipulative liar? Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
He also needs to do time
They are also born into those secret society families, and do all those things WYKYK
@@marahmoonflower7926 suuuuure
Not that wild. Abuse isn’t a crazy instinct, it’s a learned behavior.
Of course a dad that spent a lifetime abusing his partners is going to normalize and support his son in abusing their partners.
@@kristenbartholomew4209 100%
I could've thought she was a victim until she helped him with his "Michael" persona to defraud her friend.
Yess
Maybe she's both a victim and an asshole
Because victims of abuse are never pressured into helping their abuser.
@@Jane-oz7pp totally forgot victims of abuse are absolved of responsibility for the harm they cause others, Thanks Jane! 🥰🥰🥰 And I guess I should clarify I thought she was SOLELY a victim but instead she was both a victim and perpetrator...hope this helps! 🥰
I watched this documentary and I must say I have never been more confused like the story had so many things brought up but never spoke about😭
Can we talk about how the whole doc seemed to be on Sarma's side and then at the last second implied she was complicit all along? It was just a creepy twist it seemed like.
Netflix did that deliberately to mislead the viewer. They played a clip from earlier in their relationship.
I fell asleep while watching this and missed a whole episode and a half. I was very very confused but also so disinterested already that I just kept watching without knowing what happened. This recap is 1000% more interesting.
Same thing happened to me, I missed some parts on the first time around but I love Jaime’s recap. 😆
Lmao same and the next day I went back and rewatched it and I felt like I had missed nothing coz it was so convoluted
The most infuriating part of this documentary is how she refuses to take accountability for her actions. Spoilers but her mom got scanned by the this guy when they were on the run. The way she talks about it is so blasé she says she feels a little responsible when it is 100% her fault. She brought that guy into her and her family’s life.
Here's why Sarma is not a victim. All of her fantastical motivations for lying and "borrowing" money were SELFISH. So that SHE could obtain gifts of wealth and immortality (not out of fear for her safety or anything). She wasn't abused, she wasn't defrauded (never was her own money), she wasn't in danger.
She believed that was the only way to live based on shanthony (but I definitely agree that his logic to his whole money and immortality is very selfish). I don't think it's so black and white though - It reminds me how he keeps telling her over and over how the restaurant opened again after the first time it closed and he convinced her everything would work out for everyone if she just did was needed to do (money-wise) to gain immortality/etc..
Yes, I think it's convenient for her to play the victim to try to rebuild her reputation but it doesn't add up.
FYI: Sarma is very very intelligent and super business savvy. She owned multiple businesses and even had a line of snacks at Whole Foods. She went to Ivy League Wharton School of Business… so it’s a little hard to believe she didn’t know she was defrauding investors and using that dirty money to take lavish trips to Europe. And she seems a bit too smart to be manipulated by a guy who eats… gasp…domino’s pizza!
It sounds like you’re saying smart people can’t eat Dominoes 🤨
So you're saying smart people can't be mentally abused and manipulated? Ummm...ok then.
@@nicolemenard2147 no I’m saying it makes it harder to believe that someone can be completely manipulated into stealing hundreds of thousands in investments, neglect employees, and become a fugitive. I feel like this documentary was so one sided(because it literally was), that it feels contrived.
@@sailorarwen6101 I guess the joke went over your head
@@nicolemenard2147 i think its that either way, in the end even after she realized she was stealing from employees.... she kept stealing. From employees. Even so that she was calling herself another name. Im not saying she wasnt manipulated, but she said she never knew it was wrong. Pretty sure she knew at some point.
I was thinking Sarna herself must have gotten addicted to gambling too, since after a point he wasn't hiding it. But then you showed that clip of her scratching her gambling scratch off tickets the way an addict scratches when they're all tweaked out. That cinched it, mystery explained.
As someone who just ordered Domino's for dinner, I could not have picked a better video to watch
Literally the same with me too! 😆
I also ordered dominoes last night when I watched it 😂
I’m definitely craving some domino’s now. 😂
“Meat Suit” is meant to be human skin, we are “wearing meat suits” was my interpretation of that phrase. Anthony obviously wakes up and puts his meat suit on over his non human form….. c’mon guys 🙄🤣
Thank you, looking to see how many more people are awake...
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Yeah meat suit is a pretty common phrase in sci fi; often its about someone getting rid of their "meat suit" ie their mortal body to become an artificial intelligence.
@@starsINSPACE makes sense!!!
@@marahmoonflower7926 eyes wide open! Sometimes I think I’m “too awake” 🤣
i couldn't even finish this documentary it literally took so much time to get to the point with the way Netflix decided to present it and i am really glad Jamie decided to break it down
I didn’t feel like entertaining this documentary but I’m here for your commentary 😂 thank you for this!
Same I would honestly rather have someone explain it to me than watch it
I would let Jaime explain the phone book to me lol.
I have an extremely hard time viewing her as a "victim". First, if she believed half of what he was telling her off the bat with no proof, then she is not brain washed, she is extremely gullible. Who in their right mind would believe that someone can make them and their dog immortal?? Secondly, she doesn't come off as remorseful at all..she is asked questions and just very casually answers them with no emotions, no guilt, no embarrassment that as a grown woman she allowed all of this to go on as long as it did, especially after finding out he took her mom for money as well. And thirdly, when it ended with her having a recent phone call with him and laughing like they were just reminiscing about memories, it came off to me that she was the biggest con artist in the situation bc she got all these people to believe her. She acts more like a 15 year old girl who just saw Twilight for the first time and wants to believe her vampire heartthrob is coming to take her away to a better life, all while her employees are worrying about how they are going to pay their bills. I hated every second of it and wish I didn't waste my time. I can't believe she was paid to sit there and nonchalantly give half-assed answers.
My thoughts exactly. I feel like if I was truly brainwashed/manipulated and then finally was “broken” from that “spell”.. I would feel remorse and would want to show that to others to tell them how sorry I was. I got angry when they asked her a question along the lines of thinking one way.. she got super defensive and annoyed. From watching victims from mental abuse or cults.. you usually see a sense of remorse or confusion reflecting based on that time. When you look at the call she had with the guy in the very beginning about doing the documentary it only felt like a way to clear her name
The ending was misleading. Netflix played a recording from earlier in their relationship. Sama tweeted about it.
Don't mind if she's paid if it means that her employees and investors get at least some of their money back.
Exactly! I feel the exact same way.
Yes, yes, and yes!
I've just watched this and I think she's a liability! Gullible to say the least! The part that got me was after all of this, at the end of the documentary. She calls him and they laugh and joke- he tells her she's beautiful and he loves her and she flirts back!
Gross 🤢
Love the homeless man that sits and smokes with the leather jacket! The star of this show!
I'm pretty late to this, but I laughed all the time because of the story and the fact she is vegan and named after a balkan dish with meat and cabbage 😂
There's SO many things insane about the story, but I feel like it starts with Shane/Anthony's job being black ops or something similarly secretive while also having a ton of Twitter followers and Tweeting Alec Baldwin.
Totally…red flags
I guess sending pics of dogs you can adopt to someone who keeps messaging you and says they are "feeling lonely" is probably the nicest way to reject someone's advances on Twitter. 🤔
I feel like with Sarma two things can be true at once. She can be a victim and also do things that have you like wtf. I feel like with her it was like “In for a penny in for a pound” and I feel like because it wasn’t her money specifically it may have been easier to justify maybe. Idk.
Btw, Sarma is a funny name for a vegan, because over here in the Balkans sarma is a dish - it's pickled cabbage rolls filled with minced meat and rice :D
She didn’t name herself. That the name her parents gave her when she was born. It’s ironic that she became a vegan later in life.
@@danyeldoyle9685 yeah, it's still a funny name since she's now vegan.
@@BebbaDubbs I agree you just worded it weird in my opinion. It would be funnier if it translated to 💩.
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Love it.
She has Latvian origins, she was born in Riga, Latvia and her name Sarma in Latvian means Frost. Ironic thing is that her surname means Black Rooster. I am a Latvian myself and this documentary was indeed widely discussed in media.
"I can't find healthy food"
Goes to Chipotle regularly enough to befriend and drink 6-packs with one of the employees lmao
I mean if that's her only option, it's probably the best she can get. I'm pretty sure you can eat vegan if ordering from chipotle and it's probably among the healthiest of fast food chains.
I love how she didn't pay her employees and cost investors hundreds of thousands of dollars and while she's a fugative on the run she's complaining about the lack of health food options for her in middle of nowhere Tennesee. haha
Right? Like Tennessee has grocery stores.
Sadly she ruined not only her employees, also her suppliers, heck even her own mother was scammed by the guy (no less than 60k according to the documentary)
It amazed me how easy she could get people to give her lots of money without any guarantee.
Pretty privilege.
This documentary is WILD!!! That guy is an absolute PSYCO!!! The recorded calls are crazy and what he says is disgusting and violent!! It blows my mind how this woman fell for the complete insanity that Anthony was spewing. She's just as insane as he is. Just my opinion on it.
I think part of what makes it scary is that it is so normal. This is what abuse often looks like. It drives both people nuts.
I miss the old days of Twitter when it was hyped as a way you could actually talk to celebrities like they were real people. Except the celebrities were just Ashton Kutcher, Katy Perry, Ellen and Alec Baldwin.
I usually don't leave youtube comments but here I am. Please do more documentary reviews. I love when you do bad/just okay movie reviews but this video (as well as your review of Long Shot when you referred back to the Boy Band Con documentary throughout) was super entertaining. Love your channel.
Off topic, but you mentioned it- Abducted in Plain Sight made me livid, enraged, incensed, furious… words fail me. I consume a TON of True Crime, but that made me have to pause and leave the room for a bit.
The parents were trash!
That 'fat bastard' comment had me burst out laughing, how rude 😂😂😂. I watched the trailer and thought it was a restaurant owner wasn't really a vegan and pretending that her dishes was vegan. Using regular butter and hidden eggs in her cakes 😂
Riiiggghhhttt!!!!! 😂😂😂😂
i heard abt this story on a true crime podcast and thought she was selling human flesh on her menu-
When my husband and I watched this on Netflix we were just shocked, like we’ve both been in situations when someone tried to scam us, and we both like “nope” it’s just wild how she didn’t give Alec Baldwin the time of day, but this random stranger she’s happy to connect with? The whole thing is just bizarre… having said that, in my country people are being scammed with the whole “if you give us money now you will get more later” scam.
Cause Alec isn't in charge of his own money probably lol
I think she was a bit of both a victim and not a victim. She definitely started off as one and I bet she felt like she couldn't get out by the time she realized what was going on. She then just kept doing it and was no longer the victim. She definitely got taken advantage of.
This guy takes gaslighting to a whole other level.
i’m obsessed with your retelling, i fell asleep while trying to watch it and this is SO MUCH better
Same! I started watching it and it was a big snoozefest and I stopped.
Same! Me too but I’m wide awake watching Jaime tell it 😆
Same. I feel asleep for two episodes and don't look back
I have a hard time believing she actually believed all the crap he was saying. I mean, it's literally plot points from movies. SMH. She's either complicit or an idiot. I'm inclined to believed the former.
When someone is a psychopath and manipulative anyone can be a victim.
People who get sucked into cults have statistically above average intelligence.
Nah she's not stupid...she was terribly manipulated. Cults for example...they'll claim crazy, wild shit and people will believe it. Especially when they're vulnerable. This may be an EXTREME form mental abuse but it's absolutely mental abuse. It's unfortunate but it happens. Even to really smart people. It's very unfortunate and really terrifying and upsetting
... She was not totally a victim but I would say she also ain't clued up either anyone that can convince you that you and your dog are going to be immortal is not normal!
I watched the whole thing and I kept wondering why they were portraying her as a victim. Yes the Shane guy was the major driver of the fraud but she cannot be completely absolved either.
So many things left unsaid with this doc. I watched it on a whim and I was sucked in so quick. I find it incredibly disturbing that someone can cause that much monetary damage and only serve one year!!! What gives????
Yea he should have served more time. The worst part he had a lot money in his prison account meaning he was still swindling people from behind bars
Right?!?
Sooo she wasn’t interested in Alec Baldwin but she went for this guy?
Like, I want to be mad at her, bc she was smart enough to be an investment banker and savvy enough to run a successful NYC restaurant that celebrities frequented, but then I realize I am her. This guy is basically every gas lighter I’ve ever dater.
Nah- it was that Alec met his now wife before he and Sarma really got to know each other
@@shannonceleste5557 no, Sharma was with her boyfriend while Alec was single. Then when they broke up Alec had just met Hilaria. She discussed it in the documentary.
@@LoveK1 That is correct 👍🏼 They just weren't single at the same time and then she missed out.
It's really sad. He gaslighted her really badly. I really feel for her.
Note to self, if you're doing crime don't order pizza LMAO
lol, the manager's reaction to hearing about the meat suit was one of my favorite parts 😂...she was so scared to find out what it was 😅
The commentary we didn’t know we needed but we’re graced with anyways. Seriously this made my day go from “bad” to “now I can’t stop laughing”
I made it up to the point where I found out he was a high level gambling addict and his dad was too, and it all made sense. I had struggles with gambling and psychotic behavior like this is super easily explained. What I think they REALLY glossed over is that Sarma definitely was hanging out in all the casinos and also participated a lot more than she let on and basically got off the hook painting herself in a better light. I was also annoyed about the fixation on the pizza and wings since it had so little to do with what was wrong and I watched the whole documentary and got real mad by the end. I liked this video though. This video would pair well with any dominos offerings and leave you in a better place than watching the Netflix “documentary”
By the end, I was really frustrated with her. She was confused why the interviewing was asking questions about why they drove to Montreal. And she took no accountability. You can’t be that stupid.
Jamie, you forgot to mention the phone conversation they had at the end, when he got out of jail as well. Just when I thought the series couldn’t get any weirder, they “catch up” and it made my eyes roll out of my head.
That phone conversation was from earlier in their relationship. Netflix deliberately tried to mislead.
@@ananse77 well that's interesting! How sneaky of the docu
@@brittlebricks10 Take every documentary with a large grain of salt. They're usually not made by actual experts and are often out of date or just outright nonsense.
@@Jane-oz7pp dang!
SHANTHONY. Damn I needed that name to keep up with this creep during the documentary. It was way too difficult keeping tabs on who the hell they were talking about sometimes.... You know, at the Straunt.
I refuse to believe that she thought he was in special ops or could make her dog immortal… there is no way in hell. I do believe he was emotionally abusive and she got in too deep, but part of it was a schtick on her part.
Sarma doesn’t seem to be a helpless victim. She seems to be just as horrible as ShAnthony.
wonderful how everyone feels entitled for a comment
@@arikalamari19 wonderful how everyone feels entitled for a comment
I think it would have benefitted the documentary to have a professional who works with deprogramming individuals who have left abusive situations to kind of help how this kind of thing does happen.
That would definitely help bc it seems like it went off the deep end reaaall quick and I would like to know more about how this happened
Agreed 100%, like, I wish the Something Was Wrong podcast had covered this
Sarma went on a podcast called a little bit culty to kind of talk about it and go more in depth about what happened. Her and the two podcasters, Sara and Nippy help her break it down on how it happened by comparing their situation with NXIM
@@laurenelizabeth2592 yes! First season of Something Was Wrong, you got so much more information on how the guy charmed the victim. I really don't think we got enough info in this doco about how Anthony was charming. And agreed that SWW would have spoken to experts.
LOVE these videos because I DO NOT want to watch some of these but you do FOR ME and make it entertaining :) MORE PLEASE! :)
All I could keep thinking was "what's gonna happen to Leon?" Also that guy repeating chicken wings was so damn funny.
I suppose gamblers can only use the "lost my wallet" excuse so many times. He should have been a science fiction writer and started his own religion like L. Ron Hubbard did.
This is exactly what I said. If you're gonna be a grifter, go big or go home, and goin' big means you get on the Jesus train.
Yep, get that sweet tax free money, which needs to stop by the way. If you’re taxing minors then you in need to tax religious institutions.
I got so completely frustrated with Sarma. She graduated from Wharton! She ran a very successful restaurant in Manhattan. She had plenty of major investors ready to help her expand her booming business. (This is a very intelligent woman!) How in the heck did this driven, successful, intelligent woman fall for a line of such OBVIOUS scammy bullcrap? I don't understand her. Why did she go along with this mess? Why did she continue to participate? At SOME point, she had to have figured-out that he was just a criminal.
Wealthy, clairvoyant, Black Ops, immortality-granting super-humans don't live at a Fairfield Inn in Vegas for months at a time. He kept scamming her, because she kept letting him.
Thank you for your service and sacrifice for your community! Its taken me four days to finish just the first episode, and I still have about 20 mins left....😑😑😑
At first watching the documentary I felt a LITTLE bad for Sarma but as the details went on and on.. Sarma knew what was going on I don't think shes as much a victim as the show tries to paint her as. Theres no way.
I think you underestimate how stupid people can be :D
@@WankiTank not that stupid.
I love that you use your old videos of you throughout your videos, so creative and your just hilarious!
GOSH! Thanks Jamie, I started watching this documentary like 2 weeks ago and i just couldnt... but I also like... thought about it a few times since. I am so so so happy I didnt waste any more time on it... your summary was da bomb and waaaaaaaaaay more entertaining than the actual unfolding of the plot....
LOL thank youuuu I forgot to say that same thing that omg the documentary was SO SLOW. Like the entire first half of episode one wasn’t even necessary 😂😂
I’ve been in a single relationship like this, and I was lucky it was during COVID so we couldn’t spend much time together. I say lucky because that meant I always had some time away to gather my thoughts and feelings. By the end of a month I was outtie. Gotta trust your gut and remember to never rush in
You were in a relationship where a guy told you he could make your dog immortal because he's an alien?
I have watched this like 5 times. I just have you on in the background while I am working so I come in and out of paying attention. Your videos CRACK ME UP! And I love how you can help make the day fly by!
“and we met on words with friends”
“i thought they meant twitter”
lmaooooo subtle joke but a gold mine. love this one. such a good video. you and chad chad are the top of my rotation currently.
Phew!! I'm just glad the dog is okay. I was tense the whole time thinking something bad might have happened to him.
Same!
This made me want to watch that show all over again. I don't know if I saw this video already, but I'm gonna enjoy it again. Lol
I've never been so damn irritated after watching a documentary! NO WAY Sarma was that clueless.
No kidding! I didn’t buy for a minute that she loved Anthony. She came across as really out of touch and unlikeable. It was the most disappointing documentary I’ve ever watched. There was no satisfying conclusion whatsoever.
@@andrewmccullough7576 Can you imagine having to explain the ridiculous things you did for someone you loved at that time while you still haven't really coped/healed from it? She said in the doc that she tries not to think about anything about it all because of how it affects her. She hasn't addressed these things, and is now trying to explain how she loved a man who she now hates because of the manipulation he put her through. I probably wouldn't sound like I loved him either if I were in her shoes.. just something to consider. Especially because she's not trying to be likeable. She's just telling the story in the way she knows how.
@@KimixKicks stop it. She agreed to do it and she got paid. She’s not a child and she’s trying to repair her image.
I'm a smart person who was in an abusive relationship and lost everything (I had to run away in the night with my dog and some clothes and leave it all behind) and I feel shame, and embarrassment. I got into debt trying to pay for everything and my mental health put me in a psych ward at points from what I went through. I'd hate to think the people around me would make fun of me after all of that like they do with her.
My darling Jessica, im so sorry this happened to you :( Your situation was i'm sure very different, so don't worry on that account. What happened to you was not your fault. At all. Please dont feel ashamed. :( x
Your situation is different. You didn't steal labor from employees who were so close to you, they called you "mom", jeopardizing their livelihood as you took trips to Europe and knowingly took investors on a wild goose chase, knowing you were using their money to fund your life and keep your restaurant doors open.
After all that, its still "Anthony's fault". Nah, she was a willing accomplice and deserves to be ashamed. I think you're too close to the situation and can't see how wrong she is. She naively allowed herself to believe this crazy otherworldly story where she could be, not only a mogul, but something so special as immortal...by a dude she met on Twitter/Words with Friends...who also said her dog was immortal.
That's utterly delusional. Abused or not, if you do the wrong thing, people get to talk about it. Especially if its this comically exaggerated delusion of grandeur.
Nobody would talk about you like that because you didn't turn a blind eye to astro-babble bullshit. You fell into the cycle and had a hard time getting out. There's nothing funny about that...to even put yourself in those shoes shows how much you care what people think about your situation and, in the least condescending tone possible, you should get some help for coping with that. Nobody is laughing at you, dear...nobody...
I was in a similar situation. But if you hurt others during or after that process, I feel like you'd take SOME responsibility, accountability, and feel guilt and remorse. Did you get even an ounce of that from her? That's what I don't like.
It's also weird because she did question him constantly in her journaling (like many of us do, but can't leave) but then during this interview acts like she had no consciousness and CAN'T be responsible at ALL for the effects that this had on her employees livelihoods and stability.
People who have never experienced that kind of manipulation and abuse don't understand how erosive it is to your sense of self and your ability to make healthy choices for yourself. With that lack of understanding, they falsely believe themselves to be "above" such influences, and in their behaviour and actions they invalidate and mock the real lived experiences of others. Congratulations on surviving and getting out of that situation. You deserve to feel proud of yourself for what you've accomplished. I hope one day you can find that pride.
Atleast u ran away... Why didn't she?