#1742 - Jimmy Corsetti

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Nice to meet you in person. I've watched many, many of your videos on YouTube and I really, really enjoy them.

Jimmy Corsetti (0:19)

That's quite flattering.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Well, we share a common interest, this fascination with ancient civilizations and the mysteries that come, the first video I think I saw of you was this video of these concentric circles in Africa that are remarkably similar to the descriptions of Atlantis.

Jimmy Corsetti (0:39)

The Rishat structure.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Yeah. And then I started reading up on it and I'm like, this is pretty wild. And then I got into your whole YouTube page, which is called Bright Insight.

And it's really excellent. So first, before we even get started, how did you get interested in this subject?

Jimmy Corsetti (0:54)

Well, going back to the sixth grade, that was when I fell in love with the Egyptians.

Bring that sucker up to you. How's that sound?

Joe Rogan (1:02)

Perfect.

Jimmy Corsetti (1:02)

I've always had a fascination for the ancients.

Growing up in school, most topics bored the hell out of me. In math, I'd be like counting the ceiling tiles more than I'd be counting numbers. But something like that, the ancients, science, history, I always thought was fun. But I never would have thought that I would grow up to make a career out of it.

My story is pretty unique in that I made a lot of life changes about five years ago. I was heading down a path. I was really unhappy. I was doing a corporate life, and I was more depressed than I had ever been, and yet I had everything in my life. I had a good paycheck, beautiful wife, house, everything, except for a soul-sucking path of a career that was going to bring me nothing but misery.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

What were you doing?

Jimmy Corsetti (1:53)

Well, I was a fraud investigator for a large retailer, one of the largest.

I'll say it's not Walmart. Actually, I'll say it's Target. Who cares?

Joe Rogan (2:01)

Oh, Jesus, you're crazy. I can't believe you're saying it.

Jimmy Corsetti (2:04)

It was a sweet gig for a while. I was doing a couple of responsibilities, internal theft and fraud. So I was investigating employees that steal from the company, and I also managed the team that would bust the shoplifters, external theft and fraud.

And that gig was awesome for a few years until, and I'm not talking crap about Target because it's a corporate thing. They're all doing the do more with less philosophy through attrition. They get rid of other positions, and then they pass on those responsibilities to you, and then you end up doing less of what you really want to do. For example, what I was good at was busting people that were stealing from the company.

Salaried managers.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

How do they steal? What's the most clever way?

Jimmy Corsetti (2:48)

Well, it could be something as simple as stealing cash, but that's the easiest thing to catch, so that's more rare. Some people steal merchandise, so you've got to think about it. If you were to take, because we were joking about DVDs earlier, no one's doing them anymore, but when I was last here in 2014, DVD box sets for television series, those things would go 50, 60 bucks. But if you steal a whole box of them and you sell them on the black market, there's no overhead. And other things that people do is mark things down. You'll have a TV or patio furniture or something, whatever you think about it. And you just mark that stuff down.

But it could be something simple stuff. It could be people that are just trying to, I don't know, I mean, you think about it.

Actually, let me put it like this. And this is for the external, this is the shoplifters. You want to guess what the number one most stolen thing out of Target is? Out of anything else.

Joe Rogan (3:42)

Gum? No?

Jimmy Corsetti (3:44)

I'll give you a hint.

Joe Rogan (3:44)

I would think it's something you can slip into your pocket.

Jimmy Corsetti (3:47)

I'll give you a hint. Oh, yes.

It's women and something that's just dropping their purse. It's nail polish.

Joe Rogan (3:53)

Nail polish?

Jimmy Corsetti (3:54)

More than anything.

Joe Rogan (3:55)

Really?

Jimmy Corsetti (3:55)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:56)

So they just walk by and they just go, I can get away with this.

Jimmy Corsetti (3:58)

Yeah, just grab it.

Joe Rogan (3:59)

And you catch them on cameras? Is that how you bust them?