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I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to
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the universe. We are here at the prescription.
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to the prescription. I like to get my prescription
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from Larry. Lock in. Hello, people. Hello, world.
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Welcome to State of World. This is Larry. I got
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with me, E .J. and Kay. We might be doing a little
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bit something in a little bit, but I just wanted
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to do a little, you know, news update for State
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of World. Welcome to State of World. How you
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doing, E .J.? Doing good, man. It's nice to be
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back. Yeah, and, you know... We're we're we're
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on the precipice of something because there's
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so much going on in society and The reason I
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have a on I know you guys are hearing him like
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on other shows But there was something that happened
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with him personally And it has to do with ice
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over here on the west coast. So I'll go ahead
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and let me tell the story Yeah, just thanks.
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Thanks for the introduction doc. We were talking
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a little bit pre -show and About current events
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and everything and I happened to to witness a
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like a ice abduction personally Coming home from
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like dinner. Just seeing them like four or five
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blocks from the house Like pull over a guy you
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see like all the unmarked cars all the no badges
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or anything So we we did what we could but you're
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you know, you're in that like state of shock
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in the in the moment kind of thing. But we pulled
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over, recorded it, tried to contact authorities
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or whatever you could and look into it and help
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publicly and everything. So we found out that
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they had been in the neighborhood for about a
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week. I think they had been there a day or two
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before and then a couple of days after. I just
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kind of like abducting people one, two at a time.
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And it's crazy, you know, it's one of the things
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we all kind of know what's happening, but How
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long was this recent, was it just within the
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last, how recently was this? I was trying to
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pull it up. It was within the last month. I can't
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remember exactly when it happened, but, but yeah,
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it's a, it's, it's, you know, like most things
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in real life, when you went to sit with your
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own eyes and it's in your backyard, it hits,
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it's way differently. Exactly a month ago. So
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just, can you tell us what, can you just, you
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know, I don't want you to give anybody's identities
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or locations away or anything. you know, expose
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anybody, but can you give us kind of a description
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of what you saw, what happened, just how you
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came onto the scene? Can you just kind of just
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tell us the story from the beginning? Yeah, yeah.
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So we live in a part of Seattle that's that's
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fairly heavy Latino. I got a lot of like Mexican
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stores and like pop up shops, taco stands on
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the corners of like where I am. But we were coming
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home, so off the highway, kind of taking the
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street. one of the main streets that get onto
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our street where our house is. And we saw four
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cars pulled over on the side of the road. In
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a lane on the road, there's two lanes on either
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side, and they just had four cars pulled over.
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Three of them had flashing cop cars, cop siren
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lights, but they were all inside the car. And
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then as we get closer, we slow down just to look,
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and we notice the three cars are basic. Like
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SUVs, they're not police vehicles, and they all
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are unmarked. Like the license plates are down,
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or they put like a covering over the license
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plate. Being in Seattle, like, I remember one
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of them had like a Seahawks decal over it. But
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no actual license plates. And then you look and
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you see... So there's like three police cars
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in total, so there's like six or seven dudes.
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They don't all have their face coverings up,
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but they all have like glasses on and like...
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you can see the handkerchiefs around their neck.
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So we were like, oh shit, that's ice. So we pulled
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over or we got to like the next intersection
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and did a UE or we did, we might've done three
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rights to turn around, just to circle back and
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like videotape them. And once they saw the car
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that happened to be in front of us when we did
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that was also doing the same thing. So they all
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quickly pulled their coverings up and whatever.
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Cause we were trying to stop in like the other
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lane. to tell them, like, fuck off, get out of
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here, leave them alone, kind of thing. But you
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do get a little worried, especially when shit
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happened in Minnesota, so you don't want to linger
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too long. So we pulled over the next street up
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and just recorded them from there to try to figure
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out everything that was happening. My fiance
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got out to record. I was sitting in the car to
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drive and get her if I could. So I saw them take
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the guy out of his car. It looked like he came
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willingly, but obviously like not full cooperation
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just didn't like forcefully get dragged out and
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and shit and loaded into their car And then one
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of the ice agents got in his van pulled it up
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to like where we were So I got a little spooked
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and drove off then I kind of wish in hindsight.
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I had stayed there But we're like, alright, let's
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get the fuck out of here and then ended up like
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Circling back and seeing the vehicle abandoned
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there. And then, um, the lady, the lady that
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was in front of us and a couple people like from
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the neighborhood, like came out of their, their
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houses and film too. And, um, they have like,
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uh, I think it's like a citizen set up ice assistance
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thing that came up. So one of the people knew
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that number. So we talked, we talked with that
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lady, got a little more information there and
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found out what ice does. Is assistant and not,
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was that like, What can you explain this what
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that is? It's. I I don't know exactly if it's
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part of like Seattle government, but I think
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Seattle government at least like. Help set it
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up or has their websites kind of follow you.
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To them and there they're kind of more trained
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on the. Assistance so they tried they they kind
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of know. More the ins and outs of the ice tactics
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and how to respond and document it and. Try to.
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Like help with the crisis like with the vehicle
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for example What ice does is they? They take
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it they pull it over they lock all the doors
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and take the keys with them and essentially abandon
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the vehicle So they're not only like kidnapping
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the person, but they're essentially like stealing
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your vehicle So if that happened to be that family's
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only vehicle or whatever the rest of the family
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doesn't know what happened to the husband the
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father and then also doesn't have a motor transportation
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or any way to get it, but Like one of the things
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she was trying to do is like try to open the
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doors if they're not locked see if there's any
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way in the vehicle so they could potentially
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find identification to like contact the family
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and at least help out and You know at least do
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like the civic duty of letting the people know
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instead of their stuff I'm wondering and actually
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sounds like a really nice program that they got
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going up there yeah, yeah, and I I hope it's
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helpful, but it's it's one of the things where
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it's the stuff happened so fast it was a matter
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of you know maybe 10 minutes when you're not
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expecting it and not prepared to deal with it
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so what happened with the uh driver was it in
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the news you know what their fate was and all
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this i didn't see anything in the news so that
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that was what kind of alarmed me and you know
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made made me almost have like ptsd is you find
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like there's like websites i think it's stop
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ice or whatever that has like little trackers
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and that's how i found out like It had been happening
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day over day over in our neighborhood, but we
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watched the news every morning and stuff and
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it never came up anywhere. I didn't see anything
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about it. I tweeted about it and like, couldn't
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even find anything on Twitter. Um, so I'm not
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sure if, if the media and, you know, with, with
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it all dictated by like the Trump party right
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now is putting a kibosh on it or if it's just
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kind of like out of, out of sight, out of mind,
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but. I thought it was shocking how hard it was
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to find details on anything. It is an extreme
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challenge covering this stuff because there's
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real no there's not a public information officer
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to go to even if there was who knows if they
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were healthy and you can't I mean I don't know
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if anybody's actually done a FOIA on any of these
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stuff asking for information I mean the best
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you could probably do is get local police reports
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if you were trying to do a story without you
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know, someone sending video without somebody,
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you know, without being alerted or following
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it. And I know a lot of TV reporters and a lot
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of, I know a lot of like actual mainstream people
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aren't following this stuff because it's dangerous.
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It takes a lot of time. You're also in the political
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crosswinds with people. But just you and your
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fiance just After this you saw this happen. It
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happened so fast You're talking to the assistance
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people. Just what how would you were feeling
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in the days after that? I mean It was definitely
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PTSD. I was I was like scanning every corner
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driving like just trying to be like on alert
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because it's like Especially like in your backyard
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like two three minutes from my house. It's like
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shit. They could be anywhere They could be in
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my neighborhood. They could be on my street and
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you know, just not wanting to see that again.
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So instead, but instead of, you know, blind eye
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tunnel vision, you're on high alert PTSD or you're
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wondering, could I have done more? Could I have
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interfered more or whatever? There's also the
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risk factor. I mean, there's, you know, there's
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peaceful protest. There's also, it's a crime
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to interfere with law enforcement. There's, there's,
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you know, even if it's a protesting manner, That's
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still legal. And there's consequences for that.
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And there's also been instances where, like in
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Minnesota, where you've had civilian people shot,
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you've had people shot across the country, injured,
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killed. And the circumstances don't seem, because
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ICE doesn't seem to follow any real law enforcement
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best practices or protocol. Yeah. And they're
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kind of in this gray zone because it's like,
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I can't remember if we called the police or one
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of the bystanders. But the police essentially
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are just trying to Play peacekeepers as much
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as they can be like, Hey, they're federal agents.
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So we don't have jurisdiction over them. So,
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you know, document it and, and stay safe and
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do what you can, but like, don't approach them
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because we can't really do anything if they come
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after you or assault you. Yeah. It's a completely
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different jurisdictional setup and I mean, there's
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even, I mean, I've seen police that has tried
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to help with ICE and you've actually been assisting
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in some stuff. I think it depends on also where
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you're at and just the political makeup and what
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they, how they feel about this issue. But also
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you see law enforcement or actually I've seen,
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I've seen New York police officers starting to
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arrest ICE agents. You know, I haven't actually
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seen it happen, but it's been in video, but just.
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If after your experience, what would you recommend
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to anybody who comes across something like this?
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I would recommend documenting it and trying to
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not necessarily interfere and put yourself at
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risk, but let them know you're watching, let
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them know it's going to get published and the
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community will know about it and trying to do
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the same thing like that. crisis actor or helper.
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That's probably not the best term to like, try
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to prevent them from locking the vehicle. Try
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to, try to ask them if they can leave the vehicle
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keys behind if they're abducting someone out
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of a vehicle like ISR or, you know, trying to,
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trying to get some humanity out of them. And
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in the inhumane acts where it's like, Hey, I,
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you know, I can't really stop you. I'm not going
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to physically assault you, but like, you don't
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have to be a dick and Take the keys or destroy
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property or whatever along with it and look into
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what what locally is there it's not easy to find
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but Seattle Seattle has a couple programs. I'm
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not sure if it's national or it's just regional
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but There are people that are trying to help
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triangulate and Calling like hey this this lady
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is the closest to this location. We'll send her
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out to respond Just to help where you can it's
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the problem is a lot of the onus comes on you
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to know ahead of time You know, it's not something
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you can figure out on the fly Yeah, it's you're
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gonna be unless you're media following him around
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and like, you know an Amanda Moore or some of
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the other, you know People like her that you
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know to that work and it's really hard work There's
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not a lot of even media following them. I wouldn't
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recommend civilians do any of that. It's interesting
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because I live in the Midwest, Ohio. You're up
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in the Northwest. Larry's in LA, but we've got
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nice stories just in our own backyards. They're
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a little bit different. They're a little bit
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the same. It's just amazing how this whole era
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of politics right now is just... You know, it's
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just it's scary stuff. Um, yeah, it's it's scary
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because it is it's like a private militia, you
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know Especially when you see it firsthand, you're
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just like what the fuck man. This is just like
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They don't have to answer to anyone and it's
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scary when they're on the street kidnapping people
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and stuff in plain daylight No, I really have
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I was always a fan of anti -clan laws where if
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you're gonna protest and pull like you should
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have your face out And I have the same, I believe
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the same for law enforcement. Unless you're undercover
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or there's something like that, I think you shouldn't
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be covering your face. It just, that harkens
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back to a really dark period in American history.
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And it harkens back to some God awful things
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that have happened in countries all over the
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world. And I'm just not a big fan of it. You
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live in more of a blue color neighborhood? Yeah.
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Yes. What's up, Larry? Larry, we lost you. Just
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because I know we're all big music fans here.
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Oh, can you hear me now? Yeah, I got you. Can
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you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, we got you now. You
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know, some of those that join forces are the
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same that bread crosses. That's true. That reminds
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me. A little Zach Dela Rocha. Vote for Tom Morello.
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Yeah, that's true. I like Tom. I like Tom better
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than Zach, but I'm the guitar player. That's
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for me. Tay, I got this is kind of off the board
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with this, but what kind of shape did the ice
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guys look? Because I know early on they were
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having a really kind of smash the fitness requirements.
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You know, there was a I mean, did these look
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like actual trained law enforcement types or
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did they look more like Guys that just wonder
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the psychos you meet at a bad redneck bar. What
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what was your opinion? I would say Somewhere
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in the middle like I think they all look like
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they get at least pass a fitness test But I I
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don't know that I would go as far as look like
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they were Like fully trained officer like you
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get you could tell especially like before it
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Before it really clicks that it's ice. You could
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tell like these aren't real Please saw, you know,
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so And that's not just like the physical getup.
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It's kind of the body language and everything.
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There's no professionalism to it. There's no,
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yeah. Right. That's something we've talked about
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Larry. It's a lot of guys. Yeah. Cause a lot
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of those guys, right? There, there was always
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before when you try to, I'm not going to knock
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it out myself on the mission. Let me show my,
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let me shut up. But like, Routinely, on the law
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enforcement thing, especially in federal law
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enforcement, you have to pass a background check
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before you even go to the academy. What we were
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seeing with this thing was a lot of drives to
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get people hired, even forgoing the age limit.
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Because the age limit to join law enforcement,
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if you're going to join law enforcement, is 36.
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But we saw that they forgoed all that. standards
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that they had for them because they wanted to
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drive up like people joining the forces and we
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also had you know people who who are pedophiles
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let's let's let's be straight up about it there
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were pedophiles there was sex there was sex crime
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people that were part of ice people who should
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have never been like considered for that job
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that were put on yeah on the floor a lot of people
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were given that kind of authority From what I
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could gather, when they started doing this with
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Trump, I think they were trying to lure a lot
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of local law enforcement people because they
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were offering big bonuses. They were trying to
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make this look like you can be a federal police
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officer. They're promising immunity for anything
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you do. And none of them really bought on it.
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I think it was $50 ,000. Yeah. And it's still,
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it's like, if you're a police officer in your
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community, why would you jump at something like
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that unless you don't have a choice? Um, right.
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And so you end up with people that want to be
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cops. You get up with the wannabe, you know,
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the, you remember the, uh, infamous meme from
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the 2000s, internet tough guy magazine. You end
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up with a lot of subscribers to internet tough
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guy magazine, uh, guys that are, you know, shouldn't
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be, you know, have bad tempers, but shouldn't
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be anywhere near authority. And, and, and in
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a lot of ways they've, you know, they're, you
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know, they've, you know, they want to work in
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law enforcement, even though they're kind of
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the worst criminals out there. Like you said,
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they got a lot of people with back. grounds that
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are, we should never be in near anything except
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for maybe a, you know, rehab center, but, um,
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or some mental health place. But, um, it's, it's
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just sad to see, um, one thing you mentioned
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today, I thought also is another thing that we've
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seen a lot of these is that you mentioned that
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the person who was in a vehicle that was taken,
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they were kind of, they were, how was it, how
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did they get them to stop? So we we saw them
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when they were stopped, but we kind of got we
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we saw it in action and, you know, putting the
20:28
pieces together and and stuff. It seemed like
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what they did was, you know, one of the guys,
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because they they had the sirens probably got
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behind them, turned the lights on. And but there
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was three three vehicles all together. So once
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he actually pulled over, the other guys swooped
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around and boxed the vehicle in. So I think the
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second vehicle probably pulled in front after
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and then, you know, backed in. So it was almost
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like the car was like parallel parked. So it's
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not an easy way out. And then they surrounded
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the vehicle. So there was, I think there was
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six guys all together, three vehicles. And the
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third vehicle was like parked around the corner.
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And they have like all three guys in a circle
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around the vehicle. So the guy would hit a person
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and would have had to like five point turn to.
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Get out of there. So, you know, that's such a
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bad, that's such a bad way to try to get somebody
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out of a car. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like something
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from a, it looks like something from a eighties
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action, maybe the way. And I know what you're
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talking about. Cause I see it. And it's like,
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you're going to end up with a lot of these guys
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getting ran over and killed at some point because
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they're not following. They don't know how to
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actually behave like law enforcement. Yeah. You
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know? Yeah. And I think it's probably also like.
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That's how they're behaving. Maybe that's what
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they are. Maybe they're autonomous. Maybe they're
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autonomous. Real world, what do they call them?
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NPCs, non -playable. I don't know this stuff,
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but you know. Maybe that's going to be the new
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thing in GTA. I wonder if ISIL would be in GTA
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6 now. That'd be interesting. I could see them
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doing that. Anyway, Tay, that was a great...
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you and your fiance
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had to deal with that, but thanks for sharing
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that story. Thanks for sticking there and documenting
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what happened. And, you know, you're, you're
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a solid American citizen, dude. And, um, you
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did great for your neighborhood and you did great
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for your country. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank
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you. Yeah. I say, um, I brought to tell that
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story because, uh, like these kinds of things
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and taste talking about like, like, He spoke,
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like Tay has, you know, we're talking through
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it. He had the trauma from it. And, you know,
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I personally, you know, I've been affected by
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the office officers. Especially if you're a member
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of that targeted group. Uncle's was about to
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be arrested. Oh, Jesus, dude, I'm sorry. Because,
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you know, now I'm going to now I'm going to talk
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about it. Like, so when there was hot and heavy,
23:10
like last year when they were doing those things
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and. They were set up like in front of grocery
23:15
stores and in front of like, you know Home depots
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and Lowe's and all that stuff and Like I still
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I still have to have my head on a swivel, right?
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Because I just like on Saturday there was like
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over here on like local news. There was an arrest
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in Long Beach of from ice and if you watch the
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video They basically You guys can even like this
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on my Google The guy was riding on his e -bike,
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and then ICE ran him over and arrested him on
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the spot. But he was an American citizen, so
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what happened is the neighborhood came out to
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film, which is what you do here. They tell you
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to film and to observe, observe and report as
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much as you can. And yeah, they pretty much,
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you know the story. We thought he was not complying
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with us, so therefore that's how he got injured.
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How do you comply when you run over? That's a
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great question. I don't want to laugh, but it's
24:20
because it's but it's it's it's absurd. So it
24:22
sounds kind of funny, but it's just it's like
24:25
a lot of things with the current political climate.
24:27
It's just it seems absurd because you got to
24:29
laugh. It's not because it's these people are
24:31
just extremely stupid. But there's this how they
24:34
behave. You know, this is kind of how these people
24:36
throughout history have been. They're absurd,
24:39
but they're also highly dangerous. So, what happened
24:44
with this guy? Did he let him go? I believe he
24:50
got let go, but he was still detained, which
24:53
is what they do. But they had no reason to pull
24:57
him over. They weren't like... Because it was
24:58
on camera. Let me ask you guys both a question
25:03
since you've been... He literally was just driving...
25:06
That's my fear. That's my fear. My fear is I
25:10
walk my dog. and like they take me and Tay knows
25:15
how much I love my dogs. They take me, so I always
25:19
bring like my freaking, my real ID and my passport
25:24
when I walk my dogs. Like it's ridiculous, but
25:27
like the fear in me is I get God and then what
25:31
happens to my dog? Like. Yeah. Well, I mean,
25:35
you know how law enforcement. Well, law enforcement's
25:37
got it. Your dog's not going to act friendly
25:39
because something's happening to you. And it
25:41
gets to this nightmare where, you know, people
25:44
and, you know, and the authority rules like this
25:46
asking in a front violent manner, they're going
25:50
to, they're going to, you know, they don't have
25:51
any responsibility or your dog. And I mean, it's
25:56
just insane it has come to this. And, you know,
26:00
it was, you know, I mean, your pets aren't safe.
26:03
I mean, there was a long time where they're,
26:04
you know, were police officers, the first thing
26:07
they'd do when you came on scene is they'd shoot
26:08
your dog. You know, that wasn't everywhere, but
26:12
it was quite prevalent. It's not as public as
26:18
it was, but I don't know if that's because the
26:20
story got old or because the police kind of figured
26:23
out that, hey, everybody's got phones and you're
26:25
shooting a golden retriever in broad daylight
26:27
just for coming wagging its tail, then it's not
26:29
looking good for you. It's just this is just
26:33
compounded because now you're dealing with something.
26:35
It's out. You know, ICE is really exciting outside
26:38
the boundaries of the law and the Constitution.
26:41
And I mean, I just I feel for you guys. It's
26:43
just, you know, I I'm white, so I don't have
26:48
to deal with that. That's that's the whole issue
26:50
is you don't know. It's not as also a white,
26:54
a good white man. But we're good. Let me ask
26:59
you guys a question. This is another this is
27:01
another. I want to ask you both this. Have you
27:05
seen them going at all after white collar immigrants?
27:08
Because I have not, except for maybe for teachers
27:12
in schools or people working in like a civic
27:15
capacity, I've not seen them going after anybody
27:18
that works for a bigger business. I've not seen
27:20
them going after, at a bigger business. I have
27:23
not seen them in neighborhoods where there's
27:26
bigger businesses, but there's a high concentration
27:28
of immigrants working there. I have not seen
27:30
them. I mean, it seems like the business people,
27:32
they're fine with letting them stay around if
27:34
it's benefiting big business. or if they're in
27:38
a rich neighborhood, but as far as when they,
27:41
you know, when you're in their home neighborhood
27:42
or you're at the school, it's open season. It's
27:46
just crazy to me, the absolute disparity and
27:51
how this is being even, I mean, even with their
27:53
own bogus rules, this is just, they're not even
27:56
following their own rules, you know? I just,
28:00
I haven't not seen anything. There's no due process
28:04
in any of these arrests. Yeah. I mean, I'm not
28:06
saying it should make any difference where the
28:08
other just, yeah. But it's like to me, you know,
28:11
I've, you know, I've, you know, we got a place
28:14
down the road where, and it's a little ass of
28:16
con trucking complex, 80, 90 % of the people
28:18
are immigrants, but it's like none of the truck
28:20
drivers are really getting busted because they
28:22
affect big business. Because, and guess what?
28:25
The administration loves big, because that's
28:27
their only constituent. So you end up Where,
28:31
if you're in that neighborhood, you're probably
28:33
relatively safer than you would be if you're
28:35
a legal citizen walking through your neighborhood,
28:38
which is crazy to me. It's just their own, their
28:42
own, they can't even, they can't even go with
28:44
their own boundaries. Okay. Okay, Jesse. Throw
28:52
salt and Mr. Fuji. Oh my God. This is starting
28:58
to sound like Opie and Anthony. Yeah, I'm about
29:05
to go into it, Jesse. Because these people, these
29:09
American citizens, are not given any of these
29:13
liberties that we fought for, that our forefathers
29:15
fought for. Instead, we're all being treated
29:17
like we're invaders, like we're second -class
29:20
citizens. And this is why I appreciate having
29:23
an independent party, because those in charge
29:26
have their heads so far up their asses. They
29:29
can't see through the leaves. But anyway, I definitely
29:33
think that when we're talking about how these
29:40
arrests are done, how I felt because I know I've
29:43
had these. That was Dr. Larry. I don't have time
29:46
to. I just want to say sorry, but I just want
29:49
to say that was that that impersonation of Jesse
29:52
Ventura was brought to you by Larry. I don't
29:55
have time to bleed yacht. Yeah, yeah, um, you
30:03
gotta chew this it'll make you a sexual tyrannosaurus.
30:07
I don't know if you've seen the ad or not. What
30:11
we're doing now is we forgot to add this to the
30:16
show so I'm adding it right here in the beginning
30:18
and you're gonna put it in the middle. But Vivek
30:22
Rameswani had bought an ad for his opposition
30:25
where he used his opposition's mother to do basically
30:30
a smear campaign against her daughter. And since
30:33
this is BJ's home state, I'll let BJ explain.
30:38
Okay, so Vivek Ramaswamy, he's an American from
30:43
Cincinnati. He's very much a very Trump MAGA
30:47
guy. He's a pharmaceutical billionaire. Even
30:51
if it's not a pharmaceutical company and some
30:53
controversial things happen with that, he then
30:55
started running for... office trying to get involved
30:59
in the Trump administration. I think he was part
31:01
of Doge for 10 seconds until Elon Musk fired
31:03
him in 2025. He's running for governor against
31:08
Amy Acton. She was the former Ohio Department
31:10
of Health director during COVID. She was kind
31:14
of a controversial factor just because her name
31:16
was attached to COVID anyway. This was been before
31:21
this a couple days ago There was an ad ran by
31:24
Ramizwami's campaign where they interviewed Acton's
31:27
estranged mom They asked her about Her relationship
31:32
with her daughter and she called her daughter
31:34
a liar called her daughter a bunch of names said
31:36
she had issues She said that claims that her
31:39
daughter had made about her living in a tent
31:41
when she was a child and all this stuff were
31:44
false and And just it was one of the nastiest
31:47
political ads I've ever seen I've never seen
31:51
somebody taking an opponent's mom and interviewing
31:55
them and putting them in an act. The story's
31:58
not complete with that. Acton was 12 years old
32:02
in 1978. She had a younger brother. Her mom,
32:08
the one in the ad, married a guy who was a pedophile
32:11
and had criminal problems before that. And in
32:15
1978, managed to get himself arrested for sexually
32:19
abusing Acton. And the mom, though, took the
32:25
husband's side when they charged him. That was
32:27
the last time Acton ever saw her mom. This was
32:30
1978. They ran to Pennsylvania so they couldn't
32:36
serve the warrant where he lived the rest of
32:39
his days and died. So this wasn't where he was
32:43
acquitted. You're telling me the Republican Party
32:46
is fighting for a pedophile? Yes. Wow. This is
32:50
not the first time. This is not the first time.
32:52
Wow. So I think the people didn't miss it. She
32:54
was 12 when her mom ran with her pedophile -like
32:59
stepfather to Pennsylvania. So that means actor
33:02
was probably abandoned in Ohio when she was 12.
33:05
Yes. She was living in a tent with her younger
33:08
brother. Okay. And this is where people, because
33:11
she's had some alcohol and she's had some other
33:14
things, but she was also, for a period of time,
33:19
was a hero in this state, because Ohio was one
33:21
of the best responders to the COVID pandemic.
33:26
We were quicker on stuff, a lot of it from acts
33:29
and leadership, and that saved a lot of lives.
33:31
And she was working for Mike DeWine and John
33:34
Husted, the Lieutenant Governor, and she was
33:37
a Democrat working in Ohio. working in an Ohio
33:41
Working for an Ohio administration or a Republican
33:45
administration and in the wine was a big fan
33:49
of hers and um But she's a Democrat she ran as
33:54
a Democrat And this is not the first time or
33:56
amazalami has done something scummy about her
33:59
relating to the sex assault that happened to
34:01
her She he was doing comments several months
34:04
ago where he said that you know her only campaign
34:08
her only I guess what it was a qualification
34:12
that she's aired about herself is something that
34:15
somebody did to her when she was a kid. That
34:19
was how he put her sexual assault. I've never
34:22
heard, I've not heard one time Acton ever talking
34:25
about her sexual assault. The only time she's,
34:28
anybody's talked about any of this stuff in her
34:30
past has been from Ramaswami's campaign, which
34:33
is basically a bunch of psycho, groover, losers.
34:42
So he's trying to win based off the fact that
34:46
she was molested and yes that baseball commercial
34:50
that he filmed where he was like Man, he's made
34:55
even before all this. He's probably the worst
34:59
candidate Ohio's ever had in a major election
35:04
for like a governor Senate congressional seat.
35:07
Well, maybe not congressional Max Miller is currently
35:10
running for election and he beat his wife and
35:15
assaulted his two -year -old daughter, who just
35:17
happens to be the granddaughter and the daughter
35:19
of Bernie Marino, who's our MAGA senator in the
35:22
other seat. This is welcome to 25 years of Republican
35:28
politics in Ohio, but this story is just, you
35:34
know, there was the baseball swing thing. This
35:40
guy's just a sleazy scumbag. He jumped into a
35:42
pharmaceutical company and bought some, you know,
35:45
shady products and aired him as cancer for your
35:48
cures in a way to like pump up in a private equity
35:52
way. And I mean, then there's the gaffes, you
35:56
know, there's the baseball swinging ad, he shows
35:59
up to an Ohio. This is a guy in a billionaire
36:01
who shows up to an Ohio State game, you know,
36:04
wearing a $20 Walmart jersey, you know, it was
36:10
I mean, it was just people just laughed at him.
36:13
And then it's just, but it's like, you know,
36:15
like with a lot of these Trump guys, they have
36:17
this whole view of things where, you know, if
36:21
I can't win, I'm gonna burn the whole thing down.
36:24
So you better just, you're better off if you
36:26
just let me win. So this is his way of trying
36:28
to poison anything that happens with Acton because
36:31
she's been leading in the polls over the last
36:33
month. And this is his way. It's like, okay,
36:38
I'm gonna... You know, this is going to be almost
36:40
like a political murder suicide where I'm going
36:43
to, you know, you bleed worse than I do. So I'm
36:46
going to win. You know, yeah, everybody's going
36:48
to think I'm a scumbag, but I'm just hoping there's
36:50
more misogynist out there that'll like what I'm
36:54
doing and they'll vote for me over her. And that'll
36:57
get me the win. It's the most cynical, diabolical,
37:02
scummy thing I've ever seen in state politics.
37:04
And I've seen quite a bit. I would imagine he's
37:07
gotta be in trouble because like the way that
37:09
like the underlying basics of the general election
37:12
are, he's got, I mean like I haven't looked at
37:14
polling for Ohio. It's, I'm very skeptical of
37:19
polling in Ohio because Trump has been, in the
37:22
past they've showed Trump candidates like in
37:25
close races, but then they win by six or seven
37:27
percent because - Right, but let's assume that
37:30
Ohio is a plus six red state. I mean like if
37:33
that's if it is nominally plus six plus five
37:36
Like then and he's kind of in trouble. He might
37:40
be like five points of the water Yeah, well,
37:43
I've talked to I've talked to Ohio Republicans
37:48
and they've been telling me even when the polls
37:50
were When they had him dead of heat, I don't
37:54
know what they were seeing in their internals
37:56
But they were horrible because they were saying
37:58
we're gonna get smoked and it wasn't just Well,
38:01
it was it was get it gay it got to a point where
38:04
Ramazwani and Houston were such a drip because
38:06
John Houston He's a former lieutenant governor
38:09
Running against the Senate race, but they were
38:12
worried about them dragging them down and down
38:14
races across in congressional seats and in state
38:18
Senate seats and state rep seats right now is
38:20
the act in as 78 % weight yeah, she's like and
38:27
she's up. Let's see. Let me check So she's up
38:32
she was she was like 51 % like two months ago,
38:36
right and now she is like 75 so Sentiment is
38:41
a strong it like because again like the underlying
38:43
that's crazy. It comes down to like it reminds
38:46
me a little bit of I was explaining to somebody
38:53
a friend of mine who was an operative he was
38:56
like, oh he's knocking on doors and I was like,
38:58
dude, it's become more like It's the same thing
39:01
here, people are pissed about their home. They're
39:04
pissed about the law. They don't like spending
39:07
money overseas and they feel like what's going
39:10
on. What's going on just doesn't make any sense.
39:14
What's funny too is in Ohio polling, it's like
39:18
as bad as the economy and the gas prices are
39:21
hurting him. In Trump candidates and the GOP.
39:25
But there's also what ranks high is also concerns
39:28
about democracy. Like the corruption issues,
39:31
things like that, what they've seen with ICE.
39:33
And it's not as high on the Republican side,
39:35
but it's definitely like a top issue where like
39:38
independents and Democrats, where it's just like,
39:40
okay, what happened to the rule of law for people
39:43
with cash and power? That's like a lot higher
39:46
issue that I've seen in polls. And I'm like,
39:48
okay, that really surprised me. Because... Trump's
39:52
always stated that people don't give a shit if
39:54
he steals as much money as he wants or takes
39:56
what he wants or does, or let's Jared go around
39:59
and, you know, consult on his own to get billions
40:01
from, you know, from terrorist states. Um, everyone's
40:06
cool with it, right? If the economy is good.
40:08
I found it funny. Not the case. Yeah. Yeah. I
40:14
found it funny when that one, there's that one
40:16
clip of, uh, of Trump saying the blacks, the
40:21
Latinos. They all are they all have high poverty
40:25
levels. They're at the best poverty levels as
40:27
possible and and You know those people that are
40:31
paid to cheer but like they're cheering of course
40:33
the minorities Being on up on poverty being living
40:37
in poverty. I think that's that kind of says
40:39
it all Yeah, I definitely think that it's important
40:44
like you know, I mean Trump's always been a massive
40:47
racist as you I mean he his whole Mean his whole
40:50
opera, you know as modest operandi with his slow
40:53
-mo operation in New York was racism, you know,
40:56
I got like, you know, I got I got being done
40:58
like Yeah So it is like mentioned I was like,
41:03
oh don't look up who like who got sued for like
41:05
that I think it is that I'm pretty sure it's
41:08
that I got arrested This is a well -known story
41:14
so like I mean it's not like What's going to
41:16
be really funny is I think that, like, the zonocrats
41:18
are going to win the house. Yeah, the apartments.
41:20
No, they're going to win the house. They're going
41:22
to, like, basically, they're going to get, like,
41:23
50 or 51 in the Senate, and then veterans are
41:25
going to flip. That's, I think, what's going
41:27
to, like, that's because always, like, I'm at
41:29
the point in my life where I predict maximum
41:31
chaos, so maximum chaos is that. They win the
41:35
house. The Senate comes down to the veterans,
41:38
basically. And so, like, even though they should,
41:41
they're not going to. Yeah. I'll tell you what's
41:46
different right now is that There hasn't okay.
41:49
So you look at all the issues you look at the
41:52
war which nobody has any understanding for why
41:55
we're involved with Like as far as like unless
41:58
you're paying attention to foreign policy and
42:00
you know stuff about Trump I mean it benefits
42:02
Russia more than anything what we're doing. So
42:04
that's why we're doing it. Um You look at the
42:06
price of gas you look at all the I mean, I mean,
42:09
there's nothing he's done. Right? It's like the
42:13
Is in it the funny thing about the Iran war is
42:15
that attacks everything that he ran on his president?
42:18
And you get to that and then you get into the
42:21
summer and it's like, okay instead of trying
42:24
to fix that He's doubling down on the same nonsense
42:28
Dirty part, you know, you know the key see the
42:30
GOP doing the same stuff in other races You see
42:33
Ken Pax and what's he doing? He's bringing Elon
42:34
Musk in closer, you know, like that's the only
42:37
person donating no Ken Pax in Texas, you know
42:41
and I mean, I mean, I can't, Telerico looks pretty
42:45
good right now, even though I guess it's still
42:47
leaving. Um, it's, that's going to be a really
42:50
important bellwether election. I mean, you got
42:52
John Ossoff in Georgia, who's just absolutely
42:55
annihilating Mike Collins. I tell you what the
42:59
bigger concerns here too for the Republicans
43:01
and what's good for the Democrats is That you're
43:05
seeing a lot of new way faces and voices emerge
43:08
on this that are powerful voices and faces like
43:11
Telerico like all soft like um, you know, there's
43:15
a some then there's a broad side Yeah, I'll say
43:20
yeah like I mean he's got his background the
43:23
way he came in and won that primary That you
43:26
she should have been dead on the water, but he's
43:28
a well -spoken smart very good candidate He's
43:33
just showing me that he's just he goes and he
43:35
speaks to people and and he just tells a story
43:38
and it's like I mean Rogers looks like an empty
43:42
suit next to him and And it's like okay. These
43:45
are younger faces. These are new people. This
43:48
is energy That's stuff that we need right now
43:52
and you know, I'm not a huge DSA fan but yeah,
43:55
you know, the energy is important and I think
43:59
the thing that One thing I think that everybody
44:01
can agree on, even most, you know, the anti -Trump
44:04
Republicans, certainly, is that, you know, I'm
44:07
for parties that believe in democracy. And I
44:09
think that's, you know, we believe in rule of
44:12
law. And there comes a time where it's like,
44:15
okay, you know, we shouldn't be letting some
44:18
of these business decisions happen in the White
44:20
House. It's like this, it's not, you know, we're
44:23
not a klepto state. We're not a banana republic.
44:27
Yeah, I know. I mean, somebody should tell them
44:29
that. And because it's not how we're acting.
44:32
But it's interesting. It's stressful watching
44:35
it. But yeah, it definitely is. And BJ, I just
44:44
want to thank you for reminding us after we logged
44:46
off about this one point. So yeah, thank you.
44:49
Thank you for bringing this up, man. I really
44:51
thought that this was really interesting to get
44:53
onto our show. Honestly. Well, hey, well, thanks,
44:56
guys. I'm going to get off here. Well, you've
45:03
watched Brett every time. Oh my god. I've watched
45:05
that too much. Hey numbers, thanks for saving
45:10
us. Oh my god. But my experience, so I've tried
45:19
to... Mouth cancer, esophageal cancer, maybe
45:25
with sexual tyrannosaurus. Yeah, just ask Catherine
45:34
Zeta -Jones and... Michael Douglas. Oh my god.
45:38
Oh my gosh, man. He hates so much box. He loves
45:42
so much. He loved eating box so much he was willing
45:44
to die for it. But there's a story I heard about
45:49
anyways. I mean, it's Catherine Zeta Jones. I
45:54
mean, I mean, if going down and kill me, I wouldn't
45:57
I wouldn't do it anyway. But what am I saying?
46:00
Anyway. Hey, Arturo. Nice to talk to you. I love
46:05
my wife. I heard about Michael and basically
46:14
Kirk Douglas used to brag about cutting him off
46:17
because that like helped Michael kind of like
46:19
made him like a better person he cut him off
46:21
into a college and I have to show you Michael
46:23
Douglas was telling his dad that he used his
46:25
luggage to smoke with drugs and that's how he
46:27
put up my god You know, that's funny. I just
46:32
heard a similar story from Dakota Johnson. I
46:34
didn't know she was, I didn't know she was Don
46:37
Johnson's daughter. And I guess when she was
46:40
18, he said, he, as soon as she said she was
46:42
going to go into acting, he looked at her and
46:44
goes, okay, I'm cutting you off. Like I'm not
46:46
giving you anything. And she's like, what? She
46:49
goes, yeah, I told you, if you go get a normal
46:51
job and you go to college, I'll pay. You can
46:53
stay here. You live in a house. Otherwise I'm
46:55
not giving you a shit. If you're going to go
46:56
do me an act or go do something productive. But
46:59
if you want to do that, if you're on your own,
47:00
you're going to have to do it. You're going to
47:01
figure it out. And I'm like, well, so it's by
47:05
the way, she's, she's got like the weird, like
47:07
the weird Hollywood family. It's not that it's
47:10
Dawn because Melanie, I don't know if you remember
47:12
like when we were kids, there was this movie
47:14
about like his family lived with tigers. and
47:20
it was like it was a documentary and it was Melanie
47:23
Griffith's family that lived with the Tigers
47:24
and she like got mauled at one point by the Tigers
47:27
like they lived and they had Tigers in their
47:29
house and like big cats. That was that was Melanie
47:33
Griffith's family. That was Melanie Griffith
47:35
in Roar. She was the daughter of the family in
47:38
Roar and that's the documentary. Now I know how
47:41
you're that's a good way for your daughter. I
47:43
can see how she ended up in 50 Shades after all
47:45
this shit. No, she's great. I mean like I saw
47:49
the God I saw she's actually like really good
47:51
at it. She's very much We kind of like I remember
47:59
Melanie He's every millennial tastes like what
48:03
the hell's going on with these guys. Yeah heck
48:05
a cap and we're talking about ice and being serious
48:08
and now Next thing, you know, Jesse the bodies
48:12
here then Arturo Well, like let's talk about
48:20
this then something serious, you know Because
48:22
you know everybody like kind of comes to us talks
48:24
about news from media rights through all that
48:27
stuff So we'll talk to media. Why not the whole
48:31
the whole team that brought over WWE and all
48:34
that media stuff Netflix all got fired that Lynn
48:38
got fired BJ what does that say to you? Um Tells
48:44
me they're not doing a good job And their stock
48:48
price is reflecting that interestingly enough
48:50
It's also come out that the one of the Netflix
48:53
people fired had literally massive problems with
48:56
every single director there Mainly like Ben Affleck,
49:00
you know just small names like Ben Affleck David
49:03
Fincher Zack Snyder, you know And like basically
49:12
they had like a big blow up because over her
49:14
Narnia thing, which is like And like CAA basically
49:19
like put the kibosh on her but like I do think
49:22
that like it kind of follows a pattern of like
49:26
Some of these content guys getting like getting
49:28
hit on and killed and I think some of that is
49:31
because of some of the purchase because I think
49:34
that like and I don't think that like And I am
49:38
including a WWE in this it's not been a great
49:41
purchase No, it's been a what's interesting enough
49:44
as I was reading this before I came on was that
49:47
the two people just let go by Warner What's the
49:50
paramount major came through? They're gonna be
49:52
stepping right. It looks like they're gonna be
49:54
replacing the two that were just let go by Netflix
49:56
So out of all these changes the two they're gonna
49:59
have the jobs of the Warner Brothers jobs There'd
50:02
be the Warner Brothers people Kind of like how
50:07
we said all this was best. Yeah, it's kind of
50:14
interesting to me too. That there's kind of been
50:18
some rumors out there about Netflix wanting to
50:20
acquire Universal. That's the that's been kind
50:25
of out there, but that's that's interesting to
50:27
me. You're probably going to see a lot more of
50:30
these kind of mega mergers. Not that there's
50:32
a I think the trick with that. So it's. So I
50:37
was going to say, one of the secrets for Disney
50:41
is the parks, right? And I've talked about this
50:43
before. Essentially having the parks with the
50:46
IP lets you turn it into like a money factory,
50:51
right? And I think if I'm Netflix and I'm like
50:54
getting into the parks with the IP... Oh, wait.
50:55
Juro, I think you were actually talking about
50:57
this. Yeah. This is what we were talking about
51:02
last year. Holy shit. It's ownership of the IP.
51:06
So essentially, if they can get into a thing
51:09
with Netflix that can provide those IPs, they
51:12
can funnel that in and make it a whole thing.
51:17
I think we talked about the whole thing with
51:20
Disney and WWE. It's weird that they couldn't
51:22
get the - Yeah, we were talking about this last
51:24
year. Because WWE had a whole thing with Universal
51:26
when they had the movie nights, when they were
51:27
with NBC, right? So yeah, I wouldn't surprise
51:33
them because they were - So I kind of suspect
51:38
South long it's probably gonna wind up with universal
51:41
Comcast universal and Right, that's right. Because
51:46
it is NBC Universal, right? I'm not wrong, right?
51:51
Yeah. Yeah, and this universally is Comcast,
51:55
right? So Pico also I think that he might wind
51:57
up back there and they might wind up doing like
51:59
So the initial plan I think was NBC Universal
52:02
merging with TNT or WB and then Apple food for
52:08
Netflix, but they may end up doing the same thing
52:11
They were going to do here and do it there but
52:13
I suspect that Netflix is gonna wait until Trump
52:16
gets trounced in the midterms because of What
52:19
happened with the like so basically I think they're
52:22
kind of like they're not gonna like they're not
52:24
going to do it Until they know that the administration
52:28
is kind of a dead -end administration. So they
52:30
want the reporters So one of the hidden subtexts
52:33
on this is because Trump kind of reads on that
52:36
shit and pisses off a bunch of the media guys.
52:40
I think they're all kind of like, one, they put
52:42
the money down for this midterm. I think they're
52:44
all waiting until after to kind of go in because
52:47
what will happen is if he loses the House and
52:49
the Senate, then essentially that's going to
52:52
neuter his ability to kibosh something like the
52:55
Netflix thing. So I think Netflix is kind of
52:57
waiting until they have a clear feel before they
52:59
do anything else. Again, this is sufficient position
53:03
on my part, but it's not hard to like put together
53:05
that like yeah, they still want it And again,
53:09
I think it's the same thing like the other reason
53:13
why that NBC Universal and like WB Merger make
53:18
sense. It was again was the IP because if you're
53:20
universal like NBC Universal and you own the
53:23
universe parks and you need licenses to put on
53:26
those parks if you actually own like the if you
53:31
own the the warner cartoons and you know the
53:33
dc cartoons you can just put them there and it's
53:35
a big problem for universal coming up because
53:37
there's a whole thing about like the characters
53:39
they have they have some of the ips they bought
53:41
from disney right or they bought from fox and
53:45
from um and from some of the ips that disney
53:48
bought basically they have the rights to the
53:50
simpsons they have the rights to and well as
53:54
the other the simpsons and i know uh marvel i
53:56
have marvel island which they can't touch right
53:58
and So effectively, they're kind of the talk
54:02
is that they're going to have to negotiate with
54:04
Disney because they're the Disney. They're the
54:06
Simpsons are coming up now. Right. And they really
54:09
don't want to like because Simpsons land in Universal
54:12
is a huge fucking deal. So they don't want to
54:14
get rid of it. So I think they're going to have
54:16
to negotiate. They may lose the Marvel rights.
54:17
And then like for them, I thought they had already
54:19
negotiated with Warner. Am I wrong or am I talking
54:24
about another theme park? No, because they they
54:27
basically so They have the rights through Fox,
54:30
than Disney bought Fox. So a lot of, I think,
54:33
what NBC Universal was doing, they wanted the
54:36
IPs that, like, Warner had. They wanted that.
54:38
They wanted, like, all the Warner IPs. They wanted...
54:44
They do have the Harry Potter IP, which was...
54:49
Right, they have the Warner IP, which is in Harry
54:51
Potter, which happens throughout the parts. If
54:53
Universal, just Harry Potter was worth... The
54:59
like Harry Potter and Bugs Bunny and like and
55:03
like DC superheroes For the parks was worth the
55:07
entire deal, right? This is kind of a thing like
55:09
the media guys won't offer like no I mean like
55:11
the IPs to put them in the in the parks the way
55:13
those parks are set up Would have been just like
55:16
a money driver. So I think I do think that like
55:19
That was what they want. Right? This is why I
55:22
think like And I think what's gonna happen is
55:25
I think again like Netflix would probably come
55:27
in And I think the money driver is by having
55:31
those parts those parts of money machines. They're
55:33
like basically like cash So you can have it like
55:36
the whole thing around that like yours was really
55:38
good at building out the attractions But they
55:40
don't have the IPs Disney whereas Disney has
55:43
the IPs, but they're not as good as these mercer
55:46
Right. So it's like it is kind of all the interesting
55:48
kind of thing and it's something Disney does
55:51
a bad job But like Universal does a much better
55:53
job. They just have shitty right all they really
55:56
have is DreamWorks, which Tell you really love
56:00
I'm low. Yeah, I can hear now. Hey, man Hey,
56:07
hey, man, you know the minions I still they're
56:09
still ahead. It's so like the millions will carry
56:13
universal and It's funny, I know I know that
56:18
because um, yeah, you choose your little avatar
56:21
and on the streaming services, right? So peacock
56:25
There's just there's very little cartoons. It's
56:28
only like A couple of DreamWorks characters.
56:32
I tell you what, they just, I mean, I got to
56:34
hand it to Peacock. They just hit, I don't know
56:36
what they did this past quarter, but the quarter
56:37
before that, you know, Peacock hit profit for
56:40
the first time. It seems to be - Go look at the
56:45
park revenue with the new Harry Potter lands.
56:47
Look at the Epic Universe, I'm pretty sure. Go
56:50
look at like what those Harry Potter blocks are
56:53
doing, which is like - I wonder if the rallying
57:00
stuff's helped their appeal at all. By the way,
57:06
did we talk about the Saudis? No, we haven't
57:09
done that yet. We were talking ice. We mentioned
57:13
it. We could talk about the Saudis now. You were
57:19
ahead of this, Arturo. I think we were talking
57:21
about this a month or two ago. Well, I mean,
57:23
the problem right now is that essentially the
57:26
Saudis aren't involved like you would like. The
57:29
Iraqis well, they're actually been directly run
57:31
directly. Yeah, like Yemen Yemen basically like
57:34
the hoodies are Like they're very well organized
57:37
and where you well, I quit I Mean, it doesn't
57:41
like the Saudis and has shown her ability to
57:43
fucking like like basically hit any place in
57:47
style, right? Um, and as you kind of see like
57:50
there's an expectation now and I think like it's
57:54
gonna be like you know literal troops like they're
57:56
awesome you know you missed our police show conversation
57:59
Arturo but we were talking about the UFC event
58:02
that's happening in the Middle East they haven't
58:06
cancelled it yet they've not they have not said
58:07
anything yet but according to everything that
58:11
event is happening on Saturday well the problem
58:15
is literally it is a lot of money right They're
58:19
saying they're doing that but like I mean if
58:21
you if you ever wanted to put a target for like
58:24
in fact, that's right there and I mean, I don't
58:29
want to be like, okay, so I want to be I want
58:31
to catch us very careful, right? I am NOT advocating
58:34
for a terrorist attack on a sporting event but
58:39
given the story of the Saudis and how they use
58:41
sports watching for this and the abilities that
58:44
the hoodies have shown to Infiltrators outside
58:48
and they have groups as they are as literal war.
58:51
There's like a long history. It is a war so It
58:55
would be a target of opportunity. I You know
58:58
if I were I would be very very worried about
59:02
going to that particular end and even more so
59:06
for WWE I You know the Give me odds on what you
59:12
guys think that does the WWE event happen the
59:15
neck the one coming up. We'll talk about banging
59:17
them But the one coming up, does it happen? I
59:20
think so. Let me let me show you or let me read
59:23
you the Rihad 2026 events that are currently
59:26
on the calendar that haven't been canceled. There's
59:29
UFC 333 this Saturday. Let's go. There's Canelo
59:33
Alvarez versus Christian Mabili on October 31st.
59:38
WWE Crown Jewel on November 7th. UFC Fight Night
59:42
Adesantia versus Magna Magna Dove December 5th.
59:47
and then wrestlemania 43 what do all those events
59:50
have in common uh they're in the at least affiliated
59:58
of i think i think is if the canelo fights they're
1:00:05
all tko events It's not it's not Zufa box, but
1:00:18
like it's Turkey. I think Whatever is one if
1:00:25
I think they're gonna have to cancel some Connor
1:00:27
Benz on that part like we're at the point where
1:00:29
like the the The embassy basically pulled the
1:00:33
personnel we pulled all our personnel from the
1:00:35
embassy there, right? Yeah us nationals to get
1:00:38
the fuck out of there. Yeah, and I think you
1:00:41
can't do that Here's the other problem like okay,
1:00:42
so let's say you're doing mania, right? I'll
1:00:45
either that crown jewel How do you ensure that
1:00:48
event? What is the insurance? How do you underwrite
1:00:52
that event? Unless the Saudis are willing to
1:00:54
write these massive checks. And the problem with
1:00:56
this, again, we're in a hot war. We're in a hot
1:00:59
war with an enemy that's shown our ability to
1:01:01
target our economics. And Trump isn't really
1:01:05
backing off from this. And really, they were
1:01:07
starting to talk about Quienta strikes again,
1:01:09
which again, some of that is bullshit. But I
1:01:14
don't expect this to cool down anytime soon.
1:01:17
Can I also take like again this entire thing
1:01:19
the wind side of like the Iraq Iraq has been
1:01:21
playing this because they're very much played
1:01:23
it so they're gonna fuck with the whole mentor
1:01:25
that kind of said it so I would expect the Escalation
1:01:29
before the mentor motion when it's meant to move
1:01:31
up November is in November 3rd 3rd Next week.
1:01:38
Oh second two weeks. Yeah, so basically my way
1:01:42
before that we might we might have a special
1:01:44
guest song Really? Who can't say again? I'm shooting
1:01:51
my shot here. I'm just gonna... No. I'm not gonna...
1:01:55
But there's all this going into this. And then
1:02:06
the escalation from the Houthis and just the
1:02:10
surgical destruction of Saudi has been... It's
1:02:15
an incredible thing to see, you know? You could
1:02:17
definitely tell that Iran is playing a part in
1:02:21
this. You can definitely see that with the strategies
1:02:24
being used. to take down Saudi Arabia. Like the
1:02:29
attack on the airport in Riyadh totally shutting
1:02:32
it down. And there's all this backlash from...
1:02:39
That I think really understood is outside of
1:02:43
the area or in the West is how much people in
1:02:47
the area hate the house south. I'm talking like
1:02:52
there is deep animosity for the house of God.
1:02:55
Oh, it's terrible how much state I mean that
1:02:58
goes that goes back over a century just in recent
1:03:01
Well, there's actually like the thing was that
1:03:03
the family I'm gonna get in trouble here, but
1:03:05
like they're essentially like a feudal fan like
1:03:09
they're a few little Like feudal overalls and
1:03:11
they have yes, they have a lot of slave labor
1:03:13
kind of like we're not slave labor Let's call
1:03:15
it indentured service coming into the country
1:03:17
like leaving in like not quite conditions and
1:03:19
they're like an upper class and This society,
1:03:22
if you really take time to look at it, they're
1:03:25
doing a lot of sports washing, it is not a very
1:03:31
good one, right? There's some real issues with
1:03:34
that particular country, if not Trump. Instead
1:03:36
of fixing those issues, they want to use sports
1:03:39
and buying media companies to make it look like
1:03:41
they have... Do you remember the interview with...
1:03:44
You know how they... One of the things of media,
1:03:47
if you're like, pay attention, you know what
1:03:49
media outside the US, you know that. Western
1:03:51
media likes to like talk shit about China, right?
1:03:56
And China has the problems, all countries have
1:03:58
the problems. But China, if you look at an objective,
1:04:00
they've raised the quality of life of their citizens
1:04:02
in the last 40 or 50 years. Like when we talk
1:04:05
about bringing people out of poverty, the country's
1:04:09
done that, is China. You look at their cities,
1:04:12
you look at how they build the structure, you
1:04:13
look at how they improve the quality of life
1:04:15
of their people, it is significant. This is what
1:04:17
we see. They want to be seeing their cars, electric
1:04:21
cars or that because like they really have like,
1:04:23
Saudi has done that for a very small class, where
1:04:28
there's a very stratified society. In South,
1:04:32
right, there's like the oligarchs and like kind
1:04:34
of like the randos, but they're like, it's a
1:04:36
very kind of like rigid and like, top down society.
1:04:40
And that means that like, the countries around
1:04:44
like in Yemen, it's kind of like a really interesting
1:04:46
category. It was the only country in the Middle
1:04:49
East to go communist, right? And also like they're
1:04:53
very much not I very much more like and again
1:04:57
the hoodies aren't that the hoodies are a little
1:04:59
bit even the fundamentals of it is more much
1:05:02
more kind of The the economic model is very much
1:05:07
opposed to what's obvious, right? I'm not defending
1:05:09
them saying like there is a very kind of like
1:05:12
clear conflict There's a lot of like the problem
1:05:14
is gonna be like there's all these tribes go
1:05:15
like but they are What I'm saying is right now
1:05:19
that situation is extremely ball out, right?
1:05:22
And I kind of feel we're looking at like WrestleMania
1:05:27
in Las Vegas. I don't think that like they're
1:05:30
gonna be, they're gonna try because they don't
1:05:32
want to like give up the money they're beginning
1:05:35
from the Saudis. But I feel like the Saudi train
1:05:37
may be kind of like in danger for a lot of like,
1:05:42
for TKO actually, which is kind of like the major
1:05:45
kind of partner, which is gonna be like a really
1:05:47
interesting knockdown effect. If that money does
1:05:50
dry up because of, you know, force, what they
1:05:52
call force majeure, because like war and like
1:05:54
situation, then what that, what is that going
1:05:57
to look like for WWE? Because again, like, you
1:06:00
know, they have that, right? They are making,
1:06:03
they made these bets, right? Assuming that the
1:06:05
Saudi money was going to be available. And the
1:06:07
Saudi money has always been kind of like a very
1:06:09
interesting proposition. They have TKO as four,
1:06:13
four events, at least four events. like this
1:06:18
this quarter so that's a lot of money to lose
1:06:20
if they can't go and and i've explained this
1:06:22
before but like the way this works is you you
1:06:25
have these dead targets you have to meet these
1:06:28
dead targets there is no this is not a maybe
1:06:31
you have to meet these there is no if ands or
1:06:35
buts about this and you know uh it makes it like
1:06:41
really interesting to see what what it's going
1:06:43
to look like if those like Revenue shortfalls
1:06:46
happen. And it's not like I don't think I mean
1:06:49
like I mean, they're not gonna get they're not
1:06:52
gonna recover I just I I just caught a clerical
1:07:01
error. So I wanted to correct it So it doesn't
1:07:04
go out on all of us the UFC this weekend's in
1:07:07
UAE not in Saudi Arabia But there's also Because
1:07:18
they have also done the evacuation orders for
1:07:21
Qatar, UAE. So the area is not really safe to
1:07:29
be in right now. But yeah, I think we hit pretty
1:07:34
much everything I wanted to hit. But you know,
1:07:39
this is state of world. This is something new
1:07:41
we're trying, where we're talking about current
1:07:43
events and events. So getting this kind of personal
1:07:46
story from From Tay here, thank you for sharing
1:07:50
by the way, Tay. I know that was, I feel bad
1:07:54
that you had to witness that and go through that.
1:07:56
But again, like what BJ said, I appreciate what
1:08:00
you did of recording and doing what you can without,
1:08:03
you know, putting you and your fiance in any
1:08:06
danger. I appreciate you. I appreciate your fiance
1:08:09
putting herself in danger by recording it. Because,
1:08:14
you know, what happens? It doesn't matter what
1:08:17
sex what race you are. They will come for you
1:08:19
and Thank you for sharing with that with us Yeah,
1:08:24
it's good. It's good to get out and get a little
1:08:27
bit It was it's hard to hard to find like BJ
1:08:30
said so every every little bit helps Yeah, I
1:08:37
want to thank you for coming on I want to thank
1:08:39
BJ for coming on Thanks, man, I'm always a great
1:08:44
you are our news man here our journalists I was
1:08:52
sorry. I'm actually talking to another journalist
1:08:55
about my stuff. Sorry But yeah, thanks. Hey,
1:08:59
just your story is really good Larry really shared
1:09:02
was great. I You know, it's I think it's important
1:09:06
for people to like share those stories because
1:09:08
you guys give an example of how to handle this
1:09:10
you also show You know, and this is something
1:09:13
people really don't play enough acts pay attention
1:09:16
to the news is just how this helps How this just
1:09:19
hurts people that are just on the periphery of
1:09:21
it or could be, you know, within it, you know,
1:09:25
because Larry's living in that neighborhood.
1:09:26
You're living in that neighborhood. You know,
1:09:31
this is not just something that happens to one
1:09:33
person and then they're deported and that's it.
1:09:36
There's a whole, you know, people or community
1:09:39
and and these things are a crime against community.
1:09:43
And I think that needs to be discussed. I mean,
1:09:47
like. I'll share a little bit. There's a story
1:09:55
that happened on the island. I remember like
1:09:57
on election day. So one of the things that happens
1:09:59
on the island is the state party is being run
1:10:03
by this. She's a resident commissioner. She's
1:10:07
a very, she's very Trump. She's a very Trump
1:10:10
friendly lady, right? And she talks out of her
1:10:13
ass. Like, she basically will tell anyone you're
1:10:16
going here. And then, like, you kind of know
1:10:18
she's going to lick the boot. That's what she
1:10:20
does. That's what she always does. And so one
1:10:23
of the things that happens on the island, the
1:10:25
state of party really has, like, a very strong
1:10:27
support among people who live in housing projects,
1:10:30
kind of like the immigrants, the Dominicans,
1:10:35
the Cubans, the people who've, like, immigrated
1:10:37
to the Puerto Rico to kind of get the assistance
1:10:38
they need. Everyone kind of told the Dominican
1:10:43
community in Puerto Rico that like, you know,
1:10:45
she is with Trump. She's going to betray you,
1:10:48
right? And like they didn't believe it. They
1:10:50
didn't believe it. They said, oh, she's told
1:10:52
us she's not going to do that. She's not going
1:10:53
to do that. The moment she got elected, she gave
1:10:56
all the lists of like, she gave her voter roll
1:10:58
list to the twice, right? She basically just
1:11:02
like immediately kind of like fucked them and
1:11:04
like gave all the information to them. And she's
1:11:06
like, she's basically like bin persona. Like
1:11:09
she just disappeared. And she's like, it's, it's
1:11:12
one of the very terrible and it's like the you
1:11:15
gotta like people you gotta like vote locally
1:11:18
and pick somebody who's kind of happy it was
1:11:20
like the fight i had on the island it was a hard
1:11:22
fight because it was either you know like the
1:11:26
stater party which is going to do whatever the
1:11:27
federal government wants or vote for the independentista
1:11:32
the independent there was a big independent kind
1:11:34
of like they all got together and like ran as
1:11:37
one party and they came close. They didn't have
1:11:39
the time, a lot of people like the other people
1:11:41
didn't trust it, and I kept explaining to them
1:11:43
like the way this has to work, right, at least
1:11:45
in the Allen, is you need somebody who's going
1:11:47
to tell the federal government to fuck off. And
1:11:50
I was kind of explaining because like, oh no,
1:11:52
but they're independent. So I was like, I was
1:11:54
like, look, like in Ireland, in Scotland, in
1:11:57
Wales, like Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
1:12:00
all have independence parties that like run the
1:12:04
place and have run for like the last 20 years.
1:12:06
And like the way it's kind of worked is essentially
1:12:08
what happens in the central government, the federal
1:12:09
government, like the UK, British government keeps
1:12:13
sending them money to try to keep them kind of
1:12:15
happy because like they know that they need to
1:12:17
get out, so it actually like works out really
1:12:19
well for like having somebody who will be willing
1:12:22
to kind of like, you need to have local authority
1:12:25
that can tell federal authority, amen, like take
1:12:28
care of that. Like I think at the local level,
1:12:31
like don't think elections don't matter. do pick
1:12:33
someone who will kind of have your back, right?
1:12:37
You may not completely go with somebody, but
1:12:38
try to get somebody who at least respects some
1:12:41
of your rights, right? Have an advocate, like
1:12:43
pick somebody who's gonna advocate for you, but
1:12:44
not for like the gun lobbies or like the rich
1:12:49
people, right? Yeah, yeah. That's a strong point
1:12:56
there, Arturo. And now I'm gonna do the plugs
1:12:59
as we're gonna get out of here. I wanna say,
1:13:02
you know, follow Tay Casey on his his Twitter
1:13:05
account, follow him on his YouTube account. He
1:13:09
does previews for NBA and for, uh, you know,
1:13:13
the Boshos. I'm a big Sumo fan and I love your
1:13:16
Sumo video thing. Awanishi, man. Awanishi all
1:13:20
day. Yeah, he had, uh, he's had a good, good
1:13:24
year this year. Excited, uh, November, November
1:13:29
Boshos right around the corner. Um, are we done?
1:13:34
I'm totally gonna watch that. Sorry. But yeah,
1:13:39
thank you, BJ. You can follow BJ at bbeto .substack
1:13:42
.com. And you can follow Arturo at American Numbers
1:13:45
on his Twitter. Thank you for listening. State
1:13:47
of the world. See you next time. My prescription
1:13:56
from Larry. Lock in.