1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: The public has had a long held fascination with detectives. 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: Detective see a side of life the average persons never 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: exposed her. I spent thirty four years as a cop. 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: For twenty five of those years I was catching killers. 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: That's what I did for a living. I was a 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 1: homicide detective. I'm no longer just interviewing bad guys. Instead, 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm taking the public into the world in which I operated. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: The guests I talk to each week have amazing stories 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: from all sides of the law. The interviews are raw 10 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: and honest, just like the people I talk to. Some 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: of the content and language might be confronting. That's because 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: no one who comes into contact with crime is left unchanged. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: Join me now as I take you into this world. 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: Welcome back to part two of my chat with englishmen 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: Billy Moore. Billy's had an interesting life, to say the least. 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: He spent eighteen years in prison in the UK and 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: Thailands and survived some of the most brutal prisons in 18 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: the world. I'd have to say. One we talked to 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: Billy about his life, what led up to him living 20 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: in Thailand, and we just got to the point where 21 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: his life was starting the spiral out of control. He'd 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: been cleaned for a number of years. A couple of 23 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: things on the emotional front with a relationship sort of 24 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: steered him in the direction where he fell back into 25 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: the addiction to drugs and his life started to unravel. Billy, 26 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: let's let's take it up to when it really did 27 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: it unravel? When you get a knock at the door 28 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: or you get locked up. What happened? 29 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: I was getting really indeed mold with this year destruct 30 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 2: making loads of mistake shows, buying phones because of paranoid 31 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: that people were listening to me the start as they 32 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: really get paramoid on this store, had I a room 33 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: full of weapons and the enemies. I've lost loads of weights. 34 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 2: I could probably hang glads off that skinny, you know. 35 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: I made the adda of mostly there would say boxers 36 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 2: started befriended. That was I was saying a bit in 37 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 2: the past. And there was this one ago are you? 38 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 2: It used to give all the time, but he never did, 39 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: you know. And the last the last time we asked you, 40 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: I said, now giving you on and then he phones 41 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 2: me up. I don't even know what time was it 42 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: answer phone, It must have been ten am whatever, saying 43 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: to me on the phone, biddy, I have your shows, 44 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 2: your training shows that in my my taxi because you 45 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 2: had a talk too. I was like, yeah, yeah, I 46 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 2: was asleep. You know, they bring them to you. It's okay. 47 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: So where I would follow them where I was with 48 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: a partner to was and I'll put the phones on 49 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 2: the minute to put the phones on. And I was like, 50 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 2: why is he around me? Why is he? Why is he? Where? 51 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 2: Does he want to go out of his way to 52 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 2: bring me something? What's his motors? And I looked around 53 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 2: the room. He had cannabis stare. He had a room 54 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 2: full of weapons. Like I said, I had a cold 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: forty five or stonegull samurai shorts. It was just ridiculous. 56 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: Who told me Toda to go to the toe. 57 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: And have a little lookus just didn't feel right. 58 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: Look, and I've seen these our members up the stairs, 59 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: you know, and the way dressed in please attire, but 60 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: a new straight away to it on the cover please. 61 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: And I shut the door, and a panicked, and I 62 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 2: grabbed the pillows and I grabbed the candish, and I 63 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: shoved down with the shoulders and shine and I shouted 64 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 2: with me back to the door. And looked around the 65 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: shan theo and thoughts, oh my god, there's a there's 66 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 2: a gun on the table laid there's this weapons. What 67 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: I'm going to do? And they were bagging on the 68 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: door and I was stolen. There was no way out 69 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 2: to do. I was on the fourth floor. There was 70 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 2: no windsor to be shing from the back way waved. 71 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: It was up to the veranda where they were standing, 72 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: so just that they were please. So I was like, 73 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: can you prove it? Can you show me any id? 74 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 2: And the carts laid under the door. I didn't even 75 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: have to look at it, and please anyway, I don't 76 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: know why I was starting, what it was doing with that. 77 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 2: I grab a few more moments going over the door. 78 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: They were on the floor. The attacked me, put me 79 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 2: in a position, but he put cuffs on me, you know, 80 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 2: give me a few slaps and then started rather room 81 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 2: shadily and picking things up look for the drug with 82 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: the drugs. He didn't find any drugs. They found a 83 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: lot of paraphernalia, but it broke DUTs visible. I to 84 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 2: the gun, the guy they used them the slogan he 85 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 2: pulled out to go. He started to pil up these 86 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 2: mobile phones. I didn't know what was getting down in 87 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 2: the background as you back master into this court yard 88 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: and put into this police fan I'm taking to the 89 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 2: local police division, put in this shell that was that 90 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: you know, I was in there for tea. 91 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: When were you When were you taking it to the prison? 92 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: What what's the processes you kept in caustody with the place? 93 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: When when did you end up in the prison. 94 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 2: So what happened right was when I was in the 95 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 2: police fan, I was explaining to that see what happens 96 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: to me? I tell you know. And whether it be 97 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: you don't allowed. 98 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: Leave the country, can't bet yeah. 99 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: Months you can going to visa. Don't want a month 100 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 2: the may man whatever, just to get a samp come 101 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 2: back and bang bow. You can do that after three months. 102 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 2: But that's the team ons. You gotta leave the cosey. 103 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: So I have to lead the comy for tuesdays and 104 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: come back. Do you have a team of visa left 105 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: the country on a Friday, was coming back on a Monday. 106 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: By coming back on they have a team month visa. 107 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 2: I didn't have to go to the boorders every every month, 108 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 2: but on that the Friday was shape for buying me 109 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: Yaba pills over the Aca was the tea best apport, 110 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: all the Yaba pills. They hope you got a boat 111 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 2: as well. I was smoke and I thought I was 112 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 2: kinda bit shup of time. He and I was going 113 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: a bike out of defenses because it was quite used 114 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 2: to vetting. Little hold. I was driving on the wrong 115 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: side of the road. No, he had this whistling, A 116 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: couple of gales standing on the corner. They were whistling. 117 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: It is actually man, I looked, you know, by the 118 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 2: time I look back, there was a show Taxi's heading 119 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: my way. I never had the chance to stop. I was, 120 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: I was. There was a collision. I was heading into it. Hey, 121 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: David made the bike. I was on winning. They just 122 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: flew right in the eight under on my chests. The 123 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: shaft hees broke me. The putting me long because at 124 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 2: the amber bable right through the summar the shadow, I 125 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: mean literally both the summer. You know, I couldn't breathe, 126 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 2: and I remember the these Moatians started picking me up 127 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: and put short water down me thrown, you know, do 128 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 2: things to me, and I have what's going on here? 129 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 2: What the what the fuck are you doing here? And 130 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 2: they ate the Irish actions, laying malone and every y malone. 131 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: And he put me in this wheelbarrow, that he should 132 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: get him liberty the horsball and put me in a 133 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 2: wheel barrow. There was bloodpoorting mounts of everywhere. There was 134 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 2: at this shrafter with a blood dained jacket, play both 135 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: of a pen with these shoe shoulders shaded with banana clicks, 136 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 2: taking pictures of me. And they're verstrowing me that I 137 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 2: had a big cook the bay becausing my lunch must 138 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: have they moved. They have bowled from me, from me 139 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 2: long at the time, and I have to breathe. And 140 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 2: he said to this this this the shot shall to 141 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 2: get me out of you, because what was going through 142 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 2: my bus. You had a thousand gabba pills and you 143 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: put it. And I was thinking, these huge soldiers are year. 144 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 2: They were just there because he has a big shure. 145 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: It was okay. It was a national. He got me 146 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: to his the partments in a low because he was 147 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 2: a T shirt over there proposed me until in the 148 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 2: morning I was in I was in a mess. It 149 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 2: was ever very bad backstage and stayed at the hospital Laypacrimos. 150 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: I was in a bad back plate in front of 151 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 2: the prison. 152 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: So you and those those injuries hadn't fully recovered. 153 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 2: No, no, no, they ended up having two shares of 154 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 2: co operations in the same prison. 155 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: Jesus, that's that's not what you want. Yeah, okay, so 156 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: you banged up the bike accident before you're locked up. Now, yeah, 157 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: you've they've they've got you with phones and weapons or 158 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: weapon or whatever. What's the time were you're realistically looking 159 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: at doing? 160 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I had no idea, really, I had no idea. 161 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: I had like images of like imagining myself. Do you 162 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 2: like ten to fifteen maybe you know that kind of 163 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: double figures. The protests have gone from the b station's 164 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 2: court to about Creasy's and went to court. I was 165 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 2: taking into a cord with another standard waves got taken 166 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: two changed my prison on this boat. But dish diesel 167 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: being meats and they institution into the prison established us. 168 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 2: You know, Flip Chase was a showered in front of 169 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 2: these prison officer shoes for the bowl on the whistel. 170 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 2: The whistles gone. You're putting bowls of water on you, 171 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 2: you know, you're washing your shels on and it was 172 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 2: it was late, it was all like what mad by 173 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 2: this time. Then we had to squat on the floor 174 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 2: and four others had to share a ball of ration, 175 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 2: some some meal that we couldn't even describe. And a 176 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: stone gets cold and swarge hovering and above it and 177 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 2: mistinking that comes from there. And we will lease mass 178 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 2: into this shell cell block the induction style. That's where 179 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 2: name you know that I said in part one has 180 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: to sleep nest of this dish games And this lady 181 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: boy called Siffany. You want these big musht breasts and 182 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 2: this boot shoe which shed nor money nor buddy. 183 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: They're all part of the prison. They're inmates in there, 184 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: lady boys. 185 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, the de have all parts of the prison which 186 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: places would have been there at the same So, yeah, 187 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 2: there was a fief experience, to say the least. 188 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: When you when you say freaky, it seems like, yeah, 189 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: it's a horror experience going in there, and it's something 190 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: completely foreign and the environment that's foreign to But also 191 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: you would be standing standing out. There wouldn't be that 192 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: many foreigners in there, and everyone you know your way 193 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: around prison. You don't show weakness. You're in a foreign jail. 194 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: You don't really understand the rules. Did you have fear 195 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: for your life? Like I don't think I'm being too dramatically. 196 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: Did you wonder whether you're going to survive? 197 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 2: Plenty times? Plenty of times? Being game? I was. I 198 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: was latter to revel that I was the cause. And 199 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: I'm verieing the actors, you know, and if you speaking 200 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 2: to me and miss Gene Gonci and it was then 201 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 2: and you know I've asked because as only as a pastime, 202 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 2: I've been bullied to shed some of an early aid 203 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 2: call up. But I wasn't taking a number. So you know, 204 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 2: I come where I stood, you know, be ground with anyone. 205 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 2: Couldn't care that you was. But that was the problem 206 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 2: with me up shape the environments, you know, kept quiet, 207 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: rational face, see what was going on. It was like 208 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 2: going to a football stadium. You know, the way you 209 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 2: walked it was huge, there was you know, it was 210 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 2: it was really it was. It was overwhelmed with the meats. 211 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: How many Knights are in there? 212 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: It was and they had four thousand in meats. 213 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a that's a big prison in any 214 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: for either here or over in the UK. That's huge. 215 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: So you can imagine this was like this was like 216 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 2: sheds to a shell. 217 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: And here I was reading something that there was just 218 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: looking at the dimensions you're talking about. I self twenty 219 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: five football fifteen feet, which is four meters by say 220 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: three and eighty prisoners that that top. 221 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 2: Do you think even those of three to drop the 222 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 2: middle and the bottom? 223 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: Ah? Right, okay, in low show. 224 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: You you'd be you'd have to come all down, have 225 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 2: the legs of Brad Browns and you'd wake up. And 226 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 2: if someone hugging yet and what's going on? It was? 227 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 2: It was all what I mean, you had no escape 228 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: and the way pain was if you have to go 229 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 2: to the holy really, I was, you've got to death 230 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 2: over It was way playing it a fucking game of 231 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: trying to find a gap because you have to step 232 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 2: over the body to get your bits of calabrity. And 233 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: it was I remember bounding on a few people's feat 234 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 2: and arms and that's mean. But not one of them 235 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 2: reac think pip off, which was I think they were 236 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 2: all understandingly. 237 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: I suppose I cast them to it. But yeah, yeah, 238 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: we've always leave just just on that surviving and going 239 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: to the toilet. I imagine the food that you're eating 240 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't be agreeing with your stomach much so there would 241 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: have been a lot of sickness from it. 242 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely the entirety year. And I remember, like the 243 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 2: trollt You've got eighty people by the way in the slot. 244 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 2: You've got to chaste on the troll and be like 245 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 2: them all looking like you understanding there and the troll 246 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 2: to you, Well, you're like, this is embarrassing. You know, 247 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 2: this is the highest show up chession. 248 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, little toy here. 249 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 2: For lang for lang for lank em in there'm I 250 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, you know the speaking seeing in this language. 251 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 2: You've got the way here? What sha you know? You 252 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 2: just go away? I just want to use the trolling 253 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 2: and PC but you can't. You know, you've got a 254 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: bin next to the toilet which everyone washes. It washes 255 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 2: the ash with, washes the teeth with, washing the place 256 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 2: with all your chances that I've got. Yeah, you think 257 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 2: this is dis questioning, you know what I mean? 258 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 1: Well, I know what your mind just the way you're 259 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: describing it. So what attitude did you hold to survive 260 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: in there? Like you said you were you the arc 261 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: ap like you wouldn't take ship from anyone? Is that, No, 262 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: you're suss the situation there and then stand up for yourself. 263 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: I would imagine you would have got into quite a 264 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: few fights, isn't it. 265 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 2: She was a few foreigners, right, It's not many would 266 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 2: have bumped into an Australian guy. There was. There was 267 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 2: Australians and an Iranian that was bullying everyone. 268 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: I heard that in your book. Billy gave him a 269 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: good spray. You didn't like him. 270 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: And there was a Menathon, an Italian John Andaldo. They 271 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 2: were they were quite old. That's been probably my ease 272 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 2: now back then, you know, and they were all fit, 273 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 2: physically overweighted, you know what I mean. They were harmless, 274 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: but they were getting a hard time barely off these 275 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: these young you're Australians. Me being me, I was listening 276 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 2: to this, you know, through the show, because there's no 277 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 2: doors and throw the gates. You should, you know, you 278 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 2: should see what's going on and I should look leave. 279 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: And I was saying, in give them a rest, you 280 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 2: know from our only know our own culture agent. Can 281 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: you be just taking easy on them? And you know 282 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 2: there was they were. They was travel at me and 283 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 2: I was shotting back at them, and like whatever you 284 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 2: seen in the morning to that. Then in the morning 285 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 2: them should have me and they she just went off. 286 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 2: I ended up fighting with them all give it as 287 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: good as we go. God, I've got a good ide 288 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 2: and white Brook I'll still be ground. By doing that, 289 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: I ended up getting removed from the western part of 290 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 2: the Pisian culture, the tires and Westerns, Westerners mixed to 291 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 2: just the type population. This became very did you and like? 292 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: And it would have had to be earned, But did you? 293 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: Did people leave your line? Did you? Everyone's going to 294 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: take advantage if there's a weakness in prison, someone's gonna 295 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: sweep on it. Did you hold your own through? 296 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: Yeahs nave for me for lang bar, it's crazy go 297 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: it because it was always. 298 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: By Okay, that's probably a good reputation of carrying there. 299 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, sure they just fang bar. Just people wave only crazy. 300 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: You know. 301 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 2: I was very volatile that if we have to fighte 302 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 2: with anyone and everyone taking drugs getting in jest, I've 303 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 2: witnessed a few horrible things in there. People getting raped. 304 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, they were in your in the movie. There's a 305 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: signe and it's fairly graphic in the someone getting dragged 306 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: off and raped in in the toilets or in one 307 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: of the cells. That would have been fairly frequent in 308 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: prison like that, I would imagine. 309 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was that was a regular occerdence. 310 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 2: You know, people committed shoe It was another thing. You know, 311 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 2: you walk past the shell and you see, you know, 312 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 2: someone anger off the bars and what my thing was 313 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 2: used to have like a twenty four hour watching the show, 314 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 2: so you know you have and then mate sitting off 315 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: hour after hour watching the nest of the inmates because 316 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 2: colectively as a shell, if anyone you know died, then 317 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 2: you'd get published. And that was one of the rules. 318 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 2: You couldn't make super shy, ye had they? I think 319 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: it was sense aswelve rules that they shouts over the 320 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 2: tower no feeling that she learns of course, you know, 321 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 2: no shoe shod and he's going to be asked. So yeah, 322 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 2: I've done a presiding every morning. You'd have to stand 323 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 2: to attention to, you know, the national lantern while the 324 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 2: flag was being raised. 325 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: Did you did you start to pick up the language? 326 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: Did you learn learn the language in there? 327 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: Yeah? Because I needed medication feeling I was getting all 328 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 2: the wrong medication at the time, and I was like 329 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 2: sand explained that I needed painkillers and not parta someone 330 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 2: that needed op bait pain killers because you had these injuries. 331 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 2: Who's going with Candice. I was already addicted to opiots anyway, 332 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: and I was getting high off them, so you know, 333 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 2: it was another of bonus Sol's just be that happened, 334 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 2: you know, and just be here, I'd say, enough that clue. 335 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 2: It's dense because the batter the reading rated reading race 336 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: because I was bored and there was no English. Letisacial. 337 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: You know, it was all about I have read it 338 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 2: would be the bit of tay, which is useless anyway 339 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 2: because I don't understand it as much as it force 340 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 2: would like to. 341 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: But it started to pick it, pick it up. 342 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I picked it up with them once. 343 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: I suppose in that environment give you an advantage anyway 344 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: to to understand or make life a little bit easier. Yeah, 345 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 1: when it was more force, Yeah, well you got you've 346 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: got no option. Yeah. You talked about saying people get 347 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: sexually assaulted and and violence. There was one and I 348 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: think it's in one interview that I've read that you 349 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: did where someone was chased down and just stabbed to 350 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: death in in in front of you do you want 351 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: to just tell us through that story just to get 352 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: to give people an understanding of what we're talking about here. 353 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: This is not the this is yeah, this is a 354 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: violent world that you're inhabiting in a prison like this. 355 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: Well, what happened is I've got central prisons. 356 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: It's a worse reputation, isn't. 357 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well I had like eighteen thousand and makes eighteen 358 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 2: to twenty thousand. It may see, it was a bigger complex. 359 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 2: It was along more violence that they had shutting size 360 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 2: Northern size and censil sage. You know, Muslims in there 361 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 2: that I've overfielded, different Westerners in there, Australians and Meta Hills, Ranians, Guines, 362 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 2: you had. The nationalities were saying there's quite quiz a 363 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 2: lover of them in there, and and most of the 364 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 2: nationalalysies shame buildings being so we have a fousand and 365 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 2: it may saish one unit when I was and I 366 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: never really got along with Potows with the ties in 367 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: the end, and remember we were ship in the library. 368 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 2: It was hot as well as there's always want to 369 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 2: force his ring egg on the pavements. We get a 370 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: little bit of schad to the za and they knew 371 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 2: there was a few like little gangs there. There was 372 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 2: this young lady used to have a bandanner see with 373 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 2: the bands, and so we stood out and his chop 374 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 2: for bands and had to use all over them and 375 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 2: the roll zig zagging. And then he came and running 376 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 2: packed his library, you know, one afternoon and he was 377 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 2: gaming and he had the the fliff flocks scheiders on. 378 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 2: He had had m you know, flopping as he was running, 379 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 2: and there was a guy running behind him with her 380 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 2: with a mite. You know, it was quite big. This 381 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 2: is mad days. Then Warnin's drowning. There's a guy that 382 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: high guy from running out from next to me with 383 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 2: a chair, one of them metal chairs with wooden sheets 384 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 2: like an old steel shir shruggling out and he whacked 385 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 2: this this guy with the bandanner right across the chest. 386 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: His claps it's for the guys on him and he 387 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 2: starts stabbing him. But it's like and it was like 388 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 2: it wasn't like it was like cold and calculated and 389 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 2: there with death shots and he was targeting like his lunch, 390 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 2: his neck, you know, they were going in very deep 391 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 2: and he could the inhumans that will come up from 392 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 2: this the bows of this man's game. This was done. 393 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,719 Speaker 2: It was like it was it was, it was had 394 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 2: a flying it was wow. 395 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: It was a. 396 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 2: Frightening I all have to do with today. I was 397 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 2: just locked in and the crowd starts as a form 398 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 2: and it was late about forty to fifty people, even 399 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: arm arm and the new roof tired the science to 400 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 2: understand what they was shoting. That was Shane, kill him, 401 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 2: kill him, killing the interesting, encourageing him and you know, 402 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 2: he was just stopping the wistful blue everyone of the 403 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 2: space and his boss was left in a pool of blows. 404 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 2: And I'm saying Mary and passing felt guilty for not intervening. 405 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 2: But at the same time of the databeat line and 406 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 2: I replayed that moment vividly in my mind every night 407 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 2: while it was in Michelle and in Bangkok, I couldn't 408 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 2: sleep with Ketley vision repeating. They show motion that was 409 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 2: quite like you always yeah, you didn't shock and everything 410 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: show motion like valuable life was and how they devalue 411 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 2: because the guy who got you know, Core for stabbing 412 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 2: this kid and killing and we ended up getting four 413 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:38,360 Speaker 2: years for the Yeah, I think that was the maximum 414 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 2: that could give, you know, made. 415 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: Vision different, different world. There was another with the gangs 416 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: in there. I read with the samurais infected. 417 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, they had them. They were like they had ahead 418 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 2: of the Yeah, although they would time. I never why 419 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 2: they called them shemage. 420 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: So what was there again? They are hi very infected 421 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: and would threaten people with syringes and. 422 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, they were injecting their shells with would make shifted 423 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 2: engines made out of barerel. Shame they can improvised a 424 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 2: very clever since the main line of those who were 425 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 2: doing what they could, they were like they were covered 426 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 2: in tattoos from heads to top. But they were very 427 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,959 Speaker 2: very late. Guinny you romnsic case. And you know there 428 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: were roads at the hospital once a weeks to pay 429 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 2: for pace ivy medication. You know, I remember they getting 430 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: in debt with them over over drugs over ahead of 431 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: them edything again usual couldn't stop, you know, it was 432 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 2: they were just in his shape. You know, they pulled 433 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 2: us a shringe full of blood, but were really a 434 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 2: bit of floats off everything, pay the chests, pulling home 435 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 2: drums out for the having me with rape one violent 436 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 2: physical abuse and it was just they was just kind 437 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 2: of it. That's very fright. It got to a point 438 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,719 Speaker 2: better force. I'm going to tell you I really am. 439 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: I was getting to a point of turtle of shepts 440 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 2: in this Perasian beer. I didn't think of there ghettos alive. Yeah, 441 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 2: that's where I was at one point. 442 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: I don't think it's some reasonable belie describing the environment 443 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: you were in. That's yeah, very ununderstandable. And I said 444 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: at the start, say it throughout. I think the human 445 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: spirit's amazing because the situation you found in mate, you 446 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: didn't have much going for you. It would have been easier, 447 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: the path might assumed easier. Just okay, well if I 448 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: die here, I get some peace, but you you found 449 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,959 Speaker 1: some degree of salvation and purpose getting back into your 450 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: fighting in my tie. What what happened then? 451 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I got into a lot of faith again. 452 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 2: One of the pleasure officers, he was fond of me. 453 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 2: He gave me the suggestion, and I thought, okay, just 454 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 2: total by the weather spoke to you know, the box 455 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 2: and the gi. Yeah, he kind of refused me, and 456 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 2: see gave him he she get it you again. He 457 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 2: let me in. I got a pair of mates, started 458 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 2: it in the back. You know, when I went every 459 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 2: day and on a davy basis. She started as a 460 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 2: feeling every stronger than this city. I was laughing a 461 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 2: bit more with me and Durance, and you know, and 462 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 2: then the starts to speak to them. The starts to 463 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 2: speak to me, and I became really friendly with them. 464 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: He starts to talking about the theentire New Year and 465 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: where they get involved in, you know, moveside competition with 466 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 2: the best of the best in their prison. And I said, yeah, 467 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 2: go on. He moved me as a a shell. But 468 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 2: she'd call a home that geeler, which was the sports 469 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 2: and it sounds very very good. You're only sports shell. 470 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 2: That's okay, you get better, Tod. There's lesson in mats 471 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 2: in there. There's a bit of cammaraderie, ship and a 472 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: bit of units. He colectively. I felt a little that 473 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: taste uh rol moves in. Unless started to become a 474 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: little bit better. You know, I was eating well and 475 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 2: I was on a good relationship basis with the rest 476 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 2: of these size do you say boxers. It was just 477 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 2: an incredible feeling. It was like the season and the 478 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 2: applause and the chaptains had gone left somebody, Yeah, I 479 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 2: can understand. Yeah, they had this choicely moments as belonging, not. 480 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: Just belonging to you, you get some respect back about yourself. 481 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: I would imagine the whole whole thing an environment that 482 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: you feel comfortable in and you're respected for the effort 483 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: that you put in, if it's in the boxing gym 484 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, it's it's incredible that what you've 485 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: been through and you can look back at this and 486 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: and and talk about how did it get to the 487 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: point where it was the prisoner transfer when you went 488 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: back to the UK prison you spent three years in 489 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: entire prisons roughly? 490 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 2: Was that the Yeah, that's they're pretty easy. I mean, 491 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 2: it's not a hell of a long time. You know, 492 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 2: if you look at. 493 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: From where I'm sitting in a way you described it, 494 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 1: it's a long fucking three years. 495 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 2: You know, I think I'm read for a way that way. 496 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: You know, a year in a Thai prison compare to 497 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 2: ten years in the in the US. Tennant sensity. Yeah, 498 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 2: you can look at like because it was that Austin 499 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 2: and it was that bad. It was run by inmates, 500 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 2: the pigeons. It was quite volatile and violence every day. 501 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 2: It was like a fight, you know what I mean. 502 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, you survived that. To get through the dy and 503 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: survive is an achievement. 504 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 2: I'd wake open the day who knows Regardian It was 505 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 2: a hypnotic beat travel right the prision and it was inmates, 506 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 2: the Buddists praying bace. After that, he did, you know 507 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: that the Fajar is when we called the player, and 508 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,959 Speaker 2: so you did these that the Muslims praying, and then 509 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: the Buddhist praying and people are praying, you know, and 510 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 2: then the doors opening, you know, leads into this and 511 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 2: to the gates of hell, you know, where there's like 512 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 2: market stores and people living on Lately, he'd say on 513 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 2: the top of. 514 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really interested in the fact that I didn't 515 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: realize that was the basis of the name of the 516 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: movie in the book. But that makes a lot of sense, 517 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: and you've created that image very well. I can imagine 518 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: it waking up to that type. 519 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 2: Of just wait, they've just beached the wake up. They'll 520 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 2: slowly be coming through the windows. And it was just 521 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 2: before the all or the fourth place. Every morning it 522 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 2: waked me up in the place. In the beginning, it 523 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 2: was annoying, but then it became shows that they comfort 524 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 2: and then it go. I was unlitially what had happened 525 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 2: into the place system, but yeah, the pasted the ace. 526 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 2: It was after three years, you know, the embassy were 527 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 2: coming up on a regular basis. You know, it eventually came, 528 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 2: but it was a bit of a It was a 529 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 2: bit of a tough time. It was a cheap out 530 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: of ten in March two and ten and Bangkok at 531 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 2: the time was on fire. People were shutting brain I 532 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 2: remember that. 533 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was like there. 534 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 2: Was like a political party, the Red, the Red, the 535 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 2: Yellows or something then so people were shotting fire as 536 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 2: the buildings do. A block in the airport. Bangkok was 537 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,959 Speaker 2: your upthrow Tyland was It was a mess. I had 538 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 2: this twice, a date that had been given to me, 539 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 2: and it was I think it was the twenty twenty 540 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 2: seven to short of mark. That day came and of 541 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 2: being excited to go, and and it got canceled because 542 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 2: of the airport was surrounded by a political mession protest 543 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: protesters in the and and the I fell and I 544 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 2: thought that's it, sending me back. But then a couple 545 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 2: of days later, without any notice, I was called so 546 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 2: we called up his sell and taken to reception and 547 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 2: putting this quite. I'm come from like this grimy, deady 548 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 2: environments into the christ Gleaming room with a big oval 549 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 2: table with these supersishisial officers shipping on both sides, the 550 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: Prevision Governor and May and a few of the Vision 551 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 2: or forties sit in there. 552 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: Your senses must be like this is this is crazy 553 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: because it was just. 554 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 2: Cheering of me. It was it was it was the 555 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 2: handing over to the British policies. It was just jello 556 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 2: of me. So you know they make a big show 557 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 2: and sad like passing your onto to the British. The 558 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 2: fabrics and you know I was taken from one to immigration, 559 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 2: stayed in there five Chike showers and Sony flight with you. 560 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 2: And it was midnight and I was taken to the 561 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 2: airport by these che personal officers and you know I 562 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 2: was handcuffed and they bought meal mass ls, you know, 563 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 2: the quite sorry for asking me questions. Yeah, they've got 564 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 2: a plane going on the plane as well that Jamie 565 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: back to the UK. And you know it was freezing 566 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: cold when they got off in March. The fatty face 567 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: two times in a ten and then I was sound 568 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: said was treason you know, I was another get again, 569 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 2: another the stocks of the system of culture shot pay 570 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 2: them a lot of things. 571 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: Master look felt like luxury over themgand compared to what 572 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: you come from. But I also imagine to a degree 573 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: you're in the mindset that you're still backing in Thailand. 574 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 2: So yeah, have a both back and tie, you know. 575 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 2: And I was very shrub mission. Yes, you know, because 576 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: you've been beaaten into me or drunned into me in Thailand, 577 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: you know, because you're very you know, you had to 578 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 2: really like you couldn't be above the patent offices. You 579 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 2: have to lower yourselves, you know, you have to yeah, 580 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 2: bounce down and you know everything was shipping on your 581 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 2: knees and you slept on a wall. So when I 582 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: went into the shelf in the UK and there was 583 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 2: a massage on a bed, I couldn't cope place to 584 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 2: sleep on the floor, and I put the matter on 585 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 2: the floor. I was sleeping on the floor. I was 586 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 2: it was seizing cold so old ones of the pipes. 587 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 2: It was, you know, it was cooling off the shell. 588 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: And I was speaking time half English and calling everyone's 589 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 2: Shane and it was just Bob. And then he got 590 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 2: like the couseuling it. Who speaks to me? You know, 591 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 2: he wasn't weird. I carded to be fair, you know, 592 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 2: I mean he was asking me chilly questions and that's all. 593 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 2: I was just kind of to a tap. That's that 594 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 2: kind of culture and that environment was it was a 595 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 2: difficult process. 596 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: You know. 597 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 2: I was listening to the people complaining of the chips 598 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 2: and that's shipping amaze. As you just see what I've 599 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 2: been eating, right, I've had painting heads stop still with 600 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 2: the weak on it and an eyeball and stinking you 601 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 2: know what. That that's the kind of thing with that meeting, 602 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 2: and you're complaining about the chips here and the chiffing. 603 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 2: I don't like the fish might now made Yeah, apend 604 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 2: stating months so I don't see usually montioned total. 605 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: Was there you once you were released? You where did 606 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: you write the book? Did you write the book when 607 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: you were in prison or when you released from prison? 608 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 2: Yea fast was writing the book when I was in Thailand. 609 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 2: So astu factual information because afford the tear, you know, 610 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 2: and writes it down. I'll document it so you have 611 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 2: little notes. And then kind of it came to suation 612 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 2: when I got to world. Later, I knew what I 613 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 2: was writing. You know, it was memory, it was it 614 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 2: was there, It was physically in mad environments and I've 615 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 2: witnessed the show, so I write it down and it 616 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: was fact. So it became a you know, chronologic female. 617 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: I said, introduce your shelf and talk about me your 618 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 2: back short and you know where that led the count 619 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 2: to beauty factors and me behavior and you know what 620 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 2: changed our final initiating situation is it? 621 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: You know you find that find that cathartic like going 622 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: through that telling the story. 623 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: That's pretty much have ward. It was any healing because 624 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 2: there was speaking that people are both as well. So 625 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 2: it was a vision of telling them my story. They 626 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 2: look on me alas with shock or he couldn't intensively, 627 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 2: he couldn't release what you've seen this, you've seen she 628 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 2: wanted to have them shot on the chest and you 629 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 2: were just it was normal, y. Yeah, you know you've 630 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 2: seen someone, you know, taking them shoves off this and 631 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 2: you've seen people and they were looking at me a 632 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 2: bit strange and I thought, hell, I can't even name 633 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 2: self on the shorty without them bow. Yeah, that experience. 634 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 2: I wrote it down. It was very it was very 635 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 2: healing the process where he said. 636 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: With the book, you've you've got it published. Then when 637 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: did the film start to take off? When did people 638 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: get interested in turning into a movie. 639 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 2: So that was probably a boss I was feeling into 640 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 2: the book was publish. You know. I went about silently 641 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 2: shows to get a documentary or show him because it 642 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 2: was it was You got to remember it was. It 643 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 2: was before the podcasts and take off, you know what 644 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:14,439 Speaker 2: I mean. It was in two thousand and eleven, twenty eleven, 645 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 2: should Out the twelve of the book was published. Shootout 646 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 2: the twelve in this Lee and not was really online 647 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 2: as much as it is today. Yeah. Sure, I was 648 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 2: shunting the busy. I remember walking down of the street 649 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 2: called Huxley has seen a little shine seeing hurricane film 650 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,719 Speaker 2: ship the bid I walked in and refused to see 651 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,839 Speaker 2: me as an officiate manager. Yea, the share don't come 652 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 2: back and kept coming back. They kept mess In the 653 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 2: end they thay, can you leave your manuscript on your 654 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: book and it's okay. I left it with its twelve 655 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 2: months later that he got in such in me like 656 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 2: we were delighted, we want to make this into a movie, 657 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 2: Like they invite you in to have a chat about it, 658 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 2: and that's when they I went in and I was thinking, 659 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 2: you know, she's been a little a little homemade basically 660 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 2: movie or something more or budget low budget. You know, 661 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 2: wasn't it the best in the game. You know, a 662 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 2: great director to be involved, the script writer, you know, 663 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,360 Speaker 2: and I'm up and coming actor from from from the 664 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 2: UK to be you know, playing the role of Michelle. 665 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: It was very exciting giving to know you in this 666 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: check now he now nowed you to that actor in 667 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: the movie The Painkillers. 668 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 2: I have, Jimmy, you don't have in infamily and told 669 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 2: you do tramadol for three, that's free for you. But Jimmy, 670 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 2: it's not three. I've just seen you give it to 671 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 2: five people in a row. 672 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: Need to pay. 673 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 2: No, No, I've got no money. I've got no money. 674 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:42,879 Speaker 2: I've been told it's free. 675 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: You have to song for me. 676 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 2: I don't have have no cigarettes. I've got no I've 677 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 2: got nothing. But this is all not right. 678 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 1: Give me. 679 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,359 Speaker 2: There's a lot of time with that act as you'll 680 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 2: call it. Became really friendly with and still preens with 681 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 2: him today. He was still in contact. Yeah, he understands the. 682 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: Very complex Yeah, that's that's what came across Billy, That's 683 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 1: what came across in the film and chatting with you 684 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 1: now like it's there was the zanga, there's the sadness, 685 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: there's all the emotions here. He saw the capture that 686 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: you could relate to him the way that he portrayed 687 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,760 Speaker 1: you in the in the movie. 688 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was very I was very impressed with that. 689 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 2: We proceeded Michelson. I believe the time that he spent 690 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 2: with me in the the method after he did was 691 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 2: was it was spots on Yeah. 692 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he nailed it. So that was it was 693 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: feature at Cannes Film Festival. So yeah, we're talking that 694 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 1: was It was a big deal. It wasn't the local 695 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: TV station making the movie. 696 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 2: I was a center. They put on the biggest Gentlemans 697 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 2: in Europe. There was a cars film Festival of the 698 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 2: thing was that sticks to your anual events. Filch each 699 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 2: wudd and was filing first of all the time and 700 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,600 Speaker 2: there was just incredible red carpet. I will say some 701 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 2: of the actors from the movie with the ho call 702 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,320 Speaker 2: me shelf the director and it was just powerful, you know, 703 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 2: like at the end I was watching it and I'll 704 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 2: be there, and I was like changing watching it and 705 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 2: on people are going to judge station. 706 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:23,040 Speaker 1: Was like. 707 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 2: Like, this is what I told him. You know it's 708 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 2: gonna like you. And that was there was own waste CITs. 709 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 2: But at the end of the movie there was a 710 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 2: rapture of applause that just went over for eight minutes. 711 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 2: It was a fan of ovation and cheese. And I 712 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 2: was like, what's going on here? And I was both 713 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,880 Speaker 2: at the the American Financid who was standing next with 714 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 2: James Seamish, and I said that sepping here, I said, 715 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 2: you know, and he liked it anyway. He said, hey, Billy, 716 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 2: he said, we said we're in France. He's dead. And 717 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 2: now I'll tell you this, he said, the wrench of 718 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 2: the ways and examiners. Even if you hear they love 719 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 2: this movie, he said, you know, if they were if 720 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,360 Speaker 2: you did LA, they didn't still care whether you do 721 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,879 Speaker 2: or not. He said that you know you've done really well. 722 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 2: And you know the next day in the reports and 723 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,439 Speaker 2: then in all the moviesine articles online, it was LA shame. 724 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 2: It was a great suck death. It was yesicized, as 725 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 2: was having siticized as a as a good cult movie. 726 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,160 Speaker 2: So I was I would glad that. I was grateful 727 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 2: that it was quite hockey. 728 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 1: Look, and so much was happening in your life after that, 729 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 1: like what you had had been through to get to 730 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,439 Speaker 1: that point, and yeah, the nature of your story, people 731 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 1: would have been wanting to meet you. You would have 732 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: been the man in the moment in that environment, and 733 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: that can be daunting and overwhelming. And I'm sure with 734 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: all the all the stuff that you carry carry from 735 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 1: your past, it must have been confronting for you in 736 00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 1: a way as well. 737 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,839 Speaker 2: It was because I would carrying out impostership. I didn't 738 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,360 Speaker 2: believe it belongs in the kind of environments, you know. 739 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 2: I was thinking, Look, I'm just a basy, mixed up kid, 740 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 2: I'm a few bits. I've just had the sex variance, 741 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 2: and you know, they've written a bad around all these 742 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,360 Speaker 2: big issers. They're all struck cheeseos. I don't really, you know, 743 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 2: feel like I fit in with these type of people, 744 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,719 Speaker 2: you know. And I just rolled with it. And then 745 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,360 Speaker 2: it was just very difficult to chet late all the affirmation. 746 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,399 Speaker 2: At the time, no one as well that like, look 747 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,399 Speaker 2: was this day's over, It'll be another day for someone else. 748 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,440 Speaker 2: I knew that's just kind of just rolled with it, 749 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,719 Speaker 2: and it was, Yeah, it was. It was very an 750 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 2: exciting moment. I was proud of the achievements, you know, 751 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,160 Speaker 2: and I didn't want to live in all that shame 752 00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:45,800 Speaker 2: of me past. 753 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 1: Hey, guys, have you ever wondered what goes on behind 754 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: the headlines of a gang more or shooting, then you 755 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: need to listen to crim City joined crime reporters Mark 756 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: Murray and Josh Hemrahane as I uncovered the details of 757 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,240 Speaker 1: crimes I'm folding on Sydney Straight and share the stories 758 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,839 Speaker 1: that don't make the papers. The latest season of crim 759 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,759 Speaker 1: City is out now. Listen early and ad free on 760 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,359 Speaker 1: Crime x plus on Apple Podcast Today. I think when 761 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,279 Speaker 1: you tell the story and you're honest, that yeah, if 762 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 1: you hold shame, but if you're saying, well, this is 763 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 1: who I am. You've put it in a book, it's 764 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,359 Speaker 1: played out in the film. You've got nothing to hide there, 765 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: this is who I am. Take So I think there 766 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: must have been that sort of thought going through your mind. 767 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like he Honestly, the your honesty is 768 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,759 Speaker 2: more sack than saying that. They pretend that you've got 769 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,600 Speaker 2: a big ego and you're not dead, and you know, 770 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,640 Speaker 2: you know usually usually look, you know, I was a 771 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 2: diagonal sold them. 772 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: I was. 773 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 2: I was a proper mesh. I had an EmPATH on 774 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 2: everyone's life. Negatively, you know, I wasn't really a valuable 775 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,680 Speaker 2: member of the community. You know, I'm sure what was 776 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,480 Speaker 2: your face everywhere mentioned all the beautiful last if you 777 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,719 Speaker 2: know what I mean. But now come like full share, 778 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 2: you know, I like you shad at the beginning and 779 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,320 Speaker 2: this is what's imposed. And I spoke about this today, 780 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,359 Speaker 2: which is quite states. You know what Becausin who said, 781 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 2: he said to me, he said, you know what, Bill, 782 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,040 Speaker 2: He's just you know, why did you think you're Yeah, 783 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,440 Speaker 2: I said, really Knowsted, you've been through that many nature 784 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 2: for staining, So so she's ya, you know, collisions, your stabbings, 785 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,160 Speaker 2: you've been stabbed, you're being shot at. You know, you've 786 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 2: had you you know, you've been molds, You've been through 787 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 2: a lot. Right, So why said someone's got to be 788 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,200 Speaker 2: looking after someone's got to be watching over you, because 789 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,000 Speaker 2: I'm kind of like get about all that stuff. But 790 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,880 Speaker 2: I believe there's some kind of incidental I believe in 791 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,719 Speaker 2: me for a reason. I don't know whether what that 792 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 2: is this, but now you know, I know what to 793 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 2: do today is Yeah, it's be that role model for people. 794 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,160 Speaker 2: Be that Paton who can nature others, you know people, 795 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 2: be that patient you going off for guidance and say 796 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,640 Speaker 2: look there's a way out there, you know, being in 797 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 2: for almost seven years. No, I maintain accidents that don't 798 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,879 Speaker 2: drink it'll slogan ull usual booze there, no me late. 799 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,200 Speaker 2: Today is a far acay from what it was. I'm 800 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,320 Speaker 2: sold if I never have kids who got cheap, bunching, 801 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,279 Speaker 2: little baby blous. Now you've got a lovely family. This 802 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,200 Speaker 2: is you know, I've never believed in a million years 803 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 2: above you know. So it's just it's just just it's 804 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,399 Speaker 2: like it's like play yet it thinks someone else's live. 805 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:34,040 Speaker 2: I'd never believe that was my life. That kid in 806 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,839 Speaker 2: that film kept making show any mistakes, so he had 807 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,920 Speaker 2: that many chances of were thinking I was looking for Michelle. 808 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: It's funny you should say that like your story. Yeah, 809 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,279 Speaker 1: you've had your setbacks. You step forward, you look like 810 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,680 Speaker 1: you've made it, you fall back down. I sit there 811 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 1: and watch it. When I was reading your books or 812 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: watching the movie, I'm thinking, no, don't get in in 813 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: this path, don't do that, like and you're it's funny 814 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,479 Speaker 1: you're sitting there thinking the same thing. Come on, Billy, 815 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:58,279 Speaker 1: you can do this. 816 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,080 Speaker 2: But Billy, whenever it's I was thinking, what's going on? 817 00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 2: You've got that Maody's chances. Yeah, it was like I 818 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 2: was left the spoons and all of them shelves and 819 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,400 Speaker 2: look at all loves Bobby. But it was yeah, you know, 820 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,160 Speaker 2: you'd have to fall a few times before your stones. 821 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,440 Speaker 1: Up on most definitely, and you've got to. But you know, 822 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 1: we talk redemption, and I really like pushing that in 823 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,399 Speaker 1: on this this show redemption because you get people. I've 824 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 1: seen people, we've all been there. You're at this low point, 825 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,080 Speaker 1: you think I'm never going to turn this around, and 826 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,319 Speaker 1: then we see a story like like yours, and you know, look, 827 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,920 Speaker 1: you got you've got two kids, you're enjoying life. You've 828 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,920 Speaker 1: lived a life, but you're still here. So I think 829 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,479 Speaker 1: there's some motivation and inspiration for people here in your story. 830 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 1: And I think that's why it certainly resonated with me. 831 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,880 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, ship, who is this blake? How how has 832 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:49,520 Speaker 1: he survived? 833 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 2: Like? 834 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 1: How did where's that human spirit come from? 835 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,880 Speaker 2: And because I was what My thing was I was 836 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:55,560 Speaker 2: daying all. 837 00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,960 Speaker 1: I forgot your cancer story. Yeah, that's another number one. 838 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,240 Speaker 1: When did you get diagnosed with cancer? 839 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:03,640 Speaker 2: Two times of the ship? 840 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,160 Speaker 1: Right? Okay, so you're going through the whole prison experience 841 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,480 Speaker 1: and then you got hit with that. Yeah. 842 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,480 Speaker 2: So that being through that experience and come out at 843 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,520 Speaker 2: this glorious book that addressed that became a movie that 844 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,279 Speaker 2: I'm on the shed and I guess I gets it 845 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:24,239 Speaker 2: with cancer and filling to that was that was like 846 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,680 Speaker 2: and Rod the handling me life me. I was diavolged 847 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 2: with cancer after passed away from cancer, and I had 848 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,160 Speaker 2: to you know, he made amends met the last seven 849 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:32,879 Speaker 2: years of his life. 850 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:33,520 Speaker 1: You know that's good. 851 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 2: He never really shed much. But you know, at the 852 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,120 Speaker 2: end of his life, you know, he said he loved me, 853 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,800 Speaker 2: and that was I believe. And then I had this 854 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,719 Speaker 2: out of the chept and surround you know, maybe you 855 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,080 Speaker 2: know he had his whole little battles with his life, 856 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 2: and you know, we never really shared much of bout it, 857 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,279 Speaker 2: so I can't I add that to giveness, which you 858 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,279 Speaker 2: can't of give me a better piece. But then I 859 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 2: got diagnosed with it, and you know, I ended up 860 00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,359 Speaker 2: with Stacey. Cancer brought me ways, you know, lot hay. 861 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,879 Speaker 2: Everything a photag is the end and you know kind 862 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,480 Speaker 2: of manage to get through it, you know. So that 863 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,920 Speaker 2: was a load of handling, you know what. And then 864 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,040 Speaker 2: they share the good back kids and then that's w 865 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 2: share them with these tree little boys now and they 866 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,240 Speaker 2: be careful what you wish for greatly. 867 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:14,880 Speaker 1: How how old about it? 868 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,120 Speaker 2: Well one was for ones alet. 869 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,239 Speaker 1: Oh jeez, Billy, and here I am keeping you up 870 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,000 Speaker 1: to no wonder you're worried, keeping you up to midnight 871 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,480 Speaker 1: to do the podcast. I'm sorry. I apologize. 872 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:29,560 Speaker 2: I've got a couple of step kids as well. They 873 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,680 Speaker 2: were quite a bit old. You know, things things are okay, 874 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,440 Speaker 2: and you know, away along Tiddy. You know, an organization 875 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,920 Speaker 2: was just called Weapons Down, which we deal with interventions 876 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,880 Speaker 2: with young kids, and you know, you know gang culture, 877 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,840 Speaker 2: man county lines, you know, vision and consequences, mental health, addiction. 878 00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,040 Speaker 2: I kind of covered all aspects of I've got the experience. 879 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,480 Speaker 1: Well you got the life experience, and and people like you, 880 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,600 Speaker 1: people that kids if they're heating in the wrong direction, 881 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,839 Speaker 1: listen to But what was the name of the organization? 882 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,160 Speaker 1: Weapons Day and fists Up? 883 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:04,920 Speaker 2: Weapons down. 884 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:06,239 Speaker 1: I like it. 885 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:06,800 Speaker 2: I like it. 886 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,720 Speaker 1: That's because yeah, we've got a bit of a problem 887 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,920 Speaker 1: over here in Australia. And I know it's you've probably 888 00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,680 Speaker 1: got the same thing in the UK, but with weapons 889 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,200 Speaker 1: and knives and and and all that that it's something 890 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,000 Speaker 1: that really try to see people away. 891 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:23,880 Speaker 2: And I'm under no illusion that we're not going to 892 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,839 Speaker 2: reach everyone, it's all. And I mean we can only 893 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,200 Speaker 2: I mean if he reach a few people, then that's 894 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,080 Speaker 2: there's a ribble of effect. And I know the ribble 895 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,520 Speaker 2: effect because of my ripple effect. I had the shape 896 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,279 Speaker 2: of people around me, don't really struggling and shuffled them. 897 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:37,080 Speaker 1: You know. 898 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,719 Speaker 2: Now they're phoning me up and asking me for help 899 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 2: me mum, you know, she she she brings me up 900 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,560 Speaker 2: for guidance to report. And you know that was never 901 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,680 Speaker 2: on the cards. It was always just all getting shotting 902 00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,840 Speaker 2: with feet, keep aways. You know, you're the shoulders and 903 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,520 Speaker 2: the banish. And now it's it's not like that. What 904 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,880 Speaker 2: sholl ever, you know, it's quite different difference. Have got 905 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,040 Speaker 2: a blood to do these as show that was a 906 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,920 Speaker 2: bit of a struggle growing roughly looking after him as well, 907 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,879 Speaker 2: that he's missed him. But now he's like my little rock. 908 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,480 Speaker 2: And you know, I've spent a lot of time with 909 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,000 Speaker 2: him because he had a lot of guilt over It's 910 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,680 Speaker 2: like dismissing him as a young kid. Yeah, you know, 911 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,320 Speaker 2: he wasn't physically and he can't. He was medley, but 912 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,960 Speaker 2: he couldn't really rebilage or understand or he wasn't aware. 913 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,680 Speaker 2: And he's forty five now and he you know, he's 914 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,760 Speaker 2: got you know, he's got his he's got his accomplishes, 915 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,759 Speaker 2: but he's just a lovable guy that you know, was 916 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,160 Speaker 2: very popular now in Liverpool because I put him on 917 00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:40,799 Speaker 2: the platform. I don't shy away from the autism side 918 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 2: of things, and I didn't realize how his spying it 919 00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,240 Speaker 2: was for others to go, Okay, I've got a family member. 920 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,719 Speaker 2: You know. I was always worrying that, you know, that 921 00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 2: he wouldn't be able to trow and he wouldn't be 922 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,400 Speaker 2: able to be a productive member of society. Now by 923 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:59,600 Speaker 2: the way, you know in these you know he waited testing. 924 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,120 Speaker 2: That's so it shouldn't embarrass. 925 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,239 Speaker 1: Stuff like that. And you can make a difference and 926 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,880 Speaker 1: I know, yeah, you talked about the posta syndrome and 927 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,399 Speaker 1: you know, hanging on to the guilt that you weren't 928 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,560 Speaker 1: good for society. But mate, I got to say, sitting 929 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,759 Speaker 1: here and listening to your story and just getting a 930 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,920 Speaker 1: sense of who you are, you're putting you're putting more 931 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,520 Speaker 1: good than the bad that you you created. So you 932 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,600 Speaker 1: balance the ledger I reckon you can, Yeah, give yourself 933 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 1: a bit of leeway. We all make mistakes, That's how 934 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:28,520 Speaker 1: we come from. 935 00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I speaks to Michel Coss. You know what 936 00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,600 Speaker 2: you acknowledge that the fact that you're not outdare committing crime. 937 00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,360 Speaker 2: Still you're not out there, you're not telling your story, 938 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,759 Speaker 2: but they living a living a bad life, you know 939 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:43,960 Speaker 2: what I mean. But I'm sure that people on these 940 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,920 Speaker 2: platforms that would show the belt made would still out 941 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,160 Speaker 2: David in Segacy. You know, I don't done that, and 942 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,320 Speaker 2: I know for the fact that there's people like that, 943 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,759 Speaker 2: and I don't want to be one of those those 944 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,000 Speaker 2: people who you haven't got the insangy. You know, I 945 00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,440 Speaker 2: won't be inside the out size But she is what 946 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,440 Speaker 2: I do because I'm in a public you know, arena, 947 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,000 Speaker 2: and I don't want to be sheen. 948 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,560 Speaker 1: To be doing no and with that comes the responsibility. 949 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,279 Speaker 1: But it looks like you're reading to it. 950 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,920 Speaker 2: Ye, it gives you the responsibility of the comfortability. 951 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,840 Speaker 1: All right, well, look, I think we might wrap it 952 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,000 Speaker 1: up here. Billy, I really really enjoyed, enjoyed the chat, 953 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,680 Speaker 1: and it's something I say to you. I've burnt a 954 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,799 Speaker 1: fan of you because of your story from the moment 955 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,880 Speaker 1: I saw the movie, and I'm really excited I've got 956 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,040 Speaker 1: the opportunity to sit down and have it have a 957 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,759 Speaker 1: chat with you. So all the best for you for 958 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,040 Speaker 1: the future. And yeah, thanks for coming on I Catch Killers. 959 00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:43,480 Speaker 2: Thank you. 960 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,200 Speaker 1: Well. I got to say I love my job hosting 961 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,800 Speaker 1: I Catch Killers podcast because I've been fascinated with Billy's 962 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,440 Speaker 1: story ever since I watched his movie. The fact that 963 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,400 Speaker 1: what he survived and how he turned his life around 964 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,640 Speaker 1: is just amazing, and I think it's a real privilege 965 00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:02,960 Speaker 1: for me to be able to sit down and have 966 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,719 Speaker 1: a chat with him. And I gotta say I like 967 00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,520 Speaker 1: the bloke. He's very impressive and testament to the human 968 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,400 Speaker 1: spirit that he came through what he came through, and 969 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,120 Speaker 1: I just think he's a good Felow