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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unplugged. This week is a special show.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about this. I was scrolling on Amazon and

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Speaker 1: came across the Cocaine Quarterback. So I did what I

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Speaker 1: normally do, hopped in his DMS until my I need

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Speaker 1: to talk, and lo and behold we have him here today.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show The Cocaine Quarterback. Owen Hansoon, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having so question? How did it was the cocaine

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Speaker 1: because you weren't a quarterback, right, was not a quarter

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Speaker 1: so that just the name ended up flowing? Is that

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Speaker 1: how it worked? How did the name come about?

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Speaker 2: You know how it came? It was originally supposed to

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Speaker 2: be the California kid. There was from California, right, And

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Speaker 2: Amazon looked at it and it's like that just doesn't

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Speaker 2: us what it is, right, And then they're like, well,

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Speaker 2: technically he played football cocaine. Yeah, so how do we

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Speaker 2: tie in the quarterback? Well, guess what. I was a

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Speaker 2: signal caller the cartel, and the signal caller is the

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Speaker 2: guy that's called the plays, right, So so they used

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Speaker 2: that name with the asterisk signal caller for the cartel.

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Speaker 2: So that why I have my quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So when you saw, obviously Cocaine quarterback on Amazon, when

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Speaker 1: you saw kind of your story being depicted, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what was that like? I mean, obviously you be able

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Speaker 1: to see yourself before, but to see your story kind

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Speaker 1: of play out for the world, what was that? What

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Speaker 1: was that feeling?

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Speaker 2: Like? Man? It was I remember that Wahlberg's team had

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Speaker 2: me view it before it went public, right, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, man, I lived a fucking crazy life. Man,

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Speaker 2: what the fuck was I thinking? And uh, man, I'm

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Speaker 2: glad I'm not I'm not ever going to go back

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Speaker 2: to that life because I'll tell you what, I should

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Speaker 2: have died a long time ago in watching it, and like,

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Speaker 2: how did I get man? How did I make it

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Speaker 2: out alive? You know at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: Like I'm here right now. I shouldn't even be here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, also being older and kind of looking back,

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Speaker 1: but there had to be some fun time. To me,

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Speaker 1: college was one of the best times of my life

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Speaker 1: and we were actually I was at UCLA at the

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Speaker 1: same time you were at SC I mean there had

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Speaker 1: to be some fun times though.

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Speaker 2: I mean, come on, as an athlete, we know, right,

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Speaker 2: as an athlete, even as a walk on, right, I

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Speaker 2: felt like the man has a walk on. And I

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Speaker 2: remember Matt and Reggie and I would go out in

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Speaker 2: Hollywood and fucking and we felt like we were like untouchable,

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Speaker 2: right right. I mean you got to remember we didn't

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Speaker 2: have a football team in LA at that.

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Speaker 1: You guys were some of the biggest stars in the

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Speaker 1: game at the time.

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Speaker 2: It was I remember seeing Snoop Dogg coming to practice

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Speaker 2: and want to do like chest bumps with us. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: what the fuck is going on here? You know, Denzel

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Speaker 2: is on the sideline Shack. I was like, man, we

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Speaker 2: we really are the NFL tam LA And I mean,

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Speaker 2: of course college you know how.

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Speaker 1: College is well, I mean SC is different. You know.

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Speaker 1: I was to me that the ride with U C,

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Speaker 1: l A and USC was never real to me because

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Speaker 1: I was a football guy growing up and I chose

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Speaker 1: basketball once I got to college. But I was a

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Speaker 1: fan of just how good you guys were. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you guys turned out several pros, one two national championship.

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Speaker 1: Row you're there, talk to me just about that team.

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Speaker 1: Reggie Bush arguably the greatest college player we've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Lindell White was there while you were there. It was

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Speaker 1: liner with the quarterback of the time. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: talk to us about what that team was like on

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Speaker 1: and off the.

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Speaker 2: Field, and we're all best friends. I can literally tell you,

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Speaker 2: Like Lindell was obviously in the docu series and ready

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Speaker 2: to see me when I got out of prison. Brandon Hancock,

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Speaker 2: who was our All American fullback, was awesome and he's

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Speaker 2: you know, he would visit me in prison once a month.

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Speaker 2: I named the fucking ice cream bar after him. But no,

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Speaker 2: just it was every day we would come to practice

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Speaker 2: and we'd be just like excited. Right. You go to

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Speaker 2: the meetings on Mondays and they're like, God, what does

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Speaker 2: Coach Carol have in store for us today? And you

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Speaker 2: know that bond, that brotherhood, like you can't I tell people,

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Speaker 2: you can't really understand it unless you've been part of it.

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Speaker 2: And there's one hundred and ten of us, and we

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Speaker 2: do anything for our team, right, our teammates. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you know it as well. In basketball, it's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You got to see Reggie in practice and in games.

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Speaker 1: What was that like just on a daily basis, just

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Speaker 2: Man? That motherfucker gave me staples in my chin. Never

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Speaker 2: forget it. It was. It was summer ball double days,

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Speaker 2: and I, uh, fucking my helmet flew off. My fucking

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Speaker 2: chin guard flew off. My helmet flew off. I was

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Speaker 2: I was a gunner in special teams, and I was

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Speaker 2: fucking sprinting and I got down there and my helmet

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Speaker 2: flew off, and Reggie's duck and dive and I fucking

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Speaker 2: had to make the tackle right and I fucking tackled him,

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Speaker 2: and he got me right here, and he gave me

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Speaker 2: with his helmet, his helmet, and he gave me like

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Speaker 2: ten staples and they put put the stapleoat in and

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Speaker 2: they should get in their hands. And they made me

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Speaker 2: put my chin guard back and get right back in there.

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Speaker 2: And what the fuck did I get in?

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Speaker 1: This is practice?

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Speaker 2: This is practice. This is why, this is why dad

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Speaker 2: didn't want me to play football.

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Speaker 1: So you grew up in Redondo Beach. Lifelong volleyball guy.

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Speaker 1: You go to s C on a scholarship over some

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Speaker 1: other really prominent volleyball schools. What made you pick s C?

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Speaker 2: Man, the connections, right, You go to USC for that network,

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Speaker 2: life long, lifelong. Once you go to USC and graduate,

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Speaker 2: it's they say it's a it's a family for life.

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Speaker 2: And I remember my uncle played volleyball there and my

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Speaker 2: Charles White. And she always says, if you ever get

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Speaker 2: to go to USC, you got to you gotta go.

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Speaker 2: And I got lucky. You know, University of Hawaii offered

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Speaker 2: me a full scholarship and then USC offered me a partial.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what do we do? My dad said, you

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Speaker 2: know what, do you want to be a hotel manager

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Speaker 2: when you graduate? Or do you want to be a CEO?

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Speaker 2: And I said, you're right, bops, I want to be

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Speaker 2: a CEO. I want to be a boss. Right there.

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Speaker 1: It was so, you played volleyball your first year, you

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Speaker 1: read shirt your second year, and then that's when things

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of switch. I'm gonna give it, give

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Speaker 1: you the floor.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that's when things turn south. No pun intended, right

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Speaker 2: I I literally after I got red shirted. I remember

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Speaker 2: he sat me down, he says, hands and I got

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Speaker 2: bad news. I said what, coach? He says, we got

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Speaker 2: to red shirt you. I said, red shirt me. I

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Speaker 2: just came to us to play fucking volleve but you're

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Speaker 2: gonna put me on the bench. He's like, you gotta

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Speaker 2: work on that vertical jump, you gotta work that arm strength.

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Speaker 2: He says, you're playing behind Brook billings All, American Olympic

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Speaker 2: I said, okay, gotcha, And I remember Matt, I walked

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Speaker 2: from Redonald Beach, and I went to Golds Gym. Remember

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Speaker 2: the biggest motherfucker there and I went up to him.

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Speaker 2: I said, Hey, what do I got to do to

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Speaker 2: work on my vertical jump and my arm strength? And

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Speaker 2: he says, do you want to do it illegally or illegally?

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Speaker 2: I said, I want to do it as fast as possible.

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Speaker 2: But I said he said to me, he says, well,

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Speaker 2: a bottle of steroids is about three hundred dollars a bottle.

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I don't have that. I didn't have

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Speaker 2: two nickels drugs together. Remember, my dad's a construction he says.

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Speaker 2: But if you want to save money, he goes, you

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Speaker 2: can go to the veterinarian. I said, where the fuck's

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Speaker 2: the veterinarian and he goes to I wanna I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 2: do you wanna? Fuck? I remember I called my friend

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Speaker 2: Spanky from North Sidry Donald Gang. He's the only Mexican

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Speaker 2: are going to Tiajana today. He says, for what I said,

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Speaker 2: don't worry. I said, You're gonna get yourself some tequila,

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Speaker 2: some beers, some tacos, my treat. And I remember Matt.

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Speaker 2: We got down there and I had this list this

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Speaker 2: to this literally this pharmacy. I get there, I see dogs,

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Speaker 2: I see cats, I see horses, I see fucking goats.

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Speaker 2: I see everything, and then guess what else I see?

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Speaker 2: I see a bunch of American bodybuilders. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is the last spot. Yeah, And I got up there,

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Speaker 2: and I slapped that list right there, and she's looking

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Speaker 2: at it, and she starts bringing all these bottles, right,

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Speaker 2: glass bottles and then pills. I'm like, oh the fuck.

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Speaker 2: And in my mind, I'm like, where the fuck am

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Speaker 2: I going to keep all this stuff? Right? God damn

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Speaker 2: crashed my head. I'm like fuck. And then I said, hey,

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Speaker 2: And she gave me a sandwich bag and like literally

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Speaker 2: dumping all the pills. I'm putting these glass files in there,

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, I need some of that medical tape

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Speaker 2: and I'm strapping it up right, and I'm like, can

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Speaker 2: So I literally go in that bathroom and I have

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Speaker 2: my Nike compressor shorts from volleyball, and I just dropped

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Speaker 2: my drawers, guys, not in the hole, but the fucking crack.

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Speaker 2: I put it in the crack, and I pulled those

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You just hold tight, right, yeah, the whole tight. We're right.

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Speaker 2: And I remember Matt. I was like, fuck, am I

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Speaker 2: really doing this right now? And I go to Spanky.

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Speaker 2: I said, Spanks, how do I look? He goes, what

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Speaker 2: do you mean he couldn't tell. I said, okay, we're good.

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Speaker 2: And I remember, just like, if you know, just holding

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Speaker 2: that thing the whole time. And uh, I remember we're

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Speaker 2: sitting down eating fucking tacos and beer. I just got

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Speaker 2: this fucking donut like this banana, just sitting there. I'm

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Speaker 2: just like, ah, this is so uncomfortable. And uh. Then

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Speaker 2: we go to the line. I said, let's go, and

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Speaker 2: I think we waited like three hours. You know that

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Speaker 2: mine's crazy and you're probably sweating. He says, are you okay?

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Speaker 2: I said, what's the matter. He says, you're smelling like

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Speaker 2: a horn church. I said, I'm not okay, sang said,

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Speaker 2: I got a fucking banana my ass. And I got

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Speaker 2: to that the fact US Customs officer in matt for

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Speaker 2: the first time in my life, I lied. He says,

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Speaker 2: are you bringing anything back in America? Remember my dad

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Speaker 2: was strict six pm curfew. And I said, no, no, officer,

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Speaker 2: I'm not. He says, like this, welcome back to America.

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, that's the biggest rush I've had.

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Speaker 2: And I chased it for the rest of my life. Wow. Eventually,

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Speaker 2: back rushings. Fuck the back to back championships. I just

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Speaker 1: How do you become kind of the guy you became

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Speaker 2: I think I've always been like this charismatic that I

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Speaker 2: Like I'm tomorrow I'm speaking in front of three hundred

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Speaker 1: You were aligned back.

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Speaker 2: I was a tight end.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Those are pros. So again, how often was this Mexico

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Speaker 2: I had to keep making those trips. And the problem,

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Speaker 2: And they're like, that's it. I was like, yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: That's wild. So my smuggling route started to adapt with

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Speaker 2: Do it all started? Everyone started calling me like the doctor, right.

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Speaker 2: I understood.

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Speaker 2: fuck it. I could get anything down at that pharma

427
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,919
Speaker 2: seat right super much. I was like, dude, this is

428
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,120
Speaker 2: like ten X. I'm making all my money and adderall

429
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,360
Speaker 2: is so tiny, and I'm like, fuck it, I'll bring

430
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,119
Speaker 2: a hundred adderall. And I was buying for I think

431
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,040
Speaker 2: like a bucket pill back then, and I would sell

432
00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,320
Speaker 2: them for like ten right. Everything was ten x right.

433
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,879
Speaker 2: And then I remember one kid saying, hey, man, I

434
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,159
Speaker 2: can't sleep off the adderall. I said, let me get

435
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,560
Speaker 2: you some xanax, right, and everything just started and they're like, hey,

436
00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 2: I just finished my final. I want to party. Let

437
00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,400
Speaker 2: me get you some ecstasy, right. And then then that's

438
00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 2: when I started reaching out to my North Side Rednal gangsters.

439
00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, these guys are going through the adderall

440
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,880
Speaker 2: the xanax and I said, I figured out what they

441
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,480
Speaker 2: like to do at night and he's like, what is that?

442
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 2: He said, they like that that white the white girl.

443
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,640
Speaker 2: And I'm like, dude, there's They're paying one hundred dollars

444
00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,400
Speaker 2: a grand for a bag one hundred dollars and I'm like, dude,

445
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,479
Speaker 2: I know this stuff doesn't cost us. I grew up

446
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,439
Speaker 2: in a Mexican neighborhood, like like, I know what it costs, right.

447
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,639
Speaker 2: And I remember reaching out to one of my my

448
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,679
Speaker 2: homeway Scrappy, and he's like dude, let me, let me,

449
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 2: let me just supply you with some stuff. Let's see

450
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,080
Speaker 2: how you do. And I was so scared about I said, man,

451
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,120
Speaker 2: I'm not driving to any of this, this this white anywhere.

452
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 2: That's that's I'm losing my scholarship. I'm getting a felony.

453
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 2: I'm going to prison. Right. I was like, I'm not,

454
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. Just don't worry. I'll deliver it.

455
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 2: So he delivered to my fraternity house the first time,

456
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 2: and he brought it in this I thought it was

457
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,400
Speaker 2: a burger and fries. Really it was a star foam container.

458
00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 2: And he opened it up and there was eight oun.

459
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, fuck the fuck am I gonna

460
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 2: do this? Like eight ounces? And he's like, here's the scale,

461
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,199
Speaker 2: here's those grand bags. He says, you're getting this for

462
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 2: twenty dollars a gram. He says they're selling it for

463
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 2: a hundred. He says, undercut the market. I think we

464
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 2: agreed on the price of sixty bucks. Like let's let's

465
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 2: let's beat them all. You got to remember these kids

466
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 2: were going to like the arco in buying it off

467
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,120
Speaker 2: like a pisa, you know, like like that's good. Cut

468
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 2: off the house they're fucking shitting right after this, do

469
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,640
Speaker 2: a line and I'm like, dude, I said, uh, I'm

470
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 2: gonna do that. I'm gona undercut the market. I think

471
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 2: sixty is a good number. I mean I'm three x

472
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,920
Speaker 2: in right, Like that's no brainer. And then I get

473
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 2: to my room and my fraternity brother's up there and

474
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 2: he's like, what are you doing? I said, no, what

475
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 2: are you doing? I said, I got a job for you.

476
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 2: And you got to remember every kid in the fraternities,

477
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 2: they all do blow. I don't. Everyone in the USC does.

478
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 2: And I get there. I lay out the scale, I

479
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 2: lay out the grand bags. I said, okay, take that spoon.

480
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 2: We're gonna pour this end. I'm showing him how to

481
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 2: tear it because the guy just topped me in the

482
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 2: car and we're literally like doing this and there's twenty

483
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 2: eight grams for an ounce. I said, listen, every time

484
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 2: you sell an ounce, that's twenty eight grams. Okay, every

485
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 2: time you sell one ounce, I'm giving you one gram

486
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 2: on me. This is your commission. He's like, bet, like

487
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 2: you know, like this is a no brainer. Like he's

488
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 2: that uh. I remember I go to is during summer.

489
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: I go to practice. I get back and he's he's

490
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 2: literally sitting at his computer and he zooms around. He's like, right,

491
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 2: I got bad news. And he's like fucking all jacked up.

492
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,679
Speaker 2: I said, oh fuck, he did the whole thing. He's like,

493
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 2: we're sold out. I'm like, oh shit, he sold out

494
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,879
Speaker 2: in less than six hours. And I was like, he's like,

495
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 2: we got a problem. He said, we don't got a problem.

496
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 2: This is a good problem. Yeah. Yeah. And then right there,

497
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 2: I knew I had a black market service that nobody

498
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 2: would be willing to touch because they were all getting

499
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 2: it from one on the street, right, And I'm in

500
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 2: this bubble, all right, I'm in the fraternity house. There's

501
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 2: no one coming in. You don't got l a PD

502
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 2: coming to the USC. We got like USC private security.

503
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 2: So then I just try to expand the business, right,

504
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 2: and I would go to different fraternities and guys would

505
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 2: already come to our house. I'm like, dude, why don't

506
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 2: you sell this ounce? You know? You know, I give

507
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,120
Speaker 2: them a discount. And then I started having like all

508
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 2: these guys throughout the fraternities selling my code.

509
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 1: So and this is again early two thousands, So what

510
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: is is it? Pagers? Or are you guys on cell phone?

511
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 2: Or we're on cell phones? But guys, really don't. You

512
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 2: got to remember we're not taxing. Back then, the word

513
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: about basically you call, you show up, years, here you

514
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 2: go and it. You got to remember, I came from nothing, man.

515
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 2: So I'm like now finally able to fit in with

516
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 2: these kids like I didn't fit in at all.

517
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: Right, I mean for those of them, I mean sc

518
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: is that obviously proceeds. But a lot of kids they

519
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: come from money.

520
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

521
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: Are those kids from university money spoiled children?

522
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: That's what they call them. Yeah, and uh yeah, if

523
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: you don't have a scholarship, no one's gone.

524
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: Yeah. Two questions here, did you ever feel like it

525
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: was becoming too big while you were there? And did

526
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: you ever kind of and then at the peak, how

527
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: much money were you making in college?

528
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 2: Man? You know, I people ask that question. I had

529
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars days, you know. I mean, it's just

530
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 2: like when rush happens Rush week.

531
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine that. I remember we were getting our

532
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: pail grants for two thousand and tell me shit for

533
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: the three days I had that.

534
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: They list said, You're like, you've never seen that type

535
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 2: of money, So I guess what you're doing. You're spending

536
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 2: is fast as it comes in the question.

537
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: I remember, we're.

538
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,200
Speaker 2: Going to like the Nino the Ninos, like the shittiest

539
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 2: bar on campus, and like just like this one's on me,

540
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: come to main right, But that's what we that's what

541
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 2: we live for, like we want to be the mainst moments.

542
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you ever feel like it was getting too

543
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: big or out of your control while you're at se No.

544
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: There was a time where I was like, you know what,

545
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna just just stop this. I'm not I'm

546
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 2: going to disassociate myself as soon as this thing's over.

547
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 2: And that was my goal, and that's what happened, right

548
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 2: and I I towards the end, it was like people

549
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 2: were asking for like oxy copt and Viking and I'm like,

550
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 2: holy shit, like that, I can't even keep up with

551
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 2: all these prescriptions. And that that's when I started to thinking, okay, man,

552
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 2: I'm like really becoming a pharmacist now, Like this is

553
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 2: too much. But it was like I just had to

554
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 2: get in and get out because I knew I was

555
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 2: just doing it to keep up with the Joneses. And

556
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: as soon as I graduated from USC, I said, that's it.

557
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: And you were able to cut, able to cut. That's

558
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: hard to do. It's hard to do and we won't

559
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: talk about why it's hard to do later. But so

560
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: you went new two national titles while you're at SC

561
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: as doctor O, what was overall when you look back

562
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: from the football to what you kind of found as

563
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 1: you know, your side hustle? What was your college experience

564
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: like when you're looking back all these years now.

565
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 2: When I look back, I think I I didn't get

566
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 2: to enjoy it as much as the other kids. I

567
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 2: think I was I was too much of like into

568
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 2: that hustle mentality. And like, obviously I did it. I

569
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: could afford to go to college. But like you know,

570
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 2: if I had money going into college, I wouldn't obviously

571
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 2: had to do that. Or if there was nil, I'm

572
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: when I have to do that? Right? I look at

573
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 2: it like, man, what if there was an L would

574
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: I be here today? Like, like I wouldn't need that hustle.

575
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: So you leave school and you start in the sports

576
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: gambling space.

577
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I got a job working for a USC

578
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 2: alumni right out of school, making six figures, Like right

579
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 2: out and I was stoked. I was like, this is

580
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 2: it nine to five real estate developer? And then you

581
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 2: remember two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, the

582
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: market crashed. I was like scrambling, man, the whole my

583
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: whole life, I've been that underdog. I'm like, Okay, what

584
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: am I going to do now? And I scrambled into bookmaking,

585
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 2: and people like, how did you get into book making?

586
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 2: Like I remember literally I was working for this developer

587
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 2: and this contractor was always calling his bookie during like meetings.

588
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, I want twenty grand on the Dodgers tonight.

589
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, god, what is this? Like who's on the

590
00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 2: other side of that? Like I want to be the

591
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 2: book And this guy was always losing. I'm like, dude,

592
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 2: this guy is fucking terrible, right, like you can't hit

593
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 2: the side of a barn. And uh. I remember when

594
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 2: I lost that job. I was like, okay, I got

595
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 2: to I'm going to be a bookie. That's what I'm

596
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 2: gonna be. I said, I know all these athletes, my

597
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: boys are now in the NFL. I said, my fraternity

598
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,199
Speaker 2: brothers are now CEOs for the dad's company that they

599
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: took over. Right like I'm going to be a bookie.

600
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 2: And uh my dad had an Italian friend that was

601
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 2: part of his fishing club, fly fishing club. And I

602
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: remember Dad, I said, Dad, I lost my job. I said,

603
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: I need to talk to Uncle Tony. He says, you're

604
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 2: not talking talking to Uncle Tony. I said, Dad, I

605
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 2: come on, I just lost my job. I said it's temporary.

606
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 2: And he's like, no, no, no, we're not We're not doing

607
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 2: that song you went to USC. I said, Dad, I'm

608
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 2: telling you, like, I lost my job. I have no

609
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 2: way to make money right now. He's like, all right,

610
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: I'll let you see Uncle Tony. And I talked to

611
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 2: Uncle Tony. I told him, I said, listen, man, I

612
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 2: got customers. I'm telling you. I got athletes that are

613
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 2: in the NBA. I got fraternity brothers that are making

614
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. I said, I got Hollywood. I said,

615
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,479
Speaker 2: let me, let me just run with it. And I

616
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: remember he's like, okay, I'll let you. I'll let you

617
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 2: run with it. I'll give you twenty percent commission. I

618
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 2: didn't know what that was. That good, that's bad. But

619
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 2: I remember in six months, my whale lost a million

620
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 2: dollars cash and I remember collecting over you know, six months,

621
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 2: a million dollars cash for him, and I'm getting twenty

622
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 2: percent of that, and like scratching my head, I'm like,

623
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 2: wait a minute, like I'm this is my customer and

624
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 2: I'm only getting twenty percent. Like something's wrong. It should

625
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 2: be the other way around, right, And I went to

626
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 2: Uncle Tony. I said, hey, man, something's wrong with this equation,

627
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 2: Like you're giving me twenty percent. Dude, you need to

628
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: bump it up like I'm bringing you whales. And he's like, no,

629
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 2: we're not bumping it up. So oh yeah. I said, well,

630
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 2: I'm going to figure out how to do this myself then,

631
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 2: and that's when I flew to Costa Rica and that's

632
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: like the mecca of sports books. And I went over

633
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: there and I literally went office to office to figure

634
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: out how to do it. And it took me probably

635
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: like six weeks of traveling back and forth, and I

636
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: was eventually able to start my own office with a

637
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: call center, lines movers, offshore servers, and I started Beto

638
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 2: Dog because if my nickname was odog in college. And

639
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 2: I got back and I remember I told all my customers, hey,

640
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: bet Odog is the new show in town. Right, everyone

641
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: started to switch over to bet Odog, and I gave

642
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 2: these incentives that were like it was like giving a

643
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: little rock a crack to a crack dealer, a crackhead. Right,

644
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: you give them like right when they lose, you say, hey,

645
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 2: every time you lose, guess what, bro, If you pay

646
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 2: me Monday, I give you ten percent off. And as

647
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 2: soon as you pay me, guess what I'm gonna give

648
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: you what. I'm gonna give you twenty percent free play.

649
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: We're giving someone free plays, they're gonna lose it and

650
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: guess they're gambling. So it's like I said. So everyone

651
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: started switching over, and then I started bringing agents Like

652
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: I was like a sub bookie to uncle Tony, right,

653
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: and Uncle Tony was giving me twenty percent. I'm like,

654
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 2: I told all my subbookies. I said, hey, with o Dog,

655
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: you get fifty percent. We're partners. We're fifty to fifty.

656
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 2: So now I got the whole everyone's you over.

657
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: You undercut the market.

658
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, undercut the market. People are pissed. Some of these

659
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 2: wise guys were looking at me like what are you doing.

660
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't give a fuck, Like you know,

661
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 2: like what did you see what I just did in Mexico?

662
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 2: Like I just smell a bucket thousand dollars the steroids

663
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: in my my ass, and you want to bust my

664
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 2: balls about giving someone fifty percent? I didn't care it, right,

665
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: And I started to bring these agents in. Everyone started

666
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: moving over. And then Uncle Tony's organization got got indicted, right,

667
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: and they got indicted for illegal bookmaking, and uh, I

668
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: was like, okay, now this is where I'm gonna excel.

669
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: So I grab all their agents and now I start.

670
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: I have like two thousand customers in the United States. Yeah,

671
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: and I get so big man, I'm like, okay, this

672
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 2: is cool. Like I got, I got a lot of

673
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 2: volume coming in. But I was so ambitious. I was like,

674
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 2: how do I expand this? Like, you know, I like latinos,

675
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: Let's go international, Let's go to Mexico, Let's go to Canada,

676
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 2: Let's go anywhere we can take bets because it's just

677
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: a payment of way. And I remember telling my sub bookies, Hey,

678
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 2: we're taking bets in Mexico, now, Canada, South America, wherever.

679
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 2: I don't care. And I expanded the business because at

680
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: the end of the day, a servers at www dot

681
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: that's worldwide, right, And unbeknownst to me, no, no, no, uh,

682
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: nobody knows this. But one of my agents had this this, this,

683
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: this whale, and this whale was from Mexico and he

684
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 2: was losing a quarter million dollars a week for three

685
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 2: weeks in a row. And I'm getting bags of cash, Matt,

686
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: And you know it's a whale. When those cash, those

687
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: bags of cash are coming in on a Monday, You're like, Okay,

688
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 2: this guy has no problem with money. But as as

689
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 2: a bookmaker and the owner of this company, it's not

690
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: my job to do a background check on my customers

691
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: because that's that's my bookie, my agent, that's his job

692
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 2: to just handle the cash. At the end of the day,

693
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: all I care about is my fifty percent coming to

694
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: me and him. Finally, this this customer is about to win.

695
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 2: And I called this agent. I said, hey, get over here.

696
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 2: I said, your customer is going to hit. He says, well,

697
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: what does it matter, it's a Sunday. I said, what

698
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 2: matters is when this game's over, the Raiders hit. He

699
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: wins a five teen parlay, He's going to crack us

700
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 2: for two sixty, I said, I want you to give

701
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 2: him his cash back on Monday. He's like why Monday?

702
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: I said, man, do you realize this guy's been paying

703
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: us something like, dude, it's this is just a little sliver.

704
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: We go. This is like a booky's dream. You lose,

705
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: you collect, and then you get to pay him back

706
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 2: just a little, right. And I said, eight am, sharp, man,

707
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: just drop it off. I don't care where you have

708
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: to drop it off. And he says, you got it.

709
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: And I remember the next day he comes and he

710
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 2: hands me this encrypted phone and he says, this is

711
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: from my customer. I'm like, your customer. I said, well,

712
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 2: that's your customer. What do I got to talk to

713
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: him for. He's like, no, he wants to talk to you.

714
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 2: He wants to thank you. Fuck. He says, there's three passwords.

715
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: Three passwords. I look at it's a BlackBerry, had no microphone,

716
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: no camera, fucking GPS was out. All you could do

717
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 2: is type on this thing and I enter these three passwords.

718
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: I get in and he's like what oh. I like

719
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 2: the way you do business, Like the fuck like, who's

720
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 2: this right? Like that this is a whale right. I'm like, okay,

721
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: My service was always like Hey, VIPs, whatever they want,

722
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: it's on me, right, I said, sure, no problem, anything

723
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: you want. Let me know if you want to come

724
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 2: to Vegas, if you want to come to Costa Rica,

725
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 2: whatever you got, you know, we'll send a private jet

726
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 2: to pick you up. Because people don't realize as a bookie,

727
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 2: you are like the casinos, right, and when you go

728
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 2: to the casino, you got a host, and that host

729
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: is supposed to whine and dining. And it's the same

730
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: thing for me. And that's how I treated the business.

731
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 2: And so I said anything he needs, sir, And like

732
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: next day he's like, hey, I know you probably have

733
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: money throughout the US. He says, I need some money

734
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: dropped off. Whatever you need, sir. What do you need?

735
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 2: He says, I need a hundred grand dropped off in

736
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: San Diego. Like, oh, that's easy, and call one of

737
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: my agents. Twenty minutes later, I have one hundred grand

738
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: dropped off and he says, I'm going to pay you

739
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 2: ten points on every time you drop off money for me.

740
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, this is math one on one ten

741
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 2: percent for a twenty minute drop. Fuck it, let's go.

742
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: Right after that drop he messages me. He says where

743
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 2: do you want the one hundred and ten thousand cent

744
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is perfect because remember my

745
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: office is a Costa Rica. So I was like, okay,

746
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 2: this is how I'm going to clean all this money

747
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: from the US and I'm going to pay it pay

748
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 2: my Costa Rica bank account, and then I'm gonna pay

749
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 2: my workers, my employees. So boom, one hundred and ten

750
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 2: thousand wired into my Costa Rica bank account. I'm like, okay,

751
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: this is this is awesome because back of the day, Matt,

752
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: the only way we could pay our employees down there

753
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 2: is through I would fly, like, you know, five of

754
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 2: my friends on the plane, I'd give everyone ninety nine

755
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 2: hundred dollars and we'd go over there and I say, hey,

756
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: you stay at my house and I give you you know,

757
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 2: five points. So they get to party for free, and

758
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 2: then I pay my employees in cash. But now I

759
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: just solve the problem. And so this will call this

760
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 2: guy l Hafe Right, He's like, hey, I need another

761
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 2: one hundred grand and North Carolin, now another one hundred

762
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 2: grand in Florida. I'm just making like ten grand just

763
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 2: off these drops. I'm like, this is money laundering. One

764
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: on one and then finally, after like a couple of weeks,

765
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: he says, now I need you to pick up a

766
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 2: million dollars. I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute,

767
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: I just dropped off. What do you mean pick up?

768
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm gonna pay you the ten percent. He says,

769
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 2: it's in a it's in an area that we're not

770
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: allowed in. It's rival territory. And right when he said that,

771
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, this is this is someone a little

772
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 2: more important. This is Carlos sim slimm'er dealing with. Right.

773
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, anything you want, sir, Like, like I'm anything.

774
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: I can't say no. That's the problem with me. Matt,

775
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: Like if you say, hey, I want a tattoo and Balie,

776
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you over to Baldy gets tattooed. Like,

777
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: I can't say no. It's just my personality. So I'm like, okay,

778
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 2: I'm scratching my head. I'm like, okay, how am I

779
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 2: going to pick up a million dollars? I'm like, okay,

780
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 2: well I need a private jet. Right, I've never been

781
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: on a friv plane. I'm gonna get a turbo prop.

782
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 2: Those are cheap, so I got a turble prop. It

783
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 2: was twenty five hundred an hour. I'm like, I probably

784
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: need some muscle. So I called my boy Tank, who's

785
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,479
Speaker 2: a fucking avalon crip. I called. I say, hey, Tank,

786
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,240
Speaker 2: I said, we're going to fucking Texas Brownsville, Texas today,

787
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 2: And I said, I'm going to pay you two thousand bucks.

788
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 2: I said, bet and he said, I said, and we're

789
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 2: going to need one of your buddies with you. So

790
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 2: he brought it one of his friends from the UFC.

791
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 2: We get in this turbo prop and I tell the

792
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 2: pilot where to go, and we land this thing and

793
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 2: I'm on that cryptophone and I tell I tell LFA,

794
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 2: I'm here, and he says, give me five minutes. And

795
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 2: five minutes later, there's literally a pickup truck that comes

796
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 2: into this this private airport parking lot, and the guy

797
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: gets out and he's in overalls and he brings this

798
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 2: bag of cash and he says, ste pot of l

799
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 2: hefe this is for the boss. I'm like, oh, fuck

800
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 2: all I'm thinking about when I grab that bag, I'm

801
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 2: thinking a rival territory. So I'm like, fuck, am I

802
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 2: going to get a shot. Let's get out of here.

803
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: So I'm running back at a fast pace and like,

804
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: let's go, and Tank's looking at me and he's like,

805
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: that's it. I said, that's it. He's like, man, that's

806
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 2: the easiest two ground I've ever made, And like, you

807
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 2: don't even know. I have think in my head, you

808
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 2: don't even know what I just made, right, that's easy.

809
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 2: But we landed. I remember paying the pilot, came up

810
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 2: to like ten grand, and then paid Tank two and

811
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 2: his buddy too. I was like, man, I just made

812
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: like eighty five thousand bucks. I said, in fuck, what

813
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: is that? Eight hours? Not even eight hours? Four hours? Right?

814
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: And I tell you, hey, hey, where do you want this?

815
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: Nine hundred dropped off? And within thirty minutes I had

816
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: it dropped off in a town in Riverside. And after

817
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 2: that he's like, man, widow, I've never seen anyone move.

818
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: He said, you're vicious, do it. I'm like starting to

819
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 2: get a chip on my shoulderm like yeah, that's right,

820
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 2: that's right.

821
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

822
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 2: Then uh. We go a couple of weeks later and

823
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 2: he says, hey, hey, what how would you like to

824
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: make a million dollars a day doing what you're doing now?

825
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: Like?

826
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: Fuck, a million dollars a day? You remember, say you

827
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: remember that.

828
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 1: I'm the fun So this is probably what two thousand

829
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: and nine.

830
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: No, twenty ten, You're right, twenty ten, end of two

831
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 2: thousand and nine, twenty ten. But the whole time, I'm like, okay,

832
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 2: what am I going to do for a million those

833
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 2: a day? Like, there's no way this guy is gonna

834
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: have me just dropping off cash right or picking up cash?

835
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 2: And ah, he says I got he said, how did

836
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 2: he say? He says, I I got work in Australia

837
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 2: and I need someone to move from me. I'm like,

838
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 2: what the fuck is work? You know? He's like, uh,

839
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 2: he says, I got that white girl? And I knew

840
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: right there. I was like, okay, man, I've seen ounces,

841
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: but I never seen fucking kilos right. No, No, this

842
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 2: is a whole other level. I'm like, fuck, he says,

843
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: do you have anyone to move? I'm like fucking no,

844
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: But for a million dollars day, I'm going to figure

845
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 2: it out, right, I'm gonna figure it out real fast.

846
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: And this took some that rolodex, Right, you create that

847
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: rolodex at USC and you just remember, like who can

848
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 2: I use? And I was like Okay. I had someone

849
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: at the USC baseball team that was inherent, and I

850
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: remember him telling me his brother was in the international

851
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: weed game. I'm like that, that's where I'm gonna go.

852
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: So I find this this baseball player. Now he's a

853
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 2: he's a junior coach getting his master's degree, and he's

854
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: still at USC. I'm like, this is perfect. I'm going

855
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: to the campus right and I find him and I

856
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: remember seeing him, like, go, hey, I need to talk

857
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 2: to your brother. He's like, for what I said, You

858
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: remember you told me like two years ago. He's like, yeah, yeah,

859
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 2: I said, I got to meet him. He says he's

860
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: actually in San Diego right now, that's where he lives.

861
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay. So I get down there and I

862
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 2: see him there. He's playing at this racquetball club and

863
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: he's playing with this Italian dude. And I told him, hey,

864
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 2: your brother is a friend of mine. He told me

865
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: you were in the international weed business. I said, listen, man,

866
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 2: I got some of that white girl. I said, I

867
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: need to move it. He goes, man, I deal with

868
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 2: the green. I said, well, fuck, I need to move

869
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 2: to white. He goes that guy right there, that guy's

870
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 2: he's done it all. I'm like, well, can you introduce me.

871
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, So I sit down with this. We'll

872
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: call him uncle Louis, right. And I sit down with

873
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 2: him and I start talking like, man, I got this.

874
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, hey, stop stop the fucking talking right now.

875
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 2: He told me, right, he says, we don't talk in

876
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: the US. I'm like, what do you mean don't talk?

877
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 2: He says, if you want to talk to me about businesses,

878
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 2: you fly to Naples, Italy, where I live. And I'm

879
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 2: like what. He's like, I've got indicted in the US.

880
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: I'm not talking here. This guy used to work for

881
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 2: one of the lu Casey families. I was like, okay,

882
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 2: whatever you say, right, Like, I'm just saying all I

883
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: can think about is that fucking million dollars. And two

884
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: weeks later, I'm in Naples, Italy. He picks me up

885
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 2: in this fiat, right, everyone in Italy drives these little fiats.

886
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 2: And he shows up and he gives me this hug,

887
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 2: and he gives me a kiss and on the cheeks,

888
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 2: and he smells like shit. I'm like, God, damn, this

889
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: steaky Italian. He's like, come on, we're he said, he goes.

890
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 2: He goes, come on, we're going to my house. And

891
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,959
Speaker 2: I get there, Mat and this guy has a fucking villa.

892
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 2: He has two villas. He's got this winery down the middle.

893
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, god, damn, Like, who is this dude? He says, Uh, listen,

894
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: Now tell me what you wanted to talk about. He says,

895
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 2: don't ever talk to me in the United States about

896
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 2: anything illegal. And I was like, okay, now I see why, right,

897
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 2: And I start to tell him. I said, I got work, man,

898
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 2: I got this guy that's been gambling with me and

899
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 2: I'm telling the story. I said, man, this guy's been

900
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 2: paying me. And he tells me he's got a fucking

901
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: ton of cocaine in Australia. And he looked at me.

902
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 2: He goes, get the fuck out of here. He is

903
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 2: this Italian fucking wise guy accent. I'm like, I'm serious, man.

904
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 2: He said, no one, no one, no, I don't care

905
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: who they are. No one has fucking that kind of

906
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: work in Australia. It's impossible, he says. It's the hardest

907
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 2: place in the world to get anything into. Like, man,

908
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. He's like, don't waste my time. He says,

909
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 2: in fact, why don't you go there? And when you

910
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 2: get there and you see it with your own eyes,

911
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: then you call me and I'll come over there. I'm like, okay,

912
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 2: fair enough. So now I'm on the phone with Elf. Hey,

913
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I got a guy. He says he

914
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 2: can handle it. So now I'm right, I don't know

915
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 2: if this guy is real. So I fly to Australia.

916
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 2: Like three days later. I'm in Australia and El Halfe

917
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 2: is hitting me up. He says, when are you ready

918
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 2: to get it dropped off? And I haven't seen the work.

919
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 2: So now I'm lying. Now I'm lying. And now I

920
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 2: go to Uncle Louis and he has this encrypted phone

921
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: I gave him. I'm like, hey, Uncle Louis, I seen

922
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: him in my own eyes. Get over here. I lied

923
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 2: to him. Right, I'm like, I'm in a jam. So

924
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: I'm back on this phone. I'm back on this Italian phone.

925
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 2: And finally Uncle Louis gets there two days later and

926
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 2: I said you ready He says yeah. So El Halfe says, hey,

927
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:37,479
Speaker 2: you need to go get a room at the Four

928
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 2: Seasons Hotel and it's in Darling Harbor and Sydney and

929
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 2: he says, as soon as you get a room number,

930
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: he says, message me the number. So I get there.

931
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 2: I check into room four twenty six, and i'd give

932
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 2: Uncle Louis room four twenty eighths right. They're sharing doors, right,

933
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 2: And I get in there, I tell he, hey, I'm

934
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 2: in four twenty six. Fucking ten minutes later, I got

935
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: a guy knocking on my door and he's wearing a

936
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 2: DHL outfit. He gives me a package and I'm like, oh, fuck, hey,

937
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 2: all i'm thinking about is two and a half kilos

938
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 2: of more in Australia is a life sentence, and I

939
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,240
Speaker 2: know this is over two and a half kilos. I'm hanging.

940
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 2: I'm hitting that wall. Man. I'm like, Uncle Luid get

941
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: over here right now. I don't want to be like

942
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to be involved in this. I just

943
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 2: want to handle the money, right And yeah, ukle Lui

944
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 2: gets over there and we cut this box open. He goes,

945
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 2: holy shit, nephew, you were not lying, and I remember

946
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 2: he's like, fucking let's try it, and he just did

947
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 2: a big gagger right in front of me. I'm like, oh,

948
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 2: he goes, this is this is one hundred percent Columbine.

949
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, he's he looks at me bad.

950
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 2: He says, you're going to be a millionaire in a day,

951
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 2: no doubt. And I was like, fuck yeah. He goes,

952
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 2: he goes, give me thirty minutes, right, and he comes

953
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 2: back thirty minutes later, and he has a Duffel bag

954
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 2: and I gave him ten This was a test run, right.

955
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: I gave him ten ten bricks, ten birds, and I

956
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 2: sold him to him for one hundred thousand a bird,

957
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 2: which is a million dollars. In the agreement I had

958
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 2: with l halfa anything we would split the profit, so

959
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: the hundred was my number. I gave fifty to al,

960
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: halfa fifty for me. You know, Uncle Louis could charge

961
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 2: whatever fuck you wanted. So Uncle Louis charged one one

962
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand, so everyone made fifty thousand. So

963
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: he comes back, he has a million dollars for my

964
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 2: suitcase and five hundred thousand for his. So I was like, okay,

965
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 2: that's a good test run. I didn't make a million

966
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 2: yet because half of it goes to halfa. And then

967
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 2: he's like, okay, when when Uncle Louis goes, when can

968
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 2: I have more like, I'm like, let me hang on. Hey, hefey,

969
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 2: when can we have more? He says, tomorrow, You're gonna

970
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 2: have twenty bricks dropped off the same time, same place.

971
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 2: We worked Tuesday, we work Wednesday, we work Thursday, week Friday,

972
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: we take off Saturday, sudden, we start back up Monday,

973
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: and the twenty birds. Every time, I'm like, oh fuck,

974
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 2: Like that second day when I had two million, I

975
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 2: knew million was mine. I'm like, okay, this is what

976
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: he was talking about. A million a day. It makes sense.

977
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: And we're working and literally for the next three days,

978
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: and then we take off on the weekends, we start

979
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 2: back up and and come come the second week. I'm like, okay,

980
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 2: wait a minute here, Like I'm I'm living in a

981
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: studio apartment, like no, no, bigger than this area. And

982
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, where am I gonna put the fucking money.

983
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 2: I'm literally putting money in the dishwasher, the cabinets, the

984
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: fucking microwave, the attic. I got suitcases in my closet,

985
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 2: I got it under the bed. I got like ten million.

986
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: Now what part of you was nervous, What part of

987
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: you is excited? What part of you wants more like,

988
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 1: I mean there's nothing.

989
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 2: I mean they're all three right. You're fucking poping xanas

990
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: like tic TACs, you're fucking drinking white wine like water,

991
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 2: and you're nervous. Even louis nervous, and he's been in

992
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: this game for forty years. He's looking at me. He's like, dude,

993
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 2: what the fuck are we going to do? I'm like,

994
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 2: we're gonna keep working, like like this is a once

995
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 2: in a lifetime opportunity, Like I just made what most

996
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 2: people dream of making in a lifetime. Like like, let's

997
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 2: keep going. We keep going. But the problem is we're

998
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 2: shooting ourselves in the foot because now I have nowhere

999
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: to put it. I'm like, man, I got it, and

1000
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 2: Uncle Louis is starting to get scared. He's like, dude,

1001
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:07,959
Speaker 2: I have no where to put it either. He's staying

1002
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 2: in a hotel room and he's not even getting his

1003
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 2: room clean. He's like, I'm not letting him in the room. Yeah.

1004
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 2: So we were like, okay, let's just let's start. Let's

1005
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 2: slow down. I'll tell I have to hang on for

1006
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 2: a week, and let's let's start cleaning this money. And

1007
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 2: we're going to every exchange place, taking the Australian currency,

1008
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 2: and we're exchanging. He's changing for euros, I'm exchanging for US.

1009
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 2: And eventually, you know, there's so only so much US

1010
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: cash and in the streets of Sydney, and after like

1011
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 2: a day two days, I was like, okay, I bought

1012
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 2: all the dollars. He's bought all the euros. I started

1013
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 2: going to places and buying euros without him knowing, because

1014
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck, I'm running out of cash, like

1015
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 2: I can't buy US, I'm gonna go buy the five

1016
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: hundred dollars euro notes. So I found these five hundred

1017
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: dollars year notes are huge, and at the time I

1018
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: was like a five hundred dollar a euro note was

1019
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 2: worth like seven hundred and fifty US.

1020
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: Okay.

1021
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 2: So what I did is I would buy as many

1022
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 2: of those as I could, and I would start putting

1023
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 2: him in these comic books. And then in my in

1024
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 2: my studio, I had this this seiler, like a vacuum seiler,

1025
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: and I had vacuum seal that comic book, and I

1026
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,479
Speaker 2: put it in an eBay envelope and I would send

1027
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 2: it to the US. It's I had Peo boxes, and

1028
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 2: I would send it to my Peo box, like like

1029
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 2: someone bought account book, you know, like we're talking like

1030
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 2: twenty thousand at a time. But Matt, you could send

1031
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 2: enough comic books. You're not dead. Yeah, so I'm scratched

1032
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: if I had. And now we start buying gold. You know,

1033
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 2: there's four bullion stores and in Sydney, and I'm like

1034
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: running into him, like, fuck man, he figured out my

1035
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 2: idea too, like like we have the same ideas, we're

1036
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 2: not I'm not even telling him my ideas, and shit,

1037
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: he got that one. So we started buying the one

1038
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: ounce rounds and at the time gold was like sixteen

1039
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 2: hundred an ounce. I'm like, okay, how am I going

1040
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: to put this gold in something? It's gonna be seenen.

1041
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: I can't just ship it back to the US, So

1042
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 2: it's going to stop that. So at the time, you

1043
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 2: remember the ug boot. So I said, you know what,

1044
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start buying ug boots. And I started going

1045
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 2: every corner sells ugs. You know, ugs are like a Starbucks.

1046
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,919
Speaker 2: There's everywhere. And I started buying ugs and I would

1047
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 2: buy a pink, gray brown tall ones, short ones about

1048
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 2: something for my dad, my mom, my girlfriend, my wife, everybody, right,

1049
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: like everyone got ugs, and I would call them and

1050
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 2: I said, hey, what size ug are you? What color

1051
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 2: do you want? And I'm telling it like I'm telling everyone, man,

1052
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 2: if I knew you, how to call you, and I

1053
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,479
Speaker 2: literally I tell people. I said, I'm gonna send ugs,

1054
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 2: but it's a present. Let's wait until I get home

1055
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 2: before we open it, right, So I put it. Literally,

1056
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 2: there's these soles and the ugs, and I'm pulling them

1057
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 2: out and I'm gluing four one ounce round gold coins

1058
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 2: on each one, so it's like comes out to six

1059
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 2: thousand bucks on each shoe. So I'm like around twelve thousand,

1060
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 2: between twelve and thirteen thousand, and I'm sending them. And

1061
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, listen, I am sending like twenty ugs

1062
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 2: a week, and it's the ups. Guy's starting to look

1063
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,760
Speaker 2: at me, like, god, damn, this is motherfucker song sending

1064
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 2: a lot of ugs. I mean, these things are the

1065
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 2: hottest item right now. Beyance is wearing them right like

1066
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 2: you're like you but like I said, it's not put

1067
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 2: in a dent, and like, man, what's next? And I

1068
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 2: remember I called my girl that I was dating at

1069
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 2: the time, and she thought this was all gambling money,

1070
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 2: and I said, man, this guy, this whale I have,

1071
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 2: keeps losing all this money over here. I said, I

1072
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 2: need a way to get it out. I said, all

1073
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 2: those ug boots, I said this, honey, you don't even understand.

1074
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 2: Like She's like, why don't you start to gamble it

1075
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 2: through the casinos. I'm like, I'm not a gambler. She's like, no, no, no,

1076
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 2: why don't you bring a gambler over there. I'm like,

1077
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 2: well you got someone? She goes, yeah, I got this guy.

1078
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 2: He's out of Vegas. He's a whale. I'm like, okay,

1079
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 2: and he's a he's a blackjack player. I'm like, all right,

1080
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 2: bring them and she's like, no, no, you got to

1081
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 2: meet him. And I remember I had to fly back

1082
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 2: to Santa Monica and I said, I went to the

1083
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: Fairmount on Ocean Avenue and I met this guy. He

1084
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 2: called himself Robin Hood. And I sit down with Robin

1085
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 2: Hood and I said, listen, man, I got some customers

1086
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 2: in Australia that are gambling. They're losing millions. I said,

1087
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm sitting like ten million right now, and I need

1088
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 2: to move it. And he's like, all right, this is

1089
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 2: what I'll do. He says, I'm gonna charge you twenty

1090
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 2: five points. He says, I'm gonna have my casino host

1091
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 2: from Las Vegas call the casino over in Sydney at

1092
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: the Star Casino. My casino host will tell them that

1093
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 2: I'm coming into town and I'm a high roller. And

1094
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 2: he says, once I get there, you give me the

1095
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 2: bag of cash. I'll go in as this high roller,

1096
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 2: and the casino will already know I'm coming, and he says,

1097
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 2: I'll play a couple of hands. A couple of hours later,

1098
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just tell him how I'm not feeling it today.

1099
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 2: Cash me out. I'm like, okay, let's run it. So

1100
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 2: he flies over. Give him one point five million. He

1101
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 2: goes to the Star Casino. He gambles it. He basically

1102
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 2: puts it, turns out one point five million cash. He

1103
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 2: turns it into chips, and he gambles a few hands.

1104
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 2: He says, a couple hours later, he was up and down,

1105
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 2: and he just told him, hey, I'm not feeling it.

1106
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 2: Cash me out. So obviously not going to give you cash.

1107
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 2: But they would give him a check, and a check

1108
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 2: he can take anywhere, right, So they give him this

1109
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 2: check in his name, and now he has a check

1110
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 2: and he's he called me. He says, I'm done. He says,

1111
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 2: I'm going back to Vegas. So twenty four hours later

1112
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 2: he's back in Vegas and he's now at his where

1113
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 2: he's this his high roller at the Venetian and he

1114
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 2: gets there and he calls me literally twelve hours later,

1115
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 2: and he goes, I'm all done. I got your money

1116
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 2: minus my twenty five percent. He's like, where do you

1117
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 2: want the cash? And I'm in Australia. I'm like, okay,

1118
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 2: fuck it. Drop it off with my girl's house, drop

1119
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 2: it off with my dad. He's like, consider it done.

1120
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: Boom dropped off like nine hundred and fifty thousand like that.

1121
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck you out. We figured it out. This

1122
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 2: this is the secret sauce. I'm telling he halfay, we

1123
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 2: got it. We're good. So I remember I got that

1124
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 2: money rounded up. I gave it to all half way,

1125
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 2: so he saw we were cleaning it. And then I

1126
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 2: get back to I get back to my apartment and

1127
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 2: I got a message from from Robinhood this RJ. He says,

1128
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 2: let's do it again. I said, come on down like

1129
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 2: I come on down under this time. I give him

1130
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 2: two point five million, and he goes, we're going to

1131
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 2: do the same thing. Let's run it. And he gets

1132
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 2: at the table and he does his thing, and I'm

1133
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 2: literally in the gym with my personal trainer and I

1134
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 2: get a call like three hours later and it's him.

1135
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck, that was fast. I pick it up.

1136
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 2: And he goes, we got a problem. I said, you

1137
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 2: got a problem. What do you mean we got a problem?

1138
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 2: He goes, I'm only I've only got three hundred thousand left.

1139
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: Oh.

1140
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 2: I said, what Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You

1141
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 2: didn't have any money to lose minus the twenty five

1142
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 2: percent commission like this, like we we shook hands like

1143
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 2: I'm old school, like what do you what do you mean?

1144
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 2: He's like, dude, just bring me some more money. I'm like,

1145
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 2: bring you some more money. I said, no, I'm going

1146
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 2: to come see you right now. I told my personal trainer.

1147
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 2: I said, man, I think this guy's rob me. I

1148
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 2: got all I could think about Matt. I was like, Okay,

1149
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 2: this guy's trying to burn me. And I tell the

1150
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 2: personal trainer. I said, man, let's put it on. Let's

1151
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 2: put on some suits. Like in Australia, if you're wearing suits.

1152
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 2: You're serious, right, So I put on a suit and

1153
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 2: he put on a suit. He's just like UFC trainer.

1154
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 2: He's not a fighter, but he's a trainer. And we

1155
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 2: get to the casino in this Robinhood. Literally you could

1156
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 2: just tell. You could tell he's really stressed out because

1157
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 2: when I got there, he's just like shaking. I'm like,

1158
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 2: oh fuck. And my trainer, I remember Sean. He's like, man,

1159
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ask the pit boss. I know. He

1160
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 2: comes back. He goes, man, he lost it. He fucking

1161
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 2: played like sixty thousand a hand, lost it all. I'm like,

1162
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 2: oh fucking way. And I'm like, what am I gonna do? Right?

1163
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 2: All I'm thinking about is that three hundred grand that

1164
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 2: he said he still he's still had. Like I'm like, hey,

1165
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 2: you got three hundred grand, go get that. You're not

1166
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: gonna take it gamble anymore, You're terrible gamble. You're gonna

1167
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 2: give me that three hundred You're gonna give it to me.

1168
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: And I said, in fact, you're gonna get your passport too.

1169
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 2: I want you. I don't want you leave in the

1170
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 2: country until we've resolved this matter, because right now I'm like, okay,

1171
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 2: where did he put the money? And he goes, okay.

1172
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 2: So we sit down and my trainer and I said, Okay,

1173
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 2: this is what we're going to do. We're going to

1174
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 2: have him grab the three hundred his passport and he's

1175
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 2: going to meet you. We're going to get a hotel room.

1176
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 2: And I said, we're going to have you meet up

1177
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 2: with him. And I told him, I said, you're going

1178
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 2: to meet at the Hilton hotel with your three hundred

1179
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: grand and your passport and you're going to meet my trainer.

1180
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 2: And he says, all right. We go to the Hilton,

1181
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 2: we get a room and we're waiting there Matt and

1182
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: we're like, fuck, where is this dude. He's not calling us,

1183
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 2: he's not answering his phone. And this dude burned us.

1184
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 2: We're out of here. So we go back to my

1185
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 2: little studio. We're sitting there now I'm really chugging that wine.

1186
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck, man, i just lost two point five

1187
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 2: million dollars of the cartail's money. I'm thinking of myself,

1188
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 2: said what the fuck am I going to do? Like

1189
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 2: what do you do? It's like eleven at night, and

1190
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 2: finally we get a phone call from this dude. He goes,

1191
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 2: I'm on my way. I was like, all right, I said, uh,

1192
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna send Sean right now. He says, I'll meet

1193
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 2: you at the room. So I said, Sean, you know what,

1194
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 2: I'm so paranoid right now. I'm literally drinking wine and

1195
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 2: I'm snorting coke at this point because I'm so nervous

1196
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 2: and stressed. I'm popping xanax right. I'm like, fuck it, Like,

1197
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 2: I'm like paranoid.

1198
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: Now.

1199
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 2: I'm like, here, take seven hundred grand because he's gonna

1200
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 2: give you three hundred all I'm like thinking numbers. I'm

1201
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 2: numbers guy. I'm like, you're gonna have a million. I said,

1202
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 2: take the million, put it in your house. Just keep

1203
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 2: it in your house. Like, so, I give him seven

1204
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 2: hundred grand. He puts it in a suitcase and he goes.

1205
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 2: He shows up to the Hilton. As soon as he

1206
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 2: shows up to the Hilton, there's four Australian authorities waiting

1207
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 2: for him, and he said, uh. They said, we got

1208
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 2: a phone call from an American that you have a

1209
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 2: gun in your room. And he's like, what the fuck.

1210
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 2: He goes, I don't got no gun in my room.

1211
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 2: They're like okay, well, we're gonna have to check your bags.

1212
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 2: So they open up the bags and they're seven hundred grand.

1213
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, and I don't know any of

1214
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 2: this is happening. Like I told him, as soon as

1215
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 2: you get there, make sure you call me. And I'm

1216
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 2: on my in the studio called him and I'm like, oh,

1217
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 2: my trainer just burned me. He's not answering his phone,

1218
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 2: so all I'm thinking about is now in my train.

1219
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: To burn me.

1220
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 2: Fast forward like four hours later, it's like fuck three

1221
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 2: in the morning. I get this phone call from the

1222
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 2: New South Wales Police Department. I was like, oh no,

1223
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 2: and they said, we're calling about the seven hundred thousand

1224
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 2: dollars we found in Sean Carolyn's suitcase. I'm like, what

1225
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 2: are you talking about. She says, we'd like you to

1226
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 2: come into the police station. I said, well, I'm in

1227
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 2: Coojie Beach. I'm not coming to any police station right now.

1228
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 2: All I'm thinking about is like, okay, I got to

1229
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 2: get the fuck out of here. So a couple hours

1230
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 2: go by it and it's now morning time. No sleep,

1231
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 2: no sleep. I haven't slept. Probably the next five days

1232
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 2: I didn't sleep and Sean kids out and he's dude,

1233
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 2: the fuck guy. He's cooperating with the dude he called

1234
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 2: the police. I'm like, what do you mean he called

1235
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 2: the police. Yeah, I got arrested. They took the bag

1236
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: of cash. I don't worry. I just told him that

1237
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,919
Speaker 2: you were an investor. Like what do you mean. He's like, dude,

1238
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 2: don't worry, We'll get the money. Like, how are we

1239
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,240
Speaker 2: gonna get the money back? He just went to jail.

1240
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 2: I said, in fact, I'm going to get the fuck

1241
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: out of the Australia, the country right now. I'm panicking now.

1242
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 2: After he told me he's talking to the police, I'm like,

1243
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 2: I'm out of here. And uh, he said, don't worry,

1244
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 2: We'll get to seven hund grand back. Don't worry. All

1245
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself is like, yeah, right, does he

1246
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 2: live there the trainer, Yeah, he lives there. Yeah he's auzy.

1247
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 2: And he's like, don't worry, I got I got lawyers.

1248
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 2: We'll get it back. Don't worry. This is a key

1249
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: moment of the story. So when he told me, he goes,

1250
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 2: I got I got a quoked lawyer. Don't worry. I'm like, dude,

1251
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 2: whatever you could get back. I'm happy with I just

1252
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 2: lost two point five I'll take anything. So now I'm

1253
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 2: down three point two million dollars in less than twenty

1254
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 2: four hours of the cartel's money.

1255
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: The fuck.

1256
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 2: I get on the plane and as soon as I

1257
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 2: touch down in Lax, guess who has messages me on

1258
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:55,439
Speaker 2: that encrypted phone? No Halfay and El Halfe said, hey,

1259
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 2: what I need? Three million dropped off in San Diego.

1260
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no, Matt, Now this is where my

1261
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 2: heart just dropped. I was like, okay about that. I

1262
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 2: need to see you in person. Like at this point, man,

1263
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,439
Speaker 2: there's no way I'm gonna tell this guy lost this money.

1264
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 2: There's no way. Then he's gonna have me whacked. I said,

1265
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 2: I need to see you in person. It's important. He says,

1266
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 2: you know I can't come in to the US. He says,

1267
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 2: meet me in Tijuana. He says, I'll have a driver

1268
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 2: pick you up. And I'm like, fuck, dude. The next

1269
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 2: drive from La I go back to that same parking lot,

1270
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: a jack in the box, ride it before you cross

1271
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 2: the bridge, and he says, at one o'clock you're going

1272
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 2: to be picked up by one of my drivers, and uh,

1273
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, man, I got in that parking

1274
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 2: lot in Tijuana or in Santa Cedro, and I fucking

1275
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: pop SANX, took some GHB. I fucking did big line

1276
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 2: of coke because like, if I'm gonna fucking die, I'm

1277
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 2: gonna be comfortable, right like this is just fucking just

1278
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 2: be numb. And I got over that that bridge. Man,

1279
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 2: I'm shaken.

1280
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: Now.

1281
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna fucking get whacked

1282
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 2: right now. I know it. I'm gonna get killed. One

1283
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 2: o'clock sharp, a fucking bulletproof suburban shows up and the

1284
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 2: fucking window rolls down, the glasses this stick. Fuck, that's

1285
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 2: how you know it's bulletproof. And they're like what, oh

1286
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 2: get in the car, like, oh my god. I get

1287
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 2: in the suburban and the driver has a pistol right on.

1288
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 2: This happened, like oh fuck. And then I look behind

1289
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 2: me and there's two guys with AK forty seven and

1290
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh hell no, and these are Cecarios. I'm like,

1291
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 2: oh my god, like this is it. This guy's are

1292
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 2: just gonna go bang bang, and they're gonna go bury

1293
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 2: me somewhere in fucking Rosarto. And we drove for like

1294
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 2: two miles and all of a sudden, this entraage comes

1295
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 2: like of bulletproof vehicles, and then there's a hummer and

1296
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 2: there's fucking all these cars. There was like that motor crate.

1297
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 2: Do you know remember when we used to travel for sports,

1298
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 2: we'd get.

1299
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: Those front and back?

1300
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 2: Yeah? I remember those. First time? Yeah, first time I

1301
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 2: felt like that, but in a little different situation slightly

1302
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 2: so then I uh, I'm literally like thinking, okay, what now.

1303
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 2: We get into this town, like two miles past Rosaredo

1304
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: called Portanoivo to Lobster Town, and we pull into this

1305
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 2: fucking famous restaurant and the whole restaurants shut down. I'm like, dude,

1306
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 2: what the fuck is going on here? This restaurant usually

1307
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 2: has like fifty people outside, Like this is insane. And

1308
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 2: we get in there and he's already sitting down and

1309
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 2: he's got six sacaris at the table around him, and like, dude,

1310
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 2: I'm starting to shake.

1311
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: I still shake thinking about it.

1312
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 2: I get nervous. You're just talking about PTSD. And I

1313
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 2: sit down and I got those same fucking cucaras behind

1314
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 2: me now with standing up and we're in the broad daylight.

1315
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 2: Matt like, there's one lady making tortillas and there's one waiter.

1316
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 2: I'm looking around. I'm like, dude, he just reserved this

1317
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 2: whole place for us, right, And I'm like fuck. I

1318
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 2: was panicking, and I said, man, the only way I'm

1319
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 2: going to get out of this is if I tell

1320
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 2: the truth. Right, there's no and I can't. I'm not

1321
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 2: gonna ride it. The dude like transparencies, especially when you're

1322
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 2: dealing with these type of people. And I said, hey, man,

1323
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 2: I did the one point five. Remember I gave you

1324
01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 2: the cash. I said, then we went back, we did

1325
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 2: the two and a half and he lost it. And

1326
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 2: I said, at the same time, one of my runners

1327
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 2: had seven hundred got picked off. He looked at me.

1328
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 2: He goes, whato I know? He goes, it's in the paper.

1329
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 2: He says, I know about it all. I said, what

1330
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 2: do you mean? He says, the guy's fucking singing like

1331
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 2: a Canario. He says it's uh. He says it's his

1332
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 2: common knowledge. He says uh. He says good news. Though,

1333
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 2: whatdo he says? Uh? You know the famous saying plata

1334
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 2: or plomo, which means you either pay me or you

1335
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 2: get the lead, right, the lead is the bullet, and

1336
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 2: he said that it's a famous Narco saying. He says,

1337
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 2: but the good news is you don't know me three

1338
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 2: point two million. He says. The good news is you

1339
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 2: owe me four million. But he says, the bad news

1340
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 2: is you now work for the cartel. And I said

1341
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 2: to myself that, I said, well, at least these two

1342
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 2: guys behind me aren't gonna kill me, right, Like that's

1343
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 2: all I can think about, Like Okay. Then he's like, salute,

1344
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 2: and I remember it when we cheers. I took that

1345
01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 2: buck at Margarita and I fucking guzzled it. I was like,

1346
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 2: I'm a live I'm staying alive. And I'm I'm like, dude,

1347
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 2: I've figured out how to walk onto the volleyball team

1348
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 2: or walk on to the football team. I figured out

1349
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 2: how to smuggle stereoids. I'm going to figure out a

1350
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 2: way to pay this man back. That's why I like

1351
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 2: like a goosebumps just thinking about it, because that was

1352
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 2: the fucking the next rush in my life.

1353
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: So now you're you're on probably what your sixth life

1354
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: of nine lives?

1355
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have about that.

1356
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: So now you owe.

1357
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 2: Four four million, But that's a good twenty five percent tax.

1358
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: Hey, I'll pay it right, Yeah, So what is the

1359
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: what did the mind of Owen come up with?

1360
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know what I was going to do, right, Like,

1361
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 2: how am I going to pay this dude back? And

1362
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 2: he says, you're going to take two years off? He says,

1363
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 2: let things cool down because that guy's working with the government.

1364
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 2: He goes, I feel it, and he says, run your

1365
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 2: booky business like like you you ran it like like

1366
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 2: before you met me. He says, just lay low. No

1367
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 2: more money laundering with the cash drop offs for me,

1368
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 2: no more fucking hustling this cocaine. He says. Two years.

1369
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 2: He says. After those two years, he says, then you're

1370
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 2: gonna work for me. He says, your job now is

1371
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 2: to figure out a way to get cocaine into Australia

1372
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 2: because you're not using my routes. I don't want you

1373
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 2: burning my routes. You already fucked me.

1374
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So the whole two years to say, what,

1375
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: what are those two years like? Is it just constant

1376
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: stress trying to figure it out? You get some sort

1377
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: of normalcy? What's that two years like for you?

1378
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 2: Dude? I become a nervous wreck. I remember my my

1379
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 2: girlfriend became my wife. At the time. I'm like, literally like,

1380
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 2: are you okay. I'm like doing an eight ball a day.

1381
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 2: I puppin dan next like tic TACs. I'm literally drinking

1382
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 2: g HB out of a pyrel ball bottle like those

1383
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 2: hand sanitizers.

1384
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 1: GSP is a monster around there high school one time, bro,

1385
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:42,479
Speaker 1: and it took my big ass.

1386
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 2: It takes you down, Oh man, takes anyone down.

1387
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: And you have it's it's the date rate. You have

1388
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 1: no control over your by I have a crazy story

1389
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 1: about you, but go ahead.

1390
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 2: I was date rapping myself. I just wanted to be

1391
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 2: numb on the couch like there's like you'll see the

1392
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 2: doc there's me like just fucking numb. I'm like this

1393
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 2: looks like a Wolf of Wall Street and I fucking like, dude,

1394
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 2: I'm scratching. I like, how am I going to get

1395
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 2: cocaine in Australia? That's the like Uncle Louis said, that's

1396
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 2: the hardest place in the world to get into. And

1397
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 2: over the time, you know, working in Australia, I met

1398
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 2: I met another kingpin that was in the business and

1399
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, I'm retired, but if you ever decide

1400
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 2: to to work again, let me know. And I always

1401
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 2: remember that. So I was like, okay, I need to

1402
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 2: get a hold of this dude, but I can't fly

1403
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 2: in Australia now because I'm wanted. So I get ahold

1404
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 2: of where Yeah, my name is all on the paper

1405
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 2: as this business entrepreneur, as this businessman, and I'm like, fuck, man,

1406
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 2: what am I going to do? So he says, hey,

1407
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 2: let's meet in Fiji. So I fly over to Fiji.

1408
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 2: He flies from Australia to Fiji, which is like five hours,

1409
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 2: and we get there and we're just hanging out and

1410
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, I owe the fucking cartel fucking a

1411
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 2: lot of money. I said, I gotta. They're they're telling

1412
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 2: me I got to bring it into Australia. He's like,

1413
01:04:56,240 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 2: good luck. And we're drinking and I cheers to this wine, right,

1414
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 2: and I fucking write when I cheers the white wine.

1415
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 2: The fucking it came to me. I'm like, okay, I said,

1416
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 2: do you think if we got product in liquid form

1417
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 2: insented to you, would you be able to bring it back?

1418
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 2: He goes, absolutely, we got scientists that do that. He

1419
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,439
Speaker 2: said that's easy, and so I was like, okay. I said,

1420
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 2: this is what I'm going to do. I said, this

1421
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 2: white wine right here, I'm going to turn it into cocaine.

1422
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 2: I'm going to take everything and I'm going to break

1423
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 2: it down. He goes, if you can figure it out,

1424
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 2: go ahead. So now I get back to America and

1425
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 2: I sit down with my contractor, who's you know. We're

1426
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 2: real estate developers. Now we're building all over the South Bay.

1427
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 2: And I tell him this only guy I told in

1428
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 2: the US. I said, dude, I'm in debt to the cartel.

1429
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 2: I said, do you think there's any way we could

1430
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 2: turn cocaine into liquid? He goes, yeah, we use Everclear

1431
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 2: ever cures one hundred and fifty proof alcohol. It's an

1432
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 2: old school. Contract tells me that, Like, dude, what the

1433
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 2: fuck is Everclear? I start to look it up. This

1434
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 2: is when like you finally able to use the internet, right,

1435
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 2: and like looking at it up and googling it, and

1436
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,439
Speaker 2: it's like, you can't even buy it in CALIFORNI. Yeah,

1437
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 2: it's so I had to order it from like fucking

1438
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 2: Missouri or somewhere, right, And I shipped it to my

1439
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 2: PO box and I got this and you open it up,

1440
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 2: just fucking straight like alcohol like rubbing.

1441
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've drank some of that ship before show.

1442
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 2: And I bring these bottles back, and I remember I

1443
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 2: went to BEVMO before and I found the darkest bottle

1444
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 2: of wine from Napa Valley, and I wanted a white wine,

1445
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,439
Speaker 2: so I found the darkenst bottle, like this black color

1446
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 2: almost right, And and I get back to our warehouse

1447
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 2: and I just start dumping all the wine out and

1448
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 2: then I take these kilos of cocaine, half dropped off

1449
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 2: ten of them, and we're in this this these bathrooms,

1450
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 2: we got bathrooms all over because we're using it on

1451
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 2: our jobs. So I'm in the bathtub literally with a

1452
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 2: one of those oars you use on those stand up

1453
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 2: paddle parts, right, and I'm standing in there and I

1454
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 2: got gloves on and these goggles. I look like a

1455
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 2: fucking mad scientist. And I'm pouring this ever clear in

1456
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 2: this athup and I'm literally just using this or to

1457
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 2: break it down, and the tekilos of cocaine is just

1458
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 2: dissaulting and melting. And now I'm like, okay, let's get

1459
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 2: the funnel. And we start to funnel all this liquid

1460
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 2: cocaine back into these bottles. And I remember I bought

1461
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,360
Speaker 2: this corking kit where you put this cork in and

1462
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 2: you have this little lever and it corks it. And

1463
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 2: then they give you this wax and I put the

1464
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 2: red wax on it and i'd light it and it would.

1465
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 2: I took the fucking rubbing alcohol and I cleaned it

1466
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 2: and I put them back in the cases. Two cases

1467
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,959
Speaker 2: of No one would know ever, right, there's no way.

1468
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 2: So I call on my runners and I said, hey,

1469
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 2: you're going to Apple Valley today. He goes for what

1470
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 2: I said, you got to take this wine there, and

1471
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 2: he doesn't ask questions. Right, you're getting paid, just come

1472
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 2: grab it. So he goes to n Apple Valley. He

1473
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 2: goes the same winery that it came from, and I said,

1474
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 2: find the closest FedEx. I said, as soon as you do,

1475
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 2: return address the same name. I said, put samples and

1476
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 2: send it from n Apple Valley. Please, We're not taking

1477
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 2: any chances. And six days later, my mate from Australia goes, mate,

1478
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 2: you're a fucking genius. I said, well, he says, it

1479
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 2: made it. I'm like, oh fuck yeah. So I just

1480
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 2: landed ten birds into Australia and the chemist brought it back.

1481
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 2: I think we paid them like two grand bird. So

1482
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 2: the chemist made like twenty grand and he brought it,

1483
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 2: brought it all back. It came out to nine, so

1484
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 2: we got nine and a half birds out of ten.

1485
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 2: So it was a win, right. We started to do

1486
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 2: it again, and we did again, and then the chemist

1487
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 2: he came after us with a hey, if I keep

1488
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 2: doing this, I want half, and I'm like, oh, hell no,

1489
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 2: You're not going to tax me half, like I already

1490
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 2: have to pay from all you guys said come on,

1491
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 2: I said, you want a job or not. And when

1492
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:46,600
Speaker 2: he told me that, I said, fuck it, you're not

1493
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 2: going to have a job. I'm going to figure out

1494
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 2: another route. So I stopped the wine. I stopped it.

1495
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 2: I had to I kind of pay. Yeah, that's a tax, right,

1496
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 2: So I was like, fuck, I got to figure out

1497
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 2: a new route. And that's when I started the chocolate business.

1498
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: So how much did you knock off the tab.

1499
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 2: The two so twuberds. Let's see two loads ten ten

1500
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 2: each ten So by the time I think at that

1501
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,639
Speaker 2: point I knocked off a million. After you do your

1502
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 2: because the exchange rate bringing the money back. It's you

1503
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 2: get taxed every way. And so now I still got

1504
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 2: three million that I owe him. And now I'm like

1505
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 2: scratching my head. I'm like, dude, what's the next, Like

1506
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 2: what the fuck? But I remember that rolodex. I remember

1507
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 2: there's these guys at usc that were in the fraternity

1508
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 2: that their parents were in the import export business of

1509
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 2: European chocolate, right, So I was like, okay, European chocolate.

1510
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, where is this guy going

1511
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 2: to be? And he was going to be at my

1512
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 2: buddy's wedding that I was actually in. And I was like, okay,

1513
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 2: he's bringing his wife and they're going to be at

1514
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 2: the wedding. This is perfect. This was like in Palm Springs,

1515
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 2: like two months later, so I was just timing it.

1516
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I'm going My idea is I'm

1517
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 2: gonna get him really fucked up, and I'm just going

1518
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 2: to hit him with the how would you like fifty

1519
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 2: thousand dollars a month to cash? And so I brought

1520
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 2: the fifty grand I showed up the wedding. He was sauced.

1521
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 2: I said, dude, I see your girl, she got that

1522
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 2: Chanel bag. Those red bottoms. I said she's expensive. Okay,

1523
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 2: I said that's expensive. I said, uh, I got a deal.

1524
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:13,639
Speaker 2: I said, fifty grand and I gave it to him

1525
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 2: right there. He goes, what do you mean? I said,

1526
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:17,759
Speaker 2: take it. I said, all I want is your expired chocolate,

1527
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 2: nothing else. He goes, man, I got fucking three pallettes

1528
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 2: of expired chocolate at the warehouse. Come grab it. I'm like, oh,

1529
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,680
Speaker 2: I'm coming. I said, actually, come monday, you and I

1530
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:30,559
Speaker 2: are going to sit down when we're sober, and we're

1531
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:33,080
Speaker 2: going to talk about it. So I get I remember,

1532
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 2: come monday. He's sober. He's drinking coffee with me, and

1533
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:38,000
Speaker 2: he's like, dude, what are you gonna do? I said, man,

1534
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 2: it's better you don't know. Just give me the fucking

1535
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 2: expired chocolate and let's end it there. And he's like, no, no, man,

1536
01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 2: forgive me a fifty grand. I want to help you.

1537
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,720
Speaker 2: I said, you do not want to help me? Please? No,

1538
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 2: it's sist, bro. And I grab him a fucking bag

1539
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,680
Speaker 2: of coke and I go here. I said, it has

1540
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 2: something to deal with that. No, I'll help you, bro,

1541
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 2: I'll help you. Like, okay, fuck it, I said at

1542
01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 2: six PM. I'm gonna have a fucking test around. I'm

1543
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,519
Speaker 2: gonna have ten birds drop off by tank. And as

1544
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,080
Speaker 2: soon as those dropped off, I want to make sure

1545
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 2: there's no employees there because no one can see this.

1546
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 2: He's like, you got it. I'll make sure everyone's gone.

1547
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 2: Six PM shows up. Tank shows up in this suv

1548
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 2: and I remember we're at the docks looking around. Tank

1549
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 2: brings the Duffel bag and I said, you really want

1550
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 2: to work? I said, all right, see that palette of

1551
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 2: expired chocolate. I want you to break it all down

1552
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:23,800
Speaker 2: right now. I put it. This man into work. He's

1553
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 2: making fifty grand a month. I said, start opening the

1554
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 2: boxes of chocolate right now. He starts taking out the chocolate.

1555
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 2: So I start loading in kilas and he puts the

1556
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 2: chocolate back on. He seals it, and then I said, okay,

1557
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 2: so now I got ten kilos. I said, okay, start

1558
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:41,719
Speaker 2: boxing it. And I'm writing down, okay, thirty two twenty

1559
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 2: four eighteen. I'm writing down all ten where they're going.

1560
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,759
Speaker 2: I said, all right, wrap it up. So this Pallett's

1561
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 2: wrapped up four feet high of chocolate, European chocolate. I said,

1562
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 2: come come next week we're going to send this. I said,

1563
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 2: we're going to send it from your chocolate company, this

1564
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 2: logistics company, and it's going to go tash And I said,

1565
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 2: we're going to utilize your your your family business been

1566
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 2: around thirty years. So I could get my mate on

1567
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 2: the encryptophone. I said, give me a name of a

1568
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 2: candy store. I said, I'm sending you chocolate. He says,

1569
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 2: all right, cool, He gives me a candy store. We

1570
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 2: send it the next day, and uh, six days later,

1571
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 2: because that's how long it takes. He gets, uh, he

1572
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 2: gets this palette at his buddy's chocolate store. He says,

1573
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 2: fuck mate, the fuck they had to take it? I said,

1574
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 2: what do you mean they took it? He's like, dude,

1575
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 2: I can't find it anywhere. I'm like, dude, go to

1576
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 2: Bucks thirty two, go to Bucks twenty four, eighteen twelve,

1577
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 2: and he's like, holy shit, mate, you fucking made it.

1578
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 2: I said, fuck yes, I made it, dude, and I

1579
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 2: started fucking baking it with chocolate, and that fucking asshole

1580
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 2: that tried to tax me fifty percent and go fuck himself, right,

1581
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 2: Like that's all I was thinking. Back Now He's like,

1582
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 2: so I uh I finally paid these guys back may

1583
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 2: fuck and.

1584
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 1: Whatever long how long it take? So you took two

1585
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: years off? Two years? How long it take you to

1586
01:12:57,720 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: pay them?

1587
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 2: All? Was the twelve twenty fourteen Nice started working in

1588
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:06,799
Speaker 2: By twenty fifteen of like summer of twenty and fifteen,

1589
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 2: I paid him off. The famous question al Hafe said, Hey,

1590
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,439
Speaker 2: you're you're you're paid off. What do you want to do?

1591
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 2: I said, funk, I want to keep working. I want

1592
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:18,679
Speaker 2: to man, listen, I play a moment. I would keep

1593
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 2: going like forever an athlete. I tell people, why would

1594
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 2: you do that? Fuck? I want to make my own

1595
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 2: money now. I just paid him, yeah, and everyone was like,

1596
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 2: fuck your fucking balls. I was like, dude, listen, and

1597
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:33,640
Speaker 2: I already know the fucking FBI is watching me. We

1598
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 2: already know, like like we're going to job sites and

1599
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 2: there's like Verizon vehicles parked there for like five days.

1600
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, what the fuck is going on? Like

1601
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,599
Speaker 2: and we're running license plates and you know my PI

1602
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 2: that works for me is like, dude, that's the FEDS.

1603
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 2: So I already know this. And eventually I started laundering

1604
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 2: money with these these guys that were cleaning my money

1605
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 2: that my Aussies connected me with. Go figure and these

1606
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 2: guys start laundering money through who knows how. But they

1607
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 2: had a system where they were charging me half right.

1608
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 2: And I remember he says, hey, go golf with Owen.

1609
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 2: So I met this guy at the golf course and

1610
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 2: he told me, hey, I'm I got a Swiss banker here,

1611
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 2: I got a Korean banker here, and we launder money.

1612
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 2: And he says we charged one and a half points.

1613
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck, it's too good to be true, Like

1614
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 2: nobody charges that. I was paying twenty five right. But

1615
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 2: my Aussie contact told me about him. Sound like, fuck it,

1616
01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 2: it must be good. So I said, let's just do

1617
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 2: a sample. Let's do a test run, right, And I

1618
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 2: remember he dropped off two hundred and fifty thousand in

1619
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 2: Australia and like two days later we had two hundred

1620
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 2: and fifty minus the feet. I'm like, dude, these guys

1621
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 2: are solid. Then we kept doing it. Eventually a million

1622
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 2: dollars a week we started laundering through them, and unbeknownst

1623
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 2: to me, this whole time i'm doing it, I'm playing

1624
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 2: golf with them, drinking shots, fucking popping the pills. I'm

1625
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 2: sniffing coke. They're not. But you know, at the time,

1626
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 2: I don't know it, but these are undercovers. Is the FBI,

1627
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 2: you know? And you know I knew I had a

1628
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 2: feeling because we went on a date with my wife

1629
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 2: and I at the time, and she told me after dinner,

1630
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:12,400
Speaker 2: she says, you know, when you went to the bathroom

1631
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 2: and you asked them to come join me, they paid

1632
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 2: the tab and she said, they paid the tab. It

1633
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 2: was it was it was I took the Madera It

1634
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 2: was like nine hundred dollars and she says they tipped them.

1635
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 2: They tipped nine hundred dollars. On top of it, She's

1636
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 2: tried to show off, and she says, I don't care

1637
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 2: who you are. You don't go to Toko Madera in

1638
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,840
Speaker 2: a Tommy Bahama T shirt, right, And I was like

1639
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, you're right, like these guys stuck out

1640
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 2: like sore thumbs. And she goes and you don't tip

1641
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 2: a thousand percent, like that's unheard of. And she goes

1642
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 2: and then they asked me what was my involvement in

1643
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 2: the business, And she goes, you don't ask that to

1644
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:48,720
Speaker 2: a woman. And she's telling me all this, I'm like,

1645
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 2: holy shit, she goes, I think you're dealing with the FEDS.

1646
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 2: But like I was like, oh fuck, they got me.

1647
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 2: And like the day before I just did a five

1648
01:15:57,120 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 2: kilo deal because they're they're loaning our money. And they're like, hey,

1649
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 2: we know what game you're in. We're in the same game.

1650
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 2: Can you can you help us get some work. I'm like, yeah,

1651
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 2: I got you. Had five kilos dropped off and that's

1652
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 2: that's all they needed. Right, But like they befriending me,

1653
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 2: They're using encrypted phones like me. They're popping bills with me,

1654
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 2: they're gambling on my website with me, So like I'm

1655
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 2: thinking they're my boys. Yeah, And then we had a

1656
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand dollars transaction that was supposed to go

1657
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 2: through and we're supposed to golf at the A v

1658
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 2: R Country Club in Carlsbad and it was for seven ten

1659
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:34,839
Speaker 2: in the morning. And I remember the night before, LFE

1660
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 2: sent me a message. He says, you're gonna spend the

1661
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 2: next twenty years in a six baight cell. He says,

1662
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:41,600
Speaker 2: no one works for twelve and a half percent in

1663
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 2: this business. You're dealing with the DEA, right and I

1664
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 2: said to myself, Fuck, man, I hope he's not. Is

1665
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 2: he for real? Right now? Like that's the whole night.

1666
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 2: I was up and I was saying to myself, do

1667
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:54,720
Speaker 2: I go. I'm like, fuck it. I got up five

1668
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:56,320
Speaker 2: in the morning and I showed up to that country

1669
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,640
Speaker 2: club and I got there, Matt, and no one was

1670
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 2: in the arking lot. I was like, fuck, where's everyone? Like,

1671
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 2: this is the number one country club in San Diego.

1672
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:07,640
Speaker 2: Why is no one here? There was like fucking a

1673
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:10,560
Speaker 2: big f of three point fifty with like six gardeners

1674
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 2: in there. I'm like, God, damn, what's what's going on?

1675
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 2: Like my fuck it, I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna

1676
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 2: go to McDonald's. I go to McDonald's. No one's there, Like,

1677
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 2: I'm why is no one at the country club? That's weird?

1678
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 2: And this this this money launder calls me. He says, hey,

1679
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 2: where you're at. I'm in the clubhouse. I said, man,

1680
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 2: I was just there. I said, get back here, we

1681
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 2: got a tea time. I was, I fucking go back.

1682
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 2: I get to the parky a lot, my caddy shows up,

1683
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 2: I pop my trunk. I give them the bag of clubs.

1684
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 2: I go, man, where's everyone? He goes, I don't know,

1685
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 2: mister Hanson. He started shaking. I'm like, oh, hell no,

1686
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 2: this is this is not good. I go to my

1687
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 2: passenger side. I grab my man bag where I got

1688
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 2: my encrypted phones and my money. As soon as I

1689
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 2: grab that man bag, I turn around and there's fucking

1690
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,759
Speaker 2: fifteen FBI agent. This comes out of the bushes, fucking

1691
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 2: helicopter in the sky, handcuffs thrown on me. I'm like, oh,

1692
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:02,599
Speaker 2: that's it. It's a rap. People ask are you if

1693
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:06,799
Speaker 2: you were you nervous? Matt. I was relieved, fucking relieve

1694
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 2: a lot. It was over. Yeah, finally over. I didn't

1695
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 2: have to work for the cartel. I no longer had

1696
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 2: to take bets. It was just like fucking It was like,

1697
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 2: finally it's over.

1698
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 1: So your sentenced to twenty one twenty one years, and

1699
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: you do nine about nine.

1700
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 2: And a half, and then I get out and do

1701
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 2: some halfway house time. They give me eighteen months in

1702
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:26,040
Speaker 2: the halfway house.

1703
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: You got out for good behavior.

1704
01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 2: Remember that corupt attorney. Yeah, okay, so the corupt attorney

1705
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 2: took it to trial, and this is my get back, right,

1706
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 2: So I tell people in gambling when you lose a bet,

1707
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 2: you want that get back. You gotta get your money back.

1708
01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 2: So that corrupt attorney actually had me before I got arrested,

1709
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 2: had me go to the Beverly Hills Place police station

1710
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 2: and make a call with Australian authorities and telling him

1711
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:52,639
Speaker 2: that the money was legit when the money wasn't legit.

1712
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 2: He said, mate, this is ain't He goes, mate, this

1713
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 2: ain't a US matter. You have nothing to worry about it.

1714
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 2: I said, man, we don't go to the police. I

1715
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 2: can't do it. You're out of your mind. He's just, mate,

1716
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:03,640
Speaker 2: you have nothing to worry about. He says, we're going

1717
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 2: to get the money back. And I know why he

1718
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 2: wanted because he was gonna get half right. I said, man,

1719
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:11,599
Speaker 2: if you're my lawyer, I'm going to take your advice.

1720
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 2: But in the US, we do not fucking talk to

1721
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,839
Speaker 2: the police. Let alone go go tell them on ourselves.

1722
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: Right.

1723
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 2: He's like, mat, this the only way we're gonna get

1724
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 2: the money back. So I go to the police station

1725
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 2: and I make up the story that this attorney gives

1726
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 2: me and I'm in there telling him, yeah, this was

1727
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 2: legitimate money. I was an investor. Next thing, you know,

1728
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 2: I get sentenced to twenty one years and I'm like, fuck,

1729
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 2: my life's over. Five years into my bid, I'm at

1730
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 2: the United States Penitentiary I Lompoke and I get a

1731
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:42,599
Speaker 2: knock on the door and it's the US Marshals. And

1732
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 2: one of my conditions was if after I do my

1733
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:46,920
Speaker 2: twenty one years, I was supposed to get extracited and

1734
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 2: possibly do a life sentence in Australia for cocaine. And

1735
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:53,720
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck, dude, they're here early, like they're

1736
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 2: just no one's telling me what's going on. And the

1737
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 2: Marshal's like, hey, you're going to Australia. I'm like, what

1738
01:19:57,720 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 2: do you mean. They're like, you're going to Australia. Like

1739
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 2: I said, I need to call my attorney. They're like, no,

1740
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 2: you're going to Australia right now. And they put me

1741
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 2: in this this US martiall vehicle and handcuff me and

1742
01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 2: I get to Lax and there's three dudes and suits

1743
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 2: from Australia there, and then I go, hey, I need

1744
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 2: to call my US attorney right now. They're like no,

1745
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 2: you can't, Like dude, you can't just take me. Hell

1746
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 2: yes we can. You're under arrest, like, we have no right.

1747
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 2: Right we're in prison. My heart sank, like, dude, I'm

1748
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 2: getting extra died right now. I'm going to fucking do

1749
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 2: a life sentence over there. That's all I could think of.

1750
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:36,559
Speaker 2: And I after seventeen hour flight, I land and they

1751
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 2: put me in this jail, right and they put put

1752
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 2: me in my own cell, and I said, hey, I

1753
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 2: need to call my attorney. And they finally give me

1754
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 2: a phone call, and I called my lawyer in the US.

1755
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:50,799
Speaker 2: He says, hey, you just won the lottery in life.

1756
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 2: I said, I what he says, Remember that corrupt attorney

1757
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 2: you had? I said yeah. He says, well, guess what.

1758
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 2: He says. He's taking a trial and you're the only

1759
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 2: piece of the puzzle that knows that that money was illegal.

1760
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 2: He says, how would you like to get some of

1761
01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 2: your life back? I said, fucking run it. What do

1762
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 2: I gotta do? He goes, you just got to tell

1763
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 2: him that the fucking lawyer gave me bad advice. I said, okay.

1764
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 2: So I went there, I took the stand and I said,

1765
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 2: you know what, this lawyer was my lawyer. He represented me.

1766
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 2: He told me to tell the story. He knew the

1767
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 2: fucking money was dirty and I just did what he said.

1768
01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 2: I was taking his advice, and you know, they found

1769
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:30,600
Speaker 2: him guilty. And the judge basically wrote my judge in

1770
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 2: America and said, mister Hansen had ineffective counsel in Australia

1771
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 2: and we believe any any kind of sentence reduction he

1772
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 2: could get would be well deserved. So six Buds goes by.

1773
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:47,679
Speaker 2: I'm still in this Australian prison and the US Marshals

1774
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:49,719
Speaker 2: come pick me up. This is during COVID when everything's

1775
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 2: shut down, so we can't fly out, so they picked

1776
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 2: me up in a G six. I got like six

1777
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 2: US Marshals the first time in the world. I felt

1778
01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:59,560
Speaker 2: like chople guozman man. They black boxed me. I was

1779
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 2: sitting on playing I'm like, what the fuck is happening

1780
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 2: right now? Right and the like you're going back to

1781
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 2: US prison. I'm like, oh, hell yeah, I get back

1782
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:11,639
Speaker 2: and I was like, fuck, Like, what's going to happen?

1783
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 2: COVID shuts down the whole prison system. We're getting one

1784
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,559
Speaker 2: shower a month, We're getting one phone call a month.

1785
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:18,880
Speaker 2: I mean, it's unhumane, right, I tell people, this is

1786
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 2: like that was the worst time of my life being

1787
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 2: in prison during COVID because you can't leave yourself. And

1788
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 2: we had like three box lunches a day, like breakfast, lunch,

1789
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 2: and dinners, baloney and cheese, no coffee, no commissary, and

1790
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 2: I got down to like a buck seventy. I was

1791
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 2: fucking looked like from smally man. It was unhealthy, right,

1792
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 2: And I was like, man, what's this? What's going on?

1793
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 2: Like am I going to get any love? Like that's

1794
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:49,880
Speaker 2: all I'm thinking of. Finally, this prison start moving and

1795
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 2: they transferred me to Colorado. And I'm in Colorado and

1796
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:55,680
Speaker 2: my lawyer's like, we can't do anything. The judge has

1797
01:22:55,720 --> 01:22:58,160
Speaker 2: to rule and it's on the judge and the prosecution

1798
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 2: and he says, h we can't. We can't make the move.

1799
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 2: I'm like just sitting there, like, but you told me that,

1800
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:06,599
Speaker 2: like we'd have a chance. He said, dude, let's just wait.

1801
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 2: Waiting for that is like watching paint dry. I'm like, man,

1802
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 2: this is awful, right. So finally my lawyer calls me

1803
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 2: and he says, hey, we got a we got a

1804
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 2: ruling today with the judge. The prosecution is asking for the.

1805
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: How long is this after you leave Australia.

1806
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:29,280
Speaker 2: This is like four years later. Yeah, well wait wait yeah.

1807
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 2: So I get in there and my lawyers just says, hey,

1808
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,760
Speaker 2: you know they asked him and they said, what's the

1809
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 2: prosecution recommending prosecution says, hey, you know that we got

1810
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 2: this letter from the judge and prosecutors in Australia. He

1811
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 2: he he really had a fucked up attorney. They called

1812
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 2: it a dodgy attorney, right, And they're like, well, what's

1813
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 2: mister Hanson been doing in prison? And I just had

1814
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 2: finished my master's degree. So my lawyer says, mister Hanson

1815
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 2: just finished, he got an honor, he graduated honors. Mister

1816
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 2: Hanson's got twelve people there because he's the tutor and

1817
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 2: his good behavior, and the judge goes, you know what,

1818
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give mister Hanson eight and a half years

1819
01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 2: off of sentence. So I dropped down to twenty one,

1820
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 2: dropped down to twelve and a half. President Trump had

1821
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 2: just passed the first step back. So I got like

1822
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 2: two years off my sentence for good behavior, and then

1823
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 2: my master's got me another year off. And by the

1824
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 2: time this was all said and done, I had like

1825
01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 2: three months to go. Yeah, and they said in twenty

1826
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 2: twenty four, you're gonna get released to a halfway house

1827
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 2: for eighteen months. And that's how it went down.

1828
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:37,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, we got a we got five minutes.

1829
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:41,880
Speaker 1: But while in prison, outside of getting your masters, let's

1830
01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:44,600
Speaker 1: bring over what you created and now above board, what

1831
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: you got going on.

1832
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a whole nother Uh.

1833
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: You just bring the whole bag.

1834
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, just just bring the loose ones, heard Dame Eli.

1835
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 2: So listen now, I said, man, what am I gonna do?

1836
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 2: I'm in prison. I'm like, man, what am I going

1837
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:12,679
Speaker 2: to do? And I got my MBA. I'm like, dude,

1838
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 2: I got to start a legitimate business now right. I'm

1839
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 2: a convicted felon. And in there were any way we

1840
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 2: could get protein. We would try mackerel, tuna. It just

1841
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 2: gets old, right, you tired of eating fish. And one

1842
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,960
Speaker 2: day I would make these protein shakes in prison, and

1843
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 2: we'd put our protein chicks in these empty peanut butter

1844
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,759
Speaker 2: jars and we'd shake them up. Sometimes we'd slice bananas

1845
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 2: in there. Sometimes I swirls of peanut butter from the commissary.

1846
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 2: And in prison, we don't have refrigeration, right, so we

1847
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 2: use a mop bucket and we throw ice in there,

1848
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 2: and that's how we keep our drinks cold and our sodas.

1849
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 2: And one day my celly comes because he was like

1850
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 2: the guy in charge of getting the ice for the

1851
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:51,719
Speaker 2: cell he comes. He goes say, Selly, we got problem.

1852
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 2: I said what he says, The ice machine's broken. I

1853
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 2: was like, oh fuck, how am I going to keep

1854
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 2: my fucking protein shake hold. He's like, don't worry, We've

1855
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 2: got two inches of ice left. I'm gonna throw some

1856
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 2: salt on it, he says. By the time you get

1857
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:04,679
Speaker 2: back from your workout, he says, it'll be nice and cold.

1858
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 2: Don't worry. I go work out with my crew. I

1859
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 2: come back and I grab my shake and I coat

1860
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 2: to fucking drinking and it's rock hard. Oh motherfucker selling.

1861
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 2: You just told me it was going to be fucking good,

1862
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 2: he says, Man, what do you complain about? Just eat

1863
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 2: it ice cream? And I ate it. I'm like, dude,

1864
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,840
Speaker 2: this is protein ice cream. And I was like, oh fuck,

1865
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Speaker 2: this is amazing. And then and then I started make

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01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 2: ice cream in prison. I was like, dude, I'm going

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01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:27,200
Speaker 2: to sell it for like air one prices fifteen dollars

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01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 2: a jar, right, Like, first of all, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to make it. If I do have to make it,

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01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 2: i'm gonna charge fifteen. And I started making it, and

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01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 2: then I had every guy that was in the cell block.

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01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 2: I said, hey, I'm paying a dollar a jar. If

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01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 2: you guys make ice cream, I'll buy it for a dollar.

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01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,320
Speaker 2: So I'm teaching everyone how to make it, and they're

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Speaker 2: giving it to me because they know have the customers.

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01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 2: But in prison, you don't realize, like a dollar a jar,

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01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 2: that's they're making seven dollars for one day's work in prison.

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01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:53,639
Speaker 2: Like for the average hollars is like twenty cents a now,

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01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,719
Speaker 2: So these guys are making triple what they make sewing

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01:26:56,760 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 2: gloves for the military, you know. So I got the

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Speaker 2: whole block. I remember it was Super Bowl Sunday and

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01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:04,719
Speaker 2: I had a pre order of fifty ice cream instead

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01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 2: that fifteens. I had the whole block fucking baking my

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01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 2: ice cream. They're shaking this fucking rock salt in the

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01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 2: mop bucket and with four hours later they bring me

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01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 2: all these ice creams right, and I already have the

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01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 2: distribution handled obviously, and I distributed the ice cream, and

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01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:23,280
Speaker 2: I remember that was my last Super Bowl and I

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01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,559
Speaker 2: got to the halfway house and I was like, man,

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01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 2: what am I going to do now? And I'm a

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01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 2: convicted felon right and I'm like, funk, what am I

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01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:31,840
Speaker 2: going to do? I said, Man, I remember my boy

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01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,840
Speaker 2: Rolling calls me from Miami and he's like, dude, just

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01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:36,760
Speaker 2: just tell me something you did in prison that you enjoyed.

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01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 2: I said, man, I'm not gonna lie. I started making

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01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:41,759
Speaker 2: protein ice cream and it felt like the same rushes

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01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 2: as moving weight, Like I got my blood flowing. And

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01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 2: he's like, dude, that's the perfect comeback story. He says,

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01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 2: why don't we create a brand? And he helped me

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Speaker 2: create the brand California Ice Protein.

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Speaker 1: And you said, yeah, reasons behind this reason?

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01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:57,559
Speaker 2: So like this one right here, this is the best one,

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01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 2: because this guy right here was my my full back,

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01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 2: Brandon Hancock. We used to call them Brandon Hancock's name.

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Speaker 2: We used to call him swoolcock. Obviously, I can't fucking

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01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 2: name an ice cream, so I call it strawberry swool cake, right, Okay,

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01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 2: that's after him for being there in prison. That's the

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01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 2: bestseller in California. And then this one right here is

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01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 2: a coliseum cookies and cream obviously, because I sum right,

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Speaker 2: and this one, this is my favorite. Right. It's called

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01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 2: have your cake and eat it too. Every girlfriend I've

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Speaker 2: ever dated said, man, you want your cake and you

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01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 2: want to eat it too. So I said, girls, you

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Speaker 2: get your own ice cream. Here, you go right your heart,

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01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 2: eat your heart out. So that those are the man.

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01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 2: I mean, these have been on dry ice, so don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to burn your tongue.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, so where can we Where can they

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Speaker 1: find these works? Your website?

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Speaker 2: What's going on the websites? Easy to remember? Eat ice

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Speaker 2: protein dot com or California ice protein dot com. I'm

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Speaker 2: the California kid. That's where you get my book.

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Speaker 1: We want need to do all the smoke partnership with this.

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01:28:57,960 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 2: I would love to.

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01:28:58,560 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 1: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just coming out with a non dairy. A

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01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 2: lot of people are black, so I got a non dairy.

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Speaker 1: We Oh man, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Fuck.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, your journey a lot of ups and downs,

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Speaker 1: but while you're telling your story, the whole thing I'm

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01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: thinking about this dude is a genius. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: way you were able to think your way out of

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01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: these situations to save your life constantly, and then while

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Speaker 1: you're in for some shit, you come up with the

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Speaker 1: next act and I wish you nothing but the best

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Speaker 1: of luck, and I'm sure you're gonna invent a few

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Speaker 1: more things before our time on this earth is up.

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Speaker 1: And it was a pleasure to really get to sit

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Speaker 1: down and get the inside scoop with you, man. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for your time, Thanks for having me, no doubt

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01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,519
Speaker 1: for that was insane. That's dope.

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Speaker 2: That's a wrap.

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed the show. You can catch

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Speaker 1: us on all the Smoke Productions YouTube and the DraftKings Network.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you guys next week.