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They love you. >> For our everyday listeners, sometimes you have guests on the show, and at the end of the show, you get so wrapped up in it, you're not really looking at the clock, and I was like, dude, next time you're in Austin, just come, we'll stop the world for you, because I think you're a fascinating dude, and there was something really special about you, and I said, hey, just come, and then come in the studio, and then we'll chat about life. Now, the crazy thing is, because we were chatting about this before we went on air, I said, hey, I'll just tell you this, on air, you were promoting your last book, chameleon, and it was awesome, but then once I started talking to you, we were talking about movies and your book and everything else. I was like, I told Dan, I go, I love this, dude. I go, there's something there. I went back and bought your other book transformed. >> Oh, yeah. >> I read it in like, I don't know, two nights, and I was like, holy shit, I had no idea the crazy life you had. I just thought, you were this cool author guy who was doing movies, Navy Seal, all this other shit. I had no idea about your backstory, and then I breezed through this book, and I was like, oh my God, dude. >> Thank you, brother. >> This is wild. >> It's been a crazy journey, man. It's been nuts. Sometimes I pinch myself when I wake up, and I'm just like, dang, dude, I'm blessed to even be here to be alive. >> Let's go back to the video. >> There's a couple of different things that happen throughout your life that are super crazy, like from getting out of a shitty situation, to getting yourself back into one as a teenager, to get out of that into the Navy, and then getting discovered by one of the top directors in the fucking world. >> Yeah, but there's so much stuff that's happened. >> Let's start from Nigeria, because I read this book and it stuck with me. I think we were here a year ago, and I read it immediately, and I was just like, holy cow, everything your entire life and journey stuck with me. So let's start with Nigeria. >> Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. >> Your dad was essentially royalty over there. It works different than it does in other countries. Explain that to the audience. >> Yeah, so my dad, he was the first-born son to my grandfather. My grandfather had about nine wives, and my grandfather was Muslim, and he kept on having daughters, and my grandfather was a chief. He was a royal chief in the year of a tribe. So in Western culture, we refer to royalties, King, Queen, Prince, Princess, such that sort of thing, and Nigerian culture, and a lot of other African culture, like royalties referred to as chief in your last name. So my last name, Ade Lake means, Ade means crown, and Lake means it's supreme. And then my Ade Rabbi means the crown has appeased me. And so my dad was the first-born son. He became Ade Bio, Ade Lake. And shortly after my, I want to say when my dad was about eight, nine years old, my grandfather passed away, and all of the wives scattered to different parts of Nigeria. And my dad ended up going south to Lagos. And at the time, in Lagos, they were Christian missionaries there, and not only they teach the Bible, but they taught math and science and literature and other things. And my dad was able to memorize. I mean, he memorized a crime before he was like eight years old. And so he was able to memorize scriptures, but also memorize mathematical equations and English and all of the stuff. And he ended up getting a full-ride academic scholarship to study engineering, architecture in London. So he went to, he went to London, got his master's, got his bachelor's, and his master's in architecture and engineering. He was on the board of the British Financial Planning Council in Great Britain, and then he was on the World Trade Center board in New York City. And then he decided, hey, I've accumulated all of this wealth in the west. I want to come back to Nigeria and create like a Nigerian Wall Street. And so that Nigerian Wall Street was what was supposed to be the Nigerian Wall Trade Center. And so that's kind of when I came along. So when I came along, I was born into the rich and the wealth and the lifestyle. We had nannies, we had cars, we had drivers. My dad was referred to as chief at a bio. So he had the status, but he also had the money to back it all up. And he had all pretty much built it up himself. So that was kind of like my beginnings in Nigeria. Yeah, so you're technically a Nigerian prince. Yes, so chief. So my last name anytime, every time somebody says Adeleke is saying they're pretty much paying homage. And so everybody fell. It's like coming to America. Well, I tell you a funny story. I remember when I was, when I was with the Marines, I was on a ship. We doing some training on the ship. And I was in line standing in line for child. And these two Nigerians will buy me, they had all coveralls. And they walk past me and then they stopped just like coming to America. And then they turned around and came back to me and he said, they start speaking to me in Yoruba. And they started saying, Adeleke, you and I said, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I'm sorry, guys. Like, I don't know what you're saying. He was like, how could you not speak your tongue? You are you are chief, John, I didn't read me. I didn't like you. Your name is Adeleke. And I was like, I'm super sorry. So I am recognized like when I went to Nigeria in 2018 and people saw my last name. And a lot of people know my dad's story in Nigeria. My dad was like, very well known in Nigeria. It was just like, oh, my God, Adeleke. Do you learn the language? It was my first language. Yoruba was my first language, but I left and I'm sure we'll get to it. But after my dad passed away and I came to the States, I didn't speak it anymore, so I lost it. Were you were you the guy in like the early 2000s sending out all those emails? I wasn't impressed. It was one of my cousins. Yeah, I gave you so much money. He's a lot he doesn't understand technology. He's not that goal, but he just doesn't understand tech. So he's lost probably thousands of dollars to you guys. I could be millions. I just kept sending it over and over again. It seemed legit all of it. Yeah, man. They got it down to a science. I mean, Nigeria is a lot of corruption in Nigeria. And that's what led ultimately to my dad's death and us having to leave Nigeria. But it's really continued to cycle. And it's out of control, even especially in Nigeria. Well, if you don't mind, I'd love to talk about your dad's death. Because in the book, it was a rabid dog. Yeah, so it was a combination of things. So my dad, he engineered what's considered one of the first man-made islands in the world. It's existed his days now known as Banana Island, but at the time it was known as Lagoon City. And again, I mean, you read the book so you know there's a lot more to the story, but the audience doesn't. So fire away. So before that, before my dad got the Lagoon, and that's it right there, before he got the Lagoon. Oh, shit. I'll pop it among the screen. So this is like, this is before UAE trying to do the world islands and shit. Because that was just like in 2015. Well, actually, I don't, I think that's a, that's a, that, that image has other stuff on it. But Banana Island, I don't, that's not Banana Island. That's like, is it the one in the middle there to the left? Bob's white. So it all looks the same as him. It goes down to the, to the right. It was on the, think that's it right there. I don't know. I'll talk, I'll talk where you bring it up. But yeah, that's fine. Prior to that, my dad bought a massive plot of land called Marico, and essentially Marico is where he wanted to develop World Trade Center, Nigeria. And it was essentially a dump. And then there was a coup in Nigeria. And it was a military coup in Nigeria. And everything was taken from everybody. And after that, after the, after democracy was reinstated a couple years later, my dad went back to the courts and he was like, Hey, listen, I spent eight million pounds because he bought that land for eight million pounds back in the 70s. I want my money back and the legal state government, the federal government say, Hey, we're not going to give you your money back. We'll give you something else, a compensation. So my dad asked for the lagoon. And they laughed and I'm like, what are you gonna do with a lagoon? He said, don't worry about it. And so they gave, they award a federal government award in my dad to lagoon. And my dad hired Dutch engineers, guys that he went to school with in London, and they dredged a foreshore. And that's how they developed what's, what's now known as Banana Island, but what was originally known as Lagoon City. And they developed it, they created that island. So they pumped sand and created the island. After the land had been fully formed, my dad started signing contracts with, with developers and different Disney, there was a Martin Spence. Oh yeah, marks and spans a bunch of different places that we're going to be housed there, along with the buildings that we're going to be there where people could come and do trade and do business. The legal state government came in and said the federal government wasn't supposed to give him the swamp as compensation. I mean, it was all corruption because why didn't you say that when equipment started being shipped in? Why did you wait until the land had been formed after my dad had spent millions of dollars, you know, to do what he did. So my dad went to court, started fighting the Nigerian government. He started getting, we started getting death threats. He started getting death threats. And this was the legal state government. And then my dad, when he would get really stressed out, he would go out for walks. And we had a security guard that would go with him, go out with him sometimes for walks as well. And this night he didn't go out with his security guard and a dog that had been in the neighborhood. Like this isn't like the neighbor's dog, like I attacked my dad. And he got bit. But my dad, my dad, my dad went to the hospital to get medication when he received the medication at the hospital and the medication is ultimately what killed him. So essentially he was poisoned. He was given, they say bad medication. But on the autopsy, his heart was taken out, not from the rabies, but from the medication. So and shortly after that, the legal state government kept it. And then my dad's personal security to this day is the manager of the island. No fucking way. I mean, that's not a bad job because just a cursed research and finding like all kinds of articles about how the property there is going up in value. Yeah, oh yes, worth billions. The island alone right now is worth billions out of some of the richest Africans in the world have properties. The richest Nigerian in the world has properties on Banana Island. And my dad, my brother's been my half brother who's a lawyer. He's been fighting the Nigerian government since '87. And they offered us $8 million cash like six years ago, about five, six years ago. And my brother turned it down because it's like, dude, I mean, my dad bought it for eight million pounds. I mean, eight million pounds is a lot, you know, a lot more than eight million dollars, but adjust for inflation and then all the money that my dad spent in order to dredge the foreshore and do all that stuff. We talk about billions of dollars. Yeah, you guys in a lawsuit over? Yeah, we've been in a lawsuit. We've been in a lawsuit since '87. There's a, just to give you some scope for this, there's a thousand real properties, real estate properties for sale right now, a thousand right now on that island. What are they going for? Just out of curiosity. I don't know how to do the conversion here. I got to look it up. What is this? Nairo. Nairo. Oh, that's Pukas shelves. I'm kidding. No idea. No idea. I don't think that's a gummy bear glued on top of a seashell. And that's what the currency is over there. Two billion. Yeah, because you look at that number on Zillow, pop it up on screen. It looks so massive. You're like, what is that? Holy shit. I mean, this is 107.5. So four bedroom terrace, duplex, four bed, five bathroom, and it's got elevator down to the beach, I think, and it's seven and a half million dollars. Is this something I'm looking at it on? Yeah. 7.5 million. God damn. So, yeah, they're not fucking around. Yeah, but I hate the floors. This is Bob watching House Hunters with his wife. It sure is. It sure is. Don't get hung up on the color of the paint, man. I like Hilton Head better. I think Hilton Head's the one we settle on, which is nice. So did you ever find out with the autopsy, what the exact medication was that made his heart explode? My mom, my mom has all that information, but what we do know what she does know is that it was the medication that killed him. And he had one dose. And so here's another thing I forgot. I left out the story. And I'm sure this is in the book as well. I know this is in the book, but my dad, he didn't take the medication right away. He flew to Germany because he had to go do business in Germany. He flew to New York. Man, this guy's a fucking hard mother fucker. He's got a German. He's got rabies. Like, you have to get a shot in here. He didn't, he didn't necessarily have rabies at the time because that was what it was. Yeah. And so in a fluted New York, and then he came back home. And when he came back home, he had our nanny Jane, who was made as well, she set the bath. He went in, took the medication, and never came out. No way. And Jane went in and found him the next morning because he had never come out the bathroom. And you were five years old at this time. I was five years old at the time. Yeah. And so. So what happens then? I mean, your mom's got to be like, we got to get the fuck out. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like if the government kills your husband, you got to fucking. Well, my mom wanted to leave for a long period of time. My mom, you know, and I tell the story in the book, my mom would tell my dad all the time, let's take some money and put it in New York, put in New Jersey. Let's take money and put it there because I don't trust this. My mom is a New Yorker. My mom was in Nigeria. My mom grew up and was born and raised in Harlem. And so my mom had a lot of street smarts. And she said, we need to put money here in the states because if something happens, he had leveraged all his assets, all his art, all his property, every set in his bank account for that project. And you know, that's what they would argue about all the time. And so when that it was expected, it wasn't like a big shock to her when he did die. And mom, because we had gotten death threats. My mom had crazy stuff happen to her. And so yeah, when that happened, my mom was just like, wait, we ain't coming back to this place. We ain't going back to this place. And it's not like America where I'm sure you can just pick up and be like, great, great, I'm going to list this on Zillow, my house, somebody to sell my things. Now you grab what you can carry and get the fuck out. Yeah, is that kind of what happened to it? Well, while everything my dad had leveraged absolutely everything for that property. So all for banana island and for the development on it. So once, once that went, we were broke, we were from rich, but dad was a multimillion in the poor, we had nothing. And then it's just a flight over to New York City at that point. That's it. And we transitioned to the states and it was me and my mom. And my dad had a, he had a condo, a co-op apartment in New York City, because my dad bought that like in the, in the late 60s, early 70s, because he was on a border, the World Trade Center, and the Bronx was definitely a different place back in the 60s and 70s. And so it didn't really change until 15 years ago, crack epidemic. Yeah, it's what really took it over. And so, so we, we pretty much moved into that co-op apartment in the Bronx, man. And then over time, it was just the Bronx, and that was 87. So the crack epidemic was that you have family here? Yeah, my grandmother, so my grandmother, she was in New York City, so she would help, she helped raise me and my brother. And then my grandfather, before he passed away, he would, he would come up from Florida and spend time with us as well. So yeah, man, it was, it was rough. But you know, I look him back on it. I want it, I want to have never become the person I became if it wasn't for that hardship. I'd be a completely different brother, because I look at my half siblings, you know, who had my dad and who grew up with them. I mean, they were rich. I mean, all of them went to boarding school in London. They all speak with British accents, and they're completely different people than I am. I mean, that's, that's the key. If you're wealthy, you got to put your kids into something crazy. Yeah. Like you got a, you got to fucking send them, not to normal boarding school, but to the kind where they hit you with bamboo, like canes and the legs and shit like that. Thailand shit. For real, you've got to do something, man. Like there's, it's so, it's so rare that the child of a rich person turns out to even be a manageable decent, being much less successful, just manageable and decent. Let's start with that, most of them are fucking like, not to talk too much shit, but we saw some two A-list celebrities kid the other day, like what two, two, three weeks ago talking about she's still wearing a fucking mask and talking about how her feelings are hurt when everybody else doesn't. It's like, dude, we're fucking years beyond this stuff. What are you doing? Like you're just incapable of living a normal life at this point. Yeah. So how do they turn out? Oh, well, that's your father done. I won't imagine their money dries up too. So it's not like they can pay for schools. They had already leveraged. Well, they are a lot older than me. Like my, my, John is about, he's like close to 50 now. So they were already like through college and often to their careers and the relationships that my dad had in the UK, he had passed them off. So my one brother, he was an accountant. He's done with super well for himself. My other sister, you can look her up. She ended up, she ended up going to jail because she was considered the Genine Adelaide case. She was considered the madam of the UK. She had run this brothel illegal brothel deal in the UK and all of these big politicians. That's her right there. All these big politicians were in on it and she would provide these escorts and all that stuff. So yeah, so everybody was different. You know what I mean? And successful, she owes the government like a lot of money, like millions of dollars. Bob, look at that. Did you put that picture on the screen, Bob? You fucking did her dirty with that pick, Bob. God damn it. I mean, there was others. All the car in a car leaving fucking Walmart. All the pictures are old. I don't think there's any good ones. That one right there. Look at the look of her shoulder. That's a fun one. Like use that one, Bob. That one's all right, but it's small. Blow it up. There you go. So she was a madam, she was like a madam of a brothel. Yeah, I'll buy a high-end brothel. So all of these play there, if you pull up the article, you'll see like all of these top politicians in the UK were busted in this brothel. You mean the guys that are sending people to prison for Facebook post right now? Yeah, those guys. Was it Charles? Was it Chuckie? Was anybody else? Yeah, I read the article a long time ago. No, it would be the other one. Who's the guy with the puppet? Yeah, who's the brother? Prince Andrew. Yeah, I said Andrew. My wife knows the royal family. I don't know shit about him. Andrew is like the biggest weirdo ever, man. Because if it's Andrew, then your sister's making a lot of money and there's a lot of puppets. So she ended up getting caught up and she ended up going to jail for it, so she ain't doing it anymore. But she was living a lot like she was making millions of dollars, according to articles and stuff like that. So like I said, they turned out different, you know? And you know, so again, I'm glad I didn't. It sucks what happened to our family, but I would not be the person I am today if I didn't have that hard freaking upbringing in the Bronx because the Bronx was rough. Yeah, let's talk about it. I mean, look, you were trying to start a record label at one point. Yeah. And then selling drugs. I was selling drugs. Yeah. At another point, what drugs were you selling? I was selling dope. I was selling marijuana, dope, you know, stuff that I should. I'm not I'm hesitant because I'm not proud to talk about it every time I do my mom watches a podcast. She's like, why did you bring that up? Everybody's going to look at me like I'm a bad mom. So I was like, I don't think so. Like, she does. I don't know that everybody's your life. So much that like, you know, the told you for her, she always, especially when my book came out, she had a hard time with me talking about a lot of the stuff because she felt she feels like it's going to reflect negatively negativity in a negative way upon her and the mother she was at that time. And I tell her all the time, I'm like, mom, but look at who I am now. And but it's still, you know, it's in my opinion, it's something in the black community, where, you know, we like to keep our skeletons in the closet, you know, and it's just one of those things where you never want to instead of saying, oh, yeah, Joey's in prison. Joey's just, he's at camp somewhere, you know what I mean? And so I just I'm even growing up. I just know that that my mom holds a lot of pride. And I don't mean that in a negative way. Just she she just expected a lot of me and she expected to be a better mother. And she was a fantastic mother. It's just like, I tell people all the time once a kid turns a certain age, if he doesn't have a father, you know, she doesn't have a father now, ain't nothing mama could do. And they that's what that's just the reality. And this is the argument I have with my wife all the time when, you know, she gets on me about the way I discipline my kids. I say, listen, Jesse, I need to deal with this now because you're not going to be the one dealing with it when my son's 13, 14, 15, 16 years old. And that was just a reality. My mom couldn't control me. I'm taller than her. I got here on my channel. They like, there's nothing she could do with that point. And so, um, but yeah, I was out there selling drugs. I was running illegal scams and selling these phones and I was making crazy money doing it. I was out there and I was a product of my environment, you know, because I didn't have a father and I didn't look to positive influences as a father, I followed that same trend that a lot of kids in the inner city follow. I mean, you look at it in Chicago, look at it in New York City and Philadelphia and all these places where there's a lot of absentee fathers, what do you have? You have a lot of crime. You have a lot of drug. You have a lot of why, because there's no man to keep kids in check. And when a young man and when a young African American man, in my opinion, when all they, you know, women are just naturally emotional, right? Like, and that's like, there's two parts. And I talked to my wife about this all the time, like, my job is to be logical, like logical and direct. And I mean, this in a negative way, like logical and direct, like this, how we don't think this will happen. And there's a place for it. And then the mom's job is typically to be the nurturing emotional type one. And there's a place for that. And when you when you take one out of the picture, all these young men, all they get is the emotion. That's what they learn. So they react out of emotion. Oh, you disrespect me. I'm gonna shoot you in the face. Oh, you disrespect me, I'll punch you. But yeah, an emotional human being with high levels of testosterone is gonna fucks it up. Exactly. Exactly. Like that can't be case. Exactly. And so, you know, my mom couldn't control me anymore. And that's what led to me doing the things that I was doing. And following, you know, hip hop was big at the time, you know, street culture, rap culture, all of that was, you were in part of it, dude. I mean, especially right then in the late 90s, like Jay Z 50 cent, I mean, they're both came from selling crack. Yeah, big, big, big, big, all those guys. I mean, it was everywhere. And it was glorified. So as a kid, you were probably thinking, well, shit, I'm just following my heroes are doing exactly who gives a shit about everything else. Exactly. And they made it. So why can't I make it? Yeah. That was a mindset. Like I'm gonna sell drugs until I can start this label, which is like not the most unreasonable thing to think, to be honest. Well, when you see your heroes doing it, you're like, all right, I can do this. Well, for everyone here, what it makes it, there's a hundred thousand sitting in prison, or in the grave, or dead in a grave. And so, yeah, I did that. And then, you know, by the time I was 19, I had ridiculous money. I was able to now actually, by the time I was 18, I had a ridiculous amount of money. I was able to start my record company, which that was my goal. That was my end goal was to follow that pattern that Jay Z and 50 and them had done was to invest the money into a record company. I had artists that I signed and we were going out to and doing shows and we recorded a compilation album. We were just doing all these things. My goal was to get a label deal. Like, I wanted to get a label deal under my production company, April Under Entertainment. And long story short, I ended up getting involved with a drug dealer, sold them a bunch of phones. And when I was on the phone, I was making way more money with the phones than I was selling drugs. Burners? The burner phones, yeah, I was making a way into immigrants. Yeah. Mostly to make calls overseas. Yeah, people used to fucking use fake credit cards to buy the calling cards, like 10, 10, 10, 20, and all that bullshit, or the phones that are preloaded, and you just sell them to fucking migrants and shit like that. Yeah, make a fuck. It's all cash, right? Yeah, yeah, people have to think. So what I would do is I had a I got a gig at a company, I won't mention that company's name. But AT&T, it was radio shack, they're not in business anymore. I just always get nervous about it. But essentially, I was able to get a gig there and I was able to get a license and that license allowed me to activate phones. So on one person's line of credit, I was able to activate three phones. The phones were staying on for up to 90 days. After 30 days, a person would get a bill. They would have 60 days to pay the bill. The bill wasn't paid by the 90th day, then the phone would cut off. And so I would sell these phones to drug dealers and the phones were free. So I didn't have to, it was part of the fee was wrapped into the monthly payment. And so I would sell these phones and I would sell them for anywhere depending on the type of phone, anywhere between $500 a pop to $1,000 a phone. And then after 90 days, the drug dealers would come back to me and they'd be like, hey, I need another phone. And they liked it because they were able to escape and get away. It's untraceable. It's untraceable. And this is 2000 and this is 2000, '99, 2000. There's no footprint there. They can't find you. Well, I mean, to get a title through wiretap on something like that, you got to know the number and you have to prove that it's associated with that motherfucker right there, right? And how are you going to do that? Yeah. You know what I mean? Unless they call you, which they ain't happening. Exactly. Exactly. So I was making crazy money and then I ended up selling this drug dealer these phones and I didn't want to do it because I had my system down. I would only activate a certain amount of phones and appear in like a week, right? I wouldn't go over that quota to try and but then I will also activate legitimate phones, you know, for legitimate clients. And then I was also getting the people's information from hospice. I had a guy who I'm with the high school with and his girlfriend was a nurse at hospice. And so he would get people's date of birth, social security, address, name, that's how it activate the phones. And then they would die and they wouldn't show up on their credit. I mean, it would show up on the credit report, but it didn't matter because they long gone to debt. And so, um, I sold them these phones supposed to last 90 days. They cut off in 30 days, came to my house, threatened my life. Not my husband, my mom's apartment, threatened my life. My mom was in the other room and that was my wake up call. That was my okay. I've I need to get out of doing what I was doing. And so I made him his money back, had had money, gave him his money, made some more money back the next day. And that's when I decided I'm done with this street stuff. I didn't know what I was going to do, but I just figured, you know, I need to get out of here. And then I went full fledged trying to sell the compilation album to get a production deal from a production company. And after the money ran out, all that died. So did you look at your options at that point? Because obviously you're going to the military, but did you sit there with like a pen and paper and be like, all right, record comedy failed, failed as fucking selling drugs and phones and everything else? What can I do with this point? Nothing like they were like in a part big part of it was my pride. Like, I didn't want to go to college because to me, that was beneath me. I guess again, the way my brain had been conditioned that was beneath me. I didn't want to get a regular job because to me, that was beneath me. And so that happened in December of 2001. And then in June of 2002, it was again, it's all my book. That's when I was like, I felt the car. I believe it was God. I felt God say, you know, you need to get out of here in the military is your path out of here. And I knew it wasn't me because I hated the police. I mean, again, it was the way I was conditioned. I hated the police. I associated anybody in the uniform as a police officer. I hated authority. I hated uniform. I just hated all of those things. I was anti-America, and which is crazy because I came from a country, Nigeria, which essentially killed your father and killed my father and took everything from me. And, you know, I'm in this land and I had a great disdain for America. And so when I, that idea popped in my mind, I battled with it for, you know, for some, for about an hour or so, and I was just like, I'm not doing the military. I'm not doing that. I'm not like, absolutely no way, no way. And then finally, I just felt like this, we'll say, look around your room. I looked around my room and like, look at what your life has amounted to. Absolutely nothing. And that's when I said, all right, like, let's see what'll happen. You know what I mean? I said, all right. Well, you're going to send me to war, you know? Yeah, I'll see what that happened. What did your mom say? I didn't tell my mom until, like, the day I was leaving. Oh boy. Because, yeah, I'll get to that part of the story because I knew she would be like, absolutely not. She would be like, absolutely not. But I went to the Navy Recruiter's office. I went to the Marine Corps Recruiter's office first. There was nobody in that office sat there for like 15 minutes, got up, left, went to the Army office. It was, I said, hey, it was a Marine Corps Recruiter. And I don't see him in there. Like, what's the deal then? The guy kind of scoffed at me. So I was like, yeah, whatever. There's a sale on crayons at CBS down the road and they were just down there feasting. Yeah, probably. And so I went to the Navy Recruiter's office and I got there. And this is an awesome, beautiful Navy Recruiter, Tiana Nadine Reyes. And in my mind, I'm just like, I don't know when I'm going to join the Navy, but I'm going to get me a new girlfriend. And she saw right through me. And she said, hey, what do you want to do? And I had watched the rock. And I was like-- The wrestler, the actor. No, the movie. Yeah, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was my first exposure to Navy Seals. Was the movie the rock? It wasn't Charlie Sheen, then. No, no, no. I watched that later after I joined the Navy. Usually everybody says the Charlie Sheen movie. It was the rock. It was the first one. That was the first time I heard of its Navy Seals, man. Oh, shit, man. Okay. And so I told her I want to be a Navy Seals. She was like, yeah, whatever. So she went and had me do the practice as we have tests. I took the test, passed it high, just like barely high enough to get into the Navy, but not high enough to not high enough to get in the buds. And then she ran my background, found out I had two warrants out for my arrest. I had a war in New York, a war in New Jersey, got a brand towards the door. As soon as I got there, she yelled at me and stopped me, asked me where I was going. I said, I'm getting out of here. And she said, why? I said, because I'm not trying to go to jail today. And she said, ask me, do I have a suit? And I said, no, she asked me if I had a collard shirt and some nice pants. And I said, I'm sure I could find something. So she said, come back tomorrow. I said, for what? And she snapped at me and said, just come back tomorrow. And growing up in the Bronx, I learned how to-- We have to learn how to read people, especially when you're doing the stuff that I was doing, selling drugs and running cell phone scams, like it can mean the difference between prison or freedom, life, and death. And so I had to learn how to read people and what I had to learn from her, her demeanor, and her tone was-- Whatever it was that she was going to do for me, it was going to be good. I didn't know exactly what it was. And I came back the next day, and she had on her dress uniform. She had on the dress uniform, and she put me in her government car, had on my collard shirt and pants. And she drove me to the judge in New Jersey. Drove me to the judge in New York, essentially stood before them, advocate on my behalf, said, hey, 9/11 had just happened nine months earlier. This kid's trying to join the military after the act of war. He's made me some mistakes, but he still has potential. I can't put him in the military with, you know, with warrants. And both judges cleared my warrants. And I just had to pay court fees and court fines. And then she went a step further, punched the paperwork, which I had to fill out all this paperwork about being charged, and warrants, all this stuff, fudged all that stuff. And she stuck me into the Navy. And that was how I got into the Navy. And if it wasn't for that, if the Marine Corps recruiter showed up, I probably would not be sitting in this chair right now. Because I get messages all the time from young men and women who say, hey, I made this mistake when I was 15 or 16, and I can't join the military now. And I've talked to every recruiter, any advice you have for me. I said, you've got to just meet the right recruiter who was willing to take a risk on you. And she died two years after doing that. No way. Yeah. You could pull her up, pull her up on the thing, Tiana Nadine Reyes, but she died of an autoimmune disease. And there's a lot craziness to the story, but I ended up meeting her brother. I was, this is way after I got out of the military, but I was flying to Atlanta, Georgia, in order to advocate on behalf of this kid who was about to get sentenced to prison. And I was trying to get him sent to like a horse camp where he could tame horses instead of go to prison. And long story short, I had randomly met her brother like when I landed in Atlanta, Georgia, and I shared my story with him. And what Tiana did for me, he was like, dude, that's what she would do. She would drive around the Bronx. And she would look for guys who she grew up with. And she would just say, hey, listen, there's nothing out here in these streets. Come with me. Let's go on to the military. She did it for him when he got some misdemeanors. And so that changed my life, man. Big time. Remy, you've been on the show before. You know, we got some sponsors that put this shit wagon on the air. First and foremost, firstform.com forward slash drinking, bros. Dude, I snuck in these micro factors under the wire today, Anthony popped him. What? 15 seconds before we went on there. I almost forgot to take my vitamins. Well, we got a haul in today. We sure did, dude. We got the essentials in here. You got the antioxidants, the coke utens, multivitamins, fruits and veggies, efas and the probiotics, 30 pouches in a box, pop open the pouch, and you're good to go for the rest of the day, but they're not just a micro factor company, Anthony. They were built on protein, which you take on a daily basis. I mean, they've got a lot of protein products. 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Well, not division, but like you have to go to this like training thing where if you fail the swim call and you have to do remediation and every morning, it's like pretty much all majority of people in every meeting because you can't graduate boot camp until you can pass this basic little like swim thing where you get from one end of the pool. That's pretty fun. But I don't know what it is. I think, you know, resource is probably like in a Bronx, there's no there's no there's a public pool. The public pool's got glass in the office. It's fucked up. I wouldn't get that thing. Yeah. I mean, there's no real there's there's no real I mean, at least from what I can remember growing up, there's fire hydrants. You bust open the fire. You bust a hydrant. You're one of those big golf cups and you fucking put it over the end and squeeze it. So it fucking flattens the water out and you screw it with it. Yeah. I remember having that. But as far as um as far as you know, having like a pool to be able to go to an enable hood and learn and swim, those resources aren't available in a lot of instances. I think that's a part of it as well. But a lot of buzz is in the water. Yeah. So how did you overcome it that quickly, um, enable to do it? Because I think in your book, it was correct me if I'm wrong. 29 of you guys made it? 29 out of 270. Yes. So how did you learn how to swim that quickly? I just I just wanted it, man. I mean, I I stopped making excuses. I came up with a plan and I just I just I had a deep root of emotional reason why my deep root emotional reason why is I had failed so much in life. I failed as a son. I failed. I failed in music industry. I failed in industry. I just failed. I didn't I was tired of failing. And I just knew that I needed to do everything I had to give it my all. And so I was just consistent and I punished myself when regardless of whether it was freezing cold outside, regardless of whether, you know, I was sick. I went to the pool and I and I created I created a chart. I created a chart and every every week I wanted my swim time had to I had to get better by at least one second. And I just drove myself. I was self motivated. And that's kind of how it all happened. And what was the response from your mom once you had made it through buzz and you were officially in the seal? Yeah, she was super proud. I mean, she came to my graduation and it was so funny because, you know, less than 1% of seals are African American, right? And so at our graduation, I was only African American in my class. And before they started, before the they gave the speech, you know, the seal who was up on a podium gave the speech and like, all right, we're going to start calling out everybody's name to get their certificate. Nobody chant. Nobody clap. Nobody do anything until everybody has, as you know, received their tridents. And then I might add like a AD, I'm first and what happens as soon as I as soon as they call my name, my mom goes freaking ballistic. Everybody's 10 turns. What is this policy? No, the good news is nobody knew that she was your mom, right? One black lady in the crowd, one black dude in the photo. Exactly. Everybody do this. Like, all right, we know whose mom that is. But yeah, she was proud, man. And I remember going back to your question before, like, how did she respond when I joined the Navy? She was just like, no, she was like, they're going to kill you. They're going to put you on the front lines. And you're going to die. And this is that. I was like, no, I'll be fine. And, and yeah, man. And when I graduated from the teams, she was like, into the teams, I should say, she was really excited about it, man. She was just like, really excited. It's the best of the best. It's an unbelievable achievements. And the scary part is, you don't know where you're going, what you're going to do after that, where you might get sent. Yeah, what was your wish list for teams? I would just say West Coast. Yeah, I want to West Coast. You know, I didn't want to go back to the East Coast. Yeah. I wanted to stay as far removed from from the East Coast as possible, just to protect myself and give myself a layer. So I stayed on the West Coast, man. Yeah, because of the influences, you want to fall back with the old people and all that other stuff. Yeah, I just wanted to, yeah. It's a quick train ride for Bob BHL to New York, man. Yeah. But he was like, you know, I left, I got out of that. And this was his new lease on life. And I wanted to stick with that new lease on life. I didn't want anything to influence this new chapter of my life. I just wrote as I was telling Dan offline that I just adapted chameleon into a TV series, which we talked about. You were getting, you were going to start working on this last year, but you did. Yeah. You didn't get to it until October. I didn't get to it until October. I mean, I started the outline and I just finished it this Saturday, the last episode. And there's a line in the episode because it's a lot of this book is influenced from my life. And flashback chapters, I had the kid go up in Nigeria. One thing, one line that I wrote is that I'm paraphrasing, so no writers out there still didn't put it in their movie, a TV show. But, you know, the night, a lot of Nigeria, the soil, you don't need fertilizer wickedness to grow. And, and when we leave this place, everything that leaves that everything stays, everything remains, nothing comes with us into this new chapter in life and I'm paraphrasing a lot, but that's a lot in the dialogue in the last episode. And that's kind of was my mantra, you know, unconsciously, subconsciously was everything that was remained. This is a new life for me. Yeah. And how is that going, by the way, as far as writing wise production and everything else? It's going good. We faced our challenges. I think before last year, I was here, we talked about the organ harvesting feature film and the short film that is based off of, we've gotten a lot, we got financing for the feature film, which is an extension of the organ harvesting short film, which is based on true events, we got financing for what we had a hard time doing is getting the type of actor that can carry the budget, because the budget is about $25 million. You know who I said last time you were on the show, right? I'm sorry? You know who I told you last time you were on the show? Who's that? Jonathan Majors. Yeah, he actually said that to me earlier. Oh, well, that's for chameleon. Yeah, yeah, for chameleon. This is a different project. Yeah, so, so, so, so that project. Yeah, I'd love Jonathan Majors for chameleon. Well, tell everybody what happened with that one, because Jonathan Majors is available right now. Yeah, yeah. I told you he'd get off. I was like, Hey, yeah, yeah. The tape was bullshit. Like it was all bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So talk about chameleon or other organ harvesting. Well, let's talk about the Jonathan Majors one first, because we talked about last time we were here and then we'll get to the new one. Yeah. So for chameleon, man, yeah, I'd love for him to play the lead role in it. I think it would be great for him. It's a, it's a, it's a, in my opinion, it's an actor's dream, because here you're, yeah, I mean, the title of the book is chameleon. It's like, the spy has to become is literally a company. He has to become a different character, depending on the situation. And so I think he would be freaking phenomenal for it, man. So if you listen to Jonathan, I got some work for you, brother. Yeah. Yeah, we'll put it. Let's put out good shit into the universe. Jack, Jack, he's buddies with Jack Carr. Jack Carr's got, in my opinion, the best series that Amazon's ever produced. Yep. And they're coming out with the, the spin off. Yep. And then season two of tournament list will be next year. Right. You were in terminal list. Yeah, I was in terminal list. And, and Jonathan Majors just got pushed out of Marvel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He needs a vehicle to lead. So a nice little seven year series would be nice. Well, yeah, fucking awesome. And he's a fantastic actor. Just to get hooked up with Antoine or whatever would be super nice. As far as, as far as action goes right now, is there anybody better in the game than that motherfucker? Like for real, I can't think of anybody better than him and action directing. He's a boy. He's great. And now the new project, where you at with that one? Yeah. So unexpected redemption. We've, as I meant, we got the financing for it, we've just been struggling with getting the type of actor they could carry. And you know, you're in the business, you know, like, you need a certain actor that can carry that type of budget. Yeah. Otherwise, the finances are not going to release the financing. Yeah. And so three to five mill is one thing. 25 is a whole different ball game. Yeah. Because you got to find a global superstar. I mean, that's a low international. Yeah. That's the low end of a, of a, of a studio film at that point, right? And we were, and I can't mention the studio, but we also have a studio on board. So we already have a studio that's already watched the short read the script said, Hey, we love this project. We love this package. Get, get an actor. And we will distribute this domestically. So we already got a big studio behind the film as well. What we just found an issue with is the agents getting the agents to take me seriously. Because from their perspective, he's like, hi, he's a first time feature director. Right. And so that's been the struggle. And we've gone to agents with cash, like, Hey, dude, like, here's the money, like, for this actor. Yeah. This ain't no deal where we're trying to get your actor and then we'll go get the money. And we've just had a hard time. So what we've pivoted to is this small little indie film, three million dollar indie film up talking about that we're going to shoot in Boston, either end of September, beginning of October. We have the financing for that. We're casting. We already cast. I can't mention actor's name, but a big actor for one of the roles. And that actor's actually an actor that we're putting, that's going to be an unexpected redemption. And then once we get through that post-production, we get through post-production and that, then we can, and we get out and do this, the festival, then we'll be able to revisit some of these big actors, because then the agents will be like, all right, I'll trust this guy with my actor. For an action movie, 25 Mills is a good budget, man. I hope you get some shit done with that. Oh, yeah, yeah. And we're going to, we're looking to shoot in Italy. And we're also looking to shoot in, in, uh, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. So we get a good tax. Dominican, like you, you saved a lot of money down there. Yeah. Yeah. And my wife and I, uh, host another show, uh, Ross Patrick from Evolution. We just talked about this very similar situation with a movie that's out in the box office right now, uh, called It Ends With Us. Yeah. And first time, you know, feature director wanted a budget. Yeah. I mean, almost the identical budget you're looking for. Yeah. Yeah. They had it to get a global superstar. It was like Lively. Lively. Yeah. It was about 10 years older than the, the lead character in the book, but whatever, the movie opened up at 50.4 million dollars over the weekend. Wow. That's big. That's why it's so important. Cause the other guy, Bob, who's the other guy? I still don't remember his name. Jason Baldoni. That's it. What was a budget on that? What was a budget? Uh, 30, I think on that movie. What's the name of it? And then it opened up at 50. Um, that's called It Ends With Us. 25 million was the budget. Oh, so close. I didn't even see the fucking movie. And that's how good I am, Bob. God bless me. You know, a little pat on the back there, but it was based on a book. Yeah. Book was huge. And, uh, but you still need that name. Yeah. Yeah. He's the lead opposite. He's also the director. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same with you. Yeah. So it's like, all right. Cool, man. Who's that name going to be? Yep. And what I'm shocked at and because we were talking about another projects before, uh, when Dan was doing, what were you doing? Newsmax, news nation, uh, newsmax with Carl. Yeah. Higby. Higby. Yeah. We'll post that. We'll post that interview later. The former seal. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Everybody's a fucking seal with a TV show. I'm sitting back. Everybody was a seal with a fucking TV show. It's so funny. I'm sitting back there with Remy. We're waiting for you to finish. And Remy goes, Oh shit. I think that's a fucking trident on his. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he'd called it out from way back there. And I was like, dude, how does your spot back fucking two miles out? Yeah. But it was impressive. But, uh, but we were talking about it back there where it just takes that one name. They want the money and everything else. And then once it comes out and does well. Yep. And nobody gives a shit. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So it's a game, you know, it's the Hollywood game. And so I'm playing it, man, but it'll be all right. We're going to get this done. We'll get this first one done. We'll get unexpected redemption done. And then my book trans film got picked up to be a feature film. Um, I walked ended up, the long story ended up walking away from that deal. They were all from me tons of money, but they didn't want to give me the opportunity to direct it. So you walked away from it. I walked away from it. No shit. Yeah. They gave me the option. They said the studio said, Hey, either a you sign this contract and forget about directing it. Yeah. Um, or we will allow you to pitch to the studio heads for you to direct it. But, uh, I could tell you right now the executive VP said I could tell you right now the studio heads are going to say no unless you have at least one or two features on the about. And he said, or be you can go direct a project or two, come back and then do your director's pitch. So I got that and the wings as well. My train to transform. Yeah. And I was talking to him. I was talking to my wife about that too. Earlier, because I was like, man, look up this fucking movie. What's the story with this, this ends with us? The guy had optioned the book on his own. This no name, dude. Yeah. Kept it for five years, kept fighting the same way you are. And he was like, I'm directing it on the star and I'm gonna do all this shit. And they were like, uh huh, huh, huh. And then finally they got, they got like lively boom goes into production and blows up. Yep. And the movie's about like domestic violence for Christ. Yeah. Yeah. And here's a crazy thing. It's like a lot of people think it's not studios at green light films. Like it's agents that green light films because agents know if this after signs on every studio is going to do the movie. So a lot of people think it's the studios that make movie. It's not studios that give the green light. It's actually the agencies. And so that's what it says. And there's a lot of politics within the agencies and who they want to let work with who is interesting. It's not interesting. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. Yes. You'll just chase projects for years and sometimes going in circles, sometimes it gets made and all that other stuff. Uh, in the meantime, what are you doing now? Obviously, uh, last time you're here, we talked about The Fox Show with Rudy Reyes. We all loved your natural on camera. One of the best there is. I think so. Um, has anybody else approached you about doing another one of those shows? Yeah. I mean, I, I, I, I walked away from this Fox show. It just, it was a lot too. And I want to get on, you know, talk about it on camera, but I ended up walking away from that. I did like a show with Peyton Manning, um, called Beyond the Battlefield that came out last year. So I did that since then. And then I got a project that I'm actually out here shooting and I can't talk about yet. Um, but it's going to be announced, uh, in the next few weeks or so, but it's, it's a, it's a pretty cool big project. That's awesome. Because the Manning brothers are getting into producing TV shows and movies and all that stuff. Uh, they're doing one in Atlanta, I think with Glenn Powell pretty soon. Yeah. A football one. The football one. Yeah. Yeah. Happen to know somebody in that. Can't say that either, but they're, they start shooting, I think it's three days actually. Uh, which is cool. But if you get in with those guys, yeah, it's great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're good people there. Because we're all looking for great films and great TV shows again. They're just very, very slow to make it. Yeah. And early part of the year was a bad year for the box office. And now it's ramped up. Yeah. Um, Deadpool and inside out and, uh, like, live as a movie as well. That's like, Oh, yeah, let's make movies again. That's not everybody, though. Cause Lionsgate just had a big stinker with, um, with that, uh, video game movie that just came out, uh, this past weekend. What was it? Uh, I didn't see that. I didn't see it. I made $8.8 million and $150 million. Well, you got one and Wolverine here. That's, that's tough. It was with Kevin Hart and, uh, I mean, it was a loaded cat. Oh shit. I know that one. My kid wanted to see that one. Yeah. But it looked awful. Yeah. I think Kate Blanchett was in it too. Yeah. Oh, it's a video game. Porterlands. It was just a fucking guardians rip off. That's what it looks like. It looked just like someone did a different guardians. It's a, it's a video game. I know it is, but that's what it looked like. If you're not, if you're not a video game player, which I'm not really, I know the big ones. Like I've heard the last of us and, and that shit, but like, yeah, Orleans, that's, I don't know that. So I just thought like, oh, someone ripped off guardians of Galaxy. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, are you all locked in Hollywood? Did you follow what's going on on a daily basis? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I follow. Yeah. I'm, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm always dialed into what's going on day to day events, you know what I mean? Especially being a husband and a father and, you know, and, and wanting a good future for my kids in America, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, I'm all dialed in because there was an event that happened today that I wanted to bring up the video and ask you about if you don't mind Bob, if you can go to Twitter and just type in the Taliban. So the Taliban had a parade. So what a very parade with our own shit that we left there. Yeah. Pop up this video in case you haven't seen it. I saw that today with the helicopter flying over. So what, what are these? So the M wraps. Yeah. I think those are RG 33s or 31s. It's an M wrap. It's like a giant fucking try. I think it's actually on like an F 450 or 350 chassis or some shit like that. It's an anti, uh, mine type vehicle and those. Yeah, those are not America. Those are Russian. Those are those are those are my behind you. Yeah, man. That's chameleon. If you guys read the chameleon book, yes, I have a whole parade in, in, in the chameleon book and in the TV series, there's a whole parade at Taliban doing this is acting. So when I saw this this morning, I saved in the center to my sister and I was like, dude, I have an actual scene of a parade. Now you don't have to do a storyboard for you to show them this shit. They did it for you. Send the Taliban a fruit basket or something. Because production wise, this would have cost you eight billion dollars. Now you don't have to do it. Yeah, exactly. You can just show this stock footage or this. Are those choppers 40 years old? Uh, they're more than 40. I would say that's from the Russia. My 17 high. I think is from the 1960s, I think. Yeah. Hold on. Let me look it up. Yeah, it's not shit, dude. As a matter of fact, I heard recently that most of like the illegal arms trade that's going on is going on from Afghanistan to other countries. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. 1975 is when these things came out. So are they selling our own shit to other countries? 100%. What are these? Are these Russian too in the background? Those are BMPs. Those Americans. Yeah, that's American. I think the Marines still use those. Yeah. They're those BMPs like BMPs, 25 or some shit like that. Yeah, I'm talking about vehicles. No, no. I'm talking about these choppers in the background. Oh, I can't. We definitely didn't leave any usable Apaches. I don't think. That didn't look like an Apache. That looked like a Russian type of Russian equivalent to the Apache. I can't see this too small. Serious question here. This is for both you guys because as a civilian, I don't know this shit. How do they even know how to drive and operate these vehicles and all this equipment and guns and shit? I mean, there's not even keys for these things. It's just a diesel. So it's a glow plug, right? So you just like turn a switch on, wait for the light turn red, and then you start it. But they have, and again, there's a dumb question you guys have been over there. They have gas stations readily available for this type of equipment. Well, well, Afghanistan has oil. A lot of people don't notice Afghanistan has oil. And heroin. They're the number one producer of heroin. I did not know that. Yeah. Yeah. That's like we were paying, well, for a while, you can speak to this probably more than that because I never went to Afghanistan. But for a while, we shut down their heroin production, burning poppy fields and all kinds of other shit. For some reason, the fucking DEA was in Afghanistan burning poppy fields. And then all of a sudden we're like, oh, we need these people to actually fight the fucking Taliban and al Qaeda. Here's all your drugs back or whatever. I mean, it's just like, we're a dumb as fuck. That looks like a Ka 50 to me. That's a Russian equivalent to a pop that pick up one more time up. So this is it looks like they're only flying Russian. Yeah, that's a K a 50. But yeah, I also heard that the Chinese have been going out and you hear that too? The Chinese or training these dicks are getting the speed on the equipment and stuff like that. Yeah. And that's what happened. And with brought that they did that to Russia or Russia left a bunch of equipment. I think they destroyed most of it, but they left a bunch of equipment in Vietnam back in the day. And I think we actually taught them how to use it, oddly enough, which is funny because then we had to go back and teach them I'm not Vietnam, I'm in Afghanistan. I think they I think we taught them it was you've seen like Charlie Wilson's war. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we couldn't have possibly fucked that up anymore than we did. But as you're watching this today and you guys, you know, both served and fought overseas, like, what are your thoughts when you see this? It's kind of shocking. It's tomorrow. I mean, to think about all the guys who like law gave their lives, you know what I mean? I'm angry here as a taxpayer, though, then even even a fucking gunfighter like that, this is billions of dollars with the shit. Oh, yeah, yeah, for no fucking reason. Yeah, and and did you hear about the mess up that was just the must have the financial mishap that was just $250 million accidentally sent to the Taliban? And then I'm sure you do I ever watch Sean Ryan show? I haven't watched it. He had a lady on from the agency not too long ago and a couple other people that corroborated as well. We're given the Taliban something like somewhere between 50 and $85 million a week. That's nuts, bro. Like what what cost that much in Afghanistan? It's all rocks up there. Like there's nothing there. It's not like they're sweet clothes. You're not getting to see Caveriches for everybody. Funnelling money. That's all it is. That's absolutely all it is. Yeah. Not only gave us five bucks and he says Ross, I'm currently sitting in the stand at the Creed concert. Come on now. I want to thank you for talking them back on to work. Well, you're welcome dude. Spucking into existence. I was going back to the new guy there, obviously. Yeah. And then Dixie says 50 bucks for all the drinker bros the show must go on. I don't know what that's in reference to it. Did somebody try to shut us down again? Probably. Probably. We've been doing some wild shit over here and not that we really care. You know what? I'm actually impressed in a lot of ways though by the Taliban. One and their ability to build money from us but two and their skating ability. Oh, Bob, can you find that video? Do you have the skating video? Have you seen this before? Oh, man, this is going to be a nice treat for you. It really will be. I've seen this video and I don't watch much. I swear to God, it's I've seen this one. It's Taliban soldiers, if you want to call him that on fucking roller blades. Oh, roll the blades. Yes, sir. Right? Doing doing fucking. Oh, look at this shit. I swear to God. How recent is this? This is from like last year. I think. Wow. Yeah. This is what you call urban cat. Yeah. Look at that, dude. That's a stable fire. No one slipped with their finger on the trigger. No. No. Everybody's dead. That's not even the good one. The good one is the guy like Michael J. Foxing it through the city. Hanging on to the back. There we go. Look at this. Look at this shit. They're on patrol, man. That's crazy. How funny. Would you if if they ask you to do this, what would you say? Like, fuck. No, I'm not. You were like, yo, dude, I'm black. I already learned how to swim. I know I got to fucking learn how to roller. I'll never be able to go back to the bros. I keep getting on roller blades, dude. Holy shit. People even do that in the States anymore. Roller blade. Gay dudes, I think is it like down at Venice Beach thing? You got to see people roll blades at Venice Beach. Hang on. I've never been up on this. My kid went to a roller skating party, birthday party a couple of months ago, and you were the option of the old school. Those four orange wheels or blades. And I was like, no, dude. Here's my question about this. What happens when the guy their chasing just walks up? I don't know fucking stairs. That's it. Or the chase is over. Oh, you still a stick or just a broom handle. It's like a fucking expector gadget. He's dropping marbles out of the car and shit. It's just our firing up upstairs. This isn't even the dumbest thing. I mean, the dumbest thing is that still that ISIS training video where they're doing barrel rolls and shit all over the place. Completely necessary. All of it was completely necessary. Like somebody was asking me in the chat about the bandana here around my wrist. It's because so goddamn hot in Texas. Yeah. If you notice, the beginning of the show was like dabbing myself. That's why I'm going out to on a date with my wife later. And I'm like, Hey, I got to tie this around. She's like, I get it, dude. It's a hundred fucking nine degrees here. And I was like, because I don't know what's going to happen. Here's that ISIS training video. Yeah, pop this up here, Bob. If you can, hopefully see an animal dingus. Do you remember that part in buzz where they were kicking you, breech kicking you in the chest? Yeah. The fuck look at this, dude. What is he dragging behind him? What is that? Is it a chain? How recent is this? They're broken from years ago, right? This is not, it's not that long ago. It's when ISIS was still in an Iraq, so like 2017. Look at these front kicks by this guy. Oh, they're showing some beautiful, dude. Beautiful on that guy. That's me. Look at it. I mean, are they even holding the weapons right in those videos? I mean, they're holding them right if you watched 80s action movies, which is where they learn how to fucking shoot. Like we tried to teach them how to shoot and they would not pay attention. So we just stopped. There's no wrong way to hold a gun, all right? That's just not accurate at all, Bob. And then these little videos they're showing here with the fake AI and all that stuff, you're like, how are we losing? How are we losing to this? Because we don't have enough jungle gems. Yeah, we're not fucking doing whatever that monkey bar is. We're not doing enough monkey bars. Well, that was the Al Qaeda training video. That's like 2004. Bob's on it. Look at this one. Yeah. Monkey bars. That's the real way. He's training for the fucking Olympics. You couldn't do any of this. We do have the old cores and buds, which isn't kicking the nuts. Yeah. I mean, it's a much bigger kick than nuts than this. That's like 36 inch high concertina wire should be like 18 inches. Yeah. That's wild to watch, dude. Goddamn it. It's really funny. Shit. And this is why it makes me angrier as a taxpayer than a veteran, because we spent 20 years fighting those people to exchange them for themselves. 20 years, $5 trillion. Nothing. Nothing ever happened. Not one thing changed, not one thing. But we're doing the same thing now. We're giving freaking all these migrants all at this moment. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I just text my mom. She was like, I asked her what her social security was. And because I saw a report that what they had getting, the migrants are getting in New York City. And it's like, well, my mom's getting as a fraction of social security. What? Oh, sorry. Yeah. My mom is getting as a fraction of social security. So what these guys that migrants are getting in New York City. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's why I finally Eric Adams is like, hey, we should knock this shit off. Like, dude, you're the mayor. Stop telling us what we need to do and do something, you son of a bitch. You know what's weird though, man, is like, people are starting to talk about it. We put these trucks for work. You get a $25,000 tax right off for a truck over £6,000 or whatever. I had to get a bed cover put in on the back of it. Yeah. And I had to go down to our old studio on Old Torf. There's a Mexican dude across the street from us around this body shop. Yeah. And he would do it for a hundred bucks. Yeah. So I go down there. He's Honduran, by the way. Is he? Yeah. Well, I think he is because they have a Honduran food truck out front. It has a Honduran flag on it. That's all I know. No, I could be Mexican. I'm not a big flathead food truck. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah. So anyways, I go in and homies iced out like Paul Wall. Yeah. Grill, everything. But it was, you know, gold. And he was like, Oh, shit. And he's like, man, I'm doing it, dude. I'm doing the American dream. Yeah. And I had to wait for like 15 minutes while they were finishing up. And he sits down next to me and he goes, he goes, Hey, man, I still listen to the show. Even though you guys move because we were building this when we were in that other place. And I was like, Oh, that's cool. And he goes, your partner is right, by the way, because you're your host on the show. He goes, he's right. And I was like, what do you mean, he's right? And he goes, he goes, we're gonna fucking outnumber you and take over this country. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, what? Yeah. And he goes, yeah, man, he goes, because I work with a lot of white people. It goes very smart, but none of them want to have kids. We come in here, he goes, if this next administration, let's all these illegals in. And he goes, it's going to be a fucking domination. I'll never be able to recover. No, I don't give a shit what I don't care if they're white or not. Me neither. And be American. Yeah. That's it. And I'll give a fuck. And by the way, that was his concern too. He goes, because I was like, Hey, so are you rooting for against? And he goes, financially, I want Trump to win. And he goes, I'm rolling on Trump. Financially, shit was great. Yeah. And he goes, you look around the shop, there's nobody here now. And I go, no, there's, I'm the only one in here right now. And he goes, it's not great. And he goes, he goes, also, I'm proud to be here. Yes. I'm proud to be an American. And he goes, I'm proud that, you know, I was raising my kids here and everything else. And it's awesome, but he goes, if they let in another, you know, nine million people, 10 million people, or whatever, it's going to be a wrap. Yeah. Well, I mean, we're already in a bad spot with, with all the unaccounted bad dudes, they cross the border. You know what I mean? And, you know, it's just a matter of time. Trendy a ragua, right? The Venezuelan gang. This is, this is, it's, we're, we're so dumb. People are so like the American public is so stupid. Whoa, it's media though, media media. I hope it's the media. I think it's gullible. I think it's gullible. I will find it. I think it's gullible. It's people are so gullible. And they're too trusting of the media. But I think that I think that's going to change. You would think so after all the lies recently that are demonstrably untrue. But there's this. So when Trump took office in, in 2017, when he, even when he was on the campaign at 16, one of the things he said was, they're sending rapists and murderers over here. And people are like, that's racist. Like, why is it racist? Are we are like rape, rapist and murder and neither one of those are fucking races or ethnicities, right? So here, here's the facts as they are on the ground now. At least, well, 70 Trendy a ragua, which is the biggest prison gang in Venezuela, members have been detained at the board of the United States. Who knows how many have actually got made it, right? We do know they have multiple cells throughout the country operating in the open, the FBI is tracking on now, right? In New York, in New York, in Chicago, all over the, in Detroit, they're all over the fucking place. And then if you, you can look this shit up on Google or Bing or whatever you use, if you search for Venezuela, crime, going down, or crime death, it's there at 22 year lows now, for crime. It's like, okay, so they're like, well, we can't actually prove that they're emptying their jails into our country. It's like, okay, all of these people from known gangs are coming into the country, right? Estimates of the active members in the US right now are somewhere around a thousand or more. They're coming into our country, and then the country they came from, crime is down. It's like, all right, cool, man. Maybe I can't prove that's exactly why, but I'm not a fucking retard. I understand how the world works for fuck's sake. That's clearly what's happening. It was never, nothing you ever said about that was racist in any way. He's just pointing it out. And he even said, I'd do the same thing if I was down there. If I'm trying to get out of there to get me to a lot of men. Or just say, hey, man, I want the crime out of my country. You can go to another country. But the guy today said, he goes, watch out for El Salvador. El Salvador. So he goes, bro, he goes, that's the ones you don't want here. And it was, there's a Latino dude telling me this shit. And we've had MS 13 in California for a long time, but we're talking about the real like deep, deep, deep MS 13. It was like the roots of it. Those are some savages. I mean, they're all fuck. And that's been going on since the 90s with with MS 13, maybe, maybe a little bit in the 80s, but mostly 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and now, and we're talking about thousands of these motherfuckers here, thousands operating in parallel economies, terrorizing neighborhoods and shit like that. Like fuck those guys. It's got to be really bad to be an El Salvadoran person who actually came here to try to become an America to have a better life. And that same motherfucker from down the way that's caused you to problems your entire life is now living across the street from you causing you the same problems. How the fuck is that America? That's what he was worried about. That's what he was worried about today. We were just like, dude, I came here and started fucking business and successful, everything's awesome. And he goes, let's not fuck it up. It's a normal dude. And we were not in a great part of town down there. But and the crazy thing is too, it's like a lot of these inner cities across America, the ones that are getting dumped with these and crime is going up in these inner cities. That we're already bad to begin with. We're already bad. Now you're actually worse. And then all the resources, the financial resources being stripped from the communities to go to the migrants. To go to them? Scnuts. You can't fix the problem. Yeah, it's like hypocrisy, dude. Just like, it sucks, man, especially, you know, being a veteran dude. And you know, just, it's just like, come on, man, like, man up, dude, like, like, like, let's do the right thing. We got to shut down the border. We got to freak and get all these people out. Because at the end of the day, it's going to be them that's terrorizing our families, you know, causing fuck that, dude. I mean, like, it's it started to make its way to the hinterland. I had a conversation last week with the Montana attorney general. And it was like, we've always been a border state with Canada. And it's never been an issue, because we do quite a bit of trade. A lot of beef, a lot of oil comes through there, a lot of liquid natural gas as well. It's like, now we are a Latin American border state. And we're the north one of the most northern states in the in the US. But there's like, illegal immigrants from Latin American countries all over the fucking place in Montana. No shit. It's like, what the fuck is going on, man? And you know, I mean, I didn't know how I should really feel about it when Abbott and DeSantis and a couple other governors started sending illegals to the cities. Right. But it's it's paying dividends, honestly. Like it made the problem worse. To some degree. And it made it, it certainly made it worse for New Yorkers, right, especially New Yorkers, but it brought the problem to their front door. Yeah. But now you have the mayor of the city saying, Hey, right now, Manhattan or New York City law is that we're not allowed to take this illegal immigrant and give them to ICE. It's illegal for us to do that. And that's fucked up. He didn't have a news conference about it earlier today. He's like, I don't like this law is that's in place. So he's so he's saying that he wants to stop that law? Yeah, he knows that you don't want to be New York a sanctuary state at all. He doesn't want to be a sanctuary state or city. He wants to get rid of the law where they don't have a detainer, right? I do. I'm saying that's a wild shift from when he took office. Two years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, they're beating up people on the street. Like, like, and we should have seen this coming. It's been happening in Europe for 10 years. Yeah. Yeah, man. I mean, it's for 10 years, it's just been going down with with African and Middle Eastern migrants coming in and fucking them up. What do you think like gangs from Latin America are going to do the same thing that gangs from other countries do? Of course, they've got to fucking do that, man. Gangs are gangs, bro. Yeah. Can all be fucking Remy. Change your life, you know. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. I appreciate you being here. Now is the point in the show. We get to the drinking bro of the week, which is someone who has inspired you or helped you become the person you are today. Who would you like to give it to? I think last time you gave it to the woman who my mom. Yeah, did I give it to my mom? No, I think you gave it to the woman who got you into. Oh, to recruit my recruiting. Memory serves me correct, but it usually doesn't. Let's be honest. You can give it to everyone. Give it to fucking five people. Five people. Man, I would say my kids, man. You know, my kids drive me, dude. Like, they motivate me. I got four kids, Kate and Caleb Carter, Sienna, and they motivate me to be a better man, to work hard, to grind, to, you know, try to influence the masses for the positive so that we continue to have a great nation, you know what I mean? And so my kids are my everything, dude. So I would say that those are my drinking bros and little sis. Yeah, I don't know if that's cheesy, but that's not at all. And like to your mom out there, if she is watching, I hope she doesn't take offense to any of this because I think telling your story, yeah, changes a lot of people's lives. So like, if you don't tell the negative to get to the positive, then everybody thinks they're just going to grow up and it's all going to be amazing. It never is 100%. Never is in any facet of life unless you grow up in some crazy rich family. And even then you can end up like Hunter Biden or Violet Halflec or one of these other fun. We're just like, all right, cool. So for me, I enjoy hearing your story. I enjoyed reading your book and everything else. And after I read it, I was like, dude, next time he comes down, get him in the studio. I don't care what time it is. I'm asking about his life. So thank you for doing it. Thank you for being here. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. I appreciate you both always. Thank you for always supporting me and riding with me. Yeah, man. I appreciate your time. You're always welcome here anytime. So everybody where they can find you on social media. I'm on Remi at a late day. Good luck. Like fucking spelling it. This whole day on Instagram, Twitter, or you can just go to kajowear.com and get some of our gear there and find me there. But this is our organ harvesting, human trafficking, child, anti child trafficking shirt. So you go out and support us there as well. Awesome. Yeah. Awesome. We appreciate you guys tuning in. Sorry, we were a little bit late today. But it was worth it. It was worth it. Remi were fucking rocks. Go to iTunes, rate the show five star, and leave a quick review. Also, head on over to Spotify. It's just a five star and you can walk away. For Danth and Anthony Holloway, I'm Ross Patterson. This is the Drinking Bros podcast. Good night, everyone. [Music]
