Most Downloaded - When the Party Ends and Reality Hits - Jayden Sheridan (Part 2)

Across the last 19 seasons of the Clink, We have had some really raw conversations. This is one of most listened to episodes with Jayden Sheridan (Part 2).

Jayden Sheridan had a troubled childhood and a bleak future. He found salvation on a skateboard and is now inspiring others to keep their lives on track with Gnarly Neighbours.

Jayden shares a raw and honest account of his life through his troubled childhood, agressive youth, drugs and now, his road to redemption.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Approache production. And I just had no one to teach
me better around me, and no one to kind of
realize that and say, whoa, you know what I mean
and give me that the benefit of the doubt. I

(00:28):
was just chucked at the bin all the time and
so and that's I just yeah, as I said, I
didn't know any better. And there's one point I'll touch
it back on the boys. We bought a car. There
was this boat party. I was throwing them pools around
stuff like that. One thing led to another way at
a house party afterwards. One of the boys they they go, oh,

(00:52):
I've got this bloke. He's in Melbourne. He's got shaboo.
So shaboo is I think it's ice from Thailand, black ice,
and it's yeah, Well Philip started sort of Philippines and
around there. Boo was around before the ice and shaboo.
Shaboo was predominantly you know the crystal myth Yeah, and

(01:12):
people these that you don't hear about that, And man,
I'm seventeen, I'm driving up to Melbourne to go do this.
And people to this day, older heads like when I
told him, they said, no, you didn't, that did not happen.
And we go up to Melbourne, we get this stuff
and that just kick started. By that point, we're going
to the dude's house and then that connected. They got

(01:32):
in their house, they got drums of GHB and they're
just sat getting a couple of hundred like like a
leader and a couple hundred meal bottles just on the
side so we can have it on our personal And
we're in Dandenong, which is one of the roughest spots
in Victoria, and we're with this guy, right. My mate

(01:59):
shows me his phone, so he's got he's got this girlfriend,
she's sixteen. He's he's her pimp. He's pimping out. My
mate shows me his phone on this phone that said
something about the murder. This woman's been murdered, shot all right,
And he looks at me and he goes, that's her mum.

(02:21):
This guy had knocked off this sheler's mum because she
had something to say about him pimping out the door
and stuff like that. Wow, and this and this is
the people that the older heads that I would hang
out with. That's their connections, that's who they're hanging out with.

(02:41):
And this is I'm in this small town. I'm safe
as fuck. I've got people around me and stuff like that.
You take me out of here and I see that
side of it, and then from there I knew this right.
And he's riding around danding on on this motorbike. He's
got a sawn off hanging out his backpack with the
handle hanging out. I don't know this dude's name, never

(03:03):
knew his name, and he's just riding around recklessly. He's
and at one point he done something. He fucked us
over in some way, which I found out he was
fucking everyone over, and I went to fight him because
I was like, you think you're fucking big because you've
got a gun and bradah blah d rah, and I
obviously hadn't slept in a few days. And I'm sitting

(03:25):
there and my mates had dragged me back, like please
don't please, no, no, no no. Anyway, we end up
back at his house after it all, he apologized with
screwing us all over, and that was his way is
to come over. We're at this house and this old
guy he wanted a young he wanted a girl right
the sick fuck And the boys go, well, why don't

(03:48):
we go there? We roll him we take all his
shit because he can't go because he's a fucking pedophile.
He can't do anything about it. And I said, man,
I'm about to have a kid. I am not getting
involved in going to roll someone with this shit. I'll
stay right here. I'm standing right That was one of

(04:08):
the worst and best mistakes I've ever made when I
stayed there. This man was that wanted by that many people,
without nayman who we're from. I'm in this house and
this chick that was there beforehand, she was a prostitute.
She was there, she brought some shit off him, she leaves,
she comes back later, she's gone off her head. He's

(04:30):
just gave her cutters. She's telling me he's fucked. Tell
him I want him here now like he's not picking
up her call. So I'm a messenger. Otherwise, I'm bringing
my fucking cousins around here and we're just going to
run through and we're going to bash everyone. So and
this is one night, and this seems like a made
up store. You can't make this shit up. I'm there

(04:53):
and I'm like, no, don't do that. Whatever, I'll get
on to them old talent. All of a sudden, I'm
sitting there. I look up at the corner and it's
probably twenty minutes half now past, and there's like a
little hole in the curtain up top, and I look
and there's an eye man looking through this fucking curtain
at me, and I'm just like what. And then all

(05:16):
of a sudden, I've looked out the other window, so
that was to my left. I looked out to the
window to my right. I'm in the kitchen. There's three people.
There's a chick and two guys standing outside surrounded the
house with guns. And I'm just sitting there and my
eyes have lit up and I'm slowly there's a knife
block next to me, and I slowly fucking pulp fiction.

(05:41):
This is the start of it, man. So I've grabbed
this thing and I'm holding this and I'm like, I
don't I just like clock the window. I'm like, I
don't fucking know this kind and I kind of explained
myself but yelling at him like I've got nothing to
do with him. He's not fucking here, brah. And then
you see him just kind of talk to each other
a little bit and then they just fucked off. I'm

(06:02):
sitting there and straight away I'm I'm onto my mate.
I'm like, what the fuck. They're not answering. It's something's
obviously going down with them, right. So then I'm sitting
there and I'm like you, like, you're kidding, You're kidding.
I thought it was the prostitute's cousins, you know what
I mean. She just told me we're going to come back.
So anyway, knocking the door, this prostitute comes back and

(06:28):
I've got the knife at the door, and she's like, well,
what what the fuck's going on? I'm like, your cousin like, no,
I don't want any trouble. I told you. And I'm like,
well no, no, no, and she's like no, so can
you put the knife down? And it wasn't her. Someone
else had come around the house like looking for this guy,
and she she's coming and she she calls her mom.
Her mum rocks up. Her mum's also a prostitute. She

(06:49):
would have been sixty something like that. She was old man,
and she was saying, we need to get you out
of here now, like or you're not going to make
it through the night. You're fucked. I'm sicking to me. Yeah,
And the younger one left the old one stayed with me.
She's like, together, we're got to go. We're gonna go.
I'm trying to call these guys. Yeah, a car rocks up,

(07:10):
another one. All right, this people tortures this time two
different people. There was a chicken, a bloke, and I
thought it was a look like the cops, like they've
got torches who like they're coming through case in the place.
And then I said to him, I said, like open
the door. And I said, I used to fucking like
I used to coppers, Like what And I just had

(07:32):
that little chain on and no, no, we're here to
help him, here to help him, let us him. And
then the ladies like let him in, Let him in.
Don't know who they are, So I let him in.
They come in and this chick walks in the door.
She looks over and goes, that's my fucking TV. This
bloke had done this. These people over and I'm like,

(07:54):
you're kidding. I jump on the phone. They finally pick up.
I'm like, put this dude on the phone, and puts
him on and I'm like, there's people in the house.
You've stolen their fucking TV. And he goes go in
my room room and close the door. By the time
I go into the room, the chick's in there. She's
under the bed. She's pulled out a fucking samurai sword,

(08:14):
which was hers, all right, And she goes, is that
get off the phone right now? And I'm like, I'm
trying to act cool and mat man man like I'm
gotta go to go, And she goes, get off the
fucking phone now, takes it off like I hang up,
but done, And I said, I'm like, I don't know
this gun. I only punch some of him today. I've

(08:35):
got nothing to do with it. They're going to do
some sketchy shit. I didn't want to be a part of,
she said. She again reiterated what the old lady told me.
You need to get out of here now. This guy
has got that many people over them like that want
him dead, that you would not last in this house overnight.
So this this little junku lady, she took me to

(08:56):
her at another person's house where I think she was
living or whatever. I walk in there. There's some kids
my age, probably a bit younger. They're smoking in the
lounge and they're talking. They're like, I would use it.
I'll say, Jojo, just made up name, pulled out the air.
They said, Jojo will kill him if they find out
he's ear and the house stunk. Jojo is doing a

(09:19):
cook at the back in the back room in this
house that I've just got taken to to be safe.
I at this point, I sit there for a little
bit longer and I'm like, I'm getting out of here.
I left. I went Saturday a bus stop. I called
my old mate and I said, you need to come
get me. Drove up from Seymour, which is I think
two and a half hours, and he come pick me up.

(09:40):
I got in that car and I passed out. I
was just slept. That's who I was. That was my environment.
That was and my mate, daughter, brothers and stuff like that.
And that's when I came back. And that was a
good foot up the ass. That's that's not the life
I thought it was. That that was a recreation anymore,
that that was deep