May 7, 2025 • 21 mins
A pivotal moment has arrived for the Surviving Changes podcast as we transition into a new chapter. After circling the globe with faith as my compass, I've finally landed in Puerto Rico – but not without one last thrilling escape from Mexico that involved an epic cross-country Uber ride and some dangerously close encounters with cartel leadership.
Upon touchdown in San Juan, reality hit hard when my expired passport triggered alerts about outstanding warrants. Picture this: surrounded by customs officials, a service dog at my side, and my heart pounding as I contemplated whether I'd be detained or released. The strategic conversation that followed – gently reminding officials they might not want to get entangled in an upcoming RICO lawsuit – proved crucial to my freedom. Sometimes knowing when to stand your ground makes all the difference between captivity and liberty.
The emotional weight of Puerto Rico has been both healing and haunting. The beaches where friends lost their lives during hurricanes serve as constant reminders of nature's power. Finding the perfect home – close enough to enjoy the sunset views but safely elevated from tsunami threats – marks another milestone in this journey of survival and resilience. Meanwhile, legal battles have been fought and won from afar, demonstrating that sometimes the art of war means choosing your battlefield carefully rather than charging headlong into every fight.
As the podcast evolves, you'll find more structured content across platforms like Rumble, YouTube and TikTok under "I am Heidi Hunt." While some journey-related episodes will require a modest subscription (half the price of a coffee!), my commitment to sharing these stories remains unwavering. Join me as we transform these global adventures into meaningful conversations about survival, faith, and the courage to embrace change when everything around you demands it.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, hello there everybody.
I'm Heidi, and this is theSurviving Changes podcast.
Hey, take a look around.
We're making some changes, sowe're upgrading.
We've got a mic.
I think that we've got therooster taken care of.
For the most part, we'll see,and I can put up a screen behind
me and make it green screen,but it kind of looks silly, so
(00:24):
I'm going to leave it like thisand see how it goes.
Whoa, ah, there's that rooster.
We'll see.
Can you hear him?
We'll find out soon.
All right, so here we go.
We have come a long way together, haven't we?
We've come a really long waytogether.
(00:44):
We've literally gone around theglobe.
Just me, you, a Bible and abackpack.
For the most part, a whole lotof faith, a whole lot of faith,
right?
But so, okay, when we laststopped, we had just Ubered
across Mexico, literally thatfucking rooster's back.
(01:07):
All right, we're going to seehow that goes.
For this last one, we're stillin the informal mode, right?
And so, just so you know, allof these that talk about the
journey, that weren't reallyoriginally part of the podcast,
they're all going to get closedup.
(01:28):
As a matter of fact, all theother ones are closed up now and
you have to sub to get up.
That's one of the ways I'mgoing to help pay the lawsuit.
Also, this is going to be areal podcast, and so those kind
of got to be aside, right, andso any of the podcasts that I do
that are related to the lawsuitthe journey around the globe,
(01:51):
like we've been talking about itI'll leave it up for free for
one week and I think it's only$3 a month.
Like half of a coffee, half ofa coffee.
If you want to follow along,it'll be half a coffee.
Um, sorry, but I think that'sthe best way to go.
I don't want to start a wholenew podcast, um, just anyway.
(02:13):
So let's, let's get to it.
Let's get through this one.
Um, mexico we're saying goodbyeto Mexico and hello to Puerto
Rico.
Now, I'm sure I talked about it.
I don't go back and listen.
I've told you that before.
That's another thing that'llchange.
Fucking rooster, that's thenext thing that'll change.
(02:38):
I'll actually use scripts.
We'll talk seriously, we'll dosome serious stuff, but let's
get you to where I am now.
Alright, so you know kind ofhow that went.
So last we talked, I had justleft Mexico, came into Puerto
(02:58):
Rico.
I had Ubered, or paid an Uber,only spoke Spanish, couldn't
talk to him the whole way.
A friend I trusted it was theirfriend Ubered me from Cabo to
Cancun.
We Ubered all the way up to LaPaz, took the um.
(03:20):
I insulted one of the top cartelguys.
I talked about that a littlebit and we're going to talk
about it specifically in anupcoming podcast.
Because after living with acartel member and living in a
cartel town, there's a lot ofstuff that's not like their
secrets but things that youshould just know, things that
(03:44):
are interesting the way theycelebrate the religions If you
call them religions but theycall them religions Stuff like
that, different holidays thatthey celebrate and how they
celebrate differently than otherpeople, things like that.
Hopefully it doesn't get mekilled.
I'm not telling any of the bigsecrets.
(04:06):
That's in a future podcastanyway.
But I insulted the head guy.
I was not leaving and we had thegringo deal, but they were kind
of they're kind of taken careof.
They're certainly taken care ofnow, but at that point it
wasn't them I was worried about.
It was that Henkarts Hell guy.
(04:27):
I told him if he didn't do acertain thing I was going to
make an international problemand after I did that, I'm like,
oh you know how I could stopthat problem.
The way that he handles thingsis a lot different than
understanding things right.
So we just made it from Cancun,went all the way over in the
(04:50):
Uber to Cancun, flew from Cancuninto San Juan, and as soon as I
get into San Juan, that fuckingwarrant from Chris hits me.
Now I know that it's possiblethat it can, and my passport has
expired since I've been inMexico, but I'm coming into a US
territory and I didn't think itwas going to be a big deal.
(05:13):
It turns out it was a big dealbecause of how old and
antiquated Puerto Rico's systemis.
They needed something that hada valid expiration date, and the
only thing I had that had avalid expiration date was my
Mexican driver's license and myMexican residency card, and so I
(05:34):
didn't have any of that.
So I was already going to beflagged, probably, but that's
going to be a big deal if I gota warrant right.
Puerto Rico is part of thatwhole system.
I'm very, very aware of that,but this is my home.
I now have dealt with IRS.
I've dealt with a lot of stuffthat I know God's going to help
(05:58):
me figure out and deal with this.
However, the fuck we need todeal with it.
I did have a pretty big issuethough Now in Mexico um
pharmacies and get all kinds ofstuff, like all kinds of stuff
and when I lived there I may ormay not have got Xanax and stuff
like that Um, usually I hadsome on hand, but that's one of
(06:22):
those you really have to learnself-regulate.
And so if you have followed thepodcast, you remember with
Brandon how I started havingpanic attacks after his suicide.
So I'm familiar with that.
So I may have kept that on hand.
But the medications that Iwanted to keep.
Coming into a hurricane zoneafter watching friends who had
(06:44):
died um like literally horribledeaths had the hurricane took
them originally, that would havebeen one thing um, these guys
went through horrific, horrificstuff dying afterwards no power
in the heat, bugs everywhere,contaminated water, um poison,
ivy in the air that got in theirlungs.
(07:05):
I mean just really, reallyhorrific stuff.
And so I know I'm coming intothat and when I'm coming in it's
going to be hurricane seasonpretty quick.
I trust God and he's been veryclear to me he's not brought me
this far, to bring me home, tohave me in a hurricane.
But that doesn't mean I'm notgoing to be prepared.
(07:28):
I haven't made it around theglobe because I'm not prepared,
right.
And so I wanted to grab as manyantibiotics amoxicillins,
ivermectins, um, uh, fenben, um,you know all of those type
(07:53):
things that I could easily getthere, that I might not easily
get here but certainly mightneed, and so, um and plus, I had
a huge over the time.
I had a pharmacy at my house.
It's cheap.
There's no reason not to have apharmacy at your house.
So I had a lot of medicationsand when you come into Puerto
Rico it's an island they're very, very specific about what you
(08:13):
can bring on their island and soeverything goes through their
people.
It ended up probably being agood thing for me and having all
of that stuff, because I don'tknow if it was legal and I don't
know what wasn't legal.
I'll tell you right now.
All I know is I got them therelegally and I wasn't throwing
them away there.
If someone else threw them away, so be it.
(08:34):
But so now I'm in Puerto Ricoand they're like you have a
warrant for auto theft and bythis time, because I had skipped
, also bail jumped, so I'mlooking at a double felony
warrant that I know I'm innocentof and can, at this point,
fairly easily prove, so long asI'm in a court that is a real
(08:59):
court, that isn't a made-upcourt, that follows the rules
and does those type of thingsright.
But we're getting there.
We're getting there on that,we're getting there.
You're going to probably wantto sub because we are getting
there, but so, anyway, I gothrough their little stuff, talk
(09:22):
to everybody.
People are being super nice atthe airport.
Thank you for coming back.
How'd you get here?
Where'd you come from?
Thank you for coming back.
And then, all of a sudden,everybody leaves me, because I'm
now at customs and they'retelling me I got a warrant.
Cops are surrounding me.
I've got Pellucci and he's gothis service dog stuff that we
(09:45):
got in Mexico.
He did a good job on the plane,though, so it was fine, but
here I am walking through theairport with real service.
I mean, I paid the company, butit's a company that you go
online and get them certified,and so I don't know how great
that is either, but he's got allthe service stuff.
I've got my medication, we'vegot two warrants.
(10:08):
I don't know where I'm going tostay.
I have just paid a lot of mymoney to get here and once again
, we're relying on God.
Thank you, sir.
Once again, we're relying onGod.
But so when they put me over,set me aside, look into
everything, um, and thatobviously asked me about it, and
(10:31):
at that point, to tell themabout chris, um, tell them about
everything that happened, hurtsit actually have.
If you look, there's a lawsuitthat they have because they
weren't renewing.
There's a bunch of people thatgot felonies, um, renting from
these guys because they weren'trenewing.
There's a bunch of people thatgot felonies renting from these
guys because they weren'trenewing correctly and their
computer just automatically sentoff stuff, and so there was a
(10:51):
past action suit on that, and sothey were searching all of
these different things.
And then, finally, it was clearI needed to say something,
something more, and so Iexplained as politely as I could
that, um, that they're gonnaget themselves in the middle of
a fucking RICO lawsuit, um, justlike the IRS lady, just like,
(11:13):
just like, uh, and that theybetter be damn sure, if they're
gonna hold me, that they canhold me.
So they went, they talkedamongst themselves, made me and
Pellucci sit there, went throughmy stuff more, I don't know how
Didn't pull out any medication.
I don't think I didn't get introuble for any medication, so
(11:36):
if they did, I don't know aboutit talked and decided they
didn't want to be any part of alawsuit.
They didn't really care aboutCalifornia.
They weren't going to hold meuntil somebody from California
got me and they let me go, toldme that I did have those
warrants, that if I'm runningaround they weren't going to
look for me but someone elsemight pick me up and it's
(11:56):
probably a good thing to get ittaken care of.
I agreed and so I immediatelyfound an Airbnb.
Great, ended up renting fromhim, staying at the Airbnb for a
month, and then I came over tothe west side where I was before
.
But it just broke my heart.
Everywhere I looked I saw myfriends dying, or beaches where
(12:17):
they died it was.
I'm over here now, but it took ayear, literally a year of
preparing for that and healingand trying to honor.
You know do things like that.
But so, as I'm over there, I'mstill running the tour business.
I've got the tour business, sowe've got a little bit of income
(12:40):
coming in.
Now I do have to share it withmore people because I've got
more people on the ground doingthe work and so, fuck, it's been
tight.
It's been tight especiallytrying to get this stuff going.
I'm thankful God's good andwe're here and thank God for the
tour business.
But at work we got some otherstuff like the Backyard Gardener
(13:02):
app.
Please, that's an amazingfucking app.
Please check into it.
Make some money on it, growsome stuff.
Check it out, please.
Pretty please.
It's fucking cool.
Anyways, it really is.
But so I get settled, get kindof moved in back over there.
(13:26):
I call him back up and say, heylook, I changed my mind.
I can't live over there.
It hurts me.
Plus, it's on the west side.
It is a.
It's like the Wild West, but ajungle, especially if you're
alone.
You need to be very brave tolive on the west side of puerto
(13:47):
rico alone almost more bravethan living in cabo um alone, at
least before.
I don't know they're equal, butum, the peace here is wonderful
and so I love it.
But so, anyway, I stayed overthere for a year, got
established, um stayed at thatAirbnb but rented from him
(14:08):
monthly, and during that time Ihad to decide what I wanted to
do with these warrants.
Now the prosecutor thatprosecuted this, I know was
either part of the Fusion Centeror just was doing his job.
I wasn't quite sure.
Um, I know that he didn't likeme, but I was a criminal defense
(14:34):
lawyer.
There's a lot of them thatdidn't like me so I didn't know
if he didn't like me because itwas part of something or because
that was just his naturaldemeanor.
Anytime he got a formalcriminal defense lawyer as a
criminal, he enjoyed that shitright, and so that's why it
wasn't worth dealing with him atthe time.
Quite honestly, if I dealt withhim in that system at the time,
(14:55):
he was going to win everysingle time.
There was no chance, sometimesleaving and coming back and
choosing your time to fight.
Art of War.
Art of War got it right here.
Art of War in the Bible.
On this one, I wanted to pick mytime to fight, which meant I
(15:18):
had to go around the world withthese warrants, and that's a
chance, right.
But it was still a betterchance than staying there at the
time and dealing with that.
So I needed to decide if Iwanted to go back and reopen
that or if I wanted to callsomebody and see another lawyer
in town, somebody that works inthat area, which is generally
(15:41):
the smartest thing to do is getsomebody that works in that area
.
It doesn't matter your legal,your legal rights sometimes
aren't as important as thoseconnections sometimes, whether
they be good connection or badconnections, as long as those
connections, there's somethingthere to work with.
And so I decided to at leastcall around, check on some
(16:02):
people, see what I could do tonot have to go back there.
I did find a lawyer, lookingthrough reviews, ones that
worked very closely in thatcourt, obviously knew that
prosecutor, those judges that'sthe other thing.
Ask them specifics about theevents.
What's the judge like Not incourt?
(16:24):
What's that judge's hobby?
Is that judge a zag?
We had a lot of judges thatwere zags, right, and I could
get along really good with allthe zag judges.
Um, what do you know about thatjudge and that prosecutor?
Um, and do you have therelationship?
Relationship with the project?
Bad relationship?
(16:44):
What's your?
What kind of cases?
How many cases do you have withthat prosecutor?
So I talked to him.
Although I didn't love him verymuch, I was confident that he
was going to do okay for me if Ididn't go back there.
Also, um, I threatened him tonot take the money and defend me
, unless that's what he wasgonna do, because it was gonna
(17:06):
be a big problem.
He took the money, uh, and sohe went back and forth, right,
and I'm telling him from thebeginning look, it's the whole
thing's a fucking setup.
I'm not doing anything, Ididn't do anything wrong, uh,
and I'll come back for trial.
Doesn't matter to me as amatter of fact, it's good.
(17:26):
I want to start some discoveryand I don't want to spend the
money on it, and if I come backand continue this case, I can
probably get a lot of discoverydone on California's dying.
And so please let him know that, whether he knows it or not,
I'm LL, he is part of aconspiracy, he is going to be
caught up in a conspiracy and ifhe doesn't fucking let this go,
(17:48):
that's the way it's going to be.
I'm coming back there.
That's simple as shit.
There's no way this is doinganything.
We're going to trial andgetting a lot of evidence
admitted Fucking through me.
I talked to him a couple times.
I don't know if that guy waspart of the fusion center or not
.
Like I said, just didn't likeme, but he did not want to take
that chance.
He did not want to take thatchance.
He dismissed that shit outright.
(18:11):
Now I still did have the bailjump and that's a fucked up
charge.
And I know that's a fucked upcharge, and when I didn't show
up I knew this too.
So it doesn't matter if you getthe first charge dismissed.
The bail jump is a separatecharge and all they have to
prove is that there was a courtorder that said you were
supposed to be somewhere at acertain time and that you in
(18:32):
fact were not there at a certaintime.
That's it.
And so I know that's a goodfelony.
I know it's a good felony andthe only thing I have for
defense there is a fuckingthreat, um, and so he dismissed
the first one.
On the second one, heessentially did an Alfred plea
that get dismissed in a year.
Um, it's probably dismissed.
Now I don't know, I might haveto go back and do some stuff,
(18:53):
but so essentially it's not afelony anymore.
It's gone um after a year.
But so I did give him thatrather than go back and fight.
But the whole thing cost melike five, six grand to pay the
lawyer, deal with all thebullshit, um, in the process,
and so we're adding it to theirfucking bill.
We're adding it to their bill.
(19:14):
Um, if you guys are watching,um, no, it's costing you more,
it's a more expensive day foryou.
I was just leaving it that.
So, okay, um, and now we'rehere.
We're in puerto rico, we're onthe west side, we are, uh, just
(19:38):
a few miles from where paloocheewas born.
We get to go to the beach everyday.
It's a wonderful little house,far enough away from the beach
that I don't have to worry abouttsunamis and stuff.
I loved living on the beach,but after knowing that my
friends drowned there, I don'tknow if I'd ever sleep good
again being that close to thebeach.
(20:00):
So I'm not, that's nothappening.
But here I am, on a hill.
It's perfect.
No tsunamis getting me, canstill see the sunset, can get to
the beach and parked in lessthan 10 minutes About 6 or 7,
really.
And then it's a beautiful lifeDoing the Backyard Gardener app,
(20:21):
and, yeah, so that's where weare doing the backyard gardener
app.
And, uh, yeah, so that's wherewe are.
That's where we are.
That's where we are together.
Where we're going to go is I amgoing to do real podcasts.
Um, you're going to find me onrumble, I'll be able to.
It's at I am Heidi Hunt onrumble.
Um, and it's free there.
If you want it free and youdon't want to deal with the
(20:43):
subscription, you can get freevideo.
So don't complain about theaudio subscription.
That's the way I need to dothat.
If you want it free alsoYouTube, I'll put it up there at
Heidi Hunt or at I am HeidiHunt same handle.
And then I also grabbed onTikTok as a backup account at I
am Heidi Hunt, so I'll startposting these over there too.
(21:07):
We're going to do it this way,maybe one more time Hopefully
not, but maybe one more time andthen we're going to get a lot
to talk about.
We got a lot.
So anyway, thank you, I'm Heidi.
This is the Surviving ChangesPodcast.
Thank you for being here.
(21:27):
Thank you, I'm not stepping onany pooch.
Well, hello there everybody.
I'm Heidi, and this is theSurviving Changes podcast.
Hey, take a look around.
We're making some changes, sowe're upgrading.
We've got a mic.
I think that we've got therooster taken care of.
For the most part, we'll see,and I can put up a screen behind
me and make it green screen,but it kind of looks silly, so
(00:24):
I'm going to leave it like thisand see how it goes.
Whoa, ah, there's that rooster.
We'll see.
Can you hear him?
We'll find out soon.
All right, so here we go.
We have come a long way together, haven't we?
We've come a really long waytogether.
(00:44):
We've literally gone around theglobe.
Just me, you, a Bible and abackpack.
For the most part, a whole lotof faith, a whole lot of faith,
right?
But so, okay, when we laststopped, we had just Ubered
across Mexico, literally thatfucking rooster's back.
(01:07):
All right, we're going to seehow that goes.
For this last one, we're stillin the informal mode, right?
And so, just so you know, allof these that talk about the
journey, that weren't reallyoriginally part of the podcast,
they're all going to get closedup.
(01:28):
As a matter of fact, all theother ones are closed up now and
you have to sub to get up.
That's one of the ways I'mgoing to help pay the lawsuit.
Also, this is going to be areal podcast, and so those kind
of got to be aside, right, andso any of the podcasts that I do
that are related to the lawsuitthe journey around the globe,
(01:51):
like we've been talking about itI'll leave it up for free for
one week and I think it's only$3 a month.
Like half of a coffee, half ofa coffee.
If you want to follow along,it'll be half a coffee.
Um, sorry, but I think that'sthe best way to go.
I don't want to start a wholenew podcast, um, just anyway.
(02:13):
So let's, let's get to it.
Let's get through this one.
Um, mexico we're saying goodbyeto Mexico and hello to Puerto
Rico.
Now, I'm sure I talked about it.
I don't go back and listen.
I've told you that before.
That's another thing that'llchange.
Fucking rooster, that's thenext thing that'll change.
(02:38):
I'll actually use scripts.
We'll talk seriously, we'll dosome serious stuff, but let's
get you to where I am now.
Alright, so you know kind ofhow that went.
So last we talked, I had justleft Mexico, came into Puerto
(02:58):
Rico.
I had Ubered, or paid an Uber,only spoke Spanish, couldn't
talk to him the whole way.
A friend I trusted it was theirfriend Ubered me from Cabo to
Cancun.
We Ubered all the way up to LaPaz, took the um.
(03:20):
I insulted one of the top cartelguys.
I talked about that a littlebit and we're going to talk
about it specifically in anupcoming podcast.
Because after living with acartel member and living in a
cartel town, there's a lot ofstuff that's not like their
secrets but things that youshould just know, things that
(03:44):
are interesting the way theycelebrate the religions If you
call them religions but theycall them religions Stuff like
that, different holidays thatthey celebrate and how they
celebrate differently than otherpeople, things like that.
Hopefully it doesn't get mekilled.
I'm not telling any of the bigsecrets.
(04:06):
That's in a future podcastanyway.
But I insulted the head guy.
I was not leaving and we had thegringo deal, but they were kind
of they're kind of taken careof.
They're certainly taken care ofnow, but at that point it
wasn't them I was worried about.
It was that Henkarts Hell guy.
(04:27):
I told him if he didn't do acertain thing I was going to
make an international problemand after I did that, I'm like,
oh you know how I could stopthat problem.
The way that he handles thingsis a lot different than
understanding things right.
So we just made it from Cancun,went all the way over in the
(04:50):
Uber to Cancun, flew from Cancuninto San Juan, and as soon as I
get into San Juan, that fuckingwarrant from Chris hits me.
Now I know that it's possiblethat it can, and my passport has
expired since I've been inMexico, but I'm coming into a US
territory and I didn't think itwas going to be a big deal.
(05:13):
It turns out it was a big dealbecause of how old and
antiquated Puerto Rico's systemis.
They needed something that hada valid expiration date, and the
only thing I had that had avalid expiration date was my
Mexican driver's license and myMexican residency card, and so I
(05:34):
didn't have any of that.
So I was already going to beflagged, probably, but that's
going to be a big deal if I gota warrant right.
Puerto Rico is part of thatwhole system.
I'm very, very aware of that,but this is my home.
I now have dealt with IRS.
I've dealt with a lot of stuffthat I know God's going to help
(05:58):
me figure out and deal with this.
However, the fuck we need todeal with it.
I did have a pretty big issuethough Now in Mexico um
pharmacies and get all kinds ofstuff, like all kinds of stuff
and when I lived there I may ormay not have got Xanax and stuff
like that Um, usually I hadsome on hand, but that's one of
(06:22):
those you really have to learnself-regulate.
And so if you have followed thepodcast, you remember with
Brandon how I started havingpanic attacks after his suicide.
So I'm familiar with that.
So I may have kept that on hand.
But the medications that Iwanted to keep.
Coming into a hurricane zoneafter watching friends who had
(06:44):
died um like literally horribledeaths had the hurricane took
them originally, that would havebeen one thing um, these guys
went through horrific, horrificstuff dying afterwards no power
in the heat, bugs everywhere,contaminated water, um poison,
ivy in the air that got in theirlungs.
(07:05):
I mean just really, reallyhorrific stuff.
And so I know I'm coming intothat and when I'm coming in it's
going to be hurricane seasonpretty quick.
I trust God and he's been veryclear to me he's not brought me
this far, to bring me home, tohave me in a hurricane.
But that doesn't mean I'm notgoing to be prepared.
(07:28):
I haven't made it around theglobe because I'm not prepared,
right.
And so I wanted to grab as manyantibiotics amoxicillins,
ivermectins, um, uh, fenben, um,you know all of those type
(07:53):
things that I could easily getthere, that I might not easily
get here but certainly mightneed, and so, um and plus, I had
a huge over the time.
I had a pharmacy at my house.
It's cheap.
There's no reason not to have apharmacy at your house.
So I had a lot of medicationsand when you come into Puerto
Rico it's an island they're very, very specific about what you
(08:13):
can bring on their island and soeverything goes through their
people.
It ended up probably being agood thing for me and having all
of that stuff, because I don'tknow if it was legal and I don't
know what wasn't legal.
I'll tell you right now.
All I know is I got them therelegally and I wasn't throwing
them away there.
If someone else threw them away, so be it.
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But so now I'm in Puerto Ricoand they're like you have a
warrant for auto theft and bythis time, because I had skipped
, also bail jumped, so I'mlooking at a double felony
warrant that I know I'm innocentof and can, at this point,
fairly easily prove, so long asI'm in a court that is a real
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court, that isn't a made-upcourt, that follows the rules
and does those type of thingsright.
But we're getting there.
We're getting there on that,we're getting there.
You're going to probably wantto sub because we are getting
there, but so, anyway, I gothrough their little stuff, talk
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to everybody.
People are being super nice atthe airport.
Thank you for coming back.
How'd you get here?
Where'd you come from?
Thank you for coming back.
And then, all of a sudden,everybody leaves me, because I'm
now at customs and they'retelling me I got a warrant.
Cops are surrounding me.
I've got Pellucci and he's gothis service dog stuff that we
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got in Mexico.
He did a good job on the plane,though, so it was fine, but
here I am walking through theairport with real service.
I mean, I paid the company, butit's a company that you go
online and get them certified,and so I don't know how great
that is either, but he's got allthe service stuff.
I've got my medication, we'vegot two warrants.
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I don't know where I'm going tostay.
I have just paid a lot of mymoney to get here and once again
, we're relying on God.
Thank you, sir.
Once again, we're relying onGod.
But so when they put me over,set me aside, look into
everything, um, and thatobviously asked me about it, and
(10:31):
at that point, to tell themabout chris, um, tell them about
everything that happened, hurtsit actually have.
If you look, there's a lawsuitthat they have because they
weren't renewing.
There's a bunch of people thatgot felonies, um, renting from
these guys because they weren'trenewing.
There's a bunch of people thatgot felonies renting from these
guys because they weren'trenewing correctly and their
computer just automatically sentoff stuff, and so there was a
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past action suit on that, and sothey were searching all of
these different things.
And then, finally, it was clearI needed to say something,
something more, and so Iexplained as politely as I could
that, um, that they're gonnaget themselves in the middle of
a fucking RICO lawsuit, um, justlike the IRS lady, just like,
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just like, uh, and that theybetter be damn sure, if they're
gonna hold me, that they canhold me.
So they went, they talkedamongst themselves, made me and
Pellucci sit there, went throughmy stuff more, I don't know how
Didn't pull out any medication.
I don't think I didn't get introuble for any medication, so
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if they did, I don't know aboutit talked and decided they
didn't want to be any part of alawsuit.
They didn't really care aboutCalifornia.
They weren't going to hold meuntil somebody from California
got me and they let me go, toldme that I did have those
warrants, that if I'm runningaround they weren't going to
look for me but someone elsemight pick me up and it's
(11:56):
probably a good thing to get ittaken care of.
I agreed and so I immediatelyfound an Airbnb.
Great, ended up renting fromhim, staying at the Airbnb for a
month, and then I came over tothe west side where I was before
.
But it just broke my heart.
Everywhere I looked I saw myfriends dying, or beaches where
(12:17):
they died it was.
I'm over here now, but it took ayear, literally a year of
preparing for that and healingand trying to honor.
You know do things like that.
But so, as I'm over there, I'mstill running the tour business.
I've got the tour business, sowe've got a little bit of income
(12:40):
coming in.
Now I do have to share it withmore people because I've got
more people on the ground doingthe work and so, fuck, it's been
tight.
It's been tight especiallytrying to get this stuff going.
I'm thankful God's good andwe're here and thank God for the
tour business.
But at work we got some otherstuff like the Backyard Gardener
(13:02):
app.
Please, that's an amazingfucking app.
Please check into it.
Make some money on it, growsome stuff.
Check it out, please.
Pretty please.
It's fucking cool.
Anyways, it really is.
But so I get settled, get kindof moved in back over there.
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I call him back up and say, heylook, I changed my mind.
I can't live over there.
It hurts me.
Plus, it's on the west side.
It is a.
It's like the Wild West, but ajungle, especially if you're
alone.
You need to be very brave tolive on the west side of puerto
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rico alone almost more bravethan living in cabo um alone, at
least before.
I don't know they're equal, butum, the peace here is wonderful
and so I love it.
But so, anyway, I stayed overthere for a year, got
established, um stayed at thatAirbnb but rented from him
(14:08):
monthly, and during that time Ihad to decide what I wanted to
do with these warrants.
Now the prosecutor thatprosecuted this, I know was
either part of the Fusion Centeror just was doing his job.
I wasn't quite sure.
Um, I know that he didn't likeme, but I was a criminal defense
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lawyer.
There's a lot of them thatdidn't like me so I didn't know
if he didn't like me because itwas part of something or because
that was just his naturaldemeanor.
Anytime he got a formalcriminal defense lawyer as a
criminal, he enjoyed that shitright, and so that's why it
wasn't worth dealing with him atthe time.
Quite honestly, if I dealt withhim in that system at the time,
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he was going to win everysingle time.
There was no chance, sometimesleaving and coming back and
choosing your time to fight.
Art of War.
Art of War got it right here.
Art of War in the Bible.
On this one, I wanted to pick mytime to fight, which meant I
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had to go around the world withthese warrants, and that's a
chance, right.
But it was still a betterchance than staying there at the
time and dealing with that.
So I needed to decide if Iwanted to go back and reopen
that or if I wanted to callsomebody and see another lawyer
in town, somebody that works inthat area, which is generally
(15:41):
the smartest thing to do is getsomebody that works in that area
.
It doesn't matter your legal,your legal rights sometimes
aren't as important as thoseconnections sometimes, whether
they be good connection or badconnections, as long as those
connections, there's somethingthere to work with.
And so I decided to at leastcall around, check on some
(16:02):
people, see what I could do tonot have to go back there.
I did find a lawyer, lookingthrough reviews, ones that
worked very closely in thatcourt, obviously knew that
prosecutor, those judges that'sthe other thing.
Ask them specifics about theevents.
What's the judge like Not incourt?
(16:24):
What's that judge's hobby?
Is that judge a zag?
We had a lot of judges thatwere zags, right, and I could
get along really good with allthe zag judges.
Um, what do you know about thatjudge and that prosecutor?
Um, and do you have therelationship?
Relationship with the project?
Bad relationship?
(16:44):
What's your?
What kind of cases?
How many cases do you have withthat prosecutor?
So I talked to him.
Although I didn't love him verymuch, I was confident that he
was going to do okay for me if Ididn't go back there.
Also, um, I threatened him tonot take the money and defend me
, unless that's what he wasgonna do, because it was gonna
(17:06):
be a big problem.
He took the money, uh, and sohe went back and forth, right,
and I'm telling him from thebeginning look, it's the whole
thing's a fucking setup.
I'm not doing anything, Ididn't do anything wrong, uh,
and I'll come back for trial.
Doesn't matter to me as amatter of fact, it's good.
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I want to start some discoveryand I don't want to spend the
money on it, and if I come backand continue this case, I can
probably get a lot of discoverydone on California's dying.
And so please let him know that, whether he knows it or not,
I'm LL, he is part of aconspiracy, he is going to be
caught up in a conspiracy and ifhe doesn't fucking let this go,
(17:48):
that's the way it's going to be.
I'm coming back there.
That's simple as shit.
There's no way this is doinganything.
We're going to trial andgetting a lot of evidence
admitted Fucking through me.
I talked to him a couple times.
I don't know if that guy waspart of the fusion center or not
.
Like I said, just didn't likeme, but he did not want to take
that chance.
He did not want to take thatchance.
He dismissed that shit outright.
(18:11):
Now I still did have the bailjump and that's a fucked up
charge.
And I know that's a fucked upcharge, and when I didn't show
up I knew this too.
So it doesn't matter if you getthe first charge dismissed.
The bail jump is a separatecharge and all they have to
prove is that there was a courtorder that said you were
supposed to be somewhere at acertain time and that you in
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fact were not there at a certaintime.
That's it.
And so I know that's a goodfelony.
I know it's a good felony andthe only thing I have for
defense there is a fuckingthreat, um, and so he dismissed
the first one.
On the second one, heessentially did an Alfred plea
that get dismissed in a year.
Um, it's probably dismissed.
Now I don't know, I might haveto go back and do some stuff,
(18:53):
but so essentially it's not afelony anymore.
It's gone um after a year.
But so I did give him thatrather than go back and fight.
But the whole thing cost melike five, six grand to pay the
lawyer, deal with all thebullshit, um, in the process,
and so we're adding it to theirfucking bill.
We're adding it to their bill.
(19:14):
Um, if you guys are watching,um, no, it's costing you more,
it's a more expensive day foryou.
I was just leaving it that.
So, okay, um, and now we'rehere.
We're in puerto rico, we're onthe west side, we are, uh, just
(19:38):
a few miles from where paloocheewas born.
We get to go to the beach everyday.
It's a wonderful little house,far enough away from the beach
that I don't have to worry abouttsunamis and stuff.
I loved living on the beach,but after knowing that my
friends drowned there, I don'tknow if I'd ever sleep good
again being that close to thebeach.
(20:00):
So I'm not, that's nothappening.
But here I am, on a hill.
It's perfect.
No tsunamis getting me, canstill see the sunset, can get to
the beach and parked in lessthan 10 minutes About 6 or 7,
really.
And then it's a beautiful lifeDoing the Backyard Gardener app,
(20:21):
and, yeah, so that's where weare doing the backyard gardener
app.
And, uh, yeah, so that's wherewe are.
That's where we are.
That's where we are together.
Where we're going to go is I amgoing to do real podcasts.
Um, you're going to find me onrumble, I'll be able to.
It's at I am Heidi Hunt onrumble.
Um, and it's free there.
If you want it free and youdon't want to deal with the
(20:43):
subscription, you can get freevideo.
So don't complain about theaudio subscription.
That's the way I need to dothat.
If you want it free alsoYouTube, I'll put it up there at
Heidi Hunt or at I am HeidiHunt same handle.
And then I also grabbed onTikTok as a backup account at I
am Heidi Hunt, so I'll startposting these over there too.
(21:07):
We're going to do it this way,maybe one more time Hopefully
not, but maybe one more time andthen we're going to get a lot
to talk about.
We got a lot.
So anyway, thank you, I'm Heidi.
This is the Surviving ChangesPodcast.
Thank you for being here.
(21:27):
Thank you, I'm not stepping onany pooch.
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