March 7, 2025 • 20 mins
What does true survival look like when you're fleeing with a felony warrant, a dog named Pellucci, and barely enough money for gas? Heidi's raw account of her escape to Mexico reveals the unexpected gifts found in rock bottom moments.
The journey begins in Arizona, where strategic decisions—applying for government assistance and giving away her tracked phone to "meth heads"—lay the groundwork for her border crossing plan. With auto theft charges hanging over her head and limited options, Heidi finds herself in Yuma, where the women's shelter becomes an unlikely sanctuary. The paradox of her situation is striking: while legally and financially desperate, she discovers a peculiar freedom in having so little to lose.
"Strangers are good," Heidi reflects after experiencing remarkable kindness from shelter staff who provided meals, showers, and even clothing vouchers. When occasionally lacking gas money for DoorDash runs, she reluctantly tries panhandling, discovering people's willingness to help someone trying to help themselves. These moments of human connection amid isolation become the unexpected bright spots in her narrative.
The border crossing itself unfolds like a fever dream—complete with corrupt officials demanding purchases of taco sauce and honey, a brief partnership with a train-hopping drifter named Red who transports drugs via railway, and the persistent fear of cartel encounters. Throughout these high-stakes moments, Heidi's pragmatic approach to survival shines through: "I'm not arguing with the border guy... I have pissed off the Deep State, the Freemasons. I'm just out here trying to survive."
The story culminates at Cabo Jack's, where karaoke and unexpected connections with people from her past create a surreal bookend to her escape journey. Listen now to discover how sometimes what appears to be your lowest moment can become the launchpad for something entirely new.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello there everybody .
I'm Heidi and this is theSurviving Changes podcast, so
we're getting ready to head outof the Wild West RV park, so I'm
telling everybody goodbye.
One of the things that I havedone when I'm in Arizona is
apply for an Obama phone andsome food stamps Everything that
I could that I was eligible forin the van with DoorDash.
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I'm trying to save money,remember, to go across the
border.
I don't know what's going tohappen across the border.
I also have a warrant out,remember, from Chris in
California for auto theft.
I end up beating those chargeslater, but at this point in time
, I'm going across the Mexicanborder as a felon with a couple
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DoorDash dollars, and so I don'tthink I need my Obama phone and
in fact, I think it's probablysmarter for me to, because I
know they're tracked to give itto one of those meth heads and
let them track it up north ofPhoenix instead of down south.
So, as I'm leaving Maricopa, Imy obama phone to one of the
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meth heads and I head down, umto yuma.
So yuma is my next stoppingpoint, and I don't remember how
long I ended up staying in yuma,maybe probably a month or two.
Um, I knew somebody there atfirst.
They let me kind of stay inthere.
So this is when I realizedabout this Marjolins thing.
And the first thing I did whenI got there is tell her about
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this Marjolins thing.
She's like okay, but I don'twant you in my house, like
awesome, awesome.
So I lived in her driveway fora while as I'm trying to figure
out what all that was.
Now it turns out that the waythat that Morgellons must be
controlled I don't know there'sa lot of theories on it, but my
experience with it was it'sprobably something with energy
(01:55):
electromagnetic probably andthat's how it's controlled.
Because as soon as I got out ofthat area and I did dump, I left
a lot of stuff there that mightbe infected with anything, uh,
and kind of restarted in the van.
I mean, it's not like it's abig deal.
Um, I'm in the van with aboutnothing at this point, and the
(02:15):
stuff that I do have thatmatters is, um, where the seats
kind of went into the frame.
I had taken them out.
So there's a whole lot of stuffin there that I don't think has
any problem with it.
It hasn't been open for a longtime, well, since it's been put
there and then stuff on top ofit.
So that's where whatevermemories and stuff evidence
(02:37):
things like that that I stillhave is in there.
But so I go down to Yuma to tryto reset and at this point I
know that California I can't gointo California and go down.
I'm going to try Arizona and godown and there's a spot right
there by Yuma that you can godown.
There's also a women's shelterdown there well, a shelter, and
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there's one side that's awoman's and one side that's a
man's.
And if you ever have any extramoney and as soon as I do start
doing a lot again, once we're atthat point, I'm going to send
these guys a lot of money.
This lady gave me $20 to goacross the border, but a lot of
other things.
I'm going to send her ananonymous check for $20,000
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someday.
Those people are awesome and so,because I have paloochie, I
couldn't um stay inside, right,but I could do doordash all day
long.
Um spend the night there, getbreakfast there, get lunch there
, get dinner there.
Um use their showers uh, theyhad vouchers um for like they
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would give you um all thetoothpaste and toothbrushes and
stuff like that you need.
And then um, the lady that runsit has these vouchers to go
over to like their second handstore, and so she gave me
vouchers that, um, I could getstuff for the ride down.
These people were just awesomethey were.
So she gave me vouchers that,um, I could get stuff for the
ride down.
These people were just awesome,they were so good to me.
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Um, and what looked like on theoutside right at this point in
time looked like probably one ofthe worst times in my life was
actually one of the.
I mean other than um, now, thispoint, I, you've got a lot of
emotional stuff to go through.
I'm angry, uh, never really sad.
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Um, I have not been sad aboutany of these fuckers.
I've been angry at thesefuckers, but I've never really
been sad.
Um, like you know, there'smemories, certain dates and
things like that.
You might feel like something,but I'm more angry.
So you know, I'm going throughlike emotions like that, but for
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the most part, I don't have to.
As long as I eat at the women'sshelter, bathe at the women's
shelter, use the Internet at thewomen's shelter, I only have to
have a phone.
My only bill is gas to DoorDash, um, and a phone, and so we
would get up at our leisure, wewould go have breakfast, I would
shower, um, and you know, thiswas the only time, and this is
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also probably why it kind oflooked like that.
So there was a couple timeswhen I was there that, um, I
didn't have gas money todoordash, like you can't
doordash if you don't have gasmoney.
Now, the reason I was able todo those things, uh, back then
without having a bank account,was because they gave you a
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little um debit card and as soonas you did a run, you could go
to your debit card and take itout on any of the cash machines
and, of course, they charge you,depending on the machine, but
you could have your cash rightthere.
So as long as you had enoughgas for one run, you would be
okay, right, but you have tohave enough gas for one run, and
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there was a couple times Ididn't, and so this was the only
time ever that, um, Ipanhandled, and the first time
was out of necessity and thesecond time was out of curiosity
.
Um, I can see why, people, ifyou don't care about your pride
at all and you don't mindlooking god in the eye, um, and
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these people in eye.
People will like come give youmoney for doing nothing, nothing
at all.
They will come give you money.
Now, if they knew that I wasdoor dashing and I just needed
some gas, they were obviouslymuch happier to help with that.
Um, but that was not.
It was not difficult at all.
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You, you, um, get right down theroad to anywhere, put out a
little sign or just stand bysomething and say, hey, I'm
trying to go door dash, can you?
Um, sorry, can't do.
Look, I'll even pay it back toyou.
I'm in the area at the women'sshelter.
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Do you have ten dollars that Ican borrow until the end of the
day?
And people are generally good.
Strangers are good, strangersare good.
The other people you've got towonder about sometimes.
But so the van was notuncomfortable.
I had an air mattress in there.
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I even had a little um, one ofthe little misters with the
scents and everything, my laptop.
I could turn on um TV.
Us TV now is a very cheapsubscription.
Um, you could use the wifi fromthe, from the.
I mean, I was not.
I had literally no worries atall and because I wasn't on any
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timeline, I was just going to goacross the border whenever it
made sense.
There was a lot of stuffhappening at the border at that
time, also a lot of chaos, andwith the warrant I didn't really
know.
Now I knew I had to stop goingacross the whole pizza deal I
think I talked about it on here.
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So the first time I went toMexico was when I was in
Imperial Beach.
It was by accident.
I was driving pizza forDoorDash and it had me skip
the—it's only three exits down,and so I ended up in Tijuana.
And so I knew that you coulddrive across in certain areas
without having to stop.
But I couldn't go to Californiato get over to Tijuana to get
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to that, and I didn't know ifanything had changed since then.
Right, so I wanted to beprepared for any single thing
that could happen if I was goingacross the border.
So I had to get Pellucci all hisvaccines, his papers to go
across the border car insuranceyou have to have the across the
border car insurance.
You have to have the right kindof car insurance, mexico
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insurance, all of that stuff.
So that's the stuff that I didwhile I was down in Yuma, and
Mark helped me with that quite abit too, and the people at the
women's shelter.
So, and there were some nicepeople I met there as well.
But so there's a train trackand there's a bridge not too far
in Yuma as well.
But so there's a train trackand there's a bridge not too far
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in Yuma from where the women'sshelter is and that's where me
and Pellucci would go and gethigh.
You're always able to findsomebody to get a little bit of
stash.
But one of the people I wasable to get stash from was in
that park and he was with hisdog and he called himself red
and he hopped trains, and so redwould get me a little stash.
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I'd go down, meet with himherself when we get a high under
that bridge.
Um, he probably slept underthere sometimes, but he
literally uh, so that's, he randope on those fucking trains.
That's what he did did He'dpick up like pot a bunch of pot
in Oregon, and then him and hisdog would jump on them trains,
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find ones.
He knew all the schedules andwhich ones he could hop on and
which ones he couldn't, and thendrive it to like New York and
sell it.
Shit like that.
It was crazy.
But so we get talking and I'mlike, yeah, I'm going to Mexico.
But, um, so we get talking andI'm like, yeah, I'm going to
Mexico, I'm going to go with youand I I don't want to get
caught at the border.
I'm very um strict on makingsure we have nothing in the car
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going across the border.
But by the time we get acrossthe border, um, I'm going to if
you're on, um TikTok, I'm sorryYou're going to have to hear
this again.
So I got shook down by a cartelmember that's a border agent,
essentially at the border.
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So we did stop and Red Dogended up staying in the car.
I had to go with Pellucci andhis dog, which absolutely sucked
, but anyway okay.
So his dog was kind of mean anddidn't like pollutes.
He was kind of stressed.
But so I'm inside getting thestuff that I need for the car to
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get down, because you've got toshow you have insurance, you've
got to get permission, you'reon a visitor.
They can give you one day, zerodays or up to six months.
And so this guy's like, whatare you doing here?
I'm like, well, me and myfriend are just going to check
it out, see if it's someplacethat we want to move back to,
and maybe you know live.
And he's like, okay, well, youknow, you can't leave that car
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here, you can't just live here.
You can't just live here, youcan't just stay.
You know that, right, I cangive you one day.
I can give you no days.
I can give you six months.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I know, Iknow, and we don't.
I'm not intending on staying.
If I'm, I'm following the rules, it's mexico, I'm following
your rules, whatever you say.
He's like, okay, well, in thatcase, um, I just started selling
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this taco sauce.
And he's like if you boughtsome, I would be very happy, and
if I'm happy, I'm more inclinedto give you six months.
I'm like, okay, I'll buy thetaco sauce.
And then he's like you knowwhat would make me really,
really happy.
His friend was selling honey.
And, yes, that's really, it wassimply taco sauce and honey.
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Maybe he's trying to leave thegangs and cartels, I don't know,
but so I bought those things.
I paid him.
I think they were like 20 bucks, 20 bucks each, something like
that.
People were also like how muchwere they?
It wasn't a huge shakedown.
I was not standing up to thesepeople.
He had my life in his hands.
I have pissed off the DeepState, the Freemasons.
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I'm just out here trying tofucking survive In the process
there's.
I'm not arguing with the borderguy, so A lot of people on
TikTok are like that'scorruption.
Yeah, I know, I know, I'll tellyou where he is and you can go
find him.
Alright, um, um.
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But so then me and red get pastthere, we get down to mexicali,
we stop, um, find a bunch ofpot there, um, but I I thought
we were red was getting it,because this is what he does,
remember, he?
And so he's like no, I'll getsomewhere in mexico.
Now I'm like, all right, Icould get high, um, and so he
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goes, and then he comes back andI think he just gets us
something to smoke and we'resmoking it and I don't know that
there's checkpoints all the waydown.
I mean, I've read that therecould be, but we just got from
Mexicali.
It's not that far right,checkpoints could be down
farther.
But so we're getting high andthen, sure as shit, there's a
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fucking check mark or uhcheckpoint where they check all
of your passports, all of your,make sure that you got stamped
correctly, paid the guy for his,um, hot sauce and fucking honey
and um, this is insane man.
But so they go througheverything.
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They can smell the pot we justsmoked, um.
And they go through the van.
I'm like I don't have itbecause I am clean.
I know for a fact I'm clean.
But then they get to his bagand he has a shit load of
baggies in there, just a shitton of baggies.
And the guy's like and theydon't speak much english at that
checkpoint he's like trying toask me what's going on here,
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like I don't know, that's hisfucking shit.
I don't know, I have no idea.
And so he talks to him.
I don't know if he bribes himor what happens, but we end up
getting to go a little bitfarther.
But it causes a huge fight andI'm like dude, I'm sorry, I'm
not there.
I'm sorry, I'm not.
There's going to be morecheckpoints and we're not in
this, so we ain't in thistogether.
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So he got out with his dog andtook a train back into the US.
Now I followed his YouTube pagefor a little while and it
looked like he got busted withpot coming back into the US, but
I don't think they did anythingto him.
He obviously knows how to ridethe rails and get away with that
shit, even through countries.
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But so from that point on it wasjust me and Pellucci and at the
top it was fine.
It's actually a reallybeautiful.
There are some areas that havelike Fred Flintstone rocks and
things like that coming throughthere.
It's scary in that you don'tknow what's going to happen
tomorrow.
You pop a tire, you don't knowwhere the next gas station is.
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You hear about the carteltaking people off, there's
things like that.
But there was only one timethat I felt a little bit scared
going down there and it was justwhere I parked and I don't know
, maybe the people that werecoming in were trying to get
closer to the light, but it feltlike they were trying to block
me in a little bit.
So I just drove farther downthe road.
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It was no big deal.
But when I got into Cabo so Imake it all the way down, we
take our own pace.
Like I said, really beautiful,no problems.
Be'm on gas stations, make sureyou gas up every single time,
every single time.
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Don't fuck around with thatpart going through there.
But other than that, it wasfine at the time.
I don't think I would do it nowbecause, um, after covid, the
cartel is the makeup makeup ofBaja and Baja Sur and Baja
California is a lot different.
I can't speak on all of Mexico,but I can speak on that, and so
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I don't know that I would do itnow.
But it was okay then.
But when I got into Cabo, and Idon't know if Patty I don't know
if patty, I'm sure she's partof him because her husband's got
to be a mason.
He's a sheriff.
He would never help me.
Um, he's obviously part of thefusion center.
I know that now, um, and shealways gaslit me on a lot of
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shit, but at this point that'sremember who I had gone to
mexico with the first time andso, um, I'm asking her all kinds
of questions.
So when I get into cabo, likeit's spring break and it's an
intense spring breakeverything's full, so there's
not like an airbnb and it'shotter than fuck.
Drunk people everywhere, um,expensive, way more expensive
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than any of the other part ofthe trip down has been um, and
so I'm like I don't know whatI'm gonna do, and so I call
patty and she's like um callcarlos, his the name's charlie.
Well, it's probably carlos, buteverybody who knows him calls
him charlie, who truly knows it.
But she's like call carlos atcabo jacks and ask him if you
can stay out back, um.
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And I'm like, okay, thank you.
And so I call hey, is Carlosthere?
He's like, yeah, patty said youwere going to call.
Yeah, it's fine for you, youcan stay out there.
But my aunt and uncle arecoming and they're going to be
here for a couple days.
And they turns out they paidfor Cabo Jack's.
Charlie did not, charlie runs it, owns it, but somebody else has
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the papers on that.
Um, who knows at this point.
But at that time his aunt anduncle did and was like I don't
know that they'll be okay withthat.
Um, so can you wait a coupledays?
And I'm like, yeah, whatever,I'll find somewhere to just
sleep.
Um, I've done it before in thisvan, not a problem, um.
But then he ends up calling meback and saying no, I talked to
him and it's fine, and so I gomeet charlie and meet his aunt
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and uncle, and no fucking shitif they're not from washington
state, um.
So I did dui stuff.
We had 1-800-dui-way um, Ifounded that and then ended up
selling the name to brad.
You can't sell law office, butyou can sell the name, but so
anyway, um.
But whenever my clients gotpulled over on the side of the
road, their cars got towed andit was usually a pretty
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specified list of the peoplethey'd you know they were
getting paid.
I'm sure use these people andthey'll give you a kickback, but
so anyway, no shit if, um,after we're and we're getting
drunk, there's a lot of cocaineflies around there getting high
as a kite and fuck when in Rome,you know how I stayed alive a
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lot of times when, in Rome, doas the Romans man, so I'm doing
as the Romans.
But, as it turns out, theseRomans are from my area and they
are the tool company that hastold most of my clients and I'm
like, holy shit.
I'm like, well, so what's goingon with that?
And they're like, no, no, wepissed him off at one point too.
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We, we're good, and so theycame after us too, and so that's
when I started learning.
No, it was.
That's what I'm like.
Is it Mason's, is it?
I still didn't know.
There was a name called thefusion center, but after talking
to these guys, um, and theirexperience and what they went
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through, it was way too similarum to it was clear.
There was a training book andso pretty soon I'm going to find
the training book.
Um, man, cabo Jack's probably.
I'll just tell you about thatreal quick and then, um, we'll
start after Cabo Jacks.
Actually, you know what I'm notgonna.
Um, we'll start up at CaboJacks here in a few minutes.
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Cabo Jacks was so much fun.
I learned how to I actuallykaraoke there.
For years People asked me tokaraoke.
I'm like I ain't doing that.
Fuck it.
So much fun at Cabo Jacks.
Again, it looked a lot like uma problem, but for me, uh, it
wasn't.
It wasn't a problem.
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So I'm Heidi and this is asurviving changes podcast.
Thanks for being on thisjourney with me.
Hello there everybody .
I'm Heidi and this is theSurviving Changes podcast, so
we're getting ready to head outof the Wild West RV park, so I'm
telling everybody goodbye.
One of the things that I havedone when I'm in Arizona is
apply for an Obama phone andsome food stamps Everything that
I could that I was eligible forin the van with DoorDash.
(00:23):
I'm trying to save money,remember, to go across the
border.
I don't know what's going tohappen across the border.
I also have a warrant out,remember, from Chris in
California for auto theft.
I end up beating those chargeslater, but at this point in time
, I'm going across the Mexicanborder as a felon with a couple
(00:43):
DoorDash dollars, and so I don'tthink I need my Obama phone and
in fact, I think it's probablysmarter for me to, because I
know they're tracked to give itto one of those meth heads and
let them track it up north ofPhoenix instead of down south.
So, as I'm leaving Maricopa, Imy obama phone to one of the
(01:07):
meth heads and I head down, umto yuma.
So yuma is my next stoppingpoint, and I don't remember how
long I ended up staying in yuma,maybe probably a month or two.
Um, I knew somebody there atfirst.
They let me kind of stay inthere.
So this is when I realizedabout this Marjolins thing.
And the first thing I did whenI got there is tell her about
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this Marjolins thing.
She's like okay, but I don'twant you in my house, like
awesome, awesome.
So I lived in her driveway fora while as I'm trying to figure
out what all that was.
Now it turns out that the waythat that Morgellons must be
controlled I don't know there'sa lot of theories on it, but my
experience with it was it'sprobably something with energy
(01:55):
electromagnetic probably andthat's how it's controlled.
Because as soon as I got out ofthat area and I did dump, I left
a lot of stuff there that mightbe infected with anything, uh,
and kind of restarted in the van.
I mean, it's not like it's abig deal.
Um, I'm in the van with aboutnothing at this point, and the
(02:15):
stuff that I do have thatmatters is, um, where the seats
kind of went into the frame.
I had taken them out.
So there's a whole lot of stuffin there that I don't think has
any problem with it.
It hasn't been open for a longtime, well, since it's been put
there and then stuff on top ofit.
So that's where whatevermemories and stuff evidence
(02:37):
things like that that I stillhave is in there.
But so I go down to Yuma to tryto reset and at this point I
know that California I can't gointo California and go down.
I'm going to try Arizona and godown and there's a spot right
there by Yuma that you can godown.
There's also a women's shelterdown there well, a shelter, and
(03:01):
there's one side that's awoman's and one side that's a
man's.
And if you ever have any extramoney and as soon as I do start
doing a lot again, once we're atthat point, I'm going to send
these guys a lot of money.
This lady gave me $20 to goacross the border, but a lot of
other things.
I'm going to send her ananonymous check for $20,000
(03:23):
someday.
Those people are awesome and so,because I have paloochie, I
couldn't um stay inside, right,but I could do doordash all day
long.
Um spend the night there, getbreakfast there, get lunch there
, get dinner there.
Um use their showers uh, theyhad vouchers um for like they
(03:47):
would give you um all thetoothpaste and toothbrushes and
stuff like that you need.
And then um, the lady that runsit has these vouchers to go
over to like their second handstore, and so she gave me
vouchers that, um, I could getstuff for the ride down.
These people were just awesomethey were.
So she gave me vouchers that,um, I could get stuff for the
ride down.
These people were just awesome,they were so good to me.
(04:08):
Um, and what looked like on theoutside right at this point in
time looked like probably one ofthe worst times in my life was
actually one of the.
I mean other than um, now, thispoint, I, you've got a lot of
emotional stuff to go through.
I'm angry, uh, never really sad.
(04:29):
Um, I have not been sad aboutany of these fuckers.
I've been angry at thesefuckers, but I've never really
been sad.
Um, like you know, there'smemories, certain dates and
things like that.
You might feel like something,but I'm more angry.
So you know, I'm going throughlike emotions like that, but for
(04:53):
the most part, I don't have to.
As long as I eat at the women'sshelter, bathe at the women's
shelter, use the Internet at thewomen's shelter, I only have to
have a phone.
My only bill is gas to DoorDash, um, and a phone, and so we
would get up at our leisure, wewould go have breakfast, I would
shower, um, and you know, thiswas the only time, and this is
(05:17):
also probably why it kind oflooked like that.
So there was a couple timeswhen I was there that, um, I
didn't have gas money todoordash, like you can't
doordash if you don't have gasmoney.
Now, the reason I was able todo those things, uh, back then
without having a bank account,was because they gave you a
(05:38):
little um debit card and as soonas you did a run, you could go
to your debit card and take itout on any of the cash machines
and, of course, they charge you,depending on the machine, but
you could have your cash rightthere.
So as long as you had enoughgas for one run, you would be
okay, right, but you have tohave enough gas for one run, and
(06:01):
there was a couple times Ididn't, and so this was the only
time ever that, um, Ipanhandled, and the first time
was out of necessity and thesecond time was out of curiosity
.
Um, I can see why, people, ifyou don't care about your pride
at all and you don't mindlooking god in the eye, um, and
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these people in eye.
People will like come give youmoney for doing nothing, nothing
at all.
They will come give you money.
Now, if they knew that I wasdoor dashing and I just needed
some gas, they were obviouslymuch happier to help with that.
Um, but that was not.
It was not difficult at all.
(06:42):
You, you, um, get right down theroad to anywhere, put out a
little sign or just stand bysomething and say, hey, I'm
trying to go door dash, can you?
Um, sorry, can't do.
Look, I'll even pay it back toyou.
I'm in the area at the women'sshelter.
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Do you have ten dollars that Ican borrow until the end of the
day?
And people are generally good.
Strangers are good, strangersare good.
The other people you've got towonder about sometimes.
But so the van was notuncomfortable.
I had an air mattress in there.
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I even had a little um, one ofthe little misters with the
scents and everything, my laptop.
I could turn on um TV.
Us TV now is a very cheapsubscription.
Um, you could use the wifi fromthe, from the.
I mean, I was not.
I had literally no worries atall and because I wasn't on any
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timeline, I was just going to goacross the border whenever it
made sense.
There was a lot of stuffhappening at the border at that
time, also a lot of chaos, andwith the warrant I didn't really
know.
Now I knew I had to stop goingacross the whole pizza deal I
think I talked about it on here.
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So the first time I went toMexico was when I was in
Imperial Beach.
It was by accident.
I was driving pizza forDoorDash and it had me skip
the—it's only three exits down,and so I ended up in Tijuana.
And so I knew that you coulddrive across in certain areas
without having to stop.
But I couldn't go to Californiato get over to Tijuana to get
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to that, and I didn't know ifanything had changed since then.
Right, so I wanted to beprepared for any single thing
that could happen if I was goingacross the border.
So I had to get Pellucci all hisvaccines, his papers to go
across the border car insuranceyou have to have the across the
border car insurance.
You have to have the right kindof car insurance, mexico
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insurance, all of that stuff.
So that's the stuff that I didwhile I was down in Yuma, and
Mark helped me with that quite abit too, and the people at the
women's shelter.
So, and there were some nicepeople I met there as well.
But so there's a train trackand there's a bridge not too far
in Yuma as well.
But so there's a train trackand there's a bridge not too far
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in Yuma from where the women'sshelter is and that's where me
and Pellucci would go and gethigh.
You're always able to findsomebody to get a little bit of
stash.
But one of the people I wasable to get stash from was in
that park and he was with hisdog and he called himself red
and he hopped trains, and so redwould get me a little stash.
(09:36):
I'd go down, meet with himherself when we get a high under
that bridge.
Um, he probably slept underthere sometimes, but he
literally uh, so that's, he randope on those fucking trains.
That's what he did did He'dpick up like pot a bunch of pot
in Oregon, and then him and hisdog would jump on them trains,
(09:57):
find ones.
He knew all the schedules andwhich ones he could hop on and
which ones he couldn't, and thendrive it to like New York and
sell it.
Shit like that.
It was crazy.
But so we get talking and I'mlike, yeah, I'm going to Mexico.
But, um, so we get talking andI'm like, yeah, I'm going to
Mexico, I'm going to go with youand I I don't want to get
caught at the border.
I'm very um strict on makingsure we have nothing in the car
(10:18):
going across the border.
But by the time we get acrossthe border, um, I'm going to if
you're on, um TikTok, I'm sorryYou're going to have to hear
this again.
So I got shook down by a cartelmember that's a border agent,
essentially at the border.
(10:40):
So we did stop and Red Dogended up staying in the car.
I had to go with Pellucci andhis dog, which absolutely sucked
, but anyway okay.
So his dog was kind of mean anddidn't like pollutes.
He was kind of stressed.
But so I'm inside getting thestuff that I need for the car to
(11:03):
get down, because you've got toshow you have insurance, you've
got to get permission, you'reon a visitor.
They can give you one day, zerodays or up to six months.
And so this guy's like, whatare you doing here?
I'm like, well, me and myfriend are just going to check
it out, see if it's someplacethat we want to move back to,
and maybe you know live.
And he's like, okay, well, youknow, you can't leave that car
(11:26):
here, you can't just live here.
You can't just live here, youcan't just stay.
You know that, right, I cangive you one day.
I can give you no days.
I can give you six months.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I know, Iknow, and we don't.
I'm not intending on staying.
If I'm, I'm following the rules, it's mexico, I'm following
your rules, whatever you say.
He's like, okay, well, in thatcase, um, I just started selling
(11:47):
this taco sauce.
And he's like if you boughtsome, I would be very happy, and
if I'm happy, I'm more inclinedto give you six months.
I'm like, okay, I'll buy thetaco sauce.
And then he's like you knowwhat would make me really,
really happy.
His friend was selling honey.
And, yes, that's really, it wassimply taco sauce and honey.
(12:09):
Maybe he's trying to leave thegangs and cartels, I don't know,
but so I bought those things.
I paid him.
I think they were like 20 bucks, 20 bucks each, something like
that.
People were also like how muchwere they?
It wasn't a huge shakedown.
I was not standing up to thesepeople.
He had my life in his hands.
I have pissed off the DeepState, the Freemasons.
(12:33):
I'm just out here trying tofucking survive In the process
there's.
I'm not arguing with the borderguy, so A lot of people on
TikTok are like that'scorruption.
Yeah, I know, I know, I'll tellyou where he is and you can go
find him.
Alright, um, um.
(12:56):
But so then me and red get pastthere, we get down to mexicali,
we stop, um, find a bunch ofpot there, um, but I I thought
we were red was getting it,because this is what he does,
remember, he?
And so he's like no, I'll getsomewhere in mexico.
Now I'm like, all right, Icould get high, um, and so he
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goes, and then he comes back andI think he just gets us
something to smoke and we'resmoking it and I don't know that
there's checkpoints all the waydown.
I mean, I've read that therecould be, but we just got from
Mexicali.
It's not that far right,checkpoints could be down
farther.
But so we're getting high andthen, sure as shit, there's a
(13:39):
fucking check mark or uhcheckpoint where they check all
of your passports, all of your,make sure that you got stamped
correctly, paid the guy for his,um, hot sauce and fucking honey
and um, this is insane man.
But so they go througheverything.
(13:59):
They can smell the pot we justsmoked, um.
And they go through the van.
I'm like I don't have itbecause I am clean.
I know for a fact I'm clean.
But then they get to his bagand he has a shit load of
baggies in there, just a shitton of baggies.
And the guy's like and theydon't speak much english at that
checkpoint he's like trying toask me what's going on here,
(14:21):
like I don't know, that's hisfucking shit.
I don't know, I have no idea.
And so he talks to him.
I don't know if he bribes himor what happens, but we end up
getting to go a little bitfarther.
But it causes a huge fight andI'm like dude, I'm sorry, I'm
not there.
I'm sorry, I'm not.
There's going to be morecheckpoints and we're not in
this, so we ain't in thistogether.
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So he got out with his dog andtook a train back into the US.
Now I followed his YouTube pagefor a little while and it
looked like he got busted withpot coming back into the US, but
I don't think they did anythingto him.
He obviously knows how to ridethe rails and get away with that
shit, even through countries.
(15:03):
But so from that point on it wasjust me and Pellucci and at the
top it was fine.
It's actually a reallybeautiful.
There are some areas that havelike Fred Flintstone rocks and
things like that coming throughthere.
It's scary in that you don'tknow what's going to happen
tomorrow.
You pop a tire, you don't knowwhere the next gas station is.
(15:26):
You hear about the carteltaking people off, there's
things like that.
But there was only one timethat I felt a little bit scared
going down there and it was justwhere I parked and I don't know
, maybe the people that werecoming in were trying to get
closer to the light, but it feltlike they were trying to block
me in a little bit.
So I just drove farther downthe road.
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It was no big deal.
But when I got into Cabo so Imake it all the way down, we
take our own pace.
Like I said, really beautiful,no problems.
Be'm on gas stations, make sureyou gas up every single time,
every single time.
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Don't fuck around with thatpart going through there.
But other than that, it wasfine at the time.
I don't think I would do it nowbecause, um, after covid, the
cartel is the makeup makeup ofBaja and Baja Sur and Baja
California is a lot different.
I can't speak on all of Mexico,but I can speak on that, and so
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I don't know that I would do itnow.
But it was okay then.
But when I got into Cabo, and Idon't know if Patty I don't know
if patty, I'm sure she's partof him because her husband's got
to be a mason.
He's a sheriff.
He would never help me.
Um, he's obviously part of thefusion center.
I know that now, um, and shealways gaslit me on a lot of
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shit, but at this point that'sremember who I had gone to
mexico with the first time andso, um, I'm asking her all kinds
of questions.
So when I get into cabo, likeit's spring break and it's an
intense spring breakeverything's full, so there's
not like an airbnb and it'shotter than fuck.
Drunk people everywhere, um,expensive, way more expensive
(17:16):
than any of the other part ofthe trip down has been um, and
so I'm like I don't know whatI'm gonna do, and so I call
patty and she's like um callcarlos, his the name's charlie.
Well, it's probably carlos, buteverybody who knows him calls
him charlie, who truly knows it.
But she's like call carlos atcabo jacks and ask him if you
can stay out back, um.
(17:38):
And I'm like, okay, thank you.
And so I call hey, is Carlosthere?
He's like, yeah, patty said youwere going to call.
Yeah, it's fine for you, youcan stay out there.
But my aunt and uncle arecoming and they're going to be
here for a couple days.
And they turns out they paidfor Cabo Jack's.
Charlie did not, charlie runs it, owns it, but somebody else has
(18:00):
the papers on that.
Um, who knows at this point.
But at that time his aunt anduncle did and was like I don't
know that they'll be okay withthat.
Um, so can you wait a coupledays?
And I'm like, yeah, whatever,I'll find somewhere to just
sleep.
Um, I've done it before in thisvan, not a problem, um.
But then he ends up calling meback and saying no, I talked to
him and it's fine, and so I gomeet charlie and meet his aunt
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and uncle, and no fucking shitif they're not from washington
state, um.
So I did dui stuff.
We had 1-800-dui-way um, Ifounded that and then ended up
selling the name to brad.
You can't sell law office, butyou can sell the name, but so
anyway, um.
But whenever my clients gotpulled over on the side of the
road, their cars got towed andit was usually a pretty
(18:48):
specified list of the peoplethey'd you know they were
getting paid.
I'm sure use these people andthey'll give you a kickback, but
so anyway, no shit if, um,after we're and we're getting
drunk, there's a lot of cocaineflies around there getting high
as a kite and fuck when in Rome,you know how I stayed alive a
(19:08):
lot of times when, in Rome, doas the Romans man, so I'm doing
as the Romans.
But, as it turns out, theseRomans are from my area and they
are the tool company that hastold most of my clients and I'm
like, holy shit.
I'm like, well, so what's goingon with that?
And they're like, no, no, wepissed him off at one point too.
(19:28):
We, we're good, and so theycame after us too, and so that's
when I started learning.
No, it was.
That's what I'm like.
Is it Mason's, is it?
I still didn't know.
There was a name called thefusion center, but after talking
to these guys, um, and theirexperience and what they went
(19:49):
through, it was way too similarum to it was clear.
There was a training book andso pretty soon I'm going to find
the training book.
Um, man, cabo Jack's probably.
I'll just tell you about thatreal quick and then, um, we'll
start after Cabo Jacks.
Actually, you know what I'm notgonna.
Um, we'll start up at CaboJacks here in a few minutes.
(20:11):
Cabo Jacks was so much fun.
I learned how to I actuallykaraoke there.
For years People asked me tokaraoke.
I'm like I ain't doing that.
Fuck it.
So much fun at Cabo Jacks.
Again, it looked a lot like uma problem, but for me, uh, it
wasn't.
It wasn't a problem.
(20:32):
So I'm Heidi and this is asurviving changes podcast.
Thanks for being on thisjourney with me.
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