EP 72 - The History of The Chicano Squad - History for Foos

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Tum tum tum tum tum tum tum.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And you got a heart of gold.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Take you Neil Young, Well you welcome me, young girl.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I got to live. I got a ride. It's trouble
something from a heart of gold. I wanna live. Yeah, man,

(01:21):
shout out to man bush Escobar right here with the scrolls.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
What's happening? I got Yeah, I had to write notes
on this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Also, man, all those stuff is for sale. Man, you
don't want to have a collection of the scrolls.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
But we got these scrolls, these memorabilias for you collectors out.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
We don't have the his Bible, the Bible.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
We got the Bible still right here somewhere somewhere. We
got moved, but we have it around the office somewhere.
I was stumming through it the other day. But yeah,
we have the Bible still. We should like auction that
stuff out for something.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
We talking about harmonica that do for Mono ray or whatever.
Up the north By. He always shows up with wine.
He played, He played in a blues bad that's you
know guy. He gave me a raider jacket one time.
Oh really, yeah he was showed up to the shows.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh I try to remember.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
He gave me to this, he gave me this one.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
He gave me that harmonica because.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
One time he was holding one and I started blowing
in he grabbed it real hard. Bro. I was playing
with that ship for four hours. Yeah. I mean, man,
as you put somebody there, ask or what what's gonna
happen in my mouth? Imagine?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh no, that's so gross.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, man, So welcome back to the history for fools.
Welcome back. I'll see you out there putting on those comments.
Keep coming, keep putting those comments. There were ninety one
live listeners last week. I was chatting with him. Bro.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, that was you had a You were up pretty
early then the next day because you partied pretty hard
the night before.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Where was I at? We had the uh oh no,
never mind. Oh That's why I did party though, because
I went to the I went to the LAFC and
Club America soccer game. Bro. Oh my god, dog o,
my god. That shit was crazy. Bro. First of all,

(03:18):
LAFC Los Angeles Football Club. They were outnumbered in the
audio in the stands five to one. Really. Club America
is yellow, blue and red. Yeah, okay, Bro, the right
side of me where I was sitting was all yellow,
like fucking yellow. The left in front of me all yellow,

(03:42):
and then where I was sitting at it was like
scattered bro yellow and black but mostly yellow. I was
sitting on the bottom bro with the celebrities. I was
chilling with mcclor cocaine, cocaine, no ship. Yeah. Man, if
you want to walk up to him the best bedro,
approach him. It's called him Mac. He likes to be
called he likes So when I said I saw him,

(04:03):
I remember when I met him on the Eric Andre Show.
He said, coming back, So I saw him finding I said,
what saw Mac? It's me Felippe. We're on the Eric
Andre Show with your wife and then her lady's song
and Bro. They started talking bro and ended up being

(04:25):
a real cool guy. He didn't take too many photo
with somebody, but he did meet it somebody's day though.
There was this like cholo, motherfucker right taking a photo
with me and buy the bathrooms and like, and I
waved at him from from far away and that full
photo Mac McCain photo bomb he.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Did, he photo bombed. That's hilarious, dude, that's great, that's great.
Whoever that guy is, he got a great fucking photo.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But even know, Bro, after he laughed and said, look
at that photo. Bro, you have a special photo out there,
and he opened the mac cocaine at this.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's great that guy.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
That's dope, dude. Bro, you know you were heard of
the fucking fifty yard line. Can you look up a
video showing I want to show it. The club is
called a fifty fifty fifty two to fifty three club.
I don't know. You know that they have the fucking
the black hole, right, yeah, like the you know for

(05:27):
the Raiders, Okay, Bro, and then then everybody routes right right, Okay,
we're just remember Bro, that we were the laft fans
were outnumbered. But there was the section. Bro. They call
it the North Side, the North End. Bro. I didn't
know that Ali Football Club has so many whole Again,
Latino fans like the most diverse. They have like nine

(05:49):
really different clubs and they're all run by nine different
guys and they Bro, if you show that video, Bro,
how crazy I got bro right before the game, right
when the game started, broke. As soon as they they kickoff,
they fucking started World War three back there, Brolly, go

(06:15):
go go those people in that section together. Bro shot
off fireworks. Bro during the show. During that before the game,
they got pitch black when they were stating, Bro, you
couldn't see not because the fireworks.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Holy ship, highlights and goals.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Did you look up l a f C fans at
the at the l a f C fanatic fans at
the Lab America game, and you'll see, Bro, how crazy
I got? Yeah, I started.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
It was like they were shanting through the whole game.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
They were bro, look, oh fuck, look at that plum
smoke above it.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
But that's nothing. Broke on the other side the other
side too. Wow. So they had a big black smoke
that covered up the whole stadium on that side. And
then Club America fanatic fans on the other side. Look, look,
that's one club with a hammer right there. That's another club,
but they're a skull. So these are like, that's the

(07:30):
Brazilian LFC fans.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
So those fans clubs like those clubs are like they're
like different clubs but for the same team, right, and
those are who those are hooligan.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Clubs basically, but not yet. But they're trying to throw
out LAFC to be known all over the world. Really,
isn't that good of a team? Bro? Let me tell
you man, the the team they were throwing bottle water,
bottle of waters at the Look at ship, Bro, Look
at that. That's insane. Look if fireworks flying, Bro, you

(08:05):
can hear it from the headpos. You can see that,
Po Papa. Look it got blacker than that dog. That's
like the beginning of it. Holy, it was insane, Bro,
you cannot start. Look at that middle, Look at that
center clow you looked at though. Look and then the
other side was the same thing, but in yellow smoke. Bro,

(08:27):
it was insane. Look at that ship, Bro, it was insane. Dog.
I did not know that's Bro, that's crazy cocaine. That there.
I'm in the mix, Bro, I was not trying to
get into the camera prother to know where the camera was.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
That was a bottle of water, like a cup of
water or something. Holy, ship you are I just saw
you there?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
You go sure and your hat on? Yeah? Bro? Yeah,
same guys, those guys And Okay, and there's one hardcore
l a football club fan from German, German that came
into the bro and had a big Yeah they had
a big German flag, Bro with the l a f
C on it ship. Look at that, but look at

(09:20):
the yellow bro. You can't know. You gotta get when
they got a shoutout. But yeah, man, you're out numbered, but.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
You guys are out numbered in your own home.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
But look at that smoke. So I'm doing that at
a forty nine Ers game. No, No, in the end
of that season, all.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Those white people would call the cops. Bro, all those
white people would call the cops. Yeah, that's the thing, dude,
is that the Niners.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I love Niner fans, but that's nothing like but gonna happen.
They took my lighter on the way in. Where did
these guys hid the fireworks? Oh?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Matches? Matches are matches? Fireworks still dude? Yeah, where are so?
But they want that smoke to be like that, right?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
They are flares?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, those are flares, dude. Where the fuck are they
hiding that ship and this.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Caul Bro, we're holding six foot poles in those flags. Dude.
What the fuck yo?

Speaker 3 (10:15):
How are you hiding? Because I go through like, I
go through the line myself and I got to like, dude,
I've gotten cow like they've taken my vappen away.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
No, anyway, so that was that brow looked exciting? Dude.
You gotta listening to the conversation for the second time,
because I think we talked about it. Oh did you
guys already talk about it? One maybe earlier with we
had the host of True Hustle podcasts. I invited him
to the soccer game, so I had them Johnny either

(10:45):
taking photos. Of course. Look look at that ship. Oh
that's amazing. I want to go now, dude, Jude. Twenty
second brother playing I'm Down and the guy hooks it
up with a ticket.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Bro, Like twenty second. Oh fuck, think that dog's that's
that's how do they get those in there?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
The black smoke, the yellow smoke.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Bro, let me tell you, brother, And you're trying to
close the border. Come on, yeah, dog, it's too late,
too late, Bro, it is too late. We already hear dog. Wow.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Bro, Yeah, I totally want you.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Know, everybody wearing yellow, everybody yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow. That dude,
that's crazy. That's Club America fans. Bro, insane. I want
to go. But I'm just saying, like you're trying to
bust that out at a forty nine Ers game, Raider game.
That that much smoke, that must excitement that much noise. Yeah,

(11:42):
but they were like they were like l a f
C was was just as loud as Manchester United.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
You've obviously been the Raider game, and you've been some
rowdy ass Raider games. Not that loud, bro, it's rowdier
at soccer games.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's rowdy, no shit, dude.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
And then you've been to him in Europe too, are they?
Oh yeah, that's just you know what, bro, this is
a different kind of rowdy. Like that's the thing is
like these guys are just fighting just to fight and
be dickheads, dude, Like.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
I did you get one of them? Like? Did get
one on? Like they could be forty nine fighting each other, right,
But then, okay, I'm not gonna fight him, but not
that find out he didn't for us.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
No, we're gonna fight, right, Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah. I know.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I don't know why I don't have the same respect.
I mean I didn't see anybody fighting in the soccer game.
I just saw a lot of smoke and people having
a good time, and and that right there is primarily
why I stop going to fucking football games, because it's
like you guys, you guys can't even fucking behave yourselves
amongst each other.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's why they gotta have the Chiquano squad to refuse
the Chicano squad. Everybody has the same haircut and Leonard,
but Alaska, it's a squad of Leonard Velaskaz. I'm telling you, bro,
if they don't put me in that show when they
make it, I'm out fucking protest outside, Bro. I know,
written like that. Somebody called them the whole of the podcast, bro,

(13:10):
And the best thing about the Chicanos to get fast
forward and all that the.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Leonard all different versions of my dad. Oh my god,
that's the one seconds are a whole different. Second to
the right, that's your dad now.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's my dad now, and the one I met was
the one who a right and the one that you
probably know is a mean asshole with a mustache.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's my dad right there. Yeah, that's my dad growing
up and Uncle Gilbert. But that's my dad going up.
And the guy on the second to the far right
is my dad now. And then the guy behind them
in the middle, that's my dad.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
You can I say something about those beast suits? Yeah, okay,
this is exactly what my dad.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
You go.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
The guy at the far left is your dad. Investigators
just wearing a best suit. Okay, Man, when you're a
homicide squad, when you're a homicide detective, you're gonna go
walk into a lot of evidence. You know, walk into
a lot of places that's dirty, because most crime scenes
are not clean. They're all failty. There's fucking fesis, there's defecation,

(14:20):
there's stuff that they leave out of Miami Bius and
CSI Miami and Law in Order. Okay, you watch a
police show, the costumer always takes a lot of liberties,
and like like CSI Miami, they were they dressed like
GQ bro and I'm Miami Vice. It's hard to find

(14:43):
a show a television show. Also, even Trent trend whatever
that he wars good clothes. When you walk into a
crime scene, you're gotta have the most raggedy as payless
shoe stores, ship that people give away a sk parks,
you know, or cheap shoes, leather, because you're gonna step

(15:05):
on blood. You're gonna step on ship.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
I had a friend.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Also, Man, when you walk into those pants right there,
those pants that he's wearing, they'll be done after like
one investigation. Because you know you're gonna walk on stuff.
You need pants that you could just throw away after
the next day, because you know, I have to look
cute and there's a lot of dirty stuff. Bro. Most

(15:29):
of those suits that they wear are from the man's warehouse.
Cheap ship.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Bro, that's exactly what. So the first guy, the guy
in the far right of that one, put it back
to the cops when they when this first not to
jump ahead, but when this first thing started, he was like,
I didn't even own a suit, and they're like, you
gotta dress up, you gotta dress up in a suit.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh no, the the Chicano Squad Cops, the line in
the movie or the show is gonna be like So
that guy in the.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Far ride was like, I never owned a suit my
entire life, and when they signed me up for this,
I had to go to the men's warehouse.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
You could tell that that he never wore a suit. Bro,
who was who wears a clip on that long?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
None of these guys did. None of these guys wore
suits when they first started.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
If they have a television show, they're gonna that line's
gonna be changed to I don't have a suit. I've
never been to court. H I never did my first communion. Yeah,
because you know, if your chi like those guys are

(16:37):
when they did their first communion, their dad probably bought
them some cheap ass black pants, some cheap ass black
shoes that he's gonna wear those for graduations, and they're
gonna be tight.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Your church clothes, church clothes.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'm not like you, Brunning grew up rich, bro, where
I had church clothes and I didn't have I didn't have.
I don't. You're not a kid that I gotta go
put on my plate clothes. Yeah. I was a kid
that got home, bro, and my mom told me to

(17:12):
take those clothes off and don't dirty. They're gonna wear
that ship tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, that's when I thought I
was gonna be a clothing designer. Bro. Growing up, I
thought I was gonna be like a somebody designs clothes
or dresses people up. Because I used to wear the
same clothes. Like if I bore wear this on Monday,

(17:32):
it would be the same. I would have to wear
this shit on Tuesday and Wednesday. Bro to I got dirty,
so bro, I when on Monday I wear like this,
on Tuesday, I zip it up, broffent Yeah, yeah, on Wednesday,
I tie it on my waist. On Thursday, I carry

(17:52):
like a troller bro Hard. On Friday, Bro, I just
don't wear it, Bro, leave it at home. Right?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Did you really did you really have to wear the
same clothes every day?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah? Bro? People thought it was People thought I was
stuck up, Bro, because I didn't really talk to a
lot of people, and they thought I went to a
private school. Oh my god, Bro, and I went to
a private school because I wear the same.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Or the same clothes every day. Was that a matter
of like, uh?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Like it was?

Speaker 3 (18:23):
It?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Was it because you guys were poor to come in
ground hug? Or was it because like your.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Mom didn't want to do laundry or you didn't feel
like changing your clothes?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
No, Bro, come on, man, I didn't even know I
thought of I was changing clothes, not even in my head.
And my mom mad wear the same ship.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
You never even thought about that, and then you they
weren't even like, Bro, I'm wearing the same thing every day.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
I was a house slave, Bro. I was brought up
like a pop band. But they didn't give never given instruments,
water without a menu. I'll be out being trained for something, bro. Oh, routines. Right, yeah, yeah,
you have to at that point. And then my brother bro,

(19:03):
he to wore the ship I wore after I wore it, your.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Little brother or your older brother? Your little brother, did
you wear your older Are you the oldest?

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, so you all, Oh you always got the new clothes.
You lucky, said them a bitch, dude. Yeah, dude, good
for you, Bro, you got the new clothes.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
But my little brother were like closer to each other,
so they got better clothes. Oh they got Levi's hat
Lee's Ah, that sucks. But they had converse.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
You had the payless bro, the x J nine hundos. Dude,
do you remember the x H nine hundreds.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Telling your bronn grew up like you?

Speaker 3 (19:42):
BROT is a car, Bro, that's payless shoes.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Those are like a fast car.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
That was like the symbol of you were a poor kid?
Is if you had the x H nine hundreds versus
the converse?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I had those.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
They were like the air, the twenty dollars air Jordan's.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I had those shoes that looked like pumas, but the
back had a little tail. They laugh, my whales, I
don't be the laugh had a little there were whalleys
they're called Yeah, those are the X Chase sad Bro.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, there's the nine Hundre they're supposed to like at Jordan's.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
That's what they are, those Jordan's No w I wish.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, I had to wear those shoes.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Look for Stadius st A d oh, Bro, they can't
even write stadium bro.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
S t A d i U s bro and all
the stadias meant you were living with your grandparents.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Dog put out Stadia suede. You know what. Those look
pretty dope now, dude, oh Bro, they had before that.
Look for the whale logo, whale logo next to it
for whale shoes with whale logo, but we're looking at
a whale's like a whale a little sadd shoes, Bro.

(21:08):
Literally that's it, Bro, the one up there, Oh yeah,
I'd say, oh my god, that one.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah Kenny, Yeah, that's what that's where you used to
get there. That's so before.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
So Kenny was worse than studios.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, well, Kenny's was the shoe store that.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh my god, people laugh at me when I sho
had those four stripes, Bro. I used to try to
like rip them motherfucker off at night take a laser.
I had those. I had those shoes and at nighttime, Bro,
I would break my nail. Bro, try to take that
extra stripe off.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, Kenny's was payless before it was payless.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I got an actor, Bro, that thought. That's I got
from your mom? Yeah? Who is that? From Mama's house?
The main character from all Yeah, the Sun in law,
the Sun that's him.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh, ship got looks familiar. He looks familiar as fuck.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh guess that kidneys?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, Kenny shoes, that's what my mom. That's so originally
it was Kinney's and then it went to payless shoes.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
You had kidneys.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, we always, my mom, dude, even when my parents
did get money, like because my parents didn't have a
lot of money when we were younger. It wasn't until
like we like I was a little older, that my
parents started. We were middle class as they called us.
But my mom, my mom never switched. My mom was like, hey, bro,
when the Starter jackets came out and everybody had raider

(22:31):
jackets and like dinner jackets, my mom went to Safeway
and bought a fake Starter jacket for me for my birthday. Bro,
And like always, the XJ nine hundreds. Never shoes was.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
A box of ballpark franks. What that jacket? Which one?
Oh the yeah it dude, it literally it did. It came.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
It came free with like five Nibisco.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Franks because they were promoting, of course the plump when
you cook.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Them, that'd be worth something that it was like an
Oscar iron you.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Have, like you said, a flashback. That's sad thinking about
those kiddy shoes.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, I remember I was dating this girl and my
homeboy said, come on, gosh, you got those fake ass
case Swiss. The Swiss those a Kinney Swiss. They were white,
but you could still see there was a fourth fourth stripe. Yeah,

(23:40):
you get the white one because because case Swift had
two stripes, right.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Case Swiss had two. Yeah, and that was acceptable because
they kind of like those case well they were almost
as old ass.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Case Swiss was a lot of when a pimp was relaxing,
wor kind of shoe. Yeah, yeah, because I used to
see this pant Bro. He used to come to my
neighborhood with all his hold because they'll take him. But bro,
he was.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
He goes there it is, bro, you know what because
because he looked like shelters.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's fake case with right, the real case with.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, those are the ones on the right are real
case with with five stripes. Kse Swiss was like, we
don't want to be anything like Adidas, so they did
five stripes.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
They have a ton of stripes.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
So the fake case with have two or five STAVENI.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Right in seven and the fake Adidas.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Have four or three. That's the Kenny Kenny shoes. Bro.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah do you do You didn't your mom didn't chop
for your Kidney's.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
No, man, but we had those shoes. I don't know
what she got the bro.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
You had Stadius though, Yeah, yeah, Stadius were.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
K Bro. I don't know why I mentioned that first,
but it was my neighbor. His shoes straight up said
on the back this is what it said. I gonna
lie bubble gummers, bubble gumbers shoes. Who's the name of
the shoe. And they were like they sole cheap broke
Ast Nike Cortez, bubble gummers. Look it up, bro, bubble gummers,

(25:24):
Bro Nike. Yeah, those are rare brother sad dogs.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
They are like, look at because the one on the right,
if you go back up a little bit and then
the one on the far right, the black, the red
and blue one. I could see how those were looking
like Cortezes. Those are exactly like Corteza's.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Actually, yeah they were sad ass a dull shoe back
in kid's shoe. Bro.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
The thing is is that Corteza's were the cheap shoe
when we were growing up, right, I had to roll
that food, even though like Cholo's warm.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
It was because they were like cheap. I couldn't roll
that kid, so I to roll his older brother, bro
when I saw him, Dude, you asill be your brother. Bro.
I saw him chewing down the street the other day.
Have you when you walk where your shoes down? At this.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Fool?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
But I want to tell that kid kind I want
to make him cry about brother. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
It's weird how kids would get upset when you made
fun of him for being poor, like they had any
control over it.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
But you don't know that. You don't know that when
you're a kid. You don't know that, dude.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
And that's the thing though, it was like I don't
ever remember what telling another kid like, yeah, yeah, I'll
talk to my dad about that when I get I just.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Wrote a home Alone movie twenty five, God, let's go
you know how my cola cocin shows up, wakes up
and his family's gone. Yeah, it'll be a little Latino kid.
He shows up from school and his parents are gone,
but he had no idea why they're gone. But oh no,
the knows why they're gone. So so throughout the movie,

(27:03):
that fool is killing like people that are trying to
break in and they're all Ice agents, and he sets
up these elaborate Via Kong traps, like he starts into
the little Ramble cops like, he puts up like traps

(27:25):
all over like Rambo, Like he's obsessed with Rambo.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Right, Oh yeah, so he's obsessed with Rambo. Home Alone,
he sets up like pungee sticks and like fucking like
like that that thing that comes out and like stabs
the guy in the arm. Dude, Yeah, all right, I'm
down with it. And it's Ice agents. Yeah, we need
that in our hearts right now.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Or it could be bounty hunters whoever looking for them.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I like Ice agents, especially right now. But if they're
and there's a bit of a flaw in that though,
because we're the parents, then they reported of course, Well
then why are the Ice agents coming back.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
They're looking for one more kid. It where a school,
but that Fords go to a private school. Bro, this
is a good home. Alone, Bro, I would go see
this just for this, just for all that. Juan alone.

(28:23):
I'm gonna split that out the mic. I'most reading your
micro ra and he he doesn't notice the right of
that kid at school, and he keep looking at the
photo of his family and they're disappearing but he don't
know why.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh so we're mixing in fucking back to the fact
in the future. Now, okay, all right, this is this
is good, dude, this is good. If we get a
call after this releases, uh, I want to I want
a part of the residuals on this.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
But imagine, bro, that movie. You change the whole movie
around and you just say, this movie is about kid,
the superhero from another planet, and these agents from the
other planet came to Earth to grab his family take

(29:12):
them back to the other planet where they belong. This
kid realizes what happens because his family give him a
little a little a little like a little eyebook iPod,
and he's watching his family disappear, and he's getting an
alert not to go home. Yet and when he and
when he gets home he realized that he actually has

(29:36):
he preys the button and the couch and all his
weapons come out, and he chosen into like this fucking
Blue Beetle motherfucker. And he goes out and he fuckings
flying around Earth, goes to the Air Force and he
takes out this convict from there, bro that he posts.
He deputies them, bro, because I got no how to
use his shield and they all fly out to that plant. It.

(30:03):
Brother says, the same movie. But you're you sell it
to white people, right, You're right, this is how you
sell it. Yeah, it's the same movie. It's so ridiculous, dude,
you let the terminator broh rah, I'm looking for stup
you sell?

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Do you want to know how you sell sell the
movie to white people?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Back to the Future, all right, we see with different actors.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
How crazy is that?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
That's what fucking Hollywood is to me right now, dude.
It's fucking remake after remake and it's like, oh fucking.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Uh, will we let this back to the future versus
Home alone? And it ends with Born in East Laom
and Blue Beetles saves somebody called the showrunner of Lopez Show.
She needs a job. We're gonna call it. We're gonna

(30:59):
call it Blue Beetle three because they took away two
and we're looking for it. What's up, man, Chicano squads

(31:20):
Man was a was a officers that were hired in Houston,
Texas during a time of turmoil in the seventies. Right there, Man,
we have Leonard Velasquez, Carlos Polino. I don't know their names, Bro.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Leonard Velaskas Leonard Velaska is okay. So the OG members,
you have six of them. Right there. You have Cecil Masquerra,
Jose Silvera, Jim Mantero, who.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Is the guy who started on that. I don't know which.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
I think he's the guy on the far back there. Yes,
you beat Hernandez, Joe de Leone, and Bobby Gatewood.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Who Bobby Gatewood. We're gonna find out and Gatewood.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Talk about him in this story.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Gate would anyway, So they saw during this time, Man,
there were a lot of people who didn't like the cops,
kind of like now and and back then there were
no there were no cops that were like Mexican back then,
or brown or spoke Spanish at all. So Man, not

(32:25):
not to go two back, but the first black officer
that was ever hired in Houston or or or Atlanta,
I don't know where it was. It could be Houston.
The first black officer to ever be hired. I went
in a rabbit hole one time and maybe like four
years ago, and that food said that he would not

(32:47):
allow to arrest white people.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
No way.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, he could talk to them, he would have to
hold him to a white officer shows up, and then
that white officer would put because on him. He was
not allowed to He could detain, but not arrest white person.
And then I said, so, so I remember I wrote
joke about that, Well what happened, Man, if he's a

(33:14):
black dude, two black dudes too white rob a fucking
they rob a bank, Well, immediately we would have to
kill those two black brothers and all the other two
people to the for real. That's so that was like
that bro se the injustice of this fucking Yeah. So
they hired these five officers that were mistakes police officers,

(33:37):
and they take them out of the the regular ally
the regular police officers job. But let me tell you,
I'm trying to get to I'm only guessing right now
where the idea came from. But this is the first
time I ever heard where they grab officers out of
nowhere and put them into a detective squad out of

(33:57):
the blue. Because there's a show called twenty one Jump
Street where they just grabbed random police officers and put
them a little squad. They're gonna be detectives also. Also,
and maybe I don't know if Aaron Spelling saw this
article too, you know, or read about these guys I

(34:18):
read about this. You know, he probably did. When I
meet Tory Spelling again, I'll ask her Charlie's Angels were
three women that were taking out of the lapd and
putting in a little special squad to investigate and go
on the cover. Two. I'm just staying at the connection
with the Chicano Squads, but go ahead, right So, yeah,

(34:40):
that's the thing is that this wasn't a special unit
for this. We're that we were.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
We're hearing about this now because they'll hide our history.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well, all of Houston knew about this Chicano Squad for
a while, like because it was a big deal back then.
This is also the first time so let me just give.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
You a comedian from over there who didn't know about
it really, Oh.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh, well that person needs to do there. I don't
know if they know about it now. But at the
time that the Chicano Squad was an active investigation unit,
they were they were well known for some time because
of what had happened. But in nineteen seventy nine, Houston
reached a record of six hundred and sixty four homicides.

(35:22):
Six hundred and sixty four homicides in nineteen seventy nine
and one fourth. That means a quarter of the victims
were Hispanic and we're Spanish speaking origin, so that so
and and and and just like just to give you
an idea, you know what, like how bad that is?

(35:44):
Like you have a quarter of people that were affected
by homicides that are not even getting them solved because
there's nobody speaking Spanish in the in the detective units.
So every so they have one guy who the detective
this is the guy who started the whole thing. His
name is Jim Montero. They would bring this guy in

(36:06):
every once in a while to the homicide unit because
they needed someone to speak Spanish on a certain case.
And he would get there and he was he was
a robbery detective right, he was just doing robbery. He
was like the first Hispanic detective ever in Houston PD.
Like that, and that itself is a big deal. So
they're calling him over having them. They go, oh, these

(36:28):
people speak Spanish. So he starts working homicide homicides with
people that speak Spanish and then he's doing all the
work at this point, not even like anybody's helping him.
So he goes to the chief and he's like, let
me put together a unit or I need more help
with this, And actually that's what he was like. He

(36:48):
didn't even say let me put together a unit. He
was like, I need more help, so if I can
get some more Spanish speaking officers.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
But Jim had a.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Really good idea, bro. He had like a really dope
idea in the back of his mind. He he didn't
put his plan out in the open for everybody to hear,
but in his mind he knew Chicano Squad was gonna
happen because he was like, Uh, I'm doing all the work,
and if I can get a couple more other detectives,
our guys officers off the street to come in and

(37:16):
then do all this detective work, then all of us
could be detectives and we could have our own unit.
So he was already shooting for the Chicano squad because
when he first approached.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
He's the chief.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
It was an idea of like, let's just have Spanish
spe speaking officers hang out with detectives. Yeah, and then
len and just shadow them and then like and then
and then translate. But you know, it's a white detective. Bro. Like,
if I'm a white detective and you're a Mexican guy
back in nineteen seventy nine and you're doing all the
talking with this person, I'm gonna give you the pad too,

(37:51):
because it's like go ahead, here, go ahead, you do
all the fucking work. Yeah, and so then they you know,
So then that's what kind of happened, is that you
had like these six guys who were doing actual detective
work and they were just officers. Like you have to
pass it like a detective's exams. You have to pass
like a whole thing to get into being a detective.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
So one more thing, one more thing.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
So that's the other thing too, Bro, is like I'm like,
you're you're they're coming in as detectives in a in
this department where white officers are also trying to be detectives.
And so not only are they being shipped on by
people of their own color who don't like that they're cops,
but now they're being shipped on by their own kind

(38:34):
who are cops, who are jealous that they're making detective.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Hey, they went right away, they went from giving out
ticket to being detective. Let's talk with that.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
I'll tell you why it happened to they moved. Bro.
We totally fucking skipped over this part.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
My bad.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
What what triggered this whole thing is the death of
Jose Campo's torres.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Uh did you a veteran of his own business? That's right, bro.
We just had just came out of the Vietnam War
and he was trying to find his foot in the world.
I don't know how to do things in his life.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Sure, And then you're a Mexican guy, got he just
got out of the military like decorated, decorated, bro. He
was like an army range handsome. And but life isn't easy.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
For that guy.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Life is not easy for that guy. And and because
it's the seventies and already for Vietnam vets, life isn't
easy but on top of all of that, fucking um,
you're Mexican and you live in Texas like it's got
like it's gotta be the worst, right. So anyway, he's
arguing with his bartender over money. The bartender goes, get

(39:46):
the fuck out of here. He's like, I don't want
to leave, just like any other normal drunk patron. And
then so the bartender, just like any normal bartender, goes,
I'm gonna call the cops. And then the cops show up.
And this guy's a Vietnam VET and he's drunk and
he's in the Rangers, so he's not afraid of the
fucking cops. So he starts talking to the cops, which, okay,
you're not supposed to do that, and maybe you should

(40:06):
go to jail or get in trouble, I don't know,
but you shouldn't get beaten down, put in the car
and taken to a place called the Hole, which is
right along the Buffalo by you. And that's what happened
to this guy. And then they beat they beat the
fuck out of him. This is what's crazy. They beat
the fuck Rodney worse than Rodney King's style. Well it's well,

(40:27):
they admitted Rodney King into the hospital when they took it,
because they beat the crap out of him first, took
him to the hospital, and the hospital was like, we
can't take this guy. You abuse the fuck out of him.
Take him to another hospital. So the cops were like, well,
we don't know what to do with him. So they
take him back to that place by the bayou and
they push him into the water and then they go
swim w back. I don't know if I'm about to.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Say that word on this swim web back.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Yeah, he's all see this wetback and swim and so
he pushes him into the water and uh, you know,
there's witnesses that had heard it. And then his body
comes floating up the next day and he's supposed to
be in the hospital, but he's not and he's dead,
and it's really easy to pinpoint who did it, and
so they go after the cops who did it, and uh,

(41:13):
this is why I didn't bring this up first, because
he was at the bottom of my my notes here.
So there's five officers involved. One of them was the
one that didn't hit. All of them are white. Only
one of them didn't hit towards He was a cop.
He was like a legacy cop. His dad was a cop.
His name was Carlos Elliott, and so he went. When

(41:34):
this all started to pop off and they found the
body floating in the water, he went straight to the
chief and was like, hey, I was there. These guys
beat the fuck out of him. They killed him already.
At this point, Houston is facing a huge problem, especially
in the Hispanic community, because not only murder are murders
going unsolved. Murders are just they're just happening.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
There's one story in that pops up later in the
chicanosk on just this is just to give you an
idea of how bad it was when they give When
the Chicano squad starts, they give a caseload to all
these different guys, and one of the things that the
guy does is he takes his first case and he
goes to a canteena and he walks in and he goes, how,

(42:16):
I'm here to investigate this murder. And the girl's like,
that was like three years ago. You guys are just
showing up now, and he goes, yeah, well, now I'm
going to figure it out, and she goes, well, just
to let you know, he comes in every day still,
and he's like why, He's like, yeah, he lives across
the streets. She goes outside and she points to his house.
She goes, he lives there, but he comes in every
day and dude, so imagine how like pissed you are

(42:40):
as a citizen of this in the city that you're
Mexican and just because you can't speak Spanish, you live
in a world where there's no laws. Bro, there's no bro.
This guy got away with murdering someone virtually, bro, Like
just nobody did anything about it for years. Yeah, it
was like a Hispanic on Hispanic crime. And that was
the thing is that that was the thing was that

(43:00):
it wasn't like white people were coming in fucking on
Mexican people. It was that Mexican people were fucking on
Mexican people and the cops were like, well, that's their
problem because we don't speak Spanish. And so this huge
dude a lot of lawlessness.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
And then then then Latino they were taking a value
of the situation.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Huh beef, Well, bad guys were taking the advantage of
the situation, Like that guy in the bar, like he
killed a guy got away with it and was walking
into that bar and the lady was like, he bullies
everybody he comes in, He drinks whenever he wants, he
doesn't pay. But there's nothing we could do because he
literally killed someone and you guys didn't do shit about it.
So after the death of Jose Capo's Tours, they dumb

(43:41):
him in the water, like they convict the cops. Actually,
actually the first round of court cases, the cops, Uh,
two of the cops got off because they routed out
the other two cops, and those two cops convicted. You
know how much time they got, bro, guess how much
time those cops got.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Fine, we're throwing a guy.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Yeah, they fucking threw him, and dude, they fucking gave
him probation for a year. And they find them each
one dollar one dollar?

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (44:10):
How insulting is that to a community? Like after the
cops like deliberately kills someone, they fucking now just at
like they get off scot free, and and so the
community is up in arms. They actually wait like almost
a whole year on the on the on the day
of the one year anniversary that Jose Kampo's tour has died. Uh,

(44:32):
there's a huge festival but there's so much tension. There's
a fight happens between a girl and a guy, and
then a bunch of guys get in the middle of it,
and then a fight breaks out between these Mexican people,
and then the cops decide, well, we're gonna break this
up by fucking driving into the crowd, and so they
drive into the crowd. The crowd loses it, They start

(44:52):
fucking up the cars. Four officers get hurt, one fucking dies.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
It's crazy. It's called the riots, uh of Booty Park Riots.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
So so that's the thing is the chief is like, well,
what do we do to cure this problem? We need
Spanish speakers. So they start the Chicano Squad and it's
six guys who are out there you know, reporting, you know,
like uh, basically doing the detective's jobs for the white
detective's jobs for them. And they were also given in

(45:28):
ninety days to do. So this program got started, right,
and these guys who never would have made it to
detective are now detectives.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
And first of all, describe the conditions they went into.
They went to a small ass office.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
One desk, yeah, one desk, dude, a whole room full
of guys one desk to work on like that was
the thing is that the Houston PD wasn't wasn't necessarily
helping them out and being like, hey, welcome, we love
Mexican people, come on in and investigate our crimes.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Not even one talk sauce. Just one one fucking desk,
one table, one desk with no taco sauce in it.
And then there was a point where when when the
Chicano squad was just they're sitting like ducks in the
in a little tiny office waiting for assignments, and they

(46:19):
started seeing like all this workload, these boxes of unsolved cases.
And then and then some of these guys who were
not like detectives yet, but they can see how easy
it was to solve these crimes, right they said, I
can handle this right now. And that's what they were.
That's why that guy went to that bar, right yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
And it was a lot of that where it was
like because this isn't like now when you're thinking of
like when you like watch colors and they're like, these
people don't want to like talk to us, they don't
want to be witnesses. This was these people's neighborhoods, and
they were like, we want to tell the cops what's happen.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
They won't see it, right there, will styl their own people.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yeah, oh yeah they did.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
They would.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Yeah, well, their own people were against them. Like one
of them, Detective Sizel Musqueta, his mom didn't talk to
him for a whole year when he first became a
police officer. I mean, these are good.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
People, bro.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Nobody trust the cops to begin with.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
You're a cop. You pissed it on Kennedy.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
So yeah, and they had ninety days to prove themselves.
They also had ninety days to prove that this program
would work, and so they went to work right away
and they were given within three days, they were given
five cases each.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
If you want to know more about this man, you
could watch the whole series on A and E and
it's on Hulu. It's called Chicano Squad. Also, there's a podcast.
It's up to you. Guys. Wanted to a podcast. I couldn't.
I couldn't. I couldn't get through the first thirty minute
of that podcast. But if you want to go listen
to the podcast, it's on Spotify. It's like eleven episodes.

(47:56):
That's very I'll tell you the problem, man.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Podcast wasn't even that it.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Was it was read, not told. The problem was read
not told how the podcast. Like, right, I did a
podcast and you could tell that I wasn't reading.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
It felt like it was dictated, dictated.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Word.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Yeah, it was a hard podcast to get through.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
I'm from Texas. Oh my god, bro, you can have
a drink take shots every time the whole said.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
The I'm from Texas and this is how it happens.
And I was like, you're from Texas every time, bro,
it was like the cops are racist and believe me,
I'm from Texas.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
I could tell and it's like, okay, we get it,
but okay, you coming on that. But there was some
stuff where like when I did a podcast, everybody I showed,
I showed my own opinion, you know, I showed my opinions,
but they didn't like the podcast was this part and
the review I want to go listen to the view

(49:00):
of the podcast with the spoilers. That's like an hour
and a half podcast. They're called The Comedy. They're called
the Crime Writers okay yea, the Crime Writers podcast, and
they review podcasts.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Oh I gotta hear this one, then listen to that one.
I didn't because you were like, listen to this one first.
Because yeah, actually you said now that because you did
say that. I think you did say listen to this
one first, but I thought you were saying, so listen.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
To this one.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
This one isn't that great.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Yeah, but yes, that's what I said. But on that
crime's podcast, they broke it down. The whole series of
that podcast an hour and a half and that's all
you needed. What they said was this man like the
podcast took too long to get to the Connor's coo. Well,
I was dying.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
I was dying the last episode.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
And then they focused toomuch on that on the podcast
broken down like this the John the Torrist story. That
should have been one whole podcast by itself, the Tories. Yeah,
jose to podcast right to talk about that murder, because
that don't even that's that's nothing to do with the

(50:08):
Chiconos squad.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Bro that murder itself, that whole situation could have been
its own thing. Yeah, I mean they talk about it
in the first of all, this is eight podcasts, eight
separate episodes, all an hour or something each. The fucking
A and E movie or our series two episodes, one

(50:29):
of them an hour and a half, the other one
one hour. It doesn't take that much to talk about this.
And they brushed over that the Jose compos Tours thing
is what triggered this. But yeah, like they did a
whole bro, it was so so much that they could
have left out too.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
On top of it, on that Crime Writer podcast they
said exactly what I said, Bro, this should be a series.
I'll go watch it right now. And that woman on
the show, she said that, oh, you gotta have a montage,
a blong bontage of these these these these guys, these
Chicago squad guys. Who there's her words. Who I think

(51:05):
that's cool? You know, you show a long montage with
them walking into the men's store and picking off suits
men's warehouse and then showing those foods walking into the
fucking Detective Squads office with the monta and everybody just
looking at them with those bad suits, and then you

(51:26):
cut and then it goes back to the little ass office.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah, totally totally, But there's.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Some it could be a good series, man. And they
were to make it like a Narco style.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
It would have been a great series.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
It was.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
It's a it's a great story, and they can actually
make a real series out of it, like like an
n CIS type.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, it would be forty pounds like.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
On the other side of the detectives a criminal.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
But I'll depend on how old were they cops when
they were a cops thirties.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Well, they stayed till they were old, but.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
When they hired them, they were in the twenty or thirties.
When they in their twenties.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Okay, man, you'd have to be the older version of
the cop. If you were to play one of the cops.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Play the older cop when he's talking.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Yeah, what happened was that it threw it threw us
into the office homes. Then I can see how Hollywood
would make all those guys higher, like the best looking
career being latinos to play them.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
It would be all like Benjamin Bratt when he was younger.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Oh, you could Havejin Brad bro he could pay one
of those guys.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Yeah, and uh it would be Luiman, dude, Brad brad
Pitt would play one of them, but would like, you.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Don't need Brad Pitt Broke, we got wet.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
There's Benicio del Toro.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Oh, look about Toby Wallace.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Please, that's Benicio del Toro's kid.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
No, that's Toby Wallace, but for the Motorcycle Riders. Oh yeah,
I met him. I met him and I really yeah.
I met him at the at the soccer game. And
then when I remember that he was the guy that
killed Tom Hardy in the movie.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
And Bro, we talked about you in our podcast. We're
saying we were saying that that you were that dude
that supposed to play the police Taco Bowman from the Outlaws.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah, what did he say?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
He goes, I saw that. Somebody showed me that he
saw Yeah, yeah, bro, Because for Wooze we mentioned that
he was taught that a lot of people were saying
that he was playing a young version of Taco Bowman,
the president of the Outlaws with him prison runner looking
Taco Bowman, he.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Took over the Outlaws and made it from a beer drinking.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
From beer drinking crew to a doug ass international crew.
Because I always thought Tom Hardy fucked up in that movie.
When that when Toby Wallace came in with his crew.
Remember Toby Wallace had a young ass headband when you
were young.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I think the movie.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Actually once Toby Wallace said in a movie, I want
to be part of your club, and he says, then
Tom Hardy goes, you could, but now you're friends, and
he goes, all right, so you give away your friends
like that, Yeah, you can't be in it. Yeah but
that but tak member will kill will do whatever you want, right,

(54:31):
he didn't get the.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Future, No, totally, totally.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
So they're put to go head up one on one
member and then yeah, and then that fool just shot
his ass.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
He fucking killed him, bro, which is kind of how
it went down in real life too.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
But not how it goes down in real life anything. Huh. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Well, and that's the thing is, like everything's done, you know,
like the Mafia was probably started innocently, like it was
a protection group, like gang start.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
A lot of gangs.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Started innocently because they were like, we need to protect
ourselves from these guys. And then it turns out that
all of a sudden, they're a gang as well, and
now they're causing trouble and now they're fucking shit out.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Yeah man, So what else did you learn, bro? From
the Chicano Squad.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
So the Chicano Squad, bro, so they had there, there's
a pretty impressive group, dude. They had ninety days to
prove themselves. Within ninety days ninety days, they scored forty clearances,
meaning they saw forty cases. They and then over a
four year period, they cleared their they cleared their caseloaded

(55:33):
by ninety percent and then they kept it at ninety
one percent throughout the entire time that they were solving cases.
So it wasn't like they did get lucky at first,
and there were cases that were just given to them,
but these guys had to work for it, and they
constantly had to work for it, and at the end
they weren't even appreciated for it.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
What's crazy, bro, is that there's one copy that huh No,
well not until lately, like literally just like the last
four or five years, they were acknowledged and inducted into
their like a museum in front of Houston's thing. But
what's crazy is there's a cop that's in the Chicano
Squad that's rarely talked about, and that's Bobby Gatewood. He

(56:11):
got cop stealing money from from drug dealers? What stealing
money from drug and so he's kind of a shame
to the Chicano Squad because he was stealing money from
a lot of guys that they were working and busting.
But one of the things that I wanted to point
out was that they gave this guy a time and
they arrested him, and he's got a criminal record, which

(56:35):
is fine, you should do that to cops that are corrupt.
But the cops who killed that dude that triggered this
whole Chicano Squad happening, they got a year of probation
and a dollar fine. You know, so it kind of
gives you an idea of how fucked up things were
back then.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
A dollar fine broad ninety seven year, probably ten bucks.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Yeah, okay, well yeah, I didn't count for inflation, but yeah,
they had.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
A ninety one percent clearance rate.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
They were They were disbanded in twenty ten, given that
at that by then the diversity had taken over the department,
But this was a department that didn't want to change.
This department didn't want to become I recommend the.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
A anything all day long. It was great.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
The podcast was super fucking boring, and you could leave
a lot of details. Uh, there's not there there was
no which was crazy as I watched the A and
E thing and it was just as informative and less
time it takes, I know.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
And especially like that person that will host in that
podcast you're known, Why am I barely hearing about now?
You didn't promote it?

Speaker 3 (57:42):
I know.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
That was the other thing, Like I promoted the shit
of my podcast. Everything you do, you promote, Yeah, like this,
this is a very informative podcast about Chicago Squad. You
should have been out there yelling it out. Why don't
I barely hearing it?

Speaker 3 (57:57):
I've been so proud that I did that poduct I.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Would have been so roud. I don't get I don't
get it. Where the point about that one?

Speaker 3 (58:05):
The research just simply because the programming that was out
there for it, or the the content for it was
just inadequate, and not that I.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Felt like the host was trying to not not not
not so much also not so much push, but also
save their career so they keep working. I don't want to.
They don't want to. They don't want to a tarnage
like oh, like Hollywood gonna hire them no more?

Speaker 3 (58:36):
This I felt like there was a lot of embellishment,
you know, I just felt like there was a lot
of like this happened to me too, And it's like
I don't know if that it happened to you, but okay,
we'll go with that. You know, there was a lot
of like, hey, I grew up. You know, I just
feel like that. You know what, man, It's okay to
be like ah, even though I was like for me,

(58:57):
I never tried to push that I had a struggle,
because I really did have a struggle.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
I was I thought you grew up in an abandoned
mountain Miike pizza joint.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
No.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
As an adult, I struggled, but I forced myself and
that was a fucking YMC. But the thing is, dude,
is that I never like go man. I mean when
I when my parents didn't have a lot of money,
I was a little kid. I just what I'm saying
is I know.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
You're saying, bro, you're saying that that party or led
them to define you have to sit.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
There and go this happened to me and I experienced
this as well. Like that was the hard part was
like I don't want this is no offense to the
person who was.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Doing That's something you will say, like if your life
did not go, well.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
I just don't want to hear your conjecture. I want
to hear what the story is about.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
I wanted to say something about these asshole cops by
the way, but nothing that that. No, And then the
part that good with the moll was when the cops
didn't speak up at first, she the host said, that's
something that cop would do back then. They were just
pack each other up. And this is something that the

(01:00:07):
crime writers had a problem with right there. Yeah, that
that really, that's did they talk about it. That's what
they mentioned a lot to that. Yeah, and that's what
they mentioned that they seen this this this host speak
up at political rally and speak up her voice. But
they were like they didn't see that, and they didn't
see that. That that the boys on the podcast. Dude,

(01:00:31):
I went through it, broblem because I just took the information,
you know, not to fast forward a lot. I got it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
I listened to the entire thing and it was really hard.
I had to put it at one and a half.
I put it all the way that wanted to ask me.
I usually put it to one point two when I
when I need to finish, but I put that one
and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I was fast, Bro. It sounded like a like an auction.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
This was the first time I did I did research
for the podcast and actually felt like I was studying
for an exam. Yeah, me too, because I was just
like this is And then even last night, bro, it
was like by the time I got to the A
and East documentary, I was burned out and I was
just lugging through it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Dude. Uh but we you know, but I think the
group deserves more credit.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Credit and recognition that it's gotten so far. The Chicano
Squad's fucking rad. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Those guys are fucking dope. And if the duo show
about it, I hope they don't soften it up. Man,
I hope they don't either. You gotta hear the hear
the w B and mean the Warner Brothers.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
There's one case though, that I did really like. And
this is like a TV worthy case. So and and
this is so like almost typical, or you would go,
oh this this works. So this lady is watering, like
her husband comes home late from work, she puts the
kids to bed. She's got four kids, they have a
two bedroom apartment. They're very poor in this small neighborhood.

(01:01:54):
She puts her kids down for bed. They got a
brand new baby. Husband comes home, she kisses him. He's
now in with the kids. She goes out to water
the yard. A homeless lady walks by her, a girl,
a young girl, and she asked her if she speaks Spanish.
She's like yes, She's like, I'm homeless. I ran away
from this gang. I'm from Mexico City. I don't know

(01:02:16):
where I'm at. And the lady's like, we'll come in
and I'll feed you. And then she starts to feel
sorry first, so she lets her stay the night, and
the dad is like, no, no, let's give her money,
Let's get her the fuck out of here. I just
don't trust this person. Well, the dad tries to stay
awake but ends up falling asleep. The girl steals the
baby and takes off back to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Shut the fuck up, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
And that's the one thing about the podcast that was
the only thing that I did like about the podcast
that was cool was they kept having this girl speaking
for the lady like, yeah, my mom did this, my
mom did that, and then but it ended up being
the little girl that was part that was kidnapped. So
what happened is is that the girl goes back to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Takes the baby back.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
The fucking Chicano squad gets involved. Even though it's not no,
they didn't sell, even though it's not a homicide case,
the Chicano squad is like, we gotta do something.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
They tracked the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Fucking baby to Mexico. They hit up the FBI and say, hey,
there's an international kidnapping. There's a Mexican there's a baby
from America that's in Mexico right now that was kidnapped.
FBI goes, we don't have anybody speaking Spanish today, call
us tomorrow. So one of the cops is like fuck that.
He goes to the news and they put it all
over the news, and for a minute, Houston starts to

(01:03:32):
go wild and be like, yeah, we need that baby
back now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
But then, but then one.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
But one bigger incident happens and I don't know if
you remember this happening. I don't remember if you it
wasn't Chili's. Do you remember Baby Jessica? Yeah, Baby Jessica
happened in Midland, Texas. Uh, you know, a few cities
over and it drowned out, this baby being kidnapped and
taking back to Mexico. So once again, the Houston PD

(01:04:01):
was like an FBI and everybody's like, nope, we don't
care about that baby. So the Chicano Squad got money,
got on the plane and got that baby and brought
it back to that mom. That is a fucking That's
one of the dopest cases. I thought that was really
Coolah yeah, I'd be the whole movie rut there right right, Oh,
that would be a good movie with the Chicano Squad.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
But yeah, that they did a lot of cases like that.
There's a whole like Colombian invasion that happened in Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Yeah, they had to fight off the Colombian because the
seventies was the time when that one drug deliver Raphael
bro from the border middle Fatista or something like that. Yeah,
that was crazy. Yeah, that's another story on the history
for fools. Yeah, thank you everybody for listening to the
Chicano Squad. Thank you for watching. There's more information out

(01:04:49):
there on Chicano Squad, but you gotta find it for
yourself because this was a hard one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
Yeah, we were failed by the system on this one.
We had so many little to work with Yeah, we
did have a little to work with only one podcast
about them. There was only one podcast, which is weird, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Ice, you could interview one of those cops, Yeah, totally.
I have him and I hear and go list it. Bro.
That's good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
You know what, once we got our Patreon up, maybe
I might have an interview for you guys. We'll see
on the next one.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Yeah, bust

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