EP 74 - The Rodney King Riots aka The 1992 Los Angeles Riots - History for Foos

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Speaker 1 (00:44):
Welcome to history. For fools. We went to the city
Hall in Los Angeles for justice, and that's how we
found was just us. Nice but your priory there man,
when he was talking about oh is that what he
said in one of the Yeah, we went out there

(01:07):
for justice, and I thought we found just us. It
was pretty much sums up the all the protesting in
Los Angeles right out there. We went out there for justice,
and now we found.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was just us, just us. Especially this last riots we had.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
There is not in a riot, bro, Like ten people
got arrested for just putting a flower in a cops chest. Bro,
Unless you start, unless you start seeing fucking Armenians with
shotguns and AK forty sevens on top of the nine
nine cents stores they own, it ain't a riot.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Bro this time.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
If you don't see fucking those Indian motherfuckers and Artisha
on top of their roofs a protecting their fucking eighty
nine cent stores.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, well I got a riot.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
How was at a bar when they were like announced
that they were bringing out the National Guard when Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
They brought him into soon, Bro, This dude goes.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It gets worse during the during when when the Lakers win.
I was like, fuck, dude, like because it was crazy
how they just brought him in like that.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Man. Bro, that's something you do when your approval ratings is.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Down or you're trying to hide something.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah or whatever, or your approval rating is down, man,
you take a bullet to the ear, you know. Yeah,
bon o'reagan.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
When he was shot, his approval ratings went so high
he got re elected, but before that it was all down. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
So that's probably what got him reelected, was that that
he got shot.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah. And also that's what I know that he was
very popular after he was shot and to this day.
But know the guy who shout out they know.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
His name, yeah, Hinkley, Yeah something Hinkley Jr. And I
don't even know anything much about that really.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And he did it because it was crazy. He was
He wrote that book Catcher in the Ryot, which is
my brother's favorite book.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Hinkley Junior wrote that was the favorite book. Oh, that
was his favorite book, cat in the Rye.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
That my brother, my brother Angel.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's his favorite book.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
And he's been in other prison too. Bro.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
What is Catchuring the Rye about?

Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's about a guy who's steals her rye bread from
an old lady in New York and he goes, give
me that right braid, you don't hag And then right
here you put the clip right here of Steinfeldt, and
that's our video for next week.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm expecting like the correct answer, and it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I never read Catching a Rye, bro, because I'm not crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Okay, yeah, yeah, Well you know what's funny is my
mom's favorite book was Catturing the Rye and she was crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay, she was fucking brute.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
My mom was.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
There's three books that defines the generation of Generation X,
which is us and before us. If you read Catching
a Rye, you're crazy, motherfucker. Bro. All right, you're crazy.
If you read On the Road by Jack Kurk and
never finished it, you are on the road right now.

(04:42):
You are on the road right now.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're on the road with a lot of other people.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
You mentioned that book to people without quoting not even
one line from the book.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yes, there's so many there's so many people that talk
about it that have never read it.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
And if you read Child because you're live, well, you're
probably an alcoholic, a player, a guy who lives alone,
and a guy that posed to write a novel sooner
or later.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I gotta admit Charles Mukowski gave me. I didn't really
know Bukowski until I met you. Like i'd heard quotes
and stuff. Then I met you, and you you you
like you let me hear this like I don't know,
maybe a page and a half of him reading, and
I was like, this guy is the best thing ever.

(05:29):
And I started listening to him and it's like, oh,
Charles Mukowski gives me a good reason for being like
a lazy piece of shit. I love like like it
makes it very poetic. So yeah, I think Mukowski's more
of the book that I started reading. Oh what is that?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Who's that right?

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Guy to the right?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, you're not ready due that guy?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Who is that guy?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Look at him closely?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh that guy? Oh no, you're not ready, bro. Holy ship,
I did not recognize that what is that?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
From? I wish I will sh would have brought this
up when we're doing history for Fool's Comedy Latino Comedy,
because Willie Barsana Sacha Sandoval, that dude, I don't know
his name, but he has good hair.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, it looks like a really polish.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Podcast. Okay, I can't think of his name right now.
And Larry Omaha bro native comedian.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, that's how I okay, the guy in the on
that right hand.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
And there was it's called under Exposed. And there were
a Latino comedy group like boys in the Hood, boys boys,
kids on the block, that type of ship ship and
they will do sketches together.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I wonder why they didn't.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And Willie was a highlighted of the show.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh my god, Bro must have been. I wish I
was a fly on the wall in that room, dude, Like,
can you imagine having to be in a comedy sketch
group with William Barsena and he's the like hottest comic
in the group, like.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
He said, I heard that the bit he sure put
that group together?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Really no ship?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, And and the really said now I want to
do stand up. Probably it would break off from the
group and do stand up and then that's when he
was banned front of the comedy store or kicked out.
I'm not sure I could have it all wrong. History
for fools, you know, I'm talking about history for fools
our mottos anyway, So you guys, you guys want to
know more about that, go at the man himself. He

(07:44):
broke whatever to underexposed.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Wish that he was talking to me now, so I
could ask him that. But that's then wouldn't make him
not talk to me again.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I was this, I was this Chinese market, and man,
they would have the great stuff. I found a box
of hotcakes ubikes and I had puto to the Filipino
putos benoy favorite, Okay, hotcake creamy classic and the other

(08:19):
I never thought. I never heard of bebingainga Benoi favorite
just that water.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, binga babinka or something like that.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I never had none of those.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I've had babinkaa have. My ex wife is Filipino and
she I think she bought that exact thing before.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, man, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
I'll be honest, not a fan.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
You know what's crazy? How like immigrants right Irish German whoever,
when they came, they came and they made up with
her foods and we talked about that when when we
talked about Chinese soul food and but lit. But the

(09:06):
next generation, I don't know, maybe they can't find the products.
So now the products are either or fine, so it's
now in a box and then they're in a box, right,
and then you you still have to add eggs, oil
and eggs, oil, water and salt. Okay, that's the way

(09:29):
that generation does it. The next generation, their box is
the box we have where you're just at an egg
and water, very simple and ship. So you asked me,
right now, how do I make pancakes without that box?
I have no fucking idea, motherfucker. I don't have to

(09:50):
go three generations to learn that, because my mom and
my grandmother they know how to make pancakes not even
looking at it, was not even measuring. Yeah, me, I know,
I know that I bought boxing. Were you gonna put
an egg in oil? That's my generation right. Well, now
it's just egg in a box.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
You don't even need. No, it's water water like the
what it used to be, the old antemima. It's called
something mill.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Now gonna skip all that and then it'll just be
a pill. It'll be no no an expands your stomach.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Like in fucking Running Man. But I would think. I
think what is happening though, is that it'll be like
so like guys that fly in, like those bombers, they
have to wear space suits and so you can't take
your spacesuit off to eat and they'll be flying for hours.
And they have a metal tube with like a big

(10:44):
long straw at the end of it that they poke
into a hole in the side of their helmet, and
it's got like all the like it's got a meal
in it. There's like a pizza in one. There's like
a Sunday like a banana Sunday, and another one. And
I watched an interview with those guys and they're like,
it tastes just like that what you're eating. So I

(11:08):
think that will evolve into that eventually.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
So in the future, we're not gonna chew on a ship.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
It'll be tubes. I mean, you know, it's like you
ever hear of that theory that the aliens that we
see with the fake and weird face and stuff, that
that's just us in the future that will like not
need will like at some point not need certain things
like teeth or uh, you know, like I don't know,

(11:35):
like parts of our bodies that like I knows like
at some point we won't need to nose anymore.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
White people worry about that.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
I don't worry about it, but.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
But that's crazy, like why we want to know all
that stuff. Yeah, yeah, what a waste of time studying
evolved all that time, you can learn how to play
you cal man. You can know how to draw, You
could know how to do a script. You could have
learned how to clean jewelry?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Were eleven dollars to have bullshit? Bro? I think they
put breed and then you start believing whatever the guy
who's talking, you start believing his political abuse.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, that could happen.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's what happens, bro. Like you're still there for a
long time, but later on the message gets into your head, Bro,
what they're trying to send you?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean like all this time you're watching your your binge,
watching a show, but then you go out and buy
a box of bingie.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Coac right, whatever's on it.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, because you're watching a bunch of Filipido comedians all day.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Beam and Bob not Bob what we were saying, uh
ba binga being Bob.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I think it's for Korean people. I don't know, but
binga can refer to things primarily a group of pygmy
peoples in Central Africa, a type of African hardwood. Oh
look at that beautiful. That's nice.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
But being as a flat pancake.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I guess I use the pancake with the water. I'll
be honest with you. I can make pancakes from scratch
because I looked it up one time on the internet.
But uh, I still I don't mind the water with
the fucking just adding water is fine. I put it

(13:28):
in a jar, shake it up instant breakfast.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
In that book, Fact told him him and Hendry Chanasky
and this lady, they get up in the middle of
the days shit right, and it's how fucking alcoholic type
he is. It's like so good, how bad he is?
She asked her. You know what time it is, and
their clock is slow, so it's thirty minutes. It's like

(13:58):
forty five minutes ahead. And when it hits out the
hour and forty five minutes, the clock stopped for thirty minutes.
Then then you're gonna rewind it and started again, So
you owe yourself one hundred and sixty minutes. So he
does all that shit, all that math to tell her

(14:20):
a five point fifty. Then he pulls the clock back
to the right time by fifty but then again, but
then it slows down at forty five minutes, it starts
again and then she goes, you want dinner. She goes, ah, oh,
we have still pancake Max, Like that's a typical hood

(14:45):
rat woman alcoholic right there?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
How do we have his pancake mix?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Like you don't know that for the last three days
all you have a pancake mix. You gotta be repeating,
beating it. It's make it worse. Just say straight up
you want to eat we got pancakes little a refrigerator
again and get dramatic all we have with pancakes, bitch,
we have pancakes three days ago. We have pancakes today.

(15:10):
And then she tells them, ah, we forgot to get butter.
He said, I'll eat them dry like your dried ass.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I remember that part of the book because I remember thinking, like, you're.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Like, Bro, how fucking horrible.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I cannot eat pancakes without butter.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Bro, you know what? That pancake tastes like bro with
no butter and no ass. It tastes like the worst
fucking cone with no ice cream. Ever.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, it's gross. It's actually grosser than that.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
It tastes like an ice cream cone with no ice cream,
but worse.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
I've had it because my mom. There's been my mom
is the kind of mom who was like, we don't
have fucking syrup or butter. Be happy with what you got,
and so we and you'd have to eat it or
you get beat so fucking I would just eat it.
And I remember eating dry pancakes one time and it
was the grossest thing I ever tasted, and it took

(16:07):
me years to get that taste out of my mouth.
Anytime I'd eat pancakes, like, now I love pancakes again,
but it kind of fucked me up for pancakes for
a while.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
We used to eat flapjacks, Bro, I thought you mean that,
like caught the one in the freezer, bro. Growing up,
But we eat pancakes with no Syrupy's that's so sad, Bro.
It's the panca that we will get.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
But I can have pancakes with butter and no syrup,
but not no butter and no syrup.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
No, it's just no butter, no syrup.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh that's so gross too.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
So my mom would just put a bunch of sugar
and cinnamon steaks on it, on it. Things were eating it, okay,
but the cake, so it was like a pan pancake
and then fry. Bro. But it was sugary and flavor.
It will put jelly over.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yes, that sounds amazing. Good, that sounds amazing.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
So I didn't know that. Later on you put we
would look at the white people and she had commercials
was syrup?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Right?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:13):
So you didn't even know about syrup as a kid.
Oh fuck yeah, No, I knew about it. I just didn't.
Sometimes my mom was like, fuck it, we don't have syrup.
You know what I did? The one time I had, like,
you know, the Captain Crunch, when all that ship at
the bottom, when you're done with a box of Captain Crunch,
there was a little bit not enough for a bowl,
and so I smashed the rest of that up and

(17:34):
I poured it into the pancake mix and then I
made the pancake and that was fucking bomb. Bro, that
was bomb. I'm a fat I'm a fat man, olympiad.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Wow, so you're cereal? Okame with a needle with incident
in it?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Pretty much I got pretty much pretty much what kicked
over my type two diabetes was that particularly set of pancakes.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Actually that might be true. That was around the time
I was diagnosed.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
There it is bro lucky charms honey.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Oh yeah, See, dude, I swear to God, just take
some like cereal, crunch it up whatever your favorite kind is,
like uh, cocoa pebbles or something, and throw that into
the It's fucking amazing, dude, it's amazing that whoever did
that's a genius. Right.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I will crunch it up, bro, my favorite srry like
fruit loops. Crunch it up, put it to a side.
Then I will get that, honey, that one of your
lucky charms with the marshmallows. I would crunch up the
marshmallows on the side, right. Oh, and then when I
get my cone, I would dip them all in and

(18:45):
then I would have blue syrup over it.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Get the fuck out of here, bro, there's a bridge. Amazing.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
There's a British guy and London somewhere South London, mate,
and that food. Bro, He's like, I guess it's the
British thing, the way they do ice cream over there,
because right here is like what the ice cream man
had a bunch of ice creams right or sometimes you
get lucky and it's a real ice cream man with

(19:12):
a fucking with the soft serve, soft serve.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Never have I seen ice cream trucks like that until no,
even even when I was a little yeah no, we
just had a guy that handed out bars and then
yeah candy in the back ship like that. When I
I was in Boil Heights and this truck is going
down the street and and it's like ice cream truck.

(19:37):
And I stopped the guy because I wanted to treat
and and I was expected to get like a ninja
turtle with the gum eyeball in it, the fucking little
retarded ninja turtle looking ones. He didn't have none of that.
He had soft serve. It was amazing, Bro. It was
the creamiest ice cream I'd ever had.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Hell yeah, yeah, bro, if you are the best, I'm
lie out even fucking lying. Dude, you gotta you gotta
drive around the hood in l A because they have people.
There's a guy like the Good Humor guy from back
in the fifties. Dude, who fucking serves these out of
a truck. It's fucking amazing. It was one of the
best like tasting things ever.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dude, let me tire. Man, if you're sitting in your house,
you started hearing the most saddest song ever. It's the
ice cream ice cream. You'd be sitting and depressed and
show already. Then you hear eighteen yeah thing hinting and

(20:39):
if you're sad, you know, oh fuck they guts playing feelings, feeling,
you know, thinking more than feeling for real, bro, sometimes
it really is or something. You're just sitting there and
it's fucking no no no no, no no no no.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
No no no.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
He a minute. Another sad song, right, but the actual,
the actual original ice cream truck song. It's a very
racist song, is it. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:17):
The one in my neighborhood growing up was.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
That's the one.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, that is racist.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Catch Amazican by the Toe?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yes, yes, catch an Edward by the toe is the
last lyric of that song. Yes, that's crazy any meany
miny moe ends with not a tiger. I grew up
it was a tiger by the toe. And then when
I heard an old person say it, they said the
N word. Bro.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, the British guy, him and his daughter and his wife,
they go, they just pull up anywhere, bro, and what
do you want? Mate? Can I have? Bro? And so
he puts up three scoops and he smashes, cooks, but
he does he smashes like those those biscuits they give

(22:11):
you an airplane. The flat ones. Yeah yeah. So then
he has that bro broken like powdery and he dips
he dips it on it, and then the other one
is oreoles. He put oreoles, and then the other one
is like chocolate chips. There's fucking powder. He puts it,
and then he he has butterscotch flavor syrup. So he

(22:34):
puts the yellow ship on the cad. Then he had
black he has like he has chocolate white chocolate syrup,
puts it on the oreoles and strawberry. Then he has
another one where he has smashed up blue nerds and
red nerds. Then he puts the pottery nerds and the
red one. Then he has red and white syrvce crazy dog.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Someone's taking insulin tonight.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
And then he does he does the churum of sioux
one too. Turmas sou Yeah. But he actually gets up
actually little breads already soaked in coffee, of them ready,
and he puts the ice cream on it and then
he sprinkles, where's this guy at in London?

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Bro, get the fuck out of here. We're going to
London right now.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
We're going to London.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
But twos two tickets. They may fuck it right, you're
coming along, bro, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
So that little girl, I think she was walking away
from his ice cream truck bro, because it's kind of expensive.
The little girl that's say two dollars for nine to
ask for nine dollars, nice squiz. He gotta get over
that ship.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah yeah, that's where you stopped me in my tracks.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Those two little girls will complain about the ice cream.
I think they'll complaining about his ice cream truck. Yeah
fuck yeah, dude, yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Expensive ice ice cream that at the end of the day,
I don't want that.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
I have seen the truck bro with a bunch of
pigs show up with buckets and they go give me chicken,
give me this, give you that, and walk away. No, well,
this is truck bro, like a I think or something.
It's a truck bro. And you show up there with
your bag of chips and you add you could add meat,
chicken and stuff, and they make you a big blade dog.

(24:22):
They had like the tahini sauce and all that pig
eat it.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, you're vegan, but you would have loved this back
when you weren't. So when we were in Humble, I
wanted to take everybody this place. There's a place in
I can't remember the name of this it's probably the
only restaurant in this town. And they called when I
was there one time visiting. They have this festival called
Savage Henry and the group that put it on. The

(24:48):
owner was like, you guys want to go have a
meat cone? And I was like, what the fuck is
a meat cone?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
And it.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Bro this is the best. This is one of the
best things I've ever had. It was in Trinidad, California.
It's a little town. It's a little fucking kiosk in front,
like in front of the grocery store there, and it's
a rosary you know, uh, you know rosary corn bread rosary,
like the rose like has uh oh, what's that ship

(25:16):
called anyway, it's it's fucking uh it's corn bread with
like time in it or something like some sort of
like like savory flavor with uh with with fucking mashed
potatoes and then uh like uh, yes, that's it right there,

(25:38):
rose rose. It's rosemary bread corn bread fucking cone with
like corn beef and gravy and cheese and potatoes. And
they're called meat cones and they're and that's the place
that it's that that it's served at uh brow. It's

(25:59):
one of the best things I've ever had in my
entire life. Yeah, it is amazing. It is like to
this day, if you were like, what do you want
for your birthday? Fly me to Tad let's get it
a fucking meet.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, there's a there's a port. There's a there's
a port on a western bay and you know that
place and it serves one hundred ships a day that yeah,
man and lonely sailors pass the time away and talk
about their homes. And there's a girl that works there
and she works in this harbor time and she works

(26:31):
laying whiskey. Now you don't even heard of it. No,
And they say, Brandy, fetch another round. She serves them
whiskey and wine. And the sailor say, Brandy, you're a
fine girl. You're a fine girl. What a good wife
you will be?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I knew you have to something. I was like, this
is either gonna be like a timid hit history. That's
gonna be wild. It's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I ran into that singer bro the guy who sees
that who was Alliott Laurie he's from that group looking Glass.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Is that like a one hit kind of wonder thing?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
That song either a yacht rock tour.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I love you rock dude.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
And there's a poet, Oh no, Western Town and she
serves whiskey down and the sailor.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
I was wondering where you're going with that?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Put it up ship Laurie god thing.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah, man, that was you guys who sing that song.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, and that and that guy like I was dragged
thought I was truck during the riots.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
This is how we wrote it. Back to the subject.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
And in Los Angeles in nineteen ninety two, all hell
broke loose, Hell broke loose. That's when Mexican Americans were
really pissed off at the police. Beat up Ronnie Dangerfield.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Welcome to history for fools.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Where we're welcome to history for fools.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
We're not entirely accurate.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
The streets are on fire, it's bedlam.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's crazy, actually, dude, that's the thing is that's what
triggered this subject.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Pneumonium got wild? Is that or my dad said so
as by the way, I was in rehab when it happened.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
You were, I was gonna say, auto rehab, did you
go to the riots at all? Or did you stay away?

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Bro? I was a year out of I was. I
was the whole year before the riots. I was in
rehabit crack and and sometan's abuse. So when I came out,
I had a clear head already, Okay, a real clear head.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Like you were. You were like being a good citizen.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yes, without even thinking about it, I was. I was.
I was like Christian one oh one, bro, Like I
was the kind of guy that I like. If you
were to like to check out her chick and go
that chick is fine, bro, she has big ass titties.
I would look at you and say, and now.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
What right, Yeah, you're in that phase of your now
what yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Not?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, you said she has big as titties. Where you're
gonna go from here?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Oh man? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
And then I'd be telling you stuff, what do you mean? Well,
you're you gonna go talk to her and after she
has big tittyes, get to know her maybe one daycom nah.
So you just waste your words right right with it? Air,
Yeah you know? And then now you know, now we
look at you. Now you're gonna be thinking about it, bro, brother,

(30:07):
You're gonna be thinking about her big kids, and this
thinking about it, it's gonna affect you to the whole day. Now,
you needed to look him.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Poor guys like I should have said ship exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
I was that guy. So yes, a real ball of fun.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah yeah wow, Okay, so you definitely were like, I'm
not going Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, Chris bro I will. I had a year and
two months no sex too, and I was focused, sober,
and every morning I will get up at six and
I will read up, I will do I will go
go to a meeting.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Okay, I mean, dude, you're kind of still like you
spoke weed and everything, but you get up pretty early
and you kind of have a regiment like that anyway,
you just yeah, So I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
I was then rehab at a nicotics not amous meeting
the night before the trial.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Okay, yeah, did you know that that was going to happen?
You were a little older than me, because I was
thirteen when it happens. I really honestly didn't even know,
Like I didn't know what to expect at all. I know,
I was just as glared as everybody else was.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Do you know about the Rodney King beating already? Yes,
that's the place.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
So usually when something happens, people are like, well, I
really wasn't aware, Like when oj happened, I didn't really
know what happened until until the chase.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well, Jorge Lopez was a comedian at the time.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
I didn't give a fuck, you know. But yeah, like
but everybody because it was like, well, these cops, it's
the first time we seen something like this on camera.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
But I want to tell you that Jeorde Lope had
a funny joke about that that the first time we
saw it was on camera because everybody was doing bits
about the Also, two years later, I started doing stand up.
A year later, I started doing stand up, so I
was already watching stand up already during the riots, And
I remember George Lopez had on our Senio had the

(32:11):
funniest riot show, bro, the final Riot. You remember this.
He said that he goes, you know, my my uncle
here he was. He was beat up by the l
apd too. Man. But and we had it on tape.
But my my my aunt, she recorded a night right already. Act.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's funny because it's accurate. Accurate, Bro, I remember accurate.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
I remember watching that ship going dying.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Bro, My Bob recorded over one of my plays when
I was a kid, and she was like, we saw
it already last year. I was like, wait, what happened
to my plans? She goes, we last year and then
we watched the tape right after.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
And then Bro, yeah, well I'm surprised that you must
have something happened to you along the way or a
woman this show your love, because that would make me
a serial killer. Bro.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
It made me a comic, That's what it did. My
mother's abuse made me a comedian. There's actually a side
by side, you know, bro.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
When you when when when that happens on your to
your in your life, you're mouth throwing away your play
recording over it anyway, Bro? You were, But in her defense,
you were a lobster at a on a Christmas show, Bro,
and she probably going, lobsters gotta do with anything. So

(33:45):
so everybody is a regular person. You're a lobster.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Why why are you a lobster?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Well, you're a lobster.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Why the teacher want you to be a lobster.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Because that day you had bugs in your hair?

Speaker 2 (33:58):
My mom is kind of off. That would be like me.
You didn't even have any lines. Yeah, That's how she
would have been.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Am I the kind of lady that also, man would
be like, your son shows leadership skills. Yes, him and
his friends are alway going places and breaking stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Mine was a big fan of me too, oh man.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, man, So I was during the riots. I was like,
I was in a narcotic anonymous meeting. We saw the
beating happen on television live right me. When I saw
that video, I thought it was just normal. You know,
that's what happens.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
You were like, oh, this is gonna be crazy when
it you know.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
When when that happened to him, I saw I did.
I saw it like they beat him. I only saw him.
I didn't see it like police brutality because I don't
think police brutality was the word then. And also people
were getting beat up at this all the time, bro,
So I saw this was just normal.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
See this is thing too, Bro. I saw police and
absolutely everywhere.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Because at this time, bro, police were walking up to
you and giving you baseball cars of l apd of Dodgers,
so just to get to know you. And it's the
cock see who the rats?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
That's exactly, and cops were So I was thirteen twelve
when this happened, thirteen when the riots happened, but very
soon after I was fifteen years old and I was
getting pulled up, Like that's the thing is like people
don't really remember, and because you know, we talk about
police brutality.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Now that car, get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I get the fuck and they'll leave probably like I
didn't even do nothing, dude, He's out of there.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
This is the thing, is like I got jammed up
by the cops all the time. Do you remember for
years before cameras on around cops. Even years after this
came out, cops were harassing.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
People probe uncle got beat up at that.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I mean they still are, but not like they used to.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
My uncle got beat up with that by the cops,
and it was different. Brough a candy wook coming out
of him and we're trying to grab them.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
So see, that's the thing is like I just remember,
that's the first time i'd see I knew that that
was happening, but it was the first time it was
on camera, and I was like, Oh, these guys are fucked.
I was like, there's this is an open and shutcase.
This is gonna go to trial, right away, they're gonna
cause it because as soon as it happened.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
So for the history part of this, he was on PCP.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
He so him and his buddies were drinking doing PCP.
They decided to go get more liquor and they went
to one place and it was limited on what they wanted,
so they went to go to another place, and that's
when they got pulled over. And they got pulled over
by guy and then a guy named They got pulled
over in this little small like suburb like here in
the valley.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Terra's And let me tell you a bitch of that place.
There's no lake There are no lake View, Teria.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
How far where's lake View Terrace in terms of Los
Angeles by my house? It's in the valley. Okay. So
that's the thing is like I'm new here, and the
valley and LA, what you would think LA is on TV,
are two different fucking worlds. And so for you to
look out your window in the valley and see cops
beaten on some fucking guy, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh that guy right recorded it.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, he saw it. He saw it outside his front
and he turned off the porch light. A guy named
George Holiday and he comes out of his house and
he starts filming it.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
People don't talk about this, bro, but his video had
a lot of porn tool right before to fast forward
to look.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Get the fuck out of it. You never know.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
And he was he was afraid because you know, he
saw the FBI thing. So you know, you would watch
a video or DVD and it has the FBI copyright
that ever scare you.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
My dad always respected it. My uncle fucked no. My
uncle had every tape with the FBI recording at the getting.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
My dad was so scared of that ship.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah. Same.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
We couldn't invite people to watch the movie because they
don't invite people. Are you serious or play publicly?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, dav this is for you and you alone. They
did fucking really try to scare you with that ship.
But my uncle was a San Jose Police officer and
he had every he recorded, every video he ever he
ever like rented, so that after that guy filmed it,
he didn't send it to the PD, He didn't send
it to any government official. I think he sold it

(38:31):
to like CBS or ABC, and so that's where we
all first saw it was on TV. I think it
was like five hundred bucks something like that, some super
stupid small amount of money.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
He would have made more money on TikTok bros.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
I don't think this guy knew what he was getting
into when he sold this tape. I don't think anybody
knew what was gonna happen when he's when this tape
came out.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
So he was in the house with a camera and
just turned it around.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, he just started filming it on these cops. And
of course, because cops at the time were oblivious to
the fact that citizens were able to like stick up
for themselves or no rights, because I know that I
didn't know my rights for years. He just filmed them
and they fucking were having the time of their lives,
just beating the fuck out of this guy.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
And one of the cops was a Mexican, so yes.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
One of them, uh officer, So they So that's the
other thing is there was also.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
A police Stacy Kuhn.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yes, that's great, Stacy Kuhn.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Theodore Preseno, Timothy Wynn, and Lawrence Powell were the initial
officers who who chased him down. He was chased, fucking
the car broke down, and that's why Rodney King finally
pulled over and so, and that's not I'm just giving
the facts here because you know, there's probably gonna be
someone out there that's like, yeah, but he was resisting

(39:59):
already by getting chased and everything. No, the cops pulled
this fucking guy out. They fucking hit him with fifty
six blows.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Fifty six How old was he with the birthday?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
He was twenty five years old. Okay, they hit him
fifty six times. They kicked him seven times and tased
him twice. And at the time, tasers were new. And
there's a quote when Rodney King when they interview him,
He's all they were having You could tell they were
having a good time with it, and they're like, what
do you mean they were like, he was like, it
was like they were playing with a new toy and
they're all taking turns tasing him, you know. And so

(40:32):
the taser was new and they were trying to see
the effects on it. He had to get cosmetic surgery
on his right eye because his eyeball had fallen out.
He suffered brain damage, which delayed his speech. And uh, yeah,
they fucked him up, bro, They fucked They said, this
guy to the hospital and they left him for dead.
Just like the homie in the last when we did

(40:52):
Chicano Squad. They threw that motherfucker in the river. That's
kind of what they were they being Rodney. Yeah, they
checked him into the hospital and they filed the false
police report on him.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
What they say.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
It said that he'd already have to he had the
injuries when they pulled him over. He was already like
fucked up a little bit, and so they fucked him up,
and then he resisted and the cops were like, look,
he for his own safety. We kept having to beat
him because he wouldn't just like chill out.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Hey. They were beating him and all the all the
good parts, like the elbow, ankles.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Every bro they were hitting joints, they were hit. There's
one part in the video where you see the cop
stop the other one you go, oh fuck, someone's gonna
step in and do something. He puts his hand out,
he pushes the other cop off, and then he starts
beating him, like let me have my fucking turn.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
This video is actually one of the worst versions of it,
but there's some clear ones if you watch. There's a
documentary called La ninety two and it shows a really
cleared up like mastered version of this, and it gives
you an idea of how much they were beating the
fuck out of this guy.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
What were they saying when they were beat him. They
were always sound, so.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
There's nothing would sound because they're all like there's like
planes going over. There's too much in between, you know,
the camera and the guy beating him. But the cops
had their own version of their dialogue on during the
court case. And that's the thing is these guys turned
on each other. But all the cops were eventually acquitted

(42:23):
of most of the charges, but they were ratting each
other out in court like they were like, oh, I
thought he hit him. That was the hardest I've ever
seen someone get hit. And the other one was like
I had to back him off and tell him, look, man,
I think you're hitting him too hard. So we don't
really know what the dialogue was because fucking cops that
are the only ones that are telling it.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
And that cops said that's nothing.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Let me try right, Yeah, see, that's kind of what
I think was happening, like let me let me see.
And I think with the taser, they were like, let
me try that.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Can I try a black dough crack, let's find out.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Fuck.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
So, yeah, there are a black cops there, though.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Not one black cop was there on the.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Scene on that one hardcore right, did you know that
n w A Easy to he he backed up that
Latino cop.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Oh no ship, well look it up, easy he backed up.
So the thing that really got to everybody during this
whole thing was because Mayor Bradley, first black mayor of
Los Angeles ever, had gotten a hold of the transcripts
right after, and like they were talking about how like
you know, there's one cop that referenced references like dealing

(43:35):
with it, gorillas in the mist. There's a lot of
like really really racist.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Whoever it is. In nineteen ninety three, Easy E, prominent
figure in a rap group n w A publicly supported
theatre or Jay Bertino, one of the police officers why
involve Rodney King Why Easy attended the trial and stated
that he believed Britannia was trying to stop the other
office from excessive force, even though Britennel was also stomping

(44:04):
on key.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, Presentia is the one. So he's the one who
put his foot on his neck.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
But it was like broken everybody.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
He's all because if he kept getting up. I was
holding my foot on his neck because when he kept
getting up, this is when they kept beating him, which
is true. That is true. I don't know if he
was putting his foot on his neck to save him.
But every time Rodney King even moved, they fucking hit him.
I watched that fucking tape at least twenty times just
so I could like memorize the movements and count accurately.

(44:33):
I was trying to get an accurate kind of if
they really hit him that many times or more. And
that was the thing's fifty six blows due to the face,
you know. That's the other thing is that they were
like there was a woman that was there and she
didn't get convicted and didn't get tried, and she said
she kept saying, don't hit him in the face, don't
hit him in the face, and so you know, and

(44:55):
they were hitting him in and you're not allowed to.
It's la it's against LAPD regulation. Wouldn't hit him in
the face. And one of the cops was like, I
had two decisions to make the guy who shows up, uh,
Stacy Coons is like he was like, I could put
him in a chokehold, which is against LAPD regulations. Or
I could beat him until he stopped, and he was like,

(45:17):
I feel like I saved his life by beating him
until he stopped. And it's like, bro, this is the rationalities.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
So you know this happens, and right away like they're
you know, they're all over it, dude. The news is
all over it. Everybody's all over it. Mayor Tom Bradley,
who's the first black mayor of Los Angeles, is all
over it. And they're right away they bring in fucking
the most famous police chief of all times, Darryl Gates,

(45:45):
who was a personal bodyguard and chauffeur to Parker.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Also Chief de Gay's first commanding officer, like the guy
that led him on, Like.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Chic, no, dude, cops are kind of like.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, ilypud when ilypi d when he was when he
was a rookie, his commanding officer was Mexican.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
What the fuck, dude, Like, guys like he's a like
outright racist dude. They go, So there's a conference that
I watched where he tells, he tells the mayor and
city council, look, you guys need to protect the PD
right now. This is after this beating conference because you
guys need to start. You guys need to speak up

(46:33):
for us, because right now public's against us, and if
you don't speak up against us, you got a department
that might not work for you anymore. And this guy
goes one of the city council members goes, are you
threatening us if we criticize the Los Angeles Police Department.
He goes through, I'm insulted that you would say that
we're a professional department. But he had just literally said,
We're not going to protect you if you don't if

(46:56):
you go after our cops.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Chief I read, I read she Thorrow Gates book. How
did you like it?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Was it really good?

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Yeah? So I know that the guy that the guy
that was fucking yeah, bro, he had a well, I
don't know about the He didn't mention the dirty park
but he didn't mention that he drove on Parker, chief
of police, and he was always drunk, and he.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Was Parker was always drunk. Oh, so he talks because.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
That's the thing is that Chief Parker was always loaded.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
People are basically the accusation during this time during the
Rodney King riots is.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
That, yeah, he wrote the books after the riots.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
He's basically Parker junior. He's like a junior version of Parker.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Bro No man. Every every position that Chief Darrow Gates
got was because he moved up and studied. He didn't
know anybody, Like they're taking a test for sergeants. Nobody
applies that Latino cop telling you're gonna apply for that,
they're gonna give it to you. So he goes studies
every day, but go to night school, go to the

(47:58):
community college learning that ship and w he moved up ahead.
Then there's another test to be the chief drivers. Yes, job,
I don't want to do that. I'll apply apply for
He got it and then he was bro He was
He was the chief. He was Martin Luther King's bodyguard
when Martin Luther King was doing speeches. Yeah, him and

(48:21):
his partner. And let me say that he said in
his book too, that all he did was protect him
from all the house. They had different women coming in
and out. Wow, and she's the gay son was a
was the biggest drug that ever lived. And Chief girl

(48:46):
the Gates was. His idea was they proposed him was
to lock up all drug dealers and make him do
their full time. To lock up the bankers who money
launder for drug dealers and give them exactly the same
amount of time a drug dealer, okay, and he wanted

(49:07):
also casual users to get full setence as a regular
drug wow because of the casual user was what got
his son hooked on drugs.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Oh I see, so we're blaming everybody else except for
the actual person who did it. See. That's the thing
at the time, is like this to me, like going
over this was like this is the whole thing is
fucking corrupt, because like, you got these cops that get
in trouble and the whole country's asking for justice at
this point, and you know, just to give you an

(49:41):
idea of how the laws were against.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Oh, I also gonna say the cops always took free
shift from everywhere, bro.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
And then he said that I was always against that,
and he never took free shift from anywhere except Tommy's.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
I feel like if I write a book, I'm gonna
write it making me look good, of course. But so
you know the thing that happens is that they exactly, Hey,
I was just trying to do my job, man. Well,
and here's the here's the corruption part of this that
is wild to me. So this is during the crack

(50:21):
epidemic and and at the time, and just to give
you how in my view of how racist laws are
or were back then, if you got caught with one
gram of of crack cocaine, you got five years. You
got five years for each gram of crack cocaine that

(50:42):
you were you were caught with it. If you got
caught with five hundred grams of cocaine powder powder, five years.
So that gives you an idea of how like kind
of racist the laws are because no black people in
black neighborhoods are doing powder cocaine. They're all doing crack.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Okay, well, it's it's kind of like the law like this.
Put it this way. Let's compare a crack right now
to another charge. It's making sense to me. Now, why
would they put that law in to effect? Right, if
you get caught with a pound of weed, okay, already

(51:20):
a pound of weed in the bag, you're gonna do
less time than somebody who gets caught with fifty grams
in little baggies. Yes, I think that's the way crack
is too, because they know you have one piece of crack,
you're gonna sal.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
It right, Yeah, I mean, which is true.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
That's and also people that get caught with one big
block of crack, we're probably doing less time than anybody.
Anybody will cover with fifty.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Oh, it was like straight across the board really if
you were caught with whether because it wasn't about sales.
It was that they were trying to get rid of crack.
Because remember the crackdown on crack. Yeah, the law had
changed during that time where it was like any amount,
no matter what, fuck sales. If you got one gram,
it doesn't matter. It was by the gram. So if
you had a brick of five grams on you and

(52:07):
it was personal, you were gonna get fucking twenty five
years for that.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Wow. That's like so because crazy man, because powder was
hard to get. Also, man, if you wanted it right,
everybody was starting twenty and sniffs.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Nobody was right or a boss. So that's the thing,
and that's why it was like so corrupt. So this
fucking whole thing happens, right, and they go, okay, well
we're going to take these guys to try.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
To put that into a Democrat Bill Clinton.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Right, Bill Clinton put that long into effect.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Please strike her out.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Yeah, so what happens is is that listen, bro, all
the things I think of, all the trials.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
You know what funny bro, Like Democrats are really tough
on crime. But but if you're if but you're not Democrat,
you would never admit to that, even though it is
because if they put your narrative, no, it does not
because the battle ram came around during a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Right, military these came with Clinton. That's the thing that
people like, and they go like, yeah, Obama did deport
way more people, but he didn't do it humiliatingly. And
that's the difference, dude, is he don't.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Like depends on a president. A president Obama was not narcissistic,
Like he didn't want to show off.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
He didn't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
He didn't want to show off. He know that he'll
lose followers if he's there the porting the people that
voted for him.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
There's one speech where someone calls him out for it.
He actually goes, he's because the crowd's trying to kick
the guy out, and Obama stops when he goes, he goes,
let him let him speak good. He goes, I'm gonna
tell you right now, what's gonna happen. He goes, if
you don't like what's happening, you can fight it. He's like,
you can fight it by going and voting against us.
You can fight it. And I was like, man, this

(53:46):
dude's fucking.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Rad bro that.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
He was like, he's he let that guy speak against him,
and then he told him how he could beat him,
and it's like, we don't have that anymore. But you know,
that's another fucking episode because we're gonna talk about these
corrupt ass cops and what happen after this. So they
set a trial. Okay, there's been tons of notorious trials
because this is Los Angeles and we have a Hollywood

(54:08):
and fuck notoriety. We're having the trial here in LA
this particular case. All of a sudden, the cops and
the DA are worried that there's too much press for it.
So we're not gonna have it in a LA. We're
gonna move it to another county. They move it to
fucking where do all the cops live? Uh, Seami Valley.

(54:32):
So they move it to the East County Courthouse and
see it didn't happen there. But what's even crazier is
that Semi Valley is We're eighty percent of the police
force at the time and probably still are more live
in semi Valley, So it's basically copland for Los Angeles.
So let's move this fucking high profile police officer abuse

(54:55):
case to a county full of police officers. Were the
jury is all except for two people as white except
for one half black, half white woman and one Asian person.
And then three of the people on the jury are
retired law enforcement people. So how do you think this

(55:16):
is going to go? You know what I mean? And
then here we have now the day of the of
the verdict. Do were you aware of the day of
the verdict at all? And were you did you know
did you think that it was going to be guilty
or not guilty? I were you like, these cops are
going to get off? Was every like? What was the like,
what was the feeling before this happened, where people like, no,

(55:39):
it's so corrupt that they're going to get off or no, dude,
this is this is the first time that it's actually
going to happen where cops get in trouble. I wasn't
thinking you weren't you weren't even you weren't like I.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Thought I didn't know. I don't know. I was too
like not not smart enough to know that cop would
go to jail.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Right, did you think there was gonna be a riot
where you got it? Hell no, No, See I didn't
think so either. And I wonder how many people actually
expected it to be an acquittal, And we're like, this
is gonna be a fucking this is gonna be crazy.
And this is where I get to.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
The riots start like immediately or just pockets, but people
remember that. Remember don't mention that there was multiple riots
all over America, multiple rights in Atlanta, Georgia, San Francisco,
they started their own thing.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Yes, but originally the one that started. There's a couple
that started in LA. There was one that started in
front of Parker Center. There was one that started almost
immediately at the courthouse. Someone was throwing rocks at Coon's
car as he was driving off. But the one that
that we focus on and watch the most is.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
And again, bro, you know Lawrence Norman.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Yes, And this is why I want to bring this up,
because this is why I like the subject. When you
asked me, You're like, what do you think we should do?
And I was like, the riots had just happened in LA.
I think we should talk about these riots. And I
knew that the Rodney King riots were way worse than
the riots we just had, and we had the fucking
National Guard come out like for no reason. Dude, I

(57:14):
didn't realize how I remember watching this on TV, but
I forgot is what I'm trying to say. How crazy
these riots were. Bro. People fucking died in these riots.
You know how many people died in these riots? Thirty
thirty six people? Wait, where is it? Where's my notes
for this?

Speaker 1 (57:32):
How many? Bro?

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Sixty three deaths. There's sixty three deaths, two thousand, three
hundred and eighty three injuries, over a billion dollars in
property damage, sixteen two hundred and ninety one arrest, one
thousand buildings, one thousand, one hundred buildings destroyed, thirty six
hundred fires were sat. Approximately two thousand Korean owned businesses
were affected. Seven hundred businesses besides those were were affected

(57:58):
as well. Like, Bro, this is riots were crazy.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
When we talked about riots, that was a real riot.
The l A ninety two Rodney King riots were probably
one of the worst riots we'd ever seen in the.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
That's something, man, Yeah, I was working. I forgot. I
remember right now that I were working twelve hours a
day as a security guard on the on the retrial.
No way really remember that they were they were yeah
and that one no riots, right, but they were ready,
they were ready. I forgot that I was working security guard.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
I was just walking around, but I was working at
Century Electric. Century Electric is an electric store. Century Electric.
It's not there on Central in South Central and Forever.
It's a Mexican owned place. It called Central Electric.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
What streets is on.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
It's on the same street as the courthouse. It's about
it's right under the freeway, right, there's Century Electric. And
they saw televisions. They computer what you're talking about. They've
been around forever, right, So they hired bro. They hired gunmen. Bro.

(59:09):
There was there was They hired security bro that were
like almost like fucking fortunes of war that hired killers, right.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
These guys were soldiers of fortune.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Sold is a fortune, motherfucker bro.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
So these guys were all posted up bro with M
sixteen's and there was a black dude BRO with a
vulletproof vest. He had he had a forty five, He
had an M sixteen. They were all posted up, Bro,
twenty four hours a day, and I was there for
twelve hours a day, and we all was hanging out
with those guys. They were getting paid back then. I

(59:44):
think seventy five bucks an hour.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
That's a ton for that time. Yeah, like that's a
fuck ton for that time.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
And they were they were shooting motherfuckers too, Bro.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
That's on uh, Normandy and Florence right there. That's who's that.
That's Reginald Denny.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
That's funny, my Reginald Denny and Rodney King.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Actually did a whole thing on Reginald Denny. He was
pulled from his truck on Florence and Normandy by Damian
Williams who got ten years for hitting him with a brick,
Henry Watson who got three years, and Antoine Miller and
Gary Williams who got three years as well. They fractured
so when he hit him with that fucking rock, When

(01:00:26):
when Williams hit him with that fucking cinderblock, it fractured
his skull in ninety one places, and his fucking eye
socket had fallen through into his head and was inside
his nasal cavity in that picture right there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
I mean, he's recording from a helicopter.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Huh, yeah, this was recorded from a helicopter. And then
and that's the thing is that you were just about
to make a comparison to Rodney King and Reginald Denny
that at the end of that Watson stood on on
Reginald Denny's neck as well. And then Reginald Denny was
rescued by four African people from the neighborhood where they

(01:01:03):
jumped in and they saw it on TV. They jumped
in his truck and they got him to the hospital
down the street. They like there was a whole rescue
effort for that guy. He fucking survived that ship you
were you would have stopped. No, I'll be honest, bro,
I would have kept going. I would have run over people.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Dude, you don't know what's going on though he didn't
know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
I know what was going on him because well there
was a.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Stop, like they were just hitting random card with rocks high.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Right, there was another guy that didn't know that The
reason why Reginald Denny had to stop because there was
a truck in front of him that they showed another
video that the guy that hit it with the cinder
block was involved in as well. They beat the fuck
out of that guy and then somebody ended up stopping
him and that guy got pretty bad serious injuries as well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
They're only beating up people that were not black, huh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Only yeah, you hear him in one of the videos
where they're like black Mexican buddhaheads are white Mexican and buddhaheads,
and they're like all those just those are the only
people that are not allowed through. And so anybody that
was driving through. And again this is so just to
give people younger people reference. There's no fucking yeah, look
at that fire, that big old fire cement fire thing

(01:02:08):
boom hits him in the head with it. So just
to give you guys a reference, you know, there's no uh.
The only thing that you could know that this was
happening is if you were at home watching it on
CNN or listening to AM radio. Those are the only
two ways that you knew that this was happening. So
you're a white person who has to drive home from
wherever through fucking.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
You're a white ice cream man with a racist as
song driving by.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Yeah, yeah you're coming home through South.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Also, mans the footage, I don't know that is out
there about a Mexican guy that was jumped Latino guy
with hair.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
The guy they sprayed with spray paint.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
They spray painted his genitals black and they they jumped
that they're about to jump him. Oh he black man,
No he ain't. And then they spray painted his genitals, bro,
and his face, and he took his truck and his
old black man saved him. And yeah, and right away, man,
and that was the beginning of of the race wars

(01:03:08):
between Mexicans and blacks as far as gang banging goes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Is that really where it came from? Was that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Yeah, I read a book that I read a book
that there was a green light on Damon Williams from
somebody from prison.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Fuck Bro, like like fuck them off.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
And then it was crazy, Bro. There it is what
am I an immigrant Fiddel Lopez Bro was.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Severely beaten and spray painted black. That's the thing, dude,
is that they were injuries. They were like serious injuries.
There were people getting like I was watching like cars
being pushed into the street. For me, I was thirteen dogs.
I didn't know that I was saying this earlier before
we started the podcast, but I didn't know that that
was a possibility. Still, Like I had heard about riots

(01:03:51):
when I was younger, I didn't I thought the watch
riots probably happened in like the fucking eighteen hundreds. Like,
I don't know what I was thinking. Lopez bro oh man,
oh man, they get that guy bro.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
A bottle of him too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Oh they got a big old forty bottle. Wow. They're
hitting it for the people that are listening. They're just
being on this fucking poor guy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
I remember there were in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood
that they jumped to black dudes, Bro, the all the
Mexicans after watching his video. They're just playing basketball, Bro.
They went instide that Jayes fucking them up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Wow. And that's the thing, is Okay, So in your neighborhood,
none of this is going on. There's no riding, there's
no fucking no no.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
This is like everybody from my neighborhood went to those
neighborhoods to steal.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
So that's the other thing that people need to understand
is that the South Central LA and East LA and
Boyle Heights, which are two different neighborhoods, are completely They're
so far apart.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
That there were no they were looting in those factories
by my house, but they were in downtown ramsacked also,
man right there in Lamorada local neighborhood in that area,
on on and on Santamanica Boulevard, and what a fucking

(01:05:14):
big street called Vermont, Vermont, Santa Monica, Vermont, forget about it, Bro,
Pico Union all looted. Wow. There was a chain of
stereo play stores called Silo. Yeah, Silo. They got hit
so hard, so hard, Bro, And a lot of people
don't know, never talk about this, but after the riots,

(01:05:38):
a lot of DJs came out everywhere. Yeah, no that
and hip and hip hop, right, that's not even a
lot of people. I saw a hip hop documentary where
they they said that, you know, if wanted for the riots,
I would never have speakers.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
It exploded. I mean, Suppli has a song. We're like
like they sing about the riots, and they like, where
do you you get the where do you think you're
hearing this guitar that I got or whatever? And it's like,
I wonder how much of that's true?

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
My brother, I know that my one of my brothers
without their looting, bro, two of them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
But I was there, Well, I heard that like by
day three there was no cops and people were just
looting casually.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
And my dad was like, not looting, but it was
first in line to buy stolen ship of course.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Well yeah, I mean me too. I would be the same.
I don't know if I'd go looting, but I'd definitely
buy the stolen ship from the looting man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
People were just man. Some of the stores in my neighborhood,
they were being protected by the by the neighborhood. Like
at the little Korean store, right, someone try to go
in there and people were like buying people were actually
buying stuff and talking ship to them broad the way out. Yes,

(01:06:49):
that's what they were doing, like give me to forty ouncers,
you stupid nip you know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Or that, Yeah, and just talking ship, talking ship because
and in Spanish too, because we're because this is the
one thing that gave.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
A gain Mexicans or uh uh uh, the right to
harassed Asians brought my neighborhood and then like that. But
they were also protecting the store from being looted to.
And the people that were doing the ship talking were
people that were that were getting kicked out of the
store for trying to loot.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Well, that was the thing because that care that lady
got shot. I'm trying to remember her name right now,
look it up again.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
But but as far as like the whole all of
south central burn bro and then it James Olmo went
out there to sweep it up.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Natasha Harlan's That's who her name was, and I can't
forget her. She was a big part of why the
Rodney King riots happened, and because it was kind of
guy I remember even when.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
This happened, was shot before Rodney, right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
She was shot after the Rodney King, right, but before
the verdict had happened. No, she was buying orange juice
and it was obvious because she had money in her hand,
and the lady didn't see the money in the hand
the store owner, and she was like, you have money,
you have you have orange juice in your fucking bag,
because she had already put it in her bag, and

(01:08:22):
she was like, bitch, I know, I'm trying to pay
for it. And then the lady goes to lunch at
her bag and then Natasha pushes her off, and then
that's when the Korean lady reaches under the table and
puts a gun to her head and as Natasha's turning around,
shoots her in the back of the head and blows her.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
And everybody saw that video too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Everybody saw that video. And so that's why. Because the
other thing too was like, hey, you know, black people
were like, we make these people their money. They come here,
they live in in a they live in Kate Town,
which is a much better neighborhood than ours, and they
fucking sell us fucking liquor.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
And you know why they saw your liquor though? You
know why the careers are there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Because you're buying it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
You know why they're there though white careers are in
your neighborhood. Why career my neighborhood? Why because career are
not allowed to have neighbor store fronds in white neighborhoods, right,
and Koreans we're not allowed to. Like, if a Korean
guy lives then in Irvine, right, Irvine neighborhood, he's white
in all his white neighborhood, and he goes to get
a loan and they ask him, what are gonna be

(01:09:22):
one a loan for? I want to open up Korean
market where right there on Beach Beach Boulevard. And the guy
was turning no, no, no, no, he can't turn turn them down,
turn them down, and he keep going back. I want
to open up a liquor store here on Beach Boulevard. No,
we can't approve that loan. Then he goes, I want
to open up a career I want to open up

(01:09:43):
a career store, and on a Hurd and the eighth
and Albalon. Here's the money, right, go for it, here's
the money, and then he goes, Okay, he says up
enough money. Then he goes up there with a loan
with the cash, no loan, and he goes, can I
open up a liquor store on Beach Boulevard? Oh no,
they already have one? Fuck all right. Then he goes

(01:10:05):
over there to Bowl Heights. Can I open up a
liquor store on fourth and Solo? Sure, go ahead for it.
So the Koreans bro, they're businessmen, they know, they couldn't
know they were not allowed to. And also black people
were not given alone fast as fast as Asian Americans.
Mexican Americans were not given alone as fast as Asian Americans,

(01:10:30):
and Asian Americans were sacrificed ten years bro eating rice
and vegetables all day long, just to make that money,
and a lot of people, a lot a lot of
Mexicans are not willing to eat beans and tortillas all day, bro,
want to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
So what you're saying is Korean store owners were just
as much a victim of racism who were buying from them. Yeah,
the victim of race.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
The victim of racism too, because they were not allowed
they were not allowed to put up You think about
the last thing you saw Asian store owner in a
white neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Never, never, never, Bro, never?

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
Oh could I open up my career in food at
my Chinese restaurant in your white neighborhood. Nah, we're gonna
wait till PANDAM Express shows up. And so the Chinese
guy is killing him, bro, with his dollar food. And
then you go and you go, they're holding on napkins
because you know what, they were studying the cheap food
and napkins really the high cash.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
No what, Bro, that's for real, dog, that is for real,
Because I remember being a kid and being like, you know,
I would buy like a thing of noodles for like
a few bucks, and it was cheap, Like now by
my house, it's five dollars, five dollars, which is a
not a lot of money in this in this economy
for a big bro, they give you a big thing
of chicken and noodles and they have to scrunch the

(01:11:52):
thing down, but they charge you a dollar for extra sauce.
And I remember kids getting mad or my friend's being mad.
And then even now, because I go to the one
by my house and this dude in front of me
was like, man, he's fucking cheap ass Asians charging me
for everything. And I didn't, you know what, And I
just was like, yeah, whatever, bro, it's with you know,
welcome to the world, homie. But I didn't realize until

(01:12:14):
right now that you said that they yeah, bro, they
got to make that money somewhere else, Like get your
own soy sauce at home, then go get your own
fucking mustard sauce.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
Bro, Like I already put in, yeah, put in that's
where they carefully give you the napkin with a chop
stick and the chops and the so thought together.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Yeah it's got you, just squeeze it. I put in
already put in for you. Yeah I'm being racist, but.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Yeah, yeahs so they were not allowed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Yeah, okay, all right, all right, But then.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
I always questioned, all the little kid fucked up. How
come there's a career store owner in every corner in
Boyle Heights.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
There's no Mexican store owners, or there's no like black store.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Another than none about career Now we do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Now we have them.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Let me tell you, bro. Even when we had a
store owned by all Mexicans, motherfucker still went Avons.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Right yeah. And the Mexican store owners weren't any different
in the way that they treated people.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
You know. And it was tougher for the Mexican owner
because we'll go in there and go, you see one roach,
you go tell everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Right yeah, now they get dirty as store.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Another shot the bro they gave me, I guess that
it was all dig you know, Bro. When I was
during the riots, I didn't have no riot jokes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
I was just starting starting out as a comic and
you didn't have anything relevant to what was happening.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
My only riot joke was during the retrial. I was like, man,
I can't for the retrial. Man, I've been looking at
this television for years. I've been scoping at this television.
I want. I got my eye.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Oh, I got my eye on some products.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
I got some products man like, like like on the
day of the trial, of the day of the when
they give when they when they fucking read the case,
I start pushing at the TV closer to the to
the exit.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
That's good. That's actually really good.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
That my old shoplifted move. Bro, you start putting all
the product by the exit in the way, I'll just
grab it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
That's really good. Actually, that's a good joke. That's good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
So, I mean, you know, it's crazy all those other
police officers were never allowed to be a police officer
after that. No, because I know that sergeants Stacey Coon,
he's like a personal driver or private security guardener for somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Guys are all still making money. They's sound like their
lives fell apart.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
After that, we'll talk about the l a p D.
One of the biggest police academies and one of the
best police economies to be in that if you were like,
if you go through the LPD Police Academy, you could
apply to all the police stations.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
Other police departments. Yeah, in the country, that's the thing,
and it is considered. I'm not a big, like crazy
fan of cops. I have cop uncles that are cops
and I'm cool with them, and I'm cool with the
cops that I know. I've just been harassed too many
times by cops for me to be like, yeah, good
for you guys. But I do know that LAPD really
was stringing after that, and they do a very good

(01:15:35):
job of trying to make sure that they don't get
into trouble. There was so much going on at the time,
you know, And now it's like, bro, if you have
bad credit, if you're a cop right now, if you're
a cop and you have and your credit goes bad,
you can get fired for having bad credit because you're corruptible.
Like LAPD did a lot of different things to make that.

(01:15:56):
They implemented a lot of different things to make sure
that this didn't happen again. And I got to admit, bro, like,
you know, cause I've been pulled over by sam'se A cops.
I've been pulled over by San francisc cops Oakland, I've
been pulled over by everybody. I really like the La
La pbe. He pulls people over because they're still pretty
like they pulled me over one night and my car

(01:16:17):
looks like shit. It definitely looks like someone who's driving
it probably has drugs on them, which at the time
I did. They pulled me over and this is how
they go, is this car stolen? And I said, no,
it's mine. It just looks stolen, and he goes and
I was trying to give it my license, right, and
he grabbed my license, but he didn't run it, and
he goes, if your car's not stolen, we're just gonna

(01:16:38):
let you go. And that was it. Bro. I kind
of like the forwardness of that, you know, like, I
don't give a fuck if you think my car stolen.
I'm used to that. I don't give a fuck if
you think I'm a drug dealer. I'm used to. I
don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
Who says yes to that question?

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Right exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Well, I I want to see you want to get
nervous for all this stuff, right the cop ask you,
Like if a cop ask you this car stolen and
he knows the car is not stolen, but he wants
to know if you're gonna panic on?

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Oh, do you think he knew that the whole cop move, bro,
because he was like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
Because here the car not stolen, okay, card and not stolen.
You put up an attitude. Now I've got your car.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Ah, okay, what the funk man?

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Third step out of the car. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
See, I don't even think of that, Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
I've never been I've never been pulled over for for
raggedy ass cars.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
Oh I got pulled. I've been pulled over non stop
for having raggedy ass cars constantly.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
And this car stolen. And then the boy wanted to
you how crazy you really are? That question, I'd be like,
you know, still this piece of ship man?

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Well, he said my last you know how, he justified
it in my mind, So I didn't think that because
he was like, this is the most this is the
most common stolen car of all cars in the history
of cars. So in my mind I was like, all right,
I get that. And so I just chilled and waited
and he goes, you're good to go, and had to
be back my license. But I didn't even think about
that because I'm not going to give attitude. I'm not
gonna go ahead, go fucking mother.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
I had cops pulled me over, bro, with a bunch
of other losers in my car, and the cop just
roast those one by one and said, you're not gonna
live to twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Way, that's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Yeah, and then they asked those like this, How cool
those cops were. I think these cars were veterans because
they were like older cops. Because they asked us, does
anybody here have a driver license?

Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
And this.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
I'll ask before they even asking who has the driver?
Let me see your driver license to a driver, right,
because does anybody who have a driver license? And I said,
I do. I have one, but it might be expiring
right now. I got to renew it. You drive the car.
I don't want to see you guys for the rest
of the night. If I see you guys, if I

(01:18:52):
see you guys walking, see you guys hanging out all
five together, but put you guys in and this keep
you in a jail for a day. I don't want
to see this car. I want to see you guys. No,
we're not gonna see you. You're not gonna see Sta Monica. No,
you parked his car. You gotta stay here. Oh wow,

(01:19:14):
so fucking we parked the car there, walked away, and
then when they left, we probably drove the car sat
of Monica.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
I got pulled over.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
And then we rented a car from a guy for
sixty bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Oh you got to get it back to him.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
Yeah, so it was his car. We started with our
friend's car. You go loaded to us for sixty dollars,
which all honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
That was real. It was real talk. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
And then I remember we parked the car Santa Monica
and we were hollering on some Asian girls and then
our Asian boyfriend sawads, so we parked the car there.
Then we went to go do our damage. Walked around
Appier like two in the morning. We're drinking. Bro, are

(01:20:00):
on the pier. There was no one but us. We're
having a good time. Come back. All our windows are broken.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Oh fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
And somebody left the note and said, hey man, this
guy broke your windows. Here's a license plate. Those four
guys that were all Asian, here's the number you want
to call us. And we went we went back to
the neighborhood. He goes, what happened to the windows? Bro?
They turned to break into the car. Bro, And we're

(01:20:29):
in Santa Monica. Sorry about that. And Bro, in the
middle of the night, we're calling up that number, going listen,
you fucking big rat, Will you give those guys the
phone number? We're calling that number all night, Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Different Bro that's fucking hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
I'm gonna break your windows next, you fucking snitcher.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
These four guys trying to do the bunch of faces
are calling even harasking him in the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Do you know who that car we lost to?

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
That's fucking hilarious, dude. That guy never got his windows fixed.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
No, man, I ended up. I ended up seeing that
guy and I caught it in the Element meeting when
I was going to the meetings. That's when I buy
your car, he did, laughed.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
I was gonna say, do you guys catch up over
the car?

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
He learned the car a couple of times, man, and
every time it was bad. One time I crashed it
and I just woke I don't know what happened. I
woke up with a car keys in my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
That's the one you walked away from. Yeah, you told
me about that, and it was in turned out.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
I remember walk waking up with a CarKey in my hand, thinking, oh,
somebody stay your two lords to drive and block me
from the car.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
Oh my what I god, bro, where was the car.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
This day?

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
It's still parked somewhere in the middle of an intersection.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Bro, I was I was always trying to be good
though in my life though, I was always trying to
be good. I remember, That's why I liked the history
for fools that makes me go to her study. I
had a I had a what are those teachers called
when they come to your house. I had a tutor
and she was a white lady with blue eyes and

(01:22:25):
a Mercedes Benz and she was she was like sixty
six years old. She will show up to my house,
me and my baby mama, and she will stay with
it for an hour and a half, one hour on
studying about stuff right, and then she will go homework
and then we'll do it. You come back the next week.
Then I had my friend. I told my friend Tracy, hey, bro,

(01:22:49):
I'm trying. I'm trying to get my diploma. Bro. Here
at the house. I got a tutor that shows up
every week. If I put you down, I think they pay.
They'll pay her extra for another student. But you could
be a my house. It got to the point where
I had four fools show up to my house, and
we're starting with a lady to get a high school diploma.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
That's fucking good for that lady, dude, Shout out to
that lady.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Bro fucking drive by shooting bro one O the time
she was there, no way ugly one was it?

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
A white lady came back from a good neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Typ She was always scared, Bro, But she was always scared.
They're gonna throw her car, but we will pay a
crackhead ten dollars to stit. Didn't watch it, I didn't
watch it. She was that fucking crackhead all the time, Broke.
She was always scared. God bless her. She was always scared.
She never came back. Then they sent me another motherfucker, bro,

(01:23:40):
a regular guy, all right, and he was teaching me
and we're are going great. Then one day I never
see the motherfucker again. Bro. He shows up dirty as fuck, dirty,
dirty and dirty hair, dirty shoes, and a bicycle, kind
of borrow twenty bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
No way, crack like a fucking he turned into a
crack he He.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
But sto have made friends with other people in the project.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
You guys fucked him up.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
I didn't know. I didn't know him like that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
You guys fucked him up.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
He came to help you and then like on his
way back to his car, someone was all, hey, somebody
not me. You want to go on a trip, homie.
And then after that, I.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Didn't see that food forever. I was about to get
my ged test. And then they ever came back for
about an eight month, Bro. Then I saw him all dirty,
brow strung out.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
Fuck dude. That lady got out, fucking she made it
out that fucking other homie came.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
This close to get him on the diploma with that
lady and this close to get in with that guy,
and he being a crack hit.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
That's fucking hilarious. Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
I had my own little school, Bro. I was charging
my homies twenty bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
No way where you were. You were hustling people to
get tutored, and you had a free tutor.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
The city was paying for the tutor, and the city
was paying for her for the extra kids. I don't
know how much. And those full of pay with twenty
bucks a week.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
To get tutor. That's fucking brilliant, dude. Always hustling, always hustling.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
History for food riots.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
Thanks for watching.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
I think Martin Lawrence, bro who did the joke about
that fucked up man what they did to run Nick
Dangerfield Because they would ask they would ask people, man,
they would ask people during the during the riot, the
reporter while you're looting, sir, because it's free.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Yeah, I seen that one. I saw that one. It's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
But these ram sackings are looting, right yeah. Yeah, you know,
one hundred people show to a store and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
Take it for free, that's called looting. What happened this
week or what happened this last week was just riots
and a little bit of.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
It took longer for the military to show up bro
in Los Angeles during those riots.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
During the ninety two riots, yeah, it took.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Three days of massacre before the Yeah, but you know what,
I'm even ali. Riots was concentrated in a certain area.
Everybody I was still working, having a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
So it was the same thing back then as well
that it was like one air all South Central, all
South Central. It wasn't like Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
A caravan of people from my neighborhood and people from
Inglewood were on the way to Beverly Hills to start
looting them that place. I was wondering why that didn't
Bro National Guard every other all the police were there already,
they were protecting that before everything off. I'm a quick
YouTube bro, and decided to loot will shoo district blowberries. Yeah,

(01:26:44):
you know nobody took books during the riots. A lot
of a lot of a lot of a lot of
conservative people. That that's a big comeback. Bro, When when
people loot, how come they don't loot books the same
reason you wouldn't lout but books if fucking the Boston
Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
I want, I'm not looting books, bro, There's no money
in books. I read books all the time. I'm not
loading books.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
There's no money in books.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
There's no money in books, Bro. I'm including sneakers and
fucking pokes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
You can't even give a book away to somebody without
them thinking, oh, listen, bro, you're gonna make You're gonna
make me a flat earther. Yes, or he's somebody a book.
They feel like you're gonna influence them. So, so there
is your conservative person. How come they're not right? How
come they never take books? I'll be honest, I hate,
but I'll be the firm motherfucking ty. Right now, if

(01:27:34):
I break into somebody's house, I'm taking all the books
because stupid people hie their money in books.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
That is true. That is true.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
I'm gonna think about that next.

Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
Right, sometime I'm in a bookstore or a yard, tell
I open those books, bro, grandmamas to die there with
a with a fat pity in there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
You never found money in a book?

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
Two bucks? Five bucks?

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I found money in my mom
when I went when my mom passed, I took all
her books and I found money throughout like the next
five or six years. But it was like the same thing,
like five ten bucks here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Well, my baby mama, mom died, there was money all
over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Oh wow, she has money everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
A jacket she left twenty she forgot about it. Yeah,
one hundred here, one hundred there, a bunch of change.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Wow, it works, it works, Thank you, mom, thanks for
your gifts, your gift from the heaven.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
People always like to like when somebody protesting something like
whether police brutality or immigration, the other side will disagree
with you the way they have something like real dumb
to say like that one, how come they don't take books? Well,
the last time you saw a riot, bitch where people

(01:28:49):
just took books. Why would I take books? When I
just take one hundred iPhones with books in it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
You're not writing to fucking like that's the thing. Is
you're not taking things for free because they're just there.
Like when people riot and take things, it's because they're
fucked when they're looting, so that they can either sell
it or use it later, you know, Like, of course
they're not gonna take books. I can't wipe my fucking
baby's ass with a book.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
The reason the only time people take books doing riots,
it's doing a prison riots to put it on your
chest so you won't get next time. Somebody says, how
come you don't take no books doing the riots. I
do take books doing riots. Bitch, prison riots, prison riots.
I got a big yellow pages on my ass. It's

(01:29:36):
gonna get serious.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
It works.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
It works like I don't know a sound. Like when
people start looting supermarkets, Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
That's the first place I would go is a supermarket. Actually, no, sorry,
the pharmacy.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
There's a video of people looting a liquor store and
everybody walking out, bro, all happy with champagne.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Yeah, fucking twelve packs, and there were people looting.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Bro. You see people pushing a whole di rock copy machine,
Bro that they jagged from fucking Circuit City.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
From Circus City. I mean, those were worth a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
They took Circuit City right there bro by where a
silver Lake area. They fucking took everything bro silver Lake
area right there by. The all of silver Lake was looted,
by the.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Way, during the Last Nights or during the ninety two riots.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
Yeah, anything anything where where anybody who lived in silver
Lake and they shopped at an applying store. That applying
store was fucking taking off people in my neighborhood. They
were breaking in they were looting workspaces, like a place
where they were just making stuff, making shovels. They went

(01:30:50):
in there and just took all the shovels.

Speaker 2 (01:30:52):
Right, Yeah, I saw that was happening. I mean that's typical, bro,
is just to grab whatever's on the shelf. I never
got to participate in looting, so I don't know how
it works, but I would imagine you just grab whatever.
Now you got like thirty shovels in your fucking garage, just.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
Thought, imagine what illegal looting is. What happens during Black Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
Pretty much pretty much people are just grabbing anything that yeah,
pretty much because you're in the Because when you're in
the red, it's bad, bro.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
As far as shopping when you're in the red, I mean,
if you're in the red, so you're like, you're you're
in debt being a black If there everything's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Checked, why they call it black Friday? There you go,
everybody history.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
For fools, all the all the dots are checking.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Oh dude, you learn something new every day.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
And that's what I just learned right now about thin
blue line? Was that one?

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Cops? I don't know why they call it a thin
blue line though, probably because it's easy to like step
over if you're a cop, it's easy to just fas
bro take money part? People up for these.

Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
Make me so mad?

Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Which part? And that was?

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
I think they did? In the path They had each
other's back.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Get the fuck out of here, bro, Get the fuck.
It's always a happy story years later, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Everybody, let me tell you a man, no matter what
division you're work in, everybody has their bag, right whether
you're a fire man, they have each other. They're fucking cops,
they have each other.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Bro, someone broke into the house right now, we don't
have each other's back, you know what I mean. If
I was a gardener here and I didn't know you guys,
and someone broke in, I would have your backs, you know,
like it's just you know that shit always bothers me.
It's just like, are you just fucking filling space with
your talk?

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
Yeah, man, history for fools. Ali Riot.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Two. We wanted to just kind of up that was
the thing, bro, because people were like, this is crazy,
and I'm like, bro, the fucking La riots. People died,
there was injuries, fucking fires. Motherfuckers were pulling people of
the cars and.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
Straight penty genitals. Yeah, dude, it was crazier, but it
was sexual assaults. But they didn't want to put those
auto briles would just care everybody. I think that should
just put every crime up there.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
Now, well there was a lot. There was a lot.
There was a lot. The statistics are out there. But yeah,
so there you go. You guys, fucking ninety two riots
better than twenty twenty five. There were nowhere to take,
going to take as far as them, Well, there's no
shops anymore. What are you gonna steal? You can't fucking
rate Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
People say iPhones, but but then you got to turn
them off.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
You're gonna turn those off?

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
Fuck that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
So yeah, there's nothing to take anymore. It's just now
just fucking pick up pieces of concrete and throw them
a cop. Cars, people taking caps, friend who hit me
up the other days off, I stole so many hats
in the La Riots.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
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