August 1, 2023 • 22 mins
Deputy Frank Sloup from Pinal County, Arizona is a VIRAL police officer and YouTuber best known for educating and entertaining folks on the reality of the traffic stop and Arizona Traffic Laws. Having been a prior officer on "LIVE PD" Frank now represents the wild desert just south of Phoenix on social media as a local celebrity in the Eloy / Marana / Maricopa Area. Today after the show HE JOINED US IN THE STUDIO for an Exclsuive behind-the-scenes look at the life of Deputy Sloup in THIS SPECIAL EDITION of Afterwords!
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Actually hold on our Frank Frank friends, what a good looking guy? This
guy is keep lying to me?Wait's legal to lie to the police.
I don't think so? Am Iam I under over here? I mean,
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you've got a pretty powerful voice.So only we have people get rather
of I have a big kid voice. Okay. In the studio, we
have a very famous celebrity from thePema County sheriff Department. No, no,
what Penal County. I'm sorry,PM County s s Yeah. In
the studio from the Penal County Sheriff'sDepartment. Um, we have the officer
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detective. How do I what's theword? Deputy Frank? Do we ever
see your last name? Or no? You never do slope? But you
never say that though, do youdo? Yeah? Oh because all the
time. Oh yeah you do onthe on the videos. It's on my
slope like ski slope. Okay,So can you explain to us how you
become so famous? No you can't. It's like it's a TV show,
but it's not to your own YouTube, Like can you how this start?
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When did it start? It's it'sa crazy thing. So Sheriff's office.
Um, I was on Live PDright okay, and uh live, PD
shut down because of all the Idon't like the cops stuff that happened.
Well, we still needed a wayto engage the community. So the PO,
the public Information officer, came upwith this idea of it was right
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around the same time when the textingand driving law came out, So like,
hey, we're gonna ride along withyou and we're gonna video people texting
and you doing traffic stops for thatviolation. Okay, cool, Well this
expands to the first stop comes out, they make a video, the video
starts getting some traction. They putanother video out, it gets more traction.
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Why more people just because of likeyour personality? Do you think you
know, I don't know, maybemaybe and people love you. What about
the video where they pulled you pulledthem over, their all excited to your
autograph all the time I take pictures. I am the only traffic cop in
the history of forever to write someonea ticket and then take pictures with them.
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It's the crazy, it's the craziestthing. It's it just it doesn't
happen anywhere but Pineal County. Andpart of it is Sheriff Lamb, who's
a rock star Hum. The peopleof Pannell County are super um protective of
us. They really like us.They're incredibly supportive of the Sheriff's office.
So we have we have this mixtureof an incredible charismatic leader who's at a
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national level, we have an incrediblysupportive community around us, and then we're
not afraid to put stuff out onthe internet. So Panell County is from
where to where it's Maricopa, it'sit's pretty much. So if you're going
down N ten, it's Riggs Roadall the way down to Pinell Airpark.
Oh cool. Oh so, soit's it's pretty much the south side of
Phoenix and the north side of Morano, everything in between. So it's a
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lot of that's a lot of space. So we are three hundred square miles
smaller than the state of Connecticut.I gotta be honest with you, I
would be surprised. I don't textand drive. But if I were getting
pulled over and you said I pulledyou over because I saw you on your
phone, I think I'd be alittle surprised by that. But are you
doing that a lot now? Andare people surprised that that's the reason they
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got pulled over a ton and it'sless now more when that law first came
out because Arizona wasn't a hands freestate, so you had all of this.
Like as we're people are just drivingaround, just driving with their knees
and texting like it was nothing,which is terrible, Which is I mean,
distraction is one of the main causesof collisions. Like look at how
many rear end collisions. And Itake these collisions all the time. So
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it's my job as a traffic youknow, in the traffic unit. So
I'm like, okay, So you'redriving down the road, you're ten and
two, you're looking through your windshield, you're super focused. Yeah, okay,
and the car stops in front ofyou. Yeah, he just drove
right into it. People are like, yeah, Mike, I don't I
don't know if that's how it happensor were you driving and looking down and
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looked up and then try to Yeah, you try to occupy the same space
as the car in front of you. And now now I'm here taking a
report, okay, but you're Iwant to get so you're you're if you're
driving and you see someone look down, they get pulled over. Can't.
You'd be like, I wasn't texting, I was changing my radio. All
that counts. It doesn't matter.So it's it's rich, it's that's actually
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probably viable. Yeah, that's ifsomeone says I might give him a past.
You know what to say when over. You have a great day,
sir um. But I'm when I'mwhen I'm doing it. Because there's so
many violations. I'm not like Iwant someone holding their phone as they're driving.
Okay, that's how you catch itbecause I prepare sometimes, like i'd
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be like, if I get pullover for texting right now, I'm just
gonna say that I was looking atmy GPS. Doesn't matter, It doesn't
matter. Okay. I was aboutto say I got a I got a
distracted driving ticket because I was lookingat my GPS. O time I had
for one time. I was checkedthis out. I was driving, I
was, I was on the roadand it was it was gonna my thirty
five forty miles an hour. Anda motorcycle cop came up next to me
and I was I was checking anemail and he pounded on my window and
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he goes, come on, man, and I was like, and I
rolled I go. He goes,don't text in drive and I go,
I'm it's an email. Really buthe didn't get me taking let me go.
I mean he didn't pull me over. You know why. He was
on his way to launch probably Okay, I'm want to get back to the
to the video, to the viralpart of this. So, so this
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exists only on YouTube right now.It is so the Sheriff's office puts it
out on Instagram on the Sheriff's OfficeInstagram page, facebook page, and YouTube
page. Okay, so somebody followsyou around with the camp they have a
camera on you, and then andthen somewhere what company takes it and chops
it up and edits it? It'sus? So you have your own person
who does it? We have Wehave our public information officer. His name
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Sam. Okay, I think Italked to Sam. You did? Okay?
So Sam set this up. Sammakes me look way better than I
actually am. Okay, So Sam, So you put you get in the
car and it's video, start rollingautomatically in your car and then use hand
over Sam eight hours of video.He does it. So he he has
a handheld camera, puts a GoProup in the window, puts a mic
on me and so he's videoing.He's in the car with you. He
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is in the car with me,sitting in the passage. So maybe once
a week he goes out and aride right about and so you met in
one day you'll pull over how manypeople? It all depends. I mean,
sometimes if it's if it's something crazy, sometimes maybe four or five,
sometimes twelve, fifteen, twenty.What's the crazy? Seeing this happened on
video that's on your show. Andby the way, the show's called Fridays
with Frank it's on YouTube, rightyou just Google or you put Google Panel
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County, both have you put Ifyou go to YouTube and put in Fridays,
like you get to Fridays and they'reauto phil it's huge, Like how
many? How many followers are onthere? I don't even those are those
are questions for Sam? All Ido kill Sam? I sent your video.
My sister has deals with Netflix andAmazon, and I was like,
check this out and she's like,oh my God, get me the information.
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And I was like, and youhave this great personality, you know,
so so it's like you could totallybe a TV Starry, do you
know what I mean? Yeah,that would be like, what's your story,
where'd you come from? Where yougrow up? So? I grew
up in New York, smon,I'm an East Coaster. And how long
you've been here? Um? Twentythree years now? Oh wow? So
yeah, I've been on I've beenon the job for twenty two years in
Panell County in a mixture of uphere in the valley and down to panel.
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Oh wow? So where you liveon part of town? I live
in Phoenix. Oh you do?Yeah? Did you answer the question what's
the weirdest thing you've seen? Whenyou but when you pulled somebody over?
Sorry? I asked you like threehundred things that one? Sorry, what's
the weirdest thing? How many followsdo you have? Up? Sorry?
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You might never write him a ticket. He would add you the death.
I don't even know what to dohere. Just stop checking now. I
don't even know I pulled you over. Now, I'm just gonna go on
my wife. You know, Igotta pull over one time Penell County.
In the officer's name, I'll neverget his name. I don't know his
name, but his name his lastname was Nix and I X do you
know what I'm talking about okay,because we have a sister station here.
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It's can I ask the country station? I listened to him all the time.
Okay, thanks Manny, Really theguy pulled me over. The guy
pulled me over and he had onhis his idea like you have sloop it
said K And then his last namewas Nicks and and Nick and I was
like, oh my god, chickit out? Can I ask? And
me? I took a picture andhe also didn't give me a ticket,
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and I was like, thanks man, nice, Okay to the Secret Show.
Here's more wall tickets. Secret SecretShow is awesome, right what you
go over there? Back to theoriginal question, what's the craziest thing you
say when you pulled something over?There? Is? There are so many?
I mean because I literally I've beendoing traffic stops for twenty so twenty
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two years. I've been stopping carsand walking up to the driver's um so
I mean it's people with no pantson um oh that I just let them
go, oh like where's your likewhere's your pants? Go? Oh know
what I've actually changed while I wasdriving? And then that moment, I'm
like, if I got pulled overright now, like what would be my
explanation, Like, I'm trying toget to the gym, so I'm changing
whilst I'm driving, which I feellike isn't safe. No, I feel
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at some point your feet are onyou get mastered it because you know you
got cruise control. So it's good. Frank, all your good right now?
If you got Sam in the carand he's filming and you got to
go like on a high speed chaseor you're going on, that's all happened
before Sam comes. Yeah, wewe went to UM. Actually just a
couple weeks ago. We had apretty significant incident ended up turning into a
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SWAT call up in a j andwe ran, we ran code, We
ran lights and siren all the wayup Ironwood, all the way to the
sixty sixty over into a patchy junctionand Sam's there. Just it's good,
is he? Sam's like, gogo go hey, let me let me
work to siren. I'm like,all right, it's this button here,
that's sen Yeah. Do you geta little team shows So I've been on.
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I was on the SWAT team uphere UM up in the valley,
and then I'll sell them on ourour swat team because that's like kay octane,
high adrenaline. Right, it's likekind of cool to pull out some
of the toys. Sometimes I'm sayingit's I drive fast to places and then
and then there's cool guns. Likethat's that's my life. You know,
you pulled up in this really coolcar. Right, is that your own
personal car? No? No,that's that's just a cover. That is
a vehicle that was purchased by theGovern's Office Highway Safety UM on an aggressive
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driving grant. So that that vehicleis a police cars lights and siren,
red and blue. I was gonnaask you because you do have the so
it's not like you take the sirento put on the roof. It's already
in there. That is That isthe car that I that's that is,
that's it. That's a cool car. Charger, it's a charger, a
charger. It's an R team,it's an RT. It's a twenty nineteen
wow um and it's awesome. It'sit. People blow past me. They
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never think it's I mean, it'sgot a racing stripe on it. They
never look at it like a copcar. And then then we rock and
roll. It's awesome. Yeah,So okay, So I was a criminal
justice major. I wanted to bea cop, wanted and then soon to
be detective. That was like mywhole life goal. And then John Jay
hit me up and I was like, we got to switch positions here.
Um, but do you ever doride along like other than Sam? Like,
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can I ride in the back ofyour a cop car? We so
not in the back in the front. All my swat stuff is in the
back seat, so you'd have toride in the front. Can I how
can I do it? Ride alongwith you? So the answer is yes,
I'm putting you on the spot,right, I'm so interesting. So
the answer is yes, Um,it's your first question. The answer is
no, Um, we don't dotypical with the with the traffic unit.
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We don't just do citizen ride alongright. Um, you as a representative
of this could ride along kind oflike as a like like a reporter.
Yeah. Like gosh, so wepodcasting in a car. We could call
it Peyton's purpose. Yeah, youlike like video the whole thing, and
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there's another YouTube channel. You looklike somebody who did they say, look
like I can't figure it out?Somebody famous Nick Turrow? No, No,
I mean you do have a Yeah, I've had that. You do,
have you Louis Gonzalez from the Diamondbacks, you get that him? Never
Yeah, he's got a real slimface. He's kind of a my face
has some Yeah, you have agreat personality. I really appreciate that because
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that is uh, that's like he'sa good looking dude. Yeah. But
what brought you firing? What broughtyou Arizona from New York? Um my
folks moved out here. Oh ohyeah, my my mom moved out here
in ninety one. And um Igraduated high school back east, did my
undergrad back east. And then inthe year two thousand, the market was
great out here for cops. Everyonewas hiring, So I came out here,
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got hired right on. Wow,So where which is your favorite county
to patrol? Right right now,right now? But Panala is Panal is
the best. It's between the leadershipand the community and how and the policies
within the agency that really like oneof my favorite sayings is I love to
make good people feel safe, putbad guys in jail. Good for you.
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Yeah, Like that's that's that's reallyin a nutshell, that's my job.
And and I want like like Iwant people like my mom, like
my sister and all that, likeI want them to feel safe, and
I want bad guys to be like. I don't want to drive through Pennell
County. Good, I don't.I do not. I will go up
through Globe and down to avoid PannellCounty because if I'm doing bad stuff there,
They're gonna arrest me. They're gonnabook me into jail. What about
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cartel people? Ever? Get thoseguys all? When I when I was
on the road, I worked downsouth Castigran like in the in the smuggling
corridors, like I eight, Iten out there by Maricopa, South Americopa,
in a place called Hidden Valley,UM, which is just east of
Um Vehicle Valley, which for theMerico Panic Sheriff's Office. Back in the
day when smuggling was a big deal, when drug like weed smuggling was a
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big deal. Um that was oneof the big areas for people, and
bundles of weed was coming up throughVihcle Valley Um Um south south south of
Uh. Those guys I get itfrom. Oh my gosh, I just
dial what's the worst thing you've everseen in your entire career of being in
a police officer that maybe you wakeup in the middle line terrified. You
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have images in your brain. Ohboy, oh boy. I was on
dive team for a while, soI've recovered a lot of body that one
will, that one will, someof those will stick with you. Yeah,
like um here, yeah, likewe're swarrow Lake pleasant pleasantly. Oh
yeah yeah right now, yeah,so sad. What about this? Let's
say we get pulled over and weknow we're doing something wrong. What is
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the best opportunity that we have toget out of a ticket? What is
what is the proper behavior? Whatdo you do? Like, let's say
you're just speeding a little bit andyou might get a ticke and you might
not. What's the difference for fora driver, It's it's owning it.
It's just owning it. So youlike, look, no, no,
no, no, a big.I'm a I'm a big just own it.
Like I'm a I'm a Jocko Willing. I am an extreme ownership guy.
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So it's I'm all about just straightup front owning it. Hey man,
look, I know I was speeding. I'm sorry. You know I'm
late. I want to get athome. You know whatever, whatever the
reason is the real reason. Reasonsand excuses are the kind of the kind
of the same thing. Um,but I feel like it's a reason when
you own it, you know it'san excuse and you're like, well,
you know it's hot and my aircondition doesn't work. I don't care,
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like I don't know. But ifit's hey, look man, I was
I was speeding. It's hot inmy car and I just I just want
to get out of my car,and hey ma, I'm sorry. Those
are different? Those are those are? It's this You're saying the same thing,
but you're saying it one in away is accepting responsibility for it and
just saying, hey man, lookI did it. And do you have
a good lie detector in your inyour brain now now if you like,
you can totally see it coming downBroadway. I have been lied to for
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a living for twenty two years.Like I when someone's mouths moving typically,
I know that probably a lot.Pretty intimidating, dude. I mean,
you're a sitting smiling laugh with us, But I mean if you got one
of us got pulled over by youthe video outside of the videos, watching
the videos, he's like Hey,you know why I pulled you over?
And they're like freak. They'd belike, oh, it's Frank. But
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I mean, you know, ifyou walked up to a car without you
weren't smiling, I'd be terrified.But when you smile, it's like,
oh he's a nice guy. Ireally and I another. That's the thing
for Fridays with Frank is that it'sit's breaking down that wall of of law
enforcement and humanizing this this uniform.And it's something great that Sheriff Lamb does
UM and it's something great that hehas allowed me to do because I can.
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I can throttle that UM, thatcommand presence. So that's I can
walk up and be like, hey, what's going on? Or I can
be up back. Hey an angellicensed registration right now? Those are two
different Those are two different things.But it's for addressing two day. Could
you list right there? Could youput John je in a headlock? For
we see? So, my wifewe have these foundations. We have a
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dog rescue called love Pop and wehave a foundation called Love Up. My
wife pretty much runs both of them, and she started this program because in
Love Up we deal with kids infoster care and a lot of kids in
foster care are scared of the police. Ye, so she started this program
called Fun with the Fuzz and sheyeah, and it's right. So what
she gets like twenty police officers andshe gets like twenty to thirty kids in
foster carry and our dog rescue andthe cops and the kids in foster care
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mingle and hang out and have lunchand get to know one another so that
they're not they know not to bescared of the police. I love it
in that great. I think Iwondered, maybe maybe you can come up
and and be part of that,and I think you would be amazing.
I am sure. That's a gamechanger. We've done quite a few and
the kids, a lot of themare excited about law enforcement after that.
Yeah, and it's really cool,like this is a cool job, Like
we we have a job that theymake movies about. This is this is
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a cool job. They also makemovies about drug smuggling. Um. When
some other people may say that's acool job, I mean not, I
haven't done. You're down, you'redown for fun with the fuss. I
can tell my well, okay,I would, And that's again, that's
that's something we go through the sheriff'soffice. But I just can't get your
number. Now. I can't imaginethat the sheriff's office wouldn't be like,
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uh, a way they humanize usand reach out to the community. Why,
why would you know? What's thedownside of that? Oh, there
is a one way if you canpull over now and be like, let
me call Frank real quick. Iwas just gonna your phone number now.
Look, I saw it as soonas you walked in. I was like,
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yep, then blue, Yeah,I got there. Let's go pretty
much. Brothers, are you areyou a single? Dude? Are you
married? I am? I'm datinga girl. Never been married, no
kids, married, married to thesheriff. You are so smart? How
long be dating the get this girl? A couple of years? Two years?
Probably you guys live together? No? So smart? What's her driving?
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Start to think about the future atsome point three years? Okay,
until she goes by Frank Internet?Frank, what does she do for a
living? She's also cop? Oh, don't mess with her. She's not
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that comp is she the one thatwas in the Miss American pageant? No?
Have you guys? Have you guysraced yet? Your car versus hard
cars. Your car would rocket.Oh yeah, yeah, No, we
don't. We She's a detective.She does detective things. She doesn't drive
fast. She does a does alot of paper. What a great way
for you to propose. You couldleave a crime scene that she has to
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investigate and at the end of scenethere's the ring. Stop pressuring me.
Just because you got married doesn't meanI do been in Panow County or Pema
County and Penow County and Maricopa County. Do you know, mister On?
You everyone, mister On Tucson.No, okay, I just want to
you just there's something about you,mister On. What is it? He's
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he owns up tepon Yaki Restaurant.It's on Oracle. No, but I
love I love food. Yeah,you can see there. There's not food
that I passed. What's your favoritefood in Phoenix? Oh god, man,
I'm a giant Chino bandido fan.Man. No, they didn't what
do you mean? No, theydidn't know. They then off the head.
You have three locations. They closedthe original on sixteenth Street, nineteenth
Avenue, I'll say sixteen streets rightnow. So they opened up a Britain.
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They built a building on Third Avenueand Bell. It's a brand new
standalone building. And I just,I literally I just ate their Sunday.
That's big news. Get yourself asweet and sour burrito. That's the way.
Chicken jade, jade, red chicken, black beans, Emerald chicken,
black beans, jerk fried rice.Oh my god, dude, I had
no idea that. I'm so gladyou're here now it's still there. It's
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amazing because they closed down me waslike devastating. There was one in Chandler,
then there was two in Phoenix,and they closed them all down where
they used to be in that likekind of shady strip mall Nineteenth Avenue Greenway
where you'd be like I'm gonna getsalmonilla or I'm gonna have the best meal
of my last meal, and youdon't know, like you're like it is.
It's still just like eating in NewYork. It's still the same in
the tin can or the tin thetin plate and all that. Yes,
everything is exactly the same. Foodstill the same. It's just it's a
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bigger plate than they own it.Snickerdoodle cookies, nothing else you told him
matters. Franks is not cool that'swhy I was speeding, speeding because okay,
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on your way, you could go, what's the latest excuse you ever?
Let even go for. I trynot to let people go on excuses.
I'm just because like every like youknow what I hear all the time.
I get it to the bathroom.Like you're in Panel County, there's
forty six bathrooms. Like you're drivingdown Ironwood, there's bathrooms on both sides
as far as you can see.Yep. Like stop at Starbucks, get
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a coffee, you go to thebathroom like super I always go to the
one on the the dairy queen.Yeah right there. Yah um. So
I'm my wife and I years agowe're going through fertility of trying to get
pregnant, right, and so Ihad to go give sperm samples, right.
And I remember one time I wasspeeding to get the sperm sample there
on time and I got pulled overand I had it in the bag.
I would let someone go for helet me go, he goes. I've
been a cop for twenty five years. I've never heard that excuse. I've
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never heard that. And I'm likeholding the bag and I'm like you're like,
so I have that's exactly right.And I was like, God,
get out of here. We're goingon to you. Okay, Frank,
thanks for coming in, dog Wrobvery much man. I'd love to have
you back and do some stuff withus. And I'll get a hold of
you for let me phone with thefuzz, all right, and you will
also text you anytime, yeah,anything. It's Fridays with Frank on YouTube
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or Pinell County on Instagram or PinellCounty one county. Okay, all right,
man, thank you very much.You got it.
Actually hold on our Frank Frank friends, what a good looking guy? This
guy is keep lying to me?Wait's legal to lie to the police.
I don't think so? Am Iam I under over here? I mean,
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you've got a pretty powerful voice.So only we have people get rather
of I have a big kid voice. Okay. In the studio, we
have a very famous celebrity from thePema County sheriff Department. No, no,
what Penal County. I'm sorry,PM County s s Yeah. In
the studio from the Penal County Sheriff'sDepartment. Um, we have the officer
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detective. How do I what's theword? Deputy Frank? Do we ever
see your last name? Or no? You never do slope? But you
never say that though, do youdo? Yeah? Oh because all the
time. Oh yeah you do onthe on the videos. It's on my
slope like ski slope. Okay,So can you explain to us how you
become so famous? No you can't. It's like it's a TV show,
but it's not to your own YouTube, Like can you how this start?
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When did it start? It's it'sa crazy thing. So Sheriff's office.
Um, I was on Live PDright okay, and uh live, PD
shut down because of all the Idon't like the cops stuff that happened.
Well, we still needed a wayto engage the community. So the PO,
the public Information officer, came upwith this idea of it was right
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around the same time when the textingand driving law came out, So like,
hey, we're gonna ride along withyou and we're gonna video people texting
and you doing traffic stops for thatviolation. Okay, cool, Well this
expands to the first stop comes out, they make a video, the video
starts getting some traction. They putanother video out, it gets more traction.
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Why more people just because of likeyour personality? Do you think you
know, I don't know, maybemaybe and people love you. What about
the video where they pulled you pulledthem over, their all excited to your
autograph all the time I take pictures. I am the only traffic cop in
the history of forever to write someonea ticket and then take pictures with them.
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It's the crazy, it's the craziestthing. It's it just it doesn't
happen anywhere but Pineal County. Andpart of it is Sheriff Lamb, who's
a rock star Hum. The peopleof Pannell County are super um protective of
us. They really like us.They're incredibly supportive of the Sheriff's office.
So we have we have this mixtureof an incredible charismatic leader who's at a
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national level, we have an incrediblysupportive community around us, and then we're
not afraid to put stuff out onthe internet. So Panell County is from
where to where it's Maricopa, it'sit's pretty much. So if you're going
down N ten, it's Riggs Roadall the way down to Pinell Airpark.
Oh cool. Oh so, soit's it's pretty much the south side of
Phoenix and the north side of Morano, everything in between. So it's a
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lot of that's a lot of space. So we are three hundred square miles
smaller than the state of Connecticut.I gotta be honest with you, I
would be surprised. I don't textand drive. But if I were getting
pulled over and you said I pulledyou over because I saw you on your
phone, I think I'd be alittle surprised by that. But are you
doing that a lot now? Andare people surprised that that's the reason they
(03:19):
got pulled over a ton and it'sless now more when that law first came
out because Arizona wasn't a hands freestate, so you had all of this.
Like as we're people are just drivingaround, just driving with their knees
and texting like it was nothing,which is terrible, Which is I mean,
distraction is one of the main causesof collisions. Like look at how
many rear end collisions. And Itake these collisions all the time. So
(03:43):
it's my job as a traffic youknow, in the traffic unit. So
I'm like, okay, So you'redriving down the road, you're ten and
two, you're looking through your windshield, you're super focused. Yeah, okay,
and the car stops in front ofyou. Yeah, he just drove
right into it. People are like, yeah, Mike, I don't I
don't know if that's how it happensor were you driving and looking down and
(04:04):
looked up and then try to Yeah, you try to occupy the same space
as the car in front of you. And now now I'm here taking a
report, okay, but you're Iwant to get so you're you're if you're
driving and you see someone look down, they get pulled over. Can't.
You'd be like, I wasn't texting, I was changing my radio. All
that counts. It doesn't matter.So it's it's rich, it's that's actually
(04:28):
probably viable. Yeah, that's ifsomeone says I might give him a past.
You know what to say when over. You have a great day,
sir um. But I'm when I'mwhen I'm doing it. Because there's so
many violations. I'm not like Iwant someone holding their phone as they're driving.
Okay, that's how you catch itbecause I prepare sometimes, like i'd
(04:50):
be like, if I get pullover for texting right now, I'm just
gonna say that I was looking atmy GPS. Doesn't matter, It doesn't
matter. Okay. I was aboutto say I got a I got a
distracted driving ticket because I was lookingat my GPS. O time I had
for one time. I was checkedthis out. I was driving, I
was, I was on the roadand it was it was gonna my thirty
five forty miles an hour. Anda motorcycle cop came up next to me
and I was I was checking anemail and he pounded on my window and
(05:13):
he goes, come on, man, and I was like, and I
rolled I go. He goes,don't text in drive and I go,
I'm it's an email. Really buthe didn't get me taking let me go.
I mean he didn't pull me over. You know why. He was
on his way to launch probably Okay, I'm want to get back to the
to the video, to the viralpart of this. So, so this
(05:33):
exists only on YouTube right now.It is so the Sheriff's office puts it
out on Instagram on the Sheriff's OfficeInstagram page, facebook page, and YouTube
page. Okay, so somebody followsyou around with the camp they have a
camera on you, and then andthen somewhere what company takes it and chops
it up and edits it? It'sus? So you have your own person
who does it? We have Wehave our public information officer. His name
(05:54):
Sam. Okay, I think Italked to Sam. You did? Okay?
So Sam set this up. Sammakes me look way better than I
actually am. Okay, So Sam, So you put you get in the
car and it's video, start rollingautomatically in your car and then use hand
over Sam eight hours of video.He does it. So he he has
a handheld camera, puts a GoProup in the window, puts a mic
on me and so he's videoing.He's in the car with you. He
(06:15):
is in the car with me,sitting in the passage. So maybe once
a week he goes out and aride right about and so you met in
one day you'll pull over how manypeople? It all depends. I mean,
sometimes if it's if it's something crazy, sometimes maybe four or five,
sometimes twelve, fifteen, twenty.What's the crazy? Seeing this happened on
video that's on your show. Andby the way, the show's called Fridays
with Frank it's on YouTube, rightyou just Google or you put Google Panel
(06:36):
County, both have you put Ifyou go to YouTube and put in Fridays,
like you get to Fridays and they'reauto phil it's huge, Like how
many? How many followers are onthere? I don't even those are those
are questions for Sam? All Ido kill Sam? I sent your video.
My sister has deals with Netflix andAmazon, and I was like,
check this out and she's like,oh my God, get me the information.
(06:57):
And I was like, and youhave this great personality, you know,
so so it's like you could totallybe a TV Starry, do you
know what I mean? Yeah,that would be like, what's your story,
where'd you come from? Where yougrow up? So? I grew
up in New York, smon,I'm an East Coaster. And how long
you've been here? Um? Twentythree years now? Oh wow? So
yeah, I've been on I've beenon the job for twenty two years in
Panell County in a mixture of uphere in the valley and down to panel.
(07:17):
Oh wow? So where you liveon part of town? I live
in Phoenix. Oh you do?Yeah? Did you answer the question what's
the weirdest thing you've seen? Whenyou but when you pulled somebody over?
Sorry? I asked you like threehundred things that one? Sorry, what's
the weirdest thing? How many followsdo you have? Up? Sorry?
(07:43):
You might never write him a ticket. He would add you the death.
I don't even know what to dohere. Just stop checking now. I
don't even know I pulled you over. Now, I'm just gonna go on
my wife. You know, Igotta pull over one time Penell County.
In the officer's name, I'll neverget his name. I don't know his
name, but his name his lastname was Nix and I X do you
know what I'm talking about okay,because we have a sister station here.
(08:05):
It's can I ask the country station? I listened to him all the time.
Okay, thanks Manny, Really theguy pulled me over. The guy
pulled me over and he had onhis his idea like you have sloop it
said K And then his last namewas Nicks and and Nick and I was
like, oh my god, chickit out? Can I ask? And
me? I took a picture andhe also didn't give me a ticket,
(08:26):
and I was like, thanks man, nice, Okay to the Secret Show.
Here's more wall tickets. Secret SecretShow is awesome, right what you
go over there? Back to theoriginal question, what's the craziest thing you
say when you pulled something over?There? Is? There are so many?
I mean because I literally I've beendoing traffic stops for twenty so twenty
(08:48):
two years. I've been stopping carsand walking up to the driver's um so
I mean it's people with no pantson um oh that I just let them
go, oh like where's your likewhere's your pants? Go? Oh know
what I've actually changed while I wasdriving? And then that moment, I'm
like, if I got pulled overright now, like what would be my
explanation, Like, I'm trying toget to the gym, so I'm changing
whilst I'm driving, which I feellike isn't safe. No, I feel
(09:11):
at some point your feet are onyou get mastered it because you know you
got cruise control. So it's good. Frank, all your good right now?
If you got Sam in the carand he's filming and you got to
go like on a high speed chaseor you're going on, that's all happened
before Sam comes. Yeah, wewe went to UM. Actually just a
couple weeks ago. We had apretty significant incident ended up turning into a
(09:33):
SWAT call up in a j andwe ran, we ran code, We
ran lights and siren all the wayup Ironwood, all the way to the
sixty sixty over into a patchy junctionand Sam's there. Just it's good,
is he? Sam's like, gogo go hey, let me let me
work to siren. I'm like,all right, it's this button here,
that's sen Yeah. Do you geta little team shows So I've been on.
(10:00):
I was on the SWAT team uphere UM up in the valley,
and then I'll sell them on ourour swat team because that's like kay octane,
high adrenaline. Right, it's likekind of cool to pull out some
of the toys. Sometimes I'm sayingit's I drive fast to places and then
and then there's cool guns. Likethat's that's my life. You know,
you pulled up in this really coolcar. Right, is that your own
personal car? No? No,that's that's just a cover. That is
a vehicle that was purchased by theGovern's Office Highway Safety UM on an aggressive
(10:24):
driving grant. So that that vehicleis a police cars lights and siren,
red and blue. I was gonnaask you because you do have the so
it's not like you take the sirento put on the roof. It's already
in there. That is That isthe car that I that's that is,
that's it. That's a cool car. Charger, it's a charger, a
charger. It's an R team,it's an RT. It's a twenty nineteen
wow um and it's awesome. It'sit. People blow past me. They
(10:46):
never think it's I mean, it'sgot a racing stripe on it. They
never look at it like a copcar. And then then we rock and
roll. It's awesome. Yeah,So okay, So I was a criminal
justice major. I wanted to bea cop, wanted and then soon to
be detective. That was like mywhole life goal. And then John Jay
hit me up and I was like, we got to switch positions here.
Um, but do you ever doride along like other than Sam? Like,
(11:09):
can I ride in the back ofyour a cop car? We so
not in the back in the front. All my swat stuff is in the
back seat, so you'd have toride in the front. Can I how
can I do it? Ride alongwith you? So the answer is yes,
I'm putting you on the spot,right, I'm so interesting. So
the answer is yes, Um,it's your first question. The answer is
no, Um, we don't dotypical with the with the traffic unit.
(11:31):
We don't just do citizen ride alongright. Um, you as a representative
of this could ride along kind oflike as a like like a reporter.
Yeah. Like gosh, so wepodcasting in a car. We could call
it Peyton's purpose. Yeah, youlike like video the whole thing, and
(11:52):
there's another YouTube channel. You looklike somebody who did they say, look
like I can't figure it out?Somebody famous Nick Turrow? No, No,
I mean you do have a Yeah, I've had that. You do,
have you Louis Gonzalez from the Diamondbacks, you get that him? Never
Yeah, he's got a real slimface. He's kind of a my face
has some Yeah, you have agreat personality. I really appreciate that because
(12:16):
that is uh, that's like he'sa good looking dude. Yeah. But
what brought you firing? What broughtyou Arizona from New York? Um my
folks moved out here. Oh ohyeah, my my mom moved out here
in ninety one. And um Igraduated high school back east, did my
undergrad back east. And then inthe year two thousand, the market was
great out here for cops. Everyonewas hiring, So I came out here,
(12:39):
got hired right on. Wow,So where which is your favorite county
to patrol? Right right now,right now? But Panala is Panal is
the best. It's between the leadershipand the community and how and the policies
within the agency that really like oneof my favorite sayings is I love to
make good people feel safe, putbad guys in jail. Good for you.
(13:01):
Yeah, Like that's that's that's reallyin a nutshell, that's my job.
And and I want like like Iwant people like my mom, like
my sister and all that, likeI want them to feel safe, and
I want bad guys to be like. I don't want to drive through Pennell
County. Good, I don't.I do not. I will go up
through Globe and down to avoid PannellCounty because if I'm doing bad stuff there,
They're gonna arrest me. They're gonnabook me into jail. What about
(13:22):
cartel people? Ever? Get thoseguys all? When I when I was
on the road, I worked downsouth Castigran like in the in the smuggling
corridors, like I eight, Iten out there by Maricopa, South Americopa,
in a place called Hidden Valley,UM, which is just east of
Um Vehicle Valley, which for theMerico Panic Sheriff's Office. Back in the
day when smuggling was a big deal, when drug like weed smuggling was a
(13:43):
big deal. Um that was oneof the big areas for people, and
bundles of weed was coming up throughVihcle Valley Um Um south south south of
Uh. Those guys I get itfrom. Oh my gosh, I just
dial what's the worst thing you've everseen in your entire career of being in
a police officer that maybe you wakeup in the middle line terrified. You
(14:05):
have images in your brain. Ohboy, oh boy. I was on
dive team for a while, soI've recovered a lot of body that one
will, that one will, someof those will stick with you. Yeah,
like um here, yeah, likewe're swarrow Lake pleasant pleasantly. Oh
yeah yeah right now, yeah,so sad. What about this? Let's
say we get pulled over and weknow we're doing something wrong. What is
(14:28):
the best opportunity that we have toget out of a ticket? What is
what is the proper behavior? Whatdo you do? Like, let's say
you're just speeding a little bit andyou might get a ticke and you might
not. What's the difference for fora driver, It's it's owning it.
It's just owning it. So youlike, look, no, no,
no, no, a big.I'm a I'm a big just own it.
Like I'm a I'm a Jocko Willing. I am an extreme ownership guy.
(14:52):
So it's I'm all about just straightup front owning it. Hey man,
look, I know I was speeding. I'm sorry. You know I'm
late. I want to get athome. You know whatever, whatever the
reason is the real reason. Reasonsand excuses are the kind of the kind
of the same thing. Um,but I feel like it's a reason when
you own it, you know it'san excuse and you're like, well,
you know it's hot and my aircondition doesn't work. I don't care,
(15:13):
like I don't know. But ifit's hey, look man, I was
I was speeding. It's hot inmy car and I just I just want
to get out of my car,and hey ma, I'm sorry. Those
are different? Those are those are? It's this You're saying the same thing,
but you're saying it one in away is accepting responsibility for it and
just saying, hey man, lookI did it. And do you have
a good lie detector in your inyour brain now now if you like,
you can totally see it coming downBroadway. I have been lied to for
(15:35):
a living for twenty two years.Like I when someone's mouths moving typically,
I know that probably a lot.Pretty intimidating, dude. I mean,
you're a sitting smiling laugh with us, But I mean if you got one
of us got pulled over by youthe video outside of the videos, watching
the videos, he's like Hey,you know why I pulled you over?
And they're like freak. They'd belike, oh, it's Frank. But
(15:58):
I mean, you know, ifyou walked up to a car without you
weren't smiling, I'd be terrified.But when you smile, it's like,
oh he's a nice guy. Ireally and I another. That's the thing
for Fridays with Frank is that it'sit's breaking down that wall of of law
enforcement and humanizing this this uniform.And it's something great that Sheriff Lamb does
UM and it's something great that hehas allowed me to do because I can.
(16:19):
I can throttle that UM, thatcommand presence. So that's I can
walk up and be like, hey, what's going on? Or I can
be up back. Hey an angellicensed registration right now? Those are two
different Those are two different things.But it's for addressing two day. Could
you list right there? Could youput John je in a headlock? For
we see? So, my wifewe have these foundations. We have a
(16:40):
dog rescue called love Pop and wehave a foundation called Love Up. My
wife pretty much runs both of them, and she started this program because in
Love Up we deal with kids infoster care and a lot of kids in
foster care are scared of the police. Ye, so she started this program
called Fun with the Fuzz and sheyeah, and it's right. So what
she gets like twenty police officers andshe gets like twenty to thirty kids in
foster carry and our dog rescue andthe cops and the kids in foster care
(17:04):
mingle and hang out and have lunchand get to know one another so that
they're not they know not to bescared of the police. I love it
in that great. I think Iwondered, maybe maybe you can come up
and and be part of that,and I think you would be amazing.
I am sure. That's a gamechanger. We've done quite a few and
the kids, a lot of themare excited about law enforcement after that.
Yeah, and it's really cool,like this is a cool job, Like
we we have a job that theymake movies about. This is this is
(17:27):
a cool job. They also makemovies about drug smuggling. Um. When
some other people may say that's acool job, I mean not, I
haven't done. You're down, you'redown for fun with the fuss. I
can tell my well, okay,I would, And that's again, that's
that's something we go through the sheriff'soffice. But I just can't get your
number. Now. I can't imaginethat the sheriff's office wouldn't be like,
(17:49):
uh, a way they humanize usand reach out to the community. Why,
why would you know? What's thedownside of that? Oh, there
is a one way if you canpull over now and be like, let
me call Frank real quick. Iwas just gonna your phone number now.
Look, I saw it as soonas you walked in. I was like,
(18:10):
yep, then blue, Yeah,I got there. Let's go pretty
much. Brothers, are you areyou a single? Dude? Are you
married? I am? I'm datinga girl. Never been married, no
kids, married, married to thesheriff. You are so smart? How
long be dating the get this girl? A couple of years? Two years?
Probably you guys live together? No? So smart? What's her driving?
(18:30):
Start to think about the future atsome point three years? Okay,
until she goes by Frank Internet?Frank, what does she do for a
living? She's also cop? Oh, don't mess with her. She's not
(18:53):
that comp is she the one thatwas in the Miss American pageant? No?
Have you guys? Have you guysraced yet? Your car versus hard
cars. Your car would rocket.Oh yeah, yeah, No, we
don't. We She's a detective.She does detective things. She doesn't drive
fast. She does a does alot of paper. What a great way
for you to propose. You couldleave a crime scene that she has to
(19:15):
investigate and at the end of scenethere's the ring. Stop pressuring me.
Just because you got married doesn't meanI do been in Panow County or Pema
County and Penow County and Maricopa County. Do you know, mister On?
You everyone, mister On Tucson.No, okay, I just want to
you just there's something about you,mister On. What is it? He's
(19:36):
he owns up tepon Yaki Restaurant.It's on Oracle. No, but I
love I love food. Yeah,you can see there. There's not food
that I passed. What's your favoritefood in Phoenix? Oh god, man,
I'm a giant Chino bandido fan.Man. No, they didn't what
do you mean? No, theydidn't know. They then off the head.
You have three locations. They closedthe original on sixteenth Street, nineteenth
Avenue, I'll say sixteen streets rightnow. So they opened up a Britain.
(20:00):
They built a building on Third Avenueand Bell. It's a brand new
standalone building. And I just,I literally I just ate their Sunday.
That's big news. Get yourself asweet and sour burrito. That's the way.
Chicken jade, jade, red chicken, black beans, Emerald chicken,
black beans, jerk fried rice.Oh my god, dude, I had
no idea that. I'm so gladyou're here now it's still there. It's
(20:22):
amazing because they closed down me waslike devastating. There was one in Chandler,
then there was two in Phoenix,and they closed them all down where
they used to be in that likekind of shady strip mall Nineteenth Avenue Greenway
where you'd be like I'm gonna getsalmonilla or I'm gonna have the best meal
of my last meal, and youdon't know, like you're like it is.
It's still just like eating in NewYork. It's still the same in
the tin can or the tin thetin plate and all that. Yes,
everything is exactly the same. Foodstill the same. It's just it's a
(20:45):
bigger plate than they own it.Snickerdoodle cookies, nothing else you told him
matters. Franks is not cool that'swhy I was speeding, speeding because okay,
(21:10):
on your way, you could go, what's the latest excuse you ever?
Let even go for. I trynot to let people go on excuses.
I'm just because like every like youknow what I hear all the time.
I get it to the bathroom.Like you're in Panel County, there's
forty six bathrooms. Like you're drivingdown Ironwood, there's bathrooms on both sides
as far as you can see.Yep. Like stop at Starbucks, get
(21:33):
a coffee, you go to thebathroom like super I always go to the
one on the the dairy queen.Yeah right there. Yah um. So
I'm my wife and I years agowe're going through fertility of trying to get
pregnant, right, and so Ihad to go give sperm samples, right.
And I remember one time I wasspeeding to get the sperm sample there
on time and I got pulled overand I had it in the bag.
I would let someone go for helet me go, he goes. I've
been a cop for twenty five years. I've never heard that excuse. I've
(21:56):
never heard that. And I'm likeholding the bag and I'm like you're like,
so I have that's exactly right.And I was like, God,
get out of here. We're goingon to you. Okay, Frank,
thanks for coming in, dog Wrobvery much man. I'd love to have
you back and do some stuff withus. And I'll get a hold of
you for let me phone with thefuzz, all right, and you will
also text you anytime, yeah,anything. It's Fridays with Frank on YouTube
(22:19):
or Pinell County on Instagram or PinellCounty one county. Okay, all right,
man, thank you very much.You got it.
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