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Drunk Pilot, Fake Fed, & My Dine-and-Dash Fail
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A Southwest pilot shows up lit, body-cam footage drops, and Bruce breaks down what really happened—and how rare these incidents actually are—without the panic bait. Then it gets personal: an FBI dawn raid at a nearby high-rise ends in tragedy, exposing a neighbor’s alleged romance-fraud scheme and the dangers of rumor-driven “facts.” Finally, we lighten it up with a shameless (and hilarious) dine-and-dash story that becomes a lesson on ethics, adulthood, and treating service workers right. If you like sharp, funny social commentary, true-crime-adjacent storytelling, and real talk about accountability, this one’s for you. Watch, comment, and tell a friend—because you definitely know someone who says, “Hey guys… they got us.” #viralnews #AirlineSafety #RomanceScams #storytime #unsolicitedperspectives
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00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
01:09 Shocking: Drunk Pilot Almost Takes Off with Passengers! 🍺✈️😱
07:26 The Truth About Pilots & Alcohol: Real Statistics Revealed! 📊🔍🚫
10:22 Raw & Real: Personal Stories from the Streets 🎭💭💔
17:34 From Pilots to Con Artists: The Plot Thickens! 🎭🎪🎯
20:04 My Neighbor the Con Man: A True Story 🎭🕵️♂️😱
33:33 Stop the Lies: Setting the Record Straight! 🚫🗣️💯
36:07 The Shocking Truth Finally Revealed! 🔍💣💥
42:53 High School Shenanigans: The Story I Can't Forget! 🏫😂🤦♂️
44:23 Dine & Dash Gone Hilariously Wrong! 🏃♂️🍽️😂
53:41 Life Lessons: Growing Up & Learning the Hard Way 📚🎓💡
56:44 Thank You for 250+ Episodes! Let's Keep Growing! 🎉🙏💪
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Introduction and Episode Preview
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drunk pilots and con men. We gonna get into Let's get it.
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00:00:44
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On today's episode, we're going to be getting into a Southwest pilot drunk on the job, a con man that unalived themselves. And then I'm going to be telling a funny story from back in the day.
00:00:57
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But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Real-Life Incident vs Fiction: The Drunk Pilot
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You know, sometimes sometimes Life imitates art and art imitates life.
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I don't know which one this is. I don't know what came first, the chicken or the egg. I'm going to assume that real life came first before art. But y'all remember the the movie Flight stars Denzel Washington?
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ah There's a meme that goes around where Denzel is. It's a scene in the movie where Denzel is being asked, you know, under oath to what was going on. He was like, I'm drunk right now.
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I was drunk yesterday. i was drunk the day before and I'm drunk right now. And it was funny because it wasn't a true story. And Denzel played the hell out of that role. And we don't ever think about it. We hop on flights all the time.
00:01:57
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We don't think about pilots. Well, most of us don't think about pilots. You know, racist people think about, you know, if the pilot is black or white, but I'm just talking about The normal people out there don't ever think about the pilot.
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Hell, half the time we don't even know, we don't even meet the pilot. We meet the attendants, but not the pilot. Why am I bringing all this up? This story is not new. This story is old.
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However, the body cam footage was just released recently, and that's the reason why I came across my timeline. And because it came across my timeline, I feel it's my duty to go ahead and tell you all about this story.
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Really crazy story. So ah southwide a Southwest Airlines pilot, Captain David Paul Asup, was arrested in Savannah Hilton Head Airport in Georgia on January 15th of this year, 2025, just before he was scheduled to fly a Chicago-bound flight.
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The arrest unfolded after a TSA officer noticed that Asup appeared intoxicated and could smell alcohol on his breath as he passed through security. This prompted airport police to intervene and remove...
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I'm going just call him the pilot because his last name is crazy. It's all that. But that's a mouthful for me because, you know, my speech impediment. So pilot. So the airport police intervened and removed the pilot from the cockpit while passengers were already on board.
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The pilot was asked when he last had alcohol. He replied it had been about 10 hours and claimed the smell officers noticed might have been from the nicotine gum. However, after performing field sobriety tests on the jet bridge, the pilot failed two of the three tests.
00:03:36
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He declined a blood draw to confirm his blood alcohol level and was charged with driving under the influence. Driving? This dude was about to fly, but I assume that he drove to the airport.
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Or maybe he got drunk at the airport. I don't know.
Alcohol and Aviation Safety
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The arrest effectively ended his 19-year career as a pilot with Southwest stating that he was immediately removed from duty and fired.
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Southwest Airlines responded that the safety of employees and customers is their top priority. Passengers experienced slight significant delays as a replacement pilot was found, and the airline apologized for the disruption. Efforts by Southwest employees to take custody of the pilot for their own tests were rejected by police, who emphasized their obligation to process the incident according to state law.
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Criminal charges against the pilot remain pending as
Personal Reflections on Alcohol and Responsibility
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of August 2025. twenty twenty five so I don't even know what the what the Southwest employees were trying to do. They wanted to take custody of them for their own tests, but that was rejected by the police. That's just weird. You know, police said they didn't go follow the law.
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But this is scary. This man, under the influence, drank so much that as he's passing through security, the TSA agent was like, wait a damn minute. this dude is lit now don't get me wrong the other day i was around my sister and i like i frequently do had the gatorade bottle with some tequila in it when i'm traveling right like you know i'm going here and there you know we're about to go party you know pre-game i put it in a gatorade bottle now will that get me busted i guess if any cops are listening or watching the show and see me on public transportation
00:05:23
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They're ask me what's in the the bottle. But supposedly from my sister, you can smell what's in the bottle. And it's tequila. Tequila has a very distinct smell and a relatively strong smell.
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This pilot passed through TSA lit was going to fly lit. And I know a lot of you guys are thinking, well, how much does that happen? I'll get into that in a minute, but I just want to talk about the audacity, the absolute audacity to move through the airport, get on the plane.
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while you are lit and then try to lie to the cops, which I guess I would too, because I know my career is ah about to be over. Then try to lie to the cops and be like, oh, I drank 10 hours ago.
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Now, you can drink so much that the next morning you reek of alcohol. It like comes through your pores or you can smell it. I've had clients and me personally, the next morning you reek of it.
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That means you had a lot, you had a lot to drink. Even after you shower, you still smell like alcohol. You had a lot to drink. So even that explanation is wild. That's still like, yo, know bro, you drank that much. You might still be a little under the influence, even if it was 10 hours ago.
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Then tried to say it was a nicotine gum. And I'm sorry, nicotine gum don't smell like alcohol to me. and Look, but don't chew nicotine gum. Maybe y'all out here with the nicotine gum chewers could tell me if it's if it smells like alcohol. I know there is sometimes you can use mouthwash and you'd be like, yo, you've been drinking? No, that's my mouthwash. Especially Listerine. Listerine, I do believe, is just straight 100% proof vodka.
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but But honestly, that's just crazy. And what's crazy to me is how often does this happen? Like I said, I was going to give you guys that information, so I'm going give it to you right now. So incidents of airline pilots that have been caught with alcohol impairment or under the influence of commercial flights.
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All right, commercial flights. The Jet Airliner Crash Data ah Evaluation Center, the JACDEC. The JJJOC, what's that?
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ah That is from Beverly Hills Cop 3. reported that the in a typical year in the U.S., 11,000 13,000 random alcohol tests are conducted on commercial airline pilots, with only about 10 pilots testing positive.
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This is going all the way back to 2015. Since 1980, out of 12,000 incidents, there were only 11 commercial aviation accidents linked to alcohol abuse.
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The FAA data showed that the highest number of alcohol violation in the past decade was 23 in one year. Pilots are subjected to strict regulations, including blood alcohol content limit of 0.04 percent and a minimum of eight hour bottle to throttle rule before flying.
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Random and unannounced testing, annual physicals, and strict preventive programs keep the intoxicated pilots and commercial incidents extremely low.
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While alcoholism may be present to some degree, similar to the general population, Alcohol impaired piloting is extremely rare and heavily monitored with serious consequences and violations.
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So basically, this don't happen that often. We fly a ton of planes and very
The Con Man's Tragic End
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rarely, every year, every day, every day, there are hundreds, probably thousands of flights just in the US alone.
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Very rarely, very rarely are we getting anything that's that would say alcohol-related incidences and crashes.
00:09:28
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I don't really ever really hear it. Now, I'm going to keep my ear to the streets tim to check and make sure that these things aren't really happening.
00:09:39
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But the numbers say that this doesn't really happen. Now, for some people that are listening to this, who are already afraid of flying, this is not going to decrease your fear of flying.
00:09:51
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Now, this is just an added thing. You already worried about some mechanics of the plane flying off or something going wrong and then you plumbing it to your death.
00:10:02
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Now, you got to worry about if the pilot is off that Jim Beam while he's flying the plane. And, you know, i don't condone this.
00:10:15
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It happens. I don't condone this, what I'm about to say. But there have been times, and I've told the story, me and my sister have told the story of me driving under the influence of having her in a car.
00:10:26
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It was actually, I can't say it was the last time I was drinking and driving. I really, this is the reason why i don't have a car, right? Because when I go out, I'm drinking.
00:10:37
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There's no reason for me to have a car and go out, Uber. It's so much better for me because I honestly don't want to go to jail.
00:10:48
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But In my youth, I did used to drink and drive. And i used to say, well, I'm a better ah driver under the influence that I am a regular driver because I'm like, I'm more aware, like I'm more focused, which is complete utter BS. I wasn't, right? When your senses are dulled, which is what alcohol does, you're not sharper.
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You're absolutely the opposite of that. So it was just my, I don't know, ego to believe that that was the case. But I'm sure that there are some pilots that are such good pilots that they can fly even under intoxication. And let's be honest, there are a lot of people out there that are driving that have driven.
00:11:39
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i don't know. thousands of hours, hundreds of thousands of hours collectively over their lifetime, that driving under the influence is not that big of a deal to them considering, you know, how much they actually had to drink.
00:11:53
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I wouldn't chance it, but I'm also not a pilot. I couldn't even play flight simulator. I always crashed a plane. I never wanted to try to attempt to be a pilot.
00:12:03
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I could barely drive a motorcycle. You know what I'm saying? I have crashed. More times than I care to mention riding a motorcycle and even a bicycle.
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So being a pilot has never appealed to me. And I've actually ridden a bicycle ah intoxicated, never ridden a motorcycle intoxicated. I've always been entirely too scared to fly over top of that handle, crush my head, become paralyzed. Cause y'all all know that that's one of my fears. Let me knock on some wood.
00:12:37
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I don't want that to happen. But even if there are pilots out there, and I'm speaking specifically to those people who are all already automatically afraid of flying, but now this story is just going make you even more afraid of flying.
00:12:52
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Relax. Relax. Because pilots, pilot, just like drivers drive. Are there a lot of drunk driving accidents? Of course there are.
00:13:04
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way more than pilots, right? As Superman stated in Superman the movie 1978, statistically speaking, flying is the safest way to travel. I think that is still the case.
00:13:17
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But I don't think people should be nervous out here about pilots being intoxicated and flying a plane. I just thought this was an interesting story because quite honestly, I didn't hear anything about it.
00:13:31
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Like I'm sure the people in Georgia heard about it because it happened in georgia maybe the people in chicago heard about it but this happened eight months ago and i knew nothing and the only reason why i know anything now is because the body cam footage became available just recently and it came across my timeline And you knew that he was under the influence as soon as he declined to take that blood alcohol test. Now, I have heard some lawyers say you always decline that ah because they could be faulty. But look let me tell you something, brother.
00:14:12
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If you're a pilot and you say you're not going take an alcohol test, ah the the blood test, where not even the blood test, like the breathalyzer, your ass is guilty.
00:14:24
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OK, and you might as well just hang it up, try to put your, you know, put your resume out there for something else. Maybe you can do air traffic control because you definitely cannot fly no more planes after you get caught.
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And let's also. Say alcoholism is a real disease. I get so many people and it's really trainers. because I'm in that world.
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And it's so funny to me how trainers act. They say, I don't know why people can't just stop something and do something. And I'm like, well, you can't stop or do something. You, you have this specific thing about you where, where, you know, you can focus in and eat properly and exercise properly, but it's, it's very hard for people to be disciplined in certain aspects of their life.
00:15:09
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And then, you know, people have thyroid issues and, eating disorders. There's a myriad of different reasons of why somebody might have a challenge in losing weight.
00:15:22
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And there are definitely reasons why people might have a challenge to not drink. You know, not even talking about just pure alcoholism, because that is absolutely a disease.
00:15:36
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It is not the will to just quit. If they could just have one drink, they would just have one drink. And I've known many ah alcoholics that were trying to quit. It is a very, very tough thing to do.
00:15:48
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But then also people who are not alcoholics, I call them drunks. I could be considered a drunk. These are people who are not dependent on alcohol, but might drink. More than the normal, depending on what's going on in their life. And I absolutely know when I'm depressed or have high anxiety because I can tell that I'm drinking a lot more.
00:16:09
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And I'm like, oh, something is going on with me inside. I don't know what it is, but i need to figure it out because that's a telltale sign. So maybe this man was going through something. Maybe he's an alcoholic. Maybe he was going through something, whatever it was.
00:16:21
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He definitely was drinking and what he should have done is called in sick. You know what saying? If something's going on in your life, yeah, maybe it was financial and he needed to work, but not to risk other people's lives. Because one of the reasons why I decided, aside from the fact that it's the right thing to do, that I decided that I didn't want to drink a drive anymore is because I don't want to be responsible for anybody else's death.
00:16:51
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If I was in a drinking, driving accident and I caused somebody else's death and I lived, it doesn't matter what the punishment is. I wouldn't be able to live with myself. And that's just real.
00:17:03
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So ladies and gentlemen, just thought this was an interesting story. This does happen. Not frequently. There's nothing that you need to be afraid of as far as flying and and riding in planes.
00:17:15
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Go take that flight. Go to Jamaica. Go to Turks and Caicos. Go over to Europe. You know what saying? Go visit Japan. Go. It is okay.
00:17:28
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But also, just be aware. That pilot, he might have been drinking. But transitioning from... Drunk Southwest pilots.
00:17:41
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We're going talk about something that hits a little closer to home. And that's con men. We're going to get into that next.
00:17:59
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You know, life is crazy. Recently,
Intertwined Lives and Small-World Stories
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over the last month, I have an Instagram friend. we and And me and her went on a couple of dates. I'm trying to remember how long ago we both were, like 10 years ago.
00:18:13
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We're Instagram friends. I haven't seen her in person. She's seen me in person because she's passed by where I lived when when my dog was alive. and texted me. It was like, Hey, I just saw you walking your dog. And I was like, Hey, why didn't you stop? Say hello.
00:18:28
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They're like, Oh, and I was like, Oh, okay. You was with dude. was like, okay, I get it. Like, it's cool. But you know, next time stop, say hello. You shouldn't be threatened because we went on a couple of dates a couple of years ago.
00:18:40
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And the crazy coincidence is Cause I was on their Instagram recently and come to find out she's really close friends with another woman that I dated.
00:18:50
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Now these women I dated several years apart. I want to say at least three, four years apart, randomly know each other. They live, one lives in Virginia, one lives in DC. They literally meet in the middle to take a workout class. And I was like, oh, that's, this is a small world.
00:19:07
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Then I remember I've lived in DC for almost 30 years. and have traveled all the way from Baltimore to Richmond, have dated women from all over the area.
00:19:18
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So of course they're gonna cross paths. The world is small and it's getting smaller and you never know who you know. But I started, I ended the last segment by saying con men and hitting close to home.
00:19:35
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And you're like, Bruce, what is you, And two women that you dated and them knowing each other randomly have to do with a con man and small world.
00:19:48
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The point is the world is small and you never know who you meet and you never truly know people. So. Recently, Friday, August of this year at 6 a.m., FBI agents raided a high-rise apartment complex in Alexandria, in Virginia to serve a criminal arrest warrant on a resident.
00:20:09
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Upon the agent's entry into the 15th floor apartment, the man attempted to flee by jumping off his balcony and He was declared dead at the scene. The incident caused lane closures and heavy law enforcement presence on King Street while the investigation continued.
00:20:27
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The man has been identified as Sean Stephen Harris. Harris was facing federal wire fraud charges and was indicted for operating an extensive romance fraud scheme between 2019 and 2021. Seven counts wire fraud seven counts of wire fraud were attached to Harris. Harris allegedly defrauded at least four women he met through online dating apps between October 2019 and November 2021.
00:20:57
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He convinced victims to let him use their credit cards with false promises of government reimbursement and extravaancet extravagant gifts. one count of false impersonation of an officer and employee of the United States.
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Harris claimed to work for federal agencies such as the F, such as.
00:21:21
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next Harris claimed to work for federal agencies such as the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Treasury Department to lend validity to his schemes and deceive victims.
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He reportedly used seven aliases and convinced women he met online to let him use their credit card for purchases which he promised that would be reimbursed as part of government operations.
00:21:46
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He pretended to work for various agencies, and made those false promises, ah exclude including lavish gifts, pet dogs, student debt relief, and luxury items.
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Victims included women who lost tens of thousands of dollars after Harris made significant charges to their accounts for electronics, fashion, food delivery, spa services, and OnlyFans subscriptions.
00:22:17
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Okay. So why am I bringing this up? It just so happens that this incident is less than a block away from where I live.
00:22:32
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Now I'm not giving you all my exact address, cause y'all be tripping out here, but it's, it's very close to where I live. I walk past this building every day when I go for my evening walks and used to walk past the building all the time when I would take crypto for walks when he was alive.
00:22:49
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Now I said it hits close to home because it's right down the street from me. And I saw the police presence when it happened.
00:22:59
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I contacted my contacts in the FBI and in the Alexandria Police Department because Sean jumped off the 15th floor balcony, died.
00:23:15
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And so there was a death investigation. So the FBI was had the criminal charges, came in, and the Alexandria ah Police Department took over the death investigation. So it was two different agencies. So reached out to ah my contacts in both agencies. and And what they told me was, before the facts came out,
00:23:38
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What they told me was this was a nonviolent crime, but that it was an active investigation and they couldn't tell me. And I was like, wait a minute, you can't tell me? This is, it it can be off the record.
00:23:50
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It could be off the record. I'm just curious. They said, even off the record, you couldn't tell me. And some of them, some of my contacts knew and i'm going to be off the record. Like I was going to talk about it on the show.
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So, and, and, and, and I kind of understand that. So when the information came out, I contacted my contacts again, my sources. I actually have sources. Remember, y'all, I went to journalism school. i I'm a semi-journalist to get the full story.
00:24:17
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Now, they don't have any pictures of this man online, just a name. And I was curious to know if I knew the person because I walk past that building all the time. I have clients that live in that building.
00:24:34
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I know people that live in that building. So I was curious to find out exactly who it was because there's no pictures online. So through my contacts, I found out who he was.
00:24:47
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And not only does it hit close to home because like I've been in that building, ah don't live far away from it. I walk past it every day. I knew the person. I personally knew the person.
00:25:00
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I knew Sean. I spoke to Sean two, three times a week. That put a whole new perspective on everything. I'm going to get a little personal.
00:25:11
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I don't think I'm going emotional because I don't think I'm, I don't think I'm affected emotionally by it. It wasn't like this was one of my friends, one of my boys. It was a person that I knew that I talked to.
00:25:23
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fairly often like a lot of people that live in this area that i see especially people that were dog people you know i'd always sit down and talk to people and i'm you know friendly kind nice whatever you want to call it person so yeah you know i talked to people so i knew sean let me tell you about what i knew about sean this is going sound weird Uh, he always smelled good, you know, I mean, he, he always had cologne on, just, he presented himself as, you know, a person that, that
00:26:00
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You know, I had a little bit of had a little bit cheddar cheese. Right. Not the most fit person. You know, we talked about him hiring me as his personal trainer because he was on the heavy side, but he had a smooth kind of suaveness about him. It does not surprise me that he swindled some women out of money because he he kind of had that je ne sais quoi, as we would say, that smoothness about him.
00:26:30
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well The thing that strikes me the most, because it's an interesting story, there are parts of it that I find funny that I will not get into because I can find humor in everything. It's dark humor, but I can find humor in everything.
00:26:46
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um It's an interesting story. It's a wild story. the the it's a heartbreaking story in this aspect. I knew Sean. And one of the reasons why i often saw Sean is because he was pushing his stroller with his daughter.
00:27:06
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His daughter was a beautiful baby girl. I had just the most beautiful eyes. I would say to him all the time, man, hey, look, going get your fight game ready because the dude's going to be after her because she is gorgeous.
00:27:21
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Gorgeous little girl. And he was a proud, proud papa. I mean, up every time I saw her, I barely saw the mom. We'll get into that in a minute. I barely saw the mom. I did meet the mom. I know the mom.
00:27:34
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Don't know the mom's name, but I know the mom. I know that they were together. And a beautiful baby girl. And that's the heartbreaking point. The heartbreaking point is when I talked to my sources, they, the FBI sources said, and I, would I'm not, the sources weren't there, the arresting officers, but it's gone around, said that this was not the outcome that they were expecting.
00:28:01
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They did not think that this man would run and jump off the balcony to unalive himself. I mean, the charges are serious, but not so serious.
00:28:13
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Right. Like he could get 15 to 20 years, you know, time served. Federal charges is always different. You don't serve 100 percent of your time. I don't know what the exact numbers are, but he would have been out either while his daughter was in high school. Maybe if he got lucky before she entered high school, but definitely before she graduated high school, like he would have been out and he would have had a whole nother life.
00:28:37
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I also know that I'm older than Sean.
00:28:41
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Sean was a younger man. So even if he did 20 years, he' he could still have 30, 35, 40 years after that to live.
00:28:53
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And yes, nobody wants to go to federal prison. Prison sucks, y'all. I told y'all how much I don't want to go. And I've also joked Somewhat serious, but still joking about what are some reasons that I would give
Parenthood and Changing Responsibilities
00:29:09
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up life. You know, I always talk about an amputation a losing eyeball.
00:29:12
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That's tongue in cheek, right? but But even when I'm being tongue in cheek, I always say, hey, look, little one, if I had a little one, the whole ball game changes.
00:29:25
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Everything changes. So that's the sad part. The wild part is... think he stopped once he had his daughter.
00:29:37
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He did this for a short period of time. So far, what they know, right? There could be more victims, but, and there might be more victims that come forward because this story has at least locally taken us by storm.
00:29:53
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But, For the actual charges, it was a short period of time. was was two years. It wasn't even a full two years. It was two years, right? And um I know for a fact he had his daughter after 2021 or around 2021, because she was like maybe three years old. Like she's still being pushed around in a stroller.
00:30:16
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um
00:30:20
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So he stopped. Or somewhat stopped. I also found out through sources that, uh, the man that I thought I knew, not just from the story, but the man that I thought I knew, I didn't know. Let me give you a prime example.
00:30:35
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I was talking to him. Maybe a year ago, we were rapping, you know, just out there, just chit-chatting, just talking. And he was like, yeah, wifey, you're going to have me go ahead. And and yeah, we're moving.
00:30:48
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I was like oh, you're moving from the area? He was like, no, we're moving in the building. Wifey needs a bigger place, so we're moving into the penthouse. I was like, oh, where? You're moving into the penthouse? Now, he had also told me that he was a Georgetown graduate.
00:31:00
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And i got to be real honest. I believed it. But now in retrospect, when all of these charges come out, I absolutely believe these charges because he did not live in the penthouse. I found that through sources that he did not live in the penthouse. He lived in a nice place, but not the penthouse.
00:31:22
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And I'm not so sure that he went to Georgetown. And there's another aspect of me knowing him that You'll say to yourself, but Bruce, you do the same thing and and you're right.
00:31:36
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He was always around in the middle part of the day. Like, what did he do for work? I don't know. Right. I never really asked that because that's such a common question in this area.
00:31:48
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People always ask in the D.C. area, where'd you go to school? What do you do? And it's not in that order. And so I never, and i I make it a point not to really ask. People will bring it up regardless, but he never did.
00:32:02
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He never did. So he went to Georgetown. I think he told me he worked in the government somehow. And I was like, oh, okay, you could do remote work. But they had to remote work for a lot of government workers. Like a lot of my friends that work in the government who was doing remote work all during the pandemic, their ass is back in office.
00:32:19
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Whether they wanted to be or not, they are. There's some people that got hybrid, but majority, in office and not doing remote. And I still saw him. i'm I'm trying to think of the last time I ran into him. Obviously, it was before Friday the 8th.
00:32:35
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That's a poor statement, but it it obviously was before that. was It was this month. I know it was this month. And I don't know that I had a conversation with them. We probably saw each other from a distance that gave each other a head nod and our fist up because that's what we would routinely do.
00:32:53
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When we were close to each other, we would strike up a conversation. But I knew this person. I knew this person. So when I said, you know, brought lot all that stuff up about women I dated and everything. And I said the comment, the closer to home, that's what's close to home.
00:33:07
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What's close to home is that I knew this person. And the reason why I wanted to come on here and talk about it is because there's a lot of disinformation out there that I'm getting ready to go through.
00:33:21
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And a lot of nasty ass comments about him. Let me just say, whether it was his wife, his girlfriend, he's got a baby mom and he's got a daughter. Shut the hell up.
00:33:35
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Because a lot of you people out there don't what you're talking about, especially on social media, right? The comments has been that's being made. Y'all people are stupid. I say
Misinformation and Ethical Reporting
00:33:44
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it all the time. We were separated in school. We need to be separated in society because the stupidity that's out there and the microphone that you stupid people have infuriates me.
00:33:56
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It does. I don't come on this show and say anything before having it in thought and doing research. If I don't know something, I don't ever speak on it.
00:34:09
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I may do a tongue-in-cheek comment, but even in that tongue-in-cheek comment, I say, but I don't really know what I'm talking about. I'm just making a joke. Y'all out here are not making a joke. Y'all are out here acting like y'all actually did the work like I did.
00:34:25
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and actually talk to people who do know and did the research, semi-investigating to find out the truth. I'm going to give you the truth. Stop making up stories. I know of one person who lives in that building who said, yeah, the FBI threw him off the balcony because he was a part of the Epstein files. I said, I know for a fact, before the facts of the case came out,
00:34:51
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I knew for a fact that that was not part of anything that he was associated with, Sean was associated with. Not because I knew him, but because of my sources.
00:35:02
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And I told this person, that's not true. He like, thatt that is true. I said, where's your evidence and your sources? who i ah Okay, so you're out here just making outlandish statements.
00:35:14
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and you don't know what you're talking about. Well, I'm gonna just keep saying it. And you're gonna be known as the dumb person. You're gonna be known as the building kook because you're specifically and knowingly putting out misinformation.
00:35:30
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And why? to get some attention because people gonna come to you because they think you know? What are gonna do when they actually find out the truth? It was all a coverup. That's what I'm gonna tell them.
00:35:42
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You know what? I'm done to having a conversation with you because you didn't piss me off. So here was the sequence of events. When the FBI agents executed the arrest warrant, Harris jumped from his 15th floor balcony rather than being taken in into custody.
00:35:59
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That's the truth, okay? Officers attempted life-saving measures, but Harris was pronounced dead on the scene. That's kind of what happens when you jump from 15 stories down.
00:36:11
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After his death, the indictment and federal charges against Harris was dismissed. I saw a lot of people online talking about how you're going to have charges against a dead person.
00:36:24
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That's stupid. They just dropped the charges. Of course, what they're going to do, keep charging with debt that a dead person? Yeah, y'all are dumb. Okay? Because u s Under U.S. law, criminal proceedings against a defendant cannot continue once they are deceased.
00:36:42
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When a person dies, courts and prosecutors are required to dismiss ongoing indictments or charges as there is no longer a defendant to prosecute or sentence.
00:36:55
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This is a standard legal procedure and applies regardless of the seriousness of the allegations, or what stage of the case it's in.
00:37:07
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So yes, the feds had to say they've dismissed the charges because that's just standard legal procedure. Also, people needed, people that were not Alexandria police and FBI agents.
00:37:32
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had to watch the videotape
00:37:37
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because there were cameras pointing in that building. There are cameras where you could see him on a lot of himself off the balcony. There were witnesses that needed to see the tape so that the feds wouldn't have liability, which would make sense.
00:37:57
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Because i don't believe feds have body cams like police officers do. So if Alexandria police was serving the warrant, they would have had body cams would have showed what happened.
00:38:08
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I don't believe that the feds have that. I don't think they they film recordings. I could be wrong. I need to talk to some some feds that serve nonviolent warrants because once again, this was a nonviolent offense warrant.
00:38:25
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i Also was not a no-knock warrant, but there was videotapes of certain people had to be witnesses and see the videotape. There is also a videotape from a resident that lives close that saw the entire incident and posted that online.
00:38:44
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Let me just say how distasteful that is and sickening that is for somebody to do that for clout. Just like that person who wanted to say it was Epstein Files,
00:38:59
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It's for clout. It's for attention. And, you know, being in this content space, I've seen firsthand what people will do for attention. It's disgusting.
00:39:12
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What this person did by filming it and posting it online was disgusting. Nothing good could ever come from that. And once again,
00:39:24
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There is a woman who was involved with this man and a young child that was the daughter of this man. So ah regardless of what he did and not putting any, not not acknowledging the victims because there are real life victims in this scenario, people that he hurt, that he stole money on, and we must never forget them.
00:39:54
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There are also victims of people that knew him, that loved him, that are now dealing with the pain of finding out who he was
00:40:08
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and what he decided to do.
00:40:12
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Some other things that need to be said, Harris was never a federal employee despite his claims to the victims. ah And so...
00:40:24
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It bothers me when people put out disinformation, wrong information, knowingly wrong information, and they do it to gain attention.
00:40:42
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i I'm a historian, first and foremost. I like finding out the truth. I'm a journalist, somewhat. Cause that was my original major. That's originally what I wanted to do.
00:40:55
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And so when I'm reporting something, I like to research it. I like to get the facts straight. I like to talk to people, get their truth and their opinion and getting some people's opinion.
00:41:10
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This affected a lot of people that live in that building and live around the building that personally knew him. This was a shock. It was a shock to me. Did not think that he was this person. Just knew him as the good smelling dude that was a very, very loving father.
00:41:28
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And so, like I said, this story is wild.
00:41:35
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It's crazy. And it's heartbreaking.
00:41:41
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There are nothing but victims all around. And it's funny because how you don't know people. You don't really know people.
00:41:53
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It could be the person that you speak to three times a week that is a straight up con man and that's con people out of thousands of dollars.
00:42:04
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It's a small world. On that note, I'm going to bring up the mood, brighten up the mood a little bit in the next segment as I tell a story that's embarrassing to me.
00:42:18
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And we're going into that next.
00:42:29
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Okay. Story time. We've been talking about some stuff that's been a little depressing. So let me tell you a story that should be embarrassing for me, but I don't know. I don't really get that embarrassed. It's about high school and early college years. Hijinks with...
00:42:46
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Two of my friends that will remain nameless, but they are my brothers and we did a lot of dumb ish back in the
Youthful Indiscretions and Lessons Learned
00:42:53
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day. And this was a story of something dumb that we did that I will never let my friend live down because he showed his true colors.
00:43:02
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Let me give you guys a backstory. So we are in me and my two idiot friends are in, I don't know, high school or we're in early years of college might be 21.
00:43:14
Speaker
But i don't I don't think we are. We're like late teens, 20, maybe 21. And what we would do is we would go out at night, get drunk, do dumb stuff like kick down mailboxes and egg houses. That was what we did in high school. Nope, we did in the early years of college too.
00:43:31
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we were two We were three idiots. I just think about it now, three idiots. And then afterwards, it'd be a late night and we would go to Denny's. Denny's wasn't that far from all of our houses. We would go to Denny's and eat some food and then go home. That's just what we did.
00:43:49
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a lot of times, a lot is exaggerating. More than a little bit. There were times we went to Denny's with absolutely no money. So what did that mean?
00:44:00
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Dine and dash. Yes, I'm not proud of it, especially somebody who later went on to be in the restaurant industry. Dine and dashing is not a cool thing to do, but we were suburban rebels by this point. What I mean by that is we're breaking the law, but we're not breaking the law. We're doing hijinks.
00:44:22
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And I know now, this doesn't excuse what we did, but I know now the restaurant kind of Bill builds in for that type of stuff. There's, there's a part of the budget that's called spillage because no matter what you do, you're going to waste food by burning it, dropping it.
00:44:44
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People walking out the bills, people not liking the food that you prepare for them, alcohol spillage, the whole not. So that's built into the prices of what you buy when you go to a restaurant.
00:44:56
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So if the prices are high, It could be the the you know tariffs and things of that nature. It could also be that this restaurant has a high spillage rate. i didn't We didn't know this at the time. We're just heathens that are going into Denny's with no money.
00:45:14
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Ordering food. And of course, i always ordered the chicken finger platter, not just the chicken finger dinner, the platter, because I need to get the chicken fingers, the french fries and the coleslaw. I forgot what my friends got. Maybe they got the same thing because we were all, in the words of my best friend, some chicken finger eating bitches.
00:45:31
Speaker
But so we would get the food and we didn't do it that often because they didn't recognize us for doing this. So I would say In a given year, we might go to Denny's, I don't know, 10 times and we would dine and dash maybe twice.
00:45:52
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So not something that they would recognize, not something that we did every week, right? But there was always a plan. This one particular night that we were planning to do dine and dash, there was more than three of us.
00:46:05
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There was like five or six of us. So we needed to come up with a plan in order to Dine and Dash. So right across the street from Denny's was a hotel.
00:46:18
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so there's this huge parking lot that both the Denny's and the hotel share. One night I got busted by cops in that hotel. Maybe that'll be a story that I tell in in a future episode, but it's all one big parking lot.
00:46:32
Speaker
And of course we park in that parking lot every time we go to Denny's. So the plan was to Dine and Dash is that we would slowly one by one act like we were going to the bathroom because the bathroom was right close to the doors.
00:46:45
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One by one, we would leave it until there was one person left that would just walk right out right out the door, right We walk right out the door. If they chased us out to the parking lot, we would scatter until they got tired of looking for us. And then we would eventually rendezvous at the car and take off.
00:47:02
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It was a whole plan. And it was a strategic. I came up with the plan. I was the one that came up with the plan. Okay. And it was a strategic, like laddering of people leaving before it was one person left.
00:47:15
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And originally I was supposed to be that last person. This is where the plan failed because I get nervous. I don't want to be the last person.
00:47:27
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And so I skip out. I'm i'm like person three or four. Just so happens that one of my good friends is the last person. He doesn't follow the rules to Don and Dash, right? Like he does not follow the plan.
00:47:42
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we yeah We all did. So it's not completely his fault. What he did afterwards is 100% his fault. So as we are in the parking lot, we have all exit except for my final friend who should not been the final one to do it. It should have been me, but you know, I punked out and went early and and we left him in the lurch to do it.
00:48:06
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We're in the parking lot waiting. As he's exiting the doors, the server is chasing out after him saying, you guys need to pay for your bill.
00:48:17
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So we're all in the parking lot, hiding behind cars, spread out, four or five of us spread out, right? And we're yelling out, run, run, run, get away, run.
00:48:34
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And our friend did run. He ran directly to his car. He was the one that drove that night. He ran directly to his car. And then the server said, i saw you run to your car.
00:48:49
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We have your license plate. Y'all need to come back and pay your bill. And our friend yells out, come on, guys. They got us.
00:49:02
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ah and And one of our friends said, you idiot, why would you run to your car? And I yell out, they don't have us. They got you because you ran to your car.
00:49:15
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And it's at least two or three times a year in the group chat. I send in the group chat, hey, guys, they got us because they didn't have us.
00:49:26
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We got away. We got away. He didn't get away and he didn't get away because he ran directly to his car. hey and And he didn't think that they would see his license plate number.
00:49:45
Speaker
Why would he run directly? We weren't in the car. He knew part of the plan was for us to disperse throughout the parking lot and we would come back to the car. Only one person needed to come back to the car and it was going to be him.
00:49:59
Speaker
And he could pick us up along the way. We could have gone down a block or something. We could have got away and not had to pay for the chicken tenders. But no, he runs directly to his car.
00:50:13
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Then when the service says, hey, I've got your license plate, he yells out, hey, guys, they got us. We were pissed.
00:50:25
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We were pissed because why would you run directly to your car? Why would you do that? And then why would you say, hey, guys, they got us. And of course, me being the jerk that I was back in the day, I said, no, they don't have us.
00:50:41
Speaker
They got you. That's what they got. They got you because we all got away. Now, once again, ah don't blame my friend for panicking because we knew that he was not a person that could lie or steal that just wasn't in his MO.
00:51:00
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That was me and my other friends. We really talked him up for this. He's a goody two shoes. Say, guys, why don't we just pay for our bill? He never wanted to participate in these hijinks that me and our other friend was always leading the charge.
00:51:14
Speaker
Me and my other, me and the other friend in this triplet group is always about nonsense. We are still about nonsense, not that type of nonsense. I'm going pay my bill. I'm not walking out of the bill.
00:51:25
Speaker
But we're just always about nonsense. and And he has never been about nonsense. He has always been about doing good, straight and narrow, and not breaking the rules. And he shouldn't have been the last one. He wasn't planned to be the last one. He was planned to be the first one.
00:51:41
Speaker
And it just so happened, people started breaking protocol. And then, yes, I broke protocol, too. And he was the last one standing. And then he ratted us out.
00:51:52
Speaker
And I said, hey man, I'm never gonna commit crimes with you because I know you gonna give us all up because you know what? Hey guys, they got us. And we never, we still don't let him live that. I think I threw that in his face probably like two or three months ago.
00:52:08
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at I know I did. And that was easily something over 25 years ago to happen. We have never let him live it down. And we never will because he said, hey, guys, they got us.
00:52:21
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And I don't know what he was thinking in his mind, thinking that they got us. No, they got you. And I let him know that night. And I let him know every chance I get over the last 25 plus years that they got you, you snitch.
00:52:35
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but But once again, I can't blame it. It's not all his fault. The plan was faulty. We shouldn't have been doing it in the first place. We ended up paying for people that didn't have money. They owed other people money.
00:52:47
Speaker
And, you know, I don't think that we ever did again. Nope. Yep, me and my other idiot friend definitely did it again. And this time, the cops had us and said, hey, pull over.
00:52:59
Speaker
And we didn't pull over. We took off. And nothing came from that. and But me and my idiot friends did a lot shenanigans. Yeah, we definitely did a lot of shenanigans. And I think some of that is healthy as long as it you don't hurt people.
00:53:13
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To to do get that stuff out of your system when you're young. Look, people going to For our parents out there that are listening to this story and saying, Bruce, you're crazy. Your kids are going to do these things.
00:53:24
Speaker
You did these things. Maybe not Don and Dash, but you broke the law. You were drinking underage, going to parties, doing stuff. Maybe you were sneaking out, breaking curfew. Like kids are going to do these things. I think as ah as a parent and what my parents stressed upon us is like, hey,
00:53:44
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You got to always be safe and protect other people. We didn't always listen, but that was always in the back of our minds. And I think my parents did a good job of raising us.
00:53:55
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I think my friend's parents did a good job of raising us. We were just in the hijinks. and And like I said, we never committed no serious crimes. We wasn't out there in the streets. Slanging crack cocaine to the community, shooting up the block or nothing like that. All we did was juvenile stuff, well past juvenile age, juvenile stuff, drink beers, drink vodka and want to talk to women.
00:54:21
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That's that's all we did. It was a fun. It was a fun young adult life. And that that server got their money. I don't know if they got a tip because I don't think we knew about tipping at that time. That's also another thing. Parents, teach your kids about tipping.
00:54:35
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Teach your kids about tipping and how to treat people in the service industry. We did not get that form of information. I didn't learn until I was in the restaurant business how you are supposed to treat people in the restaurant business.
00:54:50
Speaker
But Don and Dash, that's what we did And hey, guys, they caught us.
00:54:58
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They did. They did catch us because you ran straight to the car, dumbass. yeah Straight to the car. God. Anyway. That's a story from back in the day.
00:55:10
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little something to bring up the mood considering the fact that we dealt with some heavy subjects. I scared you guys a little bit in the first segment. Don't be scared. It's a rare occurrence. There's not a lot of drunk pilots out there, so you don't have to be worried about that.
00:55:27
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Broke your heart in the second segment. Hey, look, ladies and gentlemen, be wary of when things are too good to be true.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:55:35
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Like, you don't get something for nothing.
00:55:38
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Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. You had to do something. Person punch you in the mouth. That's Eddie Murphy's standup. But if if you're promised
00:55:50
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really great things with minimal effort, odds are it's not true. And also, don't be a scammer. Like, just don't do it, right?
00:56:02
Speaker
And then also, don't dine and dash. Even if you are with your idiot friends and there's hijinks, somebody's livelihood is on the line because I do know that some restaurants make those servers and bartenders pay for those people that dine and dash.
00:56:19
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So do not do that. But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, over 250 episodes, y'all showed out and watched and listened to the 250th episode.
00:56:32
Speaker
Look, I am humbled and grateful and thankful that you guys are rocking with us and the audience is growing more and more. I'm going to keep, we are going to keep pushing out this content and hopefully you guys keep on enjoying it. I want to thank you for listening.
00:56:49
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I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler. Woo!
00:57:01
Speaker
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00:57:48
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00:58:18
Speaker
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