DeputyDane Morning Show Episode 6: Navigating the Journey to Law Enforcement! #DDMS

Have you ever wondered about the intricacies of landing a job in law enforcement? Join us as we shed light on this complicated process, offering practical advice and discussing the importance of agency mission statements, references, and most importantly, the courage to apply even in the face of intimidating media portrayals. We also delve into the reality of polygraph tests, emphasizing the crucial role of honesty and the repercussions of deception.

Our conversation takes a turn as we tactfully navigate the recent logo controversy in the law enforcement world, and how this seemingly minor issue reflects the importance of truthfulness. This thread continues as we examine the distinct roles of investigators and patrol officers in the law enforcement ecosystem. Get an insider's view into the complex tasks handled by both these positions and the challenges they face in their line of duty.

We then switch gears, sparking discussions on diverse topics ranging from the dilemmas of genealogy to the impact of economic inflation. We also touch upon the current global pandemic and its effects on our immune systems and education system, offering insightful perspectives on this unprecedented situation. To lighten the mood, we dive into the spookiness of Halloween and the intriguing world of TikTok. Join us as we balance career advice with thought-provoking dialogue and a splash of personal anecdotes. Remember, our journey is your learning journey too, so tune in and let's navigate this together.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Warning, warning. Warning. This content may be sensitive to some. If you feel the need to leave, it is completely understandable. Content may contain examples of death, suicide, sexual content and other shit.

Speaker 1: 0:18

We don't know what we're gonna get into. This is not to offend anyone or upset anyone on purpose. This isn't your typical deputy dane, so listen at your own risk. Sit back and enjoy. Good morning everybody. Welcome to the deputy dane morning show. I appreciate all y'all for being here. We got some stuff to get into. I really don't know what we're gonna get into, but we'll get into something. Sit back. Oh, oh, yep, there's the sirens. I think we're all gonna be detained. Sit back and enjoy the show. Good morning everybody. I don't know how loud that is. Hopefully that'll readjust, but I hope everybody's doing fantastic.

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We're getting closer to Halloween. It's my favorite time of year. I'm pretty pumped about this man. It's been a week. It's been a week. I'm ready for the next week. We'll see what we're gonna get into.

Speaker 1: 1:25

So this last week we went to Kansas. We had a couple of vehicles we had to drop off. It's a long drive, very, very long drive. Jr Audio out of Kansas. Awesome dude. So far, I think everything's gonna be great, I'm pumped up about it.

Speaker 1: 1:41

Found me on TikTok, started to send me stuff and then I ended up getting a quote from him. Quote was better than everybody else. His attitude was better than everybody else. Just everything about it. Awesome, I'm pretty pumped about it. I've even reached out to him about some other things he helped me with. If that didn't speak good things about him, I don't know what does. That's why we decided to drive our vehicles six and a half hours to take it to him. Pretty pumped, but man, like I said, that's a long, long time in Kansas and Northwest Oklahoma and Kansas. Man, that is something that is a. It's not a lot. It's not a lot there, but that is definitely. That is something Well worth it, though We'll be taking the drive to go get them. I'm pretty pumped about it. Like I said, super humble dude, super awesome dude. Actually, he was gonna walk us through everything, but we had to get back. It was six and a half hours back, so had to get there, get back, but it is what it is. Hopefully, these vehicles come out great. I'm pretty pumped about it and we'll see how they turn out. Alright, I'm gonna listen to this and see how this audio is Alright. I think. There we go. I think it's a little bit better now. I kind of upped it up a little bit, but we'll see.

Speaker 1: 2:59

So a lot of the time I get asked how to get into law enforcement and I make smart ass comments, like I always do. You apply, you've gotta just kind of look into where you're wanting to go and kind of go from there. You know, I pulled up One of the best things to do. Let's say, you find out that you want to be on Tampa, so you want to go to Tampa Police Department and that's where you want to be. So one of the best things to do to do this is go to Tampa and go to their website. Everywhere has a website these days. So if you go to their website, their website has a mission statement.

Speaker 1: 3:38

Majority of law enforcement agencies have a mission statement. Know that mission statement? Okay, understand that mission statement. They're going to ask you interview questions and then at the end or something, they're going to say well, what do you think about this or do you have anything you want to add? So Tampa's mission statement is the mission of Tampa Police Department is to reduce crime and enhance the quality of life through cooperation or cooperative partnerships with all citizens. I don't know why that was rough for me to read, but there you go. That is their mission statement. So when they say, do you have anything to add? Or your cover letter, put it in your cover letter.

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The reason I'm applying for your agency is I really agree with what you say, that you want to reduce crime and enhance the quality of life through the partnership with citizens. I love that because I think that's what we need. I think that we need the partnership with citizens to enhance the quality of life for everybody and it also reduce this crime. Get to know their mission statements. Every agency you want to get on. Go online. Majority of the out days now that your smaller departments, they don't. Majority of the time now days. That's. All it takes is just going on there. Look at it and their mission statement. I pulled up Tampa Police First thing it says right next to the picture of the chief, they have their mission statement. Bam, you got their mission statement down. Look at it, read it, understand it and fit into that. So then it goes to your applying.

Speaker 1: 5:02

When you're applying for these agencies, we look at everything. Okay, we're gonna look at your penmanship. We're gonna look at your spelling. Make sure, guys, if you can't spell, have a phone next to you and make sure you spell correctly. I've had applications come in where there's three different ways to spell the same word in the same application. Have your references already? All right, go get an application somewhere and apply. If you're not ready to apply, just go do it anyway. If you just go through the hiring process somewhere and it's the best way to learn how to do it I went through several before I got hired somewhere where I wanted to be you just go through it. I've been on several where I wasn't hired.

Speaker 1: 5:42

Majority of people don't get hired. Nowadays it's a little bit more getting hired because well less are applying, because the media tells us we're bad and not many people wanna be bad. So there you go. That's a good way to get it. So, on your application, make sure penmanship's good. Make sure spelling is good. Make sure you have good references. If you have a questionable reference, don't put that person. Don't put your best friend on there and put friend or know who they are, what they do, their address, know everything about it. Have it ready. Have five of them ready at all times so you can just fill it out. Have a good resume.

Speaker 1: 6:20

Resumes get a lot of people. A lot of people these days don't even do resumes. If you don't know how to do a resume, get on YouTube, learn how to do a resume and break it down. Break it down. This is how I need to do my resume. This is how I need to do this. What can I do better here? What can I do better there? Resume, resume, resume. Okay, that is gonna wow a lot of people because nowadays not a lot of people do it, and it's mind-blowing.

Speaker 1: 6:45

So in your hiring process, normally what happens you go apply. What's gonna happen is they're gonna give you an application process. They're gonna give you a booklet. It's gonna have your background information. It's gonna have all this information. Fill it out truthfully. If you stole something, say it. If you smoked weed, say it. Whatever you did, say it, because it's gonna come out. And if you don't not gonna tell us the truth in the application process, I can't trust you to be on the road doing shit, okay, so gotta make sure Get the application filled out to the T.

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If you don't, if you have something that you can't fill out, put in A. Don't leave it blank. Show that you've actually looked at it. You took the time. Follow the directions. They have directions too. Follow them to AT Okay, your resume. And then, on top of your resume, you need to also have your cover sheet. Have a cover sheet, have it this, have that. If you have letters and recommendations from anywhere, include those. If you're leaving an agency, make sure you get a letter or recommendation from them before you leave, no matter how small you think it is. See if they'll give you one. That's gonna help Get all this together.

Speaker 1: 7:56

So, like I said, your background stuff they are gonna check more stuff than you realize. I hope you have a good relationship with your neighbors, cause a lot of agencies they go talk to your neighbors. What do you think about that person? Are they cleanly? Are they nice? Do they mow their yard on time? Do they take the trash out? Does their house stink? Does this? Do their dogs get out? A lot they are gonna ask everything. They're gonna, unfortunately, some agencies look at your credit. I didn't have the best credit for a long time. Build your credit, get a secured credit card somewhere. Do whatever you have to do. Nowadays, a lot of places are more lenient, cause not a lot of people are applying. It's crazy, it's freaking, it's wild the amount of numbers that have dropped.

Speaker 1: 8:35

We used to have a list of people wanting on where we are and we don't have anybody. And the applicants we do get, I can't. They can't even spell their name right. They can't spell their friend's name right. They spelled friend three different ways F-R-I-E-N-D, f-r-e-i-n-d, f-r-e-n-d. And you're like what? Okay, only one of those is right. Man, what are you doing? Make sure you spell the shit right. It's embarrassing.

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And then some of them will give you some. Like what, do you have any special skills? Uh, I have an IQ of 120. Wasn't that average? Yeah, but I have an IQ of 120. You're like well, why would you tell us that? Like, if that's average, why the hell are you gonna tell me I have an average IQ of 120. Awesome, so me being a smart ass, we had one.

Speaker 1: 9:26

He applied for the jail. One of the guys his was special skills, I have an average, or I have an IQ of 120. So I called this guy, I left him a message. He didn't answer. I was like Mr Raymond, I just wanna let you know that we'd love to come have you do an interview here at our certified jail right here. We need someone to help our chess team out, and with an IQ that high, we figured you could help a man. I never got a call back. We had another guy that in his special skills it was I can drive a standard transmission. Awesome, that's fantastic dude. That's gonna help us a whole lot If we ever have to find someone to drive a manual. It's good to know that you can do it.

Speaker 1: 10:12

Think about these things and then they're gonna ask you questions in your interview. You gotta be ready for these questions. A lot of these questions are the same wherever you go. Why do you wanna get into law? Enforcement's a big one. This gets a lot of people out.

Speaker 1: 10:25

Do not go in there and go to protect and serve my community, to help everybody in my area, to be the best I can for my community and stop the bad people. Don't do that. Come in, be honest. I wanna get into doing this because I witnessed domestic violence as a child and I wanna make sure I don't. I can stop it for anybody else having to live a life like that. I was sexually abused when I was a child and I wanna make sure I can stop that. My brother was murdered and I wanna stop people from murder, whatever it is. Be honest, mine. I wanna jump out of the fucking helicopters with an AR-15 in this go-to town on it. Be careful, don't be too honest. But get in there, be honest, don't. Just don't go in like a robot, don't do any of that.

Speaker 1: 11:12

Another question they're gonna ask you and this is gonna ask so why I wanna be in law enforcement? And another one. There's another one. They're gonna ask you every freaking time If you saw a nether officer whether it be a superior or a nether officer that's on the same level as you what would you do if you saw them breaking the law? Answer truthfully I would go to the superiors and let the superiors know well what. If he's a superior, then I'll have to do what I have to do from there. You gotta know that you might arrest a cop. You might, and if they did it, there's been a lot of times I've got cops arrested. I've arrested cops and it sucks, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1: 11:54

And then I sat there and I thought about it and I'm like fuck you, dude. You made me do this, you made me do this. There's a brotherhood that you broke the law. You did shady shit. This is your fault. Don't let it eat you up. It kinda messed up my mind a little bit because it's like man, I just arrested this dude that I've worked with, but guess what he fucking did. It not you. That's his fault and he has to pay for it. To be honest, he should pay twice what normal people pay, because you should have known better. There's gonna be a lot. Do you work well around people? Do you talk well around people? How do you interact with the public? There's gonna be a lot of things like that.

Speaker 1: 12:33

Just go in answer honestly, no matter what, because if you get a polygraph test, I'm tell you that is a come to Jesus moment. You're gonna sit on that chair, they're gonna hook you up to all these different things and they're gonna ask you questions that you could never even imagine. So they ask me questions and I was too honest and they're like okay, okay, like do what? So what normally happens? A lot of people don't know. I'll kinda break down a polygraph test for you. It's not just all being hooked up to the machine and it do this little wee wee with the little lines and seeing if you're lying or anything.

Speaker 1: 13:09

What they do beforehand is you go and you have an interview with this person. They're gonna ask these questions that you answered on your background packet, like have you smoked marijuana? Do you do any drugs? Have you done this? Have you ever stole? Answer those, answer them honest, because they're gonna ask you those. And when you go into your thing, be ready, they're gonna ask you.

Speaker 1: 13:34

They're gonna ask you these questions, like, some of the questions that I was asked was have you ever been a sexually attracted to a 14 year old? And I put yeah. And they're like okay, what do you mean? And then I was like well, you know, I was at the mall a couple of times. These kids are dressing way worse than they should. You're walking, you're like man, that chick's attractive. You pass her and you realize she's a child. He's like well, no, like, like, like. So when you found out she was not of age, you just was like yeah, that was it, dude. I found out she was an age, I was like oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, never mind, the kid should be dressing like that. He's like. But have you ever been sexually like? Have you ever wanted to go after a 14 year old? I was like no, no, no, no, no, unfortunately, these kids dress way worse than they should.

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I was at the mall one day and I saw a mom and daughter. Both had the hip hugger jeans and G-strings up to their armpits, just to show them off. And you're like what in the hell kind of mom is letting your 13, 14 year old daughter wear that shit? And then it's just that, and the mom looks like she's 13 or 14. So you're like what is going on here? So then they're gonna ask questions like that. Answer truthfully.

Speaker 1: 14:44

They asked me have you ever paid for sex? Well, yes, sir, I have. And at this point he was already getting tired of me. He was like, come on, man, like how did you pay for sex? Well, I mean, I took her to dinner and I took her to a movie and you know, and after that I bought her ice cream and popcorn. That ain't cheap these days. So, yeah, I mean then I got lucky, I'm not gonna lie, I got lucky. And then he's like no man, like have you ever paid for a prostitute? I was like, oh no, I never done that. And that's what I mean. I'm like, well, you asked for ever paid for sex? And I'm like, yeah, I'm not, even now being a married man. There's times you're like, well, I'll take her a nice dinner and get a pedicure and we'll see where that goes. And they got mad at me. They're like no man, come on, stop it. So you gotta be honest. Be honest.

Speaker 1: 15:32

So, like I said, they ask you a bunch of questions. After you get done with your questions, then they put you on the chair and they have you set up on all these different sensors, looking at a certain spot on the wall, and they're gonna ask you like questions like is your name Dane? Uh duh. And then it's like are you sitting in a chair? Yeah, are you on Mars? What? No, I don't think so. No, and then they ask these questions. They get a kind of a baseline and then they're gonna ask you questions.

Speaker 1: 16:00

When I asked you if you've ever been sexually attracted to a 14 year old, did you tell them the truth? Yeah, and you didn't like it. No, just say yes or no. Okay, yes, I answer truthfully. And then they tell them yes, you answered truthfully or not? Have you ever paid for sex? Did you answer that question truthfully? Well, yeah, too truthfully. Just yes or no. Yes, just understand. That's what's gonna happen through that polygraph and if some agencies the majority of agencies you don't take a polygraph, but you gotta be ready, cause there's some that man, you're gonna take polygraph and it's gonna suck. Dig it sucks. And even if you're prepared for it, it sucks. Don't read a book on how to beat it. They see how to beat it. Don't sit here and be like if I hold my breath for three seconds after I have a question, they'll throw it up. Don't do that. It shows up, don't? It's just just answer truthfully, be truthful.

Speaker 1: 16:45

Speaking of being truthful, I'm on TikTok Live the other day, doing my live, doing what I do. I paid to get my logo done years ago when I first started out. Now, when I first started out, when I saw that there's something I can do here, I was like well, I'll pay for logo, see if this goes anywhere. I had a company, had him pay for do a logo for me. I went back and forth with him, got the logo how I wanted. I even got threatened to get sued off my logo. So then I kind of changed my logo to say Deputy Day and instead of proud pig, because proud pig company didn't like it.

Speaker 1: 17:13

Well, the other day this guy comes in with my logo, my proud pig logo, and he goes hey, man, you stole my logo. Kind of funny that you would do that, being a cop. And I was like, do what? And then he kept going on. He was serious, dead serious. I have all the correspondence between me and the people that made it for me. But he's like yep, you stole my logo. It's kind of funny. And I'm like whoa, bro, first of all, you stole my logo.

Speaker 1: 17:39

The funny thing is I was on my backup because TikTok blocked me or banned me, like they always do, because people want to talk shit but can't handle shit being taught back to them. So I was on my backup. Well, he has my main blocked because he knows they stole it from there. But then he's looking at my backup and he's like yep, I've seen that logo before. You stole it from me.

Speaker 1: 17:57

So I went back and forth. I was like whatever dude, you're lying, but if I can't trust you on a damn TikTok app, how are you a fucking cop, bro? You know you stole that logo Like you know it. You know it to a T that you took that logo, which I don't care. But don't come after me saying I'm shady and I stole your logo. Like bro, you took my logo and you are now accusing me of stealing your logo. You know you copied that logo and now you're a cop. How can I trust you to be a cop if you can't even tell the truth about that logo? Mind blowing. Bring up all the evidence where you got that logo done and then we'll go from there. Not that you copied and pasted it and you did everything to it, and that's what I'm saying. Like, if I can't trust you doing shit like this, how can I trust you being on the road? That's the same thing.

Speaker 1: 18:44

Your interview process is it's gonna see if you're gonna tell the truth or if you're gonna lie. So be ready, be ready. Um, some other questions I get is now that I've made it to Investigator, which I say detective, it's a lot easier for people to understand what's the difference between detectives and patrol. So on patrol, you're going to answer any call that comes across that radio. It's stupid stuff sometimes.

Speaker 1: 19:08

Hey, this person saw a headlight drive by their window. Well, they live next to the highway. So, okay, I can't tell me how many times I've gone to places and it's some tweaker. I had a lady. She's like there's drones that fly up and down the road in front of my house at night. I'm like, ma'am, those are headlights, because you live right off the highway. No, I know, they're drones that go on too fast for cars. Again, ma'am, you live off a fucking highway, the speed limit's higher, not on a county road. Um, you got one lady who says that. This woman, man. She says there's cameras all through her house, they're everywhere. And I just walk in. I'm like, okay, let's just go with this. See where this goes. This lady is tweaking balls.

Speaker 1: 19:52

Okay, like when you're using high amounts of all this shit and you've been up for too many days, your brain can't keep up with it and it's a sad deal. Um, it really is. You see those brains like I can just picture these people, like their brain synapses are trying to connect and they'll say one real thing and then, like 14, just outlandish shit just out there, and you can see their poor brain trying to work through it, but it can't. It just can't. It's trying to get through, but it cannot get through. So this lady pulled up this phone app and this app is supposed to tell if there's suspicious activity in the area. So I go in the house and she's pointing to me to just random spots on the wall and she's like, see, it's right there, it's got the size of a pinpoint. I was like what, where? Where are you looking? So then I'm like, look. I'm like, okay, let's take a look, there's nothing there, obviously.

Speaker 1: 20:43

Um, this, this lady, it's like tore apart all her cars, her boyfriend's cars, like she started pulling electronics out, saying it's hard drives, that he's taking video of her and stuff, and I just just outlandish shit, just crazy. I didn't even know where I was going with that man. Where was I? Okay, yeah, either way, that's patrol. So patrol, you deal with all these crazy outlandish things. So, being an investigator, detective, so let's say, patrol gets a stolen vehicle and they get as much information as they can not normally as much as they should, but they get some information and you try to work off of it. They give me this vehicle. Last time I was seeing what is driving doing all this. It's my job now that I go take what they have and I take it to the next level, investigate a little bit more, see what I can figure out. Same thing goes, unfortunately, where I'm at.

Speaker 1: 21:33

When you're an investigator from my area, you deal with everything, it doesn't matter. You're going to deal with homicides. You're going to deal with child porn. You're going to deal with child neglect, child abuse. You're going to deal with rapes, you're going to deal with anything that deals with any of this stuff. And it's your job to deal with it.

Speaker 1: 21:48

I didn't really realize that until the first time. I'm sitting there having to take pictures of a child and it sucks, it's awful, it is terrible, it eats at you more than anything ever is. Having to deal with a child that's been sexually abused. It sucks, it's sad and you know that their life is ruined because of some sick bastard. So I didn't realize oh, that's going to be you. Until you do it, you're like, oh crap, I always thought there was some special people that deal with this. No, bro, it's you. I mean, there are special people. They help you out, but it's you. So you take everything to the next level. So patrol, they're going to go. Deal with cows out. They're going to deal with the BS stuff. A lot of the time I see it's a small agency so as an investigator, we still go unless I'm working something. If I'm working something, I don't go. If I'm not working something, I'm going with them. You never know, these days Times are crazy.

Speaker 1: 22:39

I watched a video recently of a cop that was on traffic stop in a neighborhood. A dude pulls up right next to him. Luckily this cop had enough awareness situational awareness to see that this car pulled up randomly stops right next to him, is acting hinky. So the cop kind of blades off from him, which means that you kind of put yourself in a defensive stance and was ready to draw his gun. This dude gets out of the car and is ready to attack the cop. The cop has to shoot him. Had nothing to do with the original stop. This one just ran a person that was disgruntled and wanted to attack a cop.

Speaker 1: 23:09

Who knows, maybe you get famous, maybe they're having a bad day, maybe they believe everything the media says. The media says kill cops, you do it, whatever it is. So they just jump straight into doing that. And this cop had to do it. So you never know. There's no such thing as a routine traffic stop that the media tells oh, the cop was on a routine traffic stop. What the fuck does that mean? You don't know. You never tell what a person's going to do. You never know.

Speaker 1: 23:39

On the fire department. You learn how to read smoke, you know what a fire needs to go, you know what everything and how a fire works. Now, some things can change that, such as flash overs or back drafts or fuels that you didn't know. But you pretty much know what a fire is going to do. Fire is fire, but people are unpredictable. You never know what a person's going to do. You never know what a person's going through and how they are going to do or what they're going to do. It's just nuts. It's wild, crazy, crazy. Times are ran guys, crazy Cops are getting attacked for no reason. Just it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1: 24:19

Last night in Los Angeles, los Angeles County deputy was found in his vehicle shot. Actually, let me look at this before I give them misinformation and we'll see what it says. Hold on one second. Okay, it says 30 year old Ryan Clinkoon-Broomer was found unconscious by a civilian in his patrol vehicle Pretty much what it was. This officer deputy was cruising around and got shot and nobody knows why. Nobody knows how. Nobody knows any of this. This man was 30 years old. He just got engaged four days ago. You are just starting your life, you've gotten engaged, you're living your dream job, which his father and grandfather both worked for the LA County Sheriff's Office. You are living a legacy and you get gunned down, all because you're wearing a uniform. Nobody knows anything. That's the time we're in 30 years old, just starting his life, just got engaged and shot because you wear a uniform. It's crazy. It's freaking crazy.

Speaker 1: 25:30

We've already, in the year to date, right now, we've had 272 officers shot and 34 killed in 2023. Crazy 104 law enforcement officers were shot in 83 separate ambush style attacks. It's up 25% from this time in 2020. 83 separate ambush attacks on law enforcement officers. It's sad. So what they're stating this is right here from the uniform, it's pretty much the fraternity of police.

Speaker 1: 26:13

Ambush style attack. An ambush style attack is defined as when an officer is struck by gunfire without any warning or opportunity to defend themselves. So this is a good example of why people say officers have their hand on their gun while they're talking to you. Officers have this or officers have this Understand when you decide to attack a law enforcement officer. These people decide to shoot at a law enforcement officer. They already know what they're going to do. Being the law enforcement officer.

Speaker 1: 26:43

It takes an average of three seconds for them to react. Three seconds, if you don't think three seconds is a long time. Pull up a thing and watch how long three seconds takes to go by. You think it's quick and it is quick, but it's not quick enough. So it takes them 1.5 seconds to look and say, oh shit, something's happening, and takes another 1.5 seconds for them to react. That's three seconds that it takes an officer to react to the stimulus that's coming towards them. And if you're in your vehicle you don't move. You don't move as well as you think you do.

Speaker 1: 27:21

I know cops that are now having a gun just by their side where they can grab it at any time, because getting it out of your holster is a lot harder than you realize. You have to train on it too. If you don't train on getting your gun out of your holster in your car, it's rough being a bigger guy, it's real rough. So I know a lot of guys. They're now having a gun by their leg that they can pull up at a quick instant if need be. I can't tell you, many times when I'm sitting there and someone pulls up next to me, I have my gun in my lap. I pull it out. I have it ready because you never know and it's sad.

Speaker 1: 27:53

It's sad that we live in these times that someone wants to kill someone just because they have a uniform on. There's so many times that people are well, if cops didn't do this, cops didn't do that, cops didn't. This dude's sitting there not doing anything, patrolling the neighborhood to make sure people are safe, and he gets shot. It's a crazy, crazy time we're in All because they wear a uniform, while and that's what we're going through that's the times that we're in and that's how it's just gonna get worse. The way the media bashes us and how many people believe this stuff and they go through this stuff. It's only gonna get worse. That's just how it's gonna go. You have a lot of people that listen to a lot of things like law enforcement started from slave traders or slave I don't even know the slave drivers or whatever. Law enforcement's actually been around since Code of Harambee time. It's been around forever, forever. It's been around a long time, but there's so many people that want to jump to that. Let's say it was started from that.

Speaker 1: 29:00

I don't own slaves. I don't have any desire to own slaves. I think everyone should be treated equally, no matter what. I have no desire to take people back to a slave owner. It just shows the ignorance of people like you can't judge me for something someone did way back when and I don't even say my family In my area. I'm actually Native and Black. My great-grandfather how many, I don't know nine, ten generations ago, something like that was a freed slave. So his last name was Freeman. He married a Cherokee woman. They had children and that's how my mom's side is. That side's a whole melting pot of Nordic and I don't even know Everywhere. Everywhere. My mom's side is all that. It's Native and Black, black, dutch, whatever you want to call it, whatever people call it.

Speaker 1: 29:58

It kills me that people want to pull up stuff that like oh, these slave owners did this. Oh, these slave owners did that. I'm not a slave owner. I don't know a slave owner. Sorry, my family did something to you. I don't know. That's like.

Speaker 1: 30:11

If you're someone I don't know generations ago murdered someone, I'm not going to go. Oh yeah, but your great-great-great-grandfather murdered someone for no reason. He was a rapist too. I don't go. Oh, that guy's a rapist and murderer as well.

Speaker 1: 30:26

That'd be ignorant. It's the same thing. You're judging off a lot of stuff. I don't know what to tell you If you want to believe it, believe it. I don't know what to tell you. It's crazy.

Speaker 1: 30:35

Crazy times are in. Does law enforcement have issues? Sure, I guess I've always said I'm not going to say it's perfect, but nothing in this world is perfect, nothing. There's not one thing in this world that's perfect. There's things that are close Babies, babies, laughs oh, that's pretty perfect. A baby's laugh's amazing. I love a baby's laugh, but there's just so many things. You just. Things are crazy. Crazy times are in. We're even have right now.

Speaker 1: 31:01

We're having inflation problems like none other. It's crazy. It's gotten so point Like so bad Subway to tackle inflation is creating a three inch sandwich. A lot of us guys are like, heck, yeah, finally something makes me don't feel so inadequate. Oh wait, never mind, never mind. So we're creating, first of all I mean it's probably good a three inch sandwich. Here in the United States, our food sizes are outrageous, hence why I'm a big dude. They're outrageous, they just are. I mean, it is what it is, but a three inch sandwich is what we're starting to do to tackle inflation. Holy shit, it's crazy. It's crazy.

Speaker 1: 31:49

Instead of like I don't know, stopping shit from going up for no reason, increasing the people's pay. There's a lot of things. It's crazy. Everything's gone up and everything's gone up since COVID. Covid like really jacked everything up and then, like now, people are selling chickens for like eight times what a chicken's worth. For a long time you couldn't get eggs and this is the perfect time to be starting a farm. There's some shit on the horizon that I don't know what it is, but there's some shit on the horizon. There's too many things are like linking together that our government's doing. Oh wait, a cop talking bad about the government. He can't do that. Yeah, I can. There's way too much going on right now and if we don't open our eyes, we're going to have a shitty, shitty time, and maybe not even our generation, but these kids generation, our kids, are screwed. Crazy, just crazy crazy times.

Speaker 1: 32:41

Some of this stuff like listen to it's pretty sad. Let me pull up this video I watched. I was like man, that's fucking wild. I never even thought about it. It's a lot of people talking about this is the most they've ever made and they dreamed of making this much, but they're still living paycheck to paycheck. How is that? A lot of it is we do buy outside of our means as humans. We do that. We want the best, we want to keep up with the Joneses, but you still should not be. You're making a crazy amount of wages and you're still struggling. Hmm, listen to listen to this. It's crazy. Well, I couldn't find it, but pretty much it was a. It popped up on my stuff the other day.

Speaker 1: 33:20

There's a bunch of people talking about the American. More money than they ever have, and yet they're living more paycheck to paycheck than they ever could imagine. It's crazy, it's wild. It's wild, crazy, crazy. Times are in Food's getting harder to get at a normal level and then everywhere still sold out of stuff.

Speaker 1: 33:39

Like we're still dealing with COVID stuff and now they're talking about bringing COVID back and talking about giving people masks when they already proved masks don't work. But now we all got to wear a mask again and they're going to shut us down again and blah, blah, blah. All that does is it's ruining our immune systems. We have to be out in it. And they're also saying this strain variant is not near as hard as some of the other ones. Like Okay, so now we're going to lock ourselves down again, give people free money, and then they're not going to want to work again. And even though we proved all that did was hurt anything, Okay, whatever School's already doing it. Where I'm at they're shutting down, sending kids, all the kids, home. Let it go rampant, let every kid get it, pass it through school, get it over with Guess what. Now the rest of the year you're good until the next variant comes out and the next variant, and the next variant, and the next variant and the next variant. But that's just my personal opinion, and I mean, what can you do? You know then also the inflation stuff. You know my mom.

Speaker 1: 34:36

We grew up, like I've said before, not well off. I grew up fine. My parents put me in a better school district. They worked hard to make sure we could at least live in a school district where we could afford these things and send me to school where I'm actually going to learn. My brother started school at one of these schools in the inner city and he didn't learn anything His first grade year. He didn't learn shit. So they determined, okay, we got to move, we got to get him better schools. So they did that, moved us to a lot better of an area that had better schools. They worked hard to make it happen, but we had to find ways to do things. There were several years we didn't have AC, we didn't have heating, we didn't have anything.

Speaker 1: 35:14

I'd have friends come stay the night and these poor kids would become a stay the night. And they're like God dang, dude, your window is a sheet of ice and I'm freezing my balls off in here. I'm like, well, sorry, dude, I mean you wanted to stay the night, sorry about you. And in the summer I'd have like 14 fans on me and I had a friend sleeping on the floor. He's like can I get one? Uh-uh, dude, you decided to stay the night with me. Man, that's the shit. I looked, dude, I gave him a fan, but still. But you know they did that.

Speaker 1: 35:41

My mom did coupons. My mom did all the stuff to make sure that we could survive. You know she still does coupons. She says a lot, a lot of money doing coupons. She teaches people how to do it. She even taught the lady on Oprah how to do it and the lady lies and says she was self taught. No, lady, I was there.

Speaker 1: 35:57

I hated going to the store with my mom. You were stuck at the grocery store for hours on end doing coupons and then you had to go in and out because they wouldn't let you do all in one transaction. So my mom would take stuff out the car and come back inside do it again. She's been kicked out of grocery stores. My dad was a big dude. My dad would go in and be like fuck you, you can't kick my wife out. And they'd be like sorry, sir, she's welcome to come back. And then she'd do it again. She just would keep getting free stuff. She went in one time. Her bill was like $143 and they owed her like $116. And they're like man, we can't pay you, but you can have it. All. My mom's like that's fine, that's cool with me Walked out and $143 20 years ago was a good amount of stuff and that's.

Speaker 1: 36:41

My mom has like a shed full of just everything Paper products like paper plates, all the stuff she gets for free Toothpaste. Man, I never realized how well we had it over there when she said you had to do and you needed toothpaste or toilet paper, but go outside, go get it out of the shed. I'm like man. But the shed, mom, that's so far away and it's dark outside. I had to go out there and then I became an adult and was like God, dang man, that was nice. Wish I had a shed full of all this shit. I can't do coupons like her. I do coupons to an extent we have to, but that's next level. I can't do that.

Speaker 1: 37:16

My family very, very clicked. A group Trauma was talking about in our live today about how her and copper on their podcast were talking about bedtime stories that parents would tell and everything. My mom had a whole nether ball game during nap time. I didn't want to take a nap and my mom would come lay down with me and she'd be like, hey, you have to take a nap. But now my mom won't take a nap. I won't go outside and play. She's like no, you can take a nap. She's like do you hear that? I'm like what Did you hear it? I'm like what mom? There's a monster down the hallway. I'm like do what? Yeah, gotta get under the blanket and hide or they'll find you. But mom, you're not under the blanket, it only eats kids. I'm like, oh shit, here I am under this blanket and then, guess what, I fall asleep and I look back. I'm like, dang, that's pretty jacked up.

Speaker 1: 38:05

My mom had me take a nap, pretending I'm about to be eaten by a damn monster. If I don't get under the blanket, I'm gonna have to try that some of my children there's. So many times I'd be like no mom, get under there. You know, you got that stupid kid brain. You're like, oh God, that damn monster comes around every day at noon and it only eats babies. And it only eats babies named Dane. That's a mean ass monster. I hope all the other Danes are staying safe when I'm under this blanket, never thinking about all those other Danes that are ever eating because I'm under the blanket, being safe. I even was able to sleep through it and those poor Dane babies were being eaten as I was sleeping under my blanket. That's some bullshit right there. I tell you that much. Oh man, if you guys can take a moment of silence, or all those baby Dane's that didn't make it, thank you. Thank you, baby Dane's, for giving your life for me.

Speaker 1: 38:57

Freakin nuts, wow, crazy things, crazy, crazy things, crazy times. It's a cool time to be alive because you're seeing things. I'm telling people, man, we're seeing history right now and people are like okay, I know you're seeing history, just wait, shit's gonna happen. Shit's getting crazy. I don't know what it is, but it's getting crazy. But who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen, guys, who knows? We just gotta sit back and enjoy the ride.

Speaker 1: 39:23

Speaking of that, guys, I do appreciate everybody. This has been it. I didn't know where to start on this one. I didn't really have any ideas where to start, so hopefully it wasn't boring. It worked out. Hopefully everything was fun. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1: 39:37

Yeah, I'm gonna keep trying to do these, keep growing them. If you guys have any ideas, send them to my TikTok. If you're on TikTok, send them through me. Instagram deputy underscore Dane. Send them anywhere you know and then give me something to talk about. I'm trying to like figure out how I can include some of my life with all these stories and then people can get to know me, or a little bit more than you already. I share pretty much everything, but you can get to know me a little bit more and we can we can figure this stuff out. I appreciate all you guys. Much loved everybody. Please stay safe, spread the love and positivity and let's make it a good week.

Speaker 1: 40:09

Well, like I said, we're getting closer to Halloween and that's fucking awesome. I actually hit a button. Let me finish that. That's fucking awesome. I love Halloween. Guys, I'm still pumped. We're doing a scare house and everything. I love Halloween. I make Halloween props. It's a lot of fun. But again, guys, thank you so much for all the comments, positive, negative, whatever it is. I appreciate everybody so much. This means the world to me and hopefully you can keep growing. We'll start bringing some people on so that way we have some interaction, not just me. I'm feeling like people are like man, this is just a Dane Ranton channel, but we went over some things today how to get in law enforcement, stuff like that. I get asked a lot Difference between what I do now compared to what I used to do, even though it's pretty much the same. I just now do more and get called out more and work more hours and stuff. All right, guys, much love everybody. Enjoy your week. Everybody, stay safe.