Grief has a way of reshaping our lives in unexpected and profound ways. As I open up about the recent loss of my father, I invite you into a raw and honest discussion of the whirlwind of emotions and duties that come with such a significant change. Amidst the heartache, life on the farm presses on with tasks from driveway repairs to welcoming new baby pigs. I'll also share how supporting my mother through this transition has brought its own set of trials and changes, including the potential for her retirement to join me on the farm.
The fine line between duty and humanity often blurs for those in law enforcement, a truth brought into stark relief by a recent event in Florida. An officer's split-second decision under the shadow of PTSD sparked intense debate and a personal reflection on the power of social media humor. In sharing my misstep with a video that crossed the line, I underscore the delicate dance between comedy and sensitivity, and the weight of responsibly wielding the tools of public communication.
As we navigate the tangled web of truth, transparency, and public expectation, the conversation turns to the contentious topic of racial bias in policing. Surprising research findings challenge popular narratives, igniting a discussion on the bravery required to publish controversial data. The episode wraps up with a candid look at the overwhelming pressures faced by law enforcement, on and off the clock, and how privacy, scrutiny, and the intersecting challenges of our public and personal lives never cease to demand our attention and compassion.
Thank you all for all the support! I couldn't do this without everyone's support! Please have a great week and stay safe! Please check out our Patreon to support us and help us grow! https://www.patreon.com/DEPUTYDANE
Grief has a way of reshaping our lives in unexpected and profound ways. As I open up about the recent loss of my father, I invite you into a raw and honest discussion of the whirlwind of emotions and duties that come with such a significant change. Amidst the heartache, life on the farm presses on with tasks from driveway repairs to welcoming new baby pigs. I'll also share how supporting my mother through this transition has brought its own set of trials and changes, including the potential for her retirement to join me on the farm.
The fine line between duty and humanity often blurs for those in law enforcement, a truth brought into stark relief by a recent event in Florida. An officer's split-second decision under the shadow of PTSD sparked intense debate and a personal reflection on the power of social media humor. In sharing my misstep with a video that crossed the line, I underscore the delicate dance between comedy and sensitivity, and the weight of responsibly wielding the tools of public communication.
As we navigate the tangled web of truth, transparency, and public expectation, the conversation turns to the contentious topic of racial bias in policing. Surprising research findings challenge popular narratives, igniting a discussion on the bravery required to publish controversial data. The episode wraps up with a candid look at the overwhelming pressures faced by law enforcement, on and off the clock, and how privacy, scrutiny, and the intersecting challenges of our public and personal lives never cease to demand our attention and compassion.
Thank you all for all the support! I couldn't do this without everyone's support! Please have a great week and stay safe! Please check out our Patreon to support us and help us grow! https://www.patreon.com/DEPUTYDANE
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Speaker 2: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.
Speaker 1:Sit back. Oh, oh yep, there's the sirens. I think we're all gonna be detained. Sit back, and enjoy the show.
Speaker 2:Good morning everybody. Welcome to the deputy dane morning show. It's been a couple weeks, I think. Last one we did was a trauma diva. I had a lot of fun with that. I believe she had a lot of fun with it. I plan on doing some more of the bringing people in, but it's just gonna take a little bit of time, just kind of figuring everything out with everything going on with the family for the few of you, or some of you, or all the help I act like.
Speaker 2:A lot of people know my life more than they probably do, but unfortunately I lost my father a couple days ago, about a week ago. It's probably one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life and I'm kind of in a weird headspace. I feel that I should be hurting more than I am. But I have my ups and downs. I feel amazing and it still doesn't feel real, and then other times it hits me pretty hard. So it's all over the place, okay, and as we're doing the live, I had to take a break, got a phone call. My mom is looking at getting a new vehicle and she doesn't have my dad anymore to help her with that. So she asked me to kind of go help her this week. She's trying to get her fairs in order and trying to get everything going and still in a lost space. So I'm taking the day off, I'm going to take her to go check out this vehicle and do stuff like that. So they're giving. I don't know why. I'm breaking this all down, hell, I don't know. So pretty much I'm setting a test drive for us to go look at it.
Speaker 2:But again, we're all kind of in shock about everything. We knew there was a chance it would happen, we just didn't. I mean, you can't really you expect it, but you don't kind of stealing limbo on it. There's just so much unravel there. I don't even. I don't even know If I talk too much about it it'll make me tear up. But my dad was God. It still doesn't even seem real. He's one of my best friends, taught me a lot, taught me a lot of things not to do, and I just still feel like this is temporary. I don't know, I don't know. Okay, well, we got to, we got to move on from that. I thought I'd be able to talk about it a bit more. But man, so I guess one of the this is one of the times that it's going to sit in, so we won't talk about that.
Speaker 2:Other things going on the farm's doing good Tour up the driveway. I've never done that in my life. I have no idea what I was doing by tearing it up. I mean I used a brush or a box plate on it and broke it all up and then kind of just kept going over it and flatten it out and stuff. Never done. It grew up in the city, so just having to teach myself how to do it. And here we are Just figuring it out. It worked out pretty good. We had some baby pigs the other day. Some baby pigs were born on the farm. Farm's growing, everything's growing. It's just going to be different now, a little bit different.
Speaker 2:I guess my mom's playing and she's still on the fence about it. I mean she doesn't know. She didn't know what she was going to do. I mean we lived in the house. She lived in the house for 35 years. She moved there when I was three-ish, that my dad and my mom moved there. So it's one of those things that my brother and I selfishly don't want her to sell the house just because of memories, but we're also expecting her to live in that house, of those memories. So it's a lot, but what she's kind of thinking about doing is we have a place where we used to live in a trailer on our land and I'm thinking I'm going to just get rid of that trailer and she's going to buy a nice mobile home, put it on that spot because all the utilities are there and be here for the babies, and I think she's going to finally retire.
Speaker 2:My mom is a she's a beast and she just wants to be around her mom, thank you. She started a in-home daycare when I was young because of issues that happened with me at a daycare Bad deal. I should have been rich from the deal that happened, but my parents didn't understand, didn't understand what to do and if they could do anything, but they, they, they got me out. My mom started home daycare and has done it for since I was about four, five. She'd been doing for over 30 something years and I think she's finally gonna take a break and move on the farm and keep herself busy by taking care of our babies. Which man is a God send to us man being able to actually have someone here on the property that we can just take the kids to like, hey, we need to do this, do you mind watching them? And that would be her, her only work, really. Which their work, man, they wear my ass out, I'm telling you. But if she would love to watch them grow up.
Speaker 2:Right now we live about two hours away hour 45, something like that away from her, so she doesn't get to spend as much time with them as she wants and she she's thinks her vehicle won't make it, which her vehicle will. But now she's. She's had her vehicle for 11 years and I think it's kind of like her little turning of the new leaf on getting a vehicle she wanted. My dad was very opinionated. My dad was a GM mechanic for 30 years and worked on it just worked on everything. So of course he had his opinions and everything's bad and this sucks and this than this. So she's excited she's gonna be able to pick something out she wants. She's gonna be able to pick out a vehicle that means something to her and I'm excited about that. I'm pumped for her and I'm just pumped that she's gonna be able to get something she wants and feels that it's something she needs. Not I mean, my dad wasn't a bad person. I mean he just was very opinionated so she would kind of go along with it. Well, she picked one out the other day and she's pumped about getting it and I'm excited for her. She's done a lot too better our whole family so I'm excited to kind of take her and help her. I think it's the one way she's gonna grieve really is kind of getting something that she gets to pick something that she just feels happy about. So we're gonna go, we're gonna look at it and then hopefully in the next year or so she'll move out here after she sells the house, which it's a whole lot.
Speaker 2:I mean, this lady's living this house forever and she's not a hoarder but man, that house is full of stuff. She's done coupons, so there's stuff all over the place you like not. I want to say where the house is clean. Let's make it's not aisle ways you're walking through, but she does have outbuildings and these outbuildings are. They're nice and neat. She has like sheds, but they have. They have shelves in it and it looks like you're going to grocery store. One of them we call the store, and it's filled with just all sorts of stuff. And then my mom also is a heavy decorator for her day care. She always want to make sure that the kids got the best Christmas looking house the kids got. So the kids would come to the house. Halloween they're terrified to come to my mom's house. My mom's house is just covered with like skeletons and blood and gore and grim reapers and zombies and so they don't really like Halloween for the most part, but they love everything else. So, man, she just has a bunch, a bunch and then we're still trying to figure this stuff out. My dad with what we're gonna do with all his stuff. It's just a.
Speaker 2:It's a real, real crazy time in my life that you knew was coming but you didn't know was coming. You knew was gonna be here, but not so soon, but you knew I don't know. It's crazy. The other day my brother and I had to go out to his garage and I told you his mechanic for 30 years so he had stockpiled all these snap-on tools and if you know about snap-on tools, they're not cheap, not cheap at all, and the older I get, the more I realized when he'd be pissed off would be in there, cuz shit would never be put back where it was and everything. And man going through his this man stuff like. We've always used that stuff to work on our vehicles our whole life. I remember changing out the engines and his work vehicles, my whole life with them, the good and bad. You know I never held a fucking flashlight right. If he hit his hand it was my fucking fault, but you know it's just typical.
Speaker 2:Growing up working on stuff, but going through all his stuff it's. It's hard to believe the amount of stuff he had, and some of the tools I don't even know how to work on. I have no idea what it's used for, how you use it, and I was like whatever dude it has it. The cool thing about it, though, is all his tools have his initials on it, so it's cool that you get to see his initials on these things, and he hand etched them because he didn't want his co-worker stealing them, but it felt dirty. My brother and I are going through it just because we have it. We have a shitbag, sister. I'm gonna be a hundred percent honest. It's. It's not even it's his stepdaughter, but she's the kind that will try to go over there when no one's around and try to take the stuff and pawn it for nothing, when my brother and I, these things mean stuff to us, so we determined to get him out of the house, take him to his house and we'll figure out what we're doing. But as we're loading them all up, man, it felt dirty, didn't feel right. You know, it's like these are dad's tools. I don't, this is dirty.
Speaker 2:So that's been a lot, just a, oh just a shitty, shitty situation. You know, I and I deal with this at work all the time. I deal with death, I see death, I help families with death the best I can. I let families know, but and you just, you're just used to it, but when it hits so close to home, good lord, it's a whole another thing. Just awful, just awful. And then my wife. You know she, my dad, loved my wife, my wife loved my dad. So she's taking it hard, just as any of us is, and so is my sister-in-law. My wife and sister sister-in-law have stepped up a lot and have helped my brother and help my mom out with a lot of stuff and they're grieving. So god, this shit sucks crazy. I'm sure as time goes I'll be able to tell more stories about them.
Speaker 2:He was one of a kind I don't know everyone feels that about their dad, but man he was one of a kind. He was one of the roughest, toughest, bitchiest assholes, but one of the kind, most kind, kind, hard-to-peep people you could be, and some days you wanted nothing to do with them and other days, man, you wanted nothing but him. So crazy, fucking crazy Still doesn't seem real. Okay, enough talking about my dad, let's talk about some stuff that's been popping up lately.
Speaker 2:Recently there was an ordeal in Florida where a deputy was dealing with a scene. I don't know the whole details but I think it was a domestic. They had the male quick pat down, put him in the car and go back to the female. The female says he has a small caliber pistol with suppressor on him in his pants. Did you find it? And the deputy's like no, I better go search him. Now I'll explain something to you.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we make mistakes and it happens especially in the heat of something. You're trying to get someone apprehended real quick and you're trying to get everybody calm down and you get them in handcuffs. You do a quick pat down, you put them in your car and you go. Now you can get written up, which don't me wrong. I understand getting written up for not doing a proper search.
Speaker 2:If you find a gun on the dude when you get him in the jail or something like that, it happens. But it's crazy. You know there's knives and people you never think would be in the places they are. So I'm sure a lot of things going through his head like, oh shit, could he shoot at me right now? Does he have access to that pistol? Am I going to get in trouble for not doing a good search on him? There's a whole lot to it. Now this deputy, from what I hear, is a decorated member of the Army, retired, did a lot for our country, a lot more than a lot of these other people that talk shit on him ever have. A lot more than I have. I didn't serve. So you know you don't know what this man's seen. You never know what this man dealt with. So then he's walked into the car and Acorn falls, hits the car and it sounds like a suppressed pistol. And if you've never heard a suppressed pistol, it makes a different sound. So he might have thought, oh shit, this is something going on, I'm getting shot at, which he did. He thought he was getting shot at. He runs off and starts firing into the car at the suspect that was already apprehended. Crazy deal.
Speaker 2:I made videos about it because that's how what I do I make videos about comedy and I like to make people laugh. And then I had a deputy that knew this guy and reached out to me and said hey, that dude's a really good dude and if you knew the full story I don't think you'd be making fun of him. And I really wasn't meaning to make fun of that officer. You watch the video not knowing the story and you're just like man, this is funny, this is going to make people laugh. But when you really break it down, this man is dealing with a lot right now. He ended up resigning. He said it was a PTSD episode, which I can understand.
Speaker 2:This man's dealt with things that we've never dealt with and think he's getting shot at. And then he jumps to the ground, gets injured and then you never know what fear will do. And not saying he was feared for his life, but he might have, but you never know. And he felt paralyzed, he couldn't move. So he thought he was shot. And I even laughed when I saw the video I'm not going to lie, I'm going to be 100% honest with you I laughed. I was like you're shot. The dude's not even shooting. What do you mean? You're shot. But we're also seeing it after it happened. This man's living it. He feels he can't move, feels he can't walk, and all of a sudden he feels, oh shit, I've been shot. He might have seen his friends get shot the same way, that they never knew that they were really shot. But they said they couldn't move, you don't know. So it was a bad deal.
Speaker 2:This guy kind of reached out and said hey, he said this to me and I was like you know what, you're right. And they said he's not in a good headspace and they just want to make sure that he doesn't do something dumb and harm himself. And that really hit me. First of all, you make these jokes and you realize it's going to affect somebody, but you don't realize until a friend reaches out and like, hey, man, that's a buddy of mine, he's actually one of the best people you could know. And I'm like you know what? I'm sorry. You know, I make these jokes Sometimes I don't even think about it. Even at my job I'd say shit and I don't even think about it. I'm like, oh man, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 2:He reached out to me, said that and wanted to kind of spread awareness on this dude's a really good dude, amazing guy. It couldn't happen to a better person. And it sucks because he's not in the right mental space and I felt, you know, I don't want to be the reason someone does something stupid to themself. Not that my video is bigger than anybody else, not that my video would do this, but I was like man, what if this guy follows me? What if this guy likes my videos and I post something? Just mocking him, not on purpose. It really I wasn't going on purpose to mock this guy, it just kind of happened. I was mocking the incident and I can understand. If it happened to me I'd be like this son of a bitch is mocking me and I don't want to be the reason someone does something stupid. And not that I'm the big deal, I'm not huge, I'm not famous, I'm not any of that. But even if, like I had 10 followers and one of my followers I effected in a negative way, that would hurt me.
Speaker 2:I do my videos to make people smile. I do my videos to make people laugh and I do it to try to make their day better. I don't want to bring anybody down. I don't want anybody to live that I'm making fun of them to that extent. So I took the videos down and it really kind of was like you know what Dane, thank before you do stupid shit, which I say it to myself a lot, by the way.
Speaker 2:But yes, it's one of those perfect examples that I jumped on the damn bandwagon about how media puts out what they put out just to make people look bad, without us getting the full story, and I jumped on it. I said, oh man, this could make people laugh. I better jump on this before it passes. You know, we jumped on the Megan Hall thing where she had been sleeping, all the cops. I jumped on that as comedy and I jumped on this and I jumped on that. But you know, you just got to think and we didn't know the full story. I didn't know the full story when I posted it. I knew there were some. There had to be something to the story.
Speaker 2:Luckily the individual was not hit with as many rounds that were fired. I think he's going to be loaded for the rest of his life. I think he's going to have a big lawsuit, but luckily he was okay, got through the incident, because I know that deputy would be living with a lot more regret and a lot more just oh my God if something would have happened to that individual. So I'm luckily nothing happened to him, he's okay. I'm sure he shook the fuck up. I would be shit, he'd be way. I mean he'd load and load it on that car Shit. I'd be shit myself, but luckily not injured. I'm sure they're going to say pain and suffering, which shit. I don't know what I'd get you, you unload on me like that. I'd be like, oh my God, he might be the best person in the world now. He might never, ever hit his wife Like you know what. I've learned my ways and Jesus kept me here. I'm going to have to straighten my shit out. Crazy, you know, crazy of that.
Speaker 2:And then there was another deputy. Where was that? Hold on, let me see where this was. It was another deputy in a state and he was transporting someone to jail. They couldn't find the Utah. No, is it Utah? Hold on, no, that's a different. That's a different thing. Jesus deputy drowns up to lawnmower tubes in the creek. Good Lord, hold on one second so Tucsy River.
Speaker 2:So I guess, okay, in Tennessee. So I guess in Tennessee a man, a deputy, was taking a woman to jail and I guess they wrecked into the river. I don't know the whole story but unfortunately the woman was handcuffed in the back seat, she drowned and it looks like the deputy was found outside the vehicle and he drowned as well.
Speaker 2:Awful, Awful awful, awful, just damn, that's awful, you know, and from what I read is the deputy was just like new out of the academy and somehow wrecked off in the river and both of them drowned. Sad deal, man, it's getting crazy. It's just killed me, just killed me. Just those shit that's going down. I guess yesterday officers were killed, man, I don't know, it's getting outlandish. I mean, you get to type in all the time and you got officers dying left and right and you're like Jesus, this is awful, but I think it's just going to get worse.
Speaker 2:The media is still portraying us as evil and people are still portraying us as evil. And I just started telling people like cool, so you like children getting raped? And they're like well, no, I don't. Well, you don't like cops. You say cops, only they don't do anything. So I work up my ass off to make sure I put rapist away. But fuck me, I guess I'm, guess I'm piece of shit, I don't, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Crazy, crazy times, crazy times. I know I say it all the time, but it's just, it blows my mind. Every day Something else happens. I'm like no fucking way. And then you're like yep, it really happens. Like what, how does this? What is going on? What is going on? There was something. Hold on a second. Okay, so last night it looks like two police officers and a firefighter were killed in Burnsville, minnesota, responding to a call of family danger. So it says it like so two officers I believe three were shot, two were killed and one firefighter was killed in a domestic violence incident with an active shooter situation. Man just just doing your job, trying to help a family, and then you get killed. But that's the thing, and it's only going to happen more and more and more, the more that we try to spread hatred instead of love.
Speaker 2:I watched a thing the other day and I was like holy shit, that's crazy. Where he broke down. He doesn't feel a racial bias towards police shootings and he's a. He's a well known. Let's see if I can play that clip real quick. Okay, so this is economist Roland Freyer. Freyer Freyer, professor of economics at Harvard University. It is a black man, so let's listen to what he has to say. It might take a second, but this was like holy shit. I'm glad someone actually broke this down and talked about it.
Speaker 3:So let's see, we collected millions of observations on everyday use of force that wasn't lethal. We collected thousands of observations on lethal force and it was in this moment in 2016 that I realized people lose their minds when they don't like the result.
Speaker 2:So what? Okay, I don't know why it's not being too loud here. I got to figure out what's going on in my audio. For some reason it's not wanting to play very loud and I don't understand why that is, and I've got to figure that out. Hold on one second. See if that made it a little bit better, let's see.
Speaker 3:My paper showed you'll see tomorrow, like some of you was that yes, we saw some bias in the low level uses of force everyday pushing up against cars and things like that We'll send to like that result but we didn't find any racial bias in police shootings. Now that was really surprising to me because I expected to see it. The little known fact is I had eight full time RAs that it took to do this over nearly a year. When I found the surprising result, I hired eight fresh ones and redid it to make sure they came up with the same exact answer and I thought it was robust and I went to go give it and, my God, all hell broke loose. It was a 104 page dense academic economics paper with 150 page appendix. It was posted for four minutes when I got my first email this is full of shit, it doesn't make any sense. I wrote back how did you read it that fast? That's amazing. You are a genius.
Speaker 3:I had colleagues take me into the side and say don't publish this, you'll ruin your career. I said what are you talking about? I said what's wrong with it? Do you believe the first part? Yes, do you believe the second part? Well, the issue is. They just don't fit together. We like the first one, but you should publish the second one. Another time I said, let me ask this If the second part about the police shooting this is a literal conversation. I said to them if the second part showed bias, do you think I should publish it? Then they said yeah, then it would make sense.
Speaker 2:Listen to that I guarantee you I'll publish it. He was told don't publish this because it shows what doesn't fit with what they their narrative. They doesn't fit. If it fits, then it didn't publish it. But that's what our world is going through right now. That is what we're dealing with in the United States, that we are trying to hide so much stuff instead of bringing out the stuff that actually you shouldn't hide. Some of this stuff should be known. Some of this stuff we need to know the truth. There's so much hiding of shit that why can we not trust? I mean, we can't trust anybody. We can't trust anybody.
Speaker 2:This gentleman is a very well educated man and he can't post something like that just because it doesn't fit the narrative of what they're trying to sell. And if that's where it's going, how much more is going that way? How much more are we not being told the truth just to show whatever narrative they want us to see? Pretty crazy to think about. Pretty crazy. That was actually hold on one second. I'm gonna take that pulled up. Let me see exactly what, where that came from. So you can, I'm gonna listen to the whole podcast.
Speaker 2:I didn't have it listened to it yet, so I'm gonna listen to it Says listen to Economist Roland Freer on adversity race and refusing to conform with Barry Weas B-A-R-I-W-E-I-S-S. I'm gonna have to look at that and see. I wanna listen to the whole thing. He sounds educated. He sounds like, okay, we did this. They did it for nearly a year with eight people. When they got the answer, he's like this might not be right and people aren't gonna like it. Let's do it again. And it comes up with the same answer man, freaking nuts. And that's the kind of shit that happens. There's little stuff here and there that if you look, you're like man, these people are lying to us. That's why I don't watch the news. That's why I don't get all the breaking news. I don't get any of that because I don't like it. I feel like we're filled with so much bullshit and so much lies on top with everything else that we have to deal with. You know losing my dad, you know I'm having to deal with that, and then you're dealing with those other stupid stuff. I think a guy that did a Freedom of Information Act on me because he didn't like a comment I said on TikTok. I think the Freedom of Information Act should only be used if you live in that area and that's my personal opinion. I think anybody's allowed their opinion, just like some people. Oh well, now you don't believe in the Constitution. I do believe in the Constitution. I do support the Constitution. I support a lot of the stuff.
Speaker 2:What kills me is they ask stupid questions to see if you'll answer it to the form and I answer it in a smart ass way. If they ask me what the Third Amendment is, just so you know, we don't deal with every amendment in law enforcement. We know them. We don't deal with certain, we deal with certain ones and these are the ones that we deal with on a regular basis, that we really have to know inside and out. But you ask the Third Amendment if you don't know what the Third Amendment is. It just pretty much says you don't have to house soldiers in a peacetime area. Pretty much what it was used for is a red coat. You don't have to house the red coats and I know law enforcement's considered red coats to some of the extremists, whatever but you go up to a cop and ask them that and most of the time we don't have to sit there and answer questions.
Speaker 2:That's what kills me is people think that First Amendment orders. They come up to you and say we have to answer them, like we're some of the Queen's Guard or something. You have to sit there and answer them. If you're not committing a crime, I'm not going to talk to you. I don't hang out with people I don't like. I don't go do stuff with people I don't want to do. I'm not going to hang out with a dude just trying to get me tripped up on saying something he doesn't agree with. I'm not going to do it. And then they want to get hateful with you. If you get hateful with them, then they file a request and then they file a complaint. They file the stuff.
Speaker 2:There are First Amendment auditors out there that do it the right way. There are. I've made friends with them. There's good ones there, there's ones that go out to find the good and stuff and then, when something happens, I like the ones that show the positive and the negative. If they have something that deals with something that's positive and they show it. Oh, these cops knew what they were talking about. But there's a lot of them that only show the negative and only try to bring it down and they won't show the positive or they won't show where they lost their shit. They only want to show when a cop lost his shit. I think you should show it all the way around, show everything you know and call people that need to be called out.
Speaker 2:But I think it has to be, in my opinion, if you don't live in my county that I work, if you don't pay taxes in my area, if you don't have a common interaction with me, or if you live in the county that employs me and you're upset I'm doing it. I can understand you're upset that I'm doing TikTok if you lived in the county, but there's a lot of people that love what I do in my county. They use me as like a mini celebrity of things. Just oh he's going to be here, type deal, and they have no hate with it. What does it bother someone that's not even in my state just to try to grow a YouTube page on oh, I got this cop shut down. My agency has not told me to quit. My agency hadn't told me that. This is just because I don't want to bring any negative light to my agency, just because douchebags like this get their feelings hurt by me saying a smart ass comment and it kills me.
Speaker 2:So I don't think you should be able to use the Freedom of Information Act on someone in a state you don't go to on a regular basis, an area you don't reside, just because you didn't like a comment they said on TikTok. Everyone blows my mind, and that's the kind of world we're in is these little crybabies are the one that's going to win out and all that they're trying to do is get clout by doing stuff like this. Now, if you're doing, if you are a cop in an area and you have an individual in that area that they felt you do, you did them wrong. I believe 100%. They deserve everything. They deserve the body cam. They deserve this. They deserve the reports. They deserve dash cam. They deserve the dispatch log. They deserve everything that should include their case if they want it to see.
Speaker 2:First of all, why the fuck were you here? Why did you get here in this timely manner? You did. Why was a gun drawn on me? Why was this, this, this and this? I can understand, but just because you don't agree with someone over social media in another state, I don't believe that you have the right to do that or need to reach out and go.
Speaker 2:I don't like this. I don't like it, it's offensive to me. So I think I'm gonna try to shut them down. All it is is their own version of cancel culture. But I guarantee if you go to any of them They'll say they hate cancel culture. It fucking kills me, it blows my mind. If you come and do a first-minute audit at my agency and I did something wrong, I could understand. But reaching out because something offended you on tiktok, I think, is a bag of dicks. That's not that we're not using it for the right way, but that's my opinion. Everyone's allowed their opinion and I'm sure someone will tell me oh, he's just a cop, he's only doing it because of this, this and this. I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't believe I need to know what a cop in Maine is doing or see a text message he sent wallies on duty.
Speaker 2:There's so many of these things that say the cops are doing this while they're on duty, cops are doing that while they're on duty. Can you imagine what I mean? The military men, men and women that do amazing things for our country. Do you much downtime they have as well. Firefighters how much downtime? They have as well. Ems how much downtime? They have as well. Well, enforcement. We have a lot of downtime.
Speaker 2:It if in my area, it depends, and if in rural America there's a lot of downtime, yes, we can still go out there and look for people, but then if I go find somebody then they're gonna say you violated their right just to take them to jail to pad your numbers, no matter what, you're not gonna make certain people happy. But also I understand to an extent. There's no other job. You can take someone's freedom like being a cop. But it's just a. It's a bag of dicks and it's like these people act like they'd never send a text message or a picture, or Even sent their wife a nasty text message while they're on duty waiting to get home. Some people actually love their spouse and actually want to send fun things to let them know hey, I'm thinking of you or something like that. But it should have nothing to do with the public, just like this whole Taylor Swift deal in the damn Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:I have no hate towards a woman. I like her music at the summit for music. I'm not a teeny bopper, so some of it I don't. I Don't care who she's dating. I don't care for friend has an upside down fucking cross. I don't care. I watch football to watch football, and I see both sides. I see some side Well, not all sides Some sides are saying that man are only offended by her success, which there are some male-soviness pigs that are that way.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't give a fuck about her success. She's gonna be that successful, whether I like it or not. She does amazing things. She knew how to do it. She's had great management and she's played the game. She knows it and it. That's awesome. I have no hate towards a woman, none. The one thing that I do understand is when some of these women are saying way to go, guys, you're making all these young women that are watching football with their dad and their dad's getting mad. You're making it feel like they can't love their spouse and what they do and that kind of hit me. You're right. It shouldn't bother me that they're showing her because she's there supporting her spouse. That's awesome. You know it is.
Speaker 2:But my opinion is I watch football for football. I watch golf for golf. I don't care. Tiger Woods cheated on his wife. That's none of my business. I'm not his wife. I didn't. I didn't tell him don't sleep around on me. That's none of my business. I watch him for golf. I watch this for that I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't care about your relationship, I don't, and I know it's. If I cared about drama and relationships and sports, I'd fucking watch WWE fake wrestling, I'd watch dudes that like, let me tell you, brother, if you talk to my girl that way again, I'll put you on the top rope and it'd be fucking over that. I don't want to watch that. I don't want to watch drama. I don't want to watch Real Housewives of Georgia. I don't want to want. That's not what I watch.
Speaker 2:I watch football to watch football and Unfortunately Paul ticks have made their way into football with the BLM and anti-police and all this stuff, but that's part of it, but I, I want to watch football, football, sorry, sorry. I know that pisses some people off and I'm sorry. Now, do I think it's awesome Taylor Swift supporting her man? 100%? I do. I think it's amazing. Do I give a shit to watch her up there text message the whole time and not actually watching her husband? No, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care about a friend that had the hair that everyone's talking about and she put some satanic symbols or something. I don't know. I don't know why that did that. I don't care about that, that's none of my business.
Speaker 2:I'm here to watch football and, to be honest, the only reason I watch this here is because my dad my dad has never missed a Super Bowl his whole life and that's what he took pride in Not going in too much detail, but they were gonna put my dad on a ventilator before he passed and the only thing he was really upset about was he first Well, didn't want to be on a ventilator, which is understandable. He was scared of it Was he was gonna miss a Super Bowl if he was on a ventilator, and he's never missed a Super Bowl. So my dad went out on his own terms and he didn't miss a fucking Super Bowl. So I guarantee he was there on the 50 yard line and joined that game. That's the only reason I watched that game. I don't really care for either team, but at the same time I Didn't want to sit there and want. I don't want to sit here and give a damn about the relationship Kuda, that's amazing. They're doing great. It is, I don't care.
Speaker 2:And then people are now mad that the brother who played for a different team was wearing the jersey of his Brother. It's like Jesus Christ, can we not just watch the game and then, at the same time, let the brother supporting his brother playing football? His team didn't make it? Hell yeah, I'm gonna support my brother, you know, I mean, my brother's a fireman. I'm gonna support everything in that he does. I'm gonna appreciate everything he does. I'm not gonna be like, well, I'm a fireman, you're a fireman, I'm a cop. I fucking hate you. That's stupid, stupid. But we're bringing too much bullshit into stuff to get our mind away from thinking about other stuff, and it's crazy, just crazy.
Speaker 2:You have states trying to make it where you can't vote for Trump. Wow, wow, now you shouldn't be able to vote for him. Well, I think that's my opinion and not yours. I think that we're. Well, I mean, that is your opinion. I think it's my right to vote. Who the fuck I want to vote for? I've never once said that Trump is the best. I Like some of the stuff Trump did. When Trump was in office, gas was the cheapest we could do. We could afford shit. Right now, gas is getting expensive and people that are making more money than they've ever made in their life can't afford to live. They live paycheck to paycheck. So, man, what time to be alive.
Speaker 2:I know I've been doing a bunch of rambling guys, my guys, my, my head's not in the right space dealing with this dude from trying to get me in trouble. I had to hire an attorney to deal with his bullshit and all that stuff because he wants my phone, he wants all this stuff. I don't know, I think it's ridiculous, but I've been dealing with that and then lost my dad on top of that. It's just been a lot and that's why I missed a couple weeks. I plan on getting this going again. I'm trying to get my shop office built so I can have a studio and trying to get do a fundraiser to get a crown Vic so that way we can start doing videos again. Just not on duty because I don't want to piss somebody off, but get me a retired crown Vic and do it. My driveway Welcome. Let's find our own way around it.
Speaker 2:Guys, I appreciate the continued support. I appreciate all the amazing messages people are sending me on how much the lives change their day and how much it helps them, and I could never Tell people how much I'm grateful for that and I appreciate you guys so much the kind words. We're just gonna have to slow down and take a break, just for my own mental well-being. There's so much going on in my life. I'm just gonna slow down a little bit. I'm still gonna be here, I'm still gonna try to make people laugh, I'm still gonna make videos. It's just I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to find some inner being, inner chi, and calm, calm my life down and not have extra stress For no reason and get my buddies running for sheriff. I don't want them to use my tick talk against him Because he's gonna be an amazing sheriff, so I don't want my tick talk to be used against him. Well, he allows this. His buddies on tick talk instead of working. I still work.
Speaker 2:I. I come in early just to do tick talks. I don't I clock in because I'd have to. I'm on duty, but there's so many of those hours I don't get paid for that. I do just because I enjoy my job. But I enjoy being there in the morning is getting people's day started Right, just to have some crybaby get it all shut down. But all the kind words have really kept me going and I appreciate you guys so much. I couldn't do this though. Y'all. Thank you for all my patreon supporters on patreon. I Know I've been kind of slacken on everything. There's just been so much going on and I plan on trying to get everything going again streaming games, doing stuff, getting the farm channel going again. That being said, guys, thank you so much for your patience with me. Thank you so much for the continued support and all the kind words. It means the world to me. Thank you, guys, so much. I'll see you on the next one and everybody, let's have a great week and please, please, stay safe.