Crime in Sports - The Gangster Golfer - Ryan Peake

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

This week, we discuss an Aussie golfer, who had a very strange path to both golf, and crime. He grew up as a natural talent, but lacked some of the work ethic needed to become a star as a pro. So, he ...joined a criminally prominent biker gang, put the golf clubs aside. This continues until a very violent incident lands him in a terribly kept prison. Somehow, he turns it all around, and tries to continue in his golf journey. Will he stay out of trouble, and live up to his potential???   Have a naturally powerful left handed golf swing, hang out the local biker gang, until you become a full fledged member, then try to be the probably the only pro golfer with gang tats with Ryan Peake!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/crimeinsports crimeinsports@gmail.com

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Starting point is 00:00:38 They've been wild lately. We've had murder. We've had mayhem. We're going to have more craziness and mayhem from a sport that we don't expect it from very much this week as well. A sport that I'm trying to think back. I think we've only covered once. Yeah? I think we've only done one episode on this sport.
Starting point is 00:00:54 Horse racing, no, it is golf. Golf. Oh, yeah. Is it just John Daly? I think it's just John Daly, and we did it, we did a bonus about Tiger Woods, but I think this is our second golfer in 504 episodes. And big shots to Donnie Munsell, who brought us some John Daly lemonade. That was very cool.
Starting point is 00:01:11 That also brought us a Kirby Puckett, which was very cool. Kirby Puckett starting lineup. Autographed John Daly's. That was pretty badass. Do you call that booze? That's booze, right? It's got booze in it, yeah. It's a Arnold Palmer with more vodka than Arnold Palmer, right?
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Starting point is 00:04:13 It's wild. It's a golfer who is, you know, where he's from. He's from Australia. What? You talk about Australian golfers? I don't think, I never heard of an Australian golfer. And then what he did to. I guess they have them.
Starting point is 00:04:28 If I told you, there's an Australian golfer and we're going to do him for an episode, you'd go, what do he do, like financial crimes, he diddle a kid. You'll have no fucking idea what this guy was involved in. It makes no sense. So this is Ryan Peek, and this is Peek with an E at the end. end of it. Peak like peekaboo or top of a mountain? P-E-A-K-P-T. Top of a mountain. He's at the peak. Yeah, there is multiple peaks. That's right. With the E on the end of it. And his nickname is peekie. Very creative. Like the blinders. Yeah. Old peeky there. That's what
Starting point is 00:05:01 Australians love to do. They just put a wire on the end of everything. Yeah, they're very, they're the opposite of Italians when it comes to nicknames. Really? Yeah, we give nicknames that have nothing to do with your regular name. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is Vincent, you know, whatever the fuck. We call him, we call him, we call him Fat Jimmy. It's like, oh, okay. And he's a skinny guy named Vince.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Like, it makes no sense. You're like, why are you fat Jimmy? Here we go, this is Vinny the Pipe or some shit like that. Yeah, there's very, uh, the names are usually a little more creative than Piki. He's born March 8, 1993, which sounds like, young man. Shouldn't even be old enough to be on this show. Young man, why are you on this show?
Starting point is 00:05:41 You're too young to be on this show. He can, I mean, you should be focused. Yeah. Laser focused on a career right now. We had a young guy last week, too, didn't we? That was a very young man, too. You born in 90. I think, yes.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Very similar age here. Like we said, he's from Perth, Australia. That's where he's born. He's on the PGA tour of Australia and all that kind of shit. So he's a golfer. His parents are Mel and Michelle Peak. Mel and Michelle. Mel and Michelle.
Starting point is 00:06:11 So he's born in Perth. His father. it was originally from England, which also gives Ryan British citizenship as well. He's got dual because each parent, wow. Yeah, I guess that's how it worked. His dad worked as a bricklayer before switching, bricklaying is hard work.
Starting point is 00:06:30 Yeah. That's a young man's game. By young, I mean under 27. After that, you're in pain. Starts breaking down. Yeah. Yeah, his dad switched to greenskeeping on golf courses. as a profession, which my ex-wife's father used to do that.
Starting point is 00:06:47 Yeah. Yeah, so that's not quite as much of a wear and tear on you, drive around a cart and do shit. It's a lot of easy. Laying down and making sure the blades are. Yeah, it's everything even perfect. There, it's all mowed up. They lived in the northern suburbs of Perth, and Ryan attended a hilariously named school. East Wanneroo Primary School.
Starting point is 00:07:09 Wanneroo. You wonder why we make funny over there. This is why. He got rude in the name of your school for Christ. Yeah, everything sounds hilarious that you have over there. He played Australian rules football and cricket as well as golf. Now, he started picking up golf when he was a child. He asked to tag along with his father and grandfather at Lakeland's Country Club,
Starting point is 00:07:34 which is in this place north of Perth. And I guess he was kind of a natural for it. Really? Had a natural swing for it. I mean, if you're little and you watch it. you watch people around a golf course and you could probably pick it up a lot easier than if you're, you know, 30 and you're trying to do it. Dad had no qualms about bringing a child around where everybody tries to get away from fucking children. Yeah, try to get away from their family.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Like, doesn't this guy get it? This is, get away from your family. That's the shit doesn't get it. So he's a lefty. He got a left-handed swing, Ryan. Okay. So now you've got to buy the fucker. A whole set of, whole new set of clubs.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Can't even use your clubs. That's tough. No. He said it felt it was easy, Ryan says. felt like a natural talent. Everyone was looking at each other going, oh, he's pretty good, and I enjoyed it. Yeah, when you're good at something.
Starting point is 00:08:19 You're golfing with me as a child and doing it very easily. I'm going, oh, look at this fucking asshole. Yeah. That's one of the hardest things to do. Look at this little shithead. Fuck you, kid. Yeah. And it shouldn't be that hard, by the way, because the ball is still.
Starting point is 00:08:34 You're not wrong. But to put it where you need to put it where you need to put it. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's hard to. the fine points of if you had to hit a baseball to a certain seat for it to be a home run. That's ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:08:47 That would be ridiculous. That's why golf is hard with that. But also, they're not moving and everyone, they tell everyone to shut the fuck up while you're doing it. Yeah, and everybody, you're out of here if you talk. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's why 60-year-old men can still do it at a pretty high level. And baseball, when you're 35, you're getting put out to pasture. It's mind-blowing when you golf with somebody that's good at it and they can, like, put the ball where they meant to.
Starting point is 00:09:10 And I'm like, motherfucker, I got to, I'm going to run out the batteries in my golf cart chasing these things all day. Golf is hard, like putting puzzles together is hard. Yeah. People that can do that really well, fuck that guy too. Yeah. And it could be an 80-year-old lady. It has nothing to do with. No.
Starting point is 00:09:27 So, you know what I mean? It's not athleticism. That's just, I don't know what that is. It's, is it control of the muscles? What is that? It's a skill more than anything. It's a very refined, very niche. Really, I mean, you're really like between the chicklets and the shtray here.
Starting point is 00:09:45 I mean, it's really, it's really a weird talent. Very specific. But it's people that can do it, I'm fucking mind-blown. It's kind of like bowling where you can be. Or ping pong or darts. Ping-pong is different. Ping-pong's fucking hard. Ping-pong, you need a lot of, you can blow an ACL out doing ping-pong.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Like, you've got to cut back and forth a lot. Ping-pong is not easy. That's way more athletic than golfing, I think. You have to be a way more athlete. At a high level, Olympic style of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to be... Just dicking around.
Starting point is 00:10:21 Even dicking around is hard. It is. It's hard. It's so hard. It's like bowling kind. It's a skill that you can develop and you can either kind of do it or you can't. And a muscle memory. Your prowess really doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:10:34 You can be... No, not at all. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Tall, skinny fat. Old, young, it really doesn't matter. if you have the right, if you can spin that shit the right way. I've seen a 14-year-old be as good as a fat 70-year-old.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Absolutely, yeah. And they're both incredibly impressive. Yeah, that's why I think, I think hitting a baseball is the standard for hardness. Yeah, yeah. Because you'll never see a 10-year-old hit a baseball as well as an adult or it's just different. So anyway, for Ryan, his 10th birthday, he had his own clubs and began formal lessons. Adap boy. Before that, he was just renting clubs and fucking around.
Starting point is 00:11:10 At 12, he filled in for a senior's match and won 8-7. So against the old people. Won? Was victorious 8 to 7? Yes, over an 87-year-old man, possibly. We don't know, a senior of some kind. Or he just 1-8-7 marked everybody. That's it.
Starting point is 00:11:32 All we do know is if you have a sport where a 12-year-old can beat the... Everybody? Everybody. Yeah, that's a... It's not a sport, right? It's a skill more than a sport at that point, I think. Yeah, I would say. Yeah, because there's no 12-year-old is stepping on an NFL field.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Nobody's doing it. No, no 12-year-old's beating me in a game of one-on-one basketball. Because I'm going to fucking throw that shit to the ground. It's not happening. Unless there's some seven-foot freak or some shit. I'm going to fuck you up. I'm not great. I'm going to swap that ball into the neighbor's yard.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Absolutely. That's what I mean. Every time. No, you know, 12-foot. 12 year old's probably going to throw many baseballs by you. You know what I'm saying? Shit like that. If he wants to run with a football, I'll tackle the fuck out of a 12 year old.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Let's get it on. You prepubescent little asshole, let's do it. If all things are equal and we both get pads, I will blast a 12 year old. I will fuck a 12 year old up. Yeah, we will. Whereas in golf, though, a 12 year old could kick my ass all day long. It'd be crazy. I'll just cry for 18 holes.
Starting point is 00:12:34 I'm quitting after 9, I promise. I think another reason I'll get off of this, but I think why I keep comparing it to bowling, too, is you're not actually playing against anybody. Right. You technically have an opponent that you compare scores at the end, but they don't stop you from playing well, and you don't stop them from – you can't affect their game and they can't affect yours. So how is that – Unless you have a pocket full of balls and pick up their ball and drop it into a harder lie.
Starting point is 00:12:59 That's why – yeah, yeah. That's why it's more of a game than a sport. To me, a sport, the other – Yeah, it's a game. The other person or team can stop you from doing what you. you were trying to accomplish. That's a sport. You're trying to stop them.
Starting point is 00:13:10 They're trying to stop you. There's an offense. There's a defense. This is just you playing a game. And then at the end of the game, you go, would you get? And then they sell you their score. I got this. Oh, I guess I won.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Okay. There's really no other effect otherwise. You lose. Yeah. If you were bowling and you went and like, you know, took a piss every time the other guy went up to the frame and didn't look at his score. Wouldn't affect anything.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Wouldn't affect anything. Yeah. So, anyway, he started being really well. He won his first club. championship at age 13. Nice. So he's getting all these trophies and he's starting to, you know, starting to like it. Jackets.
Starting point is 00:13:46 Yeah, all that kind. I don't know if they give kids jackets. It's a big oversized jacket meant for a 45-year-old. That's the other part that makes it not a sport. Six inches dangling down. Well, the NFL Hall fame gets you a jacket. What are you, 38 long? Here you go, kid.
Starting point is 00:13:58 Yeah. And if you beat the shit out of somebody, they give you a belt. So, I mean, I guess it's the same thing. If you can get a belt and wear it with that jacket, you can really have something there. Now you're, now you're coordinating. Now you're going to do. Yeah, now you're going to work. What sport gives away pants if you do well, anybody? So, they
Starting point is 00:14:16 said he lacked discipline during practice. And he'll lack discipline in a lot of things as he gets older. I assume so, yeah. But he's one of those kids that's so, he has so much talent, it doesn't really matter in junior golf. He's just better than the other kids, so he doesn't really have to practice that much,
Starting point is 00:14:33 which is dangerous for later. Right. That's when you get like Jamarcus, Ron. Russell's walking around. They were just so talented. Yeah. Well, Tiger practiced a lot now. Did he?
Starting point is 00:14:43 Yeah, he was a robot. I mean, I watched him. I mean, I've seen him do things, like trick stuff and shit like that. I assume you don't just do that out of the gate. All he did was, I mean, his father, he was a little, he was on the fucking tonight show as a four-year-old or some shit. I mean, that's all he did. That's why when he was 18 and everybody else was 40, he was kicking the shit out of them. But this kid, he's just beating other kids.
Starting point is 00:15:06 So, yeah. Do you think Tiger did steroids? Yeah, probably. He had to, right? Yeah, yeah, I really do. Yeah, I think. I assume so, too. I think.
Starting point is 00:15:15 I've never seen a golfer that looked like him ever. You don't have time to work out the amount it would take to look like that if you played that much golfing. Yeah. And traveling and all, and fucking Swedish models and, you know, crashing your car every 15 fucking minutes and Hooters waitresses and everything else. Well, his was porn stars. He didn't even bother with the waitresses. He'd go straight to the. Agent and get the porn stars.
Starting point is 00:15:38 We did it on the bonus episode. He was fucking like... Oh, was he getting Hooters waitresses too? Remember? He was fucking like a bunch of different like Orlando. Yep. Lower end sit down dining waitresses. You're not wrong.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Yeah. He's like he was asking, is there an olive garden around here? I'm burning through the stock at Red Lobster. There's perhaps a Texas road house. Anything like that around this area? Any casual family dining restaurants? Casual finally. If I have for middle class.
Starting point is 00:16:09 You know, let me take the kids to, maybe grandma out on a Thursday night. You know what I'm saying? Anything like that? Shit that I could easily make it home, but I'm going to have somebody serve it to me. Just don't feel like it tonight.
Starting point is 00:16:20 You know what I'm saying? One of those? Something microwavable air fryer-ish, that kind of thing. That's what I want. Just table service. Definitely has to have table service, though. I need someone taking my honor.
Starting point is 00:16:31 And I'm going to try to fuck her. And I will try to find. I don't really care who she is. I'm going to try to fuck her. care. That's hilarious. So he's got a, Ryan's got a lot of power, much like a Tiger Woods. He's a long driver and things like that. He's lefty, long driver.
Starting point is 00:16:48 So, and apparently people liked him because he was fun to watch because he takes chances. Oh. A lot of times golfers are very, you know, it's all math. Regimented layup here. I'm going to two shot this because it's, that's the math. You know what I mean? That's the bat. I'm going to end up with less strokes.
Starting point is 00:17:06 and that's how you win over the course of 18 holes. Right. A stroke here and there. If you want to put three strokes between you and the next guy, you got to take some chances. Yeah, but that's going to, one day that's going to work. And then the next week you're going to be in 42nd place. And then the next week you might win. 11 strokes behind because you keep taking the same fucking chance, tin cup.
Starting point is 00:17:24 And that's what they did. They said he prioritized kind of more improbable spectacular shots over, you know, stroke savings and things like that. He was almost like it was fun. You know what I mean? Like he's doing it for the fun of it. Yeah, almost like he's got enough money and he doesn't care. Yeah, like he's got fuck you money, but he doesn't at all. He's just trying to make it.
Starting point is 00:17:45 But that's his style. You know what I mean? Like a... I like it. That's fun. That's fun. That's why people like John Daly and shit like that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:52 He might get, he might, you know, end up not qualifying. But he also might hit crazy shots you've never seen before. You might need enough money to where he has to get cameos and Adam Sandler move. Yeah. Or he wins. He doesn't care. And sell Donnie Munsell lemonade with vodka in it that he gives to us at a comedy club. That's just sit at a table.
Starting point is 00:18:13 Paul, Johnny Munsell tells him about this shit. Yeah, tells him about, there's these guys that make fun of you and it's really funny. Anyway, thank you for doing that, Donnie.
Starting point is 00:18:23 That was cool. You're the best. Yeah. So he apparently, too, he's not, he's of the younger generation of, you know, I've seen Happy Gilmore, and I'm not going to, I'm not going to be stuff.
Starting point is 00:18:35 I'm not an old man. I'm a young golfer. The beer helmet guy's on my grain. Yeah. Somebody that knew him said, as a teacher, this is his golf teacher, you care for all your students. But boy, I loved Peeky because so many golfers, they're all sort of the same. Peaky, he was in his own self, treated everyone great, the most lovable guy.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Some of the kids coming up act like golf is a job and shut people out. Peeky never let golf get in the way of humanity. Okay. So for him it was fun. He was having a good time with it. Yeah. He loves it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:08 He was dominating tournaments as a, like an early as a teenager, 14-year-old and things like that. He's representing Australia and junior team competitions. Wow. At 17, he competed as an amateur in the Australian Open. And a year later, he finished 10th at the PGA Tour Australia's W-A Open. What's that? Western, some shit.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Western Australia? Something. Yeah, despite these triumphs, though, he struggled with golf. He seems like he would have had more fun being on a football team. Yeah? Yeah, because this guy doesn't have, like, the solitude of it is tough for him. He doesn't like just walking around with his club and being stoic and all that kind of shit. So he plays crazy shit.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Yeah. Crazy shots, because he's looking for people around. It feels like he wants to go over and headbutt a teammate, though, when something good happens. You know what I'm saying? Like, it seems like he hits a good shot. months to go over and go yeah you know fuck yeah let's just spike it yeah slam helmets together and fucking talk shit and all that kind of thing but it's not really like that um now the other problem is he at this country club lakelands where he belongs and he's a golfer here there aren't a ton
Starting point is 00:20:23 of really good kid golfers so i can't imagine there are so you're kind of alone when you're always hanging out with old men playing golf and by old men when you're a teenager anyone over 32 is old. So, you know, some 36-year-old accountant. That's an old man. It's an old man. There's an old man to be around. No fun.
Starting point is 00:20:42 So he had some depression as well during all this time. But he didn't have a lot of socializing with his peers either. That's not going to help. What do you want on the drink? Well, we'll get to it here. All right. And he says also that he, his demeanor was very much more adult-like at a younger age because he was with adults all the time. And on the golf course, you can't act like a kid.
Starting point is 00:21:06 No, they want you to leave. Yeah, you have to act like an adult if you're going to play on the course. So he's got a different demeanor than a lot of the other kids. And he said that made him a target for bullies at school. It made him people would pick on him. It got so bad that his father had to walk him home from school because people would beat the shit out of him otherwise and pick on him and, you know, take things from him, whatever. Is he a little guy?
Starting point is 00:21:30 Not really. No. Not a tiny guy or anything, but I guess it just doesn't matter. I guess if there's enough guys picking on you, your size don't really. It doesn't matter at that point. He said, though, eventually he retaliated against the main person who was fucking with him, and then people stopped teasing him. But he still stayed depressed, though. So he's into golf, which is a solitary thing, which is kind of bad for depressive people.
Starting point is 00:21:55 Not the best for depressive people. You know, that kind of shit here. his coach, as Richie Smith, that's the quote that we got earlier, that said he was fun and all that kind of shit. He just said he was a lovable guy. So during his teenage years here, he started also, you know, he wanted to hang out with kids his own age. But he couldn't find golf kids to hang out with. So he started hanging out with kids around the neighborhood and stuff like that. And he liked seeing like, you know, roving gang.
Starting point is 00:22:29 of teenagers that hung out together. Not organized gangs, but... Sure. Just, you know. He liked that they were like, you know, they had a crew and they were, you know, they would plan... Showed a young brother love, if you will. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:22:43 So he said, this is way different than golf. Yeah. Way different than golf. And so he would hang out with, you know, people and hang out with these kids and hang out in a basement or a garage. I don't know if they have basements in Australia, but garages they talk about over here. And he said that... he wanted to be involved with these kids in their little kind of neighborhood gangs.
Starting point is 00:23:06 And they told him, quote, enjoy being part of the clubhouse furniture. You're not going to be a part of this. You do golf and shit. Enjoy that we're letting you hang out with us, basically. And the group that he finds is a motorcycle gang. What? Yes, that's what I mean. When I said Australian golfer, would you think, well, obviously, he's probably a motorcycle gang member, obviously.
Starting point is 00:23:28 You know, that's what most golfers are. Is it a world famous one? I don't, I've never heard of them. I mean, but how many Australian gangs have you heard of? We're in America. This is where the gangs are. Like, if you, you know what I'm saying? This is like saying, I'm in the NBA.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Do you hear about that one kid who plays on the playground over there? No, I haven't because I'm in the NBA. I haven't heard about that. We're the NBA of gangs. There's a bunch of people playing in school yards and shit all over the world, but let's be realistic. Well, when I say world famous, I mean, like, is it a chapter of like a world famous, like Mongols? They're called the rebels. Disciples.
Starting point is 00:24:04 The rebels. All right. That seems pretty. That seems rather generic. Yeah. I think that's a very Australian-centric one. Yeah. We're the rebels, mate.
Starting point is 00:24:12 That sounds real generic. Boy, rebels. Yep. We don't do what they do, I? We're rebels, ah? They ride cars. We ride motorcycles. Look at us.
Starting point is 00:24:23 We ride the motor. We ride the motor. a cunt. So they, it's the Rebels Constitution. I like that they have paperwork and everything. What? American gangs tend to askew paperwork. They don't really. It tend to not file anything.
Starting point is 00:24:41 But they describe themselves as a non-profit organization devoted to Harley Davidson enthusiasts who embrace freedom, counterculture values, and brotherhood. You know, a motorcycle gang. that's a motorcycle gang what you just described. So what you're saying is you guys are motorcycle gangs?
Starting point is 00:25:04 I think that's what they're saying. I think it's possibly a motorcycle gang. You guys are a bunch of guys that ride Harleys together. Is that what you say? And you all wear like the same jacket with the name on it. That's a motorcycle gang. Or as they call it an Australia, a nonprofit. We're going to start calling all of the gangs.
Starting point is 00:25:23 And that's what the Bloods and the Crips are just nonprofit organizations. of varying color schemes that, you know, tend to have disagreements from time to time over corporate matters. A nonprofit by definition of America is an organization that invests all profits back into the organization. Therefore, every fucking gang is a nonprofit, right? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it seems like it. But the Australian authorities implicated several of its members in a lot of criminal activity, including drug trafficking and weapons distribution and assaults, you know, because they're a biker gang.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Right. But a nonprofit one. Yeah. Say, listen, guys, this is for charity. What are we talking about here? That's not a profit deal. No, not a profit did two jerk references so far. Not bad.
Starting point is 00:26:11 Look at us and see if we can get three. We're a non-profit deal, you see. We get no profit. I get it. It's a non-profit deal. Oh, I see. Spend a buck and win some crap. Let's go.
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Starting point is 00:28:20 I think it's just Australian. Yeah. I think it's just Australian. It was the largest club in the country at the time. Yeah, it was founded by Clint Jax in Brisbane, Queensland. So, yeah. Yeah. Some guy named Clint founded it.
Starting point is 00:28:34 It's definitely just a... Jack? Jacks. Oh, boy. J-A-C-S. Jacks. Good Lord. It was originally called the Confederates.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Oh. They changed to the rebels. Get it? Rebels Confederates. Well, both suck. Yes, they're the same thing. The insignia was, guess what it was, Jimmy. Is it stars and bars, James?
Starting point is 00:28:56 It's a Confederate flag. It's good to see you have morons over there, too. That's pretty good. You guys got dip shit celebrating that, huh? That's pretty funny, yeah. It's not just like North Carolina flea markets that are covered in that shit. It's Australian. Not some backward 72 Chevy with that bullshit flying out of the bed of it.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Oh, God, it drives me nuts when I see that. It drives me nuts when I see it in New York. York. I'm like, what are you doing? What's wrong with you? Hey, stupid. Guess what? You fucking idiot. You are far too north for that. Yeah, they don't like you and you're flying their flag. Who's the moron, you fucking dummy? That was with a cap wearing a skull wearing a hat on it and a 1% patch in the center. Okay. So that's, it's a racist thing. They're just taking this. Well, the 1% is, that's all those motorcycle gangs or the, you know, all that shit.
Starting point is 00:29:54 But they're running it as like a racist thing. Is that what their feet? Aren't all motorcycle gangs inherently kind of that way? They're certainly a tinge of it. They don't seem like bastions of tolerance. Not necessarily. I've never seen a group of them at the Grand Marshal of a Pride March. That's what I mean.
Starting point is 00:30:15 And I'm not speaking out of fucking turn here. We both lived in Arizona. and we've seen in Northern Phoenix, for Christ's sake, which is, was the like Hell's Angels epistence of a long time. I mean, I've ridden with a whole bunch of them. My dad's a biker, brothers a biker, all their friends. Like, I mean, I understand this stuff. And they're not like that.
Starting point is 00:30:36 They're not in gangs. People with gangs tend to be a little more. I've met a lot of African-American fellas that rode with them. Yes. And I met a lot of Mexican guys that rode with them. But I've. That's called self-loathing. It was a lot of confusion.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Anytime I rode with them, where I was like, I don't get it, but they're with me? I don't know. It's so strange. Yeah, it's a strange thing. I'm with them, I guess is what it is. I don't know. I just didn't understand. I was like, this seems kind of weird, doesn't it?
Starting point is 00:31:04 I know there's mixed gangs too like that, but not a lot. It's, I mean, there's definitely a quota, maybe. Yeah. Well, it feels like there's kind of a reason that they organize. Yeah, that's part of it. So the Australian government and law enforcement consider the rebels to be a criminal organization, but the club claims to just be a group of motorcycle enthusiasts with no criminal activities. Exactly the same thing that Sonny and his boys would say. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:31:31 That's exactly. We just like riding bikes guys. We just ride bikes together. What the guys do on their own time? I can't. What fuck am I supposed to do with that? That's up to them. But, you know, after the former national president who was a Maltese boxer, was stranded in Malta after a.
Starting point is 00:31:47 after a visit in 2014. It was presumed that Damien Vela, who was permitted to return to the country, took the role of national president, and then his visa was canceled, and he was sent back to Malta also. Okay. It's weird to say, Maltese.
Starting point is 00:32:03 I get that that's a country, and I get that those people are called out, but you've never heard it in reference to a person, as my point. Well, we just did, but outside of that, it's usually. Yeah, I know, but that was the first time in my life. Some sort of dog or something. It's always a dog.
Starting point is 00:32:16 It's always a dog. Every time. I just pictured these people as dogs, as a matter of fact. Yeah, just adorable dogs. Adorable dogs with Confederate flag fucking jackets and riding a motorcycle. Go, hey, that's less adorable. Lots of long hair. The same thing.
Starting point is 00:32:30 That's lots adorable. Its Constitution states that it's a nonprofit organization, which promotes the riding of Harley Davidson's. Members are only permitted to join the club once they once and never to join another motorcycle club. Also, that's part of their rule. That sounds like a gag. what a gang is. There's no club that says now that you're
Starting point is 00:32:51 now that James you're a frequent flyer with Delta, you can't be a frequent flyer with American. Well, you have to cancel it or else. American. Or else we're going to rumble with United and their aged flight crew. We're going to pull blades.
Starting point is 00:33:04 There's 65 year old flight attendants and us are all going to fucking throw down. United is full of those. An extended stay that we all get a discount. Yeah, we've showed up in a shuttle to from the airport too. Yeah, that sounds like a religion. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:33:22 A religion. Forsaking all other shit. It's the same thing, which are all the same to me. So in November of 2000, police raided the Rebels Clubhouse in New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia, and seized drugs, firearms, and even a crocodile. What? You can't ask us not to make fun of you over there. Your gangs just have crocodiles hanging around. A weapon.
Starting point is 00:33:48 That's crazy. You guys are... They were feeding people to that, right? Also, they were betting on a kangaroo boxing match at the time as well. That was what they found. That's what they busted. How much eucalyptus is koala. Yeah, exactly how much.
Starting point is 00:34:05 So, yeah, a number of people related to the gang were arrested on charges relating to items seized. Two rebel associates were arrested for the murder of a bandito's member. which that's an American gang. That's a world game. Ross Brand, after their clubhouse was raided in November 16, 2008, Brand was shot dead outside the Bandito's clubhouse in Breakwater, Victoria, in October of 2008. In April of 2009, there was a series of raids across Australia that ended in 27 members of the rebels being arrested on a number of charges, a number of drug charges. Sure.
Starting point is 00:34:43 Yeah, this is including meth. Meth, heroin, cocaine. They were all seized and firearms and cash and stolen goods and stolen vehicles. You know, like an organized gang. Yeah. Like organized crime. Well, we sold them all at a loss wholesale. We were doing it for the kids.
Starting point is 00:35:01 Nonprofit. We were selling them off to families and needs at a loss, guys. This is what we're doing. I don't know what you're talking about here. What's the problem? I don't understand this. This is crazy. a rebels member named Eden Smajavich, Schmajevich.
Starting point is 00:35:17 He's a Bosnian refugee and a rebels member. He was shot dead at the MacArthur Auto Center in Campbelltown, New South Wales. His funeral was attended by over 300 rebels as well at that time. In 2009 in May, Michael Paul Falzon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking of methamphetamine. which he had been producing in, you know, McKay and Rockhampton and used the rebels to transport and sell it throughout Queensland and South Australia. So, you know, it's a game. They're really doing everything.
Starting point is 00:35:54 Yeah. The rebels started getting into a conflict when a rock machine, that's another motorcycle gang, rock machine. What? That's a terrible name. I don't know. I don't even know what that means. I don't either.
Starting point is 00:36:10 Rock machine, chat. was established in the Perth suburb of Maury in 2009. And then Rock Machine Motorcycle Club Canadian Leader, his name is Critical J. He's the guy they kicked out of the insane clown posse in the beginning. He was tossed. He was like Violent better than Critical. I'm sorry. Rock Machine is the name of the leader's failed garage band, and he just repurposed.
Starting point is 00:36:41 the name. He's like, it's rock machine, guys. I swear it's cool. We'll work on the name, but I'll join your gang. We'll maybe we can talk about that during one of our meetings. We'll work on the name. Let's head to the bar. Yeah, let's do that. He's like, it's rock machine guys and it's stay in rock machine. Rock machine had arrived
Starting point is 00:36:57 in Australia during 2008. At the time, I guess they had been given permission for a nomads chapter to be formed at that point. And there was a defection of rebels members to the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club, and that sparked a little war.
Starting point is 00:37:16 A little war here. I guess when the rock machine settled in Perth in 2009, there was, the media was saying there was a turf war breaking out, and there was fire bombings, assaults, and assassination attempts, and all sorts of shit. The rebels president, Nick Martin, survived being shot. Wow. He was later shot dead in 2020.
Starting point is 00:37:38 Don't get me wrong. Oh, don't worry. But at the time, in 2000, 11, he survived it. So, you know. Wow. Oh, boy. April of 2012,
Starting point is 00:37:47 Anthony Parrish, who is a Gypsy Joker motorcycle club member. That's an American club. That's not bad. Absolutely. Yeah. They've been around forever, the gypsy jokers. Fuck, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:58 If you read Hells Angels, the Hunter Thompson book, the Gypsy Jokers were one of the big... California. California. I mean, I don't know if they were other places, but they were... It was, you know, that was one of the main
Starting point is 00:38:08 California clubs, Els Angels, Gypsy Jokers, and slaves. There was a bunch of different ones. The Jopsy Joker sounds fucking dope. I like that one. Most of them kind of ended up being folded into the Hells Angels. They took over everything in California. But the Gypsy Jokers, they've been out around forever since the 60s.
Starting point is 00:38:26 So anyway, this Anthony Parrish, his brother Andrew, who was a Rebels Motorcycle Club member, and this guy named Matthew Lawton, were sentenced to 18, 9, and 15 years imprisonment for the homicide of convicted Sydney drug trafficker, Terry Falcons. as well as firearms and drug dealing offenses. So they're shooting rivals who are in the way of their business. And that's two brothers from separate motorcycle clubs. So it's like you could almost call that like a they need a RICO act over here. They could have gotten everybody in everything all in jail at the same time. And this is where a teenage golfer chooses to spend his time.
Starting point is 00:39:08 This is where a teenage country club guy. He's been hanging around the country club since he was eight. Pops in his striped pink eyes on. And his nice lacoste shirt. Yeah. That's why you don't hear about a lot of golfers and gangs, really, because they're in a separate place. Because white, Buma shorts don't fit in. No.
Starting point is 00:39:28 And they're never like, hey, be careful. The sand trap in the 10th hole, there's gangs that hang out by the trees there. So be careful. That never happens in a golf course. Yeah. You don't run into these people. The 12th green is slanted to the right. And if you go all the way down there and the ball rolls, you'll roll right into the Rebels Clubhouse.
Starting point is 00:39:47 Right into the Rebels Clubhouse and they will sell you meth. Be careful. There's a crocodile, by the way. So be careful about that. You'll either become a member or fed to a crocodile. One or the other. You pick. So January 2011, the New Zealand police announced that the rebels were attempting to set up a New Zealand chapter.
Starting point is 00:40:06 And the government said that this was not welcome. They did not want this. Oh, no? No, thank you. Thank you for putting out that press release. That's it. So they began deporting Australian Rebels members back to Australia. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:20 Despite that, they said many members wearing Rebels patches have been spotted throughout the North Island of New Zealand. And it's believed that they now have a permanent presence in the county. Sounds like it. Yeah, or in the country, I should say. 2009, 2010, Ryan Peek. Okay. Now, we've talked about the world that he's kind of dipping a toe into here. It's not good.
Starting point is 00:40:41 Seems crazy. He became one of the top junior golfers in Australia very quickly. In 2009, 2010, so he's Christ, he's 16, 17. Holy shit. He won the West Australia Junior Championship, the Tasmanian Junior Open, and the Handa Junior Masters, and finished as a runner-up in events like the South Australian Junior Masters. So, not bad. 2010 is when he represented Australia in the Boys Division of the Trans Tasman Cup in Australia won and that same year is when he made the cut as an amateur at the Australian Open as well.
Starting point is 00:41:24 18 is when he tied for 10th at the PGA Tour of Australia's Western Australia Open, which was against all pros. You know, this was the tour and he's 10th. He was named Junior Golfer of the Year in 2010 after winning. the Junior National Championship. Shit. Not bad. 2010, he won the Handa Junior Masters
Starting point is 00:41:46 and made the cut of the Australian Open and the PGA Tour of Australia. 2011, he tied for first at the Kurnia Sojana Amateur Championship in May 2011. That was then. And then he lost in a playoff to Gavin Green
Starting point is 00:42:04 and he finished tied 10th at the Western Australian Open. He's doing really good here. He's doing really well. But he's also living another life as well. Sounds like it, yeah. He is. So let's let him talk about it here.
Starting point is 00:42:18 Let's let him tell us about his own circumstances. Because what do we know, God damn? We're not an Australian teenage golfer dabbling in a motorcycle gang world. I've never seen an illegal crocodile. I've never seen one once in my life. Never even heard of that. So let's see.
Starting point is 00:42:34 I've heard of Italians having lions and shit, but not that. Let's see. In their own words, quote, I wasn't letting anyone in the golf scene understand what scene I was into on the outside. I wouldn't even go out with my parents because I didn't know who I was going to bump into. That's when it all became so tiring. I just lived two lives, you know? He's got this country club life. And then outside of that, it's totally different. So he's afraid to be out with his parents because if somebody sees him. Oh, they're going to be like, hey, peeky. And they're going to come up with some guy with a Confederate flag fucking motorcycle gang patch on. And his dad's going to go, who the fuck is this asshole you're hanging out with? What are you around?
Starting point is 00:43:17 Yep. So that's a lot. He turned pro at age 19, 2012. Yeah. And this was based on the fact that money, money, money. He just wanted to make money. And it's like, if I'm golfing every day anyway, might as well make some money. And it ended up basically ruining his love of a vacation.
Starting point is 00:43:36 game being on the pro tour. Once it's a job, it's different. Yeah. Yeah. It's different. It is. That goes for anybody. Every fucking comedian who is on the road 40 weeks a year and they're like, it's not a job. This is, I'm like, you're full of shit. If I pinned you down and put you on a fucking polygraph, you'd say you want to kill yourself
Starting point is 00:43:56 three times a month at the very fucking minimum. Are you kidding me? You're fucking miserable and you know it. If it's not three times a month, it's certainly three times a month. It's certainly three times in a weekend at least once a month. Yeah. Yeah. No one goes to live in Toledo for four days to do a bunch of shitty comedy club gigs.
Starting point is 00:44:16 And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, I love it. No, you don't. This is why I did this. Yeah, no, no, no, no. You hate it. You hate the travel and you hate the shitty hotel or the condo comedy condo. You know the people in Toledo or fucking morons and you have to dumb your shit down for not saying Toledo, but for any crowd. I hated those people
Starting point is 00:44:35 They were fucking idiots Well, and then every dime you make Every time you see the dollar figure That you could make for this weekend Even if you make that money You gotta start thinking about all the money That has to come out of it Right out of the gate you start deducting money
Starting point is 00:44:50 And your check fucking disappears so quick And that's that So that's the same thing I always hear that and I'm like get the fuck I just want to sit the like Dude if it was three in the morning And you were shit faced And we were having a real conversation
Starting point is 00:45:03 you would not tell me how much you love being on the road 40 weeks a year because it sucks a dick. Unless you're like a sex addict, one of those guys. Or there's that. If you're an alcoholic or a sex addict, you'll love it because you can do whatever you want. There's no one to tell you not to. On the road, achieving higher than you believe you deserve, then you fucking love it because you're like, this is so great. I don't deserve any of this, but I'm not telling anybody. And at the same time, you go back to your room and want to kill yourself with your imposter syndrome.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Because you're still in a shitthole that you don't want to be. Exactly. So it's fucking horrible. And I think that's the only comics that truly enjoy it is because they're addicts of some kind. Yeah. The road drugs, booze or women. And people will facilitate you on the road. They won't fucking, they won't tell you what are you doing that you need to drive the kids to school. They'll say, I'll get you. Yeah. The bartender will get you some coke and tell you how great you are instead. So it's different. Or there's that too. You're addicted to something that it is the road because the ego stroke. is another thing that can... That's another thing. Fuck, man.
Starting point is 00:46:07 How nice is it sometimes to go out to a room when we're on the road and we... It honestly resets everything when we see the crowd and they are so excited to see us. That makes the whole bullshit worth it. It's true. It's true. But we're not on the road 40 weeks a year. And it's not necessarily the ego stroke of the crowd. It's the crowd being there and enjoying the show.
Starting point is 00:46:27 That feels so good. It's great. I don't think, though, most comics have the same road experience we have. You're probably right. Because the bulk of traveling comedic, you can think about the very famous ones. And yeah, they have their crowd. The people are super, yeah, they travel luxuriously. They stay in nice places.
Starting point is 00:46:45 The people are there to see them. So they like them. Huge arena. So there's an enormous paycheck. There's a big paycheck at the end of it. But it's, and they're taking their friends with them to open. Most comics, the 97% of traveling comedians out there are going. No one knows who the fuck they are when they go on stage.
Starting point is 00:47:03 They got, somebody got free tickets to the comedy club because they were paper in the room. And the comedy club is a, is a fucking pun on a joke or a fruit. Yeah. It's something about laughing. Yeah, some fucking bullshit. And it used to be, you know, something else. It used to be, you know, a Texas roadhouse like we were talking about earlier. And they moved changing in a comedy club.
Starting point is 00:47:25 And it's weird. Or it's actually a comedy club in the back of a Texas Roadhouse. Okay. That's a possibility, too. And you didn't know that when you signed up for the gig. And they didn't know that when they bought the coupon. Exactly. And we go out, I mean, we have like eight weekends a year, basically, that we go out.
Starting point is 00:47:41 So for us, it's like, oh, we can, we go out to a nice dinner the night before and we have a good time. Then everyone that bought a ticket's there to see us, so they're excited when we're there. That's, who can complain about that? That's fine. I mean, I can still complain about it. Don't get me wrong. It's the best of everybody. Even these guys that have these arena shows that are selling out and making tons and tons of money, there's so much support.
Starting point is 00:48:02 that they have to pay for that goes along with that. Their check dwindles down pretty fucking small. And they're all flying private planes and everything else. Right. All this fucking overhead for this bullshit that they're doing. It's crazy. So anyway, Ryan, as we were saying, is back to that. Now that it's professional, it's not that fun anymore for him.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Yeah. And he has shit practice habits still. And in the pros, these guys, these are serious people. They have family. to support. Yeah. This is different. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:48:35 This is why you don't put, you know, 17-year-olds in the NFL because they'll get murdered by guys who have four kids to support. You're not taking my fucking job. My mom's got a mortgage and I pay. And I pay. That's what a lot of it is. I'm supporting 12 fucking people over here. I will kill you, teenager.
Starting point is 00:48:50 And so these guys are fucking serious. This is their livelihood. This is how they pay their mortgages. This is how their kids go to private schools and shit. This is their everything. So, you know, they want to be able to go from hooters. to Hooters enough fucking sex
Starting point is 00:49:04 with any waitress they want here. So, this guy's habits do not translate well in the professional ranks, put it that way.
Starting point is 00:49:13 He survived the cut on mini tours of Australia, but he never really did well in a in tournaments or anything like that. He's doing badly.
Starting point is 00:49:24 His depression gets worse. Oh, boy. And that gets worse as he starts not playing as well, too. That'll put you in a
Starting point is 00:49:31 funk also and you know that's that's kind of what it is uh he was at the uh austral australia tour cue school and he called it an experience uh he described it as the loneliest week of my existence because he failed to make the cut at the victorious peninsula golf club um he came home to western australia and said that he drove to the practice facility and stayed in his vehicle for 30 minutes he said he was psychologically in case of stepping onto the grounds and golfing. He was just too depressed. He couldn't do it.
Starting point is 00:50:06 Couldn't go out there and pick up a club and swing it. When he finally said he's finally got the strength together to pop the trunk, he said he realized that his clubs were missing. They weren't in the trunk. And in his haze of his depression, he couldn't remember even where he left them. So he didn't even have the gloves.
Starting point is 00:50:24 He doesn't even know where they are. Doesn't even know. So now he said that's when I knew it was over for me in golf, basically. Over? It's over. He said, that's what I knew I was fucked because I didn't even care where my clubs were. Like, what am I doing? You can't compete if that's what you're doing. Everyone else knows where their clubs are. You know, I think everyone else on the tour is very aware where their clubs are. I don't even play. I haven't played in six months. I know where both my sets of clubs are.
Starting point is 00:50:50 Yeah, yeah, exactly. So his failure on this and his parents are very disappointed all. His coaches, everybody that he was like this, you know, going to be great and had put all these, this time. time and effort into him, and now he's just doesn't want to golf. No, he started drinking a lot. He's once kind of thin and athletic, about 200 pounds, you know, a good strong guy. He ballooned closer to the 300 pound mark.
Starting point is 00:51:17 That's a lot of booze. That is an Australian amount of booze right there. You betcha. It's funny, they drink over there, but they're not fat. It's a weird thing. Well, there's a group that is, but... A group, but they're not known as fat like us. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:51:30 Yeah, Australians are, I thought of as a stult group. We have teetototelers here that are... That are giant. Huge fat people. Behemates. Go to church six times a week. They drive suburbans, for Christ's saying.
Starting point is 00:51:42 Giant fat fucks. There, at least there's a... If you're that fat over there, they're like, man, you must be an alcoholic. Pretty bad. Oh, I, mate. Oh, my. Jesus. I, God.
Starting point is 00:51:53 So that's what he's doing, and he's now he's doing manual labor jobs. He's working in mines. What? In the mines. The mines, Jimmy. How old is he? 19? Christ.
Starting point is 00:52:05 Yeah, early 20. Wow. Basically. He's doing all laying bricks, doing plastering on walls, mixing concrete, manual labor job. He was the junior golfer of the year. Yeah, he's a guy who should be at least making a half decent living on the tour. And the only thing that became something that he could look forward to was the rebels.
Starting point is 00:52:29 A motorcycle ride. Yep. And at 21, finally they said, well, the people in the rebels were actually trying to look out for him, it seems like. They told him, you're not being a member. You have a thing. Go do that thing. You've got a career. You can make money.
Starting point is 00:52:43 Go do that thing. But once he's a fat piece of shit who's putting up drywall and not golfing, it doesn't know his clubs are. You're right now, boy. Now you're right in our wheelhouse at this point. You're right, cunt now, rebel. That's right. So they let him in. He got patched in, full patch member.
Starting point is 00:53:04 Yeah. And he said, where I was at that stage of my life, it was the only thing that brought me comfort. I felt like I belonged. That's it. He said there was a stigma around the gang. He doesn't defend every action in the club's history, but he says that it's the Hollywood portrayal of biker gangs and stuff is way blown out of proportion. Is it? They're just a cuddly bunch of guys.
Starting point is 00:53:29 Every once in a while, someone might do something crazy, but generally, boy, they're just a bunch of teddy bears. No. Blown out of proportion. Absolutely not true, by the way. Absolutely. I know plenty about biker gangs. Not true. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:42 It's of anything, it's glorified in a way different way. Yeah. It's way cummier than portrayed. I watched a man's head get stomped in at the steel horse saloon. I think they portray them pretty accurate. It's, they portray them. They portray them nicer. They portray, to me, biker gangs and movies are portrayed like cowboy.
Starting point is 00:53:59 are portrayed in movies. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, they're outlaws, but they have this nobility to them at all. Bullshit. We did bonus episodes on that, too. The Cowboys were terrible criminal scumbags. Yeah. They were the biker gangs of their time.
Starting point is 00:54:15 Cowboys is a denigrate, what's the word I'm looking at? It's a bad name. It was, yeah, it's disparaging. It's derogatory. Yeah, disparaging. It's a bad name. It's not meant to be, oh, this guy's cool. No, it's bad.
Starting point is 00:54:28 The Cowboys are piece of shit. movies. In reality, if you said someone's a cowboy, they were like, where's that piece of shit at? That meant he's a thief and a scumbag and a rapist and all that kind of thing. And that's kind of what they do. Yeah. And that's kind of what they do in, to me, with biker gangs and movies is they glorify them in terms of, you know, there's some bad stuff, but, you know. But they stick together. They stick together. Yeah, it's kind of like that. Whereas I don't think they do the same with when you got like bloods and bloods and shit. They make it look way more violent. I assure you that if there is some sort of heat on you, they will rat on you before they let that heat get to your group.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Fuck, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And if you don't think they're very violent, look up the footage of Vegas and Laughlin. Literally hundreds of guys fighting and shooting and stabbing each other at the same time. And with insanity. Crazy weapons. Like, it's like the scene from from.
Starting point is 00:55:27 It's like fucking 300 is what it is. It's insanity. It's like the scene from Anchorman in the parking lot where everybody's got insane. A guy's just running around with a grenade for no reason. Yeah, like don't be a menace. Somebody opened up the back of the truck and pointed a tactical nuke in there. It was ridiculous. So dumb.
Starting point is 00:55:47 That's what's going on here. But he says that he will not criticize those who sheltered him during his darkest hours. But he also says, my life had fallen into depression. I lost all self-esteem. I didn't know who I was. Lost all direction in my life. What happened?
Starting point is 00:56:04 I can't say it was just one night, one mistake. It was years of buildup. That's what it is. And two years in his rebel membership, this is November 2014. He alleges that a person in his neighborhood made a threat to the rebels. That seems reasonable.
Starting point is 00:56:24 Some guy out of his garage was like, I'll fuck up your whole gang. I don't see that happening. But Peek and his friends... Trying to sleep in here. Yeah, cut it out out there. Peek and his friends were at a barbecue when they heard the man was home. And Peek said, I will be honest with you, mate.
Starting point is 00:56:40 We went over to have a conversation to let him know if he didn't knock it off. He was going to get punches to the head. That sounds harsh, but this person lived the same lifestyle as us. Okay, it wasn't some fucking fourth grade teacher up the street, just mad. And the only way... It's not the guy that Henry Hill beat up. No, no, no, it's not that guy. Hey, what do you want, fuck?
Starting point is 00:57:00 Oh, it's not that guy. He said, and the only way you can get through this is to speak that language. So he said he and his associates approach the man's house when suddenly the garage door opened. And according to Peek, the man reached for a, quote, brown object tucked into his waistband. So he said he delivered a preemptive kick. And after which his... companions joined in the assault, one wielding a baseball bat. And here we go.
Starting point is 00:57:28 And the confrontation resulted in multiple severe injuries to the man, including fractures to both arms and skull. Yeah. The victim did not respond to interview attempts made by Golf Digest. Okay. Imagine you're an Australian man. Why don't they? You're an Australian biker.
Starting point is 00:57:51 Yeah. And you've been stomped out by another motorist. cycle gang and someone calls and says, I'd like to talk about your stomping. I'm from Golf Digest. You'd be like, what the fuck is happening right now? You answer the door in that body brace with your arms. Yeah. Like Proctor when he got that shit in his armpits.
Starting point is 00:58:10 Yeah. You're blowing into a straw to move toward the front door. Hi, I'm from Golf Digest. Good God. Fuck out of here. Now, weeks later, while working at the golf course, Ryan spotted three unmarked police cars in the parking lot and knew that they were for him. So he surrendered and he was concerned that they might have like kicked his parents door down and grading the house for him and shit. So he went
Starting point is 00:58:34 over and was like, if you're looking for me, I'll come now. In a holding cell, he encountered a police officer who he knew because the guy was a former junior golf competitor. Oh, wow. Yeah. And so the officer looked at Ryan and said, what the fuck are you doing here? Yeah, why are you here? You're supposed to be a pro golfer asshole you are so much better than all of us dummy why you here so he ends up getting you sir may fuck off five year prison sentence for that for beating a man yeah beating a man yeah that's what happens yeah that's the there's an all-on-one yeah thing and he's involved in it and that's that um he implicated no one else in the crime even though there was plenty of other people there wow he took the whole thing well yeah now he can go to prison
Starting point is 00:59:20 and hang out with the guys that are in prison in there. It's, I don't like that whole thing, too. I don't like that whole, I don't know. I don't like the whole, I think it's real pussy shit, that whole, you know, the all-on-one shit. I think that's very pussy. Oh, yeah, when you jump a man and stomp them to death? I find it very, very, and that's one of the main, like,
Starting point is 00:59:42 Hell's Angels rules is all on one. I mean, you fuck with one and everybody attacks you. Which makes, I just find that. that to be, what's the word I'm looking for? It's an intimidation tactic. Yeah, it is. It's because one on one they can't do it. That's my point.
Starting point is 00:59:59 Yeah. It's not like you've assembled the greatest team of combatants. You just said if there's 12 of us and we all have chains, we can beat up two tough guys. Yeah. And I don't want to disparage the, the, the, uh, I don't care what the fuck people do. What's the word? I don't want to disparage the community and riding group because there's a lot of people that ride, they're actually like good people. But the
Starting point is 01:00:21 problem with the riding community is that they don't that. They just welcome everyone. Yeah. Yeah. If you've got a bike, you come along. Those, those, mathematically, you're going to get a piece of shit. You're going to get a little bunch of
Starting point is 01:00:39 pieces of shit in there. You get some bad friends that way. You are. You are. Yeah, I just don't like that particular thing. It's kind of Yeah. It's just chicken shit. It's just kind of chicken shit. It's just casual. ass chicken shit. But that's their credo.
Starting point is 01:00:52 I mean, I get it. Yeah, it's fine. Of protecting your own. Here's the way I understand it. If it's against other gangs, I get it. Yeah, if there's a bunch of guys and a bunch of guys that's called a brawl and that's, I don't know, man, if you're willing to get in that, that's crazy. Or even if it's, you know, 12 of you want to beat up some two guys from some other gang,
Starting point is 01:01:12 they're in a gang. Yeah. They know what's going on here and that's all that. But like- They wore a jacket in here to intimidate people. Somebody's going to do the same to them. They understand it. That's a world they live in.
Starting point is 01:01:24 To go over try to finger somebody's girlfriend and they get mad so 12 guys stomp the guy. That's crazy. That's ridiculous to me. You guys are a bunch of pussies at that point. That's what I mean. It's that shit. That's just land pirates.
Starting point is 01:01:36 That's not cool. Exactly. That's not. Then you lose your kind of cool rebel outsider thing. You know, if Robin Hood went and robbed fucking poor people and just kept everything, He wouldn't have been considered cool. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:01:50 Or robbed from poor people and gave it to the rich. Yeah, that's considered weak and pathetic, you know. That's what I'm saying. It's just like you lose the edge of rebel coolness. Beat the shit out of the poor guy. Yeah. And then at the end was like, what do you complain about, bitch? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:07 He's giving it to Bezos. That's what's going on. So he convinced himself that prison was just the natural evolution of what he was doing. he's right he thought also he goes when I get out this is really
Starting point is 01:02:21 going to up my street cred this is good for me oh Jesus yeah which is wild he's a big fucking guy at this way
Starting point is 01:02:30 years of your life man yeah and he's in the high 200 pounds he's a big fucking guy yeah he's a rough guy in his early 20s
Starting point is 01:02:39 yeah he said also he didn't really think about prison in terms of danger because number one he's a huge guy and number two
Starting point is 01:02:46 he's in a fucking biker guy gang. So he's like, it's everyone's fine. There's plenty of protection in there. And he's here for doing rebels work, which is going to be even more so. That's right. But he said that on day one of the whole thing, he said it all fucked him up. Just the processing into the prison, that whole thing of the, you know, getting showered down and having someone to look in your asshole and all that kind of shit.
Starting point is 01:03:14 The stripping of your rights and shit. Yeah. And lift your sack and cough also is something that makes... The humiliation of... Now, not just lift your sack. Now, squat. That word alone is crazy. Squat.
Starting point is 01:03:27 Now cough. And I'm doing so many things that somebody else just told... The humiliation alone is brutal. That you wouldn't normally do. Yeah. Never. Never done any of these things. That's exactly right.
Starting point is 01:03:39 So he ended up fucking, you know, hating that part. Yeah. He was in HACIA prison, H-A-K-E-A. Hacquia, Hacquia. It's overcrowded and shitty, basically, obviously. The prison opened in June 1988, and it had 248 prisoners at first. And then it operated as a maximum security unit until 2000, when it merged with another unit and became Hacchia prison. The prison manages prisoners in custody to appear in court on remand and those who have just been sentenced.
Starting point is 01:04:12 So it's a triple A, it's a transfer station. Most newly sentenced prisoners are assessed at the prison before being placed in one of the other prisons. They do pre-sentencing reports to see your danger level, your medical needs to figure out where you're going to be put. This prison has specialist management units known as punishment units, which have been described by the state regulator as outdated and not fit for purpose. Horrible. Yeah, because of the psychological damage they inflict on inmates as well as inability of the guard. to monitor the cells. The punishment units do not have showers
Starting point is 01:04:50 and deprive inmates of several officially required amenities such as human contact. You know, what we do constantly. They actually consider it bad over there. In March 2022, an indigenous man killed himself in one of the punishment cells after his repeated calls for help from the guards were ignored. So that's where that was a recent case of that.
Starting point is 01:05:10 In 2016, units 11 and 12 of the facility were converted into a separate facility for women. So now they're connected there. A 2024 inspection conducted by the Australian Health Inspector concluded that it had one of the worst conditions in the country this prison. Excessive confinement periods, inadequate access to fresh air, single occupancy cells, housing two inmates. That's every prison in this country does that.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Restricted availability of showers and clean attire, infestation of cockroaches and rodents, conditions characterized as cruel and human. or degrading. You could copy and paste that to every time any group has looked at Maricopa County jails. Yeah. It's exactly what it is. And you can add people getting sick from spider bites they don't care about.
Starting point is 01:05:58 And sweltering heat that will mark you in your sleep. Yep. They said the facility has elevated rates of self-harm and suicide among its population. And his first week, Ryan approached a corrections officer to request a transfer to another cell. He wasn't aware of the hierarchical deference expected from inmates toward prison staff. You're supposed to kiss their ass in there, I guess. So the guy basically told him to go fuck himself. And Brian answered in kind.
Starting point is 01:06:31 Same shit. In motorcycle kind. Yep. And he said, quote, the next day I was in the shower and suddenly I had 20 officers surrounding me. They dragged me to the detention unit with nothing in the cell but a piece of paper. in a pen for the prisoner to write an apology note to the guard. Oh my God. Naked writing apology notes.
Starting point is 01:06:52 Yep. So some intimidation tactics here. Yeah. So they said many prisoners spend their first week in crisis care for suicide prevention, but he entered the general population where his bikers were here. So the guards marched him into a 16 foot square foot cinder block cell that reek like shit and you know, just was a mess.
Starting point is 01:07:18 Dinner served through a slot. He called it just a tinfoil shit something wrapped and there was some rice in there and he said the tiniest bit of chicken I'd ever seen. And the guard said, enjoy it because it's the best meal we've got this week. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 01:07:35 So that's what's going on. Here, it gets worse. It gets worse. It's going to be worse. Wait a see you get tomorrow. So there's a lot here. He's looking at this. And he said it was just looking into the shit mirror that was in his cell. And he was like, what the fuck did I do to myself here?
Starting point is 01:07:50 He said he just was sitting in there thinking, what the hell have I gotten myself into? For his first year, he refused his mother's visits to the facility as well. Yeah, don't come see this. No, he didn't want her to be in there. His father was coming either way, though. Oh. He said, I could see the disappointment in his eyes, just wondering how his son went from a golfer to this. Right.
Starting point is 01:08:11 And yeah, he said he committed himself to trying to do something better upon release, he said. He started disciplining himself physically and losing the fucking weight that he had gained. Yeah. Started exercising in there. And, you know, he also pursued studies for electrical certification to be an electrician. Oh, good word. He's like, when I get out of here, I got to have something to do other than manual labor. That's just going to leave me plenty of time for this other bullshit.
Starting point is 01:08:40 Yeah. He also offered crude golf instruction to fellow inmates in their limited time outdoors. He wrote letters of apology, including one to his old coach, Richie Smith, expressing remorse for fucking everything up and pissing away his talent. He said that his focus was on stacking days together until they became weeks and weeks until they became months and, you know, all that kind of shit. In 2017, two and a half years into a sentence, the prison televisions broadcast Cameron Smith, who was his partner in one of those tours they did there, winning the Australian PGA championship.
Starting point is 01:09:21 He was like, fuck. Oh, that should be me. I was the good one of our duo too, and now he's, well, fuck. So they said that some of the inmates discovered that that was his friend and former teammate, so they broke his balls about his career. I'm going to get out there and golf when he get out.
Starting point is 01:09:37 And he said, yeah, right. Fucking, I'm going to go out and join the tour. Right. He said he'd play socially maybe, but he said, it's over for me as a pro. Let's be realistic here. Then he gets a unexpected letter containing Richie Smith's name and contact information. That's all it had on it. Oh.
Starting point is 01:09:56 His old coach. He said, I've made some crappy phone calls in my life, but this was the most nervous I've ever been. He's one of the best coaches in the world. and I'm just some bikey in jail. But as soon as I heard his voice, I was calm. He's the most chilled out person in the world. And then the coach, Richie, says, I had lost touch with Peeke after he left golf
Starting point is 01:10:16 and didn't know what happened to him. That's not the person I knew. I called because I was genuinely worried about him. He's a good kid. He just fucked up. So they started speaking regularly. And Ryan, you know, was started talking about, you know,
Starting point is 01:10:31 talking about their lives. And he was talking about that he's learning. a trade so he has something to do when he gets out. Sure. And his old coach said, well, this is what Richie said, quote, I said, what about giving golf another go? I felt like the guy needed something to look forward to, something where he could be his best self.
Starting point is 01:10:49 And Ryan said, yeah, that's all fine and everything, but I also have the rebels to deal with as well. I don't know if I'm allowed to really get into all that. So basically, he felt that if he wanted to get out of the rebels, he knew. knew some guys in the upper management here of the rebels. Okay. You know, maybe the HR supervisor, you know, traveling secretary, people like that, you know, that you could. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:16 I know a VP. I know. I know how it goes. So he said that he thought maybe he could get backing from them to be able to kind of get out of this gang to go be a golfer. Maybe they'd help him do this because it's not like he's just getting out. There's a reason for it. So, but he knew that there were other people that in the gang that would need to be convinced that that wouldn't be so supportive of him, basically. So he said that basically he's got this coach interested and he said the guy's such a good coach.
Starting point is 01:11:48 So if he said, if this guy thinks I can still do it, maybe I can still do it. So I got to try. Maybe I can. So we requested a formal meeting with the rebels leadership inside the prison. Oh, wow. And Ryan said, quote, I said, I know this sounds stupid. But this coach teaches me teaches some of the top rank golfers in the world and he thinks I can still make it as a professional and I want to take this path. That's what he said. So Ryan said I was worried because I didn't want them to think I was disloyal, but I felt like I owed it to all the people around me and myself to try. He said that shockingly everybody was happy for him. All the motorcycle guys were happy. Yeah, he said he never got so many handshakes and hugs at one time. Everybody said they were proud of him. Yeah. And. And, you know, he said, And it's weird.
Starting point is 01:12:35 He said the fact that he was younger might have helped him out. The fact that they've known him since he was a teenager might have helped him out. The fact that he was involved with golf before he even came with them, all of that. Well, there may be this other part. And look, I could be being pretty fucking cruel right now. But it feels like maybe they're thinking that, look, if he does have the talent and he gets in and gets back on tour. That's a guy that we know very well, and they like to move a lot of coke through there.
Starting point is 01:13:10 Hey, we've seen those country clubs. Perhaps. We've known cartel guys that have asked comedians to move shit because they go between L.A. and Phoenix a lot. So, I mean, that's, that's a thing. It's definitely possible. They're like, this is great. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:13:24 And it's also possible. Tiger Woods blew a zero zero zero, James. He was on something, though. He's on pills, I think. That's the point. That's my, I think, allegedly. Well, I mean, he got a DUI, so he's being accused of DUI at this moment. Anyone who's had as many surgeries as that guy has?
Starting point is 01:13:42 Yeah. Well, and he just had one. That's what I'm saying. He's probably... Six months ago? Just had one. And he's had so many. His knees and back are so fucked up, man.
Starting point is 01:13:52 Just had one. Yeah, that's not good. Just had surgery. But I think you might get somebody yacht in here because, I mean, even though they're in a motorcycle gang, there are guys who are actual human beings. and there is that too. It might take a liking to him and say, yeah, we want this guy to fucking go do something. Do you see what we do?
Starting point is 01:14:10 We're all destined for prison. You've gotten a taste of what it's like and you hate it. Go back to golf. There's a reason why they didn't want him trying to be in the gang at first. You're not one of us. Be happy you're part of the furniture. You don't need this essentially. We needed this.
Starting point is 01:14:22 That's why we're here. You don't need this. It's all we got. Yeah. So, Ryan said it's a tough life being a bikeie. It's funny that a bikeie would never work here. No, that sounds so... They'd quit tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:14:35 Yeah. Hey, bikies. That sounds so like... Did you guys get your leather in the mail? Good God. I have an iron if in case anyone needs their patches done. Like, it's, that's... You can't be a bikey.
Starting point is 01:14:51 He said... I can sew. I'm a sower. I'll stitch him on. You, sir, are white trash. I'm sorry, but now. Did you guys get tassels? I got tassels.
Starting point is 01:15:02 I got tassels on my. I thought it looked more festive. And when we're riding, the wind is going to blow them and it's going to look just like we're going to. They call it fringe. It's going to look like wings, you know, I'm just flying. I even got them for my handlebars. Look. Different colors.
Starting point is 01:15:18 He said, I think they saw an opportunity for one of their own to better themselves. They were all telling me this could be my last chance. Go earn it. So, he maintains a good disciplinary record in prison. and he petitioned for a relocation to a minimum security prison for the final year of his sentence, and it was approved. So he would be allowed as much as 12 hours outside the prison under supervision, I guess, per week. Oh, what? He's getting kind of furlough, huh?
Starting point is 01:15:47 It's kind of a furlough deal, a minimum. It's like a halfway thing. He could hit balls. He could visit home and undergo rehabilitation for a shoulder injury as well. Yeah. Relestine deal. Yeah. Well, they just let him go and didn't.
Starting point is 01:16:00 Not a real Epstein, he didn't have to go to fucking prison. He got 13 months of literally eight hours a day in the jail. And he wasn't even doing that. No, he was taking off. They didn't care what he did. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:16:13 they let him go. He said, I was up front, let him know what we were facing. This is the coach talking, Richie. He says, making it as a pro is a thousand to one shot,
Starting point is 01:16:21 but if you're willing to try it, so am I. That's what he told him. So hadn't played for some time before his arrest. So when he accompanied him, the coach accompanies him to the, the driving range the first week of his release, he hadn't hit a ball in like six years. Wow.
Starting point is 01:16:36 And he said his swing was rusty, but the coach said, his skill was never golf. He was so natural, I knew that would come back. He'll break it off, yeah. He said, we were more worried about the mental side of things, reintroducing him to competition, because that'll make you, you know, crack your brain there. So within the first three months of the program, he returned to Lakelands for a club tournament, and he delivered a bogey-free 66 he shot, which is great. Nice.
Starting point is 01:17:03 66 is killing it. Par or under on every hole. Everything. No bogeys and a 66, which shows his style has matured as well. Yeah. He's a guy who'll get an eagle once in a while, but he's going to have some bogeys in him if he's taking chances also. It's all right.
Starting point is 01:17:19 You know, so he'd have to go back to confinement after, because this was when he was when he was still doing the halfway shit. Imagine that. So after he won, he said, enjoy your night, boys. I have to go back to prison and then left. You just got beat by a criminal. Bye. That's it.
Starting point is 01:17:37 Bye. So Ryan said, to that point, my only real confidence came from Richie. Like, he's not going to have wasted his time on me if I'm a charity case. He's too busy for that. He could have made a call to make sure I was okay in jail and been done with it. But that 66, it was that first time I thought, hey, maybe I'm not completely lost. Right. So, Richie's not running a non-profit deal.
Starting point is 01:17:59 He needs money. No, this is a profit deal. Yeah. When he's released from prison in 2019, May of 2019, he returns to Lakelands for work on the greenskeeping staff, because he's got to have a job, too. The coach brought him around his other students, feeling as though, you know, they could help feel the void of belonging. This is your new gang, a bunch of golf students. This kid with the allergies is your not. new pal.
Starting point is 01:18:26 There he is. This kid with asthma and fucking... He's allergic to grass and we have to hit him with epipens on the eighth green. He only plays nine holes at a time, but he's real good for those nine holes. He'll finish. He'll finish his round tomorrow. He'll finish it. So the coach said he was getting under par pretty easily.
Starting point is 01:18:45 My main concern was making sure it was a joy. That's how the burnout started in the first place. The game will come in time. Let's just make sure he's having fun doing it. Yeah. So, you know, now he's out, so he doesn't have the rigid structure. Right. But he said that he kind of had analysis paralysis a bit.
Starting point is 01:19:06 Tell me what you mean. And that paralysis of choice, he called it. Like, now he has choices of what he does. Before he knew when he got up, he had to do this, then he did that. And it was all dictated to him. But now you wake up and you can do whatever you want. And he doesn't like it. He said, I was freaking out.
Starting point is 01:19:22 So much had changed in five years. everyone had a cell phone now in Australia. They had a cell phone. Five years ago, there were phones, but... In 2014 and 15 as well. What are you talking about? When did cell phone technology come to Australia? Are they just on a different timeline than us?
Starting point is 01:19:41 Yeah, when did it become the majority of society had one? I mean, because for here it was about 2001. Where was it for you guys? He has an 18 years behind. What the fuck is happening? What is it? Arkansas or Australia down there? What's going on?
Starting point is 01:19:59 So he said, everyone had a cell phone now in Australia. I'd get lost because the roads were different. And he knew there was some magical thing that mapped it for him, but it was way ahead of his time. You know what I mean? They didn't have that in 2015 when he went in. How could he possibly know? Jesus. He said, I'd go to the...
Starting point is 01:20:20 grocery store trying to order food to make a chicken and a salad, there were like 50 different brands plus range free, organic. It used to just be a $5 pack. It has not changed that much in four years. It hasn't. That's 40 years. If he went in in 1989 and got out in 2019, I'd go, okay, I get it. You're absolutely right. That's really weird. It is not. It is five years. Four years. Where's all the fruit striped gum? Calm down. Oh, wow. This is crazy.
Starting point is 01:20:53 Oh, man. Oh, geez, look at all this. Where are the moon pies? Oh, man, this is wild. What do you mean? They don't make Tato skins anymore. This is crazy. God damn it.
Starting point is 01:21:08 Fuck, are they so good. How did they go away? Dude, I tell you, at least once a month, I think of, why the fuck can't I have Tato skins anymore? Why can't I have them? They're so good. So good. So good. I saw like an ad forum, like one of those old, like, you know, magazine ads in a Facebook page or something Instagram or some shit a couple months ago.
Starting point is 01:21:31 And I was like, why? They're gone. So bad. The commercial where it was like a potato coming out of the top of the bag with chip stuck in it. God damn it was good. They were amazing. They had different flavors, right? They had ch-oh.
Starting point is 01:21:43 Yeah. And the chattel ones? Yeah. The cheddar one. I think they had like maybe a bacon. Was there a chili one or some shit like that? Oh, that sounds familiar. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:54 Yeah. With the darker stuff on it. That sounds like, yeah. I used to eat the shit. Tato skins were bad ass. My mom used to get them, bro. She would get like a bag of like shitty grocery store brand like restaurant style chips and some shitty thin salsa for everybody else. And then she would hoard the Tato skins.
Starting point is 01:22:14 And then I'd find them and eat them. And I would catch hell because those were mine. is what my mom would say. She's like, this is the only joy I have in life. Do you understand? And that was an adult.
Starting point is 01:22:24 I want that joy. And I can't have it. You can't have it. No, I want to hide tato skins for my children and I can't. It's not fair.
Starting point is 01:22:31 It's like, I get home at the end of the night, I put you fuckers to bed and all this. I just want to go in my room. And quietly under a pillow so that nobody can hear the crunching.
Starting point is 01:22:40 Eat the potatoes skins. I need the comforter to mask the crunching. Oh, man. Yeah, they were amazing. So he said, I'd buy a can of tuna because it was easier. I didn't know how to be a person. Like there wasn't 45 different kinds of tuna.
Starting point is 01:22:57 Now before. What's the problem? You know, this one free and this that. And this one is oil. This one is in oil. This one's in water. Oh my God. What do I do?
Starting point is 01:23:07 He's acting like he was in jail for 40 years. Like he's Damien Eccles or something. It's not just sardines anymore. Yeah. If he was like Damien Eccles, I get it. I went to jail in 9. 1993 in Arkansas and you got out and it was 2015. You didn't know what was going on.
Starting point is 01:23:23 The world is change. This is not you, sir. This is wild. Jard kippering only. Oh, man. He said, the only way I explain it is I felt like everyone was a sheep and I was a lion. What? The sheep know how to buy chicken, so I think they got an advantage over you.
Starting point is 01:23:42 That doesn't make any sense. So go eat them then. Yeah, what the fuck? Idiot. Yeah, his mom, Michelle, said Ryan had a much clearer perspective on life and a genuine desire to make better choices. He was grateful to be given a second chance. He then begins a relationship with a woman named Lee. So he's got that.
Starting point is 01:24:03 He progresses in golf from local competitions to mini tour events with his coach observing. You know, he's got great. He kind of looks at him in six-month intervals, which is how I always tell new comedians to do comedy. Yeah. Look at yourself every single. Every six months. You can't look at every set because you'll hang yourself. And in two weeks, don't look at this set.
Starting point is 01:24:22 Nope, doesn't matter. Three weeks, don't look. Six months. Two months don't look. Six months. Have a look. It is six month intervals. How am I doing?
Starting point is 01:24:28 Am I better? Am I getting better bookings? Am I doing this? Okay. What do I need to do different? Yeah. But that's why comedians who start out suck a lot because they don't look at it like that, like a job. They look at it like fucking around and drinking beer with their friends at me.
Starting point is 01:24:40 Well, it's either that or they're like, well, I'm obviously going to be amazing at this. Why aren't I'm a millionaire? I've been doing this for seven weeks. I have headshots and a bunch of videos of me at open mics. And some videos of me tangled in a mic cord. Why aren't I famous? I don't get it. Why isn't this getting more hits?
Starting point is 01:24:58 Oh, God. So he's doing all this. His technique was unrefined still, but his dedication to practice was intense now, which is what it wasn't before. The coach was impressed with his psychological resilience also. He said he exhibited no fear of poor performance, having confronted true darkness in life,
Starting point is 01:25:16 a golf tournament loses its intimidation factor. Yeah. What's the worst that can happen? 20 guards aren't going to throw you naked in a room and tell you to write down why you didn't golf well. So who cares? I don't have to write an apology letter to Adams Golf if I did terrible. Yeah. He acquired a van and rode all around Queensland competing in every kind of tournament he could while supplementing his income with temporary employment here or there.
Starting point is 01:25:44 by 2023, he secures partial status on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australia before earning full pay privileges for the 24-25 season. Hey! Several near victories are building up his confidence. Yeah. Then he's going to go do the New Zealand Open. And the problem is he was in Australian immigration shit here because of his criminal record. want to let him into New Zealand. So he was kind of fucked.
Starting point is 01:26:18 He said, I was standing there with my backpack on with a ring on it, thinking, well, this isn't going to happen on this trip either. Fuck, I'm screwed here. He said he was finally cleared and he went to the resort and he squeezed in just one practice round before competition began, so that's not good. Then on Friday, he shoots a 64 and puts him in the lead. Wow. Yep, which is crazy.
Starting point is 01:26:42 So he comes in and just kills it. Fresh out of prison. He's doing it. So he takes his girlfriend on a helicopter ride and proposes that night. Okay. So he's ready to get married, which he probably should wait a while, I think. But it's just me. Wait six months.
Starting point is 01:26:56 Yeah, I would take this like if you were in some sort of addiction program. I'd go, don't do shit for a year. Yeah. Let's. Yeah. So you can keep a plant alive for a while. Exactly. Like not just don't propose.
Starting point is 01:27:09 Don't have a girlfriend for a year. Let's do this in chunks. So Lee had to go home early, his girlfriend. So he called her and he said, I might have had to spend a little bit more money on the ring as when he proposed. He said he was grateful that he proposed before he won the tournament because then he would have had to get a better ring. He said. So he said he harbors no illusions about the New Zealand Open being some big giant, you know, world beating thing.
Starting point is 01:27:38 He said, but, you know, he did it. So it made him feel good. He said, I haven't. broken many eggs since the victory. I don't know what that means. Has it made a lot of omelets, I guess? I don't know. Made a lot of mistakes.
Starting point is 01:27:52 He doesn't know which eggs to buy is the problem. He's like, now they have brown ones, white ones, large, extra large. Grade double A, great A, great A. I don't know what's better. Yeah, extra large. How much eggs do I need? Brown? Are these, what do they look like inside?
Starting point is 01:28:06 Why are these blue? I don't understand this at all. I bought those recently. Oh, yeah. The blue ones, it's so weird. I didn't know they were going to be blue, but I bought them on accident. I mean, I just, you know, I realized just recently now, too, that I haven't opened eggs to make sure that they were all intact. No, I haven't done that in years.
Starting point is 01:28:27 I just grab a box and put it in the thing. And if they're broken, they're broken. Broke in? You're like, shit. Wow, that's crazy. But the blue ones have incredibly yellow yolks, and I didn't know that either. I guess because you don't open them before you hide them. But I cracked those into a pan and they were like, I thought, I don't know, I can't eat eggs.
Starting point is 01:28:50 It's just for my kids. But I was very impressed with what they looked like. They looked amazing. I was going to say, you don't know what they taste like, I guess. No, they looked incredible. They looked cool. Ryan says, deep down, my biggest worry was running out of time. I started to know I was good enough to do it.
Starting point is 01:29:05 I just didn't know if I'd get the chances to prove it. So, because he's getting, you know, he was getting almost 30 years old here at this point now. So he said that he knows he has a previous kind of trajectory into self-destruction. Yeah, yeah. A guy to do that. So he understands that all of his fuck-ups are from him. He said, you know, he can't fix what he did. And that's one thing he had to realize was he can't fix what he did.
Starting point is 01:29:34 He only has to move on and go to the future. He said, I get why people reach out that are struggling in life now. But to be honest, it's not really something that I'm. I can help them with. I've still got my own struggles. It's cool to see I can give other people hope, but at this moment, I'm still trying to find my feet and get myself back out there. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:53 Yeah. It's like, you know. So Ryan here, his father, Mel, said, Ryan deserves to be seen for the person he is today, dedicated, resilient, and ready to make a meaningful impact in the golf world. So his coach said, he still hasn't come around to the idea that he's a person. he is one of the boys. He doesn't realize he's such a good bloke that everyone will want to be around him. He still thinks everyone looks at him like a convict, basically.
Starting point is 01:30:22 Which is, I could totally understand that you would feel like that. Especially in- Even if you look at him. Especially in country clubs and golf circles. It's not like one thing if you were going back to work on the construction site. Half those guys just got out of the joint, too. Nobody cares. Or they're on their way in and they know it and they got warrants.
Starting point is 01:30:39 Yeah, absolutely. I got warrants, you know. Ryan said that if this is where it ends, meaning the New Zealand open, if this is where it ends, I'll merely be remembered as the former outlaw biker who completed at Port Rush competed there. So that's what he knows. By the way, a little bit more about that prison inspection from May of 2024 that we were talking about. Yeah. It reads this very American of them, this prison. Oh, of all the bad things happening in there.
Starting point is 01:31:12 Yeah. They said our ongoing monitoring suggests that with few exceptions, conditions have not improved significantly. Over the past eight months, a reported average time out of cell for prisoners has fluctuated between 5.5 and 6 hours a day, which is only a marginal improvement since our last inspection. Instances of threatened or attempted suicide or self-harm continue at high levels. There's also been two recorded deaths in custody at Hakea over the past eight months. there has been limited, if any, access to programs, education or outdoor recreation. Just sounds like Louisiana State Prison. Yeah, it's nothing good. It's just everything that you expect from...
Starting point is 01:31:49 Shitty. Well, of a labor farm prison. Yes. Of a shitty American prison that used to, you know, rent out their prisoners to plantations. Until the fields, right. That's what I mean, yeah. Meaningful employment opportunities are limited to essential services. such as kitchen and laundry with other employment options regularly reduced or canceled.
Starting point is 01:32:13 About approximately 50% of scheduled visit sessions are canceled or reduced. Wow. Wow. They said also there's staffing levels that are way down and need to be better. And so they say all of this shows the situation remains critical. Continued and renewed efforts toward improvement are essential to ensure meaningful and sustained progress. Yeah, it's basically a fucking mess. there.
Starting point is 01:32:39 Yeah. Living conditions were inhumane and failed to meet basic guidelines, unhygienic shells, cells that attracted pests and failed to meet basic requirements, frequent and prolonged lockdowns, management of the prison's telephone system significantly impacting prisoners' ability to maintain contact with the outside world. Oh, boy. Gee, do they have some company charging $6 a fucking minute like our prisons do? Because if it's not that, you guys got it easier because our prisons, they're,
Starting point is 01:33:09 Our prisons are a fucking racket for that shit. It is ridiculous what they charge these fucking people for phone calls. That's assonite. And then laws get past. You've got to be able to talk to people on the outside. That's crazy. You got to be able to talk to your lawyer. You've got to talk to your family.
Starting point is 01:33:24 That's got to be something that are allowed to do. You have children. You have a wife. You have a fucking mother. You have elderly people. You've got to be able to talk to people. That's just that's not even. People die.
Starting point is 01:33:32 And just because somebody broke the law doesn't mean they don't get to talk to somebody that is sick for Christ's sake. That's ridiculous. Oh, you sold drugs so you don't get to talk to your dying mother. Maybe you should have thought about that. Yeah, exactly. Before you drunk and drive and hit that three-year-old. That's ridiculous. I really do hate that part of it.
Starting point is 01:33:50 It shouldn't be a, the point of it is it shouldn't be a profitable thing for someone else. You're profiting off fucking misery. And then you got that part where people, they pass laws to see who's allowed to, what businesses they're allowed to funnel the money to. Yep. And who benefits from those businesses. It's so gross. It's so disgusting. It's so corrupt.
Starting point is 01:34:11 Fucking ridiculous. February 21st, 2025. Here's an article. The headline is former Rebels gang member, Ryan Peek, now a rising star on the PGA tour of Australia. Wonderful. Australia, Asia, actually. Australasia. Australia and Asia.
Starting point is 01:34:30 I guess Australia is probably too small to have its own. You got to mix it with Asia, too, probably. PGA tournament? Yeah, it's too. Well, I mean, just a whole circuit in that. There's not that many people in Australia to do that. I don't know if it's that there's not enough people, but there's certainly enough territories, right?
Starting point is 01:34:45 Because you've got the west side versus the east side all the way down the coast. It seems like it's a pretty big fucking island, isn't it? It's big, but there's nothing on 80% of it, though. Right. Yeah, everybody's at the coast. But it feels like those coasts are so vast. And where the, I don't even know what they're called, wards. What are they called?
Starting point is 01:35:06 Well, I just mean population-wise to have tournaments you can only draw so many people and, you know, you would have to make that a profitable endeavor. I think you'd have to involve in the country. It's a profit deal. So they say he wants people to be aware of his dark past as he charts an unlikely journey from prison to the top of the PGA tour. Nice. West Australian Peak is currently on the edge of the top 20 for the PGA tour of Australia. order of merit of his first full year on the tour and his comeback here, a former Rebel's bikey group.
Starting point is 01:35:43 Pete was in prison shortly after his 21st birthday for a serious assault. He said, I was young and stupid. When I first went to jail, my mom said to me, I'm glad you're in jail because I know where you are at nighttime. I was somewhat safe. So he gives all the credit in the world to his coach, who told him that he could do it. And he said, obviously there's a lot of people that don't agree with my story, but a lot know how I've come back and dealt with it.
Starting point is 01:36:11 I brought all that stuff upon myself. I never felt sorry for myself. I'm only getting started with the repercussions of my past now. I'm starting to travel internationally and I want to play on overseas tours, but I just want people to take a lesson from it and avoid it. That's an interesting way he phrased that. Yeah. Disagree with my story or disagree with my choices, sir? Nobody disagrees with your story.
Starting point is 01:36:34 We believe it's factual. We definitely do. So March 3rd, 2025, he wins the $1.8 million New Zealand Open. What? I don't know if that's for everybody or if that's the total prize money, like for, you know, the first 10 places get it and people or if that's for one person. Total money raised spent and ticket sales. That's gross. That's gross.
Starting point is 01:36:59 So they say the 31-year-old was cool as ice to nail a 10-foot put for a man. Made in professional victory. If he had two putted, it would have forced a four-man playoff. So he fucking ended it with a clutch 10-5. Wow. Yep. He also held a solo lead entering the final round and got a negative five, got a minus five on 66 on Sunday to finish the tournament with 23 under. One shot clear of the golfers, three golfers at 22 under.
Starting point is 01:37:27 Jesus Christ, that's impressive. That's a lot of good golf. He said, they asked him how he felt and he said relief. I'm lost for words for the moment. It's life-changing. Yeah. He said, I always knew I could do it. It was just a matter of time.
Starting point is 01:37:42 He said, my family, my team, everyone believed. I just want to be here and play golf. This story is what it is, but I'm just out here playing golf. So, yeah, he's very, very, very happy with this. So he's excited. He said that I just go out there tomorrow and just stick with what I'm doing. Don't try and chase anyone down and just do a good job of what I'm doing. doing and the byproduct of that will be a win if I do a good job.
Starting point is 01:38:08 Right. And he got a win. So he was very excited about it. He said, I've changed my life. This is what I do. I want to be here and just play golf. My story is what it is, but I'm just out here playing golf. It's like, I'm just out here playing golf.
Starting point is 01:38:21 He secured the 360,000 New Zealand dollars. So I don't even know what that would be. Kiwi bucks that you get for what is that worth. I'm not sure what that's worth. It's a couple starfish. I don't know. We're not sure. He said it's life-changing.
Starting point is 01:38:39 This morning I woke up four shots behind. Now I'm a member of the Asian tour, an Australasian tour winner, the second on the Australasian order of merit, and chasing down a European tour card. A lot has changed. Uh-huh. So, yeah, a lot has changed. He talks a little bit about his past here, too. and he said he always has refused to reveal who else was involved because he was the only one charged with a crime that day.
Starting point is 01:39:09 Is that right? He said one of the guys had a baseball bat and he said the guy had been mourned. He had been making threats toward us, so that's what he gets. He said, quote, he was doing some bad things and we had knowledge of that and then he made some pretty heinous threats toward us as well. So we just went to deal with it
Starting point is 01:39:27 and honestly it wasn't meant to happen like that. We were genuinely just going there for a chat. he was probably going to get a couple of punches along the way and it would have been left at that. He said, you know, that sounds harsh, but you got to speak the language like he said before. He said, it just happened to be that the threats that he made toward us were true
Starting point is 01:39:44 and he was armed, so it escalated from there. That's it. I'm not saying it's right that I've gone and beat someone up, but I haven't gone and beat up your dad. Well, he did up somebody's dad, maybe. Yeah, but your dad's not involved in biker gangs, is he, is what he's saying, I think?
Starting point is 01:39:59 Yeah. They just go beat up some random guy at the ground. grocery store. Yeah. When I could have just asked him what's chicken to buy. But he said his was the first kick. And he said that was why, you know, he knew he was fucking fucked. And he said, jail was bad, real bad.
Starting point is 01:40:14 Strip naked, take a shower in front of the guards. Then you're crammed into a tiny box with two other guys. When they turned the light out that first night, I thought to myself, what the hell did you get yourself into? But if you don't like the accommodation, don't make the reservation, he says. Ah! Somebody in prison said that to him. Oh, absolutely. Either that or somebody on a golf tour about a shitty hotel.
Starting point is 01:40:37 A guard, 100% said that to him in the joint. I don't like the accommodation. Don't make the reservation. Yep, absolutely. He said, look, I've done something bad. I owned it and I've tried to move on. I've turned my life around, but I don't want to be looked at as some kind of role model or superhero. I just want to, don't worry.
Starting point is 01:40:55 No one is looking at it. Take it easy, Charles Barkley. Come down. Not a role model. I just want to look into the future rather than the past. But I don't hide away from my past. It happened. And the best thing I can do is be honest about it.
Starting point is 01:41:08 If people want to know what happened, I try to give them an insight into what my life was like back then. So he said that helps a lot. His coach said, he's a good kid and he just fucked up. Wow. That's that. He said that he's now he's got a bunch of tattoos and he's got a lot of muscles and all that kind of thing. So that helps them out a lot.
Starting point is 01:41:31 You know, not the tattoos on the drive, but the muscles help them out. The tats don't add anything to your drive, unfortunately. They add zero. Zero. So he said that, I guess, flying to Northern Ireland and joining his pals at another event didn't have any problem for him because he has a British passport. Okay. Yeah, because he's still citizenship, right?
Starting point is 01:41:52 Yeah. He said, I've got that passport because my dad was born in England and his family moved to Australia when he was about three. I don't know which part of England, but he's still got family there. My parents have been catching up with some aunts and uncles and whatnot before they fly from London over here. He said, my record does cause some problems, and we have to jump through a few more hoops than most people when it comes to getting visas. My manager is three for four, is three for three so far, so hopefully he'll keep up that strike rate. Because just because I'm in the open, it doesn't mean I feel like I've made it now.
Starting point is 01:42:23 He said, I'm not there yet, not where I want to be. My first goal this week is to make the cut, play my game, and see where it takes me. His humility is perfect. I like it. I think he's going one day at a time. He's one of those guys. I think he's got the exact right attitude. Yeah, I like this.
Starting point is 01:42:40 Listen, I fucked up. Yeah. Everybody fucks up. And especially when you're a teenager, you hang out with fucking shitty people. I've done tons of shit that I could have been gone to prison for. Oh, my. I can name you some shit right now that was years in prison I could get. Not even drug shit, other shit.
Starting point is 01:42:55 I'm not talking about anything because there's probably statutes that aren't done yet. Yeah, it's not good. So there's some stuff that are bad. So I'm not disparaging anybody for doing some dumb shit when they're young, especially if it's not something. You didn't rape a lady. You didn't fucking, you know, shit like that. That you can go fuck yourself.
Starting point is 01:43:13 That's a character flaw. A gangster beats up another gangster. I don't know if I care that much. I don't give a shit about that. I don't care at all. Like, I would tell the guy who's hurt, why the fuck were you threatening other biker gangs, you dip shit? Why are you in a biker gang?
Starting point is 01:43:26 Yeah. You're threatening biker gangs. You know what happens to people who threaten biker gangs? This, you dummy, you'll end up on the floor. You got it, man. You've earned it. Oh, man. So, yep, he's doing well.
Starting point is 01:43:40 He's, you know, he's doing great at this point. And he said he was just, he talks about the biker gang saying I was just normalized to it. It wasn't abnormal from where I was from to hang out with that sort of scene with my friends. It was? What he's talking about? That's the thing. He could have stayed at the country club the whole time. He didn't have to fucking do this.
Starting point is 01:44:03 This is incredibly abnormal. It's not where you're from. Nobody thinks a country club kid should be in a bikers hang out. No kids I know that were in the street shit also had country club memberships and good golf games and a, you know, in a low handicap. Like nobody that I know had that. They had nothing. That's why they were there. I just assume that he's nuts.
Starting point is 01:44:25 That's it. So he said, I didn't profit from being a bikey. I enjoyed the lifestyle while I was living it, but it wasn't going to get me ahead in life. It was just always going to fall further and further behind and probably lead to more jail. Yeah. So he said, life's hard. Seems like nothing ever goes right. When things do start to go right, there's always something that's going to go wrong.
Starting point is 01:44:47 Yeah. That's his quote. So can't get enough of Ryan? My God. out there. I hope he's doing well, and I hope he never does anything bad again. He only has like 15,000 Instagram followers. Is that right? It's about to get a 15,001.
Starting point is 01:45:03 Maybe. And, you know, there's all that. You can check him out on the tour. I mean, he's golfing all throughout Europe. He's around. And Australia and everything else. There's other, a few other, you know, not nearly as bad as I feel for. There's a couple other mistaken identities here.
Starting point is 01:45:19 We didn't get a chance to do that part. but there's a Ryan Peake, who's a Canadian musician, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist for Nickelback. Jesus Christ. Is not this guy? Are you sure? Yes, I swear. Not this guy.
Starting point is 01:45:35 And a Ryan Peek-op strategy and implementation consultant at Southwest Airlines. Uh-huh. Your strategy should be a better fucking airline, you assholes. Fuck you, Southwest. Yeah, figure it out. Also, Ryan Peekan infusion nurse at Opt-Med Health Partners in Kalamazoo. Oh, nice. Definitely not Australia.
Starting point is 01:45:58 It's a hero right there. Yeah. Okay. So we will leave it at that. Actually, let's do the quick update here. Very quick update on one of a crime and sports alumni here. Oh, is it? He's doing well?
Starting point is 01:46:11 No, he is dead. As a matter of fact, the opposite is something doing well. Barrett Robbins has passed away. We did an episode about him years ago. It was like 2018, something like that. He is the guy... Disappeared before the Super Bowl. Disappeared before the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 01:46:27 Had a lot of criminal problems and everything else. And he died at 52. CTE certainly played a point apart on that, right? It's got to. No cause of death immediately known. He's had mental problems for years. He had told DSPN this was the biggest game of my life. Everything I had worked for is a child.
Starting point is 01:46:48 child, a young man, and a collegiate athlete to the pros, and it was unbelievable to me, and he disappeared. So he said he would have manic episodes for weeks at a time. That was one of the fucking ears beat the living shit out of them. Yeah, yeah. It was mainly a part of it is they'd have their goddamn starting center. I mean, that wouldn't, they wouldn't have won anyway, but against that defense, you would have really help to have your starting center playing. That would help a lot. That's the captain of the offensive line. He's telling people where to go and kind of need him. Did you also see that Delante West is 100 days sober now?
Starting point is 01:47:21 I did. Yeah. Yeah, he's gone through a few of those. Yeah. Yeah. He had clean shoes on. That was positive. I want to, he'll be, I don't want to say, because I root for the guy, but let's be realistic here.
Starting point is 01:47:34 Yeah. How many times can you root on? It's the same thing. And they said, look at it in six-month intervals. They'll tell me about 100 days. I don't know you to talk about 100 days. That is three years. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:47:44 Tell me about three years sober and three years with clean shoes on. And then we'll talk about it. I feel bad for that guy, too. I really do. He's a decent guy. It sucks. He seems like a nice guy. His life has just imploded.
Starting point is 01:47:55 All self-done. Yep, that's it. Now, Robin's wife, Marissa, told Rich Gannon that Barrett passed away peacefully in his sleep. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Or maybe she, Corey richened him. You don't know. Allegedly.
Starting point is 01:48:12 Oh, that was a joke. No, Corey really did it. This lady's not alleged at all. Tim Brown. Remember Tim Brown? Yeah, the Weirsched trophy winning Notre Dame player and great punt and kick returner and wide receiver for the Raiders. He said, please pray for their girls, his family and tons of teammates who will be affected by this. It's unfortunate that his life was never the same after he was not allowed to play in the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 01:48:36 Rest peacefully, BR, you deserve it. Wait, hold, what? Did Tim just tell us something we didn't know? He was allowed, wasn't he? No. No. He disappeared and then they, I think if I remember correctly, they told him that you're not coming back because he was all spaced out. Oh, I thought he disappeared before the suit.
Starting point is 01:48:59 Oh, no, I'm thinking of the guy from the Browns. Never mind. The Bengals, you mean Stanley Wilson. Stanley Wilson. He didn't jump out a window to go on a crack binge. He went down to Mexico and then he came back, but it was like, where were you for two weeks? He just disappeared. Having a blast.
Starting point is 01:49:15 So there you go. That's Ryan Peek. unfortunately Brat Robbins as well, very sad. But we had one happy story, like one, like happy ending story of goodness. I'll knock the shit down so I can get to you on this list real quick. Oh, no, bro. We, yeah, you could have waited until we went to the actual thing. We would have been, we had a part to cut out.
Starting point is 01:49:39 And that would have been easy. We've only been doing this for 10 years, Jimmy. We could do this professionally or I could just, you know, Get out. Just knock some shit down in the middle of us talking. Yeah. We've only made like 1,200 podcasts, 13,400 podcasts episodes. And I'm like, I'm doing James a favor this time.
Starting point is 01:50:00 He's not editing shit. I still have to do it. You still have to take our pause. There's some sausage being made right there. It's gross, isn't it? Isn't it nasty in there? That's why people don't show you how the sausage is. So, yeah, we've had a sad story with Barrett Robbins and a redemptive story.
Starting point is 01:50:22 Good for Ryan. I hope he does well. I hope he does great Ryan Peek. I hope he does a great time. I hope he fulfills his potential and has a nice life. I really do. Good for him. He's turned it around.
Starting point is 01:50:34 And he may not think that he's an inspiration, but I'll bet you I go to a driving range this week and remind myself how fucking terrible at golf I am. Yeah. Thank you, Ryan. Try bowling instead. It's more less ambitious. That hurts. And indoors. That's for me too.
Starting point is 01:50:51 That's why golf is too much. So bad. Your thighs. Yeah, I can golf all day. No. Thighs hurt from bowling from stopping short at the line. Bullying kills me. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:03 I'm trying to get, we're going to try to bowl a little bit more lately. I'm going to get into this. I need something to do. I'm going to humiliate myself every day with this golf thing. Not golf. It's too much. It's too much. It depends on the weather.
Starting point is 01:51:18 Emotionally, it hurts. And emotionally, I don't have the emotional capacity for it. I just go at night to the driving range and that's enough for me to go, I'm not doing this. I'm not going to go. It's humiliating enough for you? Yeah. I drive balls out there. They don't go where I want them to go.
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Starting point is 01:53:02 This week, what we're going to talk about for crime and sports. We're going back in time and doing some old-timey ads. Oh, yeah. And old-timey articles of like weird deaths and murders
Starting point is 01:53:12 and crazy weird shit that goes on. It's a lot of fun. Can't wait to do. that. Those are like our favorite episodes to do. So those are fun. Then for small town murder, we're going to tell a crazy ass story that just wrapped up. She hasn't even been sentenced yet. Corey Richie just convicted of poisoning her husband to death. Richen. Did I say Richie? Yes. Corrie Richens. I watched the entire fucking trial and said Cory Richie. I've been saying it since I started watching the trial. I don't know why Richens does not stick in my brain. So this is a woman that
Starting point is 01:53:41 poisoned her husband. I don't even have to say allegedly anymore. She poisoned her husband. and then wrote a goddamn book about grief for her children based on her husband, like having wings and being an angel of all this shit. It's wild stuff. She also thought she was like an HGTV house flipper, and she absolutely wasn't. Not good at it. We'll talk about all that and more. That is patreon.com slash crime in sports.
Starting point is 01:54:04 And on top of all of that, you also get every damn show we put out ad free as well. And on top of that, you also get a shout out at the end of the show, which is right now. And I know it's ready because you got it ready. Jimmy, hit me with the names of the best fucking people in the world who would never, ever, ever bring their biker gang over to beat us up in our own garage. Jimmy, hit me with him right, goddamn now. This executive producers are Corp. Corporal Carl's, God damn it. Corporal Carl Kershner. The man put down his cat, and I can't even say his name.
Starting point is 01:54:38 Poor bastard. Sorry about that. That's so sad. Sorry, Corporal Carl. Hope you're on the upside of things. Those are all C's, by the way. What is it? Those are Cs, by the way, in there.
Starting point is 01:54:48 Yes. Two C's in a K. It's not. Oh, one K. Yeah. Kershner is a K. Yeah. It's okay.
Starting point is 01:54:53 His cat evidently loved catnip like you love weed. That's what I'm told. Terrific. That's a lot of catnip. That's a lot. He's putting it down. It's a big bar card. Peyton Meadows, Gary Howard,
Starting point is 01:55:05 some pusher in Cleveland, Texas. Happy hour in New Caney, Texas. They're both in Texas this week. Watch out for each other. God damn. Honk is. pass each other. Hang,
Starting point is 01:55:15 Hong, hon. Yeah, really. As you're driving down the road, Gary, just pump your fist at every trucker and hopefully happy hour says a lot. Maybe you'll hit the right one. We don't know. Andrew Frisch and his dog Crypto, Chabon Kalman, and Larry Butterfast. Thank you guys all so much.
Starting point is 01:55:36 Thanks, Larry. Good to see you, too, Larry in Phoenix. Oh, Larry's so good to see you. Thank you, brother. Definitely. Such a good guy. That big fucker hugs great. He does. He'll hurt your neck. It's good. I like it.
Starting point is 01:55:47 Yeah. Other producers this week, Pentea, Renee Nicole Zerdetsky. Oh. Happy Hour just wanted me to say that name. For whatever reason, he enjoys that. Ryan Bender, Janice Hill, Lauren Mercurio, Natalie LeGrand, LaGrand, Charles Holtz-Claugh. Bean would know the last name. Caleb Sweet. Lauren Landon. Kenny from Iowa. Mara Tanner. Courtney Kreckleberg. Sensical would no last name. Kevin would no last name. Ash Kent, Lyle would know the last name. Josh Cabao.
Starting point is 01:56:16 Lindsay Huta. Mark Twain, I doubt it. Kelly, Goodman. Onica, Damian Frunca. James would know last name. Josh Covington. Zach would no last name. Nick Johnson.
Starting point is 01:56:29 Ashley Cross. Amanda Falk. Danny Lockwood. Astute Fruit. Skip would know last name. Danielle Lockwood. Heather Jimison. S.D.
Starting point is 01:56:38 Like San Diego. Stacey. Bird win. Cody would know last name. Christy Gardner, Erica Klein, McKenzie Dixon, Caroline, Birch or Carolyn, Caroline, right? Is it Caroline? Have we agreed on that?
Starting point is 01:56:53 I could go either way on that one. It could be Caroline or Carolyn, depending on who you. All right, I just want to make sure. More so Carolyn is with a Y, but sometimes... See? Yeah. Two ends in an E? I don't know. This is just Caroline, like North. Yeah, or sweet. Brandon Brown, Gary Landry,
Starting point is 01:57:08 Andrea Soup, Harley Marshall, Brian Pearson, Kim Murray, Kate Arengo, Leah Ownby. What is this? Clifford Way raven, Walraven, Wallraven? Wallraven? Wallraven. It's like Walgreens, but also Raven. Wall Ravens. Come on down.
Starting point is 01:57:25 There's sales. I'm trying to look to see if that's an I or an L. I'm going to have to start using bigger vaunt. That's embarrassing to say out loud. Rachel Marks, Jackie Pasco. You got so close to the screen, guys. Like mouth open, like, who's going on? I got real close, and it looks exactly the same as back here.
Starting point is 01:57:47 Put his glasses up and down, did one of those, like a Mr. Magoo. What the fuck is happening here? Chris Patterson, Dustin Brown, is this a fucking, was this one of those visual, what do they call those? I don't know. When things look different, but they're not. Optical illusion. Fingo. There you go.
Starting point is 01:58:04 We'd be so good on that pyramid. Isis Jackson, Chris Patterson, Dustin Brown. Kevin Newberry. Travis would know last name. Del Nagy. Dale Nagy. Naggy. What was the pitcher's name? Was it Nagy or Nagy? Charles Nagy. Nagy. So it's Dale Nagy. Moxley would no last name. Ashley would know the last name. Amanda Kraft. Alex would know last name. Michael Gruber. Janette Gallagher. Snana. What is a snana?
Starting point is 01:58:27 No last name. I don't know if it's a first or last name. Julia Shriner. David Fox. Scott Johnson. Adam White. Candice Flower. Michael M. Shaden. M. Shadden. Milne Sparks. Vanessa Meyer-Colo Doc. I imagine that's a colo-doc, like a colorectal doc. We gotta go get our asses checked, by the way. Corey Sammis, you're doing it. Seth would know last name.
Starting point is 01:58:49 Cat would know last name. Kelly Hipwell, Janice Lamon, Michelle Schmale, Mark Rouse, Alexis Stanky. All right. John would no last name. Rachel would no last name. Possibly somebody with two patrons.
Starting point is 01:59:04 Thank you, Lindsay. Rachel Lindsay. meant to do that. Thank you. Thank you. Otherwise, check and make sure that you only have one. Ben Shemel, Nicole Royer, Sarah Jackson, Americus would know last name. Terrence Matthews, Kim Gareth, Sherry Lynn, Ben Widdle, Constance Adams. Did I say, nope, sir, sure didn't.
Starting point is 01:59:23 Kylie would know last name. Lindsay would know last name. Sherry would know last name. Ash, A.S. 31. Sam Settleston. Steph Saline? I wonder if she's related to the people who do the Saline Cobras and shit. Are you related to the... Do we have saline money now? Noah Gascon, C. Rag, that's gross.
Starting point is 01:59:41 Max Huisman, H-U-I-S-H-Mis-Men, that's fascinating. Casey Mihalik, Mark Chandler, Rebecca Jones, Beth Hudson, Kevin Schlemmerhorn, Schlemmerhorn, April Rose, Archangel O-Taku, O-Taku, Emmanuel Alexander, Cody Austin, Bradley Camano, Ronda, Rhonda Anderson, Brandon Love. Day, India, Russell, Ronald Pachshen, Grace Somerville, just, Brie, McEvelli, and Cheese. Fascinating. Big Wally.
Starting point is 02:00:15 Rochelle, with no last name, Cynthia Barry, and all of our patrons, you're the fucking best. Thank you, everybody, you fucking wild, crazy, fantastic, amazing bastards. We appreciate everything you do for us, and we always have, and we always will.
Starting point is 02:00:29 So thanks for everything you do for us. Keep coming back and hanging out with us. Listen to our other shows. Oh, yeah. You want to find us. You can do it, really. Shut up and Give Me Murder.com as drop down menus that take you literally anywhere you want to go, even if it has nothing to do with us. It'll take you there.
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