TigerBelly - Episode 152: Mike Boudet From Sword & Scale
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Welcome to another episode of Tiger Belly. I'm uh uncle chicken chop
That's my new name now this week, dude. Uncle chicken chop. How'd you get that fighter and the kid? They gave it to me
Brendon shop, I call him shoulders
You know why because whenever I see him. Oh, that's all I see is gigantic shoulders
He's got veins and veins neck. We also have a beautiful, um
Woman next to me her name was
Lila my girlfriend we got in a fight today man. It was crazy
You know, I talked to her and you know what it's like I talked to her in a bad way and I want to apologize on
On ground level
To who to the audience
Let me tell you guys something the whole day. I've been waiting for an apology. He this is the first time
On air sort of I refuse to look look at her and apologize because I don't know
He talks to me. You know how we're in a room. We have a gas bay by the way
He's like, okay. Yeah, we have a gas by the way, but okay
We'll get it out later. Okay. We'll get it out at the end. We'll get it out. All right
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to introduce everyone in the room. We got, um
Gilbert, I like your wine shirt. Thank you. Is it new or what is it?
It's new. I saw yours and I was like, okay. Well your hacks same bread your fashion hack. Yeah. I'm a biter
We got George whatever and uh, we got thin lips. I love him JJ
Uh, we have a very special guest. Listen. I you know, I I I too am a fan of podcasts. I listen to them
And when I do long road trips, sometimes when I go to sleep, I listen to one one and only a one called
Sword and scale. It's literally one of my favorites
Um, and we have the creator and the host here
Hi, you know, I didn't see your name
Hi, yeah, yeah, don't go high. I'll back up. I know I have to start over now. That's the portion
All right. So anyway, you know, sometimes when I do long trips real long trips and I go to bed at night
Um, I listen to this thing called sword and scale. It's about different kinds of murders
And um, we have the host and the creator here, Mike Pude. Give him a round of applause everybody
Mike, how are you? Is it okay to say? Yeah?
I'm doing good. How you guys been guy? You have a pint of bean face. I love it
Yes, because you're cuban, correct? I am cuban. Well, my parents are cuban. I was born in the states
But yeah, I'm Korean, but I'm an American as well. That's right. We're all Americans. Good to meet you
Good to meet you too. We've met before I know we have yeah, but it's good to see you again
Yeah, it's great. So yeah, another thing about you is is that when you smile it makes me so happy
Do you know why why because you just you have like you and kalala have the same I love gaps
You know, I'm getting the teeth fixed. No
Don't do it. No, I love it. I got that smile direct club thing coming
You look good that way
You don't like you better self-conscious about it. I am self-conscious about what else are you self-conscious about about your body my cuban heritage
Thanks for bringing that up
Now, let me say something man sword and skill. If you don't know what it is. It's basically um
It's basically it's it's crimes and specifically
serial killers and mass murders and just weird things of that it's in that world
And what I love about sword and skill is that they have things in it that I'm not aware of
You know, you have ones that are remarkable and crazy and I'll give you an example that one HBO documentary
What it was called a mommy dead and dearest might be dead and dearest. I heard about that
I heard about it from yours for before even they even came out with that. Yeah, right. So, you know, you're I'm aware of
A lot of things and how did that start?
How did that story start? No, how did no, I don't know how that's how did you tell me the origin of the story
You don't be a fucking asshole
You piece of shit
I uh go ahead. How did you you were working at a what I was in marketing?
I was in a desk job in a cubicle with the fluorescent lighting and you know
Self-loathing that comes along with that. I could only imagine for like 20 something years
It was like two decades plus and I was actually very good at my job
But I wanted to get the hell out of it. Of course do something creative. Yeah
Um, you you get a real rush out of doing something creative and feeling proud of it. You know, yeah
I did this. This is mine. Even if nobody listens to it. It's it's nice to feel that
So what was the first one like you just kind of got the equipment or what happened?
Well, I did like three other podcasts beforehand that were terrible and it took me a while to figure out what the
Subject matter was going to be that I wanted to talk about and when I finally figured that out
I was in a point in my life where I was so depressed and just at the bottom of the bottom. Yeah, and uh,
literally drinking myself
Into oblivion into oblivion on my birthday sitting at home alone
Whoa while hating every aspect of my life and it just came some somehow
It's just like this epiphany came to me that I love true crime
I love true crime tv
Yeah, and and there was nothing at the time that that resembled anything like sword and scale. Wow
Yeah, and that's I mean, that's one of the things that attracted me to it because it's like, um, there wasn't a lot of options
And it's one of those things where I don't know why
But I've always been fascinated by it
And and there's that's only a specific kind of human being I think is right
I think a lot of people are fascinated because of the fact that it's
It's it says something about us like what is it that can turn someone into this monster?
And and and is that inside of each one of us and the answer is yes problem. I don't know
Is it? Yeah, maybe I mean, let me ask you something. I mean, okay, if I had
If I had someone's gene like let's say let's give let's let's say I was jeffrey
I've had if I was jeffrey dammer. I had his genes. I was born in the environment
He was born in and I had the same kind of life experiences
Obviously, I would have probably done the same the same thing he did
But what my the fabric of who I am from my parents from the way I was raised
There's no way well, everybody knows that you're a very well adjusted human being so, you know, there's
No, I'm not
No, Mike what I'm saying though, yeah, I have my frailties and have I'm uncle ching chup
Uncle ching chup is there's a lot a lot of things that going on
All right, but my point is is that
You know, I don't know if I could ever resort to I could kill somebody out of self-defense
Right, if somebody killed kalayla, I could probably kill that person
But in terms of like scoping out and like when you first came in here
The first thing out of your mouth was you want to see a picture of a dead body? Yeah
Which is not, you know, which is weird, right?
Greet somebody. Yeah
Right, that's like that shouldn't be the second or third thing that you say. How was your day?
Yeah, how's your family? Yeah, I like your place. It's a little cold hot whatever the weather
But this is gonna do it straight up. You want to see a picture of a dead body? Of course, I said, yes
Yeah, and it was gruesome really gruesome and but I can't imagine myself and I that I could ever do that
Could you most people can imagine themselves doing it?
But but you know that there's this sort of darkness the seed of darkness inside which given the right circumstances the right sort of cultivation
Can flourish into a monster. Wow, that's really crazy to think about
Really crazy to think about
So what you're saying is this
Okay, now I have a jaded view because I'm from Florida. So you guys are the masters. I grew up in the middle of that
Yeah, psychopathy
It's either florida or wisconsin wisconsin is some good ones wisconsin really well not wisconsin like the state
Yeah, jeffrey domers from right. He did all this killing there. Yeah, and then you have the king again
There's not a lot to do in wisconsin. So maybe murders one. Yeah, but all those two guys that that's where that was their playground
Yeah, but you know the thing is too. We don't tell a lot of stories about these serial killers
That's like an extreme part of the scale. So we tell a lot of stories about just regular everyday people right you do
somehow
Turn into these things that
Don't resemble human beings anymore, right like that teenager who in florida who was a party and
And tyler had yeah, yeah, well, you know that there you know their names
Well, I some of this a lot of stories. I remember the names. Yeah, tyler hadley tyler hadley
He was the teenager you want to throw a party and he ended up killing his parents
So you could throw a let me guess to see what he did he took
I know I know but I don't remember like he took a mallet of some sort or a hammer a hammer
He went into his his mother's room when she was sleeping. No the mother. It's one of these
It's one of these you know the homes where they have the shared computer in the middle of the living room or kitchen area
I love those homes. Yeah
That's a sure sign of a psychopath lives in one of those homes
Yeah, but yeah, she's just on the computer checking her email or whatever and he's like standing behind her for like a full two minutes
Yeah, just about to do it. Is it step mom or biological? I don't know biological. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow
Yeah, and then his dad comes in after good when he hears the commotion. He's just in the next room. Yeah, and then he claw hammers him to death
And he's he's a big guy too
Then he had friends who kind of like went along with it or like a friend who was like, all right, I guess
No, no, what happened was he had the party he has the party right and people walked into that room
We're right or no
No, he somewhere along the way of the party like he's not having a good time at the party for some reason
You know probably just killed
Kind of liquor or don't want somebody to bring the ecstasy or snacks
But uh, but at some point he just starts to confess to a buddy of his
At the party that that this is what he did and at first the friend doesn't believe him
But then he kind of like
Starts showing him some signs of blood in the hallway and stuff like that and he starts to go. Oh wait, this actually really happened
Um
Yeah, the party must go on
I mean, maybe it was a really good party
There is but you can we at least admit this
Is there's got to be something yet? Let me ask is there something wrong with the mind like he has some sort of
Disease or something what's going on there? I get in a lot of trouble for this you do for me
Really, let me guess. Let me guess. Yeah, people it's because people say, you know, 99 point something percent of people were mentally ill are not
Um, are not violent
Are blah blah blah. Oh, we all know that right. No, but you have to state that every time you talk about one of these cases
Apparently. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah
But yeah, it's true. I mean say something right now
Can I just say something right now and I'm gonna say because I'm not you know in that world. All right
But if like
Oh, excuse me
Excuse, I just farted. Excuse me. I gotta turn my phone off if koreans. Yeah, I'm korean, right?
If koreans like if most of the cases of like
You know, the human beings are shitting in people's mouths when they're sleeping. Okay, but it was 99.9% of them were korean dudes
Okay, right
I would have to say
You know what? Yeah, that's our thing or that's what we do
Right or no cultural. Yeah, if somebody said that right. Oh, yeah, it's probably a korean dude. I wouldn't be offended. I go. Yeah, it is korean
Dude statistics. Yeah. Yeah, so why if that's is it a fat?
Wait, I don't think you're understanding
Yes, I hear no, here my logic. Here's my lips. Just listen. No
Listen, what I'm saying is is this
Serial killers and all these things that happen at this level right are generally done by people with mental problems, right?
If that's the case, why can't we just say that?
If all the shitting in the faces were done by koreans, why can't you just say it's koreans?
Now does it make sense? Because men to have mental illness is such a big
You go from oh, let's get specific then as like manic depression all the way to like paranoid schizophrenia
Or like all the way to the big, you know, I'm saying that you're not in trouble. All right. I'm gonna get in trouble
Let's just let's just the korean community. No, but I think it's that's the other thing too
Like it's almost like being part of a little club. It's like a little clique and people love to be in clubs or tribes or cliques
And and it's like oh, you're talking about the mentally ill, but everybody's mentally ill everybody suffers from some sort of depression or anxiety
Yeah, so it's not like you belong in a special group. I mean it's everyone
But but we're talking about a very select group within that group really mentally ill. Yeah. Yeah, like extreme cases of mental ill
Psychopathy. Yeah, so why can't we just say that?
Yeah, I don't know why it's so offensive to people maybe explain the korean shit in the mouth one more time
All right, well, I will okay. I will all right speaking of koreans. I'm not done. I'm not done. No, I'm gonna do it
So, um, let's suppose
Right
That all over the world, right people are waking up
With shit on their face. Oh and everyone just yeah, just random people in india everywhere
Why CNN is a different right? There's just a thing. No, let's just it's just a thing that happens an epidemic
Or it's something that happens throughout time even okay. It's in history books
Right that people just wake up with other people share on their face and 99.9 of them are done by koreans
Right. So if somebody, you know, if you hear about oh, yeah, you hear about joe. He got shit on his face when he woke up
Yeah, and then somebody said yeah, probably korean, dude. Yeah, why koreans have no
So why would they should they get offended if it's done by them?
Am I getting in trouble for this? I don't know. This is an interesting
You're mine. Am I not am I
I'm happy you're saying koreans because I was hoping like I was pretty sure
Well, when I say korean mean philippinos
And every when people are listening right now, they know that's what I mean
Right is you you you you specifically you and your people
I don't know what normally happens in this home
Well, I love shits in bobby's mouth. Yeah. Yeah
All right, so let's forget it. Let's let go of the mentally but I'm just saying though that um
It's just it's you know
And I think that I'm I the more than I know that probably all people have a curiosity about it
But like I know that like when I showed jordan peel
Of a video of somebody getting murdered a long time ago. He didn't talk to me for a year
And another thing that I learned from your podcast was that
people
Unknowingly due to can develop ptsd
From like looking at things like children say for instance like remember what's in luca magnata?
Yeah, like looking at those videos online of people getting beheaded and whatnot. Yeah, you know in that luca magnata
Podcast there was this one youtube video of reaction videos because I show the reaction videos of people seeing the murder
Yeah, you do what can we where can we see that? Oh my god? See you guys? So they're all they're all youtube videos
They're just reaction videos. No, I want to see the reaction. I don't want to see the video video
I want to see the reaction. Yeah, you could still find them
But but when I first started working on the story there was one reaction video that I really wanted to use
And then it just got taken down right before I could grab it. Yeah
It was a little four or five year old british boy. Oh my god
Oh my god, and his little voice was it's so proper and so, you know so cute and so proper
He's talking about like what he's watching and we I've seen the video. Yeah, and it's
Really really incredibly disturbing. It's so disturbing that it looks explain to the people listening who that person
luca magnata was this canadian
um
In his early 20s, I believe who really wanted to be a star
He went on all these auditions for reality tv
And he never got his dream, but he decided he was going to be famous no matter what and what he did was he
started
creating this sort of false image online of who he was
like photoshopping himself in front of like a Porsche and like
All over the world and doing stupid stuff like that and then starting getting all these fake accounts
And and basically making himself look like he had all these followers when it was just him
Yeah, and then he ended up basically getting his fame by putting out a craigslist ad
Having a gay guy who he was going to have relations with come over
Or and have like film a movie, but he ended up killing him and chopping him up on video
Uh, and then didn't even love to the body made love to the body parts after after cutting off some
Although I have to defend this part. Have you ever fucked an arm?
It really it feels
I mean not pretty fast
This area
It's great, but the the the kid that he killed was that um exchange student from china, right?
Yeah, yeah, and and and his I remember the chinese guy his parents didn't even know about it until like
Weeks later and they're out in china in a farm. Yeah on a farm
Imagine okay imagine you're a farm you have because in china you can only have one kid
Yeah, so you're one kid is in canada in your head. He's getting in the education in canada
And you know you're working. I guess I guess they're making rice. Yeah
Plenty other crops, but rice. Let's just say rice
Or bok chai bok choy
Right right right right right, so they're making they're just a little ching chong rice
And they're just going oh
Okay, we make our eyes. Yeah. Yeah classic. It means filipino. Yeah, I mean filipino. That's what I mean
And then imagine like
Do they see it on the news or did they somebody visit them?
I I think they they were notified through the authorities through various channels that that got back
But then they were brought over to the us because they had to bury their son
But just the way imagine hearing of the way he died
Yeah, I would imagine they would think that that's what happens when you go to america at that point, you know
So you saw the video. Yeah
And can I can ask you some questions about it? Sure. It was a while back. So no, it doesn't matter. I know, you know, it's you know
But do you remember just in general would did were you disturbed by looking at it?
It's so graphic that it looks fake
Like it looks like a horror movie because we're all used to seeing like, you know the gore movies and stuff like that
And that looks to us where that's fake. So it looks fake, but when it's real it actually looks fake because it's
So real. Yeah. Does that make any sense? Yeah, you know exactly what you're saying. Yeah, and it it's very very very disturbing
There's nothing more disturbing than seeing somebody have sex with a decapitated corpse
Oh, man, let's talk about jesus for a second
These are a little bit sad
Dear lord, thank you for I'm grateful for everything. Thank you for having all my limbs
Thank you for having Mike here. Thank you for his flat face. Thank you
Thank you for rice and the rice farmers
Thank you for the Filipino shitting on people's faces
But anyway, um
Do you have PTSD when you see stuff like that?
No, no, I think I grew up with uh, like I said, I grew up in florida amongst the psychopaths and um
I've always had like a low opinion about human beings in general. So nothing really surprises me. It's disappointing. Yeah
Now, what is your theory? Do you truly believe there is something in the air in florida that
Causes these types of crimes to happen more
frequently there
Humidity
Yeah, well, that's why I said
But my point is is that no, I I'll make a little argument here. I think south florida is one thing
It feels south florida always feels like you're in america or like a modern city
Is it when you go more north and in in inland and more where it's more southern?
Is where that like i'm not going to say jacksonville, but I just said it
Yeah, i'm not going to say jacksonville. Yeah, and then orlando's fine
But when you get outside of orlando, maybe get around the panhandler, right? Yeah
So I think in those areas it gets like trailery and stuff. Maybe is that what it is
Is it not just to meet how the media portrays florida? Like there's a lot of murder going down in in miami in fort lauderdale area
Oh, sure. I mean, that's where the face eaters from from a few years ago. Oh, that's right. The guy on um salt uh back salts
Yeah, I know if you watch the show, um
For what another 48 hours? Well, that's the first 48. It's usually always in florida for some reason. Yeah, yeah
There's a lot which is I always found that to be weird. Like why is it always in florida? It's very murdery
Yeah, it's so funny because do you remember the miami improv?
Mm-hmm. Yeah, so when I I only played that room once. Yeah, and they had me in a hotel
You know who I saw there. Sorry to interrupt go ahead oj
OJ Simpson in that club. He was there as a just a just sitting there just watching the show. Oh my god. Yeah
Wow, we've been trying to get him on this podcast
But when I was at the hotel, I'd never had this happen before
The owner of the hotel walked me to my hotel room when I first checked in and he goes
So this is streets. Okay
Don't go left
Jesus I go, what? He goes. Yeah, just don't go down that street and freaking just go right keep going right
I've never had that before where it's like, please don't go left. What's that? What's on the left?
What's on the left that's a coconut grove and there's yeah coconut grove is a very rich part of town
That is surrounded by really really bad parts of town like the worst parts of town
And that's a lot of miami too. miami in general has a lot of that
So what you're saying is in miami there are like pockets, but around the pockets
There's like little segments of bad area. Yeah, and it'll literally be one street
One street where all of a sudden everything changes and if you cross that street, you're kind of in a bad place
Whoa, like if I take the wrong turn, I don't know much much about it. What could happen to me at night
It's gotten a lot better in the last 10 years. Let's say but but yeah
Oh, wow back in other cities. I mean, it's not like in LA. You just know not to go further
South beyond USC, right? Is that what it is? Okay? I think that you're wrong there
Because I am frightened of Hollywood. I think because there's such a meth epidemic here
I'm I'm terrified of meth heads. I don't care so much about living in the hood or living amongst like
Um gang members or all of that they don't they never fuck with me. Yeah meth heads fuck with everybody
They'll go speeding, you know on the wrong side of the road at 3am on a fucking BMX bike and fucking try to stab you while you're
They're at it. Yeah, but they can clean your house too. They're really they can they're really good at it
See because when when like two blocks from where we live here, I never walk there alone
Yeah, but if you throw me anywhere else in the hood, I feel completely okay
Yeah, I just seen too many movies. I think maybe yeah
I think your idea of of like Compton and like Watts and all of that even though there is gang activity
Yeah, it's not I think the Hollywood meth heads are far more dangerous. I think now it's changed
I think that because
You know, you don't see here much about the Bloods and Crits because I think ms-13 now
Is the top dog right in the that's what I heard in the hood in the hood
I don't know what you know about the hood though. What do you mean? Are you thinking I'm making that information up?
No, no, no, I mean it's a big organization. Yeah, what ms-13 is. Yeah, it's a very nice organization
They have great management skills and they have health benefits. Yeah, that's because yeah, they do right. They have good 401ks. Yeah
Um, that's crazy man. What are some new up and coming serial killers?
I should know about you know some new kids on the block new kids on the blog, you know, I mean stars
Yeah, like like independent serial killers, you know, I don't think you know about them until they you know
Perform their last act
Right, right, right date. So what let me ask you this though
What it's what's worse? I mean, they're both bad but like mass like if you were gonna be one a serial killer
Would you rather be a mass murderer or a serial killer?
One-time mass murderer. Yeah, Cho song we Virginia Tech was a mass murderer. He did one day one day of hard work
Yeah, I'm a little lazy. I think I'd want to get it all done with. Yeah. Yeah
It's you want to play like games with the cops kind of like give little clues about yourself
You go you want to be like the zodiac? That's too much work. Yeah. No, I want to do the I would probably if I were
Clues I would not clues, but I would just do weird shit like
Well, I would do things like take the eyeballs out and stick it in the butt
And then the incident they're gonna what is the you know
No, they would try to analyze it. That's just your signature move
As they're doing the autopsy they're like, there's an eyeball in the butt. Yeah, like this is a so this is his trademark
Yeah, like that's your trademark. I but I but killer
Yeah, you talk about your podcast or like
Or here's another thing I would do is maybe
Split the body in half
Just listen. Just listen and put one of the bodies in new york and the other half in
um
Like singapore, are you mailing the yeah, that's what i'm saying
So they pick up god, they found one half of mr. Johnson
In this one area, but then if they found the other half, but so in their head, there's two eyes in the butts
Yeah, like I want people to go let go this is is an alien
I mean, I want to be the real you or not. You won't be the first person. I think there's a guy also sent body parts
That he cut up to the cops. I'm a hack. Yeah
I steal I steal I steal he's stealing from luka. Yeah, but I would probably do something, you know
But I didn't want you see why don't you even say stuff like that? I feel guilty now
Yeah, but there's no such thing as thought crime. You're good. We just like to speculate about what kind of demons we would be
Yeah, let me ask you is there is it hard to come up because I listen you some of your shit, dude
Hmm. It's like talking to all the professionals and producing the fucking thing. Yeah, sometimes I listen to years ago
That must have taken a month
Yeah, they they used to take me a long time
I had a now I have a team but it used to take 60 hours as far as 60 hours to produce one episode
You should do by yourself. Yeah, I used to do by myself and I had the job. I had a regular job
Oh my god, imagine. Yeah, so you had to do your day job and then
You used 60 hours for one episode. Yeah, and then you put when you did the first one. Did you think to yourself?
I can't do much more. No, I thought it was I thought it was good
Yeah, and I thought it was worth doing and once
People actually started to listen to it then it was like oh now I gotta keep doing this
But then two years in when you've been doing this and not making a penny from that
There was a point where I was like I have to either make money off of this or
I'm gonna quit it because it you know, it's too much
Well, so let me ask you that so you do two two years of it. Yeah, you're getting people listening, right?
People started listening about
Nine months into the first year nine months into the first year because cereal came out cereal came out. All right
Yeah, so cereal came out and then now
Two years in you have a fan base
But you're not making any money. That's right
And then you're going what do I do and then how did you you just got ads like we did or what would you do?
I tested it out with like a like an indiegogo campaign
and
We made almost 30 000 dollars and I was like, well, maybe this couldn't be something I can do
Wow, and then I still waited another eight months after that before I finally started a patreon
And then eventually I got on wondery and started selling ads, but that was a long ways in there's a lot of work behind
You know, a lot of these guys now start a podcast and they think they're gonna get rich overnight
And it doesn't work that way. No. No, we were unless you're already like a massive name like chris delia
Like he was good at the start, but it took us a while too. Did you guys hear the chris delia?
podcast he did about
My podcast. No, it's called yum. He makes fun of the computerized voices talking about eating little kids
And he does the voice so real that the first time I heard it. I was like, is he playing that?
Is what is he using to generate that voice? Wow? Yes. Have you met him yet? I haven't met him in person
But we've twittered, you know, I feel like you're gonna one day do an episode about him too
But I'm gonna say that on group content in front of everyone. There's a couple of whites
In comedy a couple of whites in comedy that if they it came out, I'd be like, yeah
You know, not surprised the obon another one
Yeah, you wouldn't be surprised. I'd be so surprised if I didn't do anything. It's for sure
It's funny you say that because I sent him a bunch of like people's eyes
That like four of them were serial killers and one was his yeah, and he's like, oh, yeah, totally
Really? Yeah, but here he that's an example though. He's an example of
Um, because of his upbringing, he would never do it because I know his family's families. They there's so much love there
And there's just a lot of it runs the of like my family just now
Okay, speaking of that. Do you believe that the murderous gene can be embedded in somebody's?
like
Yeah, I think there's definitely a psychopathic genetic makeup
We actually just talked to dr. Drew about this yesterday what makes up a psychopath and it was like
It's it's a sort of a genetic thing that happened the brain isn't formed properly
The like physically and so there's there's uh
Some people are just born that way and they're born evil to be evil basically
Although a lot of people can with the right support and the right family structure and love
Can sort of work their way out of it and still be productive members of society
But they still don't have any empathy for anyone they fake the empathy
Right and they don't have that remorse and they just kind of they they sort of know
They know what it what you're supposed to do and they just kind of act their way through life
Just to not be it's a gaze a hundred years ago
Well, they were they got married and had children, but they they just they faked through it
Do you ever feel like you empathize with some of these psychopaths where you're like, hey, I kind of
feel for this person even though they
You know severed and
Fuck this person's head
Whoa, babe, just say kill
I I hope so because the way that I want to tell these stories is so that the audience
Does sort of see some sort of hint of themselves in not just the victim, but the killer as well
There's a riccardo lopez
Series of videos that we put out on patreon. Riccardo Lopez was this guy that wanted to kill bjork. Yeah, I love him
I mean
Big fan, no, I love him because he wanted to make the booklet right made the booklet with the age button
The age button. Oh, you're my favorite. I love his work
I love creative
Look Riccardo Lopez
His pictures are creepy. Yeah
No, no, no, no, he has he lost some weight. He'd be cute. He test well. He's dead. He'd be mouth shitable
Yeah, yeah for sure
So he has 10 videos that he put out that he basically bought a video camera just for this to tape himself
Leading up to it and there's 10 videos that are each two hours long and I watched all of them
You can see them on youtube still. Yeah. Well, not all of them. I have the whole thing
Whoa, you have like the um blu-ray disc. There's one where there's one where like
He misses like he's waiting for some bjork appearance on some tv show and this is before dvr's and shit like that
So he's waiting for this the whole time and then he screws up and he misses it. So in order to punish himself
He gets in front of the camera and shows his ass pimples to the camera
As like a self humiliation thing. Yeah, it's really weird
But there's after watching so many hours of this guy you start to kind of like almost empathize with him because he's
He's he's he's such a he's a he's not a dumb guy. He talks about himself being stupid
but he's very very intelligent to be able to put this thing together and
He has sort of like an artistic sort of way about going about it
And and the more he talks about himself the more you kind of like start to empathize
But then you go, oh, yeah, he tried to kill someone
I don't have any empathy. I'll tell you why the reason why he wanted to kill her in the first place
Is why because he was looking at a magazine
with Bjork in it
And she was over the black eye right and this dude is so racist
That in his head he goes that's right now. She has to die. But also what he was saying earlier
His brain probably didn't develop properly. He probably no shit all of no fucking shit
Proper wirings to make sense or reason with with with things that are normal
So he so he what I'm saying is this fool even though if even though
Even though someone is pure evil and they were born with
You know missing wirings in their brain. Do we have it in our hearts as full-brained people to empathize with the fact that they were born that way
Because they didn't have a choice right this cha cha. I'm gonna listen to listen
Chicha this chicha, right? He sees the black eye in Bjork, right? Yeah, and he goes that's she's gonna die
And then this is what his thing. What do you know what he was gonna make?
He made did he make it?
So he tell him what he was gonna make it an AIDS bomb which was basically some sort of book
I look like a book it looked like a book that she would get is some sort of publicity PR thing
That was gonna be very crafty
He's gonna have like velvet or orange velvet with gold and all this and then it would have like a series of buttons
And you push the buttons to open it
Yeah, and then it would stab you with needles full of AIDS that he would get from a from a hooker apparently
Yeah, so what I'm saying is is that that is that
First of all if I get a package in the mail
A publicity package like here's a prototype and I look at buttons
Right and there's little holes in the buttons, right? I'm not gonna stick my thumb and press it
I'll probably go in the outskirts and see what sticks out of that thing. Yeah
He told the and if little AIDS needle sticks out. Yeah
Oh my god, imagine he ended up changing his mind because it was going to be too complicated. So he ended up
Really? No shit. It's pretty easy. It's like very Mr. Gadgety. Deanna Jones over here. Yeah
Yeah, so he instead he he basically
built an AIDS bomb he MacGyvered himself an AIDS bomb out of
The same sort of concept of book that would open up and it would spray you in the face with AIDS
He actually tests the AIDS on like a slice of pizza at one point, which is fun to watch
Not not the AIDS the the acid. Oh the acid on a slice of pizza to see if it destroys the pizza
Oh my god. No, it's the wrong type of acid. He's got to go get a different type of acid
Oh my god, I imagine this guy
But but you'll never
She never got the package. She never
He never she never even saw him, right? Here's his mistake
He uh, he got so nervous once he sent the package that he was just gonna off himself immediately
He wasn't gonna wait to see what would happen. So he he basically killed himself that night
and
because of that the body basically
Rotted for a few days and blood started dripping down through the ceiling
Into the apartment downstairs
And when they complained the cops came out and they went in and they found the body and then they found the videotapes
Which he confesses to doing everything to know that park
Maybe we shouldn't um open our own packages anymore. I think so. Yeah, we get packages
I think that would scar me for life. Oh, for sure. If they found that a fat like mexican dude back up there
Or just blood in general Gabriel lacyus is up up there
just dead dripping
Well, he's a friend. I can say that
Why am I fucking up? Look at your eyes right now. Everything I'm saying is wrong
It's like I feel like you you you play this like oh, I'm super cool with dead bodies
I'll watch beheadings and you know fucking watch Dwyer off himself. Yeah, cool
I bet you fucking anything that if and if we were to ever see a real body
I feel like you'd pass out instantaneously and you'd like run screaming the other direction and I'd be left to clean the thing
You guys kill the person off you and I killed it. You'd be like babe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Oh, yeah, you would have to do the cleanup. Oh, yeah, I know. I know you and I could never
No, I would know if I saw a dead body like like in that way like the photos you showed me
I would probably have to go to hospital and get locked away. I would really be really traumatized by it
Like in any kind of war
Even when you know world war two, I'd be one of those guys that just was
That just ended up in an asylum deserter
No, I wouldn't know. I would fight because I'm an american citizen. I'm a warrior
And I'm proud of my country
You fucking asshole
Right, but I would fight like an american not like the philippines where we just get taken over
And act like victims
You know, I mean, we have I'm a man. Anyway
Philippine says a really hot um serial killer
Who Andrew cananen the guy of Gianni Versace killer. Conan is great. You know, I met Versace. Really? Yeah
Did you really? Yeah, but I ruined the uh, the story by telling you that so I was I was in a
Edit that out and now continue. Well, imagine if six cents started like that. Yeah
Bruce Willis is really dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead.
Just pretend I didn't say that
Just just pretend I didn't say that at all. So so I was in a band when I was, uh, you know
When you sit to the mix me what
What kind of music is in a band this guy? What kind of music? Uh, they were called the gaps
Because of his teeth
And ladderman was in it calyla
Yeah, Madonna's in it. Uh, yeah, no, so I was in a band
And uh, I used to write my own songs and stuff and I had a buddy who was also a singer-songwriter
We both played guitar one friday
We were like, what are we gonna do? We go out and we decided to go out to south beach
And just go out and jam in the sidewalk. We'd never done that before
You know open the cases and see if anybody comes by drops a dollar in or something
Um
And it was fun. We were having a good time. There's people coming by and you know dropping a dollar to maybe some change in the
guitar case
And this really nice Mercedes pulls up like top of the line really nice Mercedes this old guy gets out walks up to the case
And drops a 50 and then gets back in the car and takes off
And we're just sitting there. I'm sitting there strumming still we're in mid jam
And I look over to my buddy and he looks over at me
And he gives me a look and I give him a look and like did you see that?
um
And we're done and the crowd kind of disperses and I and I look at him and I say
Did you see that? We just you know just give us a 50 and he goes. Do you know who that was?
and you know being
A heterosexual male. I did not know who he was. Yeah, uh, and he goes, uh
That was Versace. That was and and it turns out we were actually standing on the very spot
Where he would be shot a year and a half later. Oh my god. Yeah
Oh my god, it's put chills on my spine
and so
That guy andu kenan is from San Diego. You know that? Oh, I knew it. Yeah, he's from uh, he went to bishop high school
Private school in la joya. He was a good-looking guy. He was a cutie patootie. Yeah, and um
That's crazy
Why do you
Also, is that a downer that story was a downer?
Yeah, you know what it is though because it was real to you specifically
I was just thinking about I was really invested in what you're saying
Um, at first I was like laughing because you weren't a band and you were singing
But then like once I accepted that part, right? Well, I moved on from it. That's the funny part of this, right?
And but when the end was actually really kind of just really weird
well, the the funny part is when he got shot right on the steps of his front door and
The it was it's made of coral like that old school coral. That's very porous
So the blood stain was there for well over a year. Oh my you tourist walking up and down the street on ocean drive
Would see the blood stain and they'd come and they take pictures in front of it and you know selfies and whatnot
So that was a little more disturbing than anything else
I also want to ask you about canada
the laws there
Mm-hmm because we listened to one that the the china man that was in the boss vinsely
You know his name. Yes vinsely
So let me get this straight. He if you guys don't know vinsely
He's chinese
He was on a greyhound bus. Mm-hmm
And there was a white kid sleeping there like he was right. He was leaning against the window sleeping
Yeah, and the chinese dude just out of nowhere decides. I want to you know
He started stabbing him first, right? So, yeah
Yeah, large knife almost decapitates him with this very large knife
He just had in his uh, and he was sleeping this kid though
The kid was sort of like yeah sleeping wasn't really paying attention and he was kind of
Trapped because he's in the window seat and vinsely's in the aisle seat
So the bus pulls over now people are running out of the bus people run out of the bus
Yeah, and vince now has the kids organs in his hands
Well, he keeps stabbing him until he basically almost cuts off his head
He starts stabbing him in different places and cutting open ripping different parts off
He starts eating parts of him. He takes parts of him and and puts him in his pocket for later
You know nice little yummy snack. Yeah
And uh, yeah, and everybody get runs outside and they try to block the door at one point
He get he tries to get out
But they're blocking the door to keep him in there until somebody some help can come
And so he goes back to the bodies keeps stabbing him
Decapitates the head completely and then throws the the head into the
The well of the bus, you know, I was like the steps coming in
At the people that are holding the door shut. Oh my god
And then oh my god, so they arrest him
Yeah, it took hours. It took hours because people were afraid to get him in a giggle in there, right? Yeah
I think the first responder to like didn't he kill himself?
There was one of the first responders committed suicide
About a year and a half later. Why he couldn't deal because he couldn't get PTSD. Oh my god
So is this true though after that the mom of the kid
Found out that he went shopping somewhere
What what she said it was basically the bus
Had a stop
No, what I'm saying is is that the kid the Chinese got arrested, but didn't he get like leave or he was able to get out of prison
To change his name and then yeah, I think he was only he was only
Held for about 10 years and it was mostly in a psychiatric psychiatric hospital
And they gave him more and more release
For you know time and freedoms and like first it was supervised
But then after a while it was unsupervised, but also didn't they allow him to change his name? Yes, canada does that
Yeah, the first story we ever did was Bruce Blackman another schizophrenic that murdered his whole family and they did the same thing for him
He's basically protected by the courts
But not only do you get out and you after killing a bunch of people
But they'll actually protect you by changing your name and your identity. Well, it sounds like this is absolutely insane
A psychotic break, right? Yeah
What's to what's to
Oh, no, I know, but what's how do how do the courts how are they so sure
That he's going to abide by his medication regimen that he's going to stick to all of that that there's nothing happens again
So it's not there's no assurance none because let me tell you something like you know
My uncle my uncle in the Philippines
Here we go my other uncle broad daylight machete with that day life
Severed his spine and everything. Oh, wow
And the reason I asked you if you had like empathy for some of these people is because I had empathy for him apart
You know, I grew up. He's my sister's godfather. I had such great memories of him growing up
But he got released. He's released now. He's free. He only was in prison for let's say, I think 13 years
um
I find him to be still scary. You can have empathy, but these people still need to be locked up
He's you know, yeah, you have empathy for him, but they don't belong in society
Yeah, I think once you do something like that
And I'm not saying that he they should be in a maximum prison situation, you know, we're
Maybe they they could create a system or prison system where it's far more open
And there are just more things to do. You can get a job. There's just a little
They make maybe build like a little fake starbucks
Where they pretend they can you know, I'll have a you know, double cap. It's just water. Yeah, with almond milk
So they can just pretend that they're in society, you know, and then give them like, you know
television and like a dvd. Maybe we could have blockbuster video
We have a little blockbuster video there
Bring that back so they can rent stuff, you know, numb no murder only like there's only like romance
Rom-coms and fantasy. Yeah. I wonder what the statistic is for canada for people like
Like committing crimes again people that they have re-released or released back into society. They're just very sort of
The whole justice system seems to be very hell-bent on
Letting dangerous criminals out. Do you ever see dear zack?
Newfoundland, yeah, newfoundland
That was let me just say something. I'm gonna look at you right now, man
Oh god, let me say something to you man. It's all right. I'm so close. It's very uncomfortable
But what I'm gonna say to you right now is this all right and everyone listening
It is imperative that you see the documentary
Dear zackery
It's one of the best
Because it is so
I mean, I've never felt so angry after a fucking document. Did you cry?
Not only I cried there's there's like I googled the judge. I googled like
Canada law and I try to like go. What the fuck is up with that? Yeah, but I don't want to give anything away because I want people to
Watch this documentary
basically the documentary is
About a guy that dies and his friends his real friends are making it initially a documentary about
His life to show his son zackery
Mm-hmm. That's the initial purpose of so when you first see it it looks like a home video
You're just friends going. Yeah, you know so and so you saw we love them and this you know and then
It just kind of turns
Toward the end and it just becomes more shocking
And it's unbelievable really Canada
Yeah, and I love can't I listen, you know, we have a lot of tiger belly listeners that are from Canada
No, but you guys are I love I'm a liberal you guys are open really when I do shows there. I it's
It reminds me of all the old days of sf
San Francisco used to be the best place to perform because it was just so rowdy and raunchy
And some parts of Texas is like that, but I love Canada's audiences and I and you and for the most part
I I relate I relate to you. In fact, I'm I would even move to Vancouver
I literally would that's how much I love Canada
But some of those laws are fucked up
If you eat somebody this should be a universal law
If you kill an innocent person and you eat them
You should be in prison for life. Well, don't they I mean if if somebody falls into enclosure at the zoo and the animal kills them
They put down that animal, right? Again, I don't agree with I don't agree with it either because it's doing its animal thing
It that that right there is what hey kid. What are you doing in the gorilla's nest? Yeah, you don't belong there kid
Yeah, and if you're gonna get mall, I was rooting for the gorilla when that happened
Well, you had to cut that out
We're not cutting that part out
Wait, let me just say you can be team gorilla. That's fine
When the kid fell in the thing raise your hand. We who you're rooting for the kid or the gorilla
Uh, raise your hand gorilla. I was rooting for the gorilla to be alive and for the kid to be alive
No, that kid has to die
If somebody if someone was gonna win or lose right so raise your hand gorilla
Yeah, yeah, yeah, raise your hand kid
Raise your hand kid
And gorge has to break it. All right. Well, you're not animal lovers
We're animal lovers. You're right. I love I love humans too much. Yeah
How old was the kid?
Five six. Yeah, five or six
I'm gonna say something and you don't have to cut the sound
Yeah, I'm gonna say something I have to cut it out
Okay, all right. I'm gonna just say and you cut it gorilla one human zero. Yes. Well, let's just say that
Yeah, no, it's actually human one. Yeah, because the kid that would they they both died right the no, the kid did not die
Well, what's the kids? What's the gorilla's name?
Harambe
That was that was a mics band. Yeah, yeah, we are the zombies
But harambe became infamous
Yeah viral and memes were made of him. Yeah, can I ask you another question? Sure
This is you don't cut this part out. Don't cut this part out. All right, but babe. Just all right. Just bear with me. Okay
Mike, Mike, Mike, listen to me
Listen to me
Do you find that?
And this is a real question
Then you we we we both know that when it comes to
Serial killers or weird things like that murder and whatnot. It doesn't matter what color you are. There are black people
Mm-hmm that kill
There are Asians that kill. Yeah
Cubans that kill whites down the line. Mm-hmm, but do you think
that whites
Take it to the next level
Hmm
Like for instance
You can't cut you don't have to cut that out. Did you just shock a george when he said that?
Yeah, george just shocked when I just said that. Wow. He went like that whites. He said it was just fucking crazy
But yeah, I'll tell you one thing. So, um
This is interesting because I was talking to a psychologist recently who said that
Uh, so for some of the really really fucked up mental illnesses like uh, paranoid paranoid schizophrenia or bipolar
disorder, um
Those are the ones that can be dangerous at some point
Uh for for and again not for the vast majority of people but a small percentage
A large, you know, the percentage is larger in that group than it is in the general population. And that's a statistic
It's a fact
So move on. So here's the funny thing. So paranoid schizophrenics
Schizophrenics think that there's a voice talking to them telling them to do things, right?
And in certain parts of the world like india and parts of uh, the pacific, um
Probably where they they shit in mouths. There's people who, um
The people that are schizophrenic the voice that they hear is actually telling them nice things
It's telling them like positive things to do positive things like do your chores and clean your your house and things like that
But in the states
overwhelmingly
negative
murderous
violence
Things like that and I don't know why that is it's I can already tell you what it is. It's this country. It's a culture
No, I can tell you what it is right now
And this is and I've said this before I think okay, but I haven't seen it in a long time
Just you're not have to cut this out
You're looking at me in certain ways. No, because if you if you look at like sweden's history
These have they've had like five serial killers throughout their whole history
All right, you look at any other like thailand's had six or something throughout their history
Serial killers is what I mean specifically. Okay
America has thousands a year
thousands a year
I mean if you look at no if you look at wikipedia
It's there's pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages. I mean it goes on and on
Well, you're not talking about just serial like mass shooters and Matt all of it. Okay. I'm putting it all in one clump
we I mean we
We're the kings of it
And I believe in western societies and I'll tell you the reason why and this is a theory
Is I believe it has something to do with
Christianity
Christianity just listen to me listen just listen
The whole idea of demons evil devil. It's in the folklore of the bible, right? So people it's in our movies
It's in our it's in our culture
You know
Demons the devil and in some other cultures. That's not in it. Yeah, but
Using that theory. Why is it that specific? Yeah? Yeah, like he just mentioned india and the philippines philippines is the most devout
Catholic like deeply in grain with demons and and all that stuff that you just talked about
You know what it really is. Your uncle just chopped somebody up with his other brother with his fucking machine
What are you talking about? Well, what I'm saying is like he's not having auditory hallucinations
He did it in like in a survival rage. I think it's cultural though. I think that has a lot to do
It is cultural. I think it all has to do with also
Hollywood and a lot a lot of that's what I was gonna say
That makes more sense. No, no, no. I think it's all a part of it. I think I really do believe
Christianity has something to do with that religion. We're just inherently violent
Are we consume violence on a daily basis and all entertainment?
Mediums, I mean, it's just it's part of our culture. I mean, sweetens. They play fortnight
They get yeah, sweetens. They they get the same
Sweetens sweetens. They get the same things that we get
Maybe, you know, it's something that but if there is something about in america
That um
Sturs that pot. I think that his theory of just like consuming violence on a daily basis is a lot more like plausible
No, I think religion because religion is so white the devil the devil
demons
Just the idea of that there is a
There a lot of people with like paranoid schizophrenia do get fixated on a lot of like, um, like very biblical things
That's what biblical and political things. Yeah, like those weird two those two things are very much ingrained in like paranoid schizophrenia
Yeah, they say demons made me do it. I did I was hearing demon voices
The devil political because they're always like, you know, I they're they're looking they're watching us the fbi
See like there is a lot. Yeah, the president was talking to me through the television
Right, but imagine living in a culture where there was no dead devil. There's no demon
That's that idea is not it is completely foreign. Is there a culture like that? There might there probably is like where
iceland
Is that a fact? No, I just made it
I said it was so much conviction. I was like, no, I just I just completely made it up. How about I mean, I would say
Okinawa
Yeah, but okinawa
Okinawa
Okinawa
I love saying that word. You're at a spelling bee. Okinawa. Okinawa. We say it in a sentence
You know, you know, I get wild with you
That is
He's really close again
Can I say something right now?
The reason I am the way I'm right now about all this stuff is because the subject matter is so fucking crazy
You have to be able to have some sense of humor in it. Yeah, but I'm going a little too far with it, but um
You know, we'll let the live listen to it. I think also just talking about it the way we do which is like with a half giggle
It makes it not real in our heads. Yes, we're able to compartmentalize it a little bit better. So when we see a dead body
I don't put it in the corner of my head. That's reality. It doesn't seem real and that's like a protective thing for me
Yeah, when you think about how many people consume
Uh true crime podcasts or true crime tv shows as entertainment on a regular basis
But there's real people involved real tragedies real death
That is very real to those families. Yeah, I'm gonna focus on love
I want to focus on helping other people
You know, man like Mike if you were damaged in some way
You know
If we were in a war together
You were damaged in some way
Your leg was all your leg was all mangled mangled up
I'd like to carry you man
To the zone the good zone the doctor. Let me see the medic
And then I like hold you, you know, you're looking at me like am I gonna live?
Give my mom this letter
Well, you know, they sometimes do that and the letters got like blood on it. Yeah, I go. No, Mike. You're gonna give that letter yourself
That's what I would say to you, right? Is he like lieutenant Dan?
No, there's a fantasy
And then Mike's like, you know, he's trembling and he's like looking at me and you know
He's wide eyed and you're looking at me and I could just put my head on your hand on his head and wipe, you know
The sweat the blood and good. Look at me, man
Um, you're gonna be okay
And then we go to the medic and then like a year later. I see him at some VA hospital in Virginia
Right and he's got no legs
Right. He's he's in a little machine. So why didn't you talk to me for a year?
Because I'm still in the war. Okay. Yeah, I'm still in the war. I come back. I visit you, right?
And you're just like a head half a torso. Do you have a what do you have like a fledgling shrimp company at the
No, it's not for us gum
Are you gonna go on a sailboat with lieutenant Dan? That's not what I'm doing
That's not exactly. That's not what I'm doing
Right
I would go you want to live with me, Mike? You go, okay, because he's got his voice is half gone
All right, he got struck by lightning
And since he's just a head a half a torso and an arm
I just grab him by the back of the neck and I walk around with him
Right and I there you go. Here you go. What where am I gonna live in your house? I go, you don't get a room
All right, you're so small. You just live in this cabinet
So I have like this little cabinet. It's good air conditioned. Oh, that's nice
Right, you get like a little iPad at your TV. That's your widescreen
TV, right? I didn't shrink in size
Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did your head. The sun the sun out in the war zones
Just struck your head in a way where it shrunk it a bit. Okay, right?
I met a guy who got struck by lightning and met him at a party and I was drunk and then when he introduced himself
You blew him. I know. I know the story
I know the story, babe
No, he but he did sound like that like, you know that voice he just did yeah, like his name. My name is pa pa
I swear to god, pa pa. No tata. Oh tata. Yeah, he had like a little like throat tingling. I pa pa like that
Mike, how's the um, how's your post situation?
Oh
You killing the game or what you hitting that shit or what how's your game? Uh, you know, it's all right
You should be ripping it right now, man. Really? Yeah. Yeah
You should be in the I must be doing something wrong. No, are you dating anybody or what what? No, no, I got out of relationship
a few months ago
Did she leave you she did
Is it because of your what you do for a living? No, it's weird
I get into these relationships where like I'll fall madly in love with one person and they end up
Having issues of their own
And ending and breaking my heart and then I'll just go out with somebody
I'll rebound for like five years with somebody after that
Yeah, I just don't know how to do it right and then I'll fall into and crazy in love with some other psychopath
So that's usually what that's interesting. That's interesting. You choose as your partner. Yeah, I'm terrible with relationships
I'm pretty good over the podcast. You think that are you better with people who miss like
Do you find yourself falling harder for people who have a higher ability to hurt you?
I seem to really like
independent strong women
that
seem to have a lot of
internal issues
You know why if you were going to produce a movie
Yeah
about a
You know a killer that people that aren't really aware of
What would be your number one thing right now?
It's got to be something that people aren't aware of but that is something that could turn into a movie or that's interesting
Yeah, so I think it would be the you know the pictures I showed you before we started here
Yeah, that that guy's name is Matthew Hoffman and I'm actually writing a book right now
Which is a series of short stories and the first story I wrote was about him. Can you talk about Matthew Hoffman now or no?
Yeah, he he explained to me Matthew
He had he was a weirdo. He was a tree climbing weirdo
He would climb trees and and hang out in the woods
And and he would like kind of like spy on like little kids that were in the neighborhood and stuff
He was a weird guy. Well, you know, look at it. Can I ask what would he be wearing up there? Like just camouflage gear usually like
Matthew Hoffman
Uh, he was young and he was actually very good looking believe it or not. Uh, he's in probably in his
Late mid 20s something like that. Yeah, I kind of look I'm gonna want to see what he looks like so Matthew Hoffman Matthew Hoffman
Yeah, so and he he he was obviously very sick though
He thought this this tree out in the middle of the woods was talking to him
That uh, that it's that it spoke to him and told him to do things again paranoid schizophrenia
But this was this very large american beach tree that had
Died sort of and it had the interior of it was hollow at this point, but it was still standing for
for a long time and he decided uh
to appease the tree
By murdering
A bunch of people and bring you the body parts. He's a good looking guy, right?
Oh, yeah
Yeah, very handsome. Yeah, so would you shit in his mouth?
So what so what so the tree? Yeah
Said to him what so the tree was
We don't know what the tree said to him exactly
But we know that even in prison when he was imprisoned afterwards
He told an inmate that he was in with that the tree was had talked to him and you know that trees could talk to him
And he could hear things they said
But anyway, so he cut he go he breaks into this family's house
He murders a woman and her friend
And her son who was only 10 years old
Oh, and he abducts the girl who was 13
And he uses her for sex for in his dungeon. He puts her in in in his uh basement
And and keeps her there tied up with with zip ties and stuff and raping her and stuff and
He goes and goes to walmart gets a bunch of plastic bags and tarps and he cuts up the body
Of the little 13-year-old no of the mom of the friend and the boy
And he and oh and he also kills the dog and he cuts in a different
Basically dissects the whole thing cuts up each body, you know each body and body parts and sticks it down this tree
Um, he hollows out a tree almost like offer it to feed the tree. Yeah. Was he he hollows out the tree
No, the tree was already hollow. It was it had just died and it hollowed out somehow
And so he made a little hole in the tree because I saw a little hole
No, the hole the cops made to take the body parts out
How do you put the first stuff in the tree then he climbed the tree the hole was in the top
He climbed the tree 20 30 feet up and then he built a pulley system to hoist up the body parts and drop him down the tree
He would have nobody would have ever found that of course behind told me that tree smells. Yeah
like
So then um and then so they how did he get caught?
What happened to the 13-year-old girl?
So the cops
It's a it's an amazing story of how they figured this out. So, uh,
Uh, basically the the woman didn't go to her job that day and the neither the women went to the job
The other woman was a neighbor just down the street and she never came home. So they called the cops
The cops came out to the house
They couldn't go in the house. They just did welfare checks for a few days
But then one of the co-workers came out
Basically let broke into the house and found blood. So then she called the cops and now that she's found blood
They can go inside
So the cops can't even do anything first of all. So they go inside they find
Blood coming from different spots in the house and then streaking into the bathroom, which is apparently where he cut up the bodies
In the in the garage, they find the neighbor woman's car
Which was weird that it would be inside the garage because they didn't use the garage anyway
um, and next to the the car they found a Walmart bag with some tarps and
A half used roll of plastic bags didn't have a receipt, but they were able to go to the Walmart
And get video footage and find a guy and also look at the receipts in the register to figure out
Who had bought tarps and plastic bags of that particular
brand
And they were able to
Sort of go backwards and then they could then they basically went to the cameras outside
They saw the guy that had bought those things getting into his car read the license plate pulled it right up in the dmv
And then so they go then they find them at home
They go to his house and they find him sleeping on his couch in the living room
And here's the fucked up part. This guy was really off his rocker
The middle of the living room where he he's sleeping on the couch right in the middle of the living room
there's a big plastic tarp and on top of it a
Three-foot pile of leaves dried leaves like eight to ten feet across three feet high
When the cops first come in he's asleep they they arrest him and stuff
But then they look at the the pile of leaves and they're they're not sure if there's somebody hiding there to ambush them
So, you know, they start poking at it carefully while having their guns drawn
And eventually they find like a padlocked door that leads down into a basement
And in the basement there's sort of like a crack in the wall that leads to another sort of basement area
It's really creepy when you see the pictures, but it's all an unfinished basement and it's super dark
And then they find a bed and a little 13 year old girl alive alive
Thank god
Yeah, here's the sad part of the story once they rescued her they brought her back now her mom's dead her brother's dead
She gets finally put into custody of her father
And her father ends up abusing her a year later and ends up going to jail for it
So she got abused
On top of that
God
You okay
Horrible
Sounds like a almost like a sick alice in wonderland fantasy this kid has
Not a good movie man. I I see three cameras sitcom
Okay
Let's make it a rom-com. Maybe because this doesn't feel like it's uh, it's so dark. It is very dark. It's so dark. I don't understand
I wonder what he was like in conversation
Like did he have friends at all? You can hear him in the interrogation tapes. Although he basically
for the first uh
Almost two days of interrogation. He doesn't say a word
He just stares at the floor and his um his parents any family members around him
He had some family it turns out that he had gotten dumped just two weeks before by his girlfriend after he had tried to strangle her
Oh, uh, he had a living girlfriend and uh, and he tried to strangle her and she and her kid took off and
Two weeks later. He's killing this whole family. I know but I wonder like I always wonder like how do you start that obsession with trees?
I know it was probably hallucination and the tree was talking to him
But it's like why trees, you know, you know, let's just talk about let's just talk about love man
Say a prayer. Dear lord. Dear lord heavenly father
Bless everyone bless the cubans
Bless the koreans bless the filipino and I'm being real. I love white. I love everyone
We're together, you know, and let's you know, there's a lot of good in the world
There's a lot of love in the world as well, right?
Correct. Yeah. Yeah
and um
I think, you know, like I said, Mike if we were in the war
Yeah, that's one of my things with you
You know, and baby, I love you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And sorry for talking to you that way this morning
Oh, can we talk about that? Yeah, I was so rude. Boom. Oh, yeah, what happened? I don't know really why
This is what the world doesn't know about uncle chicken chop uncle chicken chop when we do this podcast
You guys only get a glimpse of who he is. He's funny. He's laughing. He's trying to put on a show, right?
Every other time he's an absolute asshole to me
And on in the elevator today, I don't care that he talks to me a certain way while we're at home
You want to yell you want to call me a bitch? You want to do all that? That's fine. We're in the confines of our home, right?
That's ridiculous. It's an abusive relationship. It's not abusive at all. It's not I don't find it
It's the only way he knows how to show love and I receive it as love. I perceive it as love. It is love
It's I'm sick in the head. It's pure love. It's pure love. By the way, it's the purest. Yeah
Yeah, it's what works for us. Whatever if you were to sell love at a store
If you mine's in a cabinet high end
Pre-high-end premium love
It costs a lot of money my love, but go ahead
But he is the grumpiest person just don't wake me up in the morning. It was 2 p.m. Don't wake me up
We're in the elevator
And he just I asked him like a basic question. Did you call the realtor back?
And then he goes off, you know, I told him I was like, oh this so-and-so this happened. He's like, why the fuck that was fucking it
Fuck this and there was someone else in the elevator
And he just goes off on me and I just ask it simple like we need to make sign signatures today
Do you know that fucking why fucking bitch blah blah blah? I didn't say bitch
And then I didn't say bitch. I'm just clenching my jaw just waiting for this person to exit so I can
Don't talk to me like that in front of other people
Oh, but I waited for the person because I'm like this the whole time. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, well, okay, sweet
I'm a nightmare. Yeah, and that's what I'm a nightmare. The domestic abuse hotline is one
Mike Mike. No, no, no, no
Um
Do we have a you know how this works? No, we do a question at the end. Okay. Let's do an internet question
But what do we have time wise over an hour? It went well
It went real well
Unhelpful vice with bobby collina and mike buddha
Hello tiger belly. I'm a guy in my early 20s and I have an anger problem
I try to be aware when I'm being uh petty and I let it go when it gets really bad in my mind
We'll go to dark places. I'll start fantasizing about torturing the other person won't care what happens to me
And I sometimes black out from the rage
It's not until I've calmed down that I feel ashamed of myself a couple months ago
I had a public incident and decided to change that about myself
I've been meditating and exercising to help the anger has gotten way better, but I still get cold at times
What else can I do to channel this aggression? And is it possible to turn this into a positive personality trait?
I love you guys k from toronto
Well, canada boy girl boy girl a guy it always is young rage
I do but the podcast actually has given me a lot of patience in in that
Uh, I mean i'm cuban. I'm hot-blooded
you know hispanic boy, but uh
The the seeing the sort of ways that some of these scenarios end up
When you let it go too far when you let your anger get the best of you is a real eye-opener or very sobering
But I think that the person that that is saying that they're having blackouts because of their rage
Really needs to go get therapy. I mean just trying to do meditation on your own and stuff like that is is fine
You can do that, but this person
Really really and I can stress can't stress this enough. You need to go seek some help
Professional help
Whoa
Are you saying what are you are you saying this are you saying that people that have those that kind of rage
Can't control they can't control their violence. It sounds like he can't if he's having a blackout
He's having a public thing that that all of a sudden he's embarrassed about and you just can't control his rage
I wonder where the rage comes from if you deal those on with the underlying symptoms of where that rage comes from then
You can fix the problem over time and it will probably take some time, but you can't just be on your own
Uh suffering through this and trying to navigate it yourself. That's a mistake
Yeah, but uh, you know, I have a rage myself and my way don't say
We were on the island of kawaii the most peaceful paradise
And he was yelling at people out the window he's giving me dirty looks no, no, I like you
He had rage moments in paradise like over the smallest little things. No, no, no, no
You're just you don't have rage. You're just impatient. No, no, no, no, no
Um, no
I don't have rage, but I do have a I do have moments where I snap
the even in my
Worst murder is never in the thing. I would never do that
But you don't black out and you're easy to console like I can get you out of it in 40 seconds
Steve too, my brother Steve has
He has it much worse. Yeah, but he would never kill anybody. I've seen he's pulled knives out
But he's never put the knives inside me
Yeah, which is like but he has to try to swung knives
Yeah, you could do a lot of damage without resorting to killing someone
Yeah, I mean you could do a lot of damage not just to other people, but to yourself end up in a lot of trouble
Right like saying the wrong thing
Even the wrong person
I mean if you could if you're in rage and you say a blackout rage
You see the wrong thing to the wrong person and maybe that person will hurt you sure because you call them something
It happens all the time in la like like road rage. Mm-hmm. We're doing murders just from road rage. Yeah. Yeah
Um parking spots that there was a there was a murder on fountain
These two actors young actors and one of them was working
But there was two young actors. They were they didn't know each other and there was a
confrontation
A road rage confrontation and one guy killed the other guy
And the guy's in prison for life
Um, so yeah, it can result to that go to therapy my friend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
you seem like you
You you you would not be violent toward anybody though
I've never been why I
I get very very angry at times because
I have a very strong sense of justice like somebody's being doing somebody's doing something wrong to me
I feel like I need to correct that or to even to someone else, but I
I'm not like a physically violent person. Yeah, you know what, you know what man
Oh, he's gonna get too close again. No, it's not close. No, man. I'll say this right now. Hold his hand, Mike
Oh god
I believe that I am one of the chosen ones
And I believe that I do live in the dream
And I do I do touch touch the heavens
I do believe that I'm one with the the good lights
I'm a good light
And I don't like what you're accusing me of
Okay, I have to take a very high offense to that
Right. Are you gonna go on your no, because I'm pure light. You're gonna go on your elevator. Uh angry mode. No, man. I'm not
okay
I have um families
Sometimes I fantasize about
killing people
Oh my god
I do I have fantasies of sometimes I like to sit there and lay it down in bed
And I have a fantasy of like killing I had a fantasy once of killing a senator. Do you really?
For real you're not you're not joking. No, it's the fantasy of like what I would do. Oh, you so foolish. Yeah. Yeah
Anyway, what a great podcast
Just leave it there. Yeah, I'm gonna leave it there. Yeah
Devin Nunez
That's a senator. There's a name Devin Nunez. I'm not sure. Yeah. Um, Mike everyone should listen to sort and scale
Yes, it really is the best out there and um
You know, I gotta say one thing. Sorry. I have to say this one of my biggest fans
Who's been donating on patreon 50 bucks a month for three years ever since the very beginning of patreon
heard about
me through uh through you guys
And loves you guys
So her name is tanya. That's all I wanted to say tanya. Oh tanya. I love tanya. You know her. Yeah. Yeah, okay great
I can't remember her last name. That's her last name. Okay
tanya, right? Yeah, she's the best. Um, we will you've given us a lot of content?
I think that you have we've talked about at least like 40 of our episodes have
Yeah, you've you've opened my eyes to the that side of the world, you know
And I think that what you're doing is it's well, you know what it is
It's well thought out and you could I appreciate the research
And I appreciate the professionals that are on it
And I appreciate all that stuff and um, I like your voice too on it. Thank you. It's nice
You really have a like a a real good
Um
Broadcasting voice. It's really it sounds pro. It's not cuban at all. You know and also on top of it
You know, I I don't know what you're doing right now in hollywood
But the things that you're going to do but I really think that you
Should do think about doing television and and and all that we're working on a tv show. Yeah. Yeah, and uh, I think that'd be great
and um
I just hope the best for you man. Thank you, Bobby. Thank you. Yeah, we want to pull your book
Yeah, we're I'm I'm working on writing a book right now, but it's going to be a collection of sword and scale stories
Told in a in a bedtime story format. So it's like bedtime stories for adults based on true things that occur. Oh, that's cool
That's really cool. Yeah, um
And um, I just really appreciate that you're on this podcast with us. I thank you so much for having me on
I've been dying to come on for for a long time
And um, you know that fantasy about us being in the war together and use the torso. No, let's stop
It's not sexual
At the end of that man when you live in my cabinet with the tea iPad, you know, there's no fucking. Oh, no fucking
Okay, how disappointing when he's sleeping in my in that fantasy
Like I give him a little drug sometimes
Gosh, I give him a little drug because you know, he says to the head a torso and one arm
And he lives in a cabinet that somehow shrunk for some reason
Do you need to drug him to rape him if he has no arms? No, I don't want no, I don't want him to know about it
And then every once in a while he goes, I had a deep sleep. My mouth is salty
Oh
Yeah, anyway, give Mike a round of applause
Yeah, um
I'm gonna be in Portland, Oregon next week
Um, please come out and check it out. I have some Iranian dude opening for me. I like him a lot
It's great. His name is Assad. I think he's india or whatever and um
Um
And we got everyone here and I think we're gonna have to cut a little bit of this up a little bit
Some of it, but not a lot. Yeah, it's a couple of things. Yeah, be open to it. Yeah, be open to it
Um, and uh, thank you so much guys
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