Jamie (52:39)
And that would motivate you to do something along these lines. So let's go back to the instance. So you've got these cops that are on these CBP guys that are on high alert. Right. There's a lot of tension. People are screaming. If you're in an environment like that all day. Look, I've never been a police officer, but I was a security guard. And when I was, I was a security guard for Great Woods. And by the way, I'm not comparing this in any way, but I'm just explaining my mentality. When I was there, it was very much us versus them. It was a small group of guys that were working at. I worked at Great woods center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, Massachusetts. It's a concert venue in Mansfield. And this was when I was fighting. So it was me and a bunch of guys from my taekwondo team got hired to be security guards. One of the guys came and said, hey, you guys want to get a job working as a security guard? It's great. You get to see concerts and it was like a good pay. And you know, I was doing a bunch of random jobs back then while I was competing just to sort of pay bills. And I said, yeah, okay, what I have to do? And like there's nothing. You just go there and you were. First day on the job, I go there. Some guy had stolen one of the security golf carts. So there's this dude named Alley Cat. He was the head guy of security. He was character hilarious. His main dream was to open up a. A bar. Libation, Alley Cats, libations and victuals. He had this whole dream of like just A real character, but this guy was a hardcore. And they caught the guy who stole this golf cart, tack him to the ground, and he was beating him in the face with a walkie talkie. This is my first day on the job, so I'm like, okay, so this is what we're doing. And we kind of became like almost like cops for this place. But there was very much an us versus them mentality. And it turns out it was a lot more involved than I ever thought it was. And then one day I was at a Neil Young concert. I was working the Neil Young concert and riots broke out. There was fire, it was cold out, and there was like a grassy area. So there was like a lawn. So it was like, there's the inside. Not inside. It was like an outdoor concert venue, but there was a roof to part of it. And then the back of it was like this lawn area that was in the back. And these guys had started bonfires up there and we, we were supposed to go in there and break up the bonfires. And then my friend Larry, who is like one of the most mild mannered guys you'd ever want to meet, but you know, a elite black belt, he gets in a fight with this guy and some guy pushes him and he knocks this guy down. And I'm like, okay, chaos has broken out. Let's get the fuck. I'm like, let's quit. Let's get the fuck out of here. And I used to wear a hoodie. I used to carry a hoodie. So I could just zip up the hoodie over my security outfit and like, bye. Because I knew there was going to come a time where I was like, not getting shot, stabbed, killed, whatever, stomped this venue for 20 bucks an hour or whatever the fuck. So I wound up leaving that day. But you. There was a very. And I, it was, I remember very clearly like, oh, this is probably what happens with cops times a million. Like you develop this us versus them. Because it was very much us. We would meet up at the beginning of our shift. We would all talk about what's going down. We're mostly, we were catching people that were bringing in alcohol. Like women in their purses would, you know, you know, like some Carly Simon or something be playing. They'd sneak in a bottle of wine, you know, and James Taylor, you know, there was a lot of that. And so we would, we'd have like literal fucking trash cans filled with bottles of wine and liquor. At the end of the night, we would get to keep them. We'd take them Home. And so this us versus that's a nice perk. It was kind of fun.
