FIFA Visitors Love USA And Ethel Will Stab You.

A $50,000 fraud bond with almost no paperwork should be a guaranteed loss, unless you’re willing to do the hard part: real ground work, real interviews, and a plan that keeps everyone safe. We start lighter with summer talk, including Las Vegas heat and the Sphere, plus the internet’s favorite clips of World Cup visitors discovering the United States through everyday stops. Those reactions spark a bigger point about perspective, media narratives, and how quickly people take modern convenience for granted. 

From there, we get into the tension around politics and entertainment. We talk about Bill Maher, political fatigue, and why it matters that you can disagree without melting down. Then we react to Kenny Chesney drawing a firm boundary on stage: fans pay to escape the daily noise, not to get lectured. That opens up questions about celebrity platforms, culture wars, and what audiences actually want from live shows. We also touch voter ID and election integrity in plain terms, including why basic verification feels normal in other parts of life but becomes explosive at the ballot box. 

The back half turns into a true fugitive recovery story: a fraud suspect accused of identity theft and credit card theft takes off, leaving a bond hanging with no co-signer, no references, and almost nothing to go on. We explain how we work the courthouse file, connect with victims, and finally get the break that matters: an ex-husband who points us to Greensboro, two possible hotels, and a vehicle description. The capture is a controlled hotel-office operation, but it gets real when she reaches for a metal letter opener while we’re cuffing her. We break down what happened, what kept it from going worse, and how we get her turned over to the sheriff’s office, protecting the bond without adding taxpayer cost. 

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Transcript

Summer Catch-Up And Vegas Heat

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Very fine, people on both sides.

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These are real stories, but the names have been changed.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

What's up? It's Rob here. Chad over here. How are you doing there, brother? I'm doing all right, man. How are y'all doing at home?

SPEAKER_02 0:46

It's summertime. Officially, a week again.

SPEAKER_04 0:49

We're in the middle of it. Yeah. Well, beginning, I guess, of summer.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Yeah, beginning of summer. The heat is on. The heat is definitely on. And speaking of the heat, Chad, when I was in Las Vegas, it was 110 degrees. It was hot as well. But it's the dry heat. It was yeah, it's dry heat. But man, I was ashy. Like, I'm for real. Like, I put on a lot of lotion and could not like I was, it was, it was weird looking. But man, um, while I was out there, I got to see Kenny Chesney at the sphere. Uh, I have to suggest I I I hope he don't keep doing them because it's nice and all go once to see it. Um But you gotta go check it out. So whenever if your favorite band gets gets to uh do a residency there, I suggest go do it. It's uh it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

Yeah, I'd like to see the Wizard of Oz there.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Uh the my my fiance and uh her mama did that they went all saw, uh they went and saw it. Yeah, they like it. Yeah, yeah. It's it's funny, they shortened it up. Yeah, the film shortened it up.

SPEAKER_04 1:55

It's a long movie, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Yeah, it's 75 minutes, and then like like when the apples are the apples fall from the sky. It was interactive, like the wind blows. Yeah, they would say it was pretty cool. I didn't go because you know I didn't want to spend $120 to go see it. Um so I spent enough to go see Kenny as it is. Uh but it was good. Uh it was good, it was fun. Uh, other than that, man, I ate some good places, but I don't know their food, man. I don't know what was going on, man. It upset my stomach a lot out there.

SPEAKER_04 2:26

Yeah, I'm no rush to get to Vegas.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

No, uh, uh no. And it was it was hell getting back too. So I think I told I I called you and said, hey man, I'm stuck in Denver. Couldn't get back until next day. Right. But uh, but other than that, um, that was good. And um I'm just glad to be back. Hey, you you're you're about to be leaving here very shortly.

SPEAKER_04 2:49

Yep, next week going to well, by the time this comes out, um I will be on a plane.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Something like that. No, wait a minute. No, this comes out tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 2:58

This comes out tomorrow. Never mind. Hey, yeah. We got one, we got one more to do.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

We got one more to do before all that.

SPEAKER_04 3:02

Right, right.

World Cup Visitors And American Convenience

SPEAKER_02 3:04

So uh so other than that, uh, have you seen some of the crits on TikTok or the from the World Cup, you know, all the people coming from other countries?

SPEAKER_04 3:16

Man, it's uh it's interesting. Uh Bill Maher, I caught a little uh clip from him, which he's usually very uh outspoken liberal person.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Um you know what? I was telling you earlier, I don't agree a hundred percent with him, but he's a guy you can actually disagree with and have a conversation with.

SPEAKER_04 3:33

Yeah, well, I like that he actually paid attention to the fact that a lot of people come to our country for this FIFA, remember how you say it, FIFA uh soccer events, um, are getting, you know, there's tons of videos of them, you know, going to like Buckies and Chick-fil-A and KFC, yeah. Places that, you know, like he said, modern day Americans just take for granted, you know, and they are they're like they're in Wonderland, you know, like y'all have all this stuff, yeah. Which is true.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

And and did they uh did you I saw a TikTok where they were like, yeah, uh back home, like we were we're told by the media that America's bad, don't go there, you know, and that's a whole different story when they get here.

SPEAKER_04 4:18

Right. Yeah, that's that goes to show you that you know media can sway.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

And I think it was like the city of Boston. They had a there was a match, and they had a big party. All the you know, all the foreigners were out there partying, and they all picked up the trash after themselves.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

You know, I just saw a statistic uh here at Live Oak, uh so uh this is where my side wins.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Um yes, it is. My side does not.

SPEAKER_04 4:45

Yeah, so the the number one group that does they they showed a picture after the uh what was that, Lena? What's her name? Ella Langley. Ella Langley. I don't know who that chick is. Country chick. Yeah, anyway, she's very popular. I'm not saying, you know, but whatever. Uh a lot of people went. But uh country music people do not pick up their messes.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

No, they're they're a bunch of drunk asses.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Yeah, they uh they make a mess. Do you know who does clean up their messes that you wouldn't suspect? No, not rap. No, heavy metal, heavy metal, heavy metal uh people pick up their mess.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

How about that? Well, uh us country folk, you know, get get shit faced and you know, and leave shit everywhere. I I don't I don't know why. I I mean I always pick up behind myself when I'm when I'm at a concert. I mean I do too.

SPEAKER_04 5:32

Yeah. I mean it's it's you know, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

Uh I guess it's I guess it's how we're raised or who who who knows.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

Yeah, well, that that too.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

Uh but speak you said something about Bill Maher, right? Yeah, I was really surprised that uh he actually had made a statement that he would consider voting for fans uh in the next election, which is you know, Bill Maher, I don't agree with him a hundred percent, but I I do I agree with him on some topics, some topics I don't, but that's a good thing about America is that we can agree to disagree and we can talk about it with him. But these these crazy blue-haired liberals on the left, they they used they'll scream at you and try to kill you. Well, they have killed us. I mean, look at Charlie Kirk. I mean, they sh they shot him, you know, and it's just I don't know. I I like Bill Maher. Like, all right, so Bill Maher, he had an interview, uh, Kenny Chesney had an interview with him right after um the concert I went to. And they were talking about, you know, polit speaking about politics, and

Bill Maher Talk And Concert Politics

SPEAKER_02 6:38

Kenny was like, no, I will not speak on politics. It's not, I don't, I don't want to use my platform to to do that. People buy their tickets, say eight months in advance. Yeah, they spend all that money, babysitters, house sitters, whatever, dog sitters, you know, whatever. Airplane tickets. Airplane, hotel, food, yeah. Just come see me. He goes, and I'm not gonna do something they have to they hear about every single day. They get you know, they get told to say, and I'm not doing it. So I I respect him a lot. Oh god, I was I was hoping he said that because I was like, man, don't don't don't lose another fan.

SPEAKER_03 7:17

Right.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

But he said, I was like, oh, you know what, that's great. And then the damn view the next day jumped all over his shit. And that just I already don't like the view. Now I really hate the view. You dumb, miserable bitches need to fucking retire.

SPEAKER_04 7:32

I mean, you make that much money. I mean, you seem like you would want to keep both avenues open, you know, liking you for what you do, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:42

And you know, and you don't know you you you because you you know you don't you don't follow the country thing, but uh Key Chesney fans, every single one of them, it's the no shoes nation. We uh we all get along and take care of each other. At any concert you go to, it's like, hey, we don't even know you, but come on over. Hey, have something to eat, or or you need some water, you need something to drink, you want to hang out with us, play some, you know, whatever. But yeah, we and when you're at a concert, like a stadium concert, nobody's trampling over each other. Everybody, you know, if somebody falls, you pick them up. You know, it's taking care of each other. That's and that's what I like about most about it, because you you know, we like he said, we get pushed all this shit every single day about who to vote for or what to think. And man, and that brings me to my next topic was you know, I think people in a most majority of America know sees how like one side plays the other and they're trying to get you to believe a certain way. And you know what? I think the majority of America says, you know what, screw you. You're just you know, you're just doing this for votes again. And I think majority of people are sick of it.

SPEAKER_04 8:57

Oh yeah. Um I agree.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Uh I I know, I it's just like, you know, you need an ID to get on an airplane, you need an ID to go rent a hotel room, you need an ID to get a uh a rental car, you need an ID to, you know, to do to buy a gun. You gotta have all as soon as you say, hey, well well, are you here to vote? Okay, cool, let me see your ID they freak out. You know, what's wrong with having election integrity?

SPEAKER_04 9:28

Right. Well, it seems like it doesn't fit somebody's agenda.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

So Right, right. And you know, I just and um a little note here that I brought up is the uh uh Department of Homeland Security, uh Mark Wayne Mullen. Okay, uh he pretty much said, All right, you know, if you're in the country legally, you need to get in line to get to get legal or leave.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

It's funny, there's tons of videos of Hillary Clinton, uh Joe Biden, um Obama, all saying this stuff. All saying it. Yes. Video. It's not not a lie, it's not AI, it's it's old video of them all saying this. Right. But they've changed their tune.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

Well, it's just because they have TDS. They have TDS. That's all it is.

Voter ID Arguments And Media Spin

SPEAKER_02 10:20

Because Trump said it boom. You know, it it's this is getting like old. If it's better in the country, then what's wrong with it?

SPEAKER_04 10:28

I mean, would it sound better, you liberals, if like if it came from somebody other than Trump? I mean, is it just him if it if it was the same stuff but out of a different mouth? Marco Rubio. Rubio, yeah. What if it came out of him? Would you be okay? Would you would it would you feel better?

SPEAKER_02 10:46

I I don't know, man. I don't know. Like, did you see where did you see where Joe Biden got on and was like, hey, hey, Trump's making money off of the presidency? I think all you assholes are making money off the presidency. I think he's yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:59

I mean, his name's on a lot of things. I'm sure he continues to make money.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

I mean, to be the most powerful man in the world, you gotta have money to get there, right?

SPEAKER_04 11:07

It's a dumb statement, man, for somebody to make.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

I know, dude. I mean, I'm so sick of it.

SPEAKER_04 11:12

Get beyond all that. Let's see. What else you got about? Uh all right. Carnival cruise line, he's um yeah. Uh God. Did you see what happened there? Yeah, I saw in a terminal where there was like a 15, 16 person. Yeah, they were they were throwing down, bro. Yeah, like email each other. What is it? Uh the um what do you call this guy's um not immigration, but um the Oh TSA? Well, yeah, and the and then the head they were getting involved and everybody's getting tossed around and stuff. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Yeah, nobody knows what like they like. Oh my god. You know what? I our you know extensions flying everywhere. Man, I I don't I won't go on carnival cruise lines. I I'm not a big cruise person, are you?

SPEAKER_04 11:59

No, the last one I did was Royal Caribbean, and that's the last one I'll probably do. Yeah, I I don't uh it it's no, even Royal Caribbean to me has lost its integrity. Well, yeah, I mean it was a short one, granted. I I will say anything that's a short one, and and what I've done, I've done a lot of cruises, um seems like not trying to say above anybody, but they're more obtainable, and you get a certain group of people that just comes in there and like trashes it. Takes takes advantage of the situation and well, yeah, it's like I don't know, you don't know how to chill, you know. It's what it's for.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Right.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

And it just seems like the place gets trashed. So I mean I'm kind of done with it.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Um I'm gonna Yeah, uh a buddy of mine did virgin uh cruise line, and he said uh it was not like uh the other ones. It was really nice. Uh and it costs more, of course.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Right. Well that's that's the thing, is if you if it costs more, it kind of you're moving to a certain group of people that spends money, they're they want a certain level of niceness, you know, to it. So I don't know. I mean, it's almost like you gotta pay to uh to have that, which is a shame because if carnival would keep their shit together, um you know everybody can have a good time at a reasonable rate. Yeah, yeah, well, I guess they're not going to I was basically like Walmart, floating Walmart is what I equate it to.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Yeah, I don't I won't I won't ever go to Carnival. Yeah. I don't want to I the last one I did was Carnival and that was years ago, and I still won't do it. No. No, but uh because they try to say on everything, you walk around a corner, hey, we got this you can buy. You know, I when I'm on vacation, I don't want to be messed with. I honestly I just want to be left alone.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Yeah, that's the beauty of uh my trip I'm getting ready on. It's all inclusive. Like you get there, everything's paid for, there's no tipping, you don't bring your wallet out, there's no TV on this place, it's just remote. Yeah, it's really unplugged. Like I can't even get cell phone percent. I'll have to talk to you through uh uh uh messenger.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

Right.

SPEAKER_04 14:12

Yeah, that's yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Because it's because it's through they do have internet, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

And I try not to bother you, so I get it.

SPEAKER_04 14:18

Well, you know, well, there are there are things that arise that we have to talk about. Yeah, so that's cool. But I hope if I slur my speech a little bit, you'll know why. Every too many there's a brand they reinovated it, and I can't wait to see it because I love a pool, and

Cruise Line Chaos And Unplugged Travel

SPEAKER_04 14:35

I'm gonna be in there with uh the uh mojitos and mojitos are really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

Um, what's his name? Um uh the Russian guy. Uh oh, um Raffle? Yeah, and his wife, um, the blonde-headed chick.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

Oh, no, no, you're talking about uh oh gosh, you put me on the spot.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

Yeah, I I can't remember his name to save my life. I see him all the time. But I was out at Lee Island one uh one day and they came up beside they were making a bunch of mojitos, and he was like, hey man, you want something? I'm like, Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_04 15:10

Yeah, I just had speaking of him, I had a story from one of my neighbors. I went to a party at the clubhouse this weekend, and uh and one of the neighbors went over to their house, the Polish house.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Right.

SPEAKER_04 15:21

And uh they love their vodka, man. Yeah, they do. They love their vodka, and he ended up not not like blacking out, not remembering anything. Sewell, you know Sewell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry, Sewell. I had three on the book. But you brought it out at the at the party, so I assume it's fair game. But yeah, he's like, I don't remember, I don't remember nothing. I was like, dude, not good. He goes, I just remember going over to Robbins and like that was that was the end.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

And last but not least, uh this weekend was Alan Jackson's final um concert. And he had there was a bunch of other country artists too that was along with it. So it was it's sad to see him go, he's not in good shape. He's got like a neurolog neurological disease. Neurological. Yeah, he's got something going on there. And anyway, it's uh Alan Jackson's one of the you know, one of the old greats. Gotcha. So yeah, I hate to see him uh do his last concert, but it's kind of cool how he went out.

SPEAKER_04 16:21

So right on.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

All right, uh so the Iranian War, real quick. We gotta get jump on it real quick before we get into our story.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

We're back at we're back at uh it's like we got a deal, no deal, deal, no deal. I mean it's signed.

SPEAKER_04 16:36

Now screw you, we're gonna bomb you. I think people are just tired. They're like, just

Alan Jackson Farewell And Iran Frustration

SPEAKER_04 16:40

make a parking lot out of the place and be done for the you know, it's I don't think it's ever gonna get you know get resolved over there. I I think he's gonna keep threatening and they're gonna keep like going back on it. It's not they're really he's gonna really have to pull the trigger and and do something like totally, totally like they won't exist, is what the last thing I heard. But it it's it's a lot of more prom empty promises to do this shit. I know, man. I who knows who know who the hell knows? Like that's that's why I'm not even trying to mess with here listening to the too much of the uh stuff other than that here in social media, and you can take it out with a grain of salt because most of that's the next thing that like the next thing you're gonna hear in a couple days, all right.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

We got a deal. All right, yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 17:25

Whatever, sure.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

Yeah, okay. And then then like a couple days later, oh yeah, we they we got bombed, all right. So we're retaliating.

SPEAKER_04 17:31

But Americans are like, you know, we have to have, you know, if if the gas doesn't reflect it, they don't care. You know, yeah. I get that. I get, you know, that you need cheaper gas, but we we're pretty damn spoiled people. I mean, if you're talking about a country that literally can um hates us, I mean that's just fact. They hate us. And you know that they're trying to make nuclear sorry, but it is what it is until we get this fixed. Now, supposedly that it's fixed. Now, why are we still hanging out? Why are we still dragging this on? Right. You know? So who knows? And supposedly only 20% comes from there for us. Uh you know what? So I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

Somebody are we getting lied to?

SPEAKER_04 18:21

Yeah, I'm gonna call it like it is. I mean, yeah, well, we like Trump, but you know, to a point, I mean, I was I'm real at it too, you know. I'm not I'm not like Biden people. Biden's great, you know, an idiot. Dude, he getting on the stage. You know, I mean, you know, call them like you like it is for real, man. Y'all should have set us up. All right.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Anyway, let's get into Let's get in our next

The 50K Fraud Bond Case

SPEAKER_02 18:46

story. Our next story comes from uh Miami, and we got this guy up in Greensboro. No, lady. I don't even know what uh I'm I'm gonna call her, I'm gonna call her a she was an older lady, plump lady. Um uh we're gonna call her Vanessa. All right. So Vanessa here um took off on a this was a banker's bond.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

Okay, well, what how big was it? What'd she do?

SPEAKER_02 19:19

All right, it was a 50,000.

SPEAKER_04 19:20

Okay, what'd she do?

SPEAKER_02 19:22

Uh she was a fraudster. Oh, okay. She liked to fraud a lot of people. Like identity theft, yes, identity theft, credit card theft. All right, the whole night.

SPEAKER_04 19:30

Those are you get you good size bonds when you do that shit. Yep. Yep, yep. Good.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

And uh, this was a banker's bond. So, bankers, we're gonna throw this out to you. Thank you for so much for all your efforts.

SPEAKER_04 19:39

Yeah, by the way, we sponsor um shout out to for Bankers Surety Services. Yep. Great um surety company.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

And the NCBAA. Thank you for backing us. We'd love you.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

Thank you guys. And we got that coming up. Absolutely. Like that's a little over a month.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Uh August. In August.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

That is August.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

Cool.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Maybe I get some I I'm gonna have my my camera out there and might do some video.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

All right, uh like kind of get some video clips of everything, the whole thing.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Maybe we could do uh uh one of these.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

Yeah, podcaster?

SPEAKER_04 20:09

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe if you're listening, guys.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Yay! I'm sure I'm sure Woody and all them will listen.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

Yeah, if y'all want to Regina, Regina, I know you are. Um you want us uh to do a podcast?

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Ask. So, all right, so Greensboro. All right, well, it the bond was out of uh I want to say it was at like Johnson County area.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

That's where all the charges were around because there was it was multiple that added up to 50,000.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

All right, so we we just start doing our hunting, and man, we can't we can't figure this out for nothing. She, I mean, she's good at what she doesn't have any social media, she don't have nothing. So you have to actually do feet on the ground. So how was your uh paperwork?

SPEAKER_04 21:02

Was this does this this wasn't our bond? This is

No Leads So We Hit The Ground

SPEAKER_04 21:05

this is another bonding company?

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Like, you know, uh that that bondsman up at the Duplin area that went out of business.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

Okay, so what about references?

SPEAKER_02 21:13

None. Co-signer, forfeiture and a picture is all we had.

SPEAKER_04 21:16

Dang, you didn't have no co-signer, you had no references.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

Somebody did some really crappy paperwork.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Yes, and they weren't no paperwork. I just couldn't that he didn't have any.

SPEAKER_04 21:25

Here's the forfeiture glut.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Yep, here's the forfeiture glove.

SPEAKER_04 21:28

Jeez, that sucks.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

So that sucks.

SPEAKER_04 21:31

Cool way to spend 50, 50 grand.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Easy, yeah. And I was like, and I would I would tell bangers like, hey, look, you know, you ain't got the information. Be prepared to pay it because, you know, I can't pull a damn, you know. Rabbit out of your hat. Rabbit out of my butt, you know. How long do you have? Uh we had we had some little bit of time, a couple months.

SPEAKER_04 21:51

Oh, okay. Well, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

Yep. And usually get it.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

It's like a doing a week.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Yeah, we we we pull up our information and we start kind of like Connecting the dots of who was who. Because we went and we did pull the shuck from the the courthouse.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

And and see, you know, who the victims were, you know, and and talk to them. And we got to the point we talked to one victim that was close to the family, her family. And she was like, Yeah, well, her ex-husband is such and such. Go talk to him. She he hates her. I was like, oh, this is great. There you go. So we go talk to the ex-husband. Uh we're gonna call him uh Pedro. Because he was of the He was a Latino? He was a Latino. Pedro. So Pedro uh tells us, hey, you can go you can go get her. I know where exactly is where she's at. I was like, okay, cool. But we're at she goes, Greensboro. I said, Greensboro. Damn. All the way to Greensboro. Damn it. I was like, where at? He goes, it's one of the two hotels that she's staying with with her new boo.

SPEAKER_04 22:58

See, y'all think about this next time you check in a hotel, man.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

I know, right?

SPEAKER_04 23:02

I mean, that's one we just went to Alaska and got, and dude was in a hotel. That's a lot that we get in there in hotel. Yeah. Think about that when you go to a hotel. What's actually in those other rooms? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

So, all right. So we're we go, it's one of the there's only two hotels in the area. And it's they're both off of 40. I cannot remember the hotel name. I want it was like weird. It was like the H or something like that. The O, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 23:28

Yeah. Hojo.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Yep. So we do the first one. That's not it.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

We know, we uh the ex-husband also tells us what kind of vehicle they're driving. Nice. So we have a description of the vehicle. Yes. We get to the second place and we're like, all right, this has got to

Ex-Husband Tip And Two-Hotel Hunt

SPEAKER_02 23:46

be it. This looks like it. The way he was describing it. There's only you only had two choices, right? Yeah, you only have two choices. So, but you you know, you don't know 100%.

SPEAKER_04 23:56

All right, and you got a vehicle.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

And you got a vehicle.

SPEAKER_04 23:58

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

So bring a tracker? Uh, yes. Okay. And we're we're we're standing there at the uh watching the place. We don't see the vehicle at all. We don't see nothing. So I go in in incognito to the the front office, and I see this like legit, you know, you could tell that they got their shit together. They're not like uh they're not still gotta be careful. Yeah, yeah, still gotta be careful. Well, well, this is the only thing we had. Yeah, okay. So we're we're like, I don't want to stay up there forever.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

So I talked to the lady. And she goes, Yeah, they are staying here. Nice. I was like, ooh, yes, which one? They're like, this room, but do us a favor. Don't go kicking in the door because we've had problems with Bondsman before kicking indoors. I was like, hey, don't want to. Give me a key and we're all good. I was like, hey, no problem. She goes, Why? How do let's do this? Let me call her up here and she can come up here.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

I was like, how do you do that and not seem suspicious?

SPEAKER_02 25:02

Well, she has to come up there week to week because she rents week to week. Oh, okay. And it's about that time for her to come up there.

SPEAKER_04 25:09

All right, not looking too suspicious.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

Yeah, to re-sign.

Office Setup And Buzz-In Trap

SPEAKER_02 25:12

She goes, I said, All right, let's do that. Let's do it. So the other guy that was with me, we set up in there's a back room, like right by like by the their office.

SPEAKER_05 25:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

And we're just kind of set up there's and there's a door that goes outside, and you can go around and come back to the front because there's only one way in and one way out of the office.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

So the plan was when she comes in, they have her sit down, start doing paperwork.

SPEAKER_04 25:42

Nice. Get her down to where she, you know, it's not easy to and once that's happened.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

The manager's gonna text me, hey, she's sitting down. And we come running around through the street.

SPEAKER_04 25:53

Doesn't know either one of you. Wouldn't recognize you. Nope. Okay, absolutely not. That's great.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

And they're gonna buzz us in and we would get it, right? Right. So that's what happens. Were you in plain clothes or did you have an outfit that we had we had all the stuff on because like she was very dangerous? Oh, was she? Yeah. Okay. She was she's known for stabbing folks, you know. Oh, yeah. She she ain't a like Okay. She's a big woman though.

SPEAKER_04 26:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Okay. Ethel big. All right. Why big, big girl?

SPEAKER_04 26:20

Hey's a bitch.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Yeah. So I get a text. Hey, I got her sitting down. She's doing paperwork now. Come on. I said, okay. When we come through, just move out of the way. She's like, all right. So we jump out, we I run around. It's literally only 20 feet. Uh, it felt like it was a hundred.

SPEAKER_04 26:45

So how did you how did you block? You said there is only one way or one way in, one way out.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

So when I come out of this little room, I make a right and go up two doors, and there was an entrance, and I just go in there and and she's done. Once I get through the front door, she's done. She can't get out. Okay, all right. And and there's a there, you had to be buzzed in and buzzed out. Okay. So she was in there with me.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

Okay. So it just comes down to you two and how it's gonna end. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 27:15

So I come running in.

The Mail Opener Grab And Drugs Found

SPEAKER_02 27:18

And I said, show me hands, do not move. And she was like, Okay, she didn't know what was going on. So I get her up and I put her against the counter, and I'm trying to get her in handcuffs, and the other guy was with was in front of her, had a taser, you know, just sitting there waiting. And I'm trying to like I'm getting one handcuff on, and the other hand, she reaches, she tries to reach across the the counter to a melt, like a melt opener. Oh, yeah, she tried to bring it to the and I saw it, and so did he at the same time. And he is like, Stop, and I grab her hand and I twist up on this arm, and she was like, Oh, I'm no no no no no. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And I like, I'm like, what the hell are you doing, lady? Are you crazy? I'm like, that's that's a good way to get hurt.

unknown 28:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

So I get her in handcuffs, I search her, she had drugs on her. Yeah, she um at won't much. She's like, she has some cocaine on her. So we like, what do you do? You know, I I'm like, I don't know what to do with this. So I flush it down until it.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

And we get her out of there because the boyfriend will be coming here shortly. Okay. If we don't get the hell out. Right. So we run out, she's like, I need to do this. I'm like, nope, we don't need to do nothing. We put her in the back seat and we haul ass out of there. I call um that county. What is Greensboro County? What's the county in Greensboro? What is it?

SPEAKER_04 28:44

Uh it's like Davidson or Guilford.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Guilford, it's Guilford. Yeah, called Sheriff's Department.

SPEAKER_04 28:48

It's split, I think.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

Well, I told we I called them and told them we were in town, and this is what we're about to do. So they were cool with it. And I called them, said, hey, look, uh, we got her in custody. Can you have a deputy miss? They were like, yep, sure enough. So they come out there and they verify the warrants. We handed Ethel over, and uh, and that was it, man. You want to talk about kind of an ass pucker anymore? She reached for that damn blood. I was like, what in it? Like, what do you do?

SPEAKER_04 29:13

It could be dangerous too, man.

SPEAKER_02 29:15

Yeah, I know, right? Oh, Ethel, man, she was something else. Um, but yeah, and so that was 50,000 off the books that nobody had to pay. And guess what? We got her at no expense to the taxpayer. And you saved uh bankers a lot of money.

SPEAKER_04 29:31

Saved them a lot of money. You're welcome, bankers.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

Yep. There you go.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Thank y'all for everything y'all have done for us.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

Yes, absolutely. Bankers is absolutely that's that's pretty much 99% of the bonds are rights through through bankers.

SPEAKER_04 29:42

So good amount.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

I have to say, you

Deputy Hand-Off And Why It Matters

SPEAKER_02 29:45

know, they have treated us very, very well. I'm very, very pleased with them.

unknown 29:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Um cool.

SPEAKER_04 29:52

Well, that's uh that's a good story.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good when I what'd you call her? Methyl? Ethel. Ethel. Oh, eth. Ethel. With the methyl. Ethel the methyl. She's a little bit more. She was short and she was she was about as wise as she was tall. Uh-huh. But she was just like, she was mean. She was a mean little woman. Right.

SPEAKER_04 30:10

Yeah. She was mean as hell. She would have done some damage. She got a hold of that. You damn right.

SPEAKER_02 30:15

She like she almost got tased. Like the guy with that dude I was with, he was like, uh, tase you. I'm like, and thank God I had if I didn't have that one cuff already, right? Already, I twisted up on it. I made her like.

SPEAKER_04 30:29

You gotta be real careful in that situation when you got one on. Yeah. If they don't get that arm loose, yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

I was and I and I'm I I was against her pretty well.

SPEAKER_04 30:37

So yeah, you can take that other cuff and twist real good. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

That do whatever she do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_04 30:44

Yeah. Well, that's cool, man. Good story.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Yeah, man. That's a great story. Uh, I've been waiting to tell that one for a while, too. There's a bunch of them, man.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

Right.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

You know? Well, uh,

Summer Wrap And Final Goodbye

SPEAKER_02 30:56

man.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

That's a wrap on uh today's episode.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Yeah, that's a wrap on today's episode already. It's summertime, baby. I got a lot of work to do this week, man. I got so much stuff going on. I can't um I'm hoping that the uh the weather uh is not so hot, but it's gonna be a scorcher this week, I think.

SPEAKER_04 31:13

Yeah, we had a little electrical storm last night.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

Man, that was a pretty storm, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_04 31:17

Oh, and uh nerving where we were at. It was uh yeah, it was kind of spooky.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

Yeah, I mean, I mean, just in the inside watching out, you know, seeing it was but we needed it, man.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

God, we needed oh god, we need the rain, yeah. Yeah. My garden, like it didn't, it took a while, you know. It was just lightning for no rain. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

It's just so hot, that's all it is.

SPEAKER_04 31:38

Yeah, yeah. The the heat, it was it was 90. I I saw 98 yesterday. Anyway, we're in it, so go out and play in it.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

That's right. I'll be in it all week. Um, I might come back with a farmer stand. All right, guys. Well, that's it for today's episode. We love you, minute. I'm Rob.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

I'm Chad over here.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

And we'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

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